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 99 STAT. 1078

PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985

or (b) of this section shall have the effect of eliminating any program, project, or activity of the Federal Government. Prohibition.

2 USC 903.

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2 USC 904.

(e) RELATIVE BUDGET PRIORITIES NOT To B E ALTERED.—Nothing in

the preceding provisions of this section shall be construed to give the President new authority to alter the relative priorities in the Federal budget that are established by law, and no person who is or becomes eligible for benefits under any provision of law shall be denied eligibility by reason of any order issued under this part. SEC. 253. COMPLIANCE REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL. On or before November 15 of each fiscal year (or on or before April 1, 1986, in the case of the fiscal year 1986), the Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress and the President a report on the extent to which the President's order issued under section 252(b) for such fiscal year complies with all of the requirements contained in section 252, either certifying that the order fully and accurately complies with such requirements or indicating the respects in which it does not. SEC. 254. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. (a) SPECIAL PROCEDURES IN THE EVENT OF A RECESSION.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall notify the Congress at any time if— (A) during the period consisting of the quarter during which such notification is given, the quarter preceding such notification, and the four quarters following such notification, such Office or the Office of Management and Budget has determined that real economic growth is projected or estimated to be less than zero with respect to each of any two consecutive quarters within such period, or (B) the Department of Commerce preliminary reports of actual real economic growth (or any subsequent revision thereof) indicate that the rate of real economic growth for each of the most recent reported quarter and the immediately preceding quarter is less than one percent. Upon such notification the Majority Leader of each House shall introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in this paragraph are met and suspending the relevant provisions of this title for the remainder of the current fiscal year or for the following fiscal year or both. (2) FORM OF JOINT RESOLUTION.—

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(A) The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be as follows: "That the Congress declares that the conditions specified in section 254(a)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are met; and— "(1) the provisions of sections 3(7), 301(i), 302(f), 304(b), and 311(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, section 1106(c) of title 31, United States Code, and part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are suspended for the remainder of the current fiscal year, and "(2) the provisions of sections 3(7), 301(i), 304(b), and 311(a) (insofar as it relates to section 3(7)) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of

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