S.Amdt. 934

SA 934. Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3877, to amend the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to establish
a congressional budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, to temporarily
suspend the debt limit, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 302. REDUCING EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT.

(a) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given the term
``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, United
States Code;
(2) the term ``amount of the increase in the debt limit''
means--
(A) the dollar amount of the increase in the debt limit
specified in the Act increasing the debt limit; or
(B) in the case of a suspension of the debt limit, 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, or in the case of
section 301 of this Act, as soon as is practicable after the
date of enactment of this Act;
(3) the term ``debt limit'' means the limitation imposed by
section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code;
(4) 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;
(5) the term ``joint resolution'' means a joint
resolution--
(A) reported by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
or the House of Representatives in accordance with subsection
(d)(3);
(B) which does not have a preamble;
(C) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution
relating to repeal of costly rules''; and
(D) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as
follows: ``That the following rules shall have no force or
effect: _______