[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S. 1290 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1290

                         To reduce the deficit.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 29 (legislative day, September 25), 1995

   Mr. Kerry introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
                         To reduce the deficit.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Responsible Deficit Reduction Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. LOCKBOX TO INSURE SAVINGS GO TO DEFICIT REDUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 201(a) of House Concurrent Resolution 67 
(104th Congress, 1st Session) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Definition.--As used in this section and for the purposes of 
allocations made pursuant to section 302(a) or 602(a) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, for the discretionary category, the 
term `discretionary spending limit' means--
            ``(1) with respect to fiscal year 1996--
                    ``(A) for the defense category $257,196,000,000 in 
                new budget authority and $258,543,000,000 in outlays; 
                and
                    ``(B) for the nondefense category $216,058,000,000 
                in new budget authority and $265,610,000,000 in 
                outlays;
            ``(2) with respect to fiscal year 1997--
                    ``(A) for the defense category $261,252,000,000 in 
                new budget authority and $261,884,000,000 in outlays; 
                and
                    ``(B) for the nondefense category $210,477,000,000 
                in new budget authority and $251,080,000,000 in 
                outlays;
            ``(3) with respect to fiscal year 1998--
                    ``(A) for the defense category $263,641,000,000 in 
                new budget authority and $260,151,000,000 in outlays; 
                and
                    ``(B) for the nondefense category $216,400,000,000 
                in new budget authority and $243,690,000,000;
            ``(4) with respect to fiscal year 1999, for the 
        discretionary category $465,602,000,000 in new budget authority 
        and $495,637,000,000 in outlays; and
            ``(5) with respect to fiscal year 2000, for the 
        discretionary category $466,545,000,000 in new budget authority 
        and $492,740,000,000 in outlays;
as adjusted for changes in concepts and definitions and emergency 
appropriations.''.
    (b) Revised Allocations.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget 
of the Senate shall file with the Senate revised allocations, 
aggregates, and discretionary spending limits under section 201 of 
House Concurrent Resolution 67, as amended by this section, decreasing 
budget authority and decreasing outlays accordingly.

SEC. 3. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING ASSUMPTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE BUDGET 
              RESOLUTION.

    (a) In General.--The assumptions included in the conference report 
on House Concurrent Resolution 67 with respect to deficit reduction are 
amended to reflect the total reductions provided in section 2(b).
    (b) Defense Discretionary.--The assumptions included in the 
conference report on House Concurrent Resolution 67 with respect to 
reductions in defense discretionary spending shall be assumed to 
include the following:
            (1) Limit defense spending in fiscal year 1996 to 
        $244,000,000,000, in fiscal year 1997 to $241,000,000,000, in 
        fiscal year 1998 to $248,000,000,000, in fiscal year 1999 to 
        $254,000,000,000, and in fiscal year 2000 to $261,000,000,000.
            (2) Terminate production of Trident D5 submarine launched 
        ballistic missiles after 1996.
            (3) Phase out over five years the equivalent of two Army 
        light divisions.
            (4) Deny unemployment compensation to service members who 
        voluntarily leave the service.
            (5) Close the Uniformed Services University of the Health 
        Sciences, with the last class admitted in 1995 and all 
        activities halted on that class' graduation in 1999.
            (6) Rather than replacing or revitalizing existing 
        Department of Defense Housing Stock, increase reliance on 
        private-sector housing for military families by making service 
        personnel eligible for a cash housing allowance regardless of 
        whether they live in Department of Defense or private-sector 
units and charging market-driven rent for Department of Defense 
housing.
            (7) Reduce the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each 
        of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.
            (8) Encourage private ownership of industrial assets used 
        in defense production by granting the General Services 
        Administration clear authority to negotiate sale of equipment 
        to the holding contractor in situations in which continued 
        Department of Defense ownership is not necessary, and by 
        requiring contractors in the future to rent or lease such 
        equipment from the Department of Defense if they demonstrate it 
        is in the Department of Defense's interest to provide the 
        equipment.
            (9) Increase burdensharing by the Republic of Korea by 
        requiring it to increase its contribution to include all 
        payments of Korean won-based labor costs of local employees 
        working for the United States military and support services 
        contracts.
            (10) Procure the most cost-effective mix of C-17's and 
        commercial airlifters.
            (11) Cancel the Army's Tank Upgrade Program and lay-away 
        production facilities, deactivating but preserving the 
        Government-owned tank manufacturing facilities.
            (12) While retaining the number of nuclear warheads 
        permitted by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II), 
        reduce the strategic delivery system structure to 300 Minuteman 
        III ICBM's, 10 Trident submarines each carrying 24 missiles 
        with 7 warheads; 66 B-52H bombers, each carrying 16 warheads; 
        and 20 B-2 bombers, each carrying 16 warheads.
            (13) Repeal the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
            (14) Terminate all funding for the Selective Service System 
        except to terminate the program.
            (15) Limit the mission of the Ballistic Missile Defense 
        Organization to Theater Missile Defense and Terminate its other 
        projects.
            (16) Terminate the National Aerospace Plane Program.
            (17) Scale back weapons production and maintenance 
        activities at the Department of Energy to support an arsenal of 
        4,000 warheads.
    (c) Nondefense Discretionary.--The assumptions included in the 
conference report on House Concurrent Resolution 67 with respect to 
reductions in non-defense discretionary spending shall be assumed to 
include the following:
            (1) Terminate NASA's support for producers of commercial 
        airlines.
            (2) Consolidate and downsize Overseas Broadcasting by 
        capping funding to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty at the 
        level of $75 million per year.
            (3) Terminate funding for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 
        Recreational Facility and rescind all unobligated prior 
        appropriations.
            (4) Terminate the International Space Station Program.
            (5) Terminate the High-Temperature Gas Reactor Program, 
        also known as the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor.
            (6) Phase in over five years a reduction of 25 percent of 
        fiscal year 1995 appropriations for research and development 
        programs for fossil, nuclear, and fusion energy.
            (7) Allow private producers to build and operate co-
        generation facilities at Federal civilian installations, paying 
        all construction costs and assuming all financial risks.
            (8) Reduce electrification and telephone credit subsidies 
        to rural utilities services to levels calculated to result in 
        electricity and telephone consumer costs equivalent to those 
        for consumers in the service areas of unsubsidized electric and 
        telephone companies.
            (9) Offer for sale the Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1, 
        located at Elk Hills, California.
            (10) Prohibit the sale of timber from national forests at a 
        price insufficient to recover fully the Forest Service's 
        associated costs for timber management, reforestation, 
        construction, and maintenance of logging roads, payments to 
        States, and other timber program costs.
            (11) Limit the level of Federal support for agricultural 
        research and extension activities to 90 percent of the fiscal 
        year 1995 level for fiscal years 1996 through 2000.
            (12) Terminate the Interstate Commerce Commission and 
        transfer its motor carrier safety responsibilities to the 
        Department of Transportation.
            (13) Terminate the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration 
        in 1997.
            (14) Terminate the Pennsylvania Avenue Development 
        Corporation.
            (15) Align the method of computing cost-of-living 
        adjustment of the compensation for members of Congress with 
        compensation for civil servants.
            (16) Limit the number of days Senior Executive Service 
        employees may accrue as annual leave to 30.
            (17) Permanently reduce the number of political appointees 
        to 2,000.

SEC. 4. DIRECT SPENDING REDUCTIONS.

    (a) Sales of Electric Power By the Power Marketing 
Administrations.--Notwithstanding any other law governing sales of 
electric power by the Alaska Power Marketing Administration, Bonneville 
Power Marketing Administration, Southern Power Marketing 
Administration, Southeastern Power Marketing Administration, or Western 
Area Power Marketing Administration (each of which is referred to in 
this subsection as the ``Administration'')--
            (1) offers of sales of electric power by the Administration 
        shall be made on a nonpreferential basis to public bodies and 
        cooperatives and private persons;
            (2) sales of electric power by the Administration shall be 
        made to the persons offering the highest price for the power; 
        and
            (3) the Administration shall not be required to acquire for 
        sale to any public body or cooperative or any other person any 
        amount of electric power in excess of that generated by the 
        projects from which the Administration sells power.
    (b) Spent Nuclear Waste Storage Fees.--Section 136(a)(3) of the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10156(a)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(3) Fees'' and inserting the following:
            ``(3) Fees.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Fees''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Adjustment for inflation.--On and after the 
                date of enactment of this subparagraph, the amount of 
                the storage fees established under subparagraph (A) 
                shall be adjusted annually on October 1 to account for 
                inflation since the date of enactment of this Act.
                    ``(C) Deadline for payment.--The principal amount 
                of all storage fees established under subparagraph (A) 
                shall be paid by September 30, 1997, and all of the 
                interest accrued or all storage fees shall be paid by 
                September 30, 1998.''.
    (c) Expansion and Extension of Authority to Use Competitive 
Bidding.--
            (1) Licenses and permits subject to competitive bidding.--
        Subsection (j) of section 309 of the Communications Act of 1934 
        (47 U.S.C. 309) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking out ``described 
                in paragraph (2)''; and
                    (B) by striking out paragraph (2).
            (2) Permanent authority.--Such subsection is further 
        amended by striking out paragraph (11).
            (3) Conforming repeal of random selection authority.--Such 
        section is further amended by striking out subsection (i).
    (d) Termination of Price Support and Production Adjustment Programs 
for Sugar Beets and Sugarcane.--
            (1) Termination of price support program.--
                    (A) Price support levels for designated nonbasic 
                agricultural commodities.--Section 201(a) of the 
                Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446(a)) is amended 
                by striking ``milk, sugar beets, and sugarcane'' and 
                inserting ``and milk''.
                    (B) Sugar price support.--Section 206 of the Act (7 
                U.S.C. 1446g) is repealed.
                    (C) Benefits.--Section 401(e) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 
                1421(e)) is amended--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(1)''; 
                        and
                            (ii) by striking paragraph (2).
                    (D) Personal liability of producers for 
                deficiencies.--Section 405 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 1425) 
                is amended--
                            (i) in subsection (a), by striking ``(a)''; 
                        and
                            (ii) by striking subsection (b).
                    (E) Powers of commodity credit corporation.--
                Section 5(a) of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
                Charter Act (7 U.S.C. 714c(a)) is amended by inserting 
                ``(except for sugar beets and sugarcane)'' after 
                ``agricultural commodities''.
            (2) Termination of acreage allotments and marketing 
        quotas.--
                    (A) Termination.--Part VII of subtitle B of title 
                III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 
                U.S.C. 1359aa et seq.) is repealed.
                    (B) Conforming Amendment.--Section 344(f)(2) of the 
                Act (7 U.S.C. 1344(f)(2)) is amended by striking 
                ``sugar cane for sugar, sugar beets for sugar,''.
            (3) Conforming amendments regarding prevention of 
        government accumulation of sugar.--Section 902 of the Food 
        Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1446g note) is amended--
                    (A) by striking subsection (a); and
                    (B) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 
                subsections (a) and (b), respectively.
            (4) Conforming amendment regarding section 32 activities.--
        The second sentence of the first paragraph of section 32 of the 
        Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c) is amended by inserting 
        ``(other than sugar beets and sugarcane)'' after ``commodity'' 
        the last place it appears.
            (5) Prohibition on subsequent provision of price support.--
                    (A) Prohibition.--After the effective date of this 
                subsection, the Secretary of Agriculture may not make 
                price support available, whether in the form of loans, 
                payments, purchases, or other operations, for crops of 
                sugar beets or sugarcane by using the funds of the 
                Commodity Credit Corporation or under the authority of 
                any law.
                    (B) Exception.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), 
                the Secretary shall settle any outstanding loans under 
                section 206 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 
                1446g) made before the effective date of this 
                subsection.
            (6) Effect on existing liability.--The amendments made by 
        this subsection shall not affect the liability of any person 
        under any provision of law as in effect before the effective 
        date of this subsection.
            (7) Effective date.--This subsection and the amendments 
        made by this subsection shall become effective on October 1, 
        1996.
    (e) Elimination of Market Promotion Program.--
            (1) In general.--Section 203 of the Agricultural Trade Act 
        of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) is repealed.
            (2) Conforming amendments.--
                    (A) Section 211 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 5641) is 
                amended by striking subsection (c).
                    (B) Section 402(a)(1) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 
                5662(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``203,''.
                    (C) Section 1302 of the Omnibus Budget 
                Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-66; 7 U.S.C. 
                5623 note) is repealed.
    (f) Elimination of Export Enhancement Program.--
            (1) In general.--Section 301 of the Agricultural Trade Act 
        of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5651) is repealed.
            (2) Conforming amendments.--
                    (A) Section 103(d)(2) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 
                5603(d)(2)) is amended by striking ``(as amended) and 
                the program under section 301''.
                    (B) The title heading of title III of the Act (7 
                U.S.C. prec. 5651) is amended to read as follows:

           ``TITLE III--RELIEF FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES''.

                    (C) Section 303 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 5653) is 
                amended by striking ``, such as that established under 
                section 301,''.
                    (D) Section 401 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 5661) is 
                amended by striking ``sections 201, 202, and 301'' each 
                place it appears in subsections (a) and (b) and 
                inserting ``sections 201 and 202''.
                    (E) Section 402(a)(1) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 
                5662(a)(1)) (as amended by section 301(b)(2)) is 
                further amended by striking ``sections 201, 202, and 
                301'' and inserting ``sections 201 and 202''.
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