2 U.S.C. § 688 : US Code - Section 688: Procedure in House of Representatives and Senate

Search 2 U.S.C. § 688 : US Code - Section 688: Procedure in House of Representatives and Senate

(a) Referral
Any rescission bill introduced with respect to a special message
or impoundment resolution introduced with respect to a proposed
deferral of budget authority shall be referred to the appropriate
committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the
case may be.
(b) Discharge of committee
(1) If the committee to which a rescission bill or impoundment
resolution has been referred has not reported it at the end of 25
calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after its
introduction, it is in order to move either to discharge the
committee from further consideration of the bill or resolution or
to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other
rescission bill with respect to the same special message or
impoundment resolution with respect to the same proposed deferral,
as the case may be, which has been referred to the committee.
(2) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual
favoring the bill or resolution, may be made only if supported by
one-fifth of the Members of the House involved (a quorum being
present), and is highly privileged in the House and privileged in
the Senate (except that it may not be made after the committee has
reported a bill or resolution with respect to the same special
message or the same proposed deferral, as the case may be); and
debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, the time
to be divided in the House equally between those favoring and those
opposing the bill or resolution, and to be divided in the Senate
equally between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the
minority leader or their designees. 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.
(c) Floor consideration in House
(1) When the committee of the House of Representatives has
reported, or has been discharged from further consideration of, a
rescission bill or impoundment resolution, it shall at any time
thereafter be in order (even though a previous motion to the same
effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the
consideration of the bill or resolution. The motion shall be highly
privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not
be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the
vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
(2) Debate on a rescission bill or impoundment resolution shall
be limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally
between those favoring and those opposing the bill or resolution. A
motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. In the case
of an impoundment resolution, no amendment to, or motion to
recommit, the resolution shall be in order. It shall not be in
order to move to reconsider the vote by which a rescission bill or
impoundment resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
(3) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the consideration
of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, and motions to
proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided
without debate.
(4) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the
application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the
procedure relating to any rescission bill or impoundment resolution
shall be decided without debate.
(5) Except to the extent specifically provided in the preceding
provisions of this subsection, consideration of any rescission bill
or impoundment resolution and amendments thereto (or any conference
report thereon) shall be governed by the Rules of the House of
Representatives applicable to other bills and resolutions,
amendments, and conference reports in similar circumstances.
(d) Floor consideration in Senate
(1) Debate in the Senate on any rescission bill or impoundment
resolution, and all amendments thereto (in the case of a rescission
bill) and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith,
shall be limited to not more than 10 hours. The time shall be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and
the minority leader or their designees.
(2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a rescission bill
shall be limited to 2 hours, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill. Debate on any
amendment to an amendment, to such a bill, and debate on any
debatable motion or appeal in connection with such a bill or an
impoundment resolution shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally
divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of
the bill or resolution, except that in the event the manager of the
bill or resolution is in favor of any such amendment, motion, or
appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall be controlled by the
minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not germane
to the provisions of a rescission bill shall be received. Such
leaders, or either of them, may, from the time under their control
on the passage of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution,
allot additional time to any Senator during the consideration of
any amendment, debatable motion, or appeal.
(3) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. In the
case of a rescission bill, a motion to recommit (except a motion to
recommit with instructions to report back within a specified number
of days, not to exceed 3, not counting any day on which the Senate
is not in session) is not in order. Debate on any such motion to
recommit shall be limited to one hour, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the
concurrent resolution. In the case of an impoundment resolution, no
amendment or motion to recommit is in order.
(4) The conference report on any rescission bill shall be in
order in the Senate at any time after the third day (excluding
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) following the day on which
such a conference report is reported and is available to Members of
the Senate. A motion to proceed to the consideration of the
conference report may be made even though a previous motion to the
same effect has been disagreed to.
(5) During the consideration in the Senate of the conference
report on any rescission bill, debate shall be limited to 2 hours
to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority
leader and minority leader or their designees. Debate on any
debatable motion or appeal related to the conference report shall
be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference report.
(6) Should the conference report be defeated, debate on any
request for a new conference and the appointment of conferees shall
be limited to one hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the
minority leader or his designee, and should any motion be made to
instruct the conferees before the conferees are named, debate on
such motion shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the
conference report. Debate on any amendment to any such instructions
shall be limited to 20 minutes, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference report.
In all cases when the manager of the conference report is in favor
of any motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition shall
be under the control of the minority leader or his designee.
(7) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement,
time on each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of the
conference report and the minority leader or his designee. No
amendment that is not germane to the provisions of such amendments
shall be received.