Restraining Emergency War Spending Act
Summary
Restraining Emergency War Spending Act This bill establishes (1) a statutory definition for emergency war funding , and (2) a budget point of order that may be raised in the Senate against legislation that provides new funding for a contingency operation that does not meet the requirements for emergency war funding. Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) is exempt from discretionary spending limits. If this point of order is successfully raised against a provision that provides OCO funding that does not meet the requirements for emergency war spending, the bill requires the provision to be stricken from the legislation and prohibits it from being offered as a floor amendment.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 14, 2021
Last action Sep 14, 2021
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Committee
1
Sep 14, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
upper
Sep 14, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
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