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Title 2, The CongressRelease 119-110

§939 Limitation on Changes to the Social Security Act

Title 2 › CHAPTER 20A — STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO › § 939

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The House and the Senate may not use fast-track rules to consider any bill or resolution that follows recommendations from a Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action or another commission if those recommendations would change Social Security’s old-age, survivors, or disability insurance program (Title II) or the listed tax provisions (subchapter A of chapter 9; subchapter E of chapter 1; section 86 of part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code). The Senate can only waive this rule or uphold an appeal about it by a three-fifths vote of its members who are duly chosen and sworn.

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Title 2, §939

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(a)Limitation on changes to the Social Security Act
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution pursuant to any expedited procedure to consider the recommendations of a Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action or other commission that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.], or the taxes received under subchapter A of chapter 9; the taxes imposed by subchapter E of chapter 1; and the taxes collected under section 86 of part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(b)Waiver
This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(c)Appeals
An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.

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The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title II of the Act is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 401 et seq.) of chapter 7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables. Subchapter A of chapter 9 and subchapter E of chapter 1, referred to in subsec. (a), probably mean subchapter A of chapter 9 and subchapter E of chapter 1, respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, which were comprised of sections 1400 to 1432 and 480 to 482, respectively, and were repealed (subject to certain exceptions) by section 7851(a)(1)(A), (3) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code of 1986. section 86 of part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code, referred to in subsec. (a), probably means section 86 of part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which is classified to section 86 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

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2 U.S.C. § 939

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110