S.Amdt. 2759

SA 2759. Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. REDUCING EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT.

(a) Short Title; Definitions.--
(1) Short title.--This section may be cited as the
``Reducing Excessive Government Act of 2015'' or the ``REG
Act''.
(2) Definitions.--In this section--
(A) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given the term
``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, United
States Code;
(B) the term ``amount of the increase in the debt limit''
means--
(i) the dollar amount of the increase in the debt limit
specified in the Act increasing the debt limit; or
(ii) in the case of an Act that provides that the debt
limit shall not apply for a period and that the amount of the
debt limit is increased at the end of such period, the amount
by which the Secretary of the Treasury estimates the debt
limit shall be increased at the end of the period of the
suspension, which the Secretary shall submit to Congress on
the date of enactment of such an Act;
(C) the term ``debt limit'' means the limitation imposed by
section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code;
(D) the term ``direct cost of Federal regulation'' means
all costs incurred by, and expenditures required of, the
Federal Government in issuing and enforcing Federal
regulations, rules, statements, and legislation;
(E) the term ``Federal regulatory cost''--
(i) means all costs incurred by, and expenditures required
of, the private sector in complying with any Federal
regulation, rule, statement, or legislation; and
(ii) does not include the value of any benefit under the
Federal regulation, rule, statement, or legislation;
(F) the term ``joint resolution'' means a joint
resolution--
(i) reported by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
or the House of Representatives in accordance with subsection
(d)(3);
(ii) which does not have a preamble;
(iii) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution
relating to repeal of costly rules.''; and
(iv) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as
follows: ``That the following rules shall have no force or
effect: _______