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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 199 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary |
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| 6 | 6 | | spending, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. T |
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| 10 | 10 | | ENNEYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Appropriations |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity |
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| 14 | 14 | | discretionary spending, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Implementing De-4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | creases in Overall Government Expenditures Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ‘‘Implementing DOGE Act’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) D |
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| 23 | 23 | | EFINITIONS.—In this Act: 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (1) B |
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| 25 | 25 | | UDGET AUTHORITY .—The term ‘‘budget 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | authority’’ has the meaning given that term in sec-10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •HR 199 IH |
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| 30 | 30 | | tion 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impound-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622). 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) D |
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| 33 | 33 | | ISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATIONS ; SECU-3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | RITY CATEGORY.—The terms ‘‘discretionary appro-4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | priations’’ and ‘‘security category’’ have the mean-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ings given such terms in section 250(c) of the Bal-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)). 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3) E |
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| 40 | 40 | | XCESS GROWTH PERCENT .—The term ‘‘ex-9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | cess growth percent’’ means the percentage in excess 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | of one percent that the total annual appropriations 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | exceeded the previous fiscal year’s annual appropria-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tions. 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (4) N |
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| 46 | 46 | | ONSECURITY DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIA -14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | TIONS.—The term ‘‘nonsecurity discretionary appro-15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | priations’’ means discretionary appropriations pro-16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | vided in a regular appropriation Act that are not in-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | cluded in the security category. 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (5) R |
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| 52 | 52 | | EGULAR APPROPRIATION ACT .—The term 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘regular appropriation Act’’— 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (A) means an annual appropriation Act (as 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | described in section 105 of title 1, United 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | States Code) providing new budget authority 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | for the programs, projects, and activities under 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | the jurisdiction of a subcommittee of the Com-25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | resentatives; and 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (B) includes— 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (i) a title, division, or other subdivi-4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | sion of an Act or resolution that, if it were 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | a separate Act, would be an Act described 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | in subparagraph (A); and 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (ii) a resolution or Act, or a title, divi-8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | sion, or other subdivision of a resolution or 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Act, making continuing appropriations for 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | a fiscal year. 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (b) R |
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| 74 | 74 | | ESCISSION.—For fiscal year 2026 and each fis-12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | cal year thereafter, effective on the day after the date on 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | which appropriations are made available through Sep-14 |
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| 77 | 77 | | tember 30 of the applicable fiscal year for the entire Fed-15 |
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| 78 | 78 | | eral Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, 16 |
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| 79 | 79 | | the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary 17 |
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| 80 | 80 | | appropriations made available for such fiscal year. 18 |
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