[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3707 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3707

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to allow reductions in the discretionary spending limits to be used to 
                            offset tax cuts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 1998

Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas (for himself and Mr. Hayworth) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to allow reductions in the discretionary spending limits to be used to 
                            offset tax cuts.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 252 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Special Rule on Interrelationship between Sections 251(c) and 
252.--If legislation is enacted that--
            ``(1) reduces receipts; and
            ``(2) decreases the discretionary spending limits for 
        budget authority and outlays for the fiscal years set forth in 
        section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985 for which there is such a reduction in 
        receipts;
then, for purposes of subsection (b), an amount equal to that decrease 
in the discretionary spending limit for outlays shall be treated as 
direct spending legislation decreasing the deficit for that fiscal 
year.''.
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