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                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 4299

           By Mr. GOSS:
     --At the end of title III (page 5, after line 23), add the 
     following:

     SEC. 303. DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY MEMBERS OF 
                   CONGRESS.

       During the fiscal year 1995, no element of the United 
     States Government for which funds are authorized in this Act 
     may provide any classified information concerning or derived 
     from the intelligence or intelligence related activities of 
     any such element to a Member of the House of Representatives 
     unless and until a copy of the following oath of secrecy has 
     been signed by that Member and has been published in the 
     Congressional Record:
       ``I do solemnly swear that I will not willfully directly or 
     indirectly disclose to any unauthorized person any classified 
     information received from any department of the Government 
     funded in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     1995 in the course of my duties as a Member of the United 
     States House of Representatives, except pursuant to the Rules 
     and Procedures of the House.''.

                               H.R. 4600

           By Mr. SOLOMON:
     --In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the 
     amendment in the nature of a substitute by Mr. Stenholm, 
     insert the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``The Enhanced Rescission/
     Receipts Act of 1994''.

     SEC. 2. LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO RESCISSION AUTHORITY.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the provisions of part B 
     of title X of The Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
     Control Act of 1974, and subject to the provisions of this 
     section, the President may rescind all or part of any 
     discretionary budget authority or veto any targeted tax 
     benefit within any revenue bill which is subject to the terms 
     of this Act if the President--
       (1) determines that--
       (A) such rescission or veto would help reduce the Federal 
     budget deficit;
       (B) such rescission or veto will not impair any essential 
     Government functions; and
       (C) such rescission or veto will not harm the national 
     interest; and
       (2) notifies the Congress of such rescission or veto by a 
     special message not later than twenty calendar days (not 
     including Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays) after the date of 
     enactment of a regular or supplemental appropriation act or a 
     joint resolution making continuing appropriations providing 
     such budget authority or a revenue bill containing a targeted 
     tax benefit.

     The President shall submit a separate rescission message for 
     each appropriation bill and for each revenue bill under this 
     paragraph.

     SEC. 3. RESCISSION EFFECTIVE UNLESS DISAPPROVED.

       (A)(1) Any amount of budget authority rescinded under this 
     Act as set forth in a special message by the President shall 
     be deemed canceled unless, during the period described in 
     subsection (b), a rescission/recepts disapproval bill making 
     available all of the amount rescinded is enacted into law.
       (2) Any provision of law vetoed under this Act as set forth 
     in a special message by the President shall be deemed 
     repealed unless, during the period described in subsection 
     (b), a rescission/receipts disapproval bill restoring that 
     provision is enacted into law.
       (b) The period referred to in subsection (a) is--
       (1) a congressional review period of twenty calendar days 
     of session during which Congress must complete action on the 
     rescission/receipts disapproval bill and present such bill to 
     the President for approval or disapproval;
       (2) after the period provided in paragraph (1), an 
     additional ten days (not including Sundays) during which the 
     President may exercise his authority to sign or veto the 
     rescission/receipts disapproval bill; and
       (3) if the President vetoes the rescission/receipts 
     disapproval bill during the period provided in paragraph (2), 
     an additional five calendar days of session after the date of 
     the veto.
       (c) If a special message is transmitted by the President 
     under this Act and the last session of the Congress adjourns 
     sine die before the expiration of the period described in 
     subsection (b), the rescission or veto, as the case may be, 
     shall not take effect. The message shall be deemed to have 
     been retransmitted on the first day of the succeeding 
     Congress and the review period referred to in subsection (b) 
     (with respect to such message) shall run beginning after such 
     first day.

     SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this Act:
       (1) The term ``rescission/receipts disapproval bill'' means 
     a bill or joint resolution which--
       (A) only disapproves a rescission of budget authority, in 
     whole, rescinded, or
       (B) only disapproves a veto of any provision of law that 
     would decrease receipts, in a special message transmitted by 
     the President under this Act.
       (2) The term ``calendar days of session'' shall mean only 
     those days on which both Houses of Congress are in session.
       (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.

     SEC. 5. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM 
                   VETO RESCISSIONS.

       (a) Presidential special Message.--Whenever the President 
     rescinds any budget authority as provided in this Act or 
     vetoes any provision of law as provided in this Act, the 
     President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special 
     message specifying--
       (1) the amount of budget authority rescinded or the 
     provision vetoed;
       (2) 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;
       (3) the reasons and justifications for the determination to 
     rescind budget authority or veto any provision pursuant to 
     this Act;
       (4) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated 
     fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the rescission or 
     veto; and
       (5) all factions, circumstances, and considerations 
     relating to or bearing upon the rescission or veto and the 
     decision to effect the rescission or veto, and to the maximum 
     extent practicable, the estimated effect of the rescission 
     upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget 
     authority is provided.
       (b) Transmission of Messages to House and Senate.--
       (1) Each special message transmitted under this Act shall 
     be transmitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     on the same day, and shall be delivered to the Clerk of the 
     House of Representatives if the House is not in session, and 
     to the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is not in 
     session. Each special message so transmitted shall be 
     referred to the appropriate committees of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate. Each such message shall be 
     printed as a document of each House.
       (2) Any special message transmitted under this Act shall be 
     printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published 
     after such transmittal.
       (c) Referral of Rescission/Receipts Disapproval Bill.--Any 
     rescission/receipts disapproval bill introduced with respect 
     to a special message shall be referred to the appropriate 
     committees of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as 
     the case may be.
       (d) Consideration in the Senate.--
       (1) Any rescission/receipts disapproval bill received in 
     the Senate from the House shall be considered in the Senate 
     pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
       (2) Debate in the Senate on any rescission/receipts 
     disapproval bill and debatable motions and appeals in 
     connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than ten 
     hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and 
     controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or 
     their designees.
       (3) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motions or appeal 
     in connection with such bill shall be limited to one 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 the time under their control on the passage 
     of the bill, allot additional time to any Senator during the 
     consideration of any debatable motion or appeal.
       (4) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. A 
     motion to recommit (except a motion to recommit with 
     instructions to report back within a specified number of days 
     not to exceed one, not counting any day on which the Senate 
     is not in session) is not in order.
       (e) Points of Order.--
       (1) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of 
     Representatives to consider any rescission/receipts 
     disapproval bill that relates to any matter other than the 
     rescission of budget authority or veto of the provision of 
     law transmitted by the President under this Act.
       (2) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of 
     Representatives to consider any amendment to a rescission/
     receipts disapproval bill.
       (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) may be waived or suspended in 
     the Senate only by a vote of three-fifths of the members duly 
     chosen and sworn.

                              H. Res. 467

           By Mr. DREIER:
     --On page 2, at line 25, insert the following new section 
     after the period:
       ``Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this 
     resolution, following the disposition of amendments to ``the 
     Expedited Rescissions Act of 1994,'' as provided for in the 
     foregoing provisions of this resolution, it shall be in 
     order, any rule of the House to the contrary notwithstanding, 
     to consider an amendment at the end of the bill by, and if 
     offered by, Representative Hamilton of Indiana or 
     Representative Dreier of California, or their designees, 
     consisting of the text of the bill H.R. 3801, the 
     ``Legislative Reorganization Act of 1994.'' as original text 
     for the purpose of further amendment under the five-minute 
     rule, titles I through III of the bill shall be redesignated 
     as titles II through IV of the amendment, and all points of 
     order against the amendment and against its consideration are 
     waived. The amendment shall be read by title for amendment 
     and each title shall be considered as read.
       ``Sec. 3.''

                               H.R. 4650

           By Mr. PENNY:
     --Page, 21, line 12, strike ``$1,969,336,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,273,336,000''.