Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Rules

the next succeeding date which is not a Saturday, Sunday,

RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET BEFORE AD

JOURNING.

It shall not be in order in either the House of Repre7 sentatives or the Senate to consider any resolution provid8 ing for the sine die adjournment of any regular session of 9 the Congress unless the Congress has theretofore during 10 such session adopted a concurrent resolution on the budget 11 described in section 122.

12 SEC. 125. CONSIDERATION OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

TO BE EXPEDITED.

(a) REFERENCE OF RESOLUTIONS TO COMMITTEE.15 All concurrent resolutions on the budget shall be referred to 16 the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representa17 tives by the Speaker, or shall be referred to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate by the President of the Senate, as the case may be.

(b) PROCEDURE AFTER REPORT OF COMMITTEE;

21 DEBATE.—

(1) When the Committee on the Budget of the House or Senate has reported any concurrent resolution on the budget, it is at any time thereafter in order

(even though a previous motion to the same effect has

been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the concurrent resolution. The motion is highly

privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the

motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to

reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

(2) Debate on any concurrent resolution on the budget, and all amendments thereto, shall be limited to not more than 30 hours, which shall be divided equally between the majority and minority parties. A motion further to limit debate is not debatable. A motion to recommit the concurrent resolution is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the concurrent resolution is agreed to or disagreed to. An amendment to the concurrent resolution shall be in order only if it meets the requirements of section 141.

(3) Debate in either House on the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall be limited to not more than 5 hours, which shall be

20 divided equally between the majority and minority parties. A motion further to limit debate is not debatable.

A motion to recommit the conference report is not in

order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the

vote by which the conference report is agreed to or

disagreed to.

1 (c) DECISIONS WITHOUT DEBATE ON MOTION To

2 POSTPONE OR PROCEED.

(1) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the consideration of any concurrent resolution on the budget,

and motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.

(2) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to any concurrent resolution on the budget shall be decided without debate.

(d) CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.-For purposes of this title, the term "concurrent resolution on

14 the budget" means

(1) a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year, as provided in section 121,

(2) a concurrent resolution reaffirming or revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year, as provided in section 122, and

(3) any other concurrent resolution reaffirming or revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year.

DEFICIT WILL BE GREATER, OR SURPLUS WILL

BE SMALLER, THAN THAT DETERMINED TO BE

APPROPRIATE.

(a) GENERAL RULE.-If

(1) the Congress has adopted the concurrent resolution on the budget referred to in section 122 for the fiscal year, and

(2) based upon the outlays for the fiscal year set forth in such resolution and the estimate of the aggre

gate revenues of the United States for the fiscal year set forth in such resolution, the amount of deficit

is greater, or the amount of the surplus is smaller, than

that set forth in such resolution as the appropriate amount of deficit or surplus,

then it shall not be in order at any time thereafter in the same 18 session of the Congress to consider in either the House of Rep19 resentatives or Senate any bill or resolution containing new 20 budget authority which was allocated in the concurrent 21 resolution referred to in section 122 for a purpose (but was 22 not allocated for such purpose in the concurrent resolution 23 referred to in section 121) unless such bill or resolution (or

a prior bill

or resolution enacted after the adoption of the 2 concurrent resolution referred to in section 122) contains a 3 separate title, the text of which has been approved by the 4 Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance 5 (as the case may be), which imposes a qualified surtax for 6 the 12-month period which begins on the January 1 which occurs during such fiscal year.

(b) QUALIFIED SURTAX DEFINED.-For purposes of 9 this section, the term "qualified surtax" means a tax on the

10 income of individuals and corporations which—

(1) is the same percentage of the taxes imposed by chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for both individuals and corporations, and

(2) will increase the aggregate revenues of the United States by an amount which, on an approximate basis, is not less than whichever of the following amounts is applicable:

(A) The amount by which the estimated deficit is greater than the appropriate deficit for the

fiscal year.

(B) The amount by which the estimated surplus is less than the appropriate surplus for the

fiscal year.

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