<enum>I</enum><header>Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government</header> <section id="HDA31361ACC6246CA9DA5BD8BDED927D0"><enum>101.</enum><header>Constraining growth</header> <subsection id="H0631424179394766B6F67882A9CAC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Constraining growth</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: </text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="H4C0418C7A6E148FDAE6ED507EBEE017D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H30A97B3CA84F4B3E9F5E5CA3D119E6CB"><enum>316.</enum><header>Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government</header> <subsection id="HBEA4044978E2420BAAEF262EBCF2B226" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Point of order</header><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal year if the percentage increase for the projected total outlays for such fiscal year compared to the projected total outlays for the preceding fiscal year set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget exceeds the allowable growth percentage.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H27C662CD6B34452786C0FD3D00ECB13B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Allowable growth percentage</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As used in subsection (a), the term <quote>allowable growth percentage</quote> for the applicable fiscal year refers to the mean of the annual percentage growth of mean earnings of full-time, year-round workers; compensation of employees; and gross domestic product (GDP) for the United States for the most recent calendar year for which such data may be obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Department of Commerce compared to the immediately preceding calendar year before the concurrent resolution on the budget for the applicable fiscal year is reported by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HBE584AA65B8841028189DBDE14478B89"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Super majority required for waiver</header><text>Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the House of Representatives or the Senate by a two-thirds vote of its Members voting, a quorum being present. </text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H4205ACFF7AAF47E80050B5F9E5FFD527"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 is amended by adding after the item relating to section 315 the following new item:</text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="H3C482979681743379F4E00EA11F009F" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry idref="H30A97B3CA84F4B3E9F5E5CA3D119E6CB" level="section">Sec. 316. Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>

110 HR 6105 IH: Fiscal Integrity through Transparency (FIT) Act of 2008 U.S. House of Representatives 2008-05-21 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

110th CONGRESS 2d Session

H. R. 6105

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 21, 2008

Mr. McCotter (for himself, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, and Mr. Carter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Budget, and Ways and Means, 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

A BILL

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require that concurrent resolutions on the budget limit the growth of Federal spending to the mean of annual percentage growth of wages and gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States, and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Fiscal Integrity through Transparency (FIT) Act of 2008

<enum>I</enum><header>Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government</header> <section id="HDA31361ACC6246CA9DA5BD8BDED927D0"><enum>101.</enum><header>Constraining growth</header> <subsection id="H0631424179394766B6F67882A9CAC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Constraining growth</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: </text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="H4C0418C7A6E148FDAE6ED507EBEE017D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H30A97B3CA84F4B3E9F5E5CA3D119E6CB"><enum>316.</enum><header>Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government</header> <subsection id="HBEA4044978E2420BAAEF262EBCF2B226" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Point of order</header><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal year if the percentage increase for the projected total outlays for such fiscal year compared to the projected total outlays for the preceding fiscal year set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget exceeds the allowable growth percentage.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H27C662CD6B34452786C0FD3D00ECB13B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Allowable growth percentage</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As used in subsection (a), the term <quote>allowable growth percentage</quote> for the applicable fiscal year refers to the mean of the annual percentage growth of mean earnings of full-time, year-round workers; compensation of employees; and gross domestic product (GDP) for the United States for the most recent calendar year for which such data may be obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Department of Commerce compared to the immediately preceding calendar year before the concurrent resolution on the budget for the applicable fiscal year is reported by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HBE584AA65B8841028189DBDE14478B89"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Super majority required for waiver</header><text>Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the House of Representatives or the Senate by a two-thirds vote of its Members voting, a quorum being present. </text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H4205ACFF7AAF47E80050B5F9E5FFD527"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment</header><text>The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 is amended by adding after the item relating to section 315 the following new item:</text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="H3C482979681743379F4E00EA11F009F" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry idref="H30A97B3CA84F4B3E9F5E5CA3D119E6CB" level="section">Sec. 316. Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <enum>II</enum><header>Efficiency and Responsibility from the Federal Government</header> <section id="HE58053E9183F4D1CBDA309DABCDCC000"><enum>201.</enum><header>Annual reports by Federal departments and agencies to Government Accountability Office</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"></text> <subsection id="H0423A01D6FA6457DAAEFB95B827D8F15"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report requirement</header><text>Each Federal department and agency annually shall submit to the Comptroller General a report on the total operating costs of the department or agency for the year covered by the report, with a separate statement containing details on waste, fraud, and abuse during such year.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H1B6171F2D3AA4218B5CA218527651064"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Audit by GAO</header><text>Each year the Comptroller General shall randomly select 10 percent of the reports submitted under subsection (a) and audit the reports.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HCB48AE21022F45878BF6318440CEA900"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Intelligence report requirement</header><text>Each intelligence department and agency of the Federal Government, and each intelligence-related division within a department or agency, shall submit to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives the total operating costs of the agency, department, or division for the year covered by the report, with a separate statement containing details on waste, fraud, and abuse during such year.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC02B931BF27C4F1EACCCC090C89BCCA0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>First reports</header><text>The first reports under this section shall be submitted not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HC0E5B0EC36714C9B9CB02F84E888048"><enum>202.</enum><header>Annual report by Comptroller General</header> <subsection id="HBF6BCF652A3E4D6FA846007B6F029FF1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Annual GAO report on reports of Federal departments and agencies</header><text>The Comptroller General shall submit to Congress an annual report on the results of the reports submitted under section 201(a).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H2AC752C3A685460200FA7DF0A46ED6BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>First report</header><text>The first report under this section shall be submitted not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HBB90691B5A044892BFB703EB0000CA01"><enum>203.</enum><header>Plan for reduction of operational costs of Federal departments and agencies</header> <subsection id="H4BC36CB67A2C4C709CBBF1B9FF6DDFAE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Plan requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Federal department or agency shall design a plan to reduce its operational costs from $.36 of every $1.00 appropriated to the department or agency to $.15 of every $1.00 (or reduce their operational costs by 41.67 percent) appropriated to the department or agency through the use of new technologies and standard management practices.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HDEE2DC74FD2E45BD9E24AF45E482E481"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation of plan</header><text>Not later than 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Federal department or agency shall implement the plan for the department or agency developed under subsection (a).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H607DF70D7AD34F9681B6F5F300494FF2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual progress reports</header><text>Each Federal department or agency shall submit to Congress a report each year detailing the progress of the department or agency in implementing the plan for the department or agency developed under subsection (a).</text></subsection></section> <section id="H463AC372BD2847A894F5B758D936ACC3"><enum>204.</enum><header>Informing taxpayers</header> <subsection id="H9AF5EFF85BCA47F18F37F670FCF162D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Statement To appear on tax returns</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall include, on each form for making the return of tax imposed under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, a statement of the aggregate dollar amount of waste, fraud, and abuse by all Federal departments and agencies for the most recent year for which the Secretary has received information under subsection (b).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H54CB3E314F314F18B776282B35033F78"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Determination of aggregate waste, fraud, and abuse by Comptroller General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General shall annually report to the Secretary of the Treasury the aggregate dollar amount of waste, fraud, and abuse by all Federal departments and agencies as determined by the Comptroller General on the basis of the reports submitted by Federal departments and agencies under section 201.</text></subsection> </section> <enum>III</enum><header>Providing Earmark Transparency</header> <section id="H1513793118CE45C3B7C3FC140000B7B"><enum>301.</enum><header>Earmark transparency</header> <subsection id="HB300E96A880C4A7A9CA35E76CD150265"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Earmark transparency</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as amended by section 101 is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: </text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="HB0411916806D4C92ADF921EDDC645713" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H6BD1389A10C5467D80EBE8F9E49487F"><enum>317.</enum><header>Earmark transparency</header> <subsection id="H6AC50993EA2A41D0951C76A8C77414C" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>All requests for earmarks received by the Committee on Appropriations (or any subcommittee thereof) of the House of Representatives or the Senate shall be posted by the applicable Committee on Appropriations (or subcommittee thereof) on its website at least 14 calendar days before the committee or subcommittee, as applicable, begins marking up the applicable measure. Each such posting of an earmark shall include the name of the Member requesting the earmark, the cost of the earmark, and a justification of why the earmark is needed.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H453C0A7D3EA64747AB9EDDD77658E33E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As used in subsection (a), the term <quote>earmark</quote> means—</text> <paragraph id="HF51C31B5253046F68E0053ADE86F9489"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the case of the House of Representatives, <quote>congressional earmark</quote> as such term is defined by clause 9(d) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H64D18C78E75F4CBFAE5F5602F4329371"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the case of the Senate, <quote>congressionally directed spending item</quote> as such term is defined by clause 5 of rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>