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Introduced Session

Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011 - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transmit, within 45 calendar days after enactment of the funding in question, a message to Congress with specified information requesting any rescission the President proposes under the procedures in this Act. Prescribes requirements for timing and packaging of rescission requests. Authorizes OMB, subject to a specified time limit, to withhold funding from obligation temporarily if the President proposes a rescission. Prohibits the President from invoking such expedited procedures or such authority to withhold funding on more than one occasion for any Act providing funding. Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of proposed rescissions.

Committee Categories

Lamar Alexander (R),  John Barrasso (R),  Mark Begich (D),  Michael Bennet (D),  Richard Blumenthal (D),  Roy Blunt (R),  John Boozman (R),  Scott Brown (R),  Richard Burr (R),  Ben Cardin (D),  Tom Carper (D),  Saxby Chambliss (R),  Daniel Coats (R),  Tom Coburn (R),  Chris Coons (D),  Bob Corker (R),  Mike Crapo (R),  John Ensign (R),  Michael Enzi (R),  Kirsten Gillibrand (D),  Lindsey Graham (R),  Chuck Grassley (R),  Kay Hagan (D),  Orrin Hatch (R),  Dean Heller (R),  John Hoeven (R),  Johnny Isakson (R),  Mike Johanns (R),  Ron Johnson (R),  John Kerry (D),  Mark Kirk (R),  Amy Klobuchar (D),  Joseph Lieberman (I),  Richard Lugar (R),  Joe Manchin (I),  John McCain (R),  Claire McCaskill (D),  Jerry Moran (R),  Bill Nelson (D),  E. Benjamin Nelson (D),  Rob Portman (R),  Jim Risch (R),  Marco Rubio (R),  Olympia Snowe (R),  John Thune (R),  Pat Toomey (R),  Mark Udall (D),  Mark Warner (D),  Sheldon Whitehouse (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (on 01/25/2011)

Official Document