PUBLIC DEBT
Addresses
Assault on Benefits—Deficit Thinking: Stuart J. Brahs, 8479-8480 [18AP]
Budget Deficit: Senator Moynihan, 20739 [26JY]
Democratic Radio Response to the President's Weekly Address: Senator Hart, 28322 [22OC]
Economics and Personal Responsibilities: Paul A. Volcker, 16760-16763 [20JN]
Federal Deficit—Need for Bipartisanship: Willard C. Butcher, 11179 [8MY]
Landon Lecture, Kansas State University: Representative O'Neill, 9258 [24AP]
Outlook for Tax Reform: Representative Rostenkowski, 3954 [27FE]
President Reagan and Chairman Morrill: Senator Moynihan (excerpt), 20739 [26JY]
Progress or Surrender—What's Next in Trade?: Caterpillar Tractor Co., 1068-1069 [24JA]
Tax Reform and Common Sense: J. Tylee Wilson, 29536 [29OC]
Verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Soviet Compliance With the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and Testing of Nuclear Weapons: Lynn R. Sykes, 25222 [26SE]
Agreements
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (S. 1730), unanimous-consent, 31207 [8NO]
Amendments
Budget: reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), 23913 [17SE], 29394 [29OC], 29686 [30OC], 32056 [14NO], 34513-34621, 34622 [5DE]
Congressional budget: revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), 7067 [2AP], 8949, 8950 [23AP], 9500-9506, 9523-9528, 9529 [25AP], 9597-9602, 9640-9645 [26AP], 9661, 9666, 9667-9672, 9684-9690 [29AP], 9851-9856, 9929-9934 [30AP], 10033, 10076, 10155, 10156 [1MY], 10315, 10321, 10325, 10334, 10364 [2MY], 10424, 10443 [3MY], 10574, 10576 [6MY], 10784, 10786, 10795, 10869 [7MY], 10943, 10949, 10951-10956, 10988-10991, 11032-11043 [8MY], 11313, 11342, 11353, 11363, 11371, 11378, 11390, 11397, 11407, 11412, 11414, 11420, 11432, 11436, 11441, 11443, 11446, 11448, 11450, 11452-11459, 11476, 11477, 11480, 11537, 11538, 11539, 11543, 11544, 11546, 11547, 11554, 11555 [9MY], 22205-22211 [1AU], 22632-22638 [1AU]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32) (excerpt), 10775 [7MY]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (S. 1730), 28396, 28409, 28440 [22OC], 28556, 28561, 28564, 28566, 28567, 28571, 28584-28588 [23OC], 28933, 28953-28957, 28967, 28968, 28971, 28973, 29021-29032 [24OC], 29282 [28OC], 31189 [7NO], 31281, 31284, 31289, 31290, 31291, 31292, 31293, 31300, 31302, 31304, 31309, 31310, 31311, 31313, 31316, 31319, 31331-31335 [12NO], 31726, 31728, 31731, 31733, 31735, 31736, 31773 [13NO], 31906, 31909, 31926, 31927, 31929, 31930, 31936, 31939, 31942, 31943, 31946, 31947, 32140-32142 [14NO]
Limit: increase (H.J. Res. 372), 25835-25839, 25859-25860 [3OC], 26188-26192, 26198, 26245-26248 [4OC], 26269, 26294-26298, 26304 [5OC], 26328, 26337-26341 [6OC], 26357 [7OC], 26726, 26733, 26735, 26745-26749, 26758, 26779-26784 [8OC], 26837, 26838, 26840, 26847, 26852, 26889, 26890, 26909-26911 [9OC], 27188, 27193, 27199, 27204, 27208, 27209, 27213, 27218, 27220, 27222, 27223, 27235, 27240, 27241, 27246, 27283, 27291, 27295 [10OC]
———increase (H.R. 3721), 31749, 31774 [13NO], 31831 [14NO]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3500), 27643 [16OC], 27829 [17OC], 28827, 28834 [24OC]
Save for the U.S.A. Year: designate (H.J. Res. 436), 36144 [12DE]
Social Security: prevent disinvestment of trust fund (H.R. 3669), 30290 [1NO]
Statutory limit: increase (H.J. Res. 372), 30126, 30127-30147, 30148 [1NO], 30403, 30408, 30422-30433 [4NO], 30507, 30519, 30543, 30584-30591 [5NO], 30657, 30709 [6NO], 30853-30863, 30872, 30873 [6NO]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 34885-34907-34983 [6DE], 35290 [9DE], 35788 [10DE], 37372-37373, 37374, 37380-37446 [17DE]
Analyses
Amtrak Amendment to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730), 28558 [23OC]
Balanced Budget Proposals: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 26468 [7OC]
Chiles Plan—A Fair Budget That Invests in Growth, 9512-9522 [25AP]
Comparison of Chiles-Hollings Budget Plan With Republican Leadership Plan, 10958-10972 [8MY]
Dept. of Defense Fiscal 1986 Budget Request, 2253 [7FE]
Effect of Proposed Budget on the Economy, 9192 [24AP]
Effects of the Gramm-Rudman Amendment to the Debt Limit Legislation (H.J. Res. 372), 26300, 26301 [5OC], 27191 [10OC]
ERISA Amendments to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: National Bankruptcy Conference, 29521 [29OC]
Examples of Illustrative Defense Outlay Reductions in Fiscal Year 1985, 27231 [10OC]
Objectives of the Hatch Study on Economic Impact of Reductions to the Defense Budget, 4743-4746 [7MR]
Tax Reform Act, 34241 [4DE]
Appointments
Conferees: H.J. Res. 372, extension of the public debt limit, 27379 [11OC]
———H.J. Res. 372, increase limit, 27548 [15OC]
———H.J. Res. 372, increase public debt limit, 34134 [4DE]
———H.J. Res. 372, public debt limit, 30880 [6NO]
———H.R. 3128, deficit reduction, 38732 [20DE]
———H.R. 3128, reduce budget deficit, 34425 [5DE], 35554 [10DE]
———S. Con. Res. 32, congressional budget, 15300 [12JN]
Articles and editorials
After 3-Year Spending Binge, Consumers Seem To Be Exhausted, 28493 [23OC]
Aid to Amtrak Small and Shrinking, 3716 [27FE]
``American Miracle'', 3344 [25FE]
America's Plunge Into the Debt Abyss, 26913 [9OC]
Amtrak Funding (excerpt), 11314 [9MY]
Amtrak Has No Dog Trains—Why Kill It, 3715 [27FE]
Any Way You Figure, It's Political, 1723 [5FE]
As Americans Spend, Wary Japanese Save, and Taxes Are a Cause, 20517 [25JY]
Balanced Baloney Act, 28104 [18OC]
Balanced Baloney Act of 1985, 26258 [5OC], 26468 [7OC], 26858 [9OC]
Balanced Budget Policy, 317 [3JA]
Balanced Budget Risks, 28103 [18OC]
Balanced Fiscal Plan Reassessed, 26857 [9OC]
Balanced-Budget Bill Is Perilously Tilted, 28106 [18OC]
Balanced-Budget Bill—Congress Should Look Before It Leaps, 28102 [18OC]
Balancing the Budget in a Conventional Way, 2970 [21FE]
Banker Blames Government Inaction, Debt, 37581 [18DE]
Big Fed Loan to Continental Not in Budget, 2766 [20FE]
Blame the President, Please—He's Responsible for Ruinous Deficit, and Making It Worse, 30349 [1NO]
Bottom-Line Comparison of the Tax Reform Plans—Part II, 14801 [6JN]
Brand-New Way To Brake the Budget, 28105 [18OC]
Budget Amendment—Not So Crazy After All, 24903 [25SE]
Budget Balancing Act, 26867 [9OC], 28104 [18OC], 29760 [30OC]
Budget Balancing Legislation Would Put Defense Spending on the Chopping Block, 34460-34462 [5DE]
Budget Cutting Made Easy, 29670 [30OC]
Budget Deficit (excerpt), 20739 [26JY]
Budget Irresolution, 23066 [9SE]
Budget Package (sundry), 10041, 10043, 10045, 10046, 10048 [1MY]
Budget Quackery, 28476 [22OC]
Budgetary Chaos, 26125 [3OC]
Budget-Process Measure Sets Up Choice of 2 Evils—Raise Taxes or Cut Defense, 34460 [5DE]
Budget-Process Measure Sets Up Choice of Two Evils—Raise Taxes or Cut Defense, 30546 [5NO]
Butter That's Traded Off for Guns, 9946 [30AP]
By Any Name, Gramm-Rudman Is a Sham, 36085 [11DE]
Byrnes Stood Fast Against Government's Deficit Spending, 1666 [4FE]
Can Congress Walk and Chew Gum?, 37157 [17DE]
Cap, You're Wrong—Defense Can Be Cut—A GOP Senator Argues for a Strategy To Save Billions, 4512 [5MR]
CBO Advises Where To Cut, 4514 [5MR]
Challenge to the VA Health Care System—Portents of the FY 1986 Medical Care Budget, 13784-13786 [24MY]
Child Nutrition Budget Cut, 8607 [22AP]
Congress Rushes to Unfairness, 26858, 26880 [9OC]
Country Has Its Own Cancer, 22443 [1AU]
Creeping Up at the Pentagon, 13729 [24MY]
Curing That Deficit, 6134 [26MR]
Cutting the Lean Out Of Defense, 3827 [27FE]
Dancing With a Genie, 34463 [5DE]
Dealing With Reality, 23666 [12SE]
Declining Dollar and the Threat of Stagflation, 8616 [22AP]
Defense Inflation Dividend, 13729 [24MY]
Deficit. Remember the Deficit?, 27206 [10OC]
Deficit Amendment, 26857, 26880 [9OC], 28106 [18OC]
Deficit Amendment Is Just a Gimmick, 29563 [29OC]
Deficit Dilemma, 23119-23120 [9SE]
Deficit? Don't Blame Congress, 1745 [5FE], 2039 [6FE]
Deficit Magic—Worse Than Nothing, 30124 [1NO]
Deficit Not Top Issue for Reagan, 2003 [6FE]
Deficit Plan Is a Plus for the Soviets, 38462 [19DE]
Deficit Reduction Proposal (excerpt), 26891 [9OC]
Deficits—Default Solution, 19676 [18JY]
Deliberate Deficit, 19864 [22JY], 20737 [26JY]
Democrats as Duckpins, 28015 [17OC]
Democrats on the Deficit, 30671 [6NO]
Democrats Will Have To Answer for It, 38461 [19DE]
Despite Scuffling, Tax Bill Is Badly Needed, 36771 [16DE]
Digging for Oil at the Stock Exchange, 26914 [9OC]
Disarm the Deficit—End Corporate Tax Dodges, 6886 [28MR]
Disinvestment of Social Security of the Trust Fund (excerpt), 30291 [1NO]
Draft Reply for Senator B.W. Goldwater to Article by Senator C.E. Grassley—A Freeze Is Just What the Pentagon Needs, 7938 [16AP]
Economic Forecasts (excerpt), 30658 [6NO]
Economists Expect Modest Pickup Before Recession, 26878 [9OC]
Excuses, Excuses—This Is Real Progress, 37158 [17DE]
Explosion of Private Debt, 23165 [10SE]
Facts and Comments, 6134 [26MR]
Farmer Approval of Reagan Sinks to 24 Percent, 11461 [9MY]
Feast or Famine and Defense Waste, 22052 [31JY]
Federal Funding Is Vital, 1152 [28JA]
First Bounce, 28103 [18OC]
First National Bank Declares War on Federal Budget Deficits, 1306 [4FE]
Fiscal Disorder, 34072 [4DE]
Fiscal Frankenstein (excerpt), 30407 [4NO]
Fiscal R2D2, 28320 [22OC]
Force a Balanced Budget, 31783 [13NO]
Forcing the Deficit Down, 26258 [5OC]
Freeze Every Dime of Federal Spending, 11385 [9MY]
Gold Bricks?, 10310 [2MY]
Good Start, 37157 [17DE]
Government by Meat Cleaver, 28282 [22OC], 28320 [22OC]
Grace Under Pressure, 22810-22814 [1AU]
Gramm-Rudman an Exercise in National Shame, 38675 [19DE]
Gramm-Rudman Balanced-Budget Sham, 35877 [11DE]
Gramm-Rudman Is a Fraud, 30671 [6NO]
Gramm/Rudman Is Pure Mischief, 28283 [22OC]
Gramm-Rudman Plan—Congress at Its Worst, 26881 [9OC]
Gramm-Rudman—Budgetary Bungle?, 28105 [18OC], 28321 [22OC]
Growth Alone Won't Do It, 3209 [22FE]
Halt the Deficit!, 12997 [21MY]
Historical Footnote or More of the Same?, 20737 [26JY]
How To Balance the U.S. Budget by 1991, 29679 [30OC]
How To Get the Deficit Under $100 Billion, 7244-7246 [2AP]
How U.S. Manipulated Social Security Funds, 30378 [4NO]
Increase in Taxes, 9847 [30AP]
It's Still a Long Road to a Worthwhile Tax Reform, 31808 [13NO]
Know-Nothing Legislation, 30336 [1NO]
Latin Debts and Solutions, 28460 [22OC]
Liberals' Economic Agenda Drowning in Reagan's Sea of Red Ink, 27712 [16OC]
Life After Gramm-Rudman—Up to and Including, the Impeachment, 34076 [4DE], 34792 [5DE]
Line-Item Veto Could Speed Budget Process but Substantially Increase the President's Power, 12970 [21MY]
Mexican Peso Falls on Free Market, 19865 [22JY]
Midwestway, 6399 [26MR]
Military-Base Boondoggle, 10310 [2MY]
Milton Eisenhower, R.I.P., 13862 [24MY]
Missed Opportunity, 15762 [13JN]
Mr. Reagan Has Imposed a Tax, 22068 [31JY]
NAM Small Manufacturers—Abolish SBA Loans To Help Reduce Deficit, 10187 [1MY]
National Debt—32.6, 36.7, 49.5, 65.8, 67.6, 111.1 . . ., 3222 [22FE]
New Breed Vs. the Puritans, 9780 [29AP]
No Way To Balance the Budget, 30448 [4NO]
One Tax ``Reform'' Threatens Home and Business Insurance, 35825 [10DE]
Open Letter to the U.S. Congress, 20694 [25JY]
Our Economic Thinking Becoming Totally Incoherent, 35840 [10DE]
Outlook—The Cruel Arithmetic Awaiting Reagan, 34463 [5DE]
Pentagon Opposes Gramm-Rudman Deficit Reduction Proposal (excerpt), 35867 [11DE]
Pentagon Warns Antideficit Bill Would Comfort the Soviets, 35868 [11DE]
Praise for David Stockman?, 21638 [30JY]
Preventing Debt Disaster, 23166 [10SE]
Problem of Monetarism, 34799 [5DE]
Puerto Rico Sees Harm in Tax Plan—Reagan Would Drop Provision Credited for Thousands of Jobs in Commonwealth (excerpts), 23126 [9SE]
Put a Human Face on Federal Budget, 13299 [22MY]
Reagan and the Decline of American Power, 31232 [7NO]
Reagan Budget Plan, 18732 [11JY]
Reagan Plan for Defense Growth (excerpt), 35868 [11DE]
Reaganomics—Some ``Failures''!, 34357 [4DE]
Reagan's Bankrupt Budget, 20739 [26JY]
Reagan's Inflate-the-Deficit Game, 20160 [23JY], 20740 [26JY]
Real Story About 1985, 905 [24JA]
Reducing Aid to Israel Is Not the Answer to Deficit Dilemma, 2330 [7FE]
Reducing the Deficit by $50 Billion, 4245 [28FE]
Regan Fears Antideficit Plan Will Affect Defense, 34459 [5DE]
Revolution Worth Fighting, 14788 [6JN]
Save Us From the Senate's Stampede, 30161 [1NO]
School at 4—Model for the Nation, 4304 [4MR]
Senate Budget Proposal's Foes Show Political Hypocrisy, 31196 [7NO]
Senate Debt Plan Could Hurt Economy, 28321 [22OC]
Senate Grasps at Brass Ring Made of Smoke and Mirrors, 28104 [18OC]
Sensible—A Tax To Fuel the Economy, 27206 [10OC]
Six Economic Myths, 36773 [16DE]
Social Security COLA (excerpt), 10052 [1MY]
Sound Budget Process, 24504 [20SE]
Sound Deficit Reduction, 28104 [18OC]
Sour Medicine, but Good for Us, 29539 [29OC]
Sputtering About Federal Debt, 28102 [18OC]
Still Pretending To Balance the Budget, 31414 [12NO]
Stunning Win, or Loss, for the Poor, 36361 [12DE], 37156, 37158 [17DE]
Take Care in Cutting Defense, 1332 [30JA]
Taming the Deficit Monster, 30933 [6NO]
Tax Reform Act, 37163 [17DE]
Tax Reform (excerpts), 35284 [9DE]
Taxes and the Deficit, 851 [22JA]
Tax-Reform Monster That's Coming to Life, 29771 [30OC]
Things for Tax Code Tinkerers To Remember, 30102 [31OC]
Threat to the Republic—Debtmail, 1258 [29JA]
3 Fiscal Crises, 27841-27843 [17OC]
Time To Raise Taxes, 27205 [10OC]
Time To Think Again About Liquidating U.S. Assets, 20141 [23JY]
Trade War Threat (excerpt), 17072 [25JN]
Turning Off the Spigot on U.S. Red Ink, 3061 [21FE]
U.S. Now Debtor Nation as Trade Deficit Rises, 23903 [17SE]
Veto the Line Item Veto, 1744 [5FE]
Volcker Urges More Loans to Latin Debtors—Addresses Bankers, 28461 [22OC]
Voodoo Budget Proposals Won't Cure Reagan's Deficits, 28282 [22OC]
Washington's 10 Worst Boondoggles, 12016 [15MY]
Weinberger Warns on Balanced-Budget Plan, 34459 [5DE]
We're a Debtor Nation, 20872 [29JY]
What Gramm/Rudman Will Really Cost, 28283 [22OC]
When ``L.I.E.'' Really Means ``L.I. Exportway'', 32492 [19NO]
Why a Balanced Budget Amendment, 6628 [28MR]
Why Congress Won't Freeze Defense Funds, 5276 [18MR]
Why Not Cut Deficit Before 1986 Election?, 31196 [7NO]
Why the Budget Law Is ``Horrendous''—Bad for New York, 38633 [19DE]
Yes, Tonya Lynne, There Really Is a Santa Claus in August!, 24789 [24SE], 24959 [25SE]
Youth and the National-Debt Crisis, 32187 [14NO]
Bills and resolutions
Appropriations: not to exceed revenues (see H.J. Res. 111)
———shall not exceed revenues except in time of war or national emergency (see H.J. Res. 51, 54, 63, 70, 71)
Budget: amend the Constitution to provide balanced, except in time of war or national emergency (see H.J. Res. 43)
———balance and apply surplus (see H.J. Res. 58)
———constitutional amendment to provide balanced (see H.J. Res. 113)
———debt recovery program (see S. Con. Res. 13)
———establish ceiling (see H. Con. Res. 28)
———Presidential statement on accrued interest on zero-coupon bonds (see S. 368)
———reduce deficit (see S. 1702; H.J. Res. 78)
Cigarettes: additional tax revenues deposited in Federal hospital insurance trust fund (see H.R. 1969)
Commission on the Deficit: establish (see H.R. 521)
Congressional budget: revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (see H. Con. Res. 151)
Dept. of the treasury: index certain percentage of obligations for inflation (see S. 1088)
Diesel fuel: increase taxes (see S. 735)
Expenditures: not to exceed revenue (see H.J. Res. 117)
Gasoline: increase taxes (see S. 735)
———revenues from increased tax used to reduce budget deficit (see H.R. 1909)
Government: provisions for retention of private counsel for debt collection services (see S. 209)
Government spending: balanced budget (see H.R. 1170)
House: amend rule to require \2/3\ majority to increase statutory limit (see H. Res. 40)
Income tax returns: allow contributions to reduce public debt (see H.R. 2747)
Increase: correct enrollment of H.J. Res. 372 (see H. Con. Res. 246)
———waive printing of enrollment of H.J. Res. 372 on parchment (see H.J. Res. 473)
Lotteries: establish to reduce (see H.R. 2074)
———financing medicare program and budget deficit (see H.R. 1878)
National Commission on Federal Budget Deficit Reductions: establish bipartisan (see H.J. Res. 9)
National Commission on Federal Deficit Reduction: establish (see H.J. Res. 284)
National Commission on Reduction of the Federal Deficit: establish (see S. 33)
Overdue debts: collect (see H. Con. Res. 14)
Social Security: protect trust funds from actions designed to avoid statutory limit on public debt (see S. 1826; H.R. 3694)
———protect trust funds from disinvestment relative to public debt limit (see H.R. 3738)
———restore losses in trust funds resulting from noninvestment and redemptions relative to statutory public debt limit (see H.R. 3688, 3689, 3694, 3713)
Statutory limit: consideration of H.R. 3721, increase (see H. Res. 318)
———increase (see H.R. 3658, 3721; H.J. Res. 372)
Tax returns: $1 checkoff for reduction (see H.R. 573)
———mechanism to designate overpayments for reducing public debt (see H.R. 3073)
———space for voluntary contributions (see H.R. 582)
Taxation: credit for contributions to reduce (see S. 482; H.R. 1109)
———reduce national debt (see H.R. 353)
Books
``Pentagon and the Art of War'': Edward Luttwak (excerpt), 2447 [19FE]
``Power of Being Debt Free'': Robert H. Schuller (sundry excerpts), 8235 [17AP]
Broadcasts
Balance of trade: Representative Murtha, 23274 [10SE]
Budget deficit: with Senator Moynihan (excerpt from MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour), 20740 [26JY]
Deficit—plan or ploy?: with Senator Moynihan (excerpt), 20740 [26JY]
Unfair Burden on Middle-Income Taxpayer: Representative Oakar, 10902 [7MY]
Cloture motions
Limit: increase (H.J. Res. 372), 26222 [4OC], 26298 [5OC], 26326, 26332 [6OC], 26739, 26757, 26761, 26762, 26764 [8OC]
Colloquies
Budget deficit: Senator Moynihan with Members of Congress and staff members, 27250 [10OC]
Descriptions
Farm debt restructuring (S. Con. Res. 13), 2212 [7FE]
Documents
Tax Reform Act (excerpts), 35285 [9DE]
U.S. Code, Title 31—Money and Finance (excerpt), 27200 [10OC]
Essays
Deficit Budget: Stephanie Bartholomew, 38696 [19DE]
Politics of the Deficit: Norman J. Ornstein, 20736 [26JY]
———Norman J. Ornstein (excerpt), 19582 [18JY]
Saving Our Country From Deficit Detriments: David Scheer, 17269 [25JN]
To Spend or Not To Spend?: Jennifer Justice, 38703 [19DE]
What the Average American Can Do To Reduce Our National Debt: Alysia Andrikopoulos, 38692 [19DE]
You Can Save Your Country—``Double Decker Deficit Deduction'': Deborah Nichols, 20168 [23JY]
Excerpts
Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 1986, 2468 [19FE]
Explanations
Tax credit for contribution to reduce (H.R. 1109), 2613 [19FE]
Factsheets
Is It True What They Say About Social Security?—Open Letter to Young Workers, 38778-38780 [20DE]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838), 37195 [17DE]
Interviews
Budget deficit: with Friedrich von Hayek, 20739 [26JY]
Shifting alliances on foreign aid to Israel: Representative Vin Weber with National Jewish Council Bulletin, 27317 [10OC]
Letters
Accounts affected by a proposed amendment to the debt limit legislation: Alfred B. Fitt, 26891 [9OC], 27211 [10OC]
Administration tax reform proposals: G. Bruce McAbery, 28485 [22OC]
Amtrak amendment to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730): W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 28560 [23OC]
Amtrak funding: Alfred H. Joslin and Charlene B. Hall, 11329 [9MY]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: Association for Retarded Citizens of the U.S., 29777 [30OC]
———Children's Defense Fund, 28856 [24OC]
———DAV, 27736 [16OC]
———National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., 29777 [30OC]
———National Easter Seal Society, 29777 [30OC]
———National Society for Children and Adults With Autism, 29777 [30OC]
———Orange County, FL, School Board, 29564 [29OC]
———United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc., 29777 [30OC]
Budget deficit: National Association of Realtors, 17091 [25JN]
———sundry excerpts, 21492 [30JY]
Budget process: resident of Cumberland, MD, 10985 [8MY]
Budget proposal: David M. Jones, 8616 [22AP]
———Leonard J. Santow, 8615 [22AP]
———Sam Nakagama, 8617 [22AP]
———Senator Dole, 8615 [22AP]
Cash balances at the Dept. of the Treasury: Richard G. Darman, 26387 [7OC]
CBO Reestimate of congressional budget (S. Con. Res. 32): Rudolph G. Penner, 13450 [23MY]
Conference on the budget: John J. Motley III, 22198 [1AU]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730): Donald T. Regan (excerpt), 28395 [22OC]
Debt limit legislation: James A. Baker III, Sec. of the Treasury, 25064 [26SE], 25554 [2OC]
Defense funding: Representative Aspin, 30544 [5NO]
Deficit reduction: W. Martin Hudson, 30676 [6NO]
Deficit reduction amendment: President Reagan, 26325 [6OC]
Deficit reduction amendment (H.J. Res. 372): Bread for the World, 29049 [24OC]
———Children's Foundation, 29049 [24OC]
———U.S. Catholic Conference, 29049 [24OC]
Dept. of Defense budget savings: John R. Quetsch, 12917 [21MY]
Dept. of Defense price savings: Robert W. Helms, 12298 [16MY]
———Senator Dixon, 12298 [16MY]
Effects of Federal deficit reduction efforts on States: National Governors' Association, 10188 [1MY]
Federal deficits: Dax Hoxsie (excerpt), 23454 [11SE]
Federal deficits, 1941-85, 19945 [23JY]
Federal deficits, open letter to Congress: John Young, 25762 [2OC]
Federal Government borrowing power: Thomas Jefferson (excerpt), 1276 [30JA]
Federal motor vehicle expenditure control: exchange between Senators Roth and Gorton, 38751 [20DE]
Funding cuts in child nutrition programs: American Association of School Administrators, 8607 [22AP]
Funding for Eximbank: Jerry J. Jasinowski, 18254 [9JY]
Funding for mass transit: Ernest N. Morial, 8951 [23AP]
———Ross Capon, 8950 [23AP]
Funding for veterans' services and benefits: Billy R. Cameron, 11352 [9MY]
———Chad Colley, 11352 [9MY]
———E. Philip Riggin, 11352 [9MY]
———Harry N. Walters, 11351 [9MY]
———Senator Cranston, 11350, 11351, 11355 [9MY]
Gramm-Rudman balanced budget amendment: (sundry), 28280, 28281 [22OC]
Impact of budget reductions on education: (sundry), 4407-4412 [5MR]
Impact of the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction amendment: Senator Domenici, 30668 [6NO]
———William J. Bennett, Sec. of Education, 30668 [6NO]
Increase statutory public debt limit (H.J. Res. 372): Center for Law and Social Policy, 29312 [28OC]
———Coalition on Block Grant and Human Needs, 29311 [28OC]
———National Low Income Housing Coalition, 29311 [28OC]
IRS funding allocations for collection enforcement: Roscoe Egger, 10946 [8MY]
IRS funding allocations for tax service programs: Roscoe Egger, 10945-10946 [8MY]
Legal liabilities relative to defunding of Amtrak: Brice M. Clagett, 11314-11319 [9MY]
National Debt: John K. Nagy, 9766 [29AP]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: CBO, 28840 [7NO]
———Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, 28840 [7NO]
———Committee on the Budget, 28842 [7NO]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3500): AMVETS, 28732 [23OC]
———Blinded Veterans Association, 28732 [23OC]
———Catholic War Veterans of the U.S.A., 28733 [23OC]
———DAV, 28731 [23OC]
———Fleet Reserve Association, 28733 [23OC]
———Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., 28733 [23OC]
———Marine Corps League, 28733 [23OC]
———Military Order of the Purple Heart, 28733 [23OC]
———OMB, 28001 [17OC]
———Paralyzed Veterans of America, 28732 [23OC]
———Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc., 28732 [23OC]
———VFW, 28731 [23OC]
———Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., 28733 [23OC]
President Reagan's tax policy: Michael L. Keller, 18285 [9JY]
President Reagan's tax reform plan: California League of Savings Institutions, 24203 [18SE]
———Robert J. Emslie, 24877 [24SE]
President Reagan's tax reform proposals: James L. Beck, 25535 [1OC]
Public and private debt: Paul A. Volcker, 33210 [22NO]
Public debt limit: CBO, 30872 [6NO]
———sundry, 30159 [1NO]
Public debt limit (H.J. Res. 372): Representative Rodino, 36087 [11DE]
Recommendations on budget levels for programs for veterans: several Senators, 4749-4754 [7MR]
Reducing the budget deficit: J. Weldon Beck, Norman E. Dayley, and John R. Adams, 4424 [5MR]
Reducing the Federal deficit and supporting arts: National Endowment for the Arts (excerpt), 21905 [31JY]
Reduction of Federal deficit: Rumsey Taylor, Sr., 25245 [26SE]
Reductions in NIH cancer research funding: David O. Wood, Jr., 5173 [14MR]
———Herbert C. Cheung, 5174 [14MR]
———Jenifer Turco, 5173 [14MR]
———Senator Heflin, 5173 [14MR]
Reestimate of the congressional budget (H. Con. Res. 152): Rudolph G. Penner, 15326 [12JN]
Sacred Cows Beef Up the Deficit: Senator McClure, 10286 [2MY]
State and local tax deduction: several New York State Assembly members, 14550 [5JN]
Tax reform: sundry excerpts, 19502 [17JY]
Tax Reform Act: Forum Group, Inc., 34240 [4DE]
———President Reagan, 37461 [17DE]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838), 37197 [17DE]
———AFL-CIO, 37162 [17DE]
———American Association of Retired Persons, 37162 [17DE]
———Citizens for Tax Justice, 37161 [17DE]
———Common Cause, 37160 [17DE]
———National Federation of Independent Business, 37161 [17DE]
Use of appropriations process to control spending: several Members of Congress, 25087 [26SE]
Veto provisions for President Reagan: Representatives Dornan and Latta, 22661 [1AU]
Zero-coupon bonds: Senator Durenberger, 1565 [31JA]
Lists
Grace Caucus Membership—May 1, 1985, 10383 [2MY]
Membership of the Deficit Reduction Coalition, 9497 [25AP]
Persons who deserve thanks for their work on the legislation to increase the public debt (H.J. Res. 372), 35874 [11DE]
Possible extraneous provisions to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730), 28393 [22OC]
Staff members granted floor privileges during consideration of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730), 27548 [15OC]
Substantive amendments to H.J. Res. 372, increase the public debt limit, 30660-30663 [6NO]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838)—supporters, 37159 [17DE]
Mailgrams
Funding for veterans' services and benefits: Richard Hoover, 11353 [9MY]
Memorandums
Congressional Budget Resolutions, 19675 [18JY]
Constitutionality of the Gramm-Rudman Amendment to H.J. Res. 372, Increase the Public Debt Limit: Lincoln Oliphant, 30673-30675 [6NO]
Deficit Reduction Amendment (H.J. Res. 372): Library of Congress, 29050 [24OC]
Effect of Current Debt-Limit Problems on Interest Earnings of the Social Security Trust Funds: Social Security Administration, 30328 [1NO]
Impact of Gramm/Rudman Balanced Budget Amendment on the Poor, 28284 [22OC]
National Debt, 26874 [9OC]
Nature of Compound Interest and Its Effect on Federal Spending Since 1981: Library of Congress, 26876 [9OC]
Relationships Between Federal Debt, Interest Payments, and GNP: Library of Congress, 26876 [9OC]
Social Security Trust Fund: Harry C. Ballantyne, 31305 [12NO]
———Paul Cullinan, 31305 [12NO]
Tax Reform Act: Heritage Foundation (excerpt), 34246 [4DE]
Memorials of legislature
Arizona, 10535 [6MY]
California, 29480 [29OC], 29746 [30OC]
Colorado, 15500 [12JN], 15711 [13JN], 15745 [13JN], 16123 [18JN], 18858 [11JY], 23847 [16SE]
Idaho, 5584 [19MR]
Kansas, 5584 [19MR]
Louisiana, 20936 [29JY]
Michigan, 5814 [20MR]
Montana, 8569 [22AP], 9439 [25AP]
Nebraska, 5584 [19MR]
Wyoming, 5728 [20MR]
Messages
1984 Budget: President Reagan (excerpt), 9847 [30AP]
Budget: President Reagan, 1651-1653 [4FE]
Program for Economic Recovery: President Reagan (excerpt), 10031 [1MY]
Motion
Limit: increase (H.J. Res. 372), 26293 [5OC], 26328 [6OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, 35889 [11DE]
Public debt limit: Lott motion to instruct conferees (H.J. Res. 372), 30881 [6NO]
Motions offered by
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 37472 [17DE]
Newsletters
Plain, unvarnished truth about the deficits: Representative Beilenson, 24601-24603 [20SE]
Pamphlets
Restrictions on Imports—An Answer to U.S. Trade Problems?, 20870-20872 [29JY]
Petitions
Balanced budget and tax limitation amendment: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 13890 [3JN]
Budget deficit: Wilkes-Barre, PA, City Council, 1696 [4FE]
Budgetary priorities: Hallandale, FL, City Council, 5729 [20MR], 6688 [28MR]
Federal budget: Saginaw, MI, Director of Administrative Services, 7614 [4AP]
Federal deficit: South Carolina Association of Independent Banks, 17036 [25JN]
———Woodland, WA, Chamber of Commerce, 829 [22JA]
Federal deficits and reduction of military spending: United Methodist Church, 19597 [18JY]
National debt: Daniel E. Wagner, Washington, DC, 462 [3JA]
Opposition to excessive defense spending: United Methodist Youth Fellowship, 33952 [3DE]
Proposed budget cuts: Laredo, TX, City Council, 1148 [28JA]
Revenue sharing: Davidson, NC, 5993 [21MR]
State and Local Tax Deduction Policy: Republican Party Conference, New York State Assembly, 14551 [5JN]
Play
``Julius Caesar,'' William Shakespeare (excerpt), 37461 [17DE]
Questionnaires
Balancing the budget, 1128 [24JA]
Questions
Impact of the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction amendment: Senator Stafford, 30667 [6NO]
Questions and answers
Monetary policy, 29681 [30OC]
Quotations
Tax reductions as a means of reducing the deficit: President Reagan, 29978 [31OC]
Recorded
Congressional budget (S. Con. Res. 32): Domenici motion to concur in the House amendment, 22227 [1AU]
———Hawkins amendment (Social Security cost-of-living adjustment), 10075 [1MY]
Remarks in House
American Trade Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3813), 32890 [20NO]
Appropriations: making supplemental, 17961, 17965 [27JN]
Balanced budget: provide, 26469-26479 [7OC]
Balanced Budget Act: enact (H.R. 3), 527 [3JA]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: enact (H.R. 3520), 26405, 26406, 26407, 26408, 26409, 26410, 26411, 26412, 26413, 26414 [7OC], 26679-26687 [8OC], 26925, 26926, 26928, 26929, 26987-26994 [9OC], 27054, 27058, 27059 [10OC], 27389 [11OC], 27767, 27768, 27770, 27771, 27772 [17OC], 28277-28300, 28308-28312 [22OC], 28605, 28665-28679, 28691-28695 [23OC], 28720 [23OC], 28738, 28739, 28742, 28744, 28856 [24OC], 29207 [28OC], 29318, 29319, 29322 [29OC], 29565, 29566, 29567, 29568, 29656, 29668, 29675 [30OC], 29795, 29796, 29797, 29798, 29799, 29800, 29801, 29802, 29803, 29804, 29805, 29806, 29807, 29877, 29878-29891 [31OC], 30118, 30119, 30120, 30121, 30122, 30123, 30125, 30126 [1NO], 30364, 30365 [4NO], 30457, 30489 [5NO], 30853, 30888-30894 [6NO], 31349, 31414 [12NO], 31561 [13NO], 32404 [19NO]
———enact (S. 1702), 26521-26523, 26525 [7OC], 26825 [8OC], 27029, 27038 [9OC], 27330, 27334, 27335 [10OC], 27736 [16OC], 28015 [17OC], 28218 [21OC], 28451 [22OC], 29548, 29555, 29563 [29OC], 29777 [30OC], 30107, 30111 [31OC], 30166 [4NO], 30336, 30350 [1NO], 30448 [4NO], 30621 [5NO], 30933, 30937, 30942, 30954, 30965 [6NO], 31226 [7NO], 31547 [12NO], 32193, 32207 [14NO], 32501 [19NO], 32905 [20NO], 33444 [22NO], 35822 [10DE]
———impact on veterans programs, 31828 [14NO], 32404 [19NO]
———impact on veterans' programs, 29796, 29797 [31OC]
Bipartisan Commission on the Budget Deficit: request President to establish (H. Res. 259), 22937 [4SE]
Bipartisan Commission on the Deficit: establish (H. Res. 32), 1165 [28JA]
Budget: 4-point plan to provide balanced, 11121 [8MY]
———amend Constitution to provide balanced, 465 [3JA], 21495 [30JY]
———amend Constitution to provide balanced (H.J. Res. 27), 511 [3JA]
———balanced, 19991 [23JY]
———constitutional amendment to require balanced, 1377 [31JA], 13968 [4JN], 22953 [5SE], 23412-23419 [11SE], 25217-25219 [26SE], 25661 [2OC]
———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 253), 9390 [24AP]
———deficit, 6448 [27MR], 6863, 6896 [28MR], 7439 [3AP], 8015 [16AP], 21492 [30JY], 21839 [31JY], 23863, 23903 [17SE], 24121, 24122, 24123 [18SE], 28665 [23OC], 29566, 29567, 29656 [30OC], 29798, 29799, 29801 [31OC], 30169 [1NO], 30888-30894 [6NO], 31349, 31350 [12NO], 31562 [13NO]
———deficit projections, 27058 [10OC]
———freeze Federal spending (H. Con. Res. 61), 2843 [20FE]
———line-item veto, 4325 [5MR]
———proposal, 2860-2861 [20FE]
———proposals (H. Con. Res. 46), 1641 [31JA]
———proposals to reduce deficit, 8235 [17AP]
———proposed, 1653, 1655, 1657, 1658-1662, 1669-1675 [4FE], 2251-2253 [7FE], 10030 [1MY]
———proposed freeze (H. Con. Res. 32), 573 [3JA]
———proposed freeze (H.R. 1418), 4568 [5MR]
———provide for a constitutional amendment to balance, 22503 [1AU]
———provide for a constitutional amendment to balance (H.J. Res. 27), 22514, 22517 [1AU], 22746 [1AU]
———provide for balanced, 29680 [30OC]
———provide for balanced (H.J. Res. 117), 1276 [30JA]
———reduce deficit, 2054 [6FE], 2239 [7FE], 2844 [20FE], 2886 [21FE], 3344 [25FE], 4106 [28FE], 8450-8457 [18AP], 14028 [4JN], 17396 [26JN], 18028 [8JY], 18081, 18082 [9JY], 18393, 18396 [10JY], 22838, 22840 [4SE], 23119 [9SE], 23356, 23357 [11SE], 23453 [11SE], 23863, 23864, 23865, 23903 [17SE], 24121, 24122, 24123 [18SE], 24279-24282 [19SE], 24514 [20SE], 26147 [3OC], 26410, 26469 [7OC], 33696 [3DE], 37193 [17DE], 37499 [17DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 895), 1361 [31JA]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), 29795, 29807 [31OC], 29841 [1NO]-29873 [31OC], 30166 [4NO], 30350, 30352, 30356 [1NO], 30448 [4NO], 30621 [5NO], 34511-34631 [5DE], 35813 [10DE], 36800 [16DE], 38359-38367 [19DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), appointment of conferees, 34512 [5DE], 38732 [20DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), conference report, 38078-38083, 38124-38340 [19DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), correction in appointment of conferees, 35564 [10DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), rule request, 22995 [5SE]
———repeal provisions respecting disapproval of proposed deferrals (H.R. 2247), 9561 [25AP]
———require balanced, 3506 [26FE], 10614 [7MY], 31561 [13NO]
———require balanced (H.R. 3462), 25531 [1OC]
———rescission, 24257 [19SE]
———response to proposals to eliminate revenue sharing, 1152 [28JA]
Budget Act: impact of waiver, 22956 [5SE]
Budget deficit: proposed economic effects, 20827 [26JY]
———reduce, 20249 [24JY]
Business Tax Records Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 783), 2053 [6FE], 5530 [19MR]
Ceiling: impact of raising, 10490 [6MY]
———limit, 11070 [8MY]
———require \2/3\ vote to increase (H. Res. 40), 1362 [31JA]
Commission on the Deficit: establish (H.R. 521), 595 [7JA]
Congressional budget: revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), 22975 [5SE]
———revising for fiscal 1985 and setting forth for 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), conference report, 22618, 22650 [1AU]
———revising for fiscal 1985 and setting forth for 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), request for consideration, 22511 [1AU]
———revising for fiscal 1985 and setting forth for 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), technical corrections, 22650 [1AU]
———revising for fiscal 1985 and setting forth for 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), waiving certain points of order against and providing procedures for consideration of conference report, 22618 [1AU]
Congressional Budget Act: amend (H.R. 1195), 3083 [21FE]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: rule providing for rejection of the conference report (H. Res. 349)-38329-38340 [19DE]
Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3128), motion to disagree to Senate amendment, 38368 [19DE]
Contract Savings Act: enact, 24200 [18SE]
Debt ceiling: limit, 26405, 26406, 26407, 26408, 26409, 26410, 26411, 26412, 26413, 26414 [7OC]
Deficit: reduce, 4957 [7MR]
Deficit Reduction Act: amend, 1350, 1353 [30JA]
———enact, 853 [22JA]
———exempt agricultural vehicles, 864 [22JA]
———repeal (H.R. 783), 2053 [6FE]
Dept. of Defense: budget issues, 12681-12684 [20MY]
———deficit reduction proposals and national security, 31232 [7NO]
———proposed budget, 1653 [4FE]
Dept. of HUD: unobligated funds, 31555 [12NO]
Dept. of the Treasury: require interest payments on amounts borrowed from Government trust funds, 29307 [28OC]
Economic conditions: national policy, 3360-3367 [25FE]
Economic Growth and Debt Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 2120), 8430 [18AP]
Economy: national policy, 1362 [31JA]
Education: proposed reductions in student loan program, 4549 [5MR]
EPA: proposed funding, 10179-10180 [1MY]
Executive departments: curb end-of-the-year spending, 24596 [20SE]
Expenditures: reduce, 35176 [9DE]
Export Administration Act: extend, 8012 [16AP]
Families: tax treatment, 37467 [17DE]
Federal budget: issues, 13339 [22MY]
Federal deficit: reduction proposals, 15744, 15762 [13JN]
Federal deficits: issues, 7757 [4AP]
Federal spending: reduce, 3848 [27FE]
———reduction proposals, 24279-24282 [19SE]
Foreign investments: holdings in public debt securities, 5924 [20MR]
Foreign trade: deficit, 23863, 23864, 23865, 23903 [17SE], 24405 [19SE]
———effects of domestic deficit, 19614, 19615, 19616, 19619, 19675 [18JY], 20827 [26JY], 31523 [12NO], 32492 [19NO]
Former Presidents' Benefits Containment Act: enact, 3098 [21FE]
Fuel Conservation and Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 1909), 7244 [2AP]
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.: Federal deficit reduction program, 12996 [21MY]
Government securities: authorize Federal Reserve Board to regulate activities of dealers (H.R. 1896), 7103 [2AP]
Government securities dealers: authorize Federal Reserve Board to regulate activities (H.R. 1896), 11241 [9MY]
Government-U.S.: reduce spending, 23495 [12SE]
Government—U.S.: reduce spending, 23495 [12SE]
Grace caucus: position on Federal spending, 10382 [2MY]
Grace Commission: recommendations, 15551, 15552 [13JN]
———report on waste, fraud, and abuse in Government spending, 22810 [1AU]
Head Start Program: budget cuts, 4304 [4MR]
Interest charges: economic impact, 5507 [19MR]
Interest rates: impact of rising, 4105 [28FE]
Japan: require to manufacture U.S. defense goods from U.S. materials, 22693 [1AU]
Job Security Bank Act: enact (H.R. 3540), 27029 [9OC]
Limit: increase, 29798, 29799, 29805 [31OC], 30184 [1NO]
———increase (H.R. 3721), 31586-31597, 31625-31634 [13NO], 31831 [14NO]
Military spending: effect on overall budget, 9378 [24AP]
Monetary policy, 29680 [30OC]
Motor vehicles: proposed rollback in fuel efficiency standard, 20712 [25JY]
National debt: establish lottery to reduce (H.R. 2074), 7549 [3AP], 8217 [17AP], 8305 [17AP]
National Debt Repayment Foundation: poll regarding Federal deficit consequences, 20683 [25JY]
National Dividend Act: enact (H.R. 56), 509 [3JA]
National lottery: establish to help reduce Federal deficit, 556 [3JA]
———implement, 27577 [16OC]
National Lottery and Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 2074), 7549 [3AP], 8217 [17AP], 8305 [17AP]
National Lottery-Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 2071), 35140 [6DE]
National Tax Amnesty/Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 2031), 7973 [16AP]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: congressional salaries, 29567 [30OC]
———enact (H.R. 3500), 26523 [7OC], 28001 [17OC], 28236, 28240 [22OC], 28604, 28605, 28606, 28607-28622, 28625-28662 [23OC], 28731 [23OC], 28739, 28740, 28741, 28742, 28745, 28813 [24OC], 28823 [1NO], 28840 [7NO]-28843 [24OC], 29069, 29079 [24OC], 31547 [12NO], 32187, 32193, 32207 [14NO], 32501 [19NO], 32905 [20NO], 33444 [22NO], 34791 [5DE], 35822 [10DE], 36359 [12DE], 36802 [16DE], 37490, 37506 [17DE], 38356, 38357 [19DE], 38672, 38724 [19DE]
———enact (H.R. 3500), permission to modify Latta amendment, 28737 [24OC]
Political economy: fundamental concepts, 20670-20676 [25JY]
Political parties: policies, 22839 [4SE]
Private Sector Council: proposals for Federal deficit reduction, 16452 [19JN]
Reagan, President: economic policy, 23864 [17SE]
———monetary policy, 30124 [1NO]
———proposed budget, 2338 [7FE]
———veto provisions, 22661 [1AU]
Reduction: proposals, 22663 [1AU]
Regan, Donald: Soviet grain embargo and farm policy, 19992 [23JY]
Republican Party: impact of budget policies, 23356 [11SE]
Save for the U.S.A. Year: designate (H.J. Res. 436), 29566 [30OC], 36144 [12DE]
SBA loans: abolish to reduce Federal deficit, 10187 [1MY]
Schuller, Robert H.: suggestions for living debt free, 8235 [17AP]
Sec. of the Treasury: proposed tax plan, 816 [22JA]
Smoking, Medicare and Medicaid, and Alternative Revenue Tax Act: enact, 7707 [4AP]
Social conditions: impact, 6028 [25MR]
Social Security: accelerate removal of trust funds from unified budget (H.R. 1376), 4240 [28FE]
———budgetary issues, 14546 [5JN]
———financial solvency of trust fund, 29076 [24OC]
———protect trust funds, 30965 [6NO]
———protect trust funds from actions designed to avoid public debt limit (H.R. 3738), 31547 [12NO], 32191, 32207 [14NO], 33198 [20NO]
———remove trust funds from the unified budget (H.R. 3470), 27350 [10OC], 29320 [29OC]
———trust fund disinvestment, 31222 [7NO]
State and local taxes: itemized deduction, 37469 [17DE]
———proposed phasing out of the deductibility, 14236 [4JN]
Status, 7489 [3AP]
Statutory limit: increase, 31559, 31563 [13NO]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), 26521-26523 [7OC], 26825 [8OC], 27038 [9OC], 27330, 27334, 27335 [10OC], 27361-27378, 27388 [11OC], 27736 [16OC], 28015 [17OC], 28218 [21OC], 28451 [22OC], 29049, 29079 [24OC], 29311 [28OC], 29548, 29555, 29563 [29OC], 29777 [30OC], 30107, 30111 [31OC], 30127, 30147 [1NO], 30166 [4NO]-30167 [1NO], 30336, 30350 [1NO], 30448 [4NO], 30621 [5NO], 30853-30872, 30879-30884 [6NO], 30933, 30937, 30942, 30965 [6NO], 31226 [7NO], 31547 [12NO], 32193, 32207 [14NO], 32501 [19NO], 32905, 33199 [20NO], 33444 [22NO], 34791 [5DE], 35174 [9DE], 35822 [10DE], 36329-36331 [12DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), appointment of conferees, 30880 [6NO]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, 35174 [9DE], 36069 [11DE], 36088 [19DE], 36099 [16DE], 36100, 36101, 36102 [12DE]-36103 [11DE], 36139 [12DE], 36356, 36359, 36367, 36369, 36376 [12DE], 36795, 36802 [16DE], 37490, 37506 [17DE], 38085 [19DE], 38672, 38675, 38687, 38724 [19DE], 38805, 38832 [20DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), consideration of conference report, 35741 [10DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), correction in enrollment, 35957 [11DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), permission to file conference report, 35176 [9DE]
———increase (H.R. 3658), 29874 [31OC]
———waive printing of enrollment of H.J. Res. 372 on parchment (H.J. Res. 473), 35741 [10DE]
Strategic Capital Reserve Act: enact, 26114 [3OC]
Students To End National Deficits: organization founding, 22520 [1AU]
Surtaxes: reduce deficit by imposing temporary (H.R. 894), 1644 [31JA]
Tariff: temporary surcharges on all imports to reduce budget deficit (H.R. 2120), 8430 [18AP]
Tax Amnesty/Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 2031), 7847 [15AP]
Tax reform, 13701 [23MY]
———proposals, 19495-19504 [17JY], 36361 [12DE]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 33695, 33831 [3DE], 34138, 34240-34250 [4DE], 34371 [4DE], 34467, 34468, 34469, 34470 [5DE], 35174, 35283 [9DE], 35825, 35836, 35840 [10DE], 35944-35957 [11DE], 36123 [11DE], 36130, 36131, 36132, 36133, 36134, 36136, 36137, 36138, 36139, 36140, 36184, 36185 [12DE], 36540, 36542, 36545, 36546 [16DE], 36771 [16DE], 36958-36970, 37155, 37176 [17DE], 37201, 37215, 37216 [19DE], 37217 [20DE]-37218, 37373, 37379, 37479, 37480-37485 [17DE], 37860, 37862, 37867 [18DE], 38085 [19DE], 38665, 38726 [19DE], 38804 [20DE]
Tax returns: encourage individuals to contribute, 15753 [13JN]
Taxation: credit for contributions to reduce (H.R. 1109), 2360 [19FE], 2612 [19FE]
———reform proposals, 29536 [29OC], 29770 [30OC]
Trade deficit: proposals to reduce, 2018 [6FE]
Trade deficits: international agreements, 27345 [10OC]
Trade Emergency and Export Promotion Act: enact (H.R. 3035), 19678-19680 [18JY], 22995 [5SE]
U.S. Debt Reduction Fund: implementation, 1847 [6FE]
Remarks in Senate
Agriculture: impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction plan, 36823 [17DE]
———requirements for certain reductions in price support programs, 27209-27213 [10OC]
Amtrak: funding, 3715 [27FE], 11005 [8MY], 11313-11340 [9MY]
Appalachian Regional Commission: proposed funding reductions, 10925 [8MY]
Appropriations: conform H.R. 3036 to the first concurrent resolution on the budget, 25085-25090, 25129-25139 [26SE]
———grant line-item veto (S. 43), 108 [3JA]
———grant line-item veto (S.J. Res. 11), 686 [21JA]
———line-item veto authority, 12970 [21MY]
Atomic warfare: economic impact of weapons in space, 13439 [23MY]
———weapons in space, 4734 [7MR]
Bankruptcy: prevent discharge of administratively ordered support obligations (S. 1889), 38815 [20DE]
Banks and banking: rate of savings, 20517 [25JY]
Bingham, Senator: explanation of vote on budget deficit reduction amendment to H.J. Res. 372, 30215 [1NO]
Budget: accuracy of spending projections, 30394 [4NO]
———adjust provisions that trigger automatic deficit reductions, 27241 [10OC]
———amend process, 28376 [22OC]
———balance, 31783 [13NO]
———balanced (S.J. Res. 13), 314-317 [3JA], 2969 [21FE]
———bipartisan agreement to reduce, 18732 [11JY]
———conference negotiations, 20725 [26JY]
———congressional efforts to reduce deficit, 30393 [4NO]
———consideration of reconciliation bills, 28968-28974 [24OC]
———constitutional amendment on balancing (S.J. Res. 54), 2744 [20FE]
———debt recovery program (S. Con. Res. 13), 2212 [7FE]
———deficit reductions under H. Con. Res. 32, 21308-21310 [30JY]
———establish ceiling (S. 32), 96-98 [3JA]
———establish select committee to study 2-year budget process, 21717-21722 [31JY]
———exempt certain agencies from funding reductions, 30657-30660 [6NO]
———guidelines for sequestering controllable expenditures to reduce the deficit, 26837 [9OC]
———impact of deficit, 20732-20741 [26JY], 23164 [10SE], 23700 [13SE], 24293 [19SE], 27712 [16OC]
———impact of deficit on balance of trade, 7811 [15AP]
———impact of deficit on economic growth, 2952 [21FE]
———impact of deficit on economy, 6139 [26MR]
———impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction plan, 34076 [4DE], 38459-38460, 38633, 38656 [19DE]
———impact on deficit of strategic defense initiative, 4734 [7MR]
———include CCC loans in sequester order, 27218, 27223 [10OC]
———include statement of interest accrued on outstanding zero-coupon bonds (S. 368), 1565 [31JA]
———include student loans in sequester order, 27218 [10OC]
———level of funding for VA, 2514 [19FE]
———military assistance, 2953 [21FE]
———modify recession provisions of Gramm-Rudman amendment to H.J. Res. 372, 30408 [4NO]
———politics of process, 4413 [5MR]
———position of the National Governors' Association, 3392 [25FE]
———proposed, 33438-33441 [22NO]
———provide for 2-year process (S. 20), 69 [3JA]
———provide that deficit reductions not be made disproportionately from programs targeted for rural areas, 26733 [8OC]
———provide that no concurrent resolution may increase total outlays or the deficit, 27213-27215 [10OC]
———provide that the President may not recommend actions to increase borrowing authority or debt limit, 27199-27203 [10OC]
———rate of deficit reduction, 12846 [21MY]
———reconciliation process, 36261 [12DE]
———reduce deficit, 904, 910 [24JA], 2003 [6FE], 2072 [7FE], 2443 [19FE], 3209, 3222 [22FE], 3576, 3578 [26FE], 4437 [5MR], 7807 [15AP], 9436 [25AP], 9659-9661 [29AP], 10281 [2MY], 15889 [17JN], 16199 [19JN], 20741 [26JY], 21671 [31JY], 24504 [20SE], 24904, 24959 [25SE], 25651 [2OC], 25834, 25850 [3OC], 26175, 26181, 26188, 26225, 26237-26241 [4OC], 26257, 26258, 26260-26306 [5OC], 26317-26336 [6OC], 26351, 26357-26360, 26385-26400 [7OC], 26718-26725, 26745-26760 [8OC], 26837-26896, 26914 [9OC], 27224-27241, 27246, 27253-27256 [10OC], 28101 [18OC], 29255 [28OC], 29399, 29400, 29520 [29OC], 29760 [30OC], 30200, 30269 [1NO], 30408-30409 [4NO], 30519-30527 [5NO], 30656-30676 [6NO], 31892 [14NO], 32220 [18NO], 32644 [20NO], 34458 [5DE], 35851, 35889-35918 [11DE], 38567 [19DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), 31975-32056 [14NO], 38483, 38503-38542, 38658 [19DE], 38735-38737, 38741-38751 [20DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), appointment of conferees, 34425 [5DE]
———reduce deficit (H.R. 3128), S. 1730 language passed in lieu, 31975 [14NO]
———reduce deficit (S. 57), 144 [3JA]
———reduce deficit (S. 1702), 24896-24903 [25SE], 25646 [2OC], 26385 [7OC]
———reductions in defense spending, 582, 583 [7JA]
———require balanced (S.J. Res. 13), 6628 [28MR]
———require balanced (S.J. Res. 13), unanimous-consent agreement, 34405 [5DE]
———require balanced (S.J. Res. 225), 34072 [4DE], 34992 [6DE]
———require balanced (S.J. Res. 225), unanimous-consent agreement, 34405 [5DE]
———require report on effect of deficit reduction in defense funding, 30543-30547 [5NO]
———rescind certain authority (S. 469), 2485 [19FE]
———response to statements by Donald Regan on impasse, 19943 [23JY]
———restructure process to balance (S. 617), 4867 [7MR]
———transfer of prior-year funds, 14434 [5JN]
———views of Cassia County, ID, commissioners on efforts to reduce, 4424 [5MR]
CBO: reporting requirements on status of the economy, 26840-26844 [9OC]
Ceiling: raise, 25063 [26SE], 25341 [1OC], 25554, 25555 [2OC]
Children: funding for school nutrition programs, 11364-11371, 11491 [9MY]
———immunization program, 11482 [9MY]
———proposed amendment to restore funding levels of nutrition programs, 8607 [22AP]
Committees of the Senate: deficit reduction efforts, 24423 [20SE]
Comparisons of Dept. of Defense budget recommendations, 12299 [16MY]
Congressional budget: CBO cost reestimate of S. Con. Res. 32, 13450 [23MY]
———commend efforts to pass, 11764 [14MY]
———Republican leadership plan, 9673 [29AP]
———response to 1986 resolution passed by House of Representatives, 13569 [23MY]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (H. Con. Res. 152), reestimate, 15326 [12JN]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), 7067 [2AP], 8109 [17AP], 8614-8617 [22AP], 8950 [23AP], 9188-9194 [24AP], 9436, 9457-9474, 9494-9534-9535 [25AP], 9569, 9578, 9588-9591, 9597-9602 [26AP], 9661, 9666-9673 [29AP], 9847-9915, 9944 [30AP], 10026, 10030, 10033 [1MY], 10281, 10293-10335 [2MY], 10414-10444 [3MY], 10522, 10572-10576 [6MY], 10768, 10774-10799 [7MY], 10943-11006 [8MY], 11294, 11312-11371, 11446-11495 [9MY], 12175 [15MY], 12389 [16MY], 14208 [4JN], 16004 [18JN], 22211-22227 [1AU]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), appointment of conferees, 15300 [12JN]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), conference negotiations, 19875 [22JY]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), conference report, 22194-22205 [1AU], 24466 [20SE]
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (S. Con. Res. 32), unanimous-consent agreement, 10896 [7MY]
Congressional Grace Caucus: White House ceremony, 29520 [29OC]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (S. 1730), 27468-27548 [15OC], 27676-27680 [16OC], 28392-28416 [22OC], 28556-28576 [23OC], 28933, 28946, 28947, 28978 [24OC], 29520 [29OC], 31189, 31204-31208 [7NO], 31281, 31289-31319 [12NO], 31725-31737, 31741 [13NO], 31906, 31929, 31930, 31961-31975 [14NO]
———enact (S. 1730), debate procedure, 31737 [13NO]
———enact (S. 1730), debate procedure on amendments, 31735 [13NO]
———enact (S. 1730), parliamentary inquiry, 31735 [13NO]
———enact (S. 1730), point of order, 31735 [13NO]
———enact (S. 1730), unanimous-consent agreement, 27943 [17OC], 28063 [18OC], 31234 [8NO], 31908 [14NO]
Debt ceiling: impact of raising, 24419 [20SE]
Defense budget: reduce, 27188-27192 [10OC]
Deficit Reduction Trust Fund: establish (S. 125), 219 [3JA]
Dept. of Agriculture: funding for research, 10795-10798 [7MY]
Dept. of Defense: budget, 2435, 2445 [19FE], 3000 [21FE], 3382 [25FE], 3826 [27FE], 4511 [5MR], 5276 [18MR], 10769 [7MY], 12297 [16MY], 14836 [7JN]
———budget reductions, 34458 [5DE]
———economic impact of budget reductions, 4742 [7MR]
———establish budget ceiling, 1590 [31JA], 7938 [16AP]
———funding, 9847, 9866, 9873, 9874 [30AP], 10956, 10972, 10977, 10978, 10979, 10985 [8MY]
———impact of budget on deficit, 29254 [28OC]
———impact of defense spending on economy, 4424 [5MR]
———impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit plan, 36217 [12DE]
———impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction plan, 36815 [17DE]
———impose inflation adjustment on funding, 10076-10087 [1MY], 10293-10315 [2MY]
———rationale for decrease in military spending, 6140 [26MR]
———require report on inflation adjustments in budget, 13728-13734 [24MY]
———restructure funding for certain weapons programs (S. 763), 6612-6614 [28MR]
———unexpended funds, 12297 [16MY]
Economic conditions: impact, 27646 [16OC]
———impact of Government policies, 27841 [17OC]
———maintain Economic Assistance Development Program, 11451 [9MY]
———public and private debt, 28492 [23OC], 33210 [22NO]
———U.S. status as debtor nation, 24889-24890, 24891-24895 [25SE]
Education: funding, 11874 [14MY]
———opposition to budget reduction (S. Res. 62), 4404-4406 [5MR]
———student assistance, 10993 [8MY]
Eximbank: funding, 18254 [9JY]
Federal aid programs: percentage of budget, 26837 [9OC]
Federal budget: reduce, 1723, 1743 [5FE]
Federal deficit: reduce, 1269 [29JA]
Federal employees: reductions in benefits, 11304 [9MY]
Federal spending: reduce (S. 1), 44 [3JA]
Foreign relations: foreign aid, 10795-10798 [7MY]
Government: establish Presidential panel on debt collection (S. 794), 6739 [28MR]
———provisions for retention of private counsel for debt collection services (S. 143), 232 [3JA]
———provisions for retention of private counsel for debt collection services (S. 209), 671 [21JA]
———sale of loan assets, 10782-10795 [7MY]
———summary of published estimates, 8609 [22AP]
Government loan asset portfolio: sell, 29194 [25OC]
Government spending: effects of deficits, 12431 [17MY]
———reduce, 21671 [31JY]
———require any increase in outlays be financed by equivalent increase in revenues (S. 1540), 21735 [31JY]
Gramm, Senator: commend efforts on deficit reduction legislation, 27659 [16OC]
Hart, Senator: Democratic response to President's radio address, 28319 [22OC]
Hollings, Senator: commend efforts on deficit reduction legislation, 27659 [16OC]
ICC: impact of reductions in funding, 10773 [7MY]
Increase: waive printing of enrollment of H.J. Res. 372 on parchment (H.J. Res. 473), 35552 [10DE]
Interest: payment, 32287 [19NO]
Interest rates: impact of rising, 919 [24JA]
Levin, Senator: reflections on economic and political issues facing the nation, 36932 [17DE]
Limit: increase, 25789 [3OC], 26896 [9OC], 31319 [12NO]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), 25829, 25832, 25850 [3OC], 26175, 26181, 26188, 26225, 26237-26241, 26249 [4OC], 26257, 26258, 26260-26306, 26307-26311 [5OC], 26317-26336 [6OC], 26351, 26357-26360, 26385-26400 [7OC], 26718-26725-26764 [8OC], 26837-26896, 26897 [9OC], 27188, 27199-27256 [10OC], 30227, 30274 [1NO]-30408 [4NO], 30507, 30527, 30547 [5NO], 30656-30676 [6NO]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), appointment of conferees, 27548 [15OC], 34134 [4DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), cloture motion, 26222 [4OC], 26298 [5OC], 26326, 26332 [6OC], 26739, 26757, 26761, 26762, 26764 [8OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, 30285-30288 [1NO], 30403 [4NO], 34992 [6DE], 35851, 35889-35918 [11DE], 38549-38552 [19DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, motion to recommit, 35889 [11DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), motion to commit, 26293 [5OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), motion to recommit, 26328 [6OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), technical correction in conference report (H. Con. Res. 246), 35918 [11DE]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent agreement, 26789-26792 [8OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent agreement on cloture vote, 27181, 27199 [10OC]
———increase (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent request, 30288 [1NO]
———increase (H.R. 3721), 31749 [13NO]
Medicaid: funding, 10334 [2MY], 10798 [7MY]
Medicare: funding, 10334 [2MY], 10798 [7MY]
Moynihan, Senator: clarification of remarks on Norman J. Ornstein, 22468 [1AU]
NATO: funding, 10298-10307 [2MY]
NIH: impact of proposed budget reductions, 5171 [14MR]
OMB: reporting requirements on status of the economy, 26840-26844 [9OC]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3500), 29520 [29OC]
Pacific Island Trust Territories: compact of free association funding, 10798 [7MY]
Pay-As-You-Go Budget Act: enact (S. 291), 912 [24JA]
Pensions: cost-of-living adjustment in civilian and military programs, 10315-10321 [2MY], 10993 [8MY]
Public broadcasting: funding, 10942 [8MY]
REA: funding, 11485 [9MY]
Reagan, President: fiscal policies, 29977 [31OC]
Rudman, Senator: commend efforts on deficit reduction legislation, 27659 [16OC]
Save for the U.S.A. Year: designate (H.J. Res. 436), 36500 [16DE]
Savings accounts: rate, 20517 [25JY]
SBA: funding, 9847 [30AP], 11466 [9MY]
Social Security: cost-of-living adjustment, 10956, 10972, 10977, 10978, 10981, 10986, 10987 [8MY], 11476 [9MY]
———cost-of-living adjustments, 9856 [30AP]-10075 [1MY], 10302 [2MY]
———disinvestment of trust fund, 36827 [17DE]
———exclude trust funds from budget (S. 724), 5846 [20MR]
———funding, 18238 [9JY]
———impact on borrowing needs of the Dept. of the Treasury, 27253 [10OC]
———prevent disinvestment of trust fund (H.R. 3669), 30289-30292 [1NO]
———prevent disinvestment of trust fund (H.R. 3669), unanimous-consent request, 30288 [1NO]
———protect trust fund from disinvestment, 30413 [4NO]
———protect trust fund from disinvestment (S. 1826), 30412 [4NO]
———reduce cost-of-living adjustments if other automatic increases in spending are reduced, 27193-27199 [10OC]
———remove trust fund from reconciliation process, 26735-26739 [8OC]
———separation of trust fund from budget, 23713 [13SE], 23820-23830 [16SE]
———trust fund financial solvency, 30086 [31OC], 30327 [1NO], 31005-31007, 31018 [7NO], 31783 [13NO]
———trust fund solvency, 28598 [23OC]
Switzlerland: ex gratia payment, 14979 [10JN]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 36927 [17DE]
Taxation: cigarette excise tax, 11448 [9MY]
———credit for contributions to reduce (S. 482), 2736 [20FE]
———improve enforcement procedures for revenue collection, 10943-10949 [8MY]
———minimum tax on corporations and individuals, 10321-10333 [2MY]
Technology: funding for research and development, 9509 [25AP]
VA: budget, 4749 [7MR]
———funding needs of health care system, 13783 [24MY]
Veterans: cost-of-living adjustments for disabled, 27246 [10OC]
———funding for benefits and services, 11342-11363 [9MY]
———funding for programs, 4749 [7MR]
Weapons: impact of arms race on budget deficits, 10769 [7MY]
Youth: funding for summer employment, 11446-11448 [9MY]
———Job Corps funding, 11484 [9MY]
Reports
Balanced Budget: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 13) (S. Rept. 99-162), 28577 [23OC]
———Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 225) (S. Rept. 99-163), 28577 [23OC]
Budget Impact on Elementary, Secondary, Vocational Education and Other Human Services Programs, 2340 [7FE]
Budget Impact on Federal Student Financial Assistance, 2340 [7FE]
Budget Impact on Michigan Students, 2341 [7FE]
Budget Impact on the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, 2341 [7FE]
Can Congress Rely on DOD's Inflation Adjustments as the Basis for a Budget Freeze?: Military Reform Caucus, 13730-13733 [24MY]
Can the U.S. Grow Out of Its Budget Deficit?: Library of Congress (excerpt), 9318 [24AP]
Changes in Spending and Revenue Provisions for Deficit Reduction: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 3128) (H. Rept. 99-241), 23442 [11SE]
———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 3128) (H. Rept. 99-241), 21936 [31JY]
———Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 3128) (H. Rept. 99-241), 23442 [11SE]
Conference: H.J. Res. 372, Public Debt Limit Increase, 30126 [1NO]
Conference Report Setting Forth 1968-88 Congressional Budget: committee of conference (S. Con. Res. 32) (H. Rept. 99-249), 22620-22632 [1AU]
Conference Report Setting Forth 1986-88 Congressional Budget: committee of conference (S. Con. Res. 32) (H. Rept. 99-249) (Filed in Disagreement), 22681 [1AU]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3128): committee of conference (H. Rept. 99-454), 38124-38329 [19DE]
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730): Committee on the Budget (excerpt), 28394 [22OC]
Continuing Appropriations: Committee on Rules (H.J. Res. 491; H. Res. 344) (H. Rept. 99-446), 36764 [16DE]
Deficit Reduction: committee of conference (H.R. 3128) (H. Rept. 99-453), 38370 [19DE]
———committee of conference (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 342) (H. Rept. 99-444), 36764 [16DE]
———Committee on Rules (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 330) (H. Rept. 99-410), 33841 [3DE]
Deficit Reduction and Program Improvement: Committee on Finance (S. 3128), 32126 [14NO]
Deficit Reduction Spending and Revenue Provisions: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 301) (H. Rept. 99-338), 29374 [29OC]
Designate National Buy American Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 194), 24359 [19SE]
Disinvestment of Social Security Trust Funds: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3669; H. Res. 306) (H. Rept. 99-353), 30198 [1NO]
Effect of Maximum Taxable Wage Cap on Taxes, Social Security, and the Deficit, 11692 [13MY]
Gramm-Rudman Amendment to the Debt Limit Legislation (H.J. Res. 372): Democratic Study Group, 26868-26874 [9OC]
Increase: committee of conference (H.J. Res. 372) (H. Rept. 99-351), 30198 [1NO]
Increase Limit: Committee on Finance (H.J. Res. 372) (S. Rept. 99-144), 25171 [26SE]
———Committee on Rules (H.R. 3721; H. Res. 318) (H. Rept. 99-369), 31514 [12NO]
Internal Revenue Law Reform: Committee on the Rules (H.R. 3838; H. Res. 343) (H. Rept. 99-445), 36764 [16DE]
Monetary Policy: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Rept. 99-149), 26241 [4OC]
———Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Rept. 99-22), 7029 [2AP]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3500; H. Res. 296) (H. Rept. 99-310), 27827 [17OC]
Procedures for Conference Report Setting Forth 1986-88 Congressional Budget: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 253; S. Con. Res. 32) (H. Rept. 99-248), 22681 [1AU]
Reject Conference Report on Bill to Reduce Deficit: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 349) (H. Rept. 99-454), 38370 [19DE]
Social Security Act—Violation by Disinvestment of Trust Funds: Library of Congress (excerpt), 36827 [17DE]
Social Security and the Budget: David Koitz, 10049 [1MY]
Statutory Limit: committee of conference (H.J. Res 372), 35750-35785, 35787 [10DE]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838) (excerpt), 37205 [17DE]
Reports to constituents
Hamilton, Lee H.: Debt, 27026 [9OC]
———Deficit Reduction Plan, 28726 [23OC]
———Social Security and the Deficit, 2042 [6FE]
Simon, Senator: Dealing With the Budget Deficit, 3216 [22FE]
———Debt-Free Anniversary, 3214 [22FE]
Resolutions by organizations
Budget deficit: Republican Conference of the Senate, 22211 [1AU]
Reducing the budget deficit: Cassia County, ID, Commissioners, 4424 [5MR]
Senate budget reductions: Senator Helms, 22216 [1AU]
Rulings of the Chair
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3500), 28826, 28827 [24OC]
Sermons
Case for Intelligent Optimism: James C. Brown, 7807-7809 [15AP]
Statements
Accumulation of Debt: Thomas Jefferson, 24902 [25SE]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: (sundry excerpts), 31226 [7NO]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (S. 1702): Herbert Stein, 28218 [21OC]
———Walter W. Heller, 28218 [21OC]
Budget Compromise: President Reagan, 11463 [9MY]
Budget Deficit: National Association of Realtors (excerpt), 25357 [1OC]
———President Reagan, 27255 [10OC]
———President Reagan (excerpt), 10040, 10041 [1MY]
———Senator Moynihan, 20738, 20739 [26JY]
Budget (sundry excerpts), 33439 [22NO]
Comparison of Presidential Budget Requests and Congressionally Appropriated Amounts: Representative Wright, 1139 [28JA]
Concerns About Budget Deficits: sundry students of the Presidential Classroom Program (excerpts), 4559 [5MR]
Congress' Budget Power: Robert Jackson, 36079 [11DE]
Constitutional Convention for Balanced Budget (sundry excerpts), 25218-25219 [26SE]
Debt Limit: James A. Baker III, 25850 [3OC]
———Member of Congress, 25840 [3OC]
———Senator Gramm, 25840 [3OC]
Debts for the Next Generation: Thomas Jefferson (excerpt), 4327 [5MR]
Defense Funding: Caspar W. Weinberger, Sec. of Defense, 30544 [5NO]
Deficit Reduction, 26208 [4OC]
———Senator Chiles, 26758 [8OC]
———Senator Simpson, 33256 [22NO]
Deficit Spending: Thomas Jefferson, 26859 [9OC]
Democratic Response to President Reagan's Radio Broadcast: Representative Wright, 17923 [27JN]
Economic Forecasts: Rudolph G. Penner, 30657 [6NO]
Estimate of Deficit for 1986: CBO, 30526 [5NO]
Federal Deficit: Rudolph Penner, 22938 [4SE]
Federal Government Power of Borrowing: Thomas Jefferson, 8235 [17AP]
Federal Reserve Board: House Republican Policy Committee, 14224 [4JN]
Fiscal Deficits: Henry M. Jackson, 10300 [2MY]
Free Enterprise: Council of Economic Advisers (excerpt), 37453 [17DE]
Funding of Social Security: Larry Speakes, 10062 [1MY]
———President Reagan, 10050, 10062, 10074 [1MY]
Gramm-Rudman Balanced Budget Amendment: Conference of Synodical Bishops of the Lutheran Church in America, 28280 [22OC]
———U.S. Catholic Conference, 28280 [22OC]
Gramm-Rudman Deficit Reduction Amendment: James J. Kilpatrick, 30284 [1NO]
Guaranteed Loan Program: Kenneth Guenther, 11467 [9MY]
———President Reagan, 11467 [9MY]
Impact of Budget Deficits: Paul A. Volcker, 10973 [8MY]
Impact of Deficit on Agriculture: J. Edwin Faris and Harold M. Harris, 32250 [18NO]
Legislative Department Access to Pockets of the People: James Madison, 36079 [11DE]
Line-Item Veto: National Association of Realtors (excerpt), 25357 [1OC]
Military Spending: Senator Goldwater, 10304 [2MY]
My Son Gave to the U.S. Debt Reduction Fund: Salvator Aresco, 1847 [6FE]
Payback to the U.S.: Pat Klein, 1847 [6FE]
Point-by-Point Rebuttal to OMB Trust Funds Letter, 28001 [17OC]
Position on Federal Budget: National Governors' Association, 3392 [25FE]
Problem of Federal Deficits: David A. Stockman, OMB Director (excerpt), 19138 [16JY]
Public Debt Limit: committee of conference (excerpt), 35905 [11DE]
———Representative Kemp, 36093 [11DE]
Reducing the Deficit: President Reagan, 11481 [9MY]
Regional Hearing on Secondary and Elementary Education: Roy Truby, 4406 [5MR]
Report Card on Reaganomics: Walter W. Heller, 28021-28023 [17OC]
Restoration of Programatic Civil Service Reductions to Budget: Senator Eagleton, 11305-11306 [9MY]
Social Security and the Young: Peter G. Peterson, 14546 [5JN]
Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment: Senator Pressler, 10302 [2MY]
Soviet Grain Embargo and Farm Policy (Donald Regan), 19992 [23JY]
Tax Reform Act: Representative Pepper, 36185 [12DE]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838): Children's Defense Fund, 37161 [17DE]
———Coalition on Women and Taxes, 37161 [17DE]
———League of Women Voters, 37162 [17DE]
Tax System Reform: Jack A. Dinos, 13701 [23MY]
Treasury II—Threat to Savings Institutions and to the National Priority for Housing: California League of Savings Institutions, 24203 [18SE]
VA Budget: Harry N. Walters, 11356 [9MY]
Value of Money, 27368 [11OC]
White House-Republican leadership budget plan: Senator DeConcini, 22217 [1AU]
Studies
Federal Deficit: IMF and the Federal Reserve Board (excerpt), 36480 [16DE]
Should We Exempt Defense From Economic Reality—The Need for a Defense Budget Freeze: CBO, 10080-10084 [1MY]
Trillion Dollar Budget: Glenn Pascall (excerpt), 10030 [1MY]
Summaries
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985—Conference Agreement, 35857-35858 [11DE]
Cost of Living Adjustments To Be Restored to Full Value in Line With Full Social Security, 10319 [2MY]
Dole-Domenici Budget Amendment, 11460 [9MY]
Highlights of Family Tax Report Card—Round II, 37468 [17DE]
Public Debt Increase Conference Agreement (H.J. Res. 372), 36070 [11DE]
Rescission Proposals Savings, 2489 [19FE]
Tax Reform Act (H.R. 3838), 37163-37176 [17DE]
Trade Emergency and Export Promotion Act (H.R. 3035), 19678 [18JY]
Tables
Allocation of spending responsibility to House committees pursuant to sec. 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act—Fiscal year 1986, 22975 [5SE]
Amendments to the Senate-reported reconciliation bill that increase or reduce total deficit reductions, 31951 [14NO]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (S. 1702), 24901 [25SE]
Budget: active duty end strength, 1659 [4FE]
———military communications programs, 1662 [4FE]
———National Guard and Reserve end strength, 1659 [4FE]
———request for Active and Reserve Forces, 1659 [4FE]
Budget analysis, 9876-9914 [30AP]
Budget deficit, 38732 [20DE]
Budget outlays, 1940-1990, 21671 [31JY]
Byrd amendment to compromise budget, 10995 [8MY]
Change from Senate Committee on the budget baseline, 22197 [1AU]
Comparison of Presidential budget requests and congressionally appropriated amounts, 1140 [28JA]
Components of budget conference substitute, 22195 [1AU]
Controllability of budget outlays, 26359 [7OC], 27229 [10OC]
Cranston amendment—function 700, veterans' benefits and services, 11343 [9MY]
Deficit reduction—Gramm-Rudman comparisons (sundry), 35891 [11DE]
Dole-Domenici perfecting amendment to budget, 11459 [9MY]
Effects of proposed tax reform on Wisconsin, 36123 [11DE]
Fiscal year 1986 defense budget facts, 2436 [19FE]
Government and private debt, 27243, 27245 [10OC]
Gramm/Rudman balanced budget amendment, 28286, 28287 [22OC]
H.R. 1—reconciliation amendment compared with budget resolution, 28840 [7NO]
Inflation at the Pentagon (sundry), 12682 [20MY]
Major reductions and terminations in proposed budget, 1658 [4FE]
New VA activation listing, 11344 [9MY]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 28626, 28654 [23OC]
Outlay reductions by committee as included in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730), 27547 [15OC]
Possible disputes between Congress and White House on savings, 38746 [20DE]
Preliminary budget reconciliation savings, 38503 [19DE]
Presidential deficit/surplus makers—fiscal years 1946-85, 30123 [1NO]
Privately held Federal debt related to GNP, 27245 [10OC]
Proposed major budget savings—House and Senate, 19675 [18JY]
Public debt ceiling, 30872 [6NO]
Savings as included in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (S. 1730), 27547 [15OC]
Senate committee budget authority and outlay allocations: fiscal year 1985, 22204 [1AU]
———fiscal year 1986, 22204 [1AU]
Senate-White House budget agreement (change from S. Con. Res. 32, as reported), 9866 [30AP]
Social Security trust funds—estimated operations, 28598 [23OC]
Special CBO budget calculations; Sept. 17, 1985, 26878 [9OC]
State tax increase per itemizer/year, 14237 [4JN]
Summary of reconciliation savings by Senate committee, 22195 [1AU]
Unobligated balances lapsing, Dept. of Defense fiscal year 1984, 10980 [8MY]
Testimonies
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (S. 1702), 28451 [22OC]
———Alan S. Blinder, 28220-28221 [21OC]
Tax Reform: Representatives Wolpe and Horton, 19497-19498 [17JY]
Texts of
Contract Savings Act, 24202 [18SE]
Deficit Reduction Act, 854 [22JA], 1350 [30JA]
H.J. Res. 372, increase limit, 26738 [8OC]
H.J. Res. 436, Save for the U.S.A. Year, 36144 [12DE]
H.R. 521, establish Commission on the Deficit, 596 [7JA]
H.R. 2074, National Lottery and Deficit Reduction Act, 8305 [17AP]
H.R. 3128, budget deficit reduction, 29841-29870 [31OC]
H.R. 3128, reduce budget deficit, 31975-32056 [14NO]
H.R. 3500, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 28745-28813 [24OC]
H.R. 3721, to increase the public debt limit and to restore trust funds, 31592 [13NO]
H.R. 3838, Tax Reform Act, 37219-37372 [17DE]
S. 1, reduce Federal spending, 44 [3JA]
S. 20, provide for 2-year budget process, 70-75 [3JA]
S. 32, establish budget ceiling, 96 [3JA]
S. 57, reduce budget deficit, 145-149 [3JA]
S. 125, Deficit Reduction Trust Fund establishment, 219 [3JA]
S. 143, provisions for retention of private counsel for collection of debts owed to Government, 233 [3JA]
S. 209, provisions for retention of private counsel for collection of debts owed to Government, 671 [21JA]
S. 291, Pay-As-You-Go Budget Act, 912 [24JA]
S. 368, include in budget interest accrued on outstanding zero-coupon bonds, 1565 [31JA]
S. 469, rescind certain budget authority, 2485-2489 [19FE]
S. 482, National Debt Contribution Act, 2737 [20FE]
S. 671, Balanced Budget Procedures Act, 4868 [7MR]
S. 724, exclude Social Security trust fund from budget process, 5847 [20MR]
S. 763, National Defense Enhancement Act, 6615-6617 [28MR]
S. 1540, require increase in revenues for equivalent increase in outlays (S. 1540), 21736 [31JY]
S. 1730, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 27468-27546 [15OC]
S. 1826, protect Social Security trust fund from disinvestment, 30412 [4NO]
S. Con. Res. 13, debt recovery program, 2212 [7FE]
S. Res. 286, waiving Congressional Budget Act, 35544 [10DE]
S.J. Res. 7, constitutional amendment to balance budget, 19 [3JA]
S.J. Res. 13, balanced budget, 316 [3JA]
S.J. Res. 54, constitutional amendment on balancing budget, 2745 [20FE]