[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 59 Referral Instructions Senate (RIS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 59

   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any Federal Government 
            mandated health care reform should be on-budget.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 2 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

Mr. Burns (for himself, Mr. Pressler, Mr. Lott, Mr. Craig, Mr. Nickles, 
Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Brown, Mr. Wallop, and Mr. 
   McCain) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
   referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the 
 Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with instructions 
that if one committee reports, the other committee have thirty days to 
                        report or be discharged

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any Federal Government  
         mandated  health  care  reform  should  be on-budget.

Whereas the Administration's proposed health care reform plan would constitute 
        the largest expansion of Federal entitlements in history;
Whereas the proposed health care premiums would be mandatory taxes;
Whereas the Administration's proposed health care reform plan would constitute a 
        massive tax increase;
Whereas the costs of any health care reform plan that is kept off-budget would 
        be difficult to control and account for;
Whereas placing health care reform off-budget means that it would be exempt from 
        annual budget reviews and would have no meaningful restraints on growth;
Whereas the Office of Management and Budget's own risk tables, and past and 
        present entitlement growth trends show that the Administration's 
        proposed health care reform plan could increased Federal budget deficits 
        by up to $800,000,000,000 by the year 2000;
Whereas the Federal Government has already run up massive unfunded liabilities 
        outside the budget process; and
Whereas the attempt to place the health care reform plan off-budget is a move to 
        hide the true cost of the plan from the American public: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that any Federal Government 
mandated health care reform should be on-budget.

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