PUBLIC DEBT

Articles and editorials

Bailout Hide and Seek, H8132 [16SE]

Budget Mess, E237 [26FE]

Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion and Much More, S1870 [11MR]

Lame-Duck Budget, E237 [26FE]

Lobbyists Smoothed the Way for a Spate of Foreign Deals, H542-H544 [29JA]

Treasury Gets New CFIUS Authority, H542 [29JA]

United States' Triple-A Credit Rating `Under Threat', H1399 [6MR], H1596 [12MR]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: cap discretionary spending, eliminate wasteful and duplicative agencies, reform entitlement programs, and reform the congressional earmark process (see H.R. 7206), H10330 [28SE]

———constitutional amendment to control spending (see H.J. Res. 81), H2947 [30AP]

———require that concurrent resolutions limit the growth of Federal spending to the mean of annual percentage growth of wages and gross domestic product (see H.R. 6105), H4452 [21MY]

Dept. of Justice: institute condemnation proceedings to acquire U.N. property, direct proceeds from the sale of such property to debt reduction, and prohibit future U.N. property purchases in the U.S. (see H.R. 7027), H9084 [23SE]

Emergency Commission To End the Trade Deficit: establish (see H.R. 6795), H7807 [1AU]

Health: ensure access to affordable and quality health care without exacerbating the Federal budget or contributing to market inflation while providing greater choices for consumers (see H. Res. 1228), H4831 [22MY]

House Rules: repeal ``Gephardt rule'' and require recorded votes on measures that increase the statutory limit on the public debt (see H. Res. 1027), H1417 [6MR]

Power resources: establish a trust fund to hold new Federal revenue from expanded drilling in Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf in order to reduce national debt (see H.R. 7029), H9084 [23SE]

Letters

Current U.S. fiscal situation: David M. Walker, GAO, H1583, H1596 [12MR]

Securing America's Future Economy (SAFE) Commission Act: Representative Wolf, E2319 [20NO]

Messages

Economic Report: President Bush, S848 [11FE], H847 [12FE]

Remarks in House

Budget: allocation of funds, H265-H268 [16JA]

———combat waste, fraud, and abuse, H1949, H1952 [2AP]

———comparison between congressional and Bush administration proposals, H1556-H1559, H1611, H1613-H1615 [12MR], H1949-H1955 [2AP]

———comply with pay-as-you-go requirement, H1080, H1081, H1083 [27FE], H1576 [12MR], H2737 [24AP], H2990, H2991 [1MY], H3784, H3785, H3787-H3792, H3794, H3803 [14MY], H3934, H3935, H3945 [15MY], H5334, H5336, H5338, H5347, H5351 [12JN], H6584 [16JY], H8001 [10SE]

———deficit, H611, H612 [6FE], H800-H804 [7FE], H937 [13FE], H1059 [26FE], H1317 [5MR], H1566 [12MR], H1669-H1675 [13MR], H2002 [3AP], H2212 [10AP], H2428-H2434 [16AP], H2473 [17AP], H3864-H3870 [14MY], H4344 [21MY], H4995, H4996 [5JN], H5336 [12JN], H5465-H5470 [17JN], H5779 [20JN], H6207 [8JY], H6327, H6332 [9JY], H7995-H7997 [10SE], H10313, H10314 [28SE], E237 [26FE]

———extend pay-as-you-go requirement (H.R. 2686), H5464-H5470 [17JN]

———increase statutory limit on the public debt (H.J. Res. 92), H4989 [5JN]

Bush, President: evaluation of economic policies, H804 [7FE], H937, H938 [13FE], H1589-H1591 [12MR], H1622 [13MR], H1894 [2AP], H2360 [16AP], H2454 [17AP], H2650-H2653 [23AP], H2864 [30AP], H3057, H3059 [6MY], H3870-H3876 [14MY], H5563 [18JN], H7864 [9SE], H8131, H8141 [16SE], H9873, H9874 [25SE], E208 [15FE]

Congressional Black Caucus: budget priorities, H1635-H1646 [13MR]

Congressional Progressive Caucus: budget priorities, H1649-H1659 [13MR], E423 [14MR]

Democratic Party: evaluation of economic policies, H5589 [19JN]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H28, H29, H30, H276-H283 [16JA], H1449, H1450, H1451 [11MR], H1955-H1957 [2AP], H2641 [23AP], H8001 [10SE], H8380, H8382-H8388 [17SE], E1424 [9JY], E2334 [20NO]

Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act: require use of most recent CBO baseline estimates when determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirement, H2992-H2995 [1MY]

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: require use of most recent CBO baseline estimates when determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirement, H3789 [14MY]

Foreign policy: debt held by foreigners, H267, H268 [16JA], H612, H615 [6FE], H801 [7FE], H1575 [12MR], H5563 [18JN]

———debt held by foreigners through acquisition of U.S. sovereign wealth funds, H541 [29JA], H1400 [6MR]

Government: ceiling, H6996 [23JY]

Iraq: impact of financial costs of war on U.S. domestic priorities, H2274 [15AP], H2434-H2440 [16AP], H2455 [17AP]

McCain, Senator: evaluation of Bush administration economic policies, H2866 [30AP]

Republican Party: evaluation of economic policies, H8142, H8144 [16SE]

Securing America's Future Economy (SAFE) Commission: establish (H.R. 3654), H1399 [6MR], H1576, H1595 [12MR], H1706 [14MR], H1829, H1832 [1AP], H1976 [3AP], H2075 [9AP], H2212 [10AP], H4998 [5JN], H6237 [9JY], H10787 [3OC], E615 [15AP], E2319 [20NO], E2368 [10DE]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1061 [26FE]

———reform, H1893 [2AP]

Taxation: repeal tax increases from alternative minimum tax relief relative to pay-as-you-go compliance, H6039, H6041-H6043 [25JN]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: allocation of funds, S1550, S1553, S1554 [5MR]

———combat waste, fraud, and abuse, S1811 [10MR], S1895-S1906 [11MR], S3217 [22AP], S6839 [16JY]

———comparison between congressional and Bush administration proposals, S1826-S1839 [11MR], S4590-S4599 [21MY]

———comply with pay-as-you-go requirement, S1554 [5MR], S1733 [7MR], S2111-S2116 [13MR], S3949, S3950 [8MY], S6221 [26JN]

———deficit, S374 [28JA], S437 [29JA], S629 [5FE], S683 [6FE], S994 [14FE], S1229-S1232 [27FE], S1409 [29FE], S1554, S1591 [5MR], S1834-S1836 [11MR], S3482 [29AP], S4609 [21MY], S5010 [4JN], S5578-S5580 [12JN], S6826 [16JY], S6960 [21JY], S7520 [26JY], S8224, S8227, S8259 [10SE], S8971 [18SE], S9259 [23SE], S9383 [24SE], S10610-S10613 [19NO]

———establish a comprehensive plan to control spending, reduce the deficit, and regain control of the Federal budget process, S1846, S1847 [11MR]

———increase statutory limit on the public debt (H.J. Res. 92), S5332 [5JN], S5375 [6JN]

———provide for a point of order against any spending over emergency designation amount, S1980 [12MR]

———provide for a point of order against budget resolution that does not include gross Federal debt disclosure, S4263 [15MY]

———provide for points of order to protect Social Security, require disclosure of gross Federal debt, stregthen integrity of reconciliation process, and prohibit net increase in deficits, S4263 [15MY]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2669), conference report, S6183 [26JN]

———reconciliation process, S1979 [12MR]

———require a balanced budget without Social Security taxes, S1858 [11MR]

———status report, S275 [24JA], S6551 [10JY], S8472 [12SE], S10633 [19NO]

Bush, President: evaluation of Administration policies, S9463 [25SE], S10545 [17NO]

———evaluation of economic policies, S637 [5FE], S1183-S1185 [26FE], S1566 [5MR], S1785-S1787 [10MR], S2098, S2103 [13MR], S4592, S4597 [21MY], S7563 [28JY], S7986 [1AU], S8364-S8367 [11SE], S8512 [15SE], S8809, S8821, S8829-S8836 [16SE], S8999-S9001 [18SE], S9463 [25SE]

Democratic Party: national agenda, S16, S18 [22JA], S1492-S1495, S1509 [4MR]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S2321-S2324 [2AP], S8465 [12SE], S8516 [15SE], S8898-S8902, S8909, S8910 [17SE], S8964, S8966-S8983, S8991-S8993, S8996-S8999 [18SE], S9567 [26SE]

Foreign policy: debt held by foreigners, S5010 [4JN], S9009 [18SE]

Iraq: assessment of war and reconstruction efforts, S1870 [11MR]

———impact of financial costs of war on U.S. domestic priorities, S1729 [7MR]

Political campaigns: assessment of Presidential candidates' tax proposals, S10298 [1OC]

Securing America's Future Economy (SAFE) Commission: establish (S. 304), S1592 [5MR], S3073 [16AP], S5579 [12JN]

Social Security: establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for reform, S2057 [13MR]

———reform, S1229-S1232 [27FE], S2211 [31MR]

Taxation: exempt alternative minimum tax relief from pay-as-you-go requirement, S2029 [12MR], S2077 [13MR], S6215 [26JN]

Reports

Systemwide Government Waste of Taxpayer Dollars, S1901-S1906 [11MR]

Tables

Corporate estimated tax shift used in legislation in the 110th Congress, S2117 [13MR]

Deficit impact of pay-as-you-go legislation, S2117 [13MR]

Illustration of how changes in mandatory spending enacted in an appropriation bill count for budget enforcement, S2118 [13MR]

New pay-as-you-go along with corporate tax timing shift, allows spending today with offsets far in the future, S2117 [13MR]

New pay-as-you-go needs more than long-term offset to pay for spending today, S2117 [13MR]

Pay-as-you-go in effect in the 110th Congress, S2117 [13MR]

Proposed pay-as-you-go at start of the 110th Congress, S2116 [13MR]

Republican claims of alleged pay-as-you go compliance violations, S4608 [21MY]

Total deficit impact of Obama and McCain tax and spending proposals, S10298 [1OC]

Tough first-year offset requirement under old-fashioned pay-as-you-go, S2117 [13MR]

Under old pay-as-you-go, offsets easier to achieve over 5 years by shifitng cost past first year, S2117 [13MR]

Under old pay-as-you-go, offsets in years 6-10 could not pay for near-term spending, S2117 [13MR]