[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4434 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4434

  To reform the concept of baseline budgeting, set forth strengthened 
 procedures for the consideration of rescissions, provide a mechanism 
  for dedicating savings from spending cuts to deficit reduction, and 
 ensure that only one emergency is included in any bill containing an 
                         emergency designation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 1994

 Mr. Stenholm (for himself, Mr. Penny, and Mr. Kasich) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on 
                    Government Operations and Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reform the concept of baseline budgeting, set forth strengthened 
 procedures for the consideration of rescissions, provide a mechanism 
  for dedicating savings from spending cuts to deficit reduction, and 
 ensure that only one emergency is included in any bill containing an 
                         emergency designation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Common Cents Budget Reform Act of 
1994''.

               TITLE I--ELIMINATION OF BASELINE BUDGETING

SEC. 101. THE BASELINE.

    Except for purposes of adjusting the discretionary spending limits 
set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``sequentially and cumulatively'' and by striking ``for 
        inflation as specified in paragraph (5),''; and
            (2) and by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (5).

SEC. 102. THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET.

    (a) Paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
            ``(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, 
        estimated expenditures and appropriations for the current year 
        and estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations the 
        President decides are necessary to support the Government in 
        the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 
        fiscal years following that year;''.
    (b) Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting ``current fiscal year and the'' before ``fiscal year''.
    (c) Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (A), by striking the 
period and inserting ``; and'' at the end of subparagraph (B), and by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) the estimated amount for the same activity (if any) 
        in the current fiscal year.''.
    (d) Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting ``new budget authority and'' before ``budget outlays''.
    (e) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(30) a comparison of levels of estimated expenditures and 
        proposed appropriations for each function and subfunction in 
        the current fiscal year and the fiscal year for which the 
        budget is submitted, along with the proposed increase or 
        decrease of spending in percentage terms for each function and 
        subfunction.''.
    (f) Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding after the first sentence the following new sentence: ``These 
estimates shall not include an adjustment for inflation for programs 
and activities subject to discretionary appropriations.''.

SEC. 103. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET.

    Section 301(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended 
by--
            (1) inserting after the second sentence the following: 
        ``The starting point for any deliberations in the Committee on 
        the Budget of each House on the concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for the next fiscal year shall be the estimated level of 
        outlays for the current year in each function and subfunction. 
        Any increases or decreases in the Congressional budget for the 
        next fiscal year shall be from such estimated levels.''; and
            (2) striking paragraph (8) and redesignating paragraphs (9) 
        and (10) as paragraphs (10) and (11), respectively, and by 
        inserting after paragraph (7) the following new paragraphs:
            ``(8) a comparison of levels for the current fiscal year 
        with proposed spending and revenue levels for the subsequent 
        fiscal years along with the proposed increase or decrease of 
        spending in percentage terms for each function and subfunction; 
        and
            ``(9) information, data, and comparisons indicating the 
        manner in which and the basis on which, the committee 
        determined each of the matters set forth in the concurrent 
        resolution, including information on outlays for the current 
        fiscal year and the decisions reached to set funding for the 
        subsequent fiscal years;''.

SEC. 104. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE REPORT TO COMMITTEES.

    (a) The first sentence of section 202(f)(1) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: ``On or before 
February 15 of each year, the Director shall submit to the Committees 
on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
for the fiscal year commencing on October 1 of that year with respect 
to fiscal policy, including (A) alternative levels of total revenues, 
total new budget authority, and total outlays (including related 
surpluses and deficits) compared to comparable levels for the current 
year and (B) the levels of tax expenditures under existing law, taking 
into account projected economic factors and any changes in such levels 
based on proposals in the budget submitted by the President for such 
fiscal year.''.
    (b) Section 202(f)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is 
amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new 
sentence: ``That report shall also include a table on sources of 
spending growth under current law in total mandatory spending for the 
budget year and the ensuing 4 fiscal years, which shall include changes 
in outlays attributable to the following: cost-of-living adjustments; 
changes in the number of program recipients; increases in medical care 
prices, utilization and intensity of medical care; and residual 
factors.''.
    (c) Section 202(f)(3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is 
amended by striking ``and'' before ``(B)'' and inserting a comma, and 
by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, and (C) 
all programs and activities with permanent or indefinite spending 
authority or that fall within section 401(c)(2)(C)''.
    (d) Section 308(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, and shall include 
        a comparison of those levels to comparable levels for the 
        current fiscal year'' before ``if timely submitted''; and
            (2) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (C), by 
        striking the period and inserting ``; and'' at the end of 
        subparagraph (D), and by adding at the end the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(E) comparing the levels in existing programs in 
                such measure to the estimated levels for the current 
                fiscal year.''

           TITLE II--CHANGES IN DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS

SEC. 201. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    (a) Downward Adjustments.--The discretionary spending limit for new 
budget authority for any fiscal year set forth in section 601(a)(2) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict conformance 
with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the amount in the Deficit Reduction 
Account set forth in each appropriation bill (or changed in the case of 
a rescission bill pursuant to section 1012 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974), as calculated by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget. The adjusted discretionary spending limit for outlays for 
that fiscal year and each outyear as set forth in such section 
601(a)(2) shall be reduced as a result of the reduction of such budget 
authority, as calculated by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget based upon programmatic and other assumptions set forth in 
the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying the conference 
report on that bill. Reductions (if any) shall occur on the day that 
each such appropriation bill is enacted into law. For purposes of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, amounts in Deficit Reduction Accounts 
shall only be used to make the adjustments specified in this 
subsection.
    (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term ``appropriation 
bill'' means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill or 
joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing 
appropriations.

SEC. 202. DEFICIT REDUCTION ACCOUNTS IN APPROPRIATION MEASURES AND IN 
              RESCISSION BILLS.

    (a) Deficit Reduction Accounts.--Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

  ``deficit reduction accounts in appropriation bills and rescission 
                                 bills

    ``Sec. 314. (a) Any appropriation bill or rescission bill that is 
being marked up by the Committee on Appropriations (or a subcommittee 
thereof) of either House shall contain a line item entitled `Deficit 
Reduction Account'.
    ``(b) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations of either House 
reports an appropriation bill, that bill shall contain a line item 
entitled `Deficit Reduction Account' comprised of the following:
            ``(1) Only in the case of any general appropriation bill 
        containing the appropriations for Treasury and Postal Service 
        (or resolution making continuing appropriations (if 
        applicable)), an amount equal to the amounts by which the 
        discretionary spending limit for new budget authority and 
        outlays set forth in the most recent OMB sequestration preview 
        report pursuant to section 601(a)(2) exceed the section 602(a) 
        allocation for the fiscal year covered by that bill.
            ``(2) Only in the case of any general appropriation bill 
        (or resolution making continuing appropriations (if 
        applicable)), an amount not to exceed the amount by which the 
        appropriate section 602(b) allocation of new budget authority 
        exceeds the amount of new budget authority provided by that 
        bill (as reported by that committee).
            ``(3) Only in the case of any bill making supplemental 
        appropriations following enactment of all general appropriation 
        bills for the same fiscal year, an amount not to exceed the 
        amount by which the section 602(a) allocation of new budget 
        authority exceeds the sum of all new budget authority provided 
        by appropriation bills enacted for that fiscal year plus that 
        supplemental appropriation bill (as reported by that 
        committee).
    ``(c)(1) Any amendment which is offered to reduce budget authority 
to an appropriation bill during its consideration by the Committee on 
Appropriations (or any subcommittee thereof) of either House of 
Congress or by either House may increase the amount placed in the 
Deficit Reduction Account by an amount which does not exceed the 
reduction in budget authority contained in the amendment. Any amendment 
to rescind budget authority during consideration of any bill by the 
Committee on Appropriations (or any subcommittee thereof) of either 
House of Congress or by either House may increase the amount placed in 
the Deficit Reduction Account by an amount which does not exceed the 
increase in the rescission contained in the amendment.
    ``(2) Whenever any amendment referred to in paragraph (1) is agreed 
to increasing the amount contained in the Deficit Reduction Account, 
then the line item entitled `Deficit Reduction Account' shall be 
increased by that amount.
    ``(3) Any amendment referred to in paragraph (1) shall identify the 
program, project, or account which is to be reduced in order to 
increase the Deficit Reduction Account by the amount set forth in that 
amendment.
    ``(d)(1) Any amendment pursuant to subsection (c)(1) shall be in 
order even if amending portions of the bill not yet read for amendment 
with respect to the Deficit Reduction Account and shall not be subject 
to a demand for a division of the question in the House of 
Representatives (or in the Committee of the Whole) or in the Senate. It 
shall be in order to further amend the amount placed in the Deficit 
Reduction Account after that amount has been changed by amendment. It 
shall not be in order to reduce the amount placed in the Deficit 
Reduction Account unless it is pursuant to a motion to strike any 
proposed rescission under section 1012(c)(1)(C) or section 
1012(c)(3)(B). It shall not be in order to offer an amendment 
increasing a Deficit Reduction Account unless the amendment increases 
rescissions or reduces appropriations by an equivalent amount.
    ``(2) During consideration of such an amendment to an appropriation 
bill in the House of Representatives, if the original motion offered by 
the floor manager proposed to place an amount in the Deficit Reduction 
Account that is less than the lower of the level in the House or Senate 
bill, then pending such original motion and before debate thereon, a 
motion to insist on disagreement to the amendment proposed by the 
Senate shall be preferential to any other motion to dispose of that 
amendment. Such a preferential motion shall be separately debatable for 
one hour equally divided between its opponents and the proponents of 
the original motion. The previous question shall be considered as 
ordered on such a preferential motion to its adoption without an 
intervening motion.
    ``(3) The committee report accompanying any appropriation bill or 
rescission bill in the House of Representatives or Senate and the joint 
statement of the managers accompanying the conference report on that 
bill shall set forth--
            ``(A) for any general appropriation bill, the amount of new 
        budget authority and outlays derived from the difference 
        between the section 602(b) allocations and the appropriation 
        bills;
            ``(B) for any appropriation bill (except a general 
        appropriation bill) but only if all 13 general appropriation 
        bills have been enacted for that fiscal year, the amount of new 
        budget authority and outlays to be derived from the difference 
        between the section 602(a) allocations and the sum of 
        appropriation bills for the current year and that bill; and
            ``(C) for any amendment described in subsection (c)(1) 
        changing the amount in a Deficit Reduction Account, the 
        program, project, or account assumptions;
for amounts in the Deficit Reduction Account.
    ``(e) As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriation bill' means any general or 
        special appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution 
        making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations; 
        and
            ``(2) the term `rescission bill' means any bill which 
        rescinds budget authority, including a bill referred to by 
        section 1012.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 314. Deficit reduction accounts in appropriation bills.''.

       TITLE III--EXPEDITED RESCISSIONS AND TARGETED TAX BENEFITS

SEC. 301. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS AND 
              TARGETED TAX BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1012 of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 683) is amended to read as 
follows:

       ``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions

    ``Sec. 1012. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority or Repeal 
of Targeted Tax Benefits.--The President may propose, at the time and 
in the manner provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget 
authority provided in an appropriation Act or repeal of any targeted 
tax benefit provided in any revenue Act. Funds made available for 
obligation under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission 
again under this section.
    ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
            ``(1) The President may transmit to Congress a special 
        message proposing to rescind amounts of budget authority or to 
        repeal any targeted tax benefit and include with that special 
        message a draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that 
        budget authority or repeal that targeted tax benefit. That bill 
        shall clearly identify the amount of budget authority that is 
        proposed to be rescinded for each program, project, or activity 
        to which that budget authority relates or the targeted tax 
        benefit proposed to be repealed, as the case may be. It shall 
        include a Deficit Reduction Account. The President may place in 
        the Deficit Reduction Account an amount not to exceed the total 
        rescissions in that bill. A targeted tax benefit may only be 
        proposed to be repealed under this section during the 10-
        calendar-day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
        holidays) commencing on the day after the date of enactment of 
        the provision proposed to be repealed.
            ``(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that includes 
        accounts within the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee 
        of the Committee on Appropriations, the President in proposing 
        to rescind budget authority under this section shall send a 
        separate special message and accompanying draft bill for 
        accounts within the jurisdiction of each such subcommittee.
            ``(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to 
        the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the following:
                    ``(A) The amount of budget authority which he 
                proposes to be rescinded.
                    ``(B) Any account, department, or establishment of 
                the Government to which such budget authority is 
                available for obligation, and the specific project or 
                governmental functions involved.
                    ``(C) The reasons why the budget authority should 
                be rescinded.
                    ``(D) To the maximum extent practicable, the 
                estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect 
                (including the effect on outlays in each fiscal year) 
                of the proposed rescission.
                    ``(E) All facts, circumstances, and considerations 
                relating to or bearing upon the proposed rescission and 
                the decision to effect the proposed rescission, and to 
                the maximum extent practicable, the estimated effect of 
                the proposed rescission upon the objects, purposes, and 
                programs for which the budget authority is provided.
        Each special message shall specify, with respect to the 
        proposed repeal of targeted tax benefits, the information 
        required by subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E), as it relates to 
        the proposed repeal.
    ``(c) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
            ``(1)(A) Before the close of the second legislative day of 
        the House of Representatives after the date of receipt of a 
        special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b), 
        the majority leader or minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives shall introduce (by request) the draft bill 
        accompanying that special message. If the bill is not 
        introduced as provided in the preceding sentence, then, on the 
        third legislative day of the House of Representatives after the 
        date of receipt of that special message, any Member of that 
        House may introduce the bill.
            ``(B) The bill shall be referred to the Committee on 
        Appropriations or the Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
        of Representatives, as applicable. The committee shall report 
        the bill without substantive revision and with or without 
        recommendation. The bill shall be reported not later than the 
        seventh legislative day of that House after the date of receipt 
        of that special message. If that committee fails to report the 
        bill within that period, that committee shall be automatically 
        discharged from consideration of the bill, and the bill shall 
        be placed on the appropriate calendar.
            ``(C)(i) During consideration under this paragraph, any 
        Member of the House of Representatives may move to strike any 
        proposed rescission or rescissions of budget authority or any 
        proposed repeal of a targeted tax benefit, as applicable, if 
        supported by 49 other Members.
            ``(ii) It shall not be in order for a Member of the House 
        of Representatives to move to strike any proposed rescission 
        under clause (i) unless the amendment reduces the appropriate 
        Deficit Reduction Account (pursuant to section 314) if the 
        program, project, or account to which the proposed rescission 
        applies was identified in the Deficit Reduction Account in the 
        special message under subsection (b).
            ``(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in 
        the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th 
        legislative day of that House after the date of the 
        introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is passed, 
        the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause the bill 
        to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the Senate 
        within one calendar day of the day on which the bill is passed.
            ``(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to 
        proceed to the consideration of a bill under this section shall 
        be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the 
        motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move 
        to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
        disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill 
        under this section shall not exceed 4 hours, which shall be 
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
        bill. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. 
        It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill under this 
        section or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill is 
        agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the 
        application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
        procedure relating to a bill under this section shall be 
        decided without debate.
            ``(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a 
        bill under this section shall be governed by the Rules of the 
        House of Representatives.
            ``(3)(A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursuant to 
        paragraph (1)(D) shall be referred to its Committee on 
        Appropriations or Committee on Finance, as applicable. That 
        committee shall report the bill without substantive revision 
        and with or without recommendation. The bill shall be reported 
        not later than the seventh legislative day of the Senate after 
        it receives the bill. A committee failing to report the bill 
        within such period shall be automatically discharged from 
        consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed upon 
        the appropriate calendar.
            ``(B)(i) During consideration under this paragraph, any 
        Member of the Senate may move to strike any proposed rescission 
        or rescissions of budget authority or any proposed repeal of a 
        targeted tax benefit, as applicable, if supported by 14 other 
        Members.
            ``(ii) It shall not be in order for a Member of the House 
        or Senate to move to strike any proposed rescission under 
        clause (i) unless the amendment reduces the appropriate Deficit 
        Reduction Account (pursuant to section 314) if the program, 
        project, or account to which the proposed rescission applies 
        was identified in the Deficit Reduction Account in the special 
        message under subsection (b).
            ``(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the 
        consideration of a bill under this section shall be privileged 
        and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
        order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
        by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this section, 
        and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith 
        (including debate pursuant to subparagraph (C)), shall not 
        exceed 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or 
        their designees.
            ``(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or 
        appeal in connection with a bill under this section shall be 
        limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
        and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill, 
        except that in the event the manager of the bill is in favor of 
        any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, 
        shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. 
        Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their 
        control on the passage of a bill, allot additional time to any 
        Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or 
        appeal.
            ``(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a 
        bill under this section is not debatable. A motion to recommit 
        a bill under this section is not in order.
    ``(d) Amendments and Divisions Prohibited.--Except as otherwise 
provided by this section, no amendment to a bill considered under this 
section shall be in order in either the House of Representatives or the 
Senate. It shall not be in order to demand a division of the question 
in the House of Representatives (or in a Committee of the Whole) or in 
the Senate. No motion to suspend the application of this subsection 
shall be in order in either House, nor shall it be in order in either 
House to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous 
consent.
    ``(e) Requirement To Make Available for Obligation.--(1) Any amount 
of budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message 
transmitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available 
for obligation on the day after the date on which either House rejects 
the bill transmitted with that special message.
    ``(2) Any targeted tax benefit proposed to be repealed under this 
section as set forth in a special message transmitted to Congress under 
subsection (b) shall be deemed repealed unless, during the period 
described in that subsection, either House rejects the bill transmitted 
with that special message.
    ``(f) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriation Act' means any general or 
        special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution 
        making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations;
            ``(2) the term `legislative day' means, with respect to 
        either House of Congress, any day of session; and
            ``(3) The term `targeted tax benefit' means any provision 
        which has the practical effect of providing a benefit in the 
        form of a differential treatment to a particular taxpayer or a 
        limited class of taxpayers, whether or not such provision is 
        limited by its terms to a particular taxpayer or a class of 
        taxpayers. Such term does not include any benefit provided to a 
        class of taxpayers distinguished on the basis of general 
        demographic conditions such as income, number of dependents, or 
        marital status.''.
    (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``and 1017'' and 
        inserting ``1012, and 1017''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``section 1017'' and 
        inserting ``sections 1012 and 1017''; and
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 1011 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
        U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended by repealing paragraphs (3) and (5) 
        and by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
            (2) Section 1014 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``or the 
                reservation''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ``or a 
                reservation'' and by striking ``or each such 
                reservation''.
            (3) Section 1015(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) is amended 
        by striking ``is to establish a reserve or'', by striking ``the 
        establishment of such a reserve or'', and by striking ``reserve 
        or'' each other place it appears.
            (4) Section 1017 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 687) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``rescission 
                bill introduced with respect to a special message or'';
                    (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``rescission 
                bill or'', by striking ``bill or'' the second place it 
                appears, by striking ``rescission bill with respect to 
                the same special message or'', and by striking ``, and 
                the case may be,'';
                    (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``bill or'' 
                each place it appears;
                    (D) in subsection (c), by striking ``rescission'' 
                each place it appears and by striking ``bill or'' each 
                place it appears;
                    (E) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``rescission 
                bill or'' and by striking ``, and all amendments 
                thereto (in the case of a rescission bill)'';
                    (F) in subsection (d)(2)--
                            (i) by striking the first sentence;
                            (ii) by amending the second sentence to 
                        read as follows: ``Debate on any debatable 
                        motion or appeal in connection with an 
                        impoundment resolution shall be limited to 1 
                        hour, to be equally divided between, and 
                        controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
                        resolution, except that in the event that the 
                        manager of the resolution is in favor of any 
                        such motion or appeal, the time in opposition 
                        thereto shall be controlled by the minority 
                        leader or his designee.'';
                            (iii) by striking the third sentence; and
                            (iv) in the fourth sentence, by striking 
                        ``rescission bill or'' and by striking 
                        ``amendment, debatable motion,'' and by 
                        inserting ``debatable motion'';
                    (G) in paragraph (d)(3), by striking the second and 
                third sentences; and
                    (H) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), (6), and (7) 
                of paragraph (d).
    (d) Clerical Amendments.--The item relating to section 1012 in the 
table of sections for subpart B of title X of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:

``Sec. 1012. Expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions 
                            and targeted tax benefits.''.

               TITLE IV--TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING

SEC. 401. TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING.

    (a) Emergency Appropriations.--Section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(which statute contains no other 
        appropriation for any other matter, including another 
        emergency)'' after ``statute''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
        ``However, OMB shall not adjust any discretionary spending 
        limit under this clause for any statute that designates 
        appropriations as emergency requirements if that statute 
        contains an appropriation for any other matter, event, or 
        occurrence, including another emergency, but that statute may 
        contain other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or 
        nonemergency appropriations for the designated emergency.''.
    (b) Emergency Legislation.--Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in its first sentence by inserting ``(which statute 
        contains no other appropriation for any other matter, including 
        another emergency)'' after ``statute''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
        ``However, OMB shall not designate any such amounts of new 
        budget authority, outlays, or receipts as emergency 
        requirements in the report required under subsection (d) if 
        that statute contains any other matter, event, or occurrence, 
        including another emergency, but that statute may contain other 
        offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency 
        appropriations for the designated emergency.''.
    (c) New Point of Order.--Title IV of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

                 ``point of order regarding emergencies

    ``Sec. 408. It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution 
containing an emergency designation for purposes of section 
251(b)(2)(D) or 252(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 if it also provides an appropriation for any other 
item (including another emergency) or contains any other matter 
(including another emergency).''.
    (d) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 408. Point of order regarding emergencies.''.

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