[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5667 Introduced in House (IH)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5667

 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
    to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed 
     rescissions of discretionary budget authority, promote fiscal 
responsibility, reinstate Pay-As-You-Go rules, require responsible use 
         of reconciliation procedures, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2006

  Mr. Spratt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules and 
    Standards of Official Conduct, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
    to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed 
     rescissions of discretionary budget authority, promote fiscal 
responsibility, reinstate Pay-As-You-Go rules, require responsible use 
         of reconciliation procedures, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Deficit Reduction and Effective 
Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006''.

                  TITLE I--LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO

SEC. 101. LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO.

    (a) In General.--Title X of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by 
striking all of part B (except for sections 1016 and 1013, which are 
redesignated as sections 1018 and 1019, respectively) and part C and 
inserting the following:

                  ``Part B--Legislative Line Item Veto

                       ``line item veto authority

    ``Sec. 1011. (a) Proposed Cancellations.--Within 10 calendar days 
after the enactment of any bill or joint resolution providing any 
discretionary budget authority or targeted tax benefit, the President 
may propose, in the manner provided in subsection (b), the cancellation 
of any dollar amount of such discretionary budget authority or targeted 
tax benefit. Except for emergency spending, if the 10 calendar-day 
period expires during a period where either House of Congress stands 
adjourned sine die at the end of a Congress or for a period greater 
than 10 calendar days, the President may propose a cancellation under 
this section and transmit a special message under subsection (b) on the 
first calendar day of session following such a period of adjournment.
    ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
            ``(1) Special message.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The President may transmit to 
                the Congress a special message proposing to cancel any 
                dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority or 
                targeted tax benefits.
                    ``(B) Contents of special message.--Each special 
                message shall specify with respect to the discretionary 
                budget authority proposed or targeted tax benefits to 
                be canceled--
                            ``(i) the dollar amount of discretionary 
                        budget authority (that OMB, after consultation 
                        with CBO, estimates to increase budget 
                        authority or outlays as required by section 
                        1016(9)) or the targeted tax benefit that the 
                        President proposes be canceled;
                            ``(ii) any account, department, or 
                        establishment of the Government to which such 
                        discretionary budget authority is available for 
                        obligation, and the specific project or 
                        governmental functions involved;
                            ``(iii) the reasons why such discretionary 
                        budget authority or targeted tax benefit should 
                        be canceled;
                            ``(iv) to the maximum extent practicable, 
                        the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary 
                        effect (including the effect on outlays and 
                        receipts in each fiscal year) of the proposed 
                        cancellation;
                            ``(v) to the maximum extent practicable, 
                        all facts, circumstances, and considerations 
                        relating to or bearing upon the proposed 
                        cancellation and the decision to effect the 
                        proposed cancellation, and the estimated effect 
                        of the proposed cancellation upon the objects, 
                        purposes, or programs for which the 
                        discretionary budget authority or the targeted 
                        tax benefit is provided;
                            ``(vi) a numbered list of cancellations to 
                        be included in an approval bill that, if 
                        enacted, would cancel discretionary budget 
                        authority or targeted tax benefits proposed in 
                        that special message; and
                            ``(vii) if the special message is 
                        transmitted subsequent to or at the same time 
                        as another special message, a detailed 
                        explanation why the proposed cancellations are 
                        not substantially similar to any other proposed 
                        cancellation in such other message.
                    ``(C) Duplicative proposals prohibited.--The 
                President may not propose to cancel the same or 
                substantially similar discretionary budget authority or 
                targeted tax benefit more than one time under this Act.
                    ``(D) Maximum number of special messages.--The 
                President may not transmit to the Congress more than 
                one special message under this subsection related to 
                any bill or joint resolution described in subsection 
                (a).
                    ``(E) Prohibition on Presidential Abuse of Proposed 
                Cancellations.--Neither the President nor any other 
                executive branch official shall condition the inclusion 
                or exclusion or threaten to condition the inclusion or 
                exclusion of any proposed cancellation in any special 
                message under this section on any vote cast or to be 
                cast by any Member of either House of Congress.
            ``(2) Enactment of approval bill.--
                    ``(A) Deficit reduction.--Amounts of discretionary 
                budget authority or targeted tax benefits which are 
                canceled pursuant to enactment of a bill as provided 
                under this section shall be dedicated only to reducing 
                the deficit or increasing the surplus.
                    ``(B) Adjustment of levels in the concurrent 
                resolution on the budget.--Not later than 5 days after 
                the date of enactment of an approval bill as provided 
                under this section, the chairs of the Committees on the 
                Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
                shall revise allocations and aggregates and other 
                appropriate levels under the appropriate concurrent 
                resolution on the budget to reflect the cancellation, 
                and the applicable committees shall report revised 
                suballocations pursuant to section 302(b), as 
                appropriate.
                    ``(C) Adjustments to statutory limits.--After 
                enactment of an approval bill as provided under this 
                section, the Office of Management and Budget shall 
                revise applicable limits under the Balanced Budget and 
                Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as appropriate.

                ``procedures for expedited consideration

    ``Sec. 1012. (a) Expedited Consideration.--
            ``(1) In general.--The majority leader of each House or his 
        designee shall (by request) introduce an approval bill as 
        defined in section 1016 not later than the fifth day of session 
        of that House after the date of receipt of a special message 
        transmitted to the Congress under section 1011(b) .
            ``(2) Consideration in the house of representatives.--
                    ``(A) Referral and reporting.--Any committee of the 
                House of Representatives to which an approval bill is 
                referred shall report it to the House without amendment 
                not later than the seventh legislative day after the 
                date of its introduction. If a committee fails to 
                report the bill within that period or the House has 
                adopted a concurrent resolution providing for 
                adjournment sine die at the end of a Congress, it shall 
                be in order to move that the House discharge the 
                committee from further consideration of the bill. Such 
                a motion shall be in order only at a time designated by 
                the Speaker in the legislative schedule within two 
                legislative days after the day on which the proponent 
                announces his intention to offer the motion. Such a 
                motion shall not be in order after a committee has 
                reported an approval bill with respect to that special 
                message or after the House has disposed of a motion to 
                discharge with respect to that special message. The 
                previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
                motion to its adoption without intervening motion 
                except twenty minutes of debate equally divided and 
                controlled by the proponent and an opponent. If such a 
                motion is adopted, the House shall proceed immediately 
                to consider the approval bill in accordance with 
                subparagraph (B). A motion to reconsider the vote by 
                which the motion is disposed of shall not be in order.
                    ``(B) Proceeding to consideration.--After an 
                approval bill is reported or a committee has been 
                discharged from further consideration, or the House has 
                adopted a concurrent resolution providing for 
                adjournment sine die at the end of a Congress, it shall 
                be in order to move to proceed to consider the approval 
                bill in the House. Such a motion shall be in order only 
                at a time designated by the Speaker in the legislative 
                schedule within two legislative days after the day on 
                which the proponent announces his intention to offer 
                the motion. Such a motion shall not be in order after 
                the House has disposed of a motion to proceed with 
                respect to that special message. There shall be not 
                more than 5 hours of general debate equally divided and 
                controlled by the proponent and an opponent of the 
                bill. After general debate, the bill shall be 
                considered as read for amendment under the five-minute 
                rule. Only one motion to rise shall be in order, except 
                if offered by the manager. No amendment to the bill is 
                in order, except any Member if supported by 99 other 
                Members (a quorum being present) may offer an amendment 
                striking the reference number or numbers of a 
                cancellation or cancellations from the bill. 
                Consideration of the bill for amendment shall not 
                exceed one hour excluding time for recorded votes and 
                quorum calls. No amendment shall be subject to further 
                amendment, except pro forma amendments for the purposes 
                of debate only. At the conclusion of the consideration 
                of the bill for amendment, the Committee shall rise and 
                report the bill to the House with such amendments as 
                may have been adopted. The previous question shall be 
                considered as ordered on the bill and amendments 
                thereto to final passage without intervening motion. A 
                motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the bill 
                shall not be in order.
                    ``(C) Senate bill.--An approval bill received from 
                the Senate shall not be referred to committee.
            ``(3) Consideration in the senate.--
                    ``(A) Motion to proceed to consideration.--A motion 
                to proceed to the consideration of a bill under this 
                subsection in the Senate shall not be debatable. It 
                shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
                which the motion to proceed is agreed to or disagreed 
                to.
                    ``(B) Limits on debate.--Debate in the Senate on a 
                bill under this subsection, and all amendments and 
                debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith 
                (including debate pursuant to subparagraph (D)), shall 
                not exceed 10 hours, equally divided and controlled in 
                the usual form.
                    ``(C) Appeals.--Debate in the Senate on any 
                debatable motion or appeal in connection with a bill 
                under this subsection shall be limited to not more than 
                1 hour, to be equally divided and controlled in the 
                usual form.
                    ``(D) Amendments.--During consideration under this 
                subsection, any Member of the Senate may move to strike 
                any proposed cancellation or cancellations of budget 
                authority or targeted tax benefit, as applicable, if 
                supported by 15 other Members.
                    ``(E) Motion to limit debate.--A motion in the 
                Senate to further limit debate on a bill under this 
                subsection is not debatable.
                    ``(F) Motion to recommit.--A motion to recommit a 
                bill under this subsection is not in order.
                    ``(G) Consideration of the house bill.--
                            ``(i) In general.--If the Senate has 
                        received the House companion bill to the bill 
                        introduced in the Senate prior to the vote on 
                        the Senate bill, then the Senate may consider, 
                        and the vote may occur on, the House companion 
                        bill.
                            ``(ii) Procedure after vote on senate 
                        bill.--If the Senate votes on the bill 
                        introduced in the Senate, then immediately 
                        following that vote, or upon receipt of the 
                        House companion bill, the House bill if 
                        identical to the Senate bill shall be deemed to 
                        be considered, read the third time, and the 
                        vote on passage of the Senate bill shall be 
                        considered to be the vote on the bill received 
                        from the House.
    ``(b) 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.
    (c) Consideration of Conference Reports.--(1) Debate in the House 
of Representatives or the Senate on the conference report and any 
amendments in disagreement on any approval bill shall be limited to not 
more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally between the majority 
leader and the minority leader. A motion further to limit debate is not 
debateable. A motion to recommit the conference report is not in order, 
and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
conference report is agreed to or disagreed to.
    (2) If an approval bill is amended by either House of Congress and 
a committee of conference has not completed action (or such committee 
of conference was never appointed) on such bill by the 15th calendar 
day after both Houses have passed such bill, then any Member of either 
House may introduce a bill comprised only of the text of the approval 
bill as initially introduced and that bill shall be considered under 
the procedures set forth in this section except that no amendments 
shall be in order in either House.

                   ``presidential deferral authority

    ``Sec. 1013. (a) Temporary Presidential Authority to Withhold 
Discretionary Budget Authority.--
            ``(1) In general.--At the same time as the President 
        transmits to the Congress a special message pursuant to section 
        1011(b), the President may direct that any dollar amount of 
        discretionary budget authority to be canceled in that special 
        message shall not be made available for obligation for a period 
        not to exceed 30 calendar days from the date the President 
        transmits the special message to the Congress or for emergency 
        spending for a period not to exceed 7 calendar days.
            ``(2) Early availability.--The President shall make any 
        dollar amount of discretionary budget authority deferred 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) available at a time earlier than the 
        time specified by the President if the President determines 
        that continuation of the deferral would not further the 
        purposes of this Act.
    ``(b) Temporary Presidential Authority To Suspend a Targeted Tax 
Benefit.--
            ``(1) In general.--At the same time as the President 
        transmits to the Congress a special message pursuant to section 
        1011(b), the President may suspend the implementation of any 
        targeted tax benefit proposed to be repealed in that special 
        message for a period not to exceed 30 calendar days from the 
        date the President transmits the special message to the 
        Congress.
            ``(2) Early availability.--The President shall terminate 
        the suspension of any targeted tax benefit at a time earlier 
        than the time specified by the President if the President 
        determines that continuation of the suspension would not 
        further the purposes of this Act.

                      ``treatment of cancellations

    ``Sec. 1014. The cancellation of any dollar amount of discretionary 
budget authority or targeted tax benefit shall take effect only upon 
enactment of the applicable approval bill. If an approval bill is not 
enacted into law before the end of the applicable period under section 
1013, then all proposed cancellations contained in that bill shall be 
null and void and any such dollar amount of discretionary budget 
authority or targeted tax benefit shall be effective as of the original 
date provided in the law to which the proposed cancellations applied.

                    ``reports by comptroller general

    ``Sec. 1015. With respect to each special message under this part, 
the Comptroller General shall issue to the Congress a report 
determining whether any discretionary budget authority is not made 
available for obligation or targeted tax benefit continues to be 
suspended after the deferral authority set forth in section 1013 of the 
President has expired.

                             ``definitions

    ``Sec. 1016. As used in this part:
            ``(1) Appropriation law.--The term `appropriation law' 
        means an Act referred to in section 105 of title 1, United 
        States Code, including any general or special appropriation 
        Act, or any Act making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing 
        appropriations, that has been signed into law pursuant to 
        Article I, section 7, of the Constitution of the United States.
            ``(2) Approval bill.--The term `approval bill' means a bill 
        or joint resolution which only approves proposed cancellations 
        of dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority or targeted 
        tax benefits in a special message transmitted by the President 
        under this part and--
                    ``(A) the title of which is as follows: `A bill 
                approving the proposed cancellations transmitted by the 
                President on ____', the blank space being filled in 
                with the date of transmission of the relevant special 
                message and the public law number to which the message 
                relates;
                    ``(B) which does not have a preamble; and
                    ``(C) which provides only the following after the 
                enacting clause: `That the Congress approves of 
                proposed cancellations ____', the blank space being 
                filled in with a list of the cancellations contained in 
                the President's special message, `as transmitted by the 
                President in a special message on ____', the blank 
                space being filled in with the appropriate date, 
                `regarding ____.', the blank space being filled in with 
                the public law number to which the special message 
                relates;
                    ``(D) which only includes proposed cancellations 
                that are estimated by CBO to meet the definition of 
                discretionary budgetary authority or that are 
                identified as targeted tax benefits pursuant to 
                paragraph (9) of section 1016; and
                    ``(E) if no CBO estimate is available, then the 
                entire list of legislative provisions affecting 
                discretionary budget authority proposed by the 
                President is inserted in the second blank space in 
                subparagraph (C).
            ``(3) Calendar day.--The term `calendar day' means a 
        standard 24-hour period beginning at midnight.
            ``(4) Cancel or cancellation.--The terms `cancel' or 
        `cancellation' means to prevent--
                    ``(A) budget authority from having legal force or 
                effect; or
                    ``(B) a targeted tax benefit from having legal 
                force or effect; and
        to make any necessary, conforming statutory change to ensure 
        that such targeted tax benefit is not implemented and that any 
        budgetary resources are appropriately canceled.
            ``(5) CBO.--The term `CBO' means the Director of the 
        Congressional Budget Office.
            ``(6) Direct spending.--The term `direct spending' means--
                    ``(A) budget authority provided by law (other than 
                an appropriation law);
                    ``(B) entitlement authority; and
                    ``(C) the food stamp program.
            ``(7) Dollar amount of discretionary budget authority.--(A) 
        Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term ``dollar 
        amount of discretionary budget authority'' means the entire 
        dollar amount of budget authority--
                    ``(i) specified in an appropriation law, or the 
                entire dollar amount of budget authority or obligation 
                limitation required to be allocated by a specific 
                proviso in an appropriation law for which a specific 
                dollar figure was not included;
                    ``(ii) represented separately in any table, chart, 
                or explanatory text included in the statement of 
                managers or the governing committee report accompanying 
                such law;
                    ``(iii) required to be allocated for a specific 
                program, project, or activity in a law (other than an 
                appropriation law) that mandates the expenditure of 
                budget authority from accounts, programs, projects, or 
                activities for which budget authority is provided in an 
                appropriation law;
                    ``(iv) represented by the product of the estimated 
                procurement cost and the total quantity of items 
                specified in an appropriation law or included in the 
                statement of managers or the governing committee report 
                accompanying such law; or
                    ``(v) represented by the product of the estimated 
                procurement cost and the total quantity of items 
                required to be provided in a law (other than an 
                appropriation law) that mandates the expenditure of 
                budget authority from accounts, programs, projects, or 
                activities for which budget authority is provided in an 
                appropriation law.
            ``(B) The term `dollar amount of discretionary budget 
        authority' does not include--
                    ``(i) direct spending;
                    ``(ii) budget authority in an appropriation law 
                which funds direct spending provided for in other law;
                    ``(iii) any existing budget authority canceled in 
                an appropriation law; or
                    ``(iv) any restriction, condition, or limitation in 
                an appropriation law or the accompanying statement of 
                managers or committee reports on the expenditure of 
                budget authority for an account, program, project, or 
                activity, or on activities involving such expenditure.
            ``(8) OMB.--The term `OMB' means the Director of the Office 
        of Management and Budget.
            ``(9) Targeted tax benefit.--(A) The term `targeted tax 
        benefit' means any revenue-losing provision that provides a 
        Federal tax deduction, credit, exclusion, or preference to 100 
        or fewer beneficiaries (determined with respect to either 
        present law or any provision of which the provision is a part) 
        under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in any year for which 
        the provision is in effect;
            ``(B) for purposes of subparagraph (A)--
                    ``(i) all businesses and associations that are 
                members of the same controlled group of corporations 
                (as defined in section 1563(a) of the Internal Revenue 
                Code of 1986) shall be treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(ii) all shareholders, partners, members, or 
                beneficiaries of a corporation, partnership, 
                association, or trust or estate, respectively, shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(iii) all employees of an employer shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(iv) all qualified plans of an employer shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(v) all beneficiaries of a qualified plan shall 
                be treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(vi) all contributors to a charitable 
                organization shall be treated as a single beneficiary;
                    ``(vii) all holders of the same bond issue shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary; and
                    ``(viii) if a corporation, partnership, 
                association, trust or estate is the beneficiary of a 
                provision, the shareholders of the corporation, the 
                partners of the partnership, the members of the 
                association, or the beneficiaries of the trust or 
                estate shall not also be treated as beneficiaries of 
                such provision;
            ``(C) for the purpose of this paragraph, the term `revenue-
        losing provision' means any provision that is estimated to 
        result in a reduction in Federal tax revenues (determined with 
        respect to either present law or any provision of which the 
        provision is a part) for any one of the following periods--
                    ``(i) the first fiscal year for which the provision 
                is effective;
                    ``(ii) the period of the 5 fiscal years beginning 
                with the first fiscal year for which the provision is 
                effective;
                    ``(iii) the period of 10 fiscal years beginning 
                with the first fiscal year for which the provision is 
                effective; or
                    ``(iv) the period of 20 fiscal years beginning with 
                the first fiscal year for which the provision is 
                effective; and
            ``(D) the terms used in this paragraph shall have the same 
        meaning as those terms have generally in the Internal Revenue 
        Code of 1986, unless otherwise expressly provided.

                              ``expiration

    ``Sec. 1017. This title shall have no force or effect on or after 2 
years after the date of enactment of this section.''.

SEC. 102. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) 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 ``1017'' and inserting 
        `1012''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``section 1017'' and 
        inserting ``section 1012''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) Section 1(a) of the Congressional 
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking the 
last sentence.
    (2) Section 1022(c) of such Act (as redesignated) is amended by 
striking ``rescinded or that is to be reserved'' and inserting 
``canceled'' and by striking ``1012'' and inserting ``1011''.
    (3) Table of Contents.--The table of contents set forth in section 
1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 
amended by deleting the contents for parts B and C of title X and 
inserting the following:

                  ``Part B--Legislative Line Item Veto

``Sec. 1011. Line item veto authority.
``Sec. 1012. Procedures for expedited consideration.
``Sec. 1013. Presidential deferral authority.
``Sec. 1014. Treatment of cancellations.
``Sec. 1015. Reports by Comptroller General.
``Sec. 1016. Definitions.
``Sec. 1017. Expiration.
``Sec. 1018. Suits by Comptroller General.
``Sec. 1019. Proposed Deferrals of budget authority.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect on the date of its enactment and apply only to any dollar amount 
of discretionary budget authority or targeted tax benefit provided in 
an Act enacted on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

                   TITLE II--PAY-AS-YOU-GO EXTENSION

SEC. 201. PAY-AS-YOU-GO EXTENSION.

    (a) Section 252 Amendments.--Section 252 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking ``2002'' 
both places it appears and inserting ``2011''.
    (b) Section 275 Amendment.--Section 275(b) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking 
``2006'' and inserting ``2016''.

  TITLE III--RECONCILIATION INSTRUCTIONS MAY NOT INCREASE THE DEFICIT

SEC. 301. DEFINITION OF RECONCILIATION.

    Section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Definition of Reconciliation Legislation.--As used in this 
Act, a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution is a measure 
that, if enacted, would reduce the deficit or increase the surplus for 
each fiscal year covered by such measure compared to the most recent 
Congressional Budget Office estimate for any such fiscal year.''.

                        TITLE IV--EARMARK REFORM

SEC. 401. CURBING ABUSES OF POWER.

    Rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives (the Code 
of Official Conduct) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating clause 14 as clause 16; and
            (2) by inserting after clause 13 the following new clauses:
    ``14. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall not 
condition the inclusion of language to provide funding for a district-
oriented earmark, a particular project which will be carried out in a 
Member's congressional district, or a limited tax benefit in any bill 
or joint resolution (or an accompanying report thereof) or in any 
conference report on a bill or joint resolution (including an 
accompanying joint statement of managers thereto) on any vote cast by 
the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner in whose Congressional 
district the project will be carried out.
    ``15. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
advocates to include a district-oriented earmark in any bill or joint 
resolution (or an accompanying report) or in any conference report on a 
bill or joint resolution (including an accompanying joint statement of 
managers thereto) shall disclose in writing to the chairman and ranking 
member of the relevant committee (and in the case of the Committee on 
Appropriations to the chairman and ranking member of the full committee 
and of the relevant subcommittee)--
            ``(1) the name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner;
            ``(2) the name and address of the intended recipient of 
        such earmark;
            ``(3) the purpose of such earmark; and
            ``(4) whether the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner has a financial interest in such earmark.
    ``(b) Each committee shall make available to the general public the 
information transmitted to the committee under paragraph (a) for any 
earmark included in any measure reported by the committee or conference 
report filed by the chairman of the committee or any subcommittee 
thereof.
    ``(c) The Joint Committee on Taxation shall review any revenue 
measure or any reconciliation bill or joint resolution which includes 
revenue provisions before it is reported by a committee and before it 
is filed by a committee of conference of the two Houses, and shall 
identify whether such bill or joint resolution contains any limited tax 
benefits. The Joint Committee on Taxation shall prepare a statement 
identifying any such limited tax benefits, stating who the 
beneficiaries are of such benefits, and any substantially similar 
introduced measures and the sponsors of such measures. Any such 
statement shall be made available to the general public by the Joint 
Committee on Taxation.''.

SEC. 402. KNOWING WHAT THE HOUSE IS VOTING ON.

    (a) Bills and Joint Resolutions.--
            (1) In general.--Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
        new clause:
    ``8. Except for motions to suspend the rules and consider 
legislation, it shall not be in order to consider in the House a bill 
or joint resolution until 24 hours after or, in the case of a bill or 
joint resolution containing a district-oriented earmark or limited tax 
benefit, until 3 days after copies of such bill or joint resolution 
(and, if the bill or joint resolution is reported, copies of the 
accompanying report) are available (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or 
legal holidays except when the House is in session on such a day).''.
            (2) Prohibiting waiver.--Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the 
        Rules of the House of Representatives is amended--
                    (A) by striking `or' at the end of subparagraph 
                (1);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (2) and inserting `; or'; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
            ``(3) a rule or order that waives clause 8 of rule XIII or 
        clause 8(a)(1)(B) of rule XXII, unless a question of 
        consideration of the rule is adopted by a vote of two-thirds of 
        the Members voting, a quorum being present.''.
    (b) Conference Reports.--Clause 8(a)(1)(B) of rule XXII of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by striking ``2 
hours'' and inserting ``24 hours or, in the case of a conference report 
containing a district-oriented earmark or limited tax benefit, until 3 
days after''.

SEC. 403. FULL AND OPEN DEBATE IN CONFERENCE.

    (a) Numbered Amendments.--Clause 1 of rule XXII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new sentence: ``A motion to request or agree to a conference on a 
general appropriation bill is in order only if the Senate expresses its 
disagreements with the House in the form of numbered amendments.''.
    (b) Promoting Openness in Deliberations of Managers.--Clause 12(a) 
of rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(3) All provisions on which the two Houses disagree shall 
        be open to discussion at any meeting of a conference committee. 
        The text which reflects the conferees' action on all of the 
        differences between the two Houses, including all matter to be 
        included in the conference report and any amendments in 
        disagreement, shall be available to any of the managers at 
        least one such meeting, and shall be approved by a recorded 
        vote of a majority of the House managers. Such text and, with 
        respect to such vote, the total number of votes cast for and 
        against, and the names of members voting for and against, shall 
        be included in the joint explanatory statement of managers 
        accompanying the conference report of such conference 
        committee.''.
    (c) Point of Order Against Consideration of Conference Report Not 
Reflecting Resolution of Differences as Approved.--
            (1) In general.--Rule XXII of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
        new clause:
    ``13. It shall not be in order to consider a conference report the 
text of which differs in any material way from the text which reflects 
the conferees' action on all of the differences between the two Houses, 
as approved by a recorded vote of a majority of the House managers as 
required under clause 12(a).''.
            (2) Prohibiting waiver.--Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the 
        Rules of the House of Representatives, as amended above, is 
        amended
                    (A) by striking `or' at the end of subparagraph 
                (2);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (3) and inserting `; or'; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
            ``(4) a rule or order that waives clause 12(a) or clause 13 
        of rule XXII.''.
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