[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1017 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1017

To provide for budgetary reform by requiring a balanced Federal budget 
                and the repayment of the national debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 1999

 Mr. Schaffer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for budgetary reform by requiring a balanced Federal budget 
                and the repayment of the national debt.

    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 ``American Debt Repayment Act''.

SEC. 2. BALANCED BUDGET REQUIREMENT.

    Beginning with fiscal year 2000 and for every fiscal year 
thereafter, budgeted outlays shall not exceed budgeted revenues.

SEC. 3. REDUCTION OF NATIONAL DEBT.

    (a) In General.--Beginning with fiscal year 2000 and for every 
fiscal year thereafter, actual revenues shall exceed actual outlays in 
order to provide for the reduction.
    (b) Amount.--The amount of reduction required by this subsection 
shall be equal to the amount required to amortize the debt over the 
next 30 years in order to repay the entire debt by the end of fiscal 
year 2029.

SEC. 4. WAIVER.

    Congress may waive the provisions of this Act for any fiscal year 
in which a declaration of war is in effect.

SEC. 5. MAJORITY REQUIREMENT FOR REVENUE INCREASE.

    No bill to increase revenues shall be deemed to have passed the 
House of Representatives or the Senate unless approved by a majority of 
the total membership of each House of Congress by a rollcall vote.

SEC. 6. REVIEW OF REVENUES.

    Congress shall review actual revenues on a quarterly basis and 
adjust outlays to assure compliance with this Act.

SEC. 7. DEFINITION.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``revenues'' shall include all revenues of the 
        United States excluding borrowing; and
            (2) the term ``outlays'' shall include all outlays of the 
        United States excluding repayment of debt principal.
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