[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 160 (Thursday, October 29, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S7661]
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  SA 2759. Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an 
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt 
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REDUCING EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT.

       (a) Short Title; Definitions.--
       (1) Short title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Reducing Excessive Government Act of 2015'' or the ``REG 
     Act''.
       (2) Definitions.--In this section--
       (A) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given the term 
     ``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, United 
     States Code;
       (B) the term ``amount of the increase in the debt limit'' 
     means--
       (i) the dollar amount of the increase in the debt limit 
     specified in the Act increasing the debt limit; or
       (ii) in the case of an Act that provides that the debt 
     limit shall not apply for a period and that the amount of the 
     debt limit is increased at the end of such period, the amount 
     by which the Secretary of the Treasury estimates the debt 
     limit shall be increased at the end of the period of the 
     suspension, which the Secretary shall submit to Congress on 
     the date of enactment of such an Act;
       (C) the term ``debt limit'' means the limitation imposed by 
     section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code;
       (D) the term ``direct cost of Federal regulation'' means 
     all costs incurred by, and expenditures required of, the 
     Federal Government in issuing and enforcing Federal 
     regulations, rules, statements, and legislation;
       (E) the term ``Federal regulatory cost''--
       (i) means all costs incurred by, and expenditures required 
     of, the private sector in complying with any Federal 
     regulation, rule, statement, or legislation; and
       (ii) does not include the value of any benefit under the 
     Federal regulation, rule, statement, or legislation;
       (F) the term ``joint resolution'' means a joint 
     resolution--
       (i) reported by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     or the House of Representatives in accordance with subsection 
     (d)(3);
       (ii) which does not have a preamble;
       (iii) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution 
     relating to repeal of costly rules.''; and
       (iv) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
     follows: ``That the following rules shall have no force or 
     effect: _______