To rescind $120 billion in Federal spending by consolidating duplicative government programs, cutting wasteful Washington spending, and returning billions of dollars of unspent money.

SA 3303. Mr. COBURN (for himself, Mr. McCain, Mr. Enzi, and Mr.
Lemieux) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
joint resolution H.J. Res. 45, increasing the statutory limit on the
public debt; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

TITLE __--ELIMINATION OF DUPLICATIVE AND WASTEFUL SPENDING

SEC. 1. IDENTIFICATION, CONSOLIDATION, AND ELIMINATION OF
DUPLICATIVE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.

The Comptroller General of the Government Accountability
Office shall conduct routine investigations to identify
programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative
goals and activities within Departments and governmentwide
and report annually to Congress on the findings, including
the cost of such duplication and with recommendations for
consolidation and elimination to reduce duplication
identifying specific rescissions.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF INCREASE OF THE OFFICE BUDGETS OF MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-68 for the
legislative branch, $245,000,000 in unobligated balances are
permanently rescinded: Provided, That none of the funding
available for the Legislative Branch be available for any
pilot program for mailings of postal patron postcards by
Senators for the purpose of providing notice of a town
meeting by a Senator in a county (or equivalent unit of local
government) at which the Senator will personally attend.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-80 for the
Department of Agriculture, $1,342,800,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded: Provided, That as
proposed by the President's FY 2010 budget, no funding may be
available for the Economic Action Program, which is
duplicative of USDA's Urban and Community Forestry program,
has been poorly managed, and has funded questionable
initiatives such as music festivals:  Provided further, That
no funding may be available for the High Energy Cost grant
program, which is duplicative of the $6,000,000,000 in low
interest loan programs offered by the UDSA's Rural Utilities
Service: Provided further, That as included in the
Congressional Budget Office's August 2009 Budget Options
document, which states that the program ``merely replaces
private spending with public spending'', no funding may be
available for the Foreign Market Development Program, which
also duplicates the Foreign Agricultures Service's Market
Access Program: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the numerous
programs administered by the Department relating to
encouraging conservation, including the Conservation
Stewardship Program, which the Government Accountability
Office revealed in 2006 is duplicative of other USDA
conservations efforts, including the Conservation Reserve
Program, the Wetlands Reserve Program, the Farmland
Protection Program, the Wildlife Habitat Program, and the
Grassland Reserve Program: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall work with the Secretary of Energy to
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the numerous
programs administered by both Departments relating to
bioenergy promotion, including the Department of Energy's
Biomass Program, the Department of Agriculture's Biomass Crop
Assistance Program, the Biorefinery Program for Advanced
Fuels Program, and the Biobased Products and Bioenergy
Program, the Biorefinery Repowering Assistance Program, the
New Era Rural Technology Competitive Grants Program, and the
Feedstock Flexibility Program: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall work with the Secretary of Energy to
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the numerous
programs administered by both Departments relating to
alternative energy, including the Department of Energy's
Geothermal Technology Program, Wind Energy Program, and the
Solar Energy Technologies Program, and the Department of
Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program: the Secretary
shall consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the
numerous programs administered by the Department that provide
food assistance to foreign countries, including the USAD
Foreign Agricultural Service, the food for Progress Program,
the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child
Nutrition Program, the food for Peace programs, the Bill
Emerson Humanitarian Trust, and the Local and Regional
Procurement Projects: Provided further, That for any program
for which funding is prohibited in this section, any
activities under that program that are deemed by the
Secretary to be necessary or essential, the Secretary shall
assign to an existing program for which funding is not
prohibited in this section.

SEC. 4. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Commerce, $697,850,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the
Secretary shall work with the Secretary of Agriculture to
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the programs
administered by both Departments that provide rural public
telecom grants, including eliminating USDA's grants to rural
public broadcasting stations, as proposed by the President's
FY 2010 budget, which duplicates the Department of Commerce's
Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also receives
Federal funding: Provided further, That no funding may be
made available for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension
Partnership Program, which duplicates the Small Business
Administration's Small Business Development Centers and which
has been found by the Office of Management and Budget to
``only serve a small percentage of small manufactures each
year'': Provided further, That the Secretary shall work with
the Secretaries of Housing and Rural Development and
Agriculture to consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the programs administered by these Departments
relating to Economic Development, including the following
programs, the Economic Development Administration, the
Community Development Block Grants, Rural Development
Administration grants, the National Community Development
Initiative, the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative,
the Rural Housing and Economic Development grants, the
Community Service Block Grants, the Delta Regional Authority,
the Community Economic Development grants, and the
Historically Underutilized Business Zone program: Provided
further, That for any program for which funding is prohibited
in this section, any activities under that program that are
deemed by the Secretary to be necessary or essential, the
Secretary shall assign to an existing program for which
funding is not prohibited in this section.

SEC. 5. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Education, $3,213,800,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the
Secretary shall work with Secretaries from other Federal
Departments to consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the at least 30 Federal programs that provide
financial assistance to students to support postsecondary
education in the forms of grants, scholarships, fellowships,
and other types of stipends, including the 15 such programs
at the Department of Education, such as the Academic
Competitiveness Grants, the TEACH grants, the Federal
Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, the Leveraging
Educational Assistance Program, the Javits Fellowships
Program, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need
program, as well as the three similar programs administered
by the National Science Foundation, such as the Robert Noyce
Teacher Scholarship program, as well as a program at the
Department of Justice and one at the Health Resources
Administration: Provided

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further, That the Secretary shall work with Secretaries from
other Federal Departments to consolidate and reduce the cost
of administering the at least 69 Federal programs dedicated
in full or in part to supporting early childhood education
and child care, as outlined by the Government Accountability
Office, which found that these 69 education programs are
spread across 10 different agencies: Provided further, That
the Secretary shall work with Secretaries from other Federal
Departments to consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the at least 105 Federal science, technology,
math, and engineering education programs, as outlined by the
Academic Competitiveness Council, which found that these 105
education programs are spread across numerous Federal
agencies: Provided further, That the Secretary shall work
with Secretaries from other Federal Departments to
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the numerous
student foreign exchange and international education
programs, including the at least 14 programs at the
Department, including the American Overseas Research Centers,
Business and International Education, Centers for
International Business Education, the Foreign Language and
Area Studies Fellowships, the Institute for International
Public Policy, the International Research and Studies, the
Language Resource Centers, the National Resource Centers, the
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign
Information Access, and the Undergraduate International
Studies and Foreign Language Program, the State Department's
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, the
Boren National Security Education Trust Fund, and exchange
programs administered by the National Science Foundation's
Office of International Science and Engineering.

SEC. 6. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-85 for the
Department of Energy, $1,321,800,000 in unobligated balances
are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the Secretary shall
work with Secretaries from other Federal Departments to
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the various
Federal weatherization efforts, including Federal funding for
State-run weatherization projects, the Department of Energy's
Energy Conservation and Weatherization grants, as well as the
Department of Energy's building Technologies Program, the
LIHEAP weatherization efforts, the National Park Service's
Weatherization and Improving the Energy Efficiency of
Historic Buildings program, and the Department of Housing and
Urban Development's Energy Innovation Fund: Provided further,
That the Secretary shall consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the various energy grant programs, including
the Tribal Energy grant program, which overlaps with the
Department's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants,
and the Energy Start Energy Efficient appliance Rebate
Program: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the various
vehicle technology programs at the Department, including the
Vehicle Technologies program, the Advanced Battery
Manufacturing grants, the Advanced Technology Vehicles
Manufacturing Loans Program, and the Innovative Technology
Loan Guarantee Program.

SEC. 7. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Health and Human Services, $4,116,950,000
in unobligated balances are permanently rescinded: Provided,
That the Secretary, in coordination with the heads of other
Departments and agencies, shall consolidate the programs that
support nonresidential buildings and facilities construction,
including the 29 programs across 8 Federal agencies
identified by the Government Accountability Office. The
Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of HUD and USDA
and other appropriate departments and agencies, shall
consolidate duplicative programs intended to reduce poverty
and revitalize low-income communities, including the HHS
Community Services Block Grant, the HUD Community Development
Block Grant, and USDA Rural Development program: Provided
further, That the Secretary shall work with Secretaries from
other Federal Departments to consolidate and reduce the cost
of administering the dozens of Federal programs, across
multiple agencies, that funded childhood obesity programs,
either as the main focus or as one component of the Federal
program.

SEC. 8. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-83 for the
Department of Homeland Security, $2,205,000,000 in
unobligated balances are permanently rescinded: Provided,
That the Secretary shall work with Secretaries from other
Federal Departments to consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the dozens of Federal homeland security
programs, as identified by the Office of Management and
Budget, which states that ``a total of 31 agency budgets
include Federal homeland security funding in 2010''.

SEC. 9. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF WASTEFUL
SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF DUPLICATIVE
PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
$2,302,450,000 in unobligated balances are permanently
rescinded: Provided, That the Secretary shall work with
Secretaries from other Federal Departments to consolidate and
reduce the cost of administering the various Federal programs
aimed at addressing homelessness, including the Supportive
Housing Program, the Shelter Plus Care Program, the Single
Room Occupancy Program, the Emergency Shelter Grant Program,
programs at Health and Human Services such as the Basic
Center Program, Projects for Assistance in Transition from
Homelessness, and the Street Outreach Program, and also
including the more than 23 housing programs identified by the
Government Accounting Office that target or have special
features for the elderly.

SEC. 10. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
INTERIOR.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-88 for the
Department of Interior, $606,200,000 in unobligated balances
are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the Secretary shall
consolidate and reduce the cost of administering the at least
11 historic preservation programs at the Department,
including the 9 preservation programs at the Heritage
Preservation Services, such as the Federal Agency
Preservation Assistance Program, the Historic Preservation
Planning Program, the Technical Preservation Services for
Historic Buildings, as well as the Save America's Treasures
Grant Program, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,
and the Preserve America program: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the various climate change impact programs at
the Department, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs office
Tackling Climate Impacts Initiative, the U.S. Geological
Survey's National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center,
the US Fish and Wildlife Service climate change initiatives,
and the state and tribal wildlife conservation grants which
are being provided to entities to adapt and mitigate the
impacts of climate change on wildlife: Provided further, That
the Secretary shall consolidate and reduce the cost of
administering the dozens of invasive species research,
monitoring, and eradication programs at the Department,
including the eight programs administered by the US Fish and
Wildlife Services, the similar programs administered by the
Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the
4 Federal councils created to coordinate Federal invasive
species efforts, the National Invasive Species Council, the
National Invasive Species Information Center, the Federal
Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and
Exotic Weeds, and the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force.

SEC. 11. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Justice, $1,385,100,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the
Attorney General in coordination with the heads of other
Departments and agencies, shall consolidate Federal offender
reentry programs, including those authorized by the Second
Chance Act, the DOJ Office of Justice Programs Bureau of
Justice Assistance Prisoner Reentry Initiative, the
Department of Labor Reintegration of Ex-Offenders program,
the Department of Education Lifeskills for State and Local
Inmates Programs, and the HHS Young Offender Reentry Program:
Provided further, That the Attorney General shall consolidate
the four duplicative grant programs, including the State
Formula Grant program, the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Block Grant program, the Challenge/Demonstration Grant
program, and the Title V grant program, administered under
the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and
reduce the cost of administering such programs: Provided
further, That the Attorney General, in coordination with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office
of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), shall consolidate
Federal programs that assist state drug courts, including
substance abuse treatment services for offenders, such as the
HHS Adult, Juvenile, and Family Drug Court program, the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Drug Court Treatment Program, the DOJ Drug Court Program, the
ONDCP National Drug Court Institute: Provided further, That
the Attorney General shall eliminate the National Drug
Intelligence Center (NDIC) which duplicates the activities of
19 other drug intelligence centers and reassign any essential
duties performed by NDIC.

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SEC. 12. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Labor, $679,100,000 in unobligated balances
are permanently rescinded: Provided, That the Secretary, in
coordination with the heads of other Departments and
agencies, shall consolidate the 18 programs administered by
the Department and ten programs administered by other
agencies that support job training and employment, such as
the Adult Employment and Training Activities program,
Dislocated Worked Employment and Training Activities, Youth
Activities, YouthBuild, and the Migrant and Seasonal Farmers
program and reduce the cost of administering such programs.

SEC. 13. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
STATE.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of State, $1,318,550,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded: Provided, That in
accordance with the President's FY 2010 budget, no funding
may be made available for the Center for Cultural and
Technical Interchange Between East and West, which duplicates
the State Departments cultural exchanges: Provided further,
That no funding may be made available for the Asia
Foundation, which duplicates efforts at USAID and the
National Endowment for Democracy: Provided further, That for
any program for which funding is prohibited in this section,
any activities under that program that are deemed by the
Secretary to be necessary or essential, the Secretary shall
assign to an existing program for which funding is not
prohibited in this section.

SEC. 14. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Transportation, $1,090,500,000 in
unobligated balances are permanently rescinded: Provided,
That the Secretary shall consolidate and reduce the costs of
various duplicative highway programs, including the
regionally specific development programs, the Federal-Aid
Highway Programs under chapter I of title 23, United States
Code, the Research programs authorized under title V of
Public Law 109-59: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
consolidate and reduce the costs of various rail-line
relocation grant programs, including the Rail-Line Relocation
and Improvement Capital Program, and the Highway-Rail
Crossings Program, the Railroad Rehabilitation and
Improvement Financing program.

SEC. 15. REPEAL OF EXCESSIVE OVERHEAD, ELIMINATION OF
WASTEFUL SPENDING, AND CONSOLIDATION OF
DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
TREASURY.

Of the funds made available under Public Law 111-117 for
the Department of Treasury, $677,650,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded.

SEC. 16. RESCISSION OF UNSPENT AND UNCOMMITTED FEDERAL FUNDS.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the
$657,000,000,000 in Federal funds unobligated at the end of
fiscal year 2009, the discretionary, unexpired funds
available for more than 2 consecutive fiscal years, as of the
date of enactment of this Act, are permanently rescinded.

SEC. 17. IMPLEMENTATION OF RESCISSIONS.

All rescissions required by this title--
(1) shall come from discretionary amounts appropriated; and
(2) should be rescinded not later 14 days after the date of
enactment of this title.

SEC. 18. NULLIFICATION OF INCREASE IN THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any
increase in the statutory limit on the public debt shall be
null and void.
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