1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Guarding Congressional Authority Act . 2. Sense of Congress Whereas historical declarations of national emergencies set a precedent of governing by national emergency without approval from Congress; Whereas courts have a limited role with respect to challenges to Federal law; Whereas Congress has failed to guard its own appropriations authority and has thereby endowed executives with more unchecked power and undedicated funds; Whereas Congress has mistakenly given the executive historically unrestrained authority through the National Emergencies Act of 1976; Whereas the National Emergencies Act has offered the executive billions of dollars without clear conditions that Congress is endowed with the necessary authority to prescribe; Whereas Congress intends to assert its constitutional authority and protect the checks the body was intended to place on the executive branch of government; now therefore It is the sense of Congress that any executive action issued by the President before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act that infringes on the powers and duties of Congress under section 8 and section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States, or that would require the expenditure of Federal funds not specifically appropriated for the purpose of the executive action, is advisory only and has no force or effect unless enacted as law. 3. Definition of executive action In this Act, the term executive action includes an Executive order, memoranda, proclamation, or signing statement. 4. Deadline for congressional approval The President must terminate the executive declaration of a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act after 60 days unless Congress (1) has affirmatively authorized the action