[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 169 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 169

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the 1996 annual report of the 
   Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund be 
                    submitted without further delay.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 1996

Mr. Shays (for himself, Mr. McCrery, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Upton, Mr. Herger, 
 Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Gutknecht, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Smith of Michigan, Mr. 
 Blute, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Mica, Mr. 
    McIntosh, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Houghton, Mrs. Kelly, Ms. Dunn of 
   Washington, Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
    Parker, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Riggs, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Fox of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Lazio of New York, Mr. Klug, Mr. Walker, Mr. Dickey, 
Mr. Souder, Mr. Tate, Mr. Davis, Mr. Nussle, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Forbes, 
  Mr. Frisa, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. Linder, 
  Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Coble, Mr. Stearns, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. 
  Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Flanagan, Mr. Hastings of Washington, Mr. 
      LoBiondo, Mr. Horn, Mr. Martini, Mr. Quinn, Mr. English of 
 Pennsylvania, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. Goodling, Mr. Porter, 
 Mr. Graham, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Camp, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Saxton, Mr. 
  Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Ganske, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Ms. 
 Greene of Utah, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Longley, Mr. Bartlett of 
Maryland, Mr. Zeliff, Mr. Gilman, and Mr. Ney) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the 1996 annual report of the 
   Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund be 
                    submitted without further delay.

Whereas Medicare is the primary source of health insurance coverage for 
        37,500,000 elderly and disabled Americans;
Whereas the report in 1995 of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital 
        Insurance Trust Fund projected a $4.7 billion surplus in the Trust Fund 
        for fiscal year 1995 yet in that fiscal year the Fund actually ran a 
        $35.7 million deficit;
Whereas such report projected a $45 million surplus in the Trust Fund for fiscal 
        year 1996 yet the Department of the Treasury has stated that the Trust 
        Fund ran a deficit of $4.2 billion in just the first half of fiscal year 
        1996 alone;
Whereas recent projections of the Congressional Budget Office identify a 
        negative balance in the Trust Fund of $28.9 billion by the end of fiscal 
        year 2001, instead of one year later as projected by the Board of 
        Trustees; and
Whereas the Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund is required under section 
        1817(b)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i(b)(2)) to submit 
        to Congress not later than the first day of April of each year its 
        annual report on the operation and status of the Trust Fund during the 
        preceding fiscal year and on its expected operation and status during 
        the current fiscal year and the next 2 fiscal years: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the Board of Trustees of the 
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund should submit to Congress without 
further delay its annual report due on April 1, 1996.
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