[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4895 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4895

 To prohibit the expenditure of funds for the construction or lease of 
 buildings or space in the District of Columbia for the United States 
                   Government until January 1, 2009.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2007

 Mr. Gohmert 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 in the District of Columbia for the United States 
                   Government until January 1, 2009.

    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) The debt of the United States Government is over 9 
        trillion dollars and continues to rise.
            (2) Congress must tighten its fiscal belt to ease the 
        burden of the increasing debt level on United States taxpayers.
            (3) The Federal Government has a responsibility to the 
        taxpayers to make sacrifices in other areas.
            (4) Federal funds that otherwise would be spent on new 
        construction or leasing of Federal buildings would be better 
        spent helping the people of the United States by paying down 
        the Nation's debt.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON THE CONSTRUCTION OR LEASING OF NEW FEDERAL 
              BUILDINGS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNTIL JANUARY 2009.

    (a) Prohibition.--No funds may be expended for the construction or 
lease of buildings or space in the District of Columbia 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 enactment of this Act.
    (b) Exception.--The prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply in 
any case in which 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, 2009.
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