[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 377 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 377

 Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise spending 
cuts set forth in this resolution to save $285 billion over the next 5 
 fiscal years unless the committee determines that any such cuts would 
                            be unjustified.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1994

Mr. Goss submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise spending 
cuts set forth in this resolution to save $285 billion over the next 5 
 fiscal years unless the committee determines that any such cuts would 
                            be unjustified.

    Resolved, That (a) the Committee on the Budget is authorized and 
directed to report a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 1995 that includes the spending reductions set forth in subsection 
(b) over the 5-year period beginning with fiscal year 1995 which would 
save $285 billion, unless the committee determines that any such cuts 
would be unjustified. Any such determination shall be set forth in the 
report accompanying that concurrent resolution, which report shall 
include the reasons for each such determination.
    (b) The spending reductions referred to in subsection (a) are the 
following:
            (1) Cancel the National Aerospace Plane (NASP).
            (2) Continue partial civilian hiring freeze at DOD.
            (3) Eliminate below-cost timber sales from national 
        forests.
            (4) Lower target prices for subsidized crops by 3 percent 
        annually.
            (5) Eliminate the Market Promotion Program.
            (6) End the Federal Crop Insurance Program and replace with 
        standing authority for disaster assistance.
            (7) Limit Federal highway spending to the amount brought in 
        by motor vehicle fuel taxes.
            (8) Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
            (9) Reduce Commodity Credit Corporation subsidies to those 
        with off-farm incomes over $100,000.
            (10) Terminate most Federal commissions.
            (11) Fully implement H.R. 2452 (102d Congress) to provide 
        additional energy conservation measures for Federal agencies.
            (12) Enact H.R. 1620 (103d Congress) to prohibit direct 
        Federal benefits and unemployment benefits to illegal aliens.
            (13) Eliminate the Tobacco Price-Support Program.
            (14) Consolidate the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
            (15) Close 20 underutilized black lung offices.
            (16) Allow private sector investment in the space shuttle.
            (17) Eliminate Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) 
        duplication with the Small Business Administration (SBA).
            (18) Eliminate the Rural Electrification Administration.
            (19) Terminate all highway ``demonstration projects''.
            (20) Lower the travel budgets of all nonpostal civilian 
        agencies by 15 percent.
            (21) Lower by 10 percent per annum the projected growth 
        rate of nonpostal civilian agencies' overhead (excluding 
        travel).
            (22) Abolish Cotton Price Supports and Loan Programs.
            (23) Cut the foreign aid budget (150 account) by 15 percent 
        and make all earmarks in that account subject to a \2/3\ vote 
        for passage.
            (24) Phase out the Foreign Agricultural Service Cooperation 
        funding.
            (25) Eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission.
            (26) Roll back congressional pay raise to $89,500.
            (27) Sell the national helium reserves to a joint venture 
        comprised of current employees and other private investors.
            (28) Reduce the ``franking'' allocation to Members of 
        Congress by 50 percent.
            (29) Cut the National Endowment for the Arts by 50 percent.
            (30) Cut funding for the Corporation for Public 
        Broadcasting by 50 percent.
            (31) Phase out subsidies for Amtrak.
            (32) Phase out ACTION (umbrella organization for domestic 
        volunteer activities) as a tax supported program.
            (33) Facilitate contracting out and privatization of 
        military commissaries.
            (34) Close the Interstate Commerce Commission.
            (35) Phase out the United States Fire Administration.
            (36) End funding for all nonenergy related Tennessee Valley 
        Authority (TVA) activities.
            (37) Eliminate essential air services subsidies.
            (38) Eliminate consumer homemaking grants.
            (39) Privatize the House and Senate gymnasiums.
            (40) Reduce the legislative branch appropriation by 20 
        percent.
            (41) Reduce the Executive Office of the President 
        appropriation by 20 percent.
            (42) Close the Bureau of Mines and merge its data gathering 
        activities with other Interior Department research agencies.
            (43) Raise the level and schedule of the Power Marketing 
        Administration's debt repayment.
            (44) Eliminate the Clean Coal Program.
            (45) Reduce the fill rate for the Strategic Petroleum 
        Reserve.
            (46) End all new Bureau of Water Reclamation water 
        projects.
            (47) Eliminate the Dairy Subsidy Program.
            (48) Merge the Agricultural Research Service, the 
        Cooperative State Research Service, and the Agricultural 
        Extension Service; cut funding by 50 percent.
            (49) Privatize the Government National Mortgage Association 
        (Ginnie Mae).
            (50) Eliminate the Economic Development Administration.
            (51) Eliminate nontargeted vocational State funding.
            (52) Consolidate the administrative costs of the AFDC, Food 
        Stamps, and Medicaid programs.
            (53) Replace new public housing construction with vouchers.
            (54) Increase medicare safeguard funding by $540,000,000 
        over 5 years (net savings).
            (55) Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation.
            (56) End postal subsidies to not-for-profit organizations 
        (excluding blind and handicapped individuals).
            (57) Eliminate HUD special-purpose grants.
            (58) Reform vacation and overtime for the Senior Executive 
        Service.
            (59) Eliminate DOD payments for indirect research and 
        development; substitute direct research and development.
            (60) Reduce DOE energy technology spending.
            (61) Scale back Rural Rental Housing Assistance program.
            (62) Reduce mass transit grants; eliminate operating 
        subsidies.
            (63) Eliminate Rural Development Association loans and 
        guarantees.
            (64) Eliminate ``Impact Aid'' to school districts with 
        military bases.
            (65) Consolidate social services programs.
            (66) Reduce NIH funding by 10 percent, concentrating on 
        overhead.
            (67) Freeze the number of rental assistance commitments.
            (68) Scale back low income home energy assistance grants.
            (69) Service Contract Act reform.
            (70) Reduce overhead in federally sponsored university 
        research.
            (71) Strengthen and restructure NASA (NPR proposal).
            (72) Eliminate redundant polar satellite programs.
            (73) Streamline USDA field offices.
            (74) Streamline HUD.
            (75) Reform prison construction.
            (76) Eliminate Travel, Tourism, and Export Promotion 
        Administration.

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