BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT

Articles and editorials

John Boehner’s Last Deal Leaves Congress Better Off, H7269 [28OC]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations and require budget estimates to be compared with the prior year’s level (see S. 382), S832 [5FE]

——— eliminate sequestration (see H.R. 782), H854 [5FE]

——— increase discretionary spending limits (see H.R. 3476), H5941 [10SE] (see H.R. 3708), H6935 [8OC]

——— increase transparency in Federal budgeting (see S. 399), S833 [5FE] (see H.R. 119), H40 [6JA]

——— provide for relief from sequester and offsets to such relief through reforms in certain revenue and direct spending programs (see H.R. 3777), H7088 [21OC]

——— provide relief from reductions in discretionary spending limits imposed by sequestration (see S. 515), S983 [12FE]

——— 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. 3186), H5465 [23JY]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: adjust certain discretionary spending to provide for wildfire suppression and prevention operations (see H.R. 167), H42 [6JA]

FDA: exempt certain user fees from budget sequestration (see H.R. 1078), H1163 [25FE]

Letters

Bipartisan Budget Act: Conservative Action Project (organization), S7644 [29OC]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 1314, Bipartisan Budget Act, H7309 [28OC]

Remarks in House

Armed Forces: protect from impact of budget sequestration, H644 [28JA], H991 [12FE]

Budget: eliminate sequestration, H6717, H6718 [30SE]

——— revise defense and non-defense spending levels, provide offsets, and temporarily extend the public debt ceiling, H7257, H7258, H7268–H7312 [28OC], H7954 [5NO]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: adjust certain discretionary spending to provide for wildfire suppression and prevention operations (H.R. 167), H4831 [7JY], H4944 [8JY], H5869 [10SE], H5984 [16SE]

FDA: exempt certain user fees from budget sequestration, H5012 [9JY]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: eliminate sequestration, S5673 [24JY], S6369 [5AU]

——— establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relative to revision or repeal of sequestration, S2014 [26MR]

——— revise defense and non-defense spending levels, provide offsets, and temporarily extend the public debt ceiling, S7497 [27OC], S7551–S7553, S7558 [28OC], S7601–S7605, S7608–S7611, S7616–S7620, S7623–S7652 [29OC], S7665–S7673 [30OC], S7802 [5NO]

Committee on the Budget (Senate): revision of budgetary allocations, aggregates, and levels, S8841 [18DE]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: adjust certain discretionary spending to provide for wildfire suppression and prevention operations, S1835 [25MR]

Reports filed

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 1314, Bipartisan Budget Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 495) (H. Rept. 114–315), H7253 [27OC]

Texts of

H. Res. 495, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 1314, Bipartisan Budget Act, H7268 [28OC]