BUDGET CONTROL ACT

Bills and resolutions

Budget: alleviate effects of sequestration by restoring certain cuts, providing offsets, enacting a Chained Consumer Price Index for Social Security and means testing for Medicare, and providing for tax reform (see H. Con. Res. 71), H5782 [31JY]

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

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify treatment of administrative expenses during sequestration (see H.R. 215), H154 [8JA]

Remarks in House

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

Economy: impact of budget sequestration, H4527 [18JN]

National security: impact of Budget Control Act on military readiness of U.S. forces, H2945, H2946 [13MY]

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]

Economy: impact of budget sequestration, S1696 [23MR], S3733 [4JN], S4214 [17JN]