PURPOSE.

SEC. 14001. PURPOSE. The Congress declares that it is essential to— (1) preserve the deficit reduction achieved by this Act; (2) extend the system of discretionary spending limits for the single discretionary category set forth in section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; (3) extend the pay-as-you-go enforcement system; and (4) prohibit the consideration of direct spending or receipts legislation that would decrease the pay-as-you-go surplus achieved by this Act and created under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.