BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT

Bills and resolutions

Appropriations: eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations (see S. 1896), S7702 [17NO] (see H.R. 920), H1574 [3MR]

Budget: establish binding limits on spending and deficits (see H.R. 3576), H8259 [7DE]

———increase transparency in Federal budgeting (see H.R. 3581), H8260 [7DE]

———modify discretionary spending limits to take into account savings resulting from the reduction in the number of Federal employees and apply savings to defense and non-defense categories (see H.R. 3662), H8965 [14DE]

———provide for long-term budgeting (see H.R. 3580), H8260 [7DE]

———reduce discretionary spending limit (see H.R. 3043), H6455 [23SE]

———reform the budget baseline to remove automatic increases in discretionary accounts and to require a comparison to the previous year's spending levels (see H.R. 3578), H8259 [7DE]

Employment: adjust discretionary spending limits for appropriations for emergency job creation (see H.R. 2857), H5964 [7SE]