[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 85 (Monday, May 22, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7129-S7131]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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                          CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

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                     ROTH AMENDMENTS NOS. 1113-1115

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. ROTH submitted three amendments intended to be proposed by him to 
the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 13) an original concurrent 
resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 
2002; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 1113

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 3, line 20, decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 3, line 21, decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 3, line 22, decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 3, line 24, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 3, line 25, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24 increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6 decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7 increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8 increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9 increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10 decrease the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22 increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 6, line 5 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8 increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 6, line 18 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21 increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 7, line 5 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 7, line 8 increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 7, line 15 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 7, line 16 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 7, line 17 increase the amount by $1,100,000,000.
       On page 7, line 18 decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 7, line 19 decrease the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 7, line 20 increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 7, line 21 decrease the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 8, line 1 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 8, line 2 decrease the amount by $200,000,000.
       On page 8, line 3 increase the amount by $1,100,000,000.
       On page 8, line 4 decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 8, line 5 decrease the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 8, line 6 increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 8, line 7 decrease the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 20, line 15 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 20, line 16 increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 21, line 15, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 21, line 16, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 62, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 62, line 15, decrease the amount by $2,300,000,000.
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                           Amendment No. 1114

       At the appropriate place in the resolution insert the 
     following new section:

     SEC.    . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING FURTHER FEDERAL 
                   WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the assumptions 
     underlying the functional totals in this resolution include 
     that the reductions in Federal full-time equivalent positions 
     required under section 5(b) of the Federal Workforce 
     Restructuring Act of 1994 (5 U.S.C. 3101 note) should be 
     further reduced to provide that--
       (1) the total number of full-time equivalent positions in 
     all agencies shall not exceed 1,682,300 during fiscal year 
     2002; and
       (2) of the additional reduction of 200,000 full-time 
     equivalent positions provided for under paragraph (1), no 
     more than 50,000 shall be within the Department of Defense.
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                           Amendment No. 115

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3  . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING OIL AND GAS LEASING 
                   IN THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the portion of the 
     Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska comprising 
     approximately 1,559,538 acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--1002 Area. 
     Alternative E--Wilderness Designation, October 28, 1991'', 
     and available for inspection in the offices of the Secretary 
     of the Interior, should not be made available for oil and gas 
     leasing.
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                 COHEN (AND GRAHAM) AMENDMENT NO. 1116

  Mr. COHEN (for himself and Mr. Graham) proposed an amendment to the 
concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 13, supra; as follows:

       On page 94, after line 21, add the following new section:

     SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LOSSES OF TRUST FUNDS 
                   DUE TO FRAUD AND ABUSE IN THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
       (1) the General Accounting Office estimates that as much as 
     $100,000,000,000 are wasted each year in the health care 
     system due to fraud and abuse;
       (2) outlays for the medicare program under title XVIII of 
     the Social Security Act during fiscal year 1994 were 
     $161,100,000,000, and the General Accounting Office estimates 
     that up to 10 percent of those outlays were wasted because of 
     fraud and abuse;
       (3) medicare beneficiaries incur higher out-of-pocket costs 
     and copayments due to inflated billings resulting from 
     fraudulent and abusive practices perpetrated against the 
     medicare program; and
       (4) funds lost because of fraud and abuse are contributing 
     to the financial crises of the Federal Hospital Insurance 
     Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
     Trust Fund, as identified by the Boards of Trustees of such 
     trust funds in their 1995 annual reports.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that as the Committee on Finance of the Senate and, if 
     established, the Bipartisan Commission on the Solvency of 
     Medicare recommended under section 307, address the long-term 
     solvency of the medicare program under title XVIII of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.), high priority 
     should be given to proposals which identify, eliminate, and 
     recover funds expended from the Federal Hospital Insurance 
     Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
     Trust Fund due to, fraud and abuse in such program.
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                 HARKIN (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 1117

  Mr. HARKIN (for himself, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
Pell, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Simon, Mrs. Murray, and Ms. Moseley-
Braun) proposed an amendment to the concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 
13, supra; as follows:

       On page 74, strike lines 12 through 24 and insert the 
     following: ``budget, the appropriate budgetary allocations, 
     aggregates, and levels shall be revised to reflect 
     $28,000,000,000 in budget authority and outlays of the 
     additional deficit reduction achieved as calculated under 
     subsection (c) for legislation that reduces the adverse 
     effects on discretionary spending on education and 
     $12,000,000,000 in budget authority and outlays for 
     legislation that reduces the adverse effects on direct 
     spending for education.
       ``(b) Revised Allocations and Aggregates.--Upon the 
     reporting of legislation pursuant to subsection (a), and 
     again upon the submission of a conference report on such 
     legislation (if a conference report is submitted), the Chair 
     of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may submit to 
     the Senate appropriately revised allocations under sections 
     302(a) and 602(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
     discretionary spending limits under section 201(a) of this 
     resolution, budgetary aggregates, and levels under this 
     resolution, revised by an amount that does not exceed the 
     additional deficit reduction specified under subsection 
     (a).''.

  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I rise to give my strong support to the 
pending amendment which would restore $40 billion to education.
  According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Republican budget 
resolution which is currently before the Senate would eliminate 33 
percent of the Federal investment in education by the year 2002. In my 
view, such action is penny-wise and pound-foolish and I would strongly 
urge my colleagues to join me in opposing such proposals which serve to 
reduce our Nation's investment in education programs.
  Every nation puts a premium on education in order to develop the 
skills and talents of their people in order to deal with a modern, 
complex economic society. That is true whether the country is governed 
as a democracy or governed as a dictatorship or somewhere in between--
they are all concerned with enhancing or somewhere in between--they are 
all concerned with enhancing the skills of their people in the 
workplace. That obviously is one of the purposes about which we must be 
concerned in terms of education, particularly as we confront an 
increasingly competitive world economy.
  Those who are now seeking to draw back from the American commitment 
to education through the cuts included in this budget resolution at the 
same time that they assert the necessity for America to compete more 
successfully in the world's economy are asserting a basic 
contradiction. Our success as a competitor in the world's economy rests 
upon educating our future generations.
  We cannot as a nation afford to shortchange programs which have 
proven effective in ensuring a brighter future for our children. This 
was recognized in the last Congress when we were able to enact a series 
of important initiatives to expand the amount and the quality of 
education investment in America. These initiatives, which I strongly 
supported, included the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, the Head 
Start Amendments of 1994, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the 
National and Community Service Trust Act, and the Improving America's 
Schools Act.
  Despite these efforts to expand educational opportunities during the 
last Congress, the Republican budget proposal would dramatically 
decrease educational opportunity in order to finance tax cuts for the 
wealthy and to meet arbitrary deficit reduction targets. In my view, it 
makes little sense to cut investments in programs which give people the 
skills to function in a modern, complex society. It makes even less 
sense to do so in a document which is supposed to be a budget for our 
Nation's future.
  Mr. President, education is fundamental to what the American dream is 
all about--providing our children a path by which they can improve 
themselves and develop their full potential. The budget resolution we 
have before us today is a retreat from the American dream. It would 
deny hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children from receiving 
needed services by freezing spending for the Title I program and deny 
Head Start services to as many as 350,000 to 550,000 preschoolers over 
the next 7 years. These children, who come from our poorest 
communities, need such services in order to achieve their potential and 
reach the same high standards as their peers.
  The Republican budget resolution we have before us today would also 
renege on our historical commitment to access to higher education by 
cutting Federal aid to college students by $30 billion over the next 7 
years. Personal debt for students with subsidized loans would be 
increased by 20 to 48 percent by eliminating the in-school interest 
subsidy. Pell Grants for individual students would be reduced by 40 
percent by the year 2002 or terminated altogether for over one million 
students per year.
  Mr. President, education in this country has always provided an 
essential ladder of opportunity for our people. In this Nation, which 
believes that a person's merit and talent should take them as far as 
they can go, the path to achieve this is to move up and onward through 
education. Many of us here today have experienced this and are where we 
are today because of this ladder of opportunity. It seems ironic, at 
best, that many of those who have used those ladders of opportunity to 
advance themselves are now trying to knock the ladder down through 
these budget cuts so those coming after them do not have the same 
opportunities.
  I strongly support the pending amendment to restore funding for 
critical education programs in the FY96 budget resolution and would 
urge my colleagues to join me in ensuring that education remains a top 
priority for our Nation.
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               HATFIELD (AND JEFFORDS) AMENDMENT NO. 1118

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. HATFIELD (for himself and Mr. Jeffords) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by them to the concurrent resolution, S. Con. 
Res. 13, supra; as follows:

       On page 11, line 7, decrease the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 11, line 8, decrease the amount by $258,000,000.
       On page 11, line 14, decrease the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 11, line 15, decrease the amount by $552,000,000.
       On page 11, line 21, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 11, line 22, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 12, line 3, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 12, line 4, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 12, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 12, line 11, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 12, line 17, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 12, line 18, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 12, line 24, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 12, line 25, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 33, line 19, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 33, line 20, increase the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 34, line 2, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 3, increase the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 34, line 9, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 10, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 16, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 17, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 23, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 24, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 5, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 6, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 12, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 13, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 54, line 20, increase the amount by $570,000,000.
       On page 54, line 21, increase the amount by $172,000,000.
       On page 55, line 2, increase the amount by $80,000,000.
       On page 55, line 3, increase the amount by $368,000,000.
       On page 55, line 10, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 55, line 17, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 55, line 24, increase the amount by 
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       On page 56, line 6, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 56, line 13, increase the amount by $400,000,000.
       On page 65, line 14, decrease the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 65, line 15, decrease the amount by $280,000,000.
       On page 65, line 17, increase the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 65, line 18, increase the amount by $258,000,000.
       On page 65, line 21, decrease the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 65, line 22, decrease the amount by $552,000,000.
       On page 65, line 24, increase the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 65, line 25, increase the amount by $552,000,000.
       On page 66, line 3, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 4, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 6, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 7, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 11, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 13, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 14, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 17, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 18, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 20, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 21, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 66, line 24, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 66, line 25, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 67, line 2, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 67, line 3, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 67, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 67, line 7, decrease the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 67, line 9, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 67, line 10, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
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                HATFIELD (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 1119

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. HATFIELD (for himself, Mr. Specter, Mrs. Kassebaum, and Mr. 
Jeffords) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them to the 
concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 13, supra; as follows:

       On page 33, line 19, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 33, line 20, increase the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 34, line 2, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 3, increase the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 34, line 9, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 10, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 16, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 17, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 23, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 34, line 24, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 5, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 6, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 12, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 35, line 13, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 54, line 20, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 54, line 21, increase the amount by $430,000,000.
       On page 55, line 2, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 3, increase the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 55, line 9, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 10, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 16, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 17, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 23, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 55, line 24, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 56, line 5, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 56, line 6, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 56, line 12, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 56, line 13, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
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                 BAUCUS (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 1120

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. BAUCUS (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Pressler, Mr. Robb, and Mr. 
Warner) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them to the 
concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 13, supra; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING MANDATORY MAJOR 
                   ASSUMPTIONS UNDER FUNCTION 270: ENERGY.

       It is the sense of the Senate that within the mandatory 
     major assumptions under budget function 270, none of the 
     power marketing administrations within the 48 contiguous 
     States will be sold, and any savings that were assumed would 
     be realized from the sale of those power marketing 
     administrations within the Department of Energy.
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                        ROTH AMENDMENT NO. 1121.

  Mr. ROTH proposed an amendment to the concurrent resolution, S. Con. 
Res. 13, supra; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in the resolution insert the 
     following new section:

     SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING FURTHER FEDERAL 
                   WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the assumptions 
     underlying the functional totals in this resolution include 
     that the reductions in Federal full-time equivalent positions 
     required under section 5(b) of the Federal Workforce 
     Restructuring Act of 1994 (5 U.S.C. 3101 note) should be 
     further reduced to provide that--
       (1) the total number of full-time equivalent positions in 
     all agencies shall not exceed 1,682,300 during fiscal year 
     2002; and
       (2) the additional reduction of 200,000 full-time 
     equivalent positions provided under paragraph (1), no more 
     than 50,000 shall be within the Department of Defense.
     

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