IV 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 14 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 8, 2011 Mr. Quayle submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and House Administration, 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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Congress that non-defense, non-security, non-veterans discretionary spending should be reduced by 20 percent.

Whereas total Government spending in fiscal year 2010 exceeded $3.5 trillion; Whereas the 111th Congress failed to adopt a budget resolution; Whereas the Congressional Budget Office estimates that total Federal spending in fiscal year 2011 will reach $3.71 trillion; Whereas the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the fiscal year 2011 budget deficit will exceed $1.47 trillion; Whereas the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the fiscal year 2012 budget deficit will reach $1.1 trillion; Whereas, since fiscal year 2008, non-defense discretionary spending has increased by 84 percent; and Whereas the Federal debt is expected to exceed $14.3 trillion in April 2011: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the Congress that— (1)non-defense, non-security, non-veterans discretionary spending by the Government in fiscal year 2011 should be reduced by 20 percent from fiscal year 2010 spending levels; and (2)if the percentage reduction specified in paragraph (1) is not achieved, rates of basic pay for individuals serving in the executive and legislative branches of the Government, respectively, should be reduced by 15 percent, beginning in fiscal year 2012.