3.0.0 3482 2021-12-20T15:57:56Z 2021-12-20T15:57:56Z Senate S S 2012-08-02 112 ssbu00 Budget Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-08-02T15:16:19Z Spending Cap Act of 2011 112 1290 S 2011-06-28 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. Related bill CRS Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011 112 1340 S 2011-07-11 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97. Related bill CRS 2012-08-02 ssbu00 Budget Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. IntroReferral 2012-08-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT N P000603 Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] Rand Paul R KY 2012-08-02 True D000595 Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC] James DeMint R SC W. 2012-08-02 True C000560 Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] TOM COBURN R OK 2012-08-02 True B000575 Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] Roy Blunt R MO 2012-08-02 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2012-08-02 True T000461 Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] Patrick Toomey R PA J. 2012-08-02 True G000359 Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] Lindsey Graham R SC 2012-08-02 True I000055 Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] Johnny Isakson R GA 2012-08-02 True V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2012-08-02 True R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL 2012-08-02 True C001056 Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] John Cornyn R TX 2012-08-02 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2012-08-02 True J000293 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] Ron Johnson R WI 2012-08-02 True A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2012-08-02 True C000286 Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] SAXBY CHAMBLISS R GA 2012-08-02 True B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2012-08-02 True H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2012-08-02 True T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. 2012-08-02 True B001236 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] John Boozman R AR 2012-08-02 True I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK 2012-08-02 True W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2012-08-02 True P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2012-08-02 True Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Budget deficits and national debt Budget process Constitution and constitutional amendments Defense spending Income tax rates Legislative rules and procedure Medicare Military operations and strategy Senate Social security and elderly assistance Economics and Public Finance 00 2012-08-02 Introduced in Senate 2012-09-26T21:00:59Z Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2012 - Reduces the estimated committee allocation of the appropriate levels of budget totals for FY2013 for the Senate Committee on Appropriations to: (1) $985 billion in total new budget authority, and (2) $1.118 trillion in total budget outlays.

Expresses the sense of Congress that it should enact comprehensive tax reform that lowers marginal rates, broadens the base, and simplifies the tax code to increase economic growth while generating revenues that are in line with the historical average of 18% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to establish the discretionary spending limits for FY2013-FY2022 for defense and nondefense categories.

Authorizes the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to adjust such discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates in the most recently adopted concurrent budget resolution, and CBA committee allocations if a bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations for FY2013-FY2014 that provides funding for overseas deployments and activities undertaken as a result of a declaration of war or congressional authorization of force. Limits such adjustments.

Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider any legislation that includes any provision that would cause total on-budget mandatory spending to exceed specified discretionary spending limits. Exempts from such limits the mandatory components of: (1) Social Security, function 650; (2) Medicare, function 570; (3) Veterans Benefits and Services, function 700; and (4) Net Interest, function 900.

Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider legislation that includes any provision that would cause total mandatory spending for Social Security to exceed specified limits for total outlays for FY2013-FY2022. Makes such requirement inapplicable if the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determines that projected outlays are expected to exceed such limits due to changes in cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) contained in present law.

Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider legislation that includes any provision that would cause total mandatory spending for Medicare or for Veterans Benefits and Service to exceed specified limits for total outlays for FY2013-FY2022.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make publicly available in the Federal Register an annual report containing expected budget authority and outlays. Requires OMB, if such report shows any category exceeding specified spending caps, to prepare, and the President to issue and include in that report, a sequestration order that reduces budgetary resources by an amount sufficient to bring spending in line with that category's statutory cap. Prescribes requirements for calculating and implementing such sequestration.

Authorizes Congress to override a sequestration order through the passage of a law that either waves or supersedes the spending limitations for that category of federal spending for that fiscal year.

Subjects any motion in the Senate to move to consideration of a bill to waive, modify, or in any way alter a sequestration order (except for defense spending while the nation is engaged in a justified conflict) to a point of order that can only be waived through an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members.

Makes conforming amendments to: (1) the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, (2) the CBA, (3) the Budget Control Act of 2011, and (3) other specified federal laws.

Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from exercising additional borrowing authority until the date that the Archivist of the United States transmits to the states for their ratification S.J. Res. 10 as introduced on March 31, 2011, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, or a similar amendment provided it requires that total outlays not exceed total receipts, that contains a spending limitation as a percentage of GDP, and requires that tax increases be approved by a super-majority vote in both chambers.

Increases the public debt from $14.294 trillion to $17.4 trillion on the date such legislation is transmitted to the states.

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