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      "date": "2019-03-04",
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      "title": "Changes to House Rules Affecting the Congressional Budget Process Included in H.Res. 6 (116th Congress)",
      "summary": "On January 3, 2019, the House adopted Title I of H.Res. 6, the standing rules for the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress. In addition to the standing rules, H.Res. 6 included a separate order related to the consideration of appropriations bills. This report provides information on changes to both the standing rules and separate orders that might affect the consideration of budgetary legislation in the House of Representatives. These include the following:\nDeleting language in Rule X added in the 115th Congress providing for committees to include a review of authorizations for programs or agencies within their jurisdiction in their oversight plans.\nDeleting language in Rule XIII, previously adopted in the 114th and 115th Congresses, requiring that any budgetary estimates provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) include, to the extent practicable, a macroeconomic impact analysis (often referred to as \u201cdynamic scoring\u201d) as well as a requirement that any estimate provided to CBO by the Joint Committee on Taxation also include a macroeconomic impact analysis. \nDeleting language added to Rule XXI in the 104th Congress requiring the vote of a three-fifths majority to approve a federal income tax rate increase as well as a requirement in Rule XX to automatically order the yeas and nays for a vote of the House on such measures.\nEstablishing new language as Rule XXVIII providing for certain measures concerning the debt limit to automatically be engrossed and deemed to have been passed by the House. This measure would suspend the debt limit through the end of the budget year in the concurrent resolution on the budget (but not through the period covered by any outyears beyond the budget year). The engrossed measure would then be transmitted to the Senate for further action. This rule is similar to language that was previously part of House rules from the 96th-107th Congresses (known as the \u201cGephardt Rule\u201d).\nReestablishing a PAYGO requirement in the House, which had previously been in effect during the 110th and 111th Congresses. This PAYGO rule (Rule XXI, clause 10) replaces the CUTGO rule that was a part of Rule XXI between the 112th and 115th Congresses. The new rule prohibits the consideration of direct spending or revenue legislation that is projected to increase or cause a deficit in either of two time periods: (1) the period consisting of the current fiscal year, the budget year, and the four ensuing fiscal years following the budget year or (2) the 11-year period consisting of the current year, the budget year, and the ensuing nine fiscal years following the budget year. The rule applies to any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that affects direct spending or revenues.\nH.Res. 6 also included a separate order establishing a limit on advance appropriations, defined as applying to funding provided in FY2019 appropriations acts that are to become available in any fiscal year following FY2019.\nIn addition, several separate orders from previous congresses are not included in H.Res. 6 for the 116th Congress. These include\nlanguage prohibiting House consideration of measures estimated by CBO as causing a net increase in spending in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning with the fiscal year 10 years after the current fiscal year,\ntwo points of order that previously supplemented the point of order in Section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as a means for enforcing 302(b) suballocations,\nlanguage requiring that appropriations bills include a spending reduction account, and\nlanguage allowing certain legislative amendments in appropriations bills (known as the \u201cHolman Rule\u201d).",
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