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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 489
To establish the Federal Agency Sunset Commission.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY16, 2025
Mr. C
LOUD(for himself, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. PERRY, Ms. VANDUYNE, Mrs.
M
ILLERof Illinois, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. BURLISON, Mr. MOOREof Ala-
bama, Mr. W
EBERof Texas, Ms. BOEBERT, and Mrs. LUNA) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To establish the Federal Agency Sunset Commission.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Agency Sunset 4
Commission Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. REVIEW AND ABOLISHMENT OF FEDERAL AGEN-6
CIES. 7
(a) S
CHEDULE FORREVIEW.—(1) Not later than one 8
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Fed-9
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eral Agency Sunset Commission established under section 1
3 shall submit to Congress a schedule for review by the 2
Commission of each agency that lists the date of abolish-3
ment for each agency. 4
(2) Such date of abolishment shall occur at least once 5
every 12 years (or less, if determine appropriate by Con-6
gress). 7
(3) The Schedule for review will be in the form of 8
a joint resolution. 9
(b) R
EVIEW OFAGENCIESPERFORMINGRELATED 10
F
UNCTIONS.—In determining the schedule for review of 11
agencies under subsection (a), the Commission shall pro-12
vide that agencies that perform similar or related func-13
tions be reviewed concurrently to promote efficiency and 14
consolidation. 15
(c) A
BOLISHMENT OFAGENCIES.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Each agency shall be re-17
viewed and abolished according to the schedule cre-18
ated pursuant to this section and approved under 19
section 9, unless the agency is reauthorized by the 20
Congress. 21
(2) E
XTENSION.—The date of abolishment for 22
an agency may be extended for an additional 2 years 23
if the Congress enacts legislation extending such 24
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date by a vote of a supermajority of the House of 1
Representatives and the Senate. 2
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION. 3
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established a com-4
mission to be known as the ‘‘Federal Agency Sunset Com-5
mission’’. 6
(b) M
EMBERSHIP.— 7
(1) The Commission shall be composed of 13 8
members (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘members’’) 9
who shall be appointed as follows: 10
(A) 1 shall be appointed by the President. 11
(B) 3 shall be appointed by the majority 12
leader of the Senate, of whom— 13
(i) 2 shall be from among Members of 14
the Senate; and 15
(ii) 1 shall not be Member of Con-16
gress and shall have expertise in the oper-17
ation and administration of Federal Gov-18
ernment programs. 19
(C) 3 shall be appointed by the minority 20
leader of the Senate, of whom— 21
(i) 2 shall be from among Members of 22
the Senate; and 23
(ii) 1 shall not be Member of Con-24
gress and shall have expertise in the oper-25
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ation and administration of Federal Gov-1
ernment programs. 2
(D) 3 shall be appointed by the Speaker of 3
the House of Representatives, of whom— 4
(i) 2 shall be from among Members of 5
the House of Representatives; and 6
(ii) 1 shall not be Member of Con-7
gress and shall have expertise in the oper-8
ation and administration of Federal Gov-9
ernment programs. 10
(E) 3 shall be appointed by the minority 11
leader of the House of Representatives, of 12
whom— 13
(i) 2 shall be from among Members of 14
the House of Representatives; and 15
(ii) 1 shall not be Member of Con-16
gress and shall have expertise in the oper-17
ation and administration of Federal Gov-18
ernment programs. 19
(c) C
ONTINUATION OF MEMBERSHIP.—If a member 20
was appointed to the Commission as a Member of Con-21
gress and the member ceases to be a Member of Congress, 22
that member shall cease to be a member of the Commis-23
sion. 24
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(d) INITIALAPPOINTMENTS.—All initial appoint-1
ments to the Commission shall be made not later than 90 2
days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 3
(e) T
ERMS OFMEMBERS.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Each member appointed to 5
the Commission shall serve for a term of 6 years. 6
(2) V
ACANCIES.—A vacancy in the Commis-7
sion— 8
(A) shall not affect the powers of the Com-9
mission; and 10
(B) shall be filled in the same manner as 11
the original appointment not later than 30 days 12
after the date on which the vacancy occurs. 13
(f) C
HAIRMAN; VICECHAIRMAN.—The Commission 14
shall select a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from 15
among the members of the Commission for a term of 4 16
years. 17
(g) P
OWERS OFCOMMISSION.— 18
(1) H
EARINGS AND SESSIONS .—The Commis-19
sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 20
hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and 21
places, take such testimony, and receive such evi-22
dence as the Commission considers appropriate. The 23
Commission may administer oaths to witnesses ap-24
pearing before it. 25
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(2) OBTAINING INFORMATION .— 1
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission may 2
secure directly from any agency or advisory 3
committee information necessary to enable it to 4
carry out its duties under this Act. 5
(B) F
URNISHING INFORMATION .—On re-6
quest of the Chairperson of the Commission, 7
the head of the agency, or the Chair of the ad-8
visory committee shall furnish information to 9
the Commission in a full and timely manner. 10
(3) S
UBPOENA POWER.— 11
(A) A
UTHORITY TO ISSUE SUBPOENA .— 12
The Commission may issue a subpoena to re-13
quire the attendance and testimony of witnesses 14
and the production of evidence relating to any 15
matter under investigation by the Commission. 16
(B) C
OMPLIANCE WITH SUBPOENA .—If a 17
person refuses to obey an order or subpoena of 18
the Commission that is issued in connection 19
with a Commission proceeding, the Commission 20
may apply to the United States district court in 21
the judicial district in which the proceeding is 22
held for an order requiring the person to com-23
ply with the subpoena or order. 24
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(4) IMMUNITY.—The Commission is an agency 1
of the United States for purposes of part V of title 2
18, United States Code (relating to immunity of wit-3
nesses). 4
(5) C
ONTRACT AUTHORITY .—The Commission 5
may contract with and compensate government and 6
private agencies or persons for services without re-7
gard to section 6101 of title 41, United States Code 8
(relating to advertising requirement for Federal Gov-9
ernment purchases and sales). 10
(h) C
OMMISSIONPROCEDURES.— 11
(1) I
NITIAL MEETING.—Not later than 45 days 12
after the date on which all members of the Commis-13
sion have been appointed, the Commission shall hold 14
the first meeting of the Commission. 15
(2) M
EETINGS.—The Commission shall meet at 16
the call of the Chairman and not less than 2 times 17
per year. 18
(3) Q
UORUM.—A majority of the members of 19
the Commission shall constitute a quorum. 20
(4) V
OTING.—The schedule for review sub-21
mitted pursuant to section 2(a) and the report and 22
joint resolution submitted pursuant to section 4 23
shall have the approval of not less than a majority 24
of the members of the Commission. 25
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(i) PERSONNELMATTERS.— 1
(1) C
OMPENSATION.—Members shall not be 2
paid by reason of their service as members. 3
(2) T
RAVEL EXPENSES .—Each member shall 4
receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 5
subsistence in accordance with applicable provisions 6
under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 7
States Code. 8
(3) D
IRECTOR.—The Commission shall have an 9
executive director who shall be appointed and termi-10
nated by the Chairperson of the Commission. 11
(A) The executive director must be con-12
firmed by a vote of at least seven members of 13
the Commission. 14
(B) The Director may appoint and fix the 15
pay of additional personnel as the Director con-16
siders appropriate. 17
(4) A
PPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL SERVICE 18
LAWS.—The Director and staff of the Commission 19
shall be appointed subject to the provisions of title 20
5, United States Code, governing appointments in 21
the competitive service, and shall be paid in accord-22
ance with the provisions of chapter 51 and sub-chap-23
ter III of chapter 53 of that title relating to classi-24
fication and General Schedule pay rates. 25
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(j) OTHERADMINISTRATIVEMATTERS.— 1
(1) P
OSTAL AND PRINTING SERVICES .—The 2
Commission may use the United States mails and 3
obtain printing and binding services in the same 4
manner and under the same conditions as other de-5
partments and agencies of the Federal Government. 6
(2) A
DMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES .— 7
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-8
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-9
mission, on a reimbursable basis, the administrative 10
support services necessary for the Commission to 11
carry out its duties under this Act. 12
(3) E
XPERTS AND CONSULTANTS .—The Com-13
mission may procure temporary and intermittent 14
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 15
States Code. 16
(4) G
IFTS.—The Commission may accept, use, 17
and dispose of gifts or donations of services or prop-18
erty. 19
SEC. 4. REVIEW OF EFFICIENCY AND NEED FOR FEDERAL 20
AGENCIES. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Commission shall review the 22
efficiency and public need for each agency using criteria 23
described in section 5. 24
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(b) RECOMMENDATIONS ; REPORT TOCONGRESS.— 1
The Commission shall submit to Congress and the Presi-2
dent not later than September 1 of each year a report 3
containing— 4
(1) an analysis of the efficiency of operation 5
and public need for each agency to be reviewed in 6
the year in which the report is submitted pursuant 7
to the schedule submitted to Congress under section 8
2; 9
(2) an analysis of authority claimed by the ex-10
ecutive branch but not specifically authorized by 11
statute; 12
(3) recommendations on whether each such 13
agency should be abolished, reorganized, or contin-14
ued; 15
(4) recommendations on whether the functions 16
of any other agencies should be consolidated, trans-17
ferred, or reorganized in an agency to be reviewed 18
in the year in which the report is submitted pursu-19
ant to the schedule submitted to Congress under 20
section 2; and 21
(5) recommendations for administrative and 22
legislative action with respect to each such agency, 23
but not including recommendations for appropriation 24
levels. 25
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(c) JOINTRESOLUTION.—The Commission shall sub-1
mit to Congress and the President not later than Sep-2
tember 1 of each year a joint resolution to carry out the 3
recommendations of the Commission under subsection (b). 4
(d) I
NFORMATION GATHERING.—The Commission 5
shall— 6
(1) conduct public hearings on the abolishment 7
of each agency reviewed under subsection (b); 8
(2) provide an opportunity for public comment 9
on the abolishment of each such agency; 10
(3) require the agency to provide information to 11
the Commission as appropriate; and 12
(4) consult with the General Accountability Of-13
fice, the Office of Management and Budget, the 14
Comptroller General, and the chairman and ranking 15
minority members of the committees of Congress 16
with oversight responsibility for the agency being re-17
viewed regarding the operation of the agency. 18
(e) U
SE OFPROGRAMINVENTORY.—The Commis-19
sion shall use the program inventory prepared under sec-20
tion 9 in reviewing the efficiency and public need for each 21
agency under subsection (a). 22
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SEC. 5. CRITERIA FOR REVIEW. 1
The Commission shall evaluate the efficiency and 2
public need for each agency pursuant to section 4 using 3
the following criteria: 4
(1) The effectiveness, and the efficiency of the 5
operation of, the programs carried out by each such 6
agency. 7
(2) Whether the programs carried out by the 8
agency are cost-effective. 9
(3) Whether the agency has acted outside the 10
scope of its original authority, and whether the origi-11
nal objectives of the agency have been achieved. 12
(4) Whether less restrictive or alternative meth-13
ods exist to carry out the functions of the agency. 14
(5) The extent to which the jurisdiction of, and 15
the programs administered by, the agency duplicate 16
or conflict with the jurisdiction and programs of 17
other agencies. 18
(6) The potential benefits of consolidating pro-19
grams administered by the agency with similar or 20
duplicative programs of other agencies, and the po-21
tential for consolidating such programs. 22
(7) The number and types of beneficiaries or 23
persons served by programs carried out by the agen-24
cy. 25
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(8) The extent to which any trends, develop-1
ments, and emerging conditions that are likely to af-2
fect the future nature and extent of the problems or 3
needs that the programs carried out by the agency 4
are intended to address. 5
(9) The extent to which the agency has com-6
plied with the applicable provisions contained in sec-7
tions 1115, 1116, 1117, 1120, 1121, 1122, 1123, 8
1124, 1125, and the first 9703 of title 31, United 9
States Code, section 306 of title 5, United States 10
Code, and chapter 28 of title 39, United States 11
Code. 12
(10) The promptness and effectiveness with 13
which the agency seeks public input and input from 14
State and local governments on the efficiency and ef-15
fectiveness of the performance of the functions of 16
the agency. 17
(11) Whether the agency has worked to enact 18
changes in the law that are intended to benefit the 19
public as a whole rather than the specific business, 20
institution, or individuals that the agency regulates. 21
(12) The extent to which the agency has en-22
couraged participation by the public as a whole in 23
making its rules and decisions rather than encour-24
aging participation solely by those it regulates. 25
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(13) The extent to which the public participa-1
tion in rulemaking and decision making of the agen-2
cy has resulted in rules and decisions compatible 3
with the objectives of the agency. 4
(14) The extent to which the agency complies 5
with equal employment opportunity requirements re-6
garding equal employment opportunity. 7
(15) The extent of the regulatory, privacy, and 8
paperwork impacts of the programs carried out by 9
the agency. 10
(16) The extent to which the agency has coordi-11
nated with State and local governments in per-12
forming the functions of the agency. 13
(17) The potential effects of abolishing the 14
agency on State and local governments. 15
(18) The extent to which changes are necessary 16
in the authorizing statutes of the agency in order 17
that the functions of the agency can be performed 18
in the most efficient and effective manner. 19
SEC. 6. OVERSIGHT BY COMMISSION. 20
(a) M
ONITORING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF REC-21
OMMENDATIONS.—The Commission shall monitor imple-22
mentation of laws enacting provisions that incorporate rec-23
ommendations of the Commission with respect to abolish-24
ment or reorganization of agencies. 25
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(b) MONITORING OF OTHERRELEVANTLEGISLA-1
TION.— 2
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall review 3
and report to Congress on all legislation introduced 4
in either house of Congress that would establish— 5
(A) a new agency; or 6
(B) a new program to be carried out by an 7
existing agency. 8
(2) R
EPORT TO CONGRESS .—The Commission 9
shall include in each report submitted to Congress 10
under paragraph (1) an analysis of whether— 11
(A) the functions of the proposed agency 12
or program could be carried out by one or more 13
existing agencies; 14
(B) the functions of the proposed agency 15
or program could be carried out in a less re-16
strictive manner than the manner proposed in 17
the legislation; and 18
(C) the legislation provides for public input 19
regarding the performance of functions by the 20
proposed agency or program. 21
SEC. 7. DISPOSITION OF AGENCY AFFAIRS. 22
The President, in consultation with the head of an 23
agency determined to be abolished pursuant to section 24
2(c), shall take such action as may be necessary to wind 25
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down the operation of such agency during the one year 1
period following the date of abolishment for each such 2
agency including the designation of an agency to carry out 3
any ongoing authority, maintain custodial records, act as 4
a party to unresolved legal actions, or other obligations 5
that cannot be resolved within one year. 6
SEC. 8. PROGRAM INVENTORY. 7
(a) P
REPARATION.—The Comptroller General and 8
the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in co-9
operation with the Director of the Congressional Research 10
Service, shall prepare an inventory of Federal programs 11
(in this Act referred to as the ‘‘program inventory’’) with-12
in each agency. 13
(b) P
URPOSE.—The purpose of the program inven-14
tory is to advise and assist the Congress and the Commis-15
sion in carrying out the requirements of this Act. Such 16
inventory shall not in any way bind the committees of the 17
Senate or the House of Representatives with respect to 18
their responsibilities under this Act and shall not infringe 19
on the legislative and oversight responsibilities of such 20
committees. The Comptroller General shall compile and 21
maintain the inventory and the Director of the Congres-22
sional Budget Office shall provide budgetary information 23
for inclusion in the inventory. 24
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(c) INVENTORYCONTENT.—The program inventory 1
shall set forth for each program each of the following mat-2
ters: 3
(1) The specific provision or provisions of law 4
authorizing the program. 5
(2) The committees of the Senate and the 6
House of Representatives which have legislative or 7
oversight jurisdiction over the program. 8
(3) A brief statement of the purpose or pur-9
poses to be achieved by the program. 10
(4) The committees which have jurisdiction over 11
legislation providing new budget authority for the 12
program, including the appropriate subcommittees of 13
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 14
the House of Representatives. 15
(5) The agency and, if applicable, the subdivi-16
sion thereof responsible for administering the pro-17
gram. 18
(6) The grants-in-aid, if any, provided by such 19
program to State and local governments. 20
(7) The next reauthorization date for the pro-21
gram. 22
(8) A unique identification number which links 23
the program and functional category structure. 24
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(9) The year in which the program was origi-1
nally established and, where applicable, the year in 2
which the program expires. 3
(10) Where applicable, the year in which new 4
budget authority for the program was last author-5
ized and the year in which current authorizations of 6
new budget authority expire. 7
(11) Any other information the Commission de-8
termines to be necessary. 9
(d) B
UDGETAUTHORITY.—The report also shall set 10
forth for each program whether the new budget authority 11
provided for such program is— 12
(1) authorized for a definite period of time; 13
(2) authorized in a specific dollar amount but 14
without limit of time; 15
(3) authorized without limit of time or dollar 16
amounts; 17
(4) not specifically authorized; or 18
(5) permanently provided, as determined by the 19
Director of the Congressional Budget Office. 20
(e) CBO I
NFORMATION.—For each program or group 21
of programs, the program inventory also shall include in-22
formation prepared by the Director of the Congressional 23
Budget Office indicating each of the following matters: 24
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(1) The amounts of new budget authority au-1
thorized and provided for the program for each of 2
the preceding four fiscal years and, where applicable, 3
the four succeeding fiscal years. 4
(2) The functional and subfunctional category 5
in which the program is presently classified and was 6
classified under the fiscal year 2020 budget. 7
(3) The identification code and title of the ap-8
propriation account in which budget authority is 9
provided for the program. 10
(f) M
UTUALEXCHANGE OF INFORMATION.—The 11
General Accountability Office, the Congressional Research 12
Service, and the Congressional Budget Office shall permit 13
the mutual exchange of available information in their pos-14
session which would aid in the compilation of the program 15
inventory. 16
(g) A
SSISTANCE BYEXECUTIVEBRANCH.—The Of-17
fice of Management and Budget and the agencies (and the 18
subdivisions thereof) shall, to the extent necessary and 19
possible, provide the General Accountability Office with 20
assistance requested by the Comptroller General in the 21
compilation of the program inventory. Such communica-22
tions shall be treated as confidential until a report is 23
issued under section 4(b). 24
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SEC. 9. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION FOR SCHEDULE FOR 1
REVIEW. 2
(a) I
NTRODUCTION AND COMMITTEECONSIDER-3
ATION.— 4
(1) I
NTRODUCTION.—A joint resolution shall be 5
introduced in the Senate by the majority leader, or 6
the majority leader’s designee, and in the House of 7
Representatives, by the Speaker, or the Speaker’s 8
designee not later than 60 days after the date on 9
which the proposed legislation is submitted to Con-10
gress. Upon such introduction, the Commission 11
schedule for review bill shall be referred to the ap-12
propriate committees of Congress under paragraph 13
(2). If the joint resolution is not introduced in ac-14
cordance with the preceding sentence, then any 15
member of Congress may introduce such legislation 16
in their respective House of Congress beginning on 17
the date that is the 5th calendar day that such 18
House is in session following the date of the submis-19
sion of such aggregate legislative language provi-20
sions. 21
(2) C
OMMITTEE CONSIDERATION .— 22
(A) R
EFERRAL.—The joint resolution in-23
troduced under paragraph (1) shall be referred 24
to any appropriate committee of jurisdiction in 25
the Senate and the House of Representatives. A 26
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committee to which the joint resolution is re-1
ferred under this paragraph may review and 2
comment on such legislation, may report such 3
legislation to the respective House, and may not 4
amend such legislation. 5
(B) R
EPORTING.—Not later than 30 cal-6
endar days after the introduction of the joint 7
resolution, each Committee of Congress to 8
which the joint resolution was referred shall re-9
port the legislation. 10
(C) D
ISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE .—If a 11
committee to which a joint resolution is referred 12
has not reported such legislation at the end of 13
30 calendar days after its introduction or at the 14
end of the first day after there has been re-15
ported to the House a joint resolution involved 16
a joint resolution, whichever is earlier, such 17
committee shall be deemed to be discharged 18
from further consideration of such legislation 19
and such legislation shall be placed on the ap-20
propriate calendar of the House involved. 21
(b) E
XPEDITEDPROCEDURE.— 22
(1) C
ONSIDERATION.— 23
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 30 cal-24
endar days after the date on which a committee 25
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has reported a joint resolution or has been dis-1
charged from consideration of a joint resolution, 2
the majority leader of the Senate, or the major-3
ity leader’s designee, or the Speaker of the 4
House of Representatives, or the Speaker’s des-5
ignee, shall move to proceed to the consider-6
ation of the joint resolution. It shall also be in 7
order for any Member of the Senate or the 8
House of Representatives, respectively, to move 9
to proceed to the consideration of the joint reso-10
lution at any time after the conclusion of such 11
5-day period. 12
(B) M
OTION TO PROCEED .—A motion to 13
proceed to the consideration of a joint resolu-14
tion is highly privileged in the House of Rep-15
resentatives and is privileged in the Senate and 16
is not debatable. The motion is not subject to 17
amendment or to a motion to postpone consid-18
eration of the joint resolution. If the motion to 19
proceed is agreed to, the Senate or the House 20
of Representatives, as the case may be, shall 21
immediately proceed to consideration of the 22
joint resolution without intervening motion, 23
order, or other business, and the joint resolu-24
tion shall remain the unfinished business of the 25
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Senate or the House of Representatives, as the 1
case may be, until disposed of. 2
(C) L
IMITED DEBATE.—Debate on the 3
joint resolution and on all debatable motions 4
and appeals in connection therewith shall be 5
limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall 6
be divided equally between those favoring and 7
those opposing the joint resolution. A motion 8
further to limit debate on the joint resolution is 9
in order and is not debatable. All time used for 10
consideration of the joint resolution, including 11
time used for quorum calls (except quorum calls 12
immediately preceding a vote) and voting, shall 13
come from the 10 hours of debate. 14
(D) A
MENDMENTS.—No amendment to the 15
joint resolution shall be in order in the Senate 16
and the House of Representatives. 17
(E) V
OTE ON FINAL PASSAGE .—Imme-18
diately following the conclusion of the debate on 19
the joint resolution, the vote on final passage of 20
the joint resolution shall occur. 21
(F) O
THER MOTIONS NOT IN ORDER .—A 22
motion to postpone consideration of the joint 23
resolution, a motion to proceed to the consider-24
ation of other business, or a motion to recom-25
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mit the review joint resolution is not in order. 1
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the 2
joint resolution is agreed to or not agreed to is 3
not in order. 4
(2) C
ONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE .—If, be-5
fore the passage by one House of the joint resolution 6
that was introduced in such House, such House re-7
ceives from the other House a joint resolution as 8
passed by such other House— 9
(A) the joint resolution of the other House 10
shall not be referred to a committee and may 11
only be considered for final passage in the 12
House that receives it under subparagraph (C); 13
(B) the procedure in the House in receipt 14
of the joint resolution of the other House, shall 15
be the same as if no joint resolution had been 16
received from the other House; and 17
(C) notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the 18
vote on final passage shall be on the joint reso-19
lution of the other House. 20
(3) D
ISPOSITION.—Upon disposition of a joint 21
resolution that is received by one House from the 22
other House, it shall no longer be in order to con-23
sider the joint resolution that was introduced in the 24
receiving House. 25
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(c) RULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF 1
R
EPRESENTATIVES.—This section is enacted— 2
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 3
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-4
spectively, and is deemed to be part of the rules of 5
each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-6
spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 7
in the case of the joint resolution, and it supersedes 8
other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 9
with such rules; and 10
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 11
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 12
they relate to the procedure of that House) at any-13
time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 14
as in the case of any other rule of that House. 15
(d) F
ALLBACKPROVISION.—If the Senate and the 16
House of Representatives fail to act within one year from 17
the date of introduction, the joint resolution takes effect. 18
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS. 19
In this Act: 20
(1) A
GENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 21
meaning given the term Executive agency in section 22
105 of title 5, United States Code, except that such 23
term includes an advisory committee. 24
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(2) CALENDAR DAY.—The term ‘‘calendar day’’ 1
means a calendar day other than one on which ei-2
ther House is not in session because of an adjourn-3
ment of more than 3 days to a date certain. 4
(3) C
OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 5
means the Federal Agency Sunset Commission es-6
tablished under section 3. 7
(4) S
UPER-MAJORITY.—The term ‘‘super-major-8
ity’’ means an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the 9
Members, duly chosen and sworn. 10
(5) A
DVISORY COMMITTEE .—The term ‘‘advi-11
sory committee’’ has the meaning given the term in 12
section 1001 of title 5, United States Code. 13
(6) J
OINT RESOLUTION.—The term ‘‘joint reso-14
lution’’ means a joint resolution consisting of the 15
proposed legislative language submitted by the Com-16
mission under section 4(a)(3) and introduced or re-17
introduced under section 7(a). 18
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