[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3797 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3797

 To prohibit the expenditure of funds for the construction or lease of 
 buildings or space for the United States Government until January 1, 
                                 2007.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2005

Mr. Gohmert (for himself, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. King 
    of Iowa, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Flake, Mr. 
   Gutknecht, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. Goode, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Feeney, Mr. 
  Chabot, Mr. Marchant, and Mr. Bartlett of Maryland) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the expenditure of funds for the construction or lease of 
 buildings or space for the United States Government until January 1, 
                                 2007.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) While the United States comes together to rebuild the 
        devastated Gulf Coast Region, the Federal Government must 
        tighten its fiscal belt to ease the burden on the taxpayers.
            (2) The citizens of the country not affected by the 
        devastating Hurricane Katrina are contributing to pay for the 
        rescue and repair of the region.
            (3) The Federal Government has a responsibility to the 
        taxpayers to make sacrifices in other areas while helping those 
        in dire need of financial resources.
            (4) Federal funds that otherwise would be spent on new 
        construction or leasing of Federal buildings would be better 
        spent helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON THE CONSTRUCTION OR LEASING OF NEW FEDERAL 
              BUILDINGS UNTIL JANUARY 2007.

    (a) Prohibition.--No funds may be expended for the construction or 
lease of buildings or space for any branch of the United States 
Government or any entity within such branch, unless a contract for the 
construction or lease was entered into before the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
    (b) Exceptions.--The prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply 
in any case in which--
            (1) the funds are to be used for any construction to 
        rebuild the Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricane Katrina; 
        or
            (2) the expenditure of funds for the purposes described in 
        subsection (a) is necessary in the interests of national 
        security.
    (c) Expiration.--The prohibition under subsection (a) shall expire 
on January 1, 2007.
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