To ensure that the $1 trillion spending bill is not used to expand the scope of the Federal Government by adding new spending programs.

SA 238. Mr. GRASSLEY (for Mr. Thune) proposed an amendment to
amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus) to
the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job
preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency
and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal
stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other
purposes; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, for each amount in each account as appropriated or
otherwise authorized to be made available in this Act, the
Office of Management and Budget shall make a determination
about whether an authorization for that specific program had
been enacted prior to February 1, 2009, and if no such
authorization existed by that date, then the Office of
Management and Budget shall reduce to zero the amount
appropriated or otherwise made available for each program in
each account where no authorization existed.
______