93 STAT. 590
PUBLIC LAW 96-78—SEPT. 29, 1979
deemed to have passed the House of Representatives and been duly certified and examined; the engrossed copy shall be signed by the Clerk and transmitted to the Senate for further legislative action; and (upon final passage by both Houses) the joint resolution shall be signed by the presiding officers of both Houses and presented to the President for his signature (and otherwise treated for all purposes) in the manner provided for bills and joint resolutions generally. "2. The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution described in clause 1 shall be as follows: 'During the period beginning and ending , the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence of section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act (31 U.S.C. 757b) shall be temporarily increased [or decreased] by $ (and any other provision of law providing for a temporary increase [or decrease] in such limit shall not apply).'; with the first two blanks being filled with the beginning and ending dates of the fiscal year or other period to which the concurrent resolution on the budget just agreed to relates, and with the third blank being filled with a dollar figure equal to the difference between the statutory limit on the public debt as set forth in section 21 of the Second Liberty 31 USC 757b. Bond Act and the appropriate level of the public debt as set forth in such concurrent resolution. "3. The report of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives accompanying any concurrent resolution on the 31 USC 1322. budget under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as well as the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget, shall contain a clear statement of the effect under this rule that the adoption by both the House and the Senate of such concurrent resolution in the form in which it is being reported (and the adoption of the joint resolution thereupon prepared and enrolled under clause 1) would have upon the statutory limit on the public debt. It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives at any time to consider or adopt any concurrent resolution on the budget (or agree to any conference report thereon) if at that time the report accompanying such concurrent resolution (or the joint statement accompanying such conference report) does not comply with the requirements of this clause. "4. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as limiting or otherwise affecting the power of the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider and pass a bill which (without regard to the procedures under clause 1) changes the statutory limit on the public debt most recently established under this rule or otherwise; and the rights of Members and committees of the House with respect to the introduction, consideration, and reporting of any such bill shall be determined as though this rule had not been adopted. "Statutory limit "5. As used in this rule, the term 'statutory limit on the public debt' on the public means the maximum face amount of obligations issued under author31 USC 774 ^^y ®^ ^^® Second Liberty Bond Act and obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States (except such guaranteed obligations as may be held by the Secretary of the Treasury), 31 USC 757b. determined under section 21 of such Act after the application of the second sentence thereof, which may be outstanding at any one time.". (b)(1) Clause l(v)(5) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting "(subject to the last sentence of clause 4(g) of this rule)" after "United States". (2) Clause 4(g) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The views and estimates submitted by the Committee on Ways and Means under the preceding sentence shall include a specific recom-
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