House Rule XXI (PDF version at link).
HiTech RedNeck wrote:
What keeps FEMA from being treated as a stand alone bill with nothing else riding on it?
Specifically, it says:
Note the dates. This was Pelosi's doing. When the Dem majority took over in 2007, they wanted the "PayGo" rules reinstated and strengthened.
10. It shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report if the provisions of such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have the net effect of increasing the deficit or reducing the surplus for either the period comprising the current fiscal year and the five fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year that ends in the following calendar year or the period comprising the current fiscal year and the ten fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year that ends in the following calendar year. The effect of such measure on the deficit or surplus shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget relative to--
(a) the most recent baseline estimates supplied by the Congressional Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 used in considering a concurrent resolution on the budget; or
(b) after the beginning of a new calendar year and before consideration of a concurrent resolution on the budget, the most recent baseline estimates supplied by the Congressional Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
This clause was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 405, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. ---- (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)).
House Republicans better hurry up and pass this or they just may be considered....heartless.
‘Hurry up and pass this bill’ has brought us trouble in the past.