[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 31 (Thursday, February 16, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2890-S2891]
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                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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               BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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                     GRAMM AMENDMENTS NOS. 285-286

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. GRAMM submitted two amendments intended to be proposed by him to 
the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 1) proposing a balanced budget 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 285

  In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the following:

       ``No bill to increase receipts shall become law unless 
     approved by a three-fifths majority of the whole number in 
     each House of Congress.''
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                           Amendment No. 286

       At the appropriate place, in the amendment, insert the 
     following:
       ``Section   . No bill to increase receipts shall become law 
     unless approved by a three-fifths majority of the whole 
     number in each House of Congress.''
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                        KERRY AMENDMENT NO. 287

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. KERRY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to 
amendment No. 276 submitted by him to the joint resolution, House Joint 
Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

       On page 1, beginning on line 4, strike ``unless a'' and all 
     that follows through line 7 on page 2, and insert the 
     following:

     ``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 a majority 
     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.
        [[Page S2891]] ``Section 4. 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 5. The provisions of this article may be waived 
     for any fiscal year during which the United States 
     experiences economic distress or a natural or manmade 
     disaster the injurious effects of which are likely to be 
     exacerbated by adherence to this article, and is so declared 
     by a joint resolution, adopted by a majority of the whole 
     number of each House, which becomes law.''
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                        KERRY AMENDMENT NO. 288

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. KERRY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to 
amendment No. 277 submitted by him to the joint resolution House Joint 
Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

       On page 1, beginning on line 1, strike ``Sense of the 
     Congress'' and all that follows through line 1 on page 3, and 
     insert the following:
       ``Sense of the Congress that the Congress of the United 
     States currently possesses all necessary power and authority 
     to adopt at any time a balanced budget for the United States 
     Government, in that its outlays do not exceed its receipts, 
     and to pass and submit to the President all legislation as 
     may be necessary to implement such a balanced budget, 
     including legislation reducing expenditures for federally-
     funded programs and agencies and increasing revenues.
       ``It is further the Sense of the Congress that it is the 
     responsibility of members of the House of Representatives and 
     the Senate to do everything possible to use the power and 
     authority the Congress now possesses in order to conduct the 
     fiscal affairs of the nation in a prudent fashion that does 
     not permit the federal government to provide the current 
     generation with a standard of services and benefits for which 
     that generation is unwilling to pay, thereby passing the 
     repsonsibility for meeting costs of those services and 
     benefits to later generations, which is the result of 
     approving budgets which are significantly deficit financed.
       ``It is further the Sense of the Congress that all members 
     of the House and the Senate who vote to approve submission to 
     the states of a proposed amendment to the United States 
     Constitution requiring a balanced budget, have a 
     responsibility to their constituents to support a budget plan 
     to balance the budget by no later than 2002.
       ``It is further the Sense of the Congress that the Congress 
     should, prior to August 15, 1995, adopt a concurrent 
     resolution on the budget establishing a budget plan to 
     balance the budget by fiscal year 2002 consisting of the 
     items set forth below:
       ``(a)(1) a budget for each fiscal year beginning with 
     fiscal year 1996 and ending with fiscal year 2002 
     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, with the cited directives deemed to be directives 
     within the meaning of section 310(a) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974, and with the cited committee submissions 
     combined without substantive revision upon their receipt by 
     the Committee on the Budget into an omnibus reconciliation 
     bill which the Committee shall report to its House where it 
     shall be considered in accord with procedures set forth in 
     section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       ``(c) the budget plan described in section (a)(1) 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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                      BYRD AMENDMENTS NOS. 289-290

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. BYRD submitted two amendments intended to be proposed by him to 
the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 289

       On page 2, strike lines 15 through 17, and insert the 
     following:
       ``Section 4. No bill to increase revenue shall become law 
     unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House shall 
     provide by law for such an increase by a rollcall vote.
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                           Amendment No. 290

       On page 2, strike lines 15 through 17, and insert the 
     following:
       ``Section 4. No bill to increase tax revenue shall become 
     law unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House 
     shall provide by law for such an increase by a rollcall vote.
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                    FEINGOLD AMENDMENTS NOS. 291-294

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. FEINGOLD submitted four amendments intended to be proposed by him 
to the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 291

       On page 3, line 8, after ``principal.'' insert ``The 
     receipts and outlays of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall 
     not be counted as receipts or outlays for purposes of this 
     article.''
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                           Amendment No. 292

       On page 3, line 8, after ``principal.'' insert ``The 
     receipts and outlays of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall 
     not be counted as receipts or outlays for purposes of this 
     article.''
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                           Amendment No. 293

       On page 3, line 8, after ``principal.'' insert ``The 
     receipts and outlays of all quasi-Federal agencies created 
     under authority of acts of Congress shall not be counted as 
     receipts or outlays for purposes of this article.''
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                           Amendment No. 294

       On page 3, line 8, after ``principal.'' insert ``The 
     receipts and outlays of all quasi-Federal agencies created 
     under authority of acts of Congress shall not be counted as 
     receipts or outlays for purposes of this article.''
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                     GRAHAM AMENDMENTS NOS. 295-296

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. GRAHAM submitted two amendments intended to be proposed by him to 
the joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, supra; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 295

       On page 2, lines 7 and 8, strike ``limit on the debt of the 
     United States held by the public'' and insert ``public debt 
     limit of the United States''.
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                           Amendment No. 296

       On age 2, line 8, insert ``on the effective date of this 
     article'' after ``public''.
     

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