PUBLIC FINANCE related term(s) Budget—U.S.
Addresses
Assault on Benefits—Deficit Thinking: Stuart J. Brahs, 8479-8480 [18AP]
Ban on AID Abortion Funding: Dan Weintraub (excerpt), 7659 [4AP]
Budget Deficit: Senator Moynihan, 20739 [26JY]
Constitutional Amendment on Balanced Budget: Senator Dodd, 8180 [17AP]
Democratic Radio Response to the President's Weekly Address: Senator Hart, 28322 [22OC]
Economics and Personal Responsibilities: Paul A. Volcker, 16760-16763 [20JN]
Family Planning Versus Abortion: Werner Fornos, 7660 [4AP]
Federal Deficit—Need for Bipartisanship: Willard C. Butcher, 11179 [8MY]
Light a Match—Or Curse the Darkness: Marshall Wright, 31523 [12NO]
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
Abortion: establish prohibitions, 7660 [4AP]
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, 10460 [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]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3500), 27643 [16OC], 27829 [17OC], 28827, 28834 [24OC]
Public debt: increase limit (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 limit (H.R. 3721), 31749, 31774 [13NO]
———increase statutory limit (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]
Social Security: prevent disinvestment of trust fund (H.R. 3669), 30290 [1NO]
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]
Government Securities Dealers Act (S. 1416), 18365-18369 [10JY]
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 public debt limit, 27548 [15OC], 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], 34512 [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]
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]
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 Defense Waste Woes, 23264 [10SE]
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? 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]
Deficit—``Potentially Lethal Cancer'', 3223 [22FE]
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]
Dole Rides High After Budget Victory, 12561 [20MY]
Draft Reply for Senator B.W. Goldwater to Article by Senator C.E. Grassley—A Freeze Is Just What the Pentagon Needs, 7938 [16AP]
Dual Taxation System Unearths Revenue, ***** [20FE]
Easy Answers That Court Disaster, 32155 [14NO]
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]
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]
Huge U.S. Budget Deficits Aren't Going To Disappear, 16740 [20JN]
Increase in Taxes, 9847 [30AP]
It's Still a Long Road to a Worthwhile Tax Reform, 31808 [13NO]
It's the Government's Job To Help All the People—Not Just the Rich, 7695 [4AP]
Keep the Job Corps—It Works, 3956 [27FE]
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 by Line, a No-Account Veto, 17080 [25JN]
Line-Item Veto Could Speed Budget Process but Substantially Increase the President's Power, 12970 [21MY]
Medicare Funding (excerpt), 30508 [5NO]
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]
Moynihan's Plan To Raise Cash, 10794 [7MY]
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]
Out of Post-Vietnam Trough, 12222 [15MY]
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]
Portfolio for Sale, 10793 [7MY]
Praise for David Stockman?, 21638 [30JY]
Preventing Debt Disaster, 23166 [10SE]
Problem of Monetarism, 34799 [5DE]
Property Tax Revolt, 2832 [20FE]
Provisions in Defense Bill Invite Political Mischief, 14555 [5JN]
Puerto Rico Sees Harm in Tax Plan—Reagan Would Drop Provision Credited for Thousands of Jobs in Commonwealth (excerpts), 23126 [9SE]
Reagan Amassed Huge Money Reservoir in First Term, 12222 [15MY]
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]
Sale of U.S. Loan Assets (excerpt), 10793 [7MY]
Save Us From the Senate's Stampede, 30161 [1NO]
School at 4—Model for the Nation, 4304 [4MR]
Scraping Off a Budgetary Barnacle, 17708 [27JN]
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]
Social Security—Battle Goes On, 13959 [3JN]
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 Mirage, 36927 [17DE]
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]
Tom Sawyer Reagan, 10793 [7MY]
Trade War Threat (excerpt), 17072 [25JN]
Turning Off the Spigot on U.S. Red Ink, 3061 [21FE]
Two-Rate Tax of Five Cities Put on Film, ***** [20FE]
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
Airport and airway trust fund: exclusion of receipts and disbursements from unified budget (see S. 1979)
Appropriations: amend House rule for conditional consideration (see H. Res. 39)
———consideration of H.J. Res. 441, making continuing (see H. Res. 312)
———consideration of H.J. Res. 465, continuing (see H. Res. 327)
———continuing (see H.J. Res. 457, 476, 486, 489, 490, 491)
———making continuing (see H.J. Res. 432, 441)
———separate enrollment of items for Presidential signature (see H.R. 1247)
———supplemental (see H.R. 2577, 2890; H.J. Res. 354)
———waive certain points of order against conference report on H.J. Res. 465 (see H. Res. 348)
Balanced Budget Procedures Act: enact (see S. 617)
Bipartisan Commission on the Budget Deficit: establish (see H. Res. 32, 259)
Borrowing authority: consideration of H.R. 3722, extend certain (see H. Res. 317)
———extend certain (see H.R. 3722)
Budget: 2-year cycle (see S. 1556; H.R. 748)
———2-year process (see S. 20)
———across-the-board freeze by major functional category (see H. Con. Res. 147)
———amend the Constitution to provide balanced, except in time of war or national emergency (see H.J. Res. 43)
———appropriations shall not exceed revenues except in time of war or national emergency (see H.J. Res. 253)
———consideration of H.R. 3500, reconciliation (see H. Res. 296)
———constitutional amendment (see H.J. Res. 148)
———constitutional amendment on a balanced (see S.J. Res. 7, 225; H.J. Res. 267)
———constitutional amendment on balanced budget and tax limitation (see S.J. Res. 13)
———constitutional amendment on balancing (see S.J. Res. 54)
———constitutional amendment on procedures (see H.J. Res. 166)
———constitutional amendment to require balanced (see S.J. Res. 212; H.J. Res. 400, 415)
———debt recovery program (see S. Con. Res. 13)
———economic conditions for President's impoundment of funds (see H.R. 1481)
———establish ceiling (see H. Con. Res. 28)
———establish temporary study committee (see S. Res. 157)
———expenditures not to exceed revenues (see H.R. 17)
———fiscal year 1986 outlays at 1985 level (see H.R. 1418)
———implementation of certain rescissions (see S. 469)
———limit expenditures to percentage of gross national product (see H.J. Res. 414)
———message printed in red ink if estimated expenditures exceed estimated revenues (see H.R. 118)
———pay-as-you-go requirement (see S. 291)
———President's balanced requirement (see H.R. 3)
———President's line-item veto authority over appropriations (see H.R. 2159)
———reduce deficit (see S. 1702; H.J. Res. 78)
———reject conference report on H.R. 3128 (reconciliation) and concur to Senate amendment with an amendment (see H. Res. 349)
———requirement for balanced (see H.R. 3462)
———temporary across-the-board reductions in tax expenditures (see H.R. 1377)
———temporary surtaxes to reduce deficit (see H.R. 895)
———2-year cycle (see H.R. 3461)
———urgency of deficit reduction (see H. Con. Res. 46)
Budget deficit: reduce (see H.R. 3520)
Commission on the Deficit: establish (see H.R. 521)
Committee on Defense Procurement Reform (Joint, Select): establish (see H. Con. Res. 166)
Committee on the Two-Year Budget (Select): establish (see S. Res. 159)
Congress: expeditious consideration of proposal by the President to rescind all or part of any item of budget (see S. 1431)
Congressional budget: improving process (see H.R. 1195)
———revising 1985 and setting forth 1986-88 (see H. Con. Res. 151, 154)
———revision (see S. Con. Res. 8)
———waive certain points of order on rules to provide for consideration of conference report on S. Con. Res. 32 (see H. Res. 253)
Dedicated user fees: protect from budget reduction process (see H.R. 1925)
Dept. of Defense: 2-year budget cycle (see H.R. 2845)
———cost savings in commissaries, moving expenses, closing and realignment of military installations, and fuel for aircraft (see H.R. 1824)
———limit payment of costs to contractors (see H.R. 2397)
District of Columbia: bonds
———Federal payment
Energy efficient buildings: provide financial assistance to builders (see H.R. 1070)
Executive departments: limit yearend spending (see S. 1731; H.R. 3411)
———restrictions over obligation of funds within last two months of fiscal year (see H.R. 1974)
Executive impoundment of appropriated funds: procedure to expedite consideration of President's proposals (see S. Con. Res. 65)
Expenditures: limit to revenues (see H.J. Res. 16)
Federal aid programs: periodic reauthorization (see H.R. 2)
Federal budget: constitutional ammendment regarding procedures (see H.J. Res. 107)
Federal budget procedures: constitutional amendment relating to (see H.J. Res. 12, 27)
Federal officials: use of public funds for purchase of portraits (see H. Con. Res. 97)
Fiscal Year 1986 Highway Act: amend (see H.R. 2460)
Gasoline: additional tax to eliminate budget deficits (see H.R. 3801)
Government: reduce costs of operating, maintaining, leasing, and acquiring motor vehicles (see H.R. 1825)
Government procurement: special legislation to continue obligation of funds for civil acquisitions whenever cost increases by 25% (see H.R. 2915)
Government spending: 1-year freeze (see H. Con. Res. 61)
———amend Senate amendment to, and request conference on, H.R. 3128, deficit reduction (see H. Res. 330)
———balanced budget (see H.R. 1170)
———constitutional amendment on balanced expenditures with revenues (see H.J. Res. 466, 467, 477, 478)
———correct imbalances in tax/benefit ratio among States by reallocating distribution (see S. 1496)
———deficit reduction and improvement of Federal aid programs (see H.R. 3128)
———increase in outlays financed by equivalent increase in revenues (see S. 1540)
———one year, across-the-board freeze (see S. 32)
———reduction of outlays (see S. 1)
Grace Commission: implement user fee recommendations for Depts. of Agriculture and Energy (see H.R. 1827)
House: rollcall vote on any measure making appropriations (see H. Res. 347)
Housing: home ownership incentives as part of fiscal policy (see H. Con. Res. 87)
Impoundment Control Act: amend (see S. 1702)
———restrictions on proposed Presidential rescission of budget authority (see H.R. 3252)
Interstate Highway System: approve cost estimate and authorize apportionment of funds (see H.R. 2461)
———approve cost estimate and substitute cost estimate (see S. 1514)
Lotteries: proceeds used to reduce budget deficit (see H.R. 2748)
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)
Neutrality in Federal Expenditures Act: enact (see S. 320)
Portraits: use of public funds for purchase of certain artworks (see H. Con. Res. 97)
President: repeal certain provisions relative to disapproval of proposed deferrals of budget authority (see H.R. 2247)
President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control: submission of recommendations to Congress (see H. Con. Res. 114)
Public debt: consideration of H.R. 3721, increase statutory limit (see H. Res. 318)
———increase statutory limit (see H.R. 3658, 3721; H.J. Res. 372)
Revenue sharing: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1400)
Social Security: exclude certain trust funds from unified budget process (see S. 1600; H.R. 3195)
———exclusion of certain trust funds from budget process (see S. 724)
———off-budget treatment of certain trust fund (see H.R. 2289)
———removal of trust funds from unified budget (see H.R. 2164)
———removal of trust funds from unified Federal budget (see H.R. 1376, 1385)
Tax expenditures: across-the-board reductions (see S. 556)
Tax reform: investment credit (see H. Res. 285)
———sense of the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 284)
Taxation: constitutional amendment on \3/5\ vote requirement (see H.J. Res. 453, 454, 455)
———revenues from new taxes used to reduce deficit (see S. 125)
User Tax Equity Act: enact (see H.R. 1925)
Book reviews
``Politics and the Budget—The Struggle Between the President and the Congress,'' Howard E. Shuman, 4413 [5MR]
Books
``Pentagon and the Art of War'': Edward Luttwak (excerpt), 2447 [19FE]
``Power of Being Debt Free'': Robert H. Schuller (sundry excerpts), 8235 [17AP]
``Ultimate Resource,'' Julian Simon (excerpt), 7659 [4AP]
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
Public debt: increase limit (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
Extend application of certain excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program (H.R. 3722), 31565 [13NO]
Tax credit for contribution to reduce public debt (H.R. 1109), 2613 [19FE]
Factsheets
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 estimated outlays and revenues as of Dec. 6, 1985, 35422 [9DE]
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]
Don't cut Federal worker pay: Joseph B. Rosenberg, 3479 [25FE]
Effect of budget cuts on students: Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corp., 6392 [26MR]
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 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 constraints on the Dept. of Commerce: Reese Taylor, 16702 [20JN]
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]
Libraries deserve continued support: New York Public Library, 9385 [24AP]
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 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]
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]
Sale of U.S. loan assets: H. James Toffey, 10783 [7MY]
———James D. Robinson III, 10784 [7MY]
———Peter A. Roberts, 10783 [7MY]
Social Security Trust Fund Protection Act, 35254 [9DE]
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]
———Louis A. Haas, 35144 [6DE]
———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]
U.S. assistance to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities: Zhang Wenjin, 7659 [4AP]
Use of appropriations process to control spending: several Members of Congress, 25087 [26SE]
Veterans' health care funding: Albert H. Linden, Jr., 30539 [5NO]
———Douglas K. Vollmer, 30539 [5NO]
———E. Philip Riggin, 30539 [5NO]
———John S. Staum, 30539 [5NO]
———Senator Simpson (Dear Colleague), 30533 [5NO]
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]
Programs involving automatic spending increases (category 1), 30514 [5NO]
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]
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
California, 7028 [2AP]
Colorado, 15745 [13JN]
Idaho, 5584 [19MR], 7025 [2AP]
Kansas, 5584 [19MR], 7028 [2AP]
Massachusetts, 5814 [20MR]
Michigan, 5815 [20MR]
Nebraska, 5584 [19MR], 10023 [1MY]
New Mexico, 7028 [2AP]
Pacific Island Trust Territories, 7026 [2AP]
South Carolina, 10023 [1MY]
Messages
1984 Budget: President Reagan (excerpt), 9847 [30AP]
Budget: President Reagan, 1651-1653 [4FE]
Fiscal 1986 Budget: President Reagan, 7812 [15AP]
Government Expenditures Attributable to National Economic Emergency: President Reagan, 19008 [15JY]
Program for Economic Recovery: President Reagan (excerpt), 10031 [1MY]
Motion
Appropriations: continuing (H.J. Res. 491), recommit, 36942 [17DE]
Public debt: increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), 26293 [5OC], 26328 [6OC]
———increase limit (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]
Petitions
Budget cuts in State and local assistance programs: Commerce, CA, City Council, 9830 [30AP]
Budgetary priorities: Hallandale, FL, City Council, 6688 [28MR]
Federal cuts in veterans' programs and retirement benefits: Pennsylvania State Veterans' Commission, 5815 [20MR]
Federal funding for Emergency Food Assistance Program: San Angelo, TX, City Council, 9830 [30AP]
Federal programs concerning health care: New York, NY, City Council, 10025 [1MY]
General revenue sharing and Arc Grants to Cities: Ohio Valley Mayors Association, 9441 [25AP]
Grants for providing alternate water supplies to replace contaminated ground water: Brookhaven, Patchogue, Long Island, NY, Town Board, 9423 [25AP]
Revenue sharing: Davidson, NC, 5993 [21MR]
State and Local Tax Deduction Policy: Republican Party Conference, New York State Assembly, 14551 [5JN]
Taxes: Herkimer County, NY, County Legislature, 24812 [24SE]
Play
``Julius Caesar,'' William Shakespeare (excerpt), 37461 [17DE]
Provisions
Senate budget proposals to committee of conference on S. Con. Res. 32, 16319 [19JN]
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 by, on
Public debt: increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), 26521-26523 [7OC], 27038 [9OC], 27330, 27334, 27335 [10OC], 27361-27378, 27388 [11OC]
Remarks in House
American Footwear Industry Recovery Act: enact (H.R. 1973), 22882 [9SE]
Appropriations: constitutional amendment allowing item veto (H.J. Res. 130), 2055 [6FE]
———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]
Borrowing authority: extend certain (H.R. 3722), 31563 [13NO]
Budget: 4-point plan to provide balanced, 11121 [8MY]
———amend Constitution to provide balanced, 465 [3JA]
———amend Constitution to provide balanced (H.J. Res. 27), 511 [3JA]
———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 253), 9390 [24AP]
———deficit, 6448 [27MR], 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 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]
———reduce deficit, 2054 [6FE], 2239 [7FE], 2844 [20FE], 2886 [21FE], 3344 [25FE], 4106 [28FE], 14028 [4JN], 17396 [26JN], 18081, 18082 [9JY], 22838, 22840 [4SE], 23119 [9SE], 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: effects on foreign trade, 19614, 19615, 19616, 19619, 19675 [18JY], 20827 [26JY]
———proposed economic effects, 20827 [26JY]
———reduce, 20249 [24JY]
Business Tax Records Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 783), 2053 [6FE], 5530 [19MR]
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]
———waive certain points of order on rules to provide for consideration of conference report on S. Con. Res. 32 (H. Res. 253), 21838 [31JY]
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]
Corporations: minimum tax rate, 37206 [17DE]
———negative tax rate, 37185 [17DE]
Debt ceiling: limit, 26405, 26406, 26407, 26408, 26409, 26410, 26411, 26412, 26413, 26414 [7OC]
———raise, 29798, 29799, 29805 [31OC], 30184 [1NO]
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]
———contracting proposals, 24678 [23SE]
———proposed budget, 1653 [4FE]
———weapons research and development, 3474 [25FE]
Dept. of HUD: unobligated funds, 31555 [12NO]
Dept. of the Treasury: require interest payments on amounts borrowed from Government trust funds, 29307 [28OC]
Dept. of Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3036), waiving certain points of order (H. Res. 236), 20792 [26JY]
Education: funding, 11226 [8MY]
———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 Agency Diet Act: enact, 7691 [4AP]
Federal budget: issues, 13339 [22MY]
Federal deficit: proposals to combat (H. Con. Res. 46), 1641 [31JA]
———reduce, by imposing temporary surtaxes (H.R. 894), 1644 [31JA]
———reduction proposals, 15744, 15762 [13JN]
Federal deficits: issues, 7757 [4AP]
Federal spending: reduction proposals, 24279-24282 [19SE]
Fiscal new year: observance, 25531 [1OC]
Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act: amend (H.R. 3228), 25244 [26SE]
Foreign investments: holdings in public debt securities, 5924 [20MR]
Foreign trade: deficit, 23863, 23864, 23865, 23903 [17SE], 24405 [19SE]
Former Presidents' Benefits Containment Act: enact, 3098 [21FE]
Fuel Conservation and Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 1909), 7244 [2AP]
Funds Availability Act: enact (H.R. 687), 1104 [24JA]
Gasoline: additional tax to reduce budget deficits (H.R. 3801), 32891 [20NO]
General revenue sharing: extending appropriations (H.R. 1400), 4291 [4MR], 4313 [4MR]
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.: Federal deficit reduction program, 12996 [21MY]
Grace caucus: position on Federal spending, 10382 [2MY]
Grace Commission: report on waste, fraud, and abuse in Government spending, 22810 [1AU]
Head Start Program: budget cuts, 4304 [4MR]
Job Corps Program: funding, 3086, 3091 [21FE], 3956, 3983 [27FE]
———funding (H. Con. Res. 75), 4539, 4558 [5MR]
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program: funding, 38832 [20DE]
Libraries: funding, 9384 [24AP]
LSC: reductions in funding, 2330, 2333 [7FE]
Military spending: effect on overall budget, 9378 [24AP]
Monetary policy, 29680 [30OC]
Motor vehicles: proposed rollback in fuel efficiency standard, 20712 [25JY]
NASA: funding, 7718 [4AP]
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 Endowment for the Arts: proposed budget cuts, 2019, 2043 [6FE]
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]
Office of Juvenille Justice and Delinquency Prevention: funding, 38805 [20DE]
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]
Philadelphia, PA, Naval Shipyard: proposed program reductions, 14554 [5JN]
Private Sector Council: proposals for Federal deficit reduction, 16452 [19JN]
Public debt: effects on foreign trade, 31523 [12NO], 32492 [19NO]
———encourage individuals to contribute, 15753 [13JN]
———increase statutory limit, 31559, 31563 [13NO]
———increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), 26825 [8OC], 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 statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), appointment of conferees, 27379 [11OC], 30880 [6NO]
———increase statutory limit (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 statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), consideration of conference report, 35741 [10DE]
———increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), correction in enrollment, 35957 [11DE]
———increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), permission to file conference report, 35176 [9DE]
———increase statutory limit (H.R. 3658), 29874 [31OC]
———require \2/3\ vote to increase ceiling (H. Res. 40), 1362 [31JA]
———tax credit for contributions to reduce (H.R. 1109), 2360 [19FE], 2612 [19FE]
Reagan, President: economic policy, 23864 [17SE]
———monetary policy, 30124 [1NO]
———proposed budget, 2338 [7FE]
———veto provisions, 22661 [1AU]
Real property: dual tax rate, ***** [20FE]
Research: tax incentives for domestic research and development (H.R. 1359), 4262 [28FE]
SBA loans: abolish to reduce Federal deficit, 10187 [1MY]
Single and multifamily housing bonds: volume limitation, 37196, 37209 [17DE]
Social Security: accelerate removal of trust funds from unified budget (H.R. 1376), 4240 [28FE]
———assure reimbursement of interest lost as result of Treasury Dept. actions in face of statutory debt ceiling crisis (H.R. 3688), 30942 [6NO], 35254 [9DE]
———budgetary issues, 14546 [5JN]
———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]
Strategic Capital Reserve Act: enact, 26114 [3OC]
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]
Taxation: reform proposals, 29536 [29OC], 29770 [30OC]
Trade deficit, 9973 [30AP]
Trade Emergency and Export Promotion Act: enact (H.R. 3035), 19678-19680 [18JY], 22995 [5SE]
Trade Policy and Reorganization Act: enact (H.R. 320), 17989 [27JN]
Transportation: remove trust funds from the unified budget, 28476 [22OC]
U.N.: reduce U.S. contributions (H.R. 3228), 25244 [26SE]
U.S. Debt Reduction Fund: implementation, 1847 [6FE]
Remarks in Senate
Abortion: activities of international organizations requesting U.S. funding, 7658 [4AP]
———establish prohibitions (S. 46), 20 [3JA]
———establish prohibitions (S. 46), star print, 4648 [6MR]
Agriculture: impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction plan, 36823 [17DE]
———requirements for certain reductions in price support programs, 27209-27213 [10OC]
Airport and airway trust fund: exclusion of receipts and disbursements from unified budget (S. 1979), 37654 [18DE]
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]
Bingham, Senator: explanation of vote on budget deficit reduction amendment to H.J. Res. 372, 30215 [1NO]
Borrowing authority: extend certain (H.R. 3722), 38382 [19DE]
Budget: 2-year cycle (S. 1556), 22281 [1AU], 25354 [1OC]
———accuracy of spending projections, 30394 [4NO]
———adjust provisions that trigger automatic deficit reductions, 27241 [10OC]
———amend process, 28376 [22OC]
———balance, 31783 [13NO]
———balanced constitutional amendment (S.J. Res. 7), 18 [3JA]
———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]
———constitutional amendment to require balanced (S.J. Res. 212), 25384 [1OC]
———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]
———House/Senate conferees deadlock, 20787, 20789 [26JY]
———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]
———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]
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]
Congress: criteria for funding Federal programs, 32647 [20NO]
———expeditious consideration of proposal by the President to rescind all or part of any item of budget (S. 1431), 19022 [15JY]
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]
Defense budget: reduce, 27188-27192 [10OC]
Deficit: U.S. as a debtor nation, 20868-20870, 20872 [29JY]
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, 35844 [11DE], 36217 [12DE]
———impact of Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction plan, 36815 [17DE]
———impose inflation adjustment on funding, 10076-10087 [1MY], 10293-10315 [2MY]
———inflation projections in budget estimates, 28344-28359 [22OC]
———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]
———use of prior year funds for development of simplified munitions lift trailer, 13457 [23MY]
Economic conditions: impact of Government policies, 27841 [17OC]
———impact of public debt, 27646 [16OC]
———maintain Economic Assistance Development Program, 11451 [9MY]
———public and private debt, 28492 [23OC]
Education: funding, 11874 [14MY]
———opposition to budget reduction (S. Res. 62), 4404-4406 [5MR]
———student assistance, 10993 [8MY]
Executive departments: limit yearend spending (S. 1731), 25632 [2OC]
Executive impoundment of appropriated funds: consideration of President's proposals (S. Con. Res. 65), 23994-23996 [17SE]
Eximbank: funding, 18254 [9JY]
Federal aid programs: percentage of budget, 26837 [9OC]
Federal deficit: reduce, 1269 [29JA], 1723, 1743 [5FE]
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]
———sale of loan assets, 10782-10795 [7MY]
Government loan asset portfolio: sell, 29194 [25OC]
Government Securities Dealers Act: enact (S. 1416), 18358-18361 [10JY]
Government spending: effects of deficits, 12431 [17MY]
———freeze, 37634 [18DE]
———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]
Levin, Senator: reflections on economic and political issues facing the nation, 36932 [17DE]
Limit: increase (H.J. Res. 372), 30547 [5NO]
Medicaid: funding, 10334 [2MY], 10798 [7MY]
Medicare: consider as an automatic spending increase program, 30507 [5NO]
———funding, 10334 [2MY], 10798 [7MY]
National defense: congressional oversight, 25348-25354 [1OC]
National Endowment for Democracy: eliminate funding, 17708 [27JN]
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]
Public debt: impact of raising debt ceiling, 24419 [20SE]
———increase limit, 25789 [3OC], 26896 [9OC], 31319 [12NO]
———increase limit (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 limit (H.J. Res. 372), appointment of conferees, 27548 [15OC], 34134 [4DE]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), cloture motion, 26222 [4OC], 26298 [5OC], 26326, 26332 [6OC], 26739, 26757, 26761, 26762, 26764 [8OC]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, 30285-30288 [1NO], 30403 [4NO], 34992 [6DE], 35851, 35889-35918 [11DE], 38549-38552 [19DE]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, motion to recommit, 35889 [11DE]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), motion to commit, 26293 [5OC]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), motion to recommit, 26328 [6OC]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), technical correction in conference report (H. Con. Res. 246), 35918 [11DE]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent agreement, 26789-26792 [8OC]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent agreement on cloture vote, 27181, 27199 [10OC]
———increase limit (H.J. Res. 372), unanimous-consent request, 30288 [1NO]
———increase limit (H.R. 3721), 31749 [13NO]
———payment of interest, 32287 [19NO]
———provide that the President may not recommend actions to increase borrowing authority or debt limit, 27199-27203 [10OC]
———raise ceiling, 25063 [26SE], 25341 [1OC], 25554, 25555 [2OC]
———summary of published estimates, 8609 [22AP]
———U.S. status as debtor nation, 24889-24890, 24891-24895 [25SE]
REA: funding, 11485 [9MY]
Reagan, President: fiscal policies, 29977 [31OC]
Rudman, Senator: commend efforts on deficit reduction legislation, 27659 [16OC]
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]
———establish procedure for sequencing consideration of the trust fund, 24299-24305 [19SE]
———exclude trust fund from budget process (S. 1600), 22398-22399 [1AU]
———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], 24053, 24092-24102 [18SE], 24297 [19SE]
———trust fund financial solvency, 31304-31309 [12NO]
States: reallocation of Federal funds (S. 1496), 20429 [25JY]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 36927 [17DE]
Taxation: cigarette excise tax, 11448 [9MY]
———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]
———exempt disability compensation from reductions in cost-of-living adjustments, 30528-30541 [5NO]
———funding needs of health care system, 13783 [24MY]
———protect prior year's outlay level for medical care, 30528-30541 [5NO]
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]
Young David's Tantrum, 11322 [9MY]
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 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 Spending and Revenue Provisions: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 301) (H. Rept. 99-338), 29374 [29OC]
Expenditure Authorization (S. Res. 70), 2110 [7FE]
Expenditures: Committee on Environment and Public Works (S. Res. 51), 1213 [29JA]
Gramm-Rudman Amendment to the Debt Limit Legislation (H.J. Res. 372): Democratic Study Group, 26868-26874 [9OC]
Internal Revenue Law Reform: Committee on the Rules (H.R. 3838; H. Res. 343) (H. Rept. 99-445), 36764 [16DE]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3500; H. Res. 296) (H. Rept. 99-310), 27827 [17OC]
Period of Congressional Review for Certain District of Columbia Acts Authorizing Issuance of Revenue Bonds: Committee on Governmental Affairs (H.R. 3718), 35927 [11DE]
Potential for Excess Funds in the Dept. of Defense: GAO, 28352-28359 [22OC]
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]
Public Debt Increase: committee of conference (H.J. Res. 372) (H. Rept. 99-351), 30198 [1NO]
Reduce Operating Costs of Presidential Libraries: Committee on Government Operations (H.R. 1345) (H. Rept. 99-125), 12008 [15MY]
Reject Conference Report on Bill to Reduce Deficit: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3128; H. Res. 349) (H. Rept. 99-454), 38370 [19DE]
Republican Alternative—Tax Reform, December 1985, 35149-35171 [6DE]
Social Security Act—Violation by Disinvestment of Trust Funds: Library of Congress (excerpt), 36827 [17DE]
Social Security and the Budget: David Koitz, 10049 [1MY]
Status of the Budget: Committee on the Budget, 6960 [1AP]
Statutory Limit of Public Debt: 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.: Deficit Reduction Plan, 28726 [23OC]
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]
Tax enforcement program: National Governors' Association, 10943 [8MY]
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
Accounts of the U.S. Should Be Simple: Thomas Jefferson, 14633 [6JN]
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]
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]
Defense Funding: Caspar W. Weinberger, Sec. of Defense, 30544 [5NO]
———President Reagan, 35882 [11DE]
———Senator Moynihan, 35882 [11DE]
Deficit Reduction, 26208 [4OC]
———Senator Chiles, 26758 [8OC]
———Senator Simpson, 33256 [22NO]
Deficit Spending: Thomas Jefferson, 26859 [9OC]
Defunding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation: Werner Fornos, 7659 [4AP]
Democracy as a Permanent Form of Government: Alexander Tytler, 13058 [22MY]
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 Funding of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities: Rita Moreno, 2043 [6FE]
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]
General Revenue Sharing Appropriations (H.R. 1400): President Reagan, 4314 [4MR]
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 Cuts on Cities, 4927-4931 [7MR]
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]
Observations on Budget Process: Senator Nunn, 25352 [1OC]
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]
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]
Veterans' Health Care Funding: Senator Gramm, 30529 [5NO]
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]
Costs of Funding Nonexistent Inflation, 28347 [22OC]
Dept. of Defense's Inflation Projections, 28346 [22OC]
Dole-Domenici Budget Amendment, 11460 [9MY]
Highlights of Family Tax Report Card—Round II, 37468 [17DE]
National Institute of Education Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2246), 9556 [25AP]
Public Debt Increase Conference Agreement (H.J. Res. 372), 36070 [11DE]
Rescission Proposals Savings, 2489 [19FE]
State Minimum Return Act (S. 1496), 20429 [25JY]
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]
Components of budget conference substitute, 22195 [1AU]
Congressional debate on annual authorizations, 25351 [1OC]
Controllability of budget outlays, 26359 [7OC], 27229 [10OC]
Cranston amendment—function 700, veterans' benefits and services, 11343 [9MY]
Deficit reduction plan fiscal year 1987-88, 38550 [19DE]
Deficit reduction—Gramm-Rudman comparisons (sundry), 35891 [11DE]
Direct loan transactions of the Federal Government, 10788-10792 [7MY]
Dole-Domenici perfecting amendment to budget, 11459 [9MY]
Economic impact of the House Ways and Means tax reform proposal, 27317 [10OC]
Effects of proposed tax reform on Wisconsin, 36123 [11DE]
First budget resolution (FY 1986) under S. Con. Res. 32, 12562-12567 [20MY]
Fiscal year 1986 defense budget facts, 2436 [19FE]
Government and private debt, 27243, 27245 [10OC]
Gramm/Rudman balanced budget amendment, 28286, 28287 [22OC]
Growth of micromanagement by Congress, 25351 [1OC]
H.R. 1—reconciliation amendment compared with budget resolution, 28840 [7NO]
Impact of sequester reductions under Gramm-Rudmann on VA medical care, 30531 [5NO]
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 budget offer (sundry), 16320 [19JN]
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]
Special CBO budget calculations; Sept. 17, 1985, 26878 [9OC]
State tax increase per itemizer/year, 14237 [4JN]
Summary of Dept. of Defense lapses, 13180 [22MY]
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]
Job Corps—Summary of the Facts: Kenneth C. Dugan, 4539 [5MR]
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 public debt limit, 26738 [8OC]
H.R. 521, establish Commission on the Deficit, 596 [7JA]
H.R. 687, Funds Availability Act, 1105 [24JA]
H.R. 1400, extending appropriations for general revenue sharing, 4315 [4MR]
H.R. 2074, National Lottery and Deficit Reduction Act, 8305 [17AP]
H.R. 2246, National Institute of Education Reauthorization Act, 9556 [25AP]
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. 3722, extend application of certain excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program, 31564 [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. 46, establish prohibitions against abortion, 20 [3JA]
S. 57, reduce budget deficit, 145-149 [3JA]
S. 291, Pay-As-You-Go Budget Act, 912 [24JA]
S. 469, rescind certain budget authority, 2485-2489 [19FE]
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. 1416, Government Securities Dealers Act, 18361-18365 [10JY]
S. 1431, expeditious consideration by Congress of proposal by the President to rescind all or part of any item of budget, 19023 [15JY]
S. 1496, State Minimum Return Act, 20430-20431 [25JY]
S. 1540, require increase in revenues for equivalent increase in outlays (S. 1540), 21736 [31JY]
S. 1556, 2-year budget cycle, 22282-22287 [1AU]
S. 1600, exclude Social Security trust fund from budget process, 22399 [1AU]
S. 1730, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 27468-27546 [15OC]
S. 1731, limiting yearend spending by executive departments or agencies, 25633 [2OC]
S. 1826, protect Social Security trust fund from disinvestment, 30412 [4NO]
S. 1979, exclusion of airport and airway trust fund from unified budget, 37654 [18DE]
S. Con. Res. 13, debt recovery program, 2212 [7FE]
S. Con. Res. 65, consideration of President's rescission proposals, 23994 [17SE]
S. Res. 159, establish Select Committee on the Two-Year Budget, 12525 [17MY]
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]
S.J. Res. 162, constitutional amendment on President's line-item veto authority, 19023 [15JY]