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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 36
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the
Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY13, 2025
Mr. O
BERNOLTE(for himself, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida,
Ms. T
ENNEY, and Mr. VALADAO) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on Rules
RESOLUTION
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to
establish the Committee on the Elimination of Non-
essential Federal Programs.
Resolved, 1
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 2
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Finding Federal 3
Savings Committee Resolution’’. 4
SEC. 2. COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF NON-5
ESSENTIAL FEDERAL PROGRAMS. 6
(a) Clause 1 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 7
Representatives is amended by redesignating paragraphs 8
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(f) through (t) as paragraphs (g) through (u) and by in-1
serting after paragraph (e) the following new paragraph: 2
‘‘(f) Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs 3
‘‘Modification or elimination of underper-4
forming or nonessential Federal programs. 5
The committee shall cease to exist at the close of the 6
120th Congress.’’. 7
(b) Clause 4 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 8
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the fol-9
lowing new paragraph: 10
‘‘(g) The Committee on the Elimination of Non-11
essential Federal Programs shall— 12
‘‘(1)(A) research, review, and study Federal 13
programs that are underperforming or nonessential; 14
and 15
‘‘(B) determine which Federal programs should 16
be modified or eliminated; 17
‘‘(2) develop recommendations to the House for 18
action designed to modify or eliminate underper-19
forming or nonessential Federal programs; and 20
‘‘(3) submit to the House— 21
‘‘(A) at least once a year, reports includ-22
ing— 23
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‘‘(i) a detailed statement of the find-1
ings and conclusions of the Committee; 2
and 3
‘‘(ii) a list of underperforming or non-4
essential Federal programs; and 5
‘‘(B) legislation to eliminate the programs 6
described in section subdivision (ii) and rescis-7
sions based on the findings of the report de-8
scribed in subdivision (i).’’. 9
(c) Clause 5(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House 10
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 11
following new paragraph: 12
‘‘(4)(A) The Committee on the Elimination of Non-13
essential Federal Programs shall be composed of members 14
as follows: 15
‘‘(i) Four members from the Committee on Ap-16
propriations. 17
‘‘(ii) Four members from the Committee on the 18
Budget. 19
‘‘(iii) Four members from the Committee on 20
Oversight and Government Reform. 21
‘‘(iv) Four members from the Committee on 22
Ways and Means. 23
‘‘(v) One member who does not serve on any of 24
committees described in items (i) through (iv), who 25
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shall be appointed by the Speaker and designated by 1
the Speaker as the Chair of the Committee. 2
‘‘(vi) One member who does not serve on any 3
of committees described in items (i) through (iv), 4
who shall be appointed by the minority leader and 5
designated by the minority leader as the Vice Chair 6
of the Committee. 7
‘‘(B) The Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee 8
shall not be from the same political party. 9
‘‘(C) Of the members appointed from each of the four 10
committees listed in subdivision (A), two shall be from the 11
minority party.’’. 12
(d) Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representa-13
tives is amended by adding at the end the following new 14
clause: 15
‘‘Expedited procedures for legislation reported by 16
the Committee on the Elimination of Non-17
essential Federal Programs 18
‘‘12. With respect to any bill or resolution reported 19
by the Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Fed-20
eral Programs, the following shall apply: 21
‘‘(a) After the expiration of the 7-day period 22
(excluding any day on which the House is not in ses-23
sion) that begins on the date the Committee reports 24
the bill or resolution, it is in order to move to pro-25
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ceed to the consideration of the bill or resolution. 1
The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable, 2
an amendment to the motion is not in order, and it 3
is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by 4
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 5
‘‘(b) Debate on the bill or resolution shall be 6
limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be 7
divided equally between those favoring and those op-8
posing the bill or resolution. A motion to further 9
limit debate is not debatable. 10
‘‘(c) An amendment to, or motion to recommit, 11
the bill or resolution is not in order, and it is not 12
in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 13
bill or resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.’’. 14
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