[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 22 (Friday, February 3, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S2138]
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                BALANCED-BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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                 DASCHLE (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 231

  Mr. DASCHLE (for himself, Mr. Bumpers, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. 
Feingold, Mr. Glenn, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Moseley-Braun, Mr. 
Kerrey, and Mr. Pell) proposed an amendment to the motion to commit the 
joint resolution (H.J. Res. 1) proposing a balanced budget amendment to 
the Constitution of the United States; as follows:

       Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the 
     following:
       That the following article is proposed as an amendment to 
     the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid 
     to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
     ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several 
     States within seven years after the date of its submission to 
     the States for ratification. The article shall be submitted 
     to the States upon the adoption of a concurrent resolution as 
     described in section 9 of the article. The article is as 
     follows:

                              ``Article --

       ``Section 1. Upon the adoption by the Congress of a 
     concurrent resolution on the budget establishing a budget 
     plan to balance the budget as required by this article, and 
     containing the matter required by section 9, total outlays 
     for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that 
     fiscal year, unless three-fifths of the whole number of each 
     House of Congress shall provide by law for a specific excess 
     of outlays over receipts by a rollcall vote.
       ``Section 2. The limit on the debt of the United States 
     held by the public shall not be increased, unless three-
     fifths of the whole number of each House shall provide by law 
     for such an increase by a rollcall vote.
       ``Section 3. Prior to each fiscal year, the President shall 
     transmit to the Congress a proposed budget for the United 
     States Government for that fiscal year in which total outlays 
     do not exceed total receipts.
       ``Section 4. No bill to increase revenue shall become law 
     unless approved by a majority of the whole number of each 
     House by a rollcall vote.
       ``Section 5. The Congress may waive the provisions of this 
     article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is 
     in effect. The provisions of this article may be waived for 
     any fiscal year in which the United States is engaged in 
     military conflict which causes an imminent and serious 
     military threat to national security and is so declared by a 
     joint resolution, adopted by a majority of the whole number 
     of each House, which becomes law.
       ``Section 6. The Congress shall enforce and implement this 
     article by appropriate legislation, which may rely on 
     estimates of outlays and receipts.
       ``Section 7. Total receipts shall include all receipts of 
     the United States Government except those derived from 
     borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the 
     United States Government except for those for repayment of 
     debt principal.
       ``Section 8. This article shall take effect beginning with 
     fiscal year 2002 or with the second fiscal year beginning 
     after its ratification, whichever is later.
       ``Section 9. (a) In order to carry out the purposes of this 
     article, the Congress shall adopt a concurrent resolution 
     setting forth a budget plan to achieve a balanced budget 
     (that complies with this article) not later than the first 
     fiscal year required by this article as follows:
       ``(1) a budget for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal 
     year 1996 and ending with that first fiscal year (required by 
     this article) containing--
       ``(A) aggregate levels of new budget authority, outlays, 
     revenues, and the deficit or surplus;
       ``(B) totals of new budget authority and outlays for each 
     major functional category;
       ``(C) new budget authority and outlays, on an account-by-
     account basis, for each account with actual outlays or 
     offsetting receipts of at least $100,000,000 in fiscal year 
     1994; and
       ``(D) an allocation of Federal revenues among the major 
     sources of such revenues;
       ``(2) a detailed list and description of changes in Federal 
     law (including laws authorizing appropriations or direct 
     spending and tax laws) required to carry out the plan and the 
     effective date of each such change; and
       ``(3) reconciliation directives to the appropriate 
     committees of the House of Representatives and Senate 
     instructing them to submit legislative changes to the 
     Committee on the Budget of the House or Senate, as the case 
     may be, to implement the plan set forth in the concurrent 
     resolution.
       ``(b) The directives required by subsection (a)(3) shall be 
     deemed to be directives within the meaning of section 310(a) 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Upon receiving all 
     legislative submissions from committees under subsection 
     (a)(3), each Committee on the Budget shall combine all such 
     submissions (without substantive revision) into an omnibus 
     reconciliation bill and report that bill to its House. The 
     procedures set forth in section 310 shall govern the 
     consideration of that reconciliation bill in the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate.
       ``(c) The budget plan described in subsection (a) shall be 
     based upon Congressional Budget Office economic and technical 
     assumptions and estimates of the spending and revenue effects 
     of the legislative changes described in subsection (a)(2).''.
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                         DOLE AMENDMENT NO. 232

  Mr. DOLE proposed an amendment to the motion to commit the joint 
resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

       Strike all after the word forthwith in the instructions and 
     insert the following: ``H.J. Res. 1, and at a later date the 
     Judiciary Committee, after consultation with the Budget 
     Committee, shall issue a report the text of which shall 
     include:
       ``This report may be cited as the `Need To Lead Report.'
       ``If Congress has not passed a balanced budget amendment to 
     the Constitution by May 1, 1995, within 60 days thereafter, 
     the President of the United States shall transmit to the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives a detailed plan to 
     balance the budget by the year 2002.''
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                         DOLE AMENDMENT NO. 233

  Mr. DOLE proposed an amendment to amendment No. 232 proposed by him 
to the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

       Strike all after H.J. Res. 1, and insert the following: ``, 
     and at a later date the Judiciary Committee, after 
     consultation with the Budget Committee, shall issue a report 
     the text of which shall include:
       ``This report may be cited as the `Need to Lead Report.'
       ``If Congress has not passed a balanced budget amendment to 
     the Constitution by May 1, 1995, within 59 days thereafter, 
     the President of the United States shall transmit to the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives a detailed plan to 
     balance the budget by the year 2002.''
     

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