Restoring Accountability in Appropriations Act

is the subject of a request made to the Comptroller General by ___ on ___, but for which no report has been made available by the Comptroller General to both Houses of Congress under section 1015(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.' (The blank spaces being filled in with the applicable name of the covered individual and the date, respectively). ``(C) In this paragraph, the term `covered individual' means the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority or minority leader of the House, the chair or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget of the House, or the chair or ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House. ``(b) Resolution.--For the purpose of this section, the term `resolution' means a resolution that is introduced in the House of Representatives not later than 45 calendar days after the date on which the Comptroller General makes such a report available and-- ``(1) which does not have a preamble; ``(2) the title of which is `Providing for authority to initiate litigation for actions inconsistent with the Impoundment Control Act.'; and ``(3) the matter after the resolving clause is as follows: ```SEC. 1. CIVIL ACTIONS REGARDING IMPROPER DEFERRAL OF BUDGET AUTHORITY. ```(a) Civil Actions.--The Speaker is directed to initiate or intervene in one or more civil actions on behalf of the House of Representatives in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to require that budget authority described in subsection (c) to be made available for obligation. ```(b) OGC.--The Office of the General Counsel of the House of Representatives, at the direction of the Speaker, shall represent the House in any civil action initiated, or in which the House intervenes, pursuant to this resolution, and may employ the services of outside counsel and other experts for this purpose. ```(c) Budget Authority.--Budget authority described in this subsection is any budget authority that-- ```(1) is required to be made available for obligation; ```(2) is not made available for obligation on or before the date on which this resolution is introduced; and ```(3) which is the subject of a report made available on __ by the Comptroller General to both Houses of Congress under section 1015(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.'. (The blank space being filled in with the applicable date). ``(c) Fast Track Consideration in House of Representatives.-- ``(1) Referral and discharge.--Any committee of the House of Representatives to which a resolution is referred under this section shall report it to the House of Representatives without amendment not later than 2 legislative days after the date of introduction of the resolution. If a committee fails to report the resolution within that period, the committee shall be discharged from further consideration of the resolution and the resolution shall be referred to the appropriate calendar. ``(2) Proceeding to consideration.--After each committee authorized to consider the resolution reports it to the House of Representatives or has been discharged from its consideration under paragraph (1), it shall be in order to move to proceed to consider the resolution in the House. All points of order against the motion are waived. Such a motion shall not be in order after the House has disposed of a motion to proceed on the resolution. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. The motion shall not be debatable. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is disposed of shall not be in order. ``(3) Consideration.--The resolution shall be considered as read. All points of order against the resolution and against its consideration are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution to its passage without intervening motion except two hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent. A motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the resolution shall not be in order. ``(d) Timely Action by the Speaker.--The Speaker shall, in coordination with the Office of the General Counsel of the House of Representatives, initiate or intervene in one or more civil actions as directed by a resolution not later than 20 calendar days after passage of such resolution. ``(e) Application.--Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as to limit the authority of the Government Accountability Office to initiate its own process for issuing a report under section 1015(a), or to limit the authority of Members of Congress other than covered individuals to submit requests to the Comptroller General to initiate such process. ``(f) Rules of House of Representatives.--This section is enacted by Congress-- ``(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the House but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a resolution, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and ``(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of the House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.''. (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 set forth in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1017 the following: ``Sec. 1018. Suits by private aggrieved parties. ``Sec. 1019. Action by Congress.''. <all>