[House Report 104-125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 1st Session                                                    104-125
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  PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 67, 
     CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEARS 1996-2002

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May 16, 1995.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

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   Mr. Solomon, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 149]
    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 149, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

               brief summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides a modified closed rule for the 
consideration of House Concurrent Resolution 67, the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal years 1996-2002 with six 
hours of general debate, equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Budget Committee. 
The rule waives all points of order against the resolution and 
against its consideration.
    The rule provides for the adoption in the House and 
Committee of the Whole of the amendment printed in this report. 
It then makes in order only the amendments in the nature of a 
substitute designated in section 2 of the rule to be offered 
only in the order specified, only by the Member designated, 
debatable for one hour each, and not subject to amendment, as 
follows: (1) by Representative Gephardt of Missouri printed in 
the May 16 Record, if achieving a balanced budget by the fiscal 
year 2002; (2) by Representatives Neumann of Wisconsin or 
Solomon of New York consisting of the text of House Concurrent 
Resolution 66; (3) by Representatives Payne of New Jersey or 
Owens of New York, printed in the May 16 Record; and (4) by the 
Minority Leader if printed by him in the Record not later than 
May 17, consisting of a revised budget submitted by the 
President to the Congress that achieves a balanced budget by 
the fiscal year 2002. The rule waives all points of order 
against the amendments except that if an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute is adopted, it is not in order to 
consider further substitutes.
    Following disposition of the amendments, the rule provides 
a final period of debate of ten minutes equally divided between 
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Budget 
Committee. The rule permits the Budget Committee chairman to 
offer amendments in the House to achieve mathematical 
consistency pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of Budget Act.

              Amendment Considered as Adopted by the Rule

    After section 4, insert the following new section:

SEC. 5. AGRICULTURAL SAVINGS.

    Congress shall re-examine budget reductions for 
agricultural programs in the United States Department of 
Agriculture for fiscal years 1999 and 2000 unless the following 
conditions are met--
          (1) land values on agricultural land on January 1, 
        1998, are at least 95 percent of the same values on the 
        date of adoption of this resolution;
          (2) there is enacted into law regulatory relief for 
        the agricultural sector in the areas of wetlands 
        regulation, the Endangered Species Act, private 
        property rights and cost-benefit analyses of proposed 
        regulations;
          (3) there is tax relief for producers in the form of 
        capital gains tax reduction, increased estate tax 
        exemptions and mechanisms to average tax loads over 
        strong and weak income years; and
          (4) there is no government interference in the 
        international market in the form of agricultural trade 
        embargoes in effect and there is successful 
        implementation and enforcement of trade agreements,
including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and 
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to lower export 
subsidies and reduce import barriers to trade imposed by 
foreign governments.
    Redesignate the succeeding sections accordingly.