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<item congress="116" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4559" measure-id="id116hr4559" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2019-09-27" update-date="2019-10-10">
<title>End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id116hr4559v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2019-10-10">
<action-date>2019-09-27</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits an executive agency from spending more in each of the last 2 months of a fiscal year than the agency's average monthly spending for the previous 10 months. The bill applies to obligations of discretionary appropriations and includes exceptions for spending that is (1) for national security-related activities, or (2) designated by Congress as emergency spending. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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