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108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 180
To reform Federal budget procedures to restrain congressional spending,
foster greater oversight of the budget, account for accurate Government
agency costs, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 7, 2003
Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin (for himself, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Akin, Mr.
Royce, and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on the Budget, for a period ending not later
than June 1, 2003, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Ways and
Means, and Government Reform, 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 reform Federal budget procedures to restrain congressional spending,
foster greater oversight of the budget, account for accurate Government
agency costs, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited at the ``Budget Fraud
Elimination Act of 2003''.
(b) Table of Contents.--
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--TRUTH IN BUDGETING
Subtitle A--Limit on the Public Debt
Sec. 101. Findings.
Sec. 102. Purpose.
Sec. 103. Limit on public debt.
Subtitle B--Establishment of Biennial Budgeting
Sec. 111. Findings.
Sec. 112. Revision of timetable.
Sec. 113. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974.
Sec. 114. Amendments to rules of House of Representatives.
Sec. 115. Amendments to title 31, United States Code.
Sec. 116. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriation
acts.
Sec. 117. Multiyear authorizations.
Sec. 118. Government strategic and performance plans on a biennial
basis.
Sec. 119. Biennial appropriation bills.
Sec. 120. Assistance by Federal agencies to standing committees of the
Senate and the House of Representatives.
Sec. 121. Report on two-year fiscal period.
Sec. 122. Special transition period for the 109th Congress.
Sec. 123. Effective date.
TITLE II--TRUTH IN SPENDING
Subtitle A--Emergency Spending Legislation
Sec. 201. Emergency spending legislation and the baseline.
Sec. 202. OMB emergency criteria.
Sec. 203. Point of order to enforce definition of emergency.
Subtitle B--The Byrd Rule
Sec. 211. Limitation on Byrd rule.
Subtitle C--Spending Accountability Reserve
Sec. 231. Short title.
Sec. 232. Spending accountability reserve ledger.
Sec. 233. Downward adjustment of section 302(a) allocations and section
302(b) suballocations.
Sec. 234. Periodic reporting of ledger statements.
Sec. 235. Downward adjustment of discretionary spending limits.
Sec. 236. Reduction in revenues.
Subtitle D--Enhanced Rescissions of Budget Authority Identified by the
President as Wasteful Spending
Sec. 251. Short title.
Sec. 252. Enhanced consideration of certain proposed rescissions.
Subtitle E--Extension of Discretionary Spending Limits and Paygo
Sec. 261. Amendments to sections 251, 252, and 275 of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985.
Subtitle F--Paygo Requirements and the On-Budget Surplus
Sec. 271. Paygo requirements and the on-budget surplus.
Subtitle G--Treatment of Extraneous Appropriations in Omnibus
Appropriation Measures
Sec. 281. Treatment of extraneous appropriations.
TITLE III--BUDGETING AND MANAGING FOR RESULTS: FULL FUNDING FOR FEDERAL
RETIREE COSTS
Subtitle A--Accrual Funding of Pensions and Retirement Pay forederal
Employees and Uniformed Services Personnel
Sec. 301. Civil Service Retirement System.
Sec. 302. Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
Sec. 303. Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System.
Sec. 304. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Retirement System.
Sec. 305. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned
Officer Corps Retirement System.
Sec. 306. Coast Guard Military Retirement System.
Subtitle B--Accrual Funding of Post-Retirement Health Benefits Costs
for Federal Employees
Sec. 311. Federal employees health benefits fund.
Sec. 312. Funding uniformed services health benefits for all retirees.
Sec. 313. Effective date.
TITLE I--TRUTH IN BUDGETING
Subtitle A--Limit on the Public Debt
SEC. 101. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Since 1997, Congress has paid down and retired
approximately $450,000,000,000 of the Government's debt which
was previously held by the public.
(2) This reduction in the Government's debt to the public
should permit a lowering of the statutory debt ceiling.
However, the statutory definition mingles both the public debt
and intragovernment liabilities, the latter of which do not
represent resource withdrawals for the economy.
(3) Intragovernment accounts such as the social security
trust funds, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund,
the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, and the
Unemployment Trust Fund constitute accrued liabilities of the
Government which will be paid from future receipts, taxes, or
borrowing. If the Government issues debt to the public to fund
such liabilities in the future, that debt will properly be
subject to the debt ceiling.
(4) Properly defining the debt of the Government would
permit lowering the debt ceiling to take account of, and lock
in, the fiscal progress that has been made.
SEC. 102. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this subtitle to--
(1) properly define the public debt to exclude
intragovernment obligations; and
(2) reduce the public debt ceiling in recognition of the
reduction in outstanding public debt in recent years, and to
encourage further fiscal responsibility and progress toward
eliminating the remaining outstanding debt.
SEC. 103. LIMIT ON PUBLIC DEBT.
Section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
``Sec. 3101. Public debt limit
``(a) In this section, the current redemption value of an
obligation issued on a discount basis and redeemable before maturity at
the option of its holder is deemed to be the face amount of the
obligation.
``(b) The face amount of obligations issued under this chapter and
the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are
guaranteed by the United States Government (except guaranteed
obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury and intragovernmental
holdings) may not be more than $3,870,000,000,000 outstanding at one
time, subject to changes periodically made in that amount as provided
by law.
``(c) For purposes of this section, the face amount, for any month,
of any obligation issued on a discount basis that is not redeemable
before maturity at the option of the holder of the obligation is an
amount equal to the sum of--
``(1) the original issue price of the obligation, plus
``(2) the portion of the discount on the obligation
attributable to periods before the beginning of such month (as
determined under the principles of section 1272(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 without regard to any exceptions
contained in paragraph (2) of such section).
``(d) For purposes of this section, the term `intragovernment
holding' is any obligation issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to
any Federal trust fund or Government account, whether in respect of
public money, money otherwise required to be deposited in the Treasury,
or amounts appropriated.''.
Subtitle B--Establishment of Biennial Budgeting
SECTION 111. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) the annual appropriations and budget process
increasingly dominates the congressional agenda and Congress
regularly fails to meet the deadlines of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974;
(2) the design of the budget process has led to repetitive
and time-consuming budget votes, decreasing the time available
for the systematic and programmatic oversight of Federal
programs and delaying the enactment of legislation necessary to
fund the Government;
(3) Congress' responsibility to improve the efficiency,
economy, and effectiveness of governmental operations, evaluate
programs and performance, detect and prevent poor
administration, waste, or abuse in Government programs, ensure
that executive policies reflect the public interest, ensure
administrative compliance with legislative intent, and prevent
executive encroachment on legislative authority and
prerogatives is undermined by the current time-consuming and
repetitive budget process;
(4) an annual budget process encourages inefficiency in the
management, stability, and predictability of Federal funding,
particularly for States and localities;
(5) a biennial budget process will reduce the number of
budget-related votes during each Congress, enhance
congressional oversight of Government operations, encourage
longer time horizons in policy planning and greater stability
in fiscal policy;
(6) a biennial budget process was a principal
recommendation of the 1993 Joint Committee on the Organization
of Congress and the Vice President's National Performance
Review;
(7) since the enactment of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, more than 50 bills addressing a two-year budget cycle
have been introduced, 10 biennial budget related provisions
were reported by congressional committees, 7 passed either
chamber and 4 were enacted; more than 40 congressional or
special committee hearings addressed the issue of biennial
budgeting; and the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of
Management and Budget, and 5 different special task forces or
joint committees of Congress have either recommended biennial
budgeting or further studies of it;
(8) the adoption of a biennial budget process was
recommended by President Reagan in the fiscal year 1989 budget
submission, by President Bush in the fiscal year 1990 and 1991
budget submissions, by President Clinton in the fiscal year
1995, 2000, and 2001 budget submissions, and by President Bush
in the fiscal year 2002 budget submission; and
(9) a bipartisan majority of Members of the House of
Representatives support a biennial budget process.
SEC. 112. REVISION OF TIMETABLE.
Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631)
is amended to read as follows:
``timetable
``Sec. 300. (a) In General.--Except as provided by subsection (b),
the timetable with respect to the congressional budget process for any
Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Tenth Congress) is as follows:
``First Session
``On or before: Action to be completed:
First Monday in February............. President submits budget recommendations.
February 15.......................... Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks after budget Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
submission.
April 1.............................. Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.
May 15............................... Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial
budget.
May 15............................... Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.
June 10.............................. House Appropriations Committee reports last biennial appropriation bill.
June 30.............................. House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.
October 1............................ Biennium begins.
``Second Session
``On or before: Action to be completed:
February 15.......................... President submits budget review.
Not later than 6 weeks after Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
President submits budget review.
The last day of the session.......... Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget
authority for the succeeding biennium.
``(b) Special Rule.--In the case of any first session of Congress
that begins in any year during which the term of a President (except a
President who succeeds himself) begins, the following dates shall
supersede those set forth in subsection (a):
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