text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Sunset Wasteful Executive 
  Expenditures and Programs Act of 2013''.
  
  SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL TO REVIEW EXECUTIVE 
                DEPARTMENTS TO ENSURE THEY CONTINUE TO SERVE A PUBLIC 
                NEED.
  
      (a) Amendment.--Chapter 7 of title 31, United States Code, is 
  amended by adding at the end of subchapter II the following new 
  section:
  ``Sec. 721. Review of Executive departments to ensure they continue to 
                serve a public need
      ``(a) Review Required.--Each year, beginning with 2014, the 
  Comptroller General of the United States shall review three Executive 
  departments, in the order of their creation, to identify agencies and 
  programs within the jurisdiction of the departments that perform 
  similar or related functions and that no longer serve a public need. 
  The Comptroller General shall review every department at least once 
  every five years.
      ``(b) Criteria.--The Comptroller General shall evaluate the 
  efficiency and public need for each Executive department pursuant to 
  subsection (a) using the following criteria:
              ``(1) The effectiveness and the efficiency of the operation 
          of the programs carried out by each such Executive department.
              ``(2) Whether the programs carried out by the Executive 
          department are cost-effective.
              ``(3) Whether the Executive department has acted outside 
          the scope of its original authority, and whether the original 
          objectives of the department have been achieved.
              ``(4) Whether less restrictive or alternative methods exist 
          to carry out the functions of the Executive department.
              ``(5) The extent to which the jurisdiction of, and the 
          programs administered by, the Executive department duplicate or 
          conflict with the jurisdiction and programs of other Executive 
          departments.
              ``(6) The potential benefits of consolidating programs 
          administered by the Executive department with similar or 
          duplicative programs of other Executive departments, and the 
          potential for consolidating such programs.
              ``(7) The number and types of beneficiaries or persons 
          served by programs carried out by the Executive department.
              ``(8) The extent to which any trends, developments, and 
          emerging conditions that are likely to affect the future nature 
          and extent of the problems or needs that the programs carried 
          out by the Executive department are intended to address.
              ``(9) The extent to which the Executive department has 
          complied with the provisions contained in sections 1115 through 
          1119 of this title (relating to Government performance planning 
          and reporting).
              ``(10) Whether the Executive department has worked to enact 
          changes in the law that are intended to benefit the public as a 
          whole rather than the specific business, institution, or 
          individuals that the department regulates.
              ``(11) The extent to which the Executive department has 
          encouraged participation by the public as a whole in making its 
          rules and decisions rather than encouraging participation 
          solely by those it regulates.
              ``(12) The extent to which the public participation in 
          rulemaking and decisionmaking of the Executive department has 
          resulted in rules and decisions compatible with the objectives 
          of the department.
              ``(13) The extent to which the Executive department 
          complies with section 552 of title 5, United States Code 
          (commonly known as the `Freedom of Information Act').
              ``(14) The extent of the regulatory, privacy, and paperwork 
          impacts of the programs carried out by the Executive 
          department.
              ``(15) The extent to which changes are necessary in the 
          authorizing statutes of the Executive department in order that 
          the function of the department can be performed in the most 
          efficient and effective manner.
      ``(c) Annual Report and Recommended Legislation.--By February 1 of 
  each year, beginning with February 1, 2015, the Comptroller General 
  shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the review of the 
  Executive departments carried out during the preceding year. The report 
  shall include--
              ``(1) such recommendations as the Comptroller General 
          considers necessary to facilitate the abolishment of agencies 
          and programs within the Executive departments that perform 
          similar or related functions that were identified pursuant to 
          subsection (a) as no longer serving a public need; and
              ``(2) legislative language to implement those 
          recommendations in a form appropriate for introduction in 
          Congress as a bill.
      ``(d) Executive Department Defined.--In this section, the term 
  `Executive department' means each department listed in section 101 of 
  title 5, United States Code.''.
      (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
  chapter 7 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
  end of subchapter II the following new item:
  
  ``721. Review of Executive departments to ensure they continue to serve 
                              a public need.''.
  
  SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TO ENSURE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS CONTINUE 
                TO SERVE A PUBLIC NEED.
  
      (a) Abolishment of Departments.--
              (1) In general.--Not later than December 31 of each year, 
          beginning with December 31, 2015, the three Executive 
          departments that were reviewed by the Comptroller General of 
          the United States during the preceding year pursuant to section 
          721 of title 31, United States Code, shall be abolished.
              (2) Winding down.--The President, in coordination with the 
          Secretary of each Executive department concerned, shall direct 
          the procedures for the winding down of the operations of 
          departments abolished under subsection (a).
              (3) Extension.--The date of abolishment for an Executive 
          department may be extended for an additional two years if 
          Congress enacts legislation extending such date by a vote of 
          three-fifths of the House of Representatives and of the Senate.
      (b) Continuation of Departments.--
              (1) Approval of existence.--Congress may authorize the 
          continued existence of an Executive department scheduled for 
          abolishment by approving or rejecting the legislation 
          containing the recommendations of the Comptroller General with 
          respect to that department, as submitted under section 
          721(c)(2) of title 31, United States Code, and introduced as a 
          bill under subsection (c).
              (2) Future recommendations.--Action of Congress approving 
          of an Executive department scheduled for abolishment does not 
          prevent the department from being abolished in the next cycle 
          for consideration.
      (c) Process for Consideration of Comptroller General's Report.--
              (1) Introduction.--After February 1 of each year, beginning 
          with 2015, the legislation containing the recommendations of 
          the Comptroller General with respect to the Executive 
          departments reviewed during the preceding year, as submitted in 
          the report of the Comptroller General under section 721(c)(2) 
          of title 31, United States Code, shall be introduced in the 
          Senate by the Majority Leader or the Majority Leader's 
          designee, and in the House of Representatives by the Speaker or 
          the Speaker's designee. Upon such introduction, the bill, to be 
          known as a ``wasteful expenditures bill'' shall be referred to 
          appropriate committees of Congress under paragraph (2). If the 
          wasteful expenditures bill is not introduced in accordance with 
          the preceding sentence, then any member of Congress may 
          introduce such bill in the member's respective House of 
          Congress beginning on the date that is the fifth calendar day 
          that such House is in session following the date of the 
          submission of such aggregate legislative provisions.
              (2) Committee consideration.--
                      (A) Referral.--A wasteful expenditures bill 
                  introduced under paragraph (1) shall be referred to any 
                  appropriate committee of jurisdiction in the Senate and 
                  the House of Representatives. A committee to which a 
                  wasteful expenditures bill is referred under this 
                  paragraph and may review and comment on such bill, may 
                  report such bill to the respective House, and may not 
                  amend such bill.
                      (B) Reporting.--Not later than 60 legislative days 
                  after the introduction of the wasteful expenditures 
                  bill, each Committee of Congress to which the wasteful 
                  expenditures bill was referred shall report the bill.
                      (C) Discharge of committee.--If a committee to 
                  which is referred a wasteful expenditures bill has not 
                  reported such bill at the end of 60 legislative days 
                  after its introduction or at the end of the first day 
                  after there has been reported to the House involved a 
                  wasteful expenditures bill, whichever is earlier, such 
                  committee shall be deemed to have been discharged from 
                  further consideration of such bill, and such bill shall 
                  be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House 
                  involved.
              (3) Expedited procedure.--
                      (A) Consideration.--
                              (i) In general.--Not later than 5 
                          legislative days after the date on which a 
                          committee has reported a wasteful expenditures 
                          bill or been discharged from consideration of a 
                          wasteful expenditures bill, the Majority Leader 
                          of the Senate, or the Majority Leader's 
                          designee, or the Speaker of the House of 
                          Representatives, or the Speaker's designee, 
                          shall move to proceed to the consideration of 
                          the wasteful expenditures bill. It shall also 
                          be in order for any member of the Senate or the 
                          House of Representatives, respectively, to move 
                          to proceed to the consideration of the wasteful 
                          expenditures bill at any time after the 
                          conclusion of such 5-day period.
                              (ii) Motion to proceed.--A motion to 
                          proceed to the consideration of a wasteful 
                          expenditures bill is highly privileged in the 
                          House of Representatives and is privileged in 
                          the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is 
                          not subject to amendment or to a motion to 
                          postpone consideration of the wasteful 
                          expenditures bill. If the motion to proceed is 
                          agreed to, the Senate or the House of 
                          Representatives, as the case may be, shall 
                          immediately proceed to consideration of the 
                          wasteful expenditures bill without intervening 
                          motion, order, or other business, and the 
                          wasteful expenditures bill shall remain the 
                          unfinished business of the Senate or the House 
                          of Representatives, as the case may be, until 
                          disposed of.
                              (iii) Limited debate.--Debate on the 
                          wasteful expenditures bill and on all debatable 
                          motions and appeals in connection therewith 
                          shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, 
                          which shall be divided equally between those 
                          favoring and those opposing the wasteful 
                          expenditures bill. A motion further to limit 
                          debate on the wasteful expenditures bill is in 
                          order and is not debatable. All time used for 
                          consideration of the wasteful expenditures 
                          bill, including time used for quorum calls 
                          (except quorum calls immediately preceding a 
                          vote) and voting, shall come from the 10 hours 
                          of debate.
                              (iv) Amendments.--No amendment to the 
                          wasteful expenditures bill shall be in order in 
                          the Senate and the House of Representatives.
                              (v) Vote on final passage.--Immediately 
                          following the conclusion of the debate on the 
                          wasteful expenditures bill, the vote on final 
                          passage of the wasteful expenditures bill shall 
                          occur.
                              (vi) Other motions not in order.--A motion 
                          to postpone consideration of the wasteful 
                          expenditures bill, a motion to proceed to the 
                          consideration of other business, or a motion to 
                          recommit the wasteful expenditures bill is not 
                          in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by 
                          which the wasteful expenditures bill is agreed 
                          to or not agreed to is not in order.
                      (B) Consideration by the other house.--If, before 
                  the passage by one House of the wasteful expenditures 
                  bill that was introduced in such House, such House 
                  receives from the other House a wasteful expenditures 
                  bill as passed by such other House--
                              (i) the wasteful expenditures bill of the 
                          other House shall not be referred to a 
                          committee and may only be considered for final 
                          passage in the House that receives it under 
                          subparagraph (C);
                              (ii) the procedure in the House in receipt 
                          of the wasteful expenditures bill of the other 
                          House, shall be the same as if no wasteful 
                          expenditures bill had been received from the 
                          other House; and
                              (iii) notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the 
                          vote on final passage shall be on the wasteful 
                          expenditures bill of the other House.
                      (C) Disposition.--Upon disposition of a wasteful 
                  expenditures bill that is received by one House from 
                  the other House, it shall no longer be in order to 
                  consider the wasteful expenditures bill that was 
                  introduced in the receiving House.
              (4) Legislative day.--In this section, the term 
          ``legislative day'' means a day on which either House of 
          Congress is in session.
              (5) Rules of the senate and the house of representatives.--
          This section is enacted--
                      (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the 
                  Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, 
                  and is deemed to be part of the rules of each House, 
                  respectively, but applicable only with respect to the 
                  procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a 
                  wasteful expenditures bill, and it supersedes other 
                  rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with 
                  such rules; and
                      (B) with full recognition of the constitutional 
                  right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
                  they relate to the procedure of that House) at any 
                  time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 
                  the case of any other rule of that House.
target: Sunset Wasteful Executive Expenditures and Programs Act of 2013 - Requires the Comptroller General (GAO): (1) each year, beginning in 2014, to review three executive departments to identify agencies and programs that perform similar or related functions and that no longer serve a public need; (2) to review every executive department at least once every five years; and (3) each year, beginning on February 1, 2015, to report to Congress on the results of the reviews of executive departments carried out during the preceding year with recommendations for abolishing agencies and programs that perform similar or related functions and no longer serve a public need.  Abolishes by December 31 of each year, beginning with 2015, the three executive departments reviewed by the Comptroller General during the preceding year. Requires the President to direct procedures for the winding down of the operations of each abolished department. Allows Congress to authorize the continued existence of an executive department scheduled for abolishment.  Sets forth the process for congressional consideration of the Comptroller General's report, including an expedited procedure for consideration of resulting legislation to be known as a wasteful expenditures bill.
feat_title: Sunset Wasteful Executive Expenditures and Programs Act of 2013