COMMITTEE ON DEFICIT REDUCTION (Joint, Select)

Appointments

Members, S5344 [6SE], H5903 [12AU]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: express that Congress should ``Go Big'' in its attempts toward deficit reduction (see S. Res. 331), S7613 [16NO]

Eliminate (see H.R. 3201), H6920 [13OC]

Employment: report findings and propose legislation to restore workforce to full employment (see S. 1532, 1533), S5459 [8SE] (see H.R. 2836), H5936 [2SE] (see H.R. 2836), H5938 [6SE] (see H.R. 2837), H5936 [2SE] (see H.R. 2837), H5938 [6SE]

Political ethics: provide for additional campaign contribution reporting requirements for members (see S. 1498), S5251 [2AU]

———require members and staff to disclose lobbying activities and political contributions, streamline hearings online, and make report and legislation public (see H.R. 2860), H5964 [7SE]

———require to conduct business in a manner open to the public (see S. 1501), S5251 [2AU] (see H.R. 2796), H5895 [5AU]

Social Security: express that any legislative language approved should not reduce benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid recipients (see H. Con. Res. 72), H5885 [1AU]

Remarks in House

Budget: express that Congress should ``Go Big'' in its attempts toward deficit reduction, H7592 [15NO]

———failure to reach a bipartisan agreement, H7902 [29NO], H8107 [2DE]

Business and industry: prioritize deficit reduction from subsidies for large oil companies and corporate use of aircraft before cutting education programs, H5764, H5765 [29JY]

Employment: report findings and propose legislation to restore workforce to full employment, H7921 [29NO]

Establish, H5679, H5705, H5708, H5717 [28JY], H5759 [29JY], H5817, H5832, H5834, H5835, H5853, H5854, H5861-H5863 [1AU], H7244 [2NO]

Federal aid programs: protect entitlements while seeking to reduce the budget deficit, H7587 [15NO]

Public debt: conflicting deficit reduction ideologies of cutting entitlement programs and raising taxes on the wealthy, H7084 [26OC]

———exclude cuts to veterans' benefits from any agreement to reduce the budget deficit, H7272 [3NO]

Social Security: express that any legislative language approved should not reduce benefits for Social Security and Medicare recipients, H7730 [17NO]

———express that any legislative language approved should not reduce benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid recipients, H6792, H6793 [12OC], E1828 [12OC]

Taxation: eliminate certain tax expenditures, H5984 [8SE]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: failure to reach a bipartisan agreement, S7886 [28NO]

Establish, S4976, S4979 [28JY], S5204, S5218 [2AU]

Federal aid programs: protect entitlements while seeking to reduce the budget deficit, S7634-S7636 [17NO]

Public debt: institute entitlement reform to reduce the budget deficit, S7351 [10NO]

Social Security: express that any legislative language approved should not reduce benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid recipients, S7180 [8NO]

———preserve benefits for recipients and continue to factor in the consumer price index, S7356-S7358 [10NO], S7423 [15NO], S7599 [16NO]

Rules

Procedure, S6760 [19OC]

Texts of

S. Res. 331, express that Congress should ``Go Big'' in its attempts toward deficit reduction, S7620 [16NO]