Budget Enforcement Procedures: Senate Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Rule

[摘要] The Senate “pay-as-you-go,” or PAYGO, rule generally requires that any legislation increasing direct spending or reducing revenues be offset. A motion to waive the rule requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the membership (i.e., 60 Senators if no seats are vacant). Beginning in 1993, six points of order under the PAYGO rule have been raised against an entire bill or an amendment. Of these six points of order, four were sustained and two fell upon the adoption of a waiver motion.

[发布日期] 2002-10-22 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

[关键词] Congress;Senate rules and procedure;Congressional budget process;Budgets