2 U.S.C. § 682 : US Code - Section 682: Definitions

Search 2 U.S.C. § 682 : US Code - Section 682: Definitions

For purposes of sections 682 to 688 of this title - 
(1) "deferral of budget authority" includes - 
(A) withholding or delaying the obligation or expenditure of
budget authority (whether by establishing reserves or
otherwise) provided for projects or activities; or
(B) any other type of Executive action or inaction which
effectively precludes the obligation or expenditure of budget
authority, including authority to obligate by contract in
advance of appropriations as specifically authorized by law;
(2) "Comptroller General" means the Comptroller General of the
United States;
(3) "rescission bill" means a bill or joint resolution which
only rescinds, in whole or in part, budget authority proposed to
be rescinded in a special message transmitted by the President
under section 683 of this title, and upon which the Congress
completes action before the end of the first period of 45
calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the
date on which the President's message is received by the
Congress;
(4) "impoundment resolution" means a resolution of the House of
Representatives or the Senate which only expresses its
disapproval of a proposed deferral of budget authority set forth
in a special message transmitted by the President under section
684 of this title; and
(5) continuity of a session of the Congress shall be considered
as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die, and
the days on which either House is not in session because of an
adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain shall be
excluded in the computation of the 45-day period referred to in
paragraph (3) of this section and in section 683 of this title,
and the 25-day periods referred to in sections 687 and 688(b)(1)
of this title. If a special message is transmitted under section
683 of this title during any Congress and the last session of
such Congress adjourns sine die before the expiration of 45
calendar days of continuous session (or a special message is so
transmitted after the last session of the Congress adjourns sine
die), the message shall be deemed to have been retransmitted on
the first day of the succeeding Congress and the 45-day period
referred to in paragraph (3) of this section and in section 683
of this title (with respect to such message) shall commence on
the day after such first day.