[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 36 (Friday, March 25, 1994)]
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               CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the concurrent 
resolution.


                Amendment No. 1601, as further Modified

  Mrs. KASSEBAUM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Nunn 
amendment (No. 1601) with the substitute language now be sent to the 
desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered. The Nunn amendment will be so modified.
  So the amendment (No. 1601) was further modified as follows:

       Insert at the appropriate place the following:

     SEC. 6A. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON CONTROLLING NON-SOCIAL 
                   SECURITY MANDATORY SPENDING.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the Congress should
       (1) enact, after health care reform legislation is enacted, 
     annual caps on mandatory spending that take effect beginning 
     in fiscal year 1996;
       (2) include within such caps all mandatory spending 
     programs except Social Security, deposit insurance and net 
     interest;
       (3) provide that the caps shall be set so that programs 
     providing benefits to individuals may grow for inflation, 
     changes in the numbers of beneficiaries, and an additional 
     growth allowance of, 4.0 percent in 1996, 3.5 percent in 
     1997, 3.0 percent in 1998, and 2.0 percent in 1999 and 
     thereafter; and
       (4) provide that the caps shall be adjusted annually in the 
     President's budget for changes in inflation and the number of 
     beneficiaries in mandatory spending programs since the caps 
     were enacted (excluding any changes due to legislation; and
       (5) provide that if total mandatory spending exceeds the 
     formula in section (3), the caps shall be enforced by,
       (A) requiring the President's budget to comply with the 
     caps, including submission of proposals to reduce mandatory 
     spending to stay within the caps if a breach is expected 
     under current law;
       (B) supermajority points-of-order prohibiting the 
     consideration of future budget resolutions or legislation 
     that would breach the caps, and
       (C) at the conclusion of each session of Congress, a 
     sequestration procedure that would reduce mandatory spending 
     by the amount of any breach of the cap in the upcoming year 
     by reducing those programs growing faster than inflation, 
     beneficiary changes, and the additional growth allowance for 
     that year.
       (6) Provides for a period of not less than 60 days before 
     such sequestration for committees of the House and the Senate 
     with jurisdiction over mandatory programs which are 
     determined to be exceeding these allowable spending levels to 
     report legislation that reduces direct spending in their 
     jurisdiction by an amount sufficient to eliminate the excess 
     spending.
       (7) Ensures that reductions in federal spending for 
     mandatory programs required by such legislation is not to be 
     achieved by shifting costs to state and local governments.

  Mrs. KASSEBAUM. Mr. President, I appreciate the Senator from 
Minnesota for yielding.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Durenberger] 
is recognized.

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