Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Rules

(1) If no resolution of the first House with respect

to such message has been introduced, no motion to

proceed to the consideration of any other resolution with respect to the same message may be made (despite the provisions of subsection (c) (1)).

(2) If a resolution of the first House with respect

to such message has been introduced

(A) the procedure with respect to that or other resolutions of such House with respect to such message shall be the same as if no resolution from the

other House with respect to such message had been received; but

(B) on any vote on final passage of a resolution of the first House with respect to such message the resolution from the other House with respect to

such message shall be automatically substituted for

the resolution of the first House.

(e) If a committee of conference is appointed on the 19 disagreeing votes of the two Houses with respect to a reso20 lution, the conference report submitted in each House shall be considered under the rules set forth in subsection (c) 22 for the consideration of a resolution, except that no amend23 ment shall be in order.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,

25 it shall not be in order in either House to consider a resolu

1 tion with respect to a special message after the two Houses 2 have agreed to another resolution with respect to the same

3 message.

4 (g) As used in this section, the term "special message" 5 means a report of impounding action made by the President 6 pursuant to section 2 or by the Comptroller General pursuant to section 6.

SEC. 6. If the President, the Director of the Office of 9 Management and Budget, the head of any department or 10 agency of the United States, or any officer or employee of 11 the United States takes or approves any impounding action 12 within the purview of this Act, and the President fails to 13 report such impounding action to the Congress as required 14 by this Act, the Comptroller General shall report such im15 pounding action with any available information concerning 16 it to both Houses of Congress, and the provisions of this 17 Act shall apply to such impounding action in like manner 18 and with the same effect as if the report of the Comptroller 19 General had been made by the President: Provided, how20 ever, That the sixty-day period provided in section 3 of this 21 Act shall be deemed to have commenced at the time at 22 which, in the determination of the Comptroller General, the 23 impoundment action was taken.

24 SEC. 7. Nothing contained in this Act shall be inter25 preted by any person or court as constituting a ratification

1 or approval of any impounding of budget authority by the 2 President or any other Federal employee, in the past or in 3 the future, unless done pursuant to statutory authority in 4 effect at the time of such impoundment.

5 SEC. 8. The Comptroller General is hereby expressly 6 empowered as the representative of the Congress through 7 attorneys of his own selection to sue any department, agency, 8 officer, or employee of the United States in a civil action 9 in the United States District Court for the District of 10 Columbia to enforce the provisions of this Act, and such 11 court is hereby expressly empowered to enter in such civil 12 action any decree, judgment, or order which may be neces13 sary or appropriate to secure compliance with the pro14 visions of this Act by such department, agency, officer, or 15 employee. Within the purview of this section, the Office of 16 Management and Budget shall be construed to be an agency 17 of the United States, and the officers and employees of the 18 Office of Management and Budget shall be construed to be 19 officers or employees of the United States.

SEC. 9. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law 21 all funds appropriated by law shall be made available and 22 obligated by the appropriate agencies, departments, and 23 other units of the Government except as may be provided 24 otherwise under this Act.

(b) Should the President desire to impound any appro

1 priation made by the Congress not authorized by this Act or 2 by the Antideficiency Act, he shall seek legislation utilizing 3 the supplemental appropriations process to obtain selective recission of such appropriation by the Congress.

5 SEC. 10. If any provision of this Act, or the application 6 thereof to any person, impoundment, or circumstance, is 7 held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and 8 the application of such provision to other persons, impound9 ments, or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 11. The provisions of this Act shall take effect

11 from and after enactment.

TITLE II-CEILING ON FISCAL YEAR 1974

EXPENDITURES

SEC. 201. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b),

15 expenditures and net lending during the fiscal year ending 16 June 30, 1974, under the Budget of the United States Gov17 ernment shall not exceed $268,000,000,000.

(b) If the estimates of revenues which will be received 19 in the Treasury during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974,

as made from time to time, are increased as a result of legis21 lation enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act 22 reforming the Federal tax laws, the limitation specified in 23 subsection (a) shall be reviewed by Congress for purpose of 21 determining whether the additional revenues made available

1 should be applied to essential public services for which ade2 quate funding would not otherwise be provided.

3 SEC. 202. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any

4 other law, the President shall, in accordance with this section,

reserve from expenditure and net lending, from appropri6 ations or other obligational authority otherwise made avail7 able, such amounts as may be necessary to keep expenditures 8 and net lending during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, 9 within the limitation specified in section 201.

(b) In carrying out the provisions of subsection (a) 11 the President shall reserve amounts proportionately from 12 new obligational authority and other obligational authority 13 available for each functional category, and to the extent 14 practicable, subfunctional category (as set out in the United 15 States Budget in Brief), except that no reservations shall be 16 made from amounts available for interest, veterans' benefits 17 and services, payments from social insurance trust funds, 18 public assistance maintenance grants under title IV of the 19 Social Security Act, food stamps, military retirement pay, 20 medicaid, and judicial salaries.

23 of this Act, except that

(1) if the Comptroller General determines under

section 2 (c) with respect to any such reservation that

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