To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to establish certain procedures for consideration of annual appropriation bills, and for other purposes.

Key Points

• This bill changes the rules for how Congress considers the 12 annual spending bills that fund the federal government. It amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to create new procedures designed to speed up the process and reduce delays.
• In the Senate, debate on each annual spending bill would be capped at 20 hours. This would effectively prevent filibusters and extended delays that currently let individual senators hold up funding bills for weeks or longer.
• In the House, members would be blocked from taking any recess longer than three days during July unless they have already passed all 12 spending bills. This is meant to pressure the House to finish its budget work before the summer break.
• These new rules would not apply to continuing resolutions, which are the short-term stopgap spending bills Congress often uses to avoid government shutdowns. The bill specifically targets only the full-year appropriations process.
• The bill was introduced by Rep. McClintock along with cosponsors Rep. Cole (who chairs the House Rules Committee), Rep. Bice, and Rep. Maloy. It was referred to both the House Rules Committee and the Budget Committee.