PUBLIC DEBT

Amendments

Budget: improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), H2771, H2779 [9MY], H3108, H3116, H3128, H3134, H3136, H3137, H3141 [16MY]

———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), consideration (H. Res. 499), H3091 [16MY]

Articles and editorials

Binges Becoming Regular Budget Fare, S10979 [25OC], S11099 [26OC]

Budget Surplus Induces Frenzy, S7496 [25JY]

Bye-Bye, Surplus, S11885 [15DE]

Cabinet Opens Up on Bush—Treasury Secretary Says Social Security Math Doesn't Add Up, S11049 [26OC]

Clinton Announces Record $237B Surplus, S11045 [26OC]

Don't Be Too Quick To Demand a Federal Tax Cut, E1994 [28OC]

Entitlement Reform the Way To Go, H3123 [16MY]

Heedless of the Deficits Ahead, S10265 [11OC]

Making Sure Surplus Revenue Is Used To Reduce the National Debt, S4984-S4986 [13JN]

Say Goodbye to the Surplus, S11046 [26OC], S11327 [29OC]

Washington Goes on a Spending Spree, S11098 [26OC]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 91), H1119 [16MR]

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce publicly-held debt and provide tax relief (see H. Res. 490), H2606 [4MY]

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt (see S. 2126), S1024 [1MR] (see H.R. 3695), H510 [16FE]

———improve and strengthen budget process (see H.R. 4397), H2769 [9MY]

———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), consideration (see H. Res. 499), H2905 [10MY]

———protect Social Security and provide for repayment of the Federal debt (see S. 2220), S1315 [8MR] (see H.R. 4195), H1851 [5AP]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt, decrease the statutory debt limit, and provide for retirement security (see H.R. 5203), H7870 [19SE]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (see H.R. 4601), H4120 [8JN] (see H.R. 4866), H6354 [17JY] (see H.R. 5173), H7650 [14SE]

Dept. of the Treasury: retire publicly held debt each fiscal year (see H.R. 4505), H3474 [19MY]

Economy: impact of interest rates on the national debt, H7646-H7648 [14SE]

Eliminate (see H. Con. Res. 246), H165 [1FE]

House of Representatives: allow en bloc offsetting amendments to appropriation bills in order to reduce spending and the public debt (see H.R. 5580), H11206 [26OC]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds (see H.R. 5670), H12531 [15DE]

———protect surplus by requiring a sequester to eliminate any deficit (see S. 2001), S37 [24JA]

———reduce the public debt by the amount of net surplus in trust fund each fiscal year (see H.R. 4694), H4783 [20JN]

———treatment under balanced budget constitutional amendment (see S.J. Res. 38), S285 [2FE]

Taxation: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax liability for deficit reduction (see H.R. 4626), H4173 [9JN]

———allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (see S. 3213), S10716 [18OC] (see H.R. 5349), H8551 [29SE]

Letters

Budget treatment of Social Security trust funds: Dan L. Crippen, CBO, S11051 [26OC]

———Senator Domenici, Committee on the Budget (Senate), S11050 [26OC]

Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act: Andrew F. Quinlan, CapitolWatch (organization), H3084 [16MY]

———Bill Frenzel and Tim Penny, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, H3082 [16MY]

———Eric V. Schlecht, National Taxpayers Union, H3085 [16MY]

———Grover G. Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform (organization), H3083, H3084 [16MY]

———R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H3082 [16MY]

———Ralph DeGennaro, Taxpayers for Common Sense (organization), H3084 [16MY]

———Robert L. Bixby, Concord Coalition, H3082, H3083 [16MY]

———Thomas Schatz, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, H3082, H3083, H3084 [16MY]

Debt Reduction Reconciliation Act: Robert L. Bixby, Concord Coalition, H4702 [20JN]

Treatment of any budget surpluses: Jill Lancelot, Taxpayers for Common Sense (organization), S2409 [7AP]

———Paul Coverdell, S7189 [19JY]

———Robert L. Bixby, Concord Coalition, S2408 [7AP]

Lists

Legislation cleared by Congress, signed into law, or en route to the President for his signature since Labor Day, S10887 [23OC]

Newspaper headlines on spending of budget surpluses, S11098 [26OC]

Memorandums

Budget Treatment of Social Security Trust Funds: Stephen C. Goss, SSA, S11050 [26OC]

Messages

Economic Report: President Clinton, S608-S610 [10FE], H331-H333 [10FE]

Federal Advisory Committees Report: President Clinton, S1389 [9MR]

Papers

How To Protect the Surplus From Wasteful Spending, Peter B. Sperry, Heritage Foundation, S7117-S7119 [18JY]

Remarks in House

Budget: allocation of funds, H257, H258 [9FE], H1251-H1264 [22MR]

———balance, H95 [1FE], H1733-H1739 [4AP], H1770 [5AP], H4269 [13JN], H7570-H7572 [13SE], H8282 [27SE]

———comparison between congressional and Clinton administration proposals, H11504, H11505 [29OC]

———deficit, H10 [27JA], H138 [1FE], H1289 [23MR], H1733-H1739 [4AP], H2414 [3MY], H3034 [15MY], H3532 [23MY], H5872 [12JY], H7582 [14SE], H7827 [19SE], H7936, H7938 [21SE], H8047-H8053 [25SE], H8205, H8286-H8292 [27SE], H8553 [2OC], H9454 [6OC], H10400 [19OC], H10805, H10806 [24OC], H11769-H11774 [1NO]

———devote cuts in discretionary funding during appropriations process to debt reduction, H4953-H4956 [22JN]

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce publicly-held debt and provide tax relief (H. Res. 490), H2957 [11MY]

———ensure that on-budget surpluses are used to reduce the public debt, H7829 [19SE]

———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), H3093-H3145 [16MY], E755 [17MY], E790 [19MY]

———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), consideration (H. Res. 499), H3078-H3093 [16MY]

———preserve portion of projected surplus to reduce the public debt, H1516-H1519 [29MR]

———protect Social Security and provide for repayment of the Federal debt, H10068 [18OC]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt, decrease the statutory debt limit, and provide for retirement security (H.R. 5203), H7780-H7798 [19SE], E1594 [26SE]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 4601), H4701-H4708 [20JN], E1007 [14JN], E1098 [23JN]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 4866), H6426-H6432 [18JY]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 5173), H7679-H7687 [18SE], E1533 [19SE]

———removal of analysis of budget functions from the budget resolution, H3135, H3136 [16MY]

———require that certain surplus amounts be used for paying down the national debt, H52 [31JA], H169, H170 [2FE], H260 [9FE]

———treatment of any budget surpluses, H95, H138 [1FE], H259, H268-H275 [9FE], H1000, H1001, H1002 [15MR], H1079 [16MR], H1251-H1264 [22MR], H2415 [3MY], H3138-H3141 [16MY], H3534, H3626-H3632 [23MY], H4031-H4033 [7JN], H6361, H6441-H6448 [18JY], H7351-H7357 [7SE], H7570-H7572 [13SE], H7936 [21SE], H8047-H8053, H8056-H8058 [25SE], H8067 [26SE], H8286-H8306 [27SE], H8418, H8419, H8441-H8444 [28SE], H8629 [3OC], H8745, H8746 [4OC], H8814, H8815, H8903-H8909 [5OC], H9454 [6OC], H9638, H9640 [11OC], H9818, H9820 [12OC], H10226 [18OC], H10815, H10846-H10848, H10879 [25OC], H11216 [26OC], H11512 [29OC], H11769-H11774 [1NO], E431, E433, E434 [28MR], E1218 [13JY]

Coins: use of profits from sale of Sacajawea dollar coins to reduce the public debt, H540 [29FE]

Congress: accomplishments of the 106th Congress, H10403 [19OC], H11201 [26OC], H11451 [28OC], H11787 [2NO]

Conservation and Reinvestment Act: condition funding on solvency of Social Security and Medicare, H2872-H2875 [10MY], H2949-H2951 [11MY], E779 [19MY]

Debt reduction lockbox: establish, H3142, H3143 [16MY], H9515 [10OC], E755 [17MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: report on public debt, H7520 [13SE]

———tribute to Sacajawea dollar coin, H1658 [3AP]

Domestic policy: effect of political party objectives on the economy, H11866 [13NO]

Federal employees: reduce contributions to CSRS and FERS, H6624, H6625 [20JY]

House of Representatives: require that excess amounts from Members' official allowances be applied to deficit reduction, H4951, H4952 [22JN]

Money: reduce debt by declaring Federal Reserve notes to be official currency enabling return of Treasury bonds and reduction of interest payments, H6360 [18JY], H8040 [25SE], H8894 [5OC]

Republican Party: national agenda, H1143-H1149 [21MR]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H10, H16 [27JA], H95, H138 [1FE], H169, H170 [2FE], H247 [8FE], H862, H863 [9MR], H1079 [16MR], H1305, H1334, H1335, H1348 [23MR], H1507 [29MR], H2347 [2MY], H4031-H4033 [7JN], H5849 [12JY], H6722 [24JY], H7563 [13SE], H8048-H8050 [25SE], H8066 [26SE], H8282, H8286-H8300, H8306, H8311 [27SE], H8747 [4OC], H9515 [10OC], H9818, H9820, H9894-H9897 [12OC], H10233-H10238 [18OC], H10464-H10468 [19OC], H10477 [23OC], H10536 [24OC], H10813, H10815, H10879 [25OC], H11431-H11435 [27OC], H11511 [29OC], H11710-H11714 [31OC], H11835-H11840 [3NO]

———budget treatment of trust funds (H.R. 5670), E2215 [15DE]

———reduce the public debt by the amount of net surplus in trust fund each fiscal year (H.R. 420), H12504 [15DE]

———reduce the public debt by the amount of net surplus in trust fund each fiscal year (H.R. 4694), H12504 [15DE]

———use of trust funds' surplus to pay down national debt, H2738 [9MY]

Taxation: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax liability for deficit reduction, H8412 [28SE]

———condition phase-out and repeal of estate and gift taxes on solvency of Social Security and Medicare and public debt reduction, H4078, H4081-H4085 [8JN], H4132, H4135, H4138, H4145 [9JN], E974 [12JN]

———condition repeal of excise tax on telephone use and other communications services on solvency of Social Security and Medicare, H3834 [25MY]

———make marriage tax penalty relief contingent on Social Security and Medicare solvency certification and public debt elimination, H314-H327 [10FE], H5866, H5869-H5871, H5874-H5877 [12JY]

———rates, E1994 [28OC]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: allocation of funds, S458-S462 [8FE], S512-S514 [9FE], S1696-S1698 [27MR]

———balance, S2179-S2190 [5AP], S4290 [23MY], S10960 [25OC]

———comparison between congressional and Clinton administration proposals, S2161, S2162 [5AP]

———deficit, S5 [24JA], S208 [1FE], S280 [2FE], S326 [3FE], S374 [7FE], S488 [8FE], S535 [9FE], S601-S603, S608 [10FE], S676 [22FE], S738 [23FE], S784-S787, S795 [24FE], S865 [28FE], S926 [29FE], S1021 [1MR], S1114 [2MR], S1170 [6MR], S1228 [7MR], S1309 [8MR], S1384, S1385 [9MR], S1454 [20MR], S1473, S1506 [21MR], S1589 [22MR], S1665 [23MR], S1738 [27MR], S1782, S1810 [28MR], S1875 [29MR], S1971 [30MR], S2030 [3AP], S2061, S2076, S2100 [4AP], S2230 [5AP], S2280, S2281, S2282, S2283, S2341 [6AP], S2434 [7AP], S2521 [11AP], S2611 [12AP], S2715 [13AP], S2857 [25AP], S2933 [26AP], S3015 [27AP], S3182 [1MY], S3253 [2MY], S3325 [3MY], S3507 [4MY], S3685 [9MY], S3827 [10MY], S3911 [11MY], S3942 [15MY], S4006 [16MY], S4097 [17MY], S4185 [18MY], S4233 [22MY], S4372 [24MY], S4453 [25MY], S4557 [6JN], S4665 [7JN], S4814 [8JN], S4950 [12JN], S5022 [13JN], S5103 [14JN], S5237 [15JN], S5305 [16JN], S5552 [21JN], S5654 [22JN], S5781 [26JN], S5878 [27JN], S6007 [28JN], S6109 [29JN], S6254 [30JN], S6344 [10JY], S6465 [11JY], S6570 [12JY], S6673 [13JY], S6838 [14JY], S7002, S7066 [17JY], S7151 [18JY], S7224 [19JY], S7385 [20JY], S7472 [24JY], S7502, S7538 [25JY], S7651 [26JY], S7824 [27JY], S8053, S8100 [6SE], S8192 [7SE], S8287 [8SE], S8339 [11SE], S8359, S8410 [12SE], S8495 [13SE], S8574 [14SE], S8634 [15SE], S8650, S8654 [18SE], S8754 [19SE], S8817 [20SE], S8938 [21SE], S9188 [25SE], S9262 [26SE], S9379 [27SE], S9423, S9460 [28SE], S9601 [2OC], S9692 [3OC], S9848 [4OC], S9938 [5OC], S10264 [11OC], S11048 [26OC], S11351 [30OC]

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt, S4943 [12JN], S4984-S4987 [13JN], S5177, S5178, S5189 [15JN]

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt (S. 2126), S1025 [1MR], S1113 [2MR]

———impact of congressional and Clinton adminstration agendas on reducing the national debt, S11070 [26OC]

———increase the amount for public debt reduction contained in the Federal budget for 2001-2005, S2190-S2194, S2196 [5AP]

———preserve portion of projected surplus to reduce the public debt, S2179-S2190 [5AP]

———protect Social Security and provide for repayment of the Federal debt (S. 2220), S1324 [8MR]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt, decrease the statutory debt limit, and provide for retirement security (H.R. 5203), S8866 [20SE], S8871 [21SE]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 4601), S5580 [21JN], S5710 [22JN], S7117 [18JY]

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 5173), S8772 [19SE], S8787, S8789 [20SE], S10264 [11OC]

———require that certain surplus amounts be used for paying down the national debt, S316-S318 [3FE], S458 [8FE]

———status report, S221 [1FE], S1307 [8MR], S5548 [21JN], S7993 [5SE], S10146 [10OC]

———treatment of any budget surpluses, S317 [3FE], S461 [8FE], S782-S784 [24FE], S1549-S1553 [22MR], S1700, S1702 [27MR], S1851-S1853-S1855 [29MR], S2065, S2075 [4AP], S2179-S2190, S2226 [5AP], S2408-S2410, S2421-S2423 [7AP], S2571 [12AP], S6601 [13JY], S7084, S7103, S7112-S7117 [18JY], S7429-S7431 [21JY], S7494-S7496, S7504 [25JY], S7607 [26JY], S7817-S7819 [27JY], S8620-S8623 [15SE], S8650 [18SE], S8868-S8870 [20SE], S9918, S9923 [5OC], S10264 [11OC], S10653, S10654 [18OC], S10978, S11018 [25OC], S11045-S11048, S11082, S11098-S11100, S11111-S11113 [26OC], S11267-S11269 [27OC], S11858 [15DE]

———treatment of trust funds relative to deficit and surplus forecasts, S601-S603 [10FE], S784-S787 [24FE]

———use of surplus to repay the debt, S2226 [5AP], S2391 [7AP]

Congress: accomplishments of the 106th Congress, S4402-S4405 [25MY], S10745 [19OC], S10886 [23OC], S10899-S10901 [24OC]

———legislative priorities of 106th Congress, 2d session, S4944-S4946 [12JN]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S11304 [28OC]

Republican Party: national agenda, S1167-S1169 [6MR]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, S348 [7FE], S459, S460 [8FE], S1533, S1535, S1539 [22MR], S1702 [27MR], S2031 [3AP], S2063, S2078 [4AP], S2177, S2179-S2190, S2193, S2266 [5AP], S2279 [6AP], S2386, S2410, S2433 [7AP], S2663, S2690 [13AP], S3684 [9MY], S3938-S3940 [15MY], S4243-S4253 [23MY], S4339 [24MY], S4515-S4518 [6JN], S4943 [12JN], S5317 [19JN], S6054, S6057-S6067 [29JN], S10141 [10OC], S10264 [11OC], S10901, S10903-S10906 [24OC], S10960-S10962 [25OC], S11045-S11052, S11082, S11098-S11100, S11111-S11113 [26OC], S11350, S11360-S11365 [30OC]

———budget treatment of trust funds (H.R. 1259), S8160, S8161 [7SE]

———budget treatment of trust funds (H.R. 1259), unanimous-consent request, S8492 [13SE]

———protect surplus by requiring a sequester to eliminate any deficit (S. 2001), S10 [24JA], S104 [26JA]

———treatment under balanced budget constitutional amendment (S.J. Res. 38), S290 [2FE]

Taxation: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (S. 3213), S10717 [18OC]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 853, Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 499) (H. Rept. 106-613), H2905 [10MY]

Debt Reduction Reconciliation Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 4601) (H. Rept. 106-673), H4219 [12JN]

Debt Relief Lock-Box Reconciliation Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 5173) (H. Rept. 106-862), H7722 [18SE]

Statements

Debt Relief Reconciliation Act: Representative McDermott, H6428 [18JY]

Treatment of Budget Trust Funds Relative to Deficit and Surplus Forecasts: Senator Hollings, S6999-S7002 [17JY]

Summaries

Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act (H.R. 853): Dreier Amendment on Establishing a 2-year Budget Cycle, H3079-H3082 [16MY]

Exclusion of Social Security Trust Funds From the Federal Budget, S785 [24FE]

Tables

Effects of proposed transfers from the general fund to the Social Security trust funds on cumulative interest payments, S11052 [26OC]

Federal budget deficits, trust funds, national debt, and interest costs (1946-2001), S601 [10FE], S784 [24FE], S2184 [5AP], S7000 [17JY], S11046 [26OC]

Federal Government financing and debt, S786 [24FE], S7002 [17JY]

Federal trust funds used to balance the budget, S602 [10FE], S2181 [5AP], S7001 [17JY], S11045 [26OC]

Interest expense on the public debt, S7001 [17JY], S8054 [6SE], S11047 [26OC]

Proposed steps to eliminating Social Security long-term deficit, S1534 [22MR]

Public debt, S7001 [17JY], S8053 [6SE], S11047 [26OC]

Public debt to the penny, S1782 [28MR], S2181 [5AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 499, consideration of H.R. 853, Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act, H3078 [16MY]

H.R. 4601, Debt Reduction Reconciliation Act, H4701 [20JN]

H.R. 4866, Debt Relief Reconciliation Act, H6426 [18JY]

H.R. 5173, Debt Relief Lock-Box Reconciliation Act, H7679-H7681 [18SE]

H.R. 5203, Debt Relief and Retirement Security Reconciliation Act, H7780-H7792 [19SE]

S. 2126, Save Our Surplus for Debt Reduction Act, S1025 [1MR]

S. 2220, American Social Security Protection and Debt Repayment Act, S1325 [8MR]

S.J. Res. 38, treatment of Social Security under balanced budget constitutional amendment, S291 [2FE]