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[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1995]
[Wednesday, August 2, 1995 (107), Para 107.17 Recorded Vote]
[Pages 1242-1243]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

para.107.17  recorded vote

  A recorded vote by electronic device was ordered in the Committee of 
the Whole on the following amendment submitted by Mr. CRAPO:

       Page 88, after line 7, add the following new title:

                 TITLE VII--DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX

     SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Deficit Reduction Lock-box 
     Act of 1995''.

     SEC. 702. DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX ACCOUNT.

       (a) Establishment of Account.--Title III of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new section:

                  ``deficit reduction lock-box account

       ``Sec. 314. (a) Establishment of Account.--There is 
     established in the Congressional Budget Office an account to 
     be known as the `Deficit Reduction Lock-box Account'. The 
     Account shall be divided into subaccounts corresponding to 
     the subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations. Each 
     subaccount shall consist of three entries: the `House Lock-
     box Balance'; the `Senate Lock-box Balance'; and the `Joint 
     House-Senate Lock-box Balance'.
       ``(b) Contents of Account.--Each entry in a subaccount 
     shall consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection 
     (c). No entry of a negative amount shall be made.
       ``(c) Credit of Amounts to Account.--(1) The Director of 
     the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter in this section 
     referred to as the `Director') shall, upon the engrossment of 
     any appropriation bill by the House of Representatives and 
     upon the engrossment of that bill by the Senate, credit to 
     the applicable subaccount balance of that House amounts of 
     new budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of 
     reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting 
     from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill.
       ``(2) The Director shall, upon the engrossment of Senate 
     amendments to any appropriation bill, credit to the 
     applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance the amounts of 
     new budget authority and outlays equal to--
       ``(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the 
     amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-box Balance 
     plus (ii) the amount of new budget authority in the Senate 
     Lock-box Balance for that bill; and
       ``(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the 
     amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the 
     amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that 
     bill, under section 314(c), as calculated by the Director of 
     the Congressional Budget Office.
       ``(d) Calculation of Lock-Box Savings in Senate.--For 
     purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of 
     reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting 
     from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation 
     bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee 
     on Appropriations shall be considered to be part of the 
     original text of the bill.
       ``(e) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
     `appropriation bill' means any general or special 
     appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making 
     supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations 
     through the end of a fiscal year.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth 
     in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
     Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 313 the following new item:
``Sec. 314. Deficit reduction lock-box account.''

     SEC. 703. TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION.

       There shall be available to Members in the House of 
     Representatives during consideration of any appropriations 
     bill by the House a running tally of the amendments adopted 
     reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in the 
     bill as reported.

     SEC. 704. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF 602(A) ALLOCATIONS AND 
                   SECTION 602(B) SUBALLOCATIONS.

       (a) Allocations.--Section 602(a) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end of the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(5) Upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any 
     appropriation bill (as defined in section 314(d)) for a 
     fiscal year, the amounts allocated under paragraph (1) or (2) 
     to the Committee on Appropriations of each House upon the 
     adoption of the most recent concurrent resolution on the 
     budget for that

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     fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the amounts 
     credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box 
     Balance under section 314(c)(2), as calculated by the 
     Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and the revised 
     levels of budget authority and outlays shall be submitted to 
     each House by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of 
     that House and shall be printed in the Congressional 
     Record.''.
       (b) Suballocations.--Section 602(b)(1) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end of the 
     following new sentence: ``Whenever an adjustment is made 
     under subsection (a)(5) to an allocation under that 
     subsection, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office 
     shall make downward adjustments in the most recent 
     suballocations of new budget authority and outlays under 
     subparagraph (A) to the appropriate subcommittees of that 
     committee in the total amounts of those adjustments under 
     section 314(c)(2). The revised suballoctions shall be 
     submitted to each House by the chairman of the Committee on 
     Appropriations of that House and shall be printed in the 
     Congressional Record.''.

     SEC. 705. PERIODIC REPORTING OF ACCOUNT STATEMENTS.

       Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
     ``Such reports shall also include an up-to-date tabulation of 
     the amounts contained in the account and each subaccount 
     established by section 314(a).''.

     SEC. 706. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 
                   LIMITS.

       The discretionary spending limit for new budget authority 
     for any fiscal year set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict 
     conformance with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by 
     the amount of the adjustment to the section 602(a) 
     allocations made under section 602(a)(5) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974, as calculated by the Director of the 
     Office of Management and Budget. The adjusted discretionary 
     spending limit for outlays for that fiscal year, as set forth 
     in such section 601(a)(2), shall be reduced as a result of 
     the reduction of such budget authority, as calculated by the 
     Director of the Office of Management and Budget based upon 
     programmatic and other assumptions set forth in the joint 
     explanatory statement of managers accompanying the conference 
     report on that bill. Reductions (if any) shall occur upon the 
     enactment of all regular appropriation bills for a fiscal 
     year or a resolution making continuing appropriations through 
     the end of that fiscal year. This adjustment shall be 
     reflected in reports under sections 254(g) and 254(h) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

     SEC. 707. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       (a) In General.--This title shall apply to all 
     appropriation bills making appropriations for fiscal year 
     1996 or any subsequent fiscal year.
       (b) FY96 Application.--In the case of any appropriation 
     bill for fiscal year 1996 engrossed by the House of 
     Representatives on or after the date this bill was engrossed 
     by the House of Representatives and before the date of 
     enactment of this bill, the Director of the Congressional 
     Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management and 
     Budget, and the Committees on Appropriations and the 
     Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and 
     of the Senate shall, within 10 calendar days after that date 
     of enactment of this Act, carry out the duties required by 
     this title and amendments made by it that occur after the 
     date this Act was engrossed by the House of Representatives.
       (c) FY96 Allocations.--The duties of the Director of the 
     Congressional Budget Office and of the Committees on Budget 
     and on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     pursuant to this title and the amendments made by it 
     regarding appropriation bills for fiscal year 1996 shall be 
     based upon the revised section 602(a) alloations in effect on 
     the date this Act was engrossed by the House of 
     Representatives.
       (d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
     ``appropriation bill'' means any general or special 
     appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making 
     supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations 
     through the end of a fiscal year.

It was decided in the

Yeas

373

affirmative

Nays

52
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