OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 5300), 21247-21252 [13AU], 25996-26023 [24SE]

Enact (S. 2706), 23102 [12SE], 24825-24827, 24828, 24833, 24844, 24845, 24851-24855, 24872-24874, 24882, 24884, 24897, 24898, 24899-24903, 24905, 24917, 25029-25031, 25033, 25034, 25037, 25038, 25040, 25041, 25042, 25045 [19SE]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 5300, 26151 [25SE], 26359 [25SE], 26975 [29SE]

Articles and editorials

Farm Credit System Ready To Paper Over Its Red Ink, 33310 [17OC]

Federal Regulators Show Indifference, 33299 [17OC]

Pending Legislation Would End Impasse Over SBA Program, 33291 [17OC]

Saving the System, Not the Farmers, 33282 [17OC]

To Rethink Our Future—An Overview of the Budget: Senator Chiles, 33261-33267 [17OC]

Explanations

Nickles amendment to S. 2706, 24886 [19SE]

Provisions, 25904 [24SE]

Tax penalty amendment to S. 2706, 24844 [19SE]

Letters

Establish Corp. for Small Business Investment: James A. Baker III, Sec. of the Treasury, 33299 [17OC]

———OMB, 33299 [17OC]

Reduction of interest rates to the farmers: St. Paul, MN, District Farm Council (excerpt), 33268 [17OC]

Restitution for crude oil overcharge funds: John S. Herrington, Sec. of Energy, 33297 [17OC]

Saving the Farm Credit System: Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, 33283 [17OC]

Lists

Major objections to the Corp. for Small Business Investment, 33299 [17OC]

Remarks in House

Enact (H.R. 5300), 19009 [4AU], 22166 [15AU], 25880, 25883-25927, 25996-26025 [24SE], 26200 [25SE], 26566 [26SE], 33939 [6NO]

———appointment of conferees, 26359 [25SE]

———authorizing insertion in enrollment (S. Con. Res. 174), 33694 [18OC]

———conference report, 32955-32978 [17OC], 33936 [6NO]

———consideration of conference report, 28088 [2OC]

———correction in appointment of conferees, 26975 [29SE]

———dissenting view of Representative Ray, 27114 [29SE]

———permission to file conference report, 28087 [2OC]

———request for permission to offer substitute amendment in lieu of amendment made in order under the rule, 25892 [24SE]

———technical corrections, 26025 [24SE]

———technical corrections (H. Con. Res. 416), 33100 [17OC]

Provisions, 32996 [17OC]

Remarks in Senate

Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Unemployed Parent Program: funding, 33306 [17OC]

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish, 33291 [17OC]

Enact (H.R. 5300): appointment of conferees, 26151 [25SE]

———conference report, 33252-33284, 33287-33313 [17OC]

———S. 2706 language passed in lieu, 26151 [25SE]

———technical correction (S. Con. Res. 174), 33765 [18OC]

Enact (S. 2706), 23103 [12SE], 23814-23815 [17SE], 23871, 23873, 23875, 23936 [18SE], 24816-24947, 25031 [19SE], 25745 [24SE]

Farm Credit System: competitive interest rates, 33300, 33302-33305, 33309 [17OC]

———relieve financial crisis, 33274-33283 [17OC]

FERC: provide additional authority to collect fees and annual charges, 33298 [17OC]

Health: physician payment reform, 33305 [17OC]

———rural health care improvement, 33305 [17OC]

Medicaid: allow States to offer home and community-based services to low-income individuals, 33904 [6NO]

———maintain health care to the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

Medicare: maintain health care for the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

Petroleum: Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 33297 [17OC]

Petroleum Overcharge Distribution and Restitution Act: restitution for crude oil overcharge funds, 33296 [17OC]

REA: allow borrowers to prepay their long-term debt without penalty, 33906 [6NO]

Social Security Act: disinvestment of interest-bearing assets held in trust funds, 33306 [17OC]

Reports

Impact of Energy Prices and Discount Rate Policies on Energy Conservation in Federal Buildings: NBS (excerpt), 33312 [17OC]

Reports by conference committees

Provisions (H.R. 5300), 32829-32954 [17OC]

Reports filed

Budget: committee of conference (H.R. 5300) (H. Rept. 99-1012), 33158 [17OC]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 5300; H. Res. 558) (H. Rept. 99-871), 25456 [23SE]

Statements

Farm Credit System Proposes To Use Deferred Loss Accounting: Allerton Smith, 33277 [17OC]

Summaries

Conference Report (H.R. 5300), 32957 [17OC], 33253-33255 [17OC]

Fiscal Year Budget Wrap-Up, 33259 [17OC]

Tables

Comparison of savings in House, Senate, and Conference reconciliation bills, 33253 [17OC]

Deficit reduction to avoid sequester, 23875 [18SE]

Possible components of an amendment to Senate reported reconciliation bill, 24823 [19SE]

Preliminary baseline deficits assuming specific policy actions, 33253 [17OC]

Savings in conference agreement on the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 33252, 33253 [17OC]

Savings in Senate reconciliation package as amended, 24819 [19SE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 416, technical corrections (H.R. 5300), 33100 [17OC]

H.R. 5300, provisions, 25927-25996 [24SE]

S. 2706, provisions, 24918-24947 [19SE]

S. Con. Res. 174, technical corrections to H.R. 5300, 33843 [18OC]