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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 105

Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise spending

cuts set forth in this resolution to save $190 billion over the next

5 fiscal years unless the committee determines that any such cuts would

be unjustified.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARCH 1, 1993

Mr. GOSS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the

Committee on Rules

RESOLUTION

Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise

spending cuts set forth in this resolution to save $190

billion over the next 5 fiscal years unless the committee

determines that any such cuts would be unjustified.

1 Resolved, That (a) the Committee on the Budget is

2 authorized and directed to report a concurrent resolution

3 on the budget for fiscal year 1994 that includes the spend4 ing reductions set forth in subsection (b) over the 5-year

5 period beginning with fiscal year 1994 which would save

6 $190 billion, unless the committee determines that any

7 such cuts would be unjustified. Any such determination

8 shall be set forth in the report accompanying that concur-
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1 rent resolution, which report shall include the reasons for

2 each such determination.

3 (b) The spending reductions referred to in subsection

4 (a) are the following:

5 (1) Cancel the National Aerospace Plane

6 (NASP).

7 (2) Continue partial civilian hiring freeze for

8 DOD through 1997.

9 (3) Cancel NASA’s advanced solid rocket

10 motor.

11 (4) Cancel the Superconducting Supercollider.

12 (5) Cut space station funding by 15 percent.

13 (6) Eliminate below-cost timber sales from na14 tional forests.

15 (7) Lower target prices for subsidized crops by

16 3 percent annually.

17 (8) Eliminate price support for wool and mo18 hair.

19 (9) Eliminate the honey program.

20 (10) Eliminate the market promotion program.

21 (11) End the Federal crop insurance program

22 and replace with standing authority for disaster as23 sistance.

24 (12) Limit Federal highway spending to the

25 amount brought in by motor vehicle fuel taxes.
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1 (13) Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.

2 (14) Reduce Commodity Credit Corporation

3 subsidies to those with off-farm incomes over

4 $100,000.

5 (15) Extend the current law eliminating the

6 statute of limitations on collecting defaulted student

7 loans.

8 (16) Terminate most Federal commissions.

9 (17) Fully implement H.R. 2452 (102d Con10 gress) to provide additional energy conservation

11 measures for Federal agencies.

12 (18) Enact H.R. 1080 to prohibit direct Fed13 eral benefits and unemployment benefits to illegal

14 aliens.

15 (19) Eliminate the tobacco price-support pro16 gram.

17 (20) Consolidate the Office of Bureau of Indian

18 Affairs.

19 (21) Close 20 underutilized black lung offices.

20 (22) Bring Government Printing Office wages

21 in line with Federal Government counterparts.

22 (23) Allow private sector investment in the

23 space shuttle.
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1 (24) Eliminate Farmer’s Home Administration

2 (FmHA) duplication with Small Business Adminis3 tration.

4 (25) Eliminate the Rural Electrification Admin5 istration.

6 (26) Terminate all highway ‘‘demonstration

7 projects’’.

8 (27) Lower by 15 percent the travel budgets of

9 nonpostal civilian agencies, then cap future growth

10 at the inflation rate.

11 (28) Lower by 10 percent per year the pro12 jected growth rate of nonpostal civilian agencies’

13 overhead costs, excluding travel.

14 (29) Abolish cotton price supports and loan

15 programs.

16 (30) Cut the foreign affairs budget (major func17 tional category 150) by 15 percent.

18 (31) Phase out the Foreign Agricultural Service

19 cooperation funding.

20 (32) Eliminate the Appalachian Regional Com21 mission.

22 (33) Roll back Members’ and Senators’ pay

23 raise to $89,500.
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1 (34) Sell the national helium reserves to a joint

2 venture comprised of current employees and other

3 private investors.

4 (35) Sunset appropriations to former Speakers

5 of the House after 3 years.

6 (36) Reduce the franking allocation to Members

7 of Congress by 50 percent.

8 (37) Cut the National Endowment for the Arts

9 by 50 percent.

10 (38) Cut funding for the Corporation for Public

11 Broadcasting by 50 percent.

12 (39) Phase out subsidies for Amtrak.

13 (40) Phase out ACTION as a tax supported

14 program.

15 (41) Raise grazing fees.

16 (42) Facilitate contracting out and privatization

17 of military commissaries.

18 (43) Close the Interstate Commerce Commis19 sion.

20 (44) Phase out the United States Fire Adminis21 tration.

22 (45) End funding for all nonenergy related

23 Tennessee Valley Authority activities.

24 (46) Eliminate essential air services subsidies.

25 (47) Eliminate consumer homemaking grants.
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1 (48) Privatize the House and Senate gym2 nasiums.

3 (49) Reduce the legislative branch appropria4 tion by 25 percent.

5 (50) Close the Bureau of Mines and merge its

6 data gathering activities with other Department of

7 the Interior research agencies.

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