Joe Biden: “Mr. President, this bill adds a new section to the Budget Act, section 408(C). That section, as I understand it…”

“Mr. President, this bill adds a new section to the Budget Act, section 408(C). That section, as I understand it, provides that a simple majority point of order shall lie against any authorization bill that imposes a mandate unless the authorization bill provides for the possibility that the Appropriations Committee may not appropriate the estimated cost set forth in the authorization bill to pay for the mandate. Section 408(C) provides that the authorization bill must deal with that eventuality by designating a responsible Federal agency and by establishing criteria and procedures for that agency to scale back the mandate to match the funds that the Appropriations Committee has provided, or to declare the mandate to be in effect.”