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Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2012 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBICA) to authorize the President to propose the rescission (line item veto) of all or any dollar amount of funding provided by any enacted bill or joint resolution.
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding the proposed rescission.
Authorizes the President, except for his deferral of budget authority provided in CBICA, to withhold such rescinded funding temporarily from obligation, but only once per proposed rescission.
Dedicates the rescinded funds solely to deficit reduction or increase of a surplus.
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission, and (2) applicable limits under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) revised downward by the amount of such rescissions.
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the House Committee on the Budget, whenever an approval bill passes the House of Representatives, to reduce the applicable committee allocations immediately by the total amount of reductions in budget authority and in outlays resulting from such approval.
Terminates on December 15, 2015, the amendments made by this Act, with restoration of the provisions of part B of CBICA as in effect immediately before the enactment of this Act.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 3521 as passed House amended on Feb 8, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Feb 8, 2012Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveFeb 8, 2012
House Feb 8, 2012 · the primary vote
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for a legislative line-item veto to expedite consideration of rescissions, and for other purposes
Passed
254 Yea 173 Nay 6 not voting
Crossed both parties 98 of 427 voting members broke with their own party: 57 Democrats, 41 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 3521 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 3521 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
14 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.