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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. RES. 36 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the |
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| 6 | 6 | | Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. O |
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| 10 | 10 | | BERNOLTE(for himself, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. T |
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| 12 | 12 | | ENNEY, and Mr. VALADAO) submitted the following resolution; |
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| 13 | 13 | | which was referred to the Committee on Rules |
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| 14 | 14 | | RESOLUTION |
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| 15 | 15 | | Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to |
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| 16 | 16 | | establish the Committee on the Elimination of Non- |
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| 17 | 17 | | essential Federal Programs. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Resolved, 1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Finding Federal 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Savings Committee Resolution’’. 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF NON-5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ESSENTIAL FEDERAL PROGRAMS. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) Clause 1 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Representatives is amended by redesignating paragraphs 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HRES 36 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | (f) through (t) as paragraphs (g) through (u) and by in-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | serting after paragraph (e) the following new paragraph: 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(f) Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘Modification or elimination of underper-4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | forming or nonessential Federal programs. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | The committee shall cease to exist at the close of the 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | 120th Congress.’’. 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b) Clause 4 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Representatives is amended by adding at the end the fol-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | lowing new paragraph: 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(g) The Committee on the Elimination of Non-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | essential Federal Programs shall— 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(1)(A) research, review, and study Federal 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | programs that are underperforming or nonessential; 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | and 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(B) determine which Federal programs should 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | be modified or eliminated; 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(2) develop recommendations to the House for 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | action designed to modify or eliminate underper-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | forming or nonessential Federal programs; and 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(3) submit to the House— 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(A) at least once a year, reports includ-22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ing— 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | •HRES 36 IH |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(i) a detailed statement of the find-1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ings and conclusions of the Committee; 2 |
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| 57 | 57 | | and 3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(ii) a list of underperforming or non-4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | essential Federal programs; and 5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ‘‘(B) legislation to eliminate the programs 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | described in section subdivision (ii) and rescis-7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | sions based on the findings of the report de-8 |
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| 63 | 63 | | scribed in subdivision (i).’’. 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (c) Clause 5(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House 10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | following new paragraph: 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(4)(A) The Committee on the Elimination of Non-13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | essential Federal Programs shall be composed of members 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | as follows: 15 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(i) Four members from the Committee on Ap-16 |
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| 71 | 71 | | propriations. 17 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(ii) Four members from the Committee on the 18 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Budget. 19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(iii) Four members from the Committee on 20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Oversight and Government Reform. 21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(iv) Four members from the Committee on 22 |
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| 77 | 77 | | Ways and Means. 23 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(v) One member who does not serve on any of 24 |
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| 79 | 79 | | committees described in items (i) through (iv), who 25 |
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| 82 | 82 | | •HRES 36 IH |
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| 83 | 83 | | shall be appointed by the Speaker and designated by 1 |
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| 84 | 84 | | the Speaker as the Chair of the Committee. 2 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(vi) One member who does not serve on any 3 |
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| 86 | 86 | | of committees described in items (i) through (iv), 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | who shall be appointed by the minority leader and 5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | designated by the minority leader as the Vice Chair 6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | of the Committee. 7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(B) The Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee 8 |
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| 91 | 91 | | shall not be from the same political party. 9 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘(C) Of the members appointed from each of the four 10 |
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| 93 | 93 | | committees listed in subdivision (A), two shall be from the 11 |
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| 94 | 94 | | minority party.’’. 12 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (d) Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representa-13 |
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| 96 | 96 | | tives is amended by adding at the end the following new 14 |
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| 97 | 97 | | clause: 15 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘Expedited procedures for legislation reported by 16 |
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| 99 | 99 | | the Committee on the Elimination of Non-17 |
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| 100 | 100 | | essential Federal Programs 18 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ‘‘12. With respect to any bill or resolution reported 19 |
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| 102 | 102 | | by the Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Fed-20 |
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| 103 | 103 | | eral Programs, the following shall apply: 21 |
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| 104 | 104 | | ‘‘(a) After the expiration of the 7-day period 22 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (excluding any day on which the House is not in ses-23 |
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| 106 | 106 | | sion) that begins on the date the Committee reports 24 |
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| 107 | 107 | | the bill or resolution, it is in order to move to pro-25 |
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| 110 | 110 | | •HRES 36 IH |
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| 111 | 111 | | ceed to the consideration of the bill or resolution. 1 |
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| 112 | 112 | | The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable, 2 |
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| 113 | 113 | | an amendment to the motion is not in order, and it 3 |
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| 114 | 114 | | is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by 4 |
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| 115 | 115 | | which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 5 |
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| 116 | 116 | | ‘‘(b) Debate on the bill or resolution shall be 6 |
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| 117 | 117 | | limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be 7 |
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| 118 | 118 | | divided equally between those favoring and those op-8 |
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| 119 | 119 | | posing the bill or resolution. A motion to further 9 |
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| 120 | 120 | | limit debate is not debatable. 10 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(c) An amendment to, or motion to recommit, 11 |
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| 122 | 122 | | the bill or resolution is not in order, and it is not 12 |
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| 123 | 123 | | in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 13 |
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| 124 | 124 | | bill or resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.’’. 14 |
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