text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Spending Reduction Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR AGENCY REPORTS ON REDUCING DUPLICATION, 
                ACHIEVING SAVINGS, AND ENHANCING REVENUE.
  
      (a) Report Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
  the enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agency shall 
  submit to the President and Congress a report on the implementation of 
  recommendations made by the following reports of the Government 
  Accountability Office:
              (1) The March 2011 Government Accountability Office report 
          to Congress titled ``Opportunities to Reduce Potential 
          Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and 
          Enhance Revenue'' (GAO-11-318SP).
              (2) The February 2012 Government Accountability Office 
          report to Congress titled ``Opportunities to Reduce 
          Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and 
          Enhance Revenue'' (GAO-12-342SP).
              (3) The April 2013 Government Accountability Office report 
          to Congress titled ``Actions Needed to Reduce Fragmentation, 
          Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits'' 
          (GAO-13-279SP).
      (b) Matters Covered in Reports.--Each report required by subsection 
  (a) shall include the following:
              (1) A discussion by the head of the executive agency of 
          matters on which the agency agrees, disagrees, or partially 
          agrees with the Government Accountability Office, and 
          recommendations by the head of the agency for actions that 
          should be taken in the agency as a result of the reports 
          described in subsection (a).
              (2) An opinion by the Comptroller General of the United 
          States on whether each such recommendation by the head of the 
          executive agency under paragraph (1) is consistent with the 
          intent of the Government Accountability Office reports 
          described in subsection (a).
              (3) A proposal for legislative changes, if any, necessary 
          to implement the recommendations by the head of the executive 
          agency under paragraph (1).
              (4) A statement of the annual impact on costs to the 
          Federal Government, including cost savings, expected to occur 
          as a result of the implementation of such recommendations.
              (5) Such other information as the head of the executive 
          agency determines appropriate.
  
  SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION.
  
      (a) Implementation.--Not later than 150 days after the date of the 
  enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agency shall begin to 
  implement the recommendations submitted in the report by the head of 
  that agency under section 2, in order to eliminate, consolidate, 
  streamline, or better coordinate Government programs and agencies with 
  duplicative, overlapping, or fragmented missions identified in the 
  Government Accountability Office reports described in section 2(a).
      (b) Congressional Disapproval.--
              (1) The head of an executive agency may not carry out any 
          recommendations contained in the report submitted to Congress 
          under section 2 by the head of the agency if a joint resolution 
          is enacted, in accordance with the provisions of section 4, 
          disapproving such recommendations before the earlier of--
                      (A) the end of the 45-day period beginning on the 
                  date on which the head of the executive agency submits 
                  such report; or
                      (B) the adjournment of Congress sine die for the 
                  session during which such report is submitted.
              (2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection and 
          subsections (a) and (b) of section 4, the days on which either 
          House of Congress is not in session because of an adjournment 
          of more than three days to a day certain shall be excluded in 
          the computation of a period.
  
  SEC. 4. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF EXECUTIVE AGENCY REPORT.
  
      (a) Terms of the Resolution.--For purposes of section 3(b), the 
  term ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution which is 
  introduced within the 10-day period beginning on the date on which the 
  head of an executive agency submits the report relating to that 
  executive agency to Congress under section 2, and--
              (1) which does not have a preamble;
              (2) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
          follows: ``That Congress disapproves the recommendations as 
          submitted by _____ on _____'', the first blank space being 
          filled in with the title of the head of the executive agency 
          submitting the report, and the second blank space being filled 
          in with the appropriate date; and
              (3) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution 
          disapproving the recommendations of the ______.'', the blank 
          space being filled in with the title of the head of the 
          executive agency submitting the report.
      (b) Referral.--A resolution described in subsection (a) that is 
  introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the 
  committee with jurisdiction over the executive agency concerned. A 
  resolution described in subsection (a) introduced in the Senate shall 
  be referred to the committee with jurisdiction over the executive 
  agency concerned.
      (c) Discharge.--If the committee to which a resolution described in 
  subsection (a) is referred has not reported such a resolution (or an 
  identical resolution) by the end of the 20-day period beginning on the 
  date on which the head of the executive agency concerned submits the 
  report to the Congress under section 2, such committee shall be, at the 
  end of such period, discharged from further consideration of such 
  resolution, and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate 
  calendar of the House involved.
      (d) Consideration.--(1) On or after the third day after the date on 
  which the committee to which such a resolution is referred has 
  reported, or has been discharged (under subsection (c)) from further 
  consideration of, such a resolution, it is in order (even though a 
  previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any 
  Member of the respective House to move to proceed to the consideration 
  of the resolution. A Member may make the motion only on the day after 
  the calendar day on which the Member announces to the House concerned 
  the Member's intention to make the motion, except that, in the case of 
  the House of Representatives, the motion may be made without such prior 
  announcement if the motion is made by direction of the committee to 
  which the resolution was referred. All points of order against the 
  resolution (and against consideration of the resolution) are waived. 
  The motion 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, or to a motion to 
  proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider 
  the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be 
  in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the resolution 
  is agreed to, the respective House shall immediately proceed to 
  consideration of the joint resolution without intervening motion, 
  order, or other business, and the resolution shall remain the 
  unfinished business of the respective House until disposed of.
      (2) Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable motions and 
  appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 
  hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those 
  opposing the resolution. An amendment to the resolution is not in 
  order. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. 
  A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
  other business, or a motion to recommit the resolution is not in order. 
  A motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or 
  disagreed to is not in order.
      (3) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a 
  resolution described in subsection (a) and a single quorum call at the 
  conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of 
  the appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution 
  shall occur.
      (4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
  application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
  as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution described 
  in subsection (a) shall be decided without debate.
      (e) Consideration by Other House.--(1) If, before the passage by 
  one House of a resolution of that House described in subsection (a), 
  that House receives from the other House a resolution described in 
  subsection (a), then the following procedures shall apply:
              (A) The resolution of the other House shall not be referred 
          to a committee and may not be considered in the House receiving 
          it except in the case of final passage as provided in 
          subparagraph (B)(ii).
              (B) With respect to a resolution described in subsection 
          (a) of the House receiving the resolution--
                      (i) the procedure in that House shall be the same 
                  as if no resolution had been received from the other 
                  House; but
                      (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the 
                  resolution of the other House.
      (2) Upon disposition of the resolution received from the other 
  House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution that 
  originated in the receiving House.
      (f) Rules of the Senate and House.--This section is enacted by 
  Congress--
              (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate 
          and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is 
          deemed a 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 resolution described in subsection 
          (a), and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it 
          is inconsistent with such rules; and
              (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
          either House to change the rules (so far as relating 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.
  
  SEC. 5. DEFINITION.
  
      In this Act, the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning provided 
  in section 133 of title 41, United States Code.
target: Spending Reduction Act - Requires the head of each executive agency to submit to the President and Congress a report on the implementation of recommendations made by specified Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on reducing duplication in government programs, achieving savings, and enhancing revenue.  Requires: (1) such agency reports to include recommendations by the agency heads for actions that should be taken as a result of such GAO reports; and (2) agency heads to begin implementation of such recommendations in order to eliminate, consolidate, streamline, or better coordinate government programs and agencies with duplicative, overlapping, or fragmented missions identified in the GAO reports, unless Congress enacts a joint resolution disapproving them. 
feat_title: Spending Reduction Act