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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 700
To provide for the automatic downward adjustment in the discretionary spend-
ing limits for fiscal year 1995 set forth in the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, and to reduce obligation limits equal to the amount of
rescissions and changes contained in this Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 26, 1995
Mr. ZELIFF (for himself and Mr. ANDREWS) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Budget and, in addition, to
the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To provide for the automatic downward adjustment in the
discretionary spending limits for fiscal year 1995 set
forth in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and
to reduce obligation limits equal to the amount of rescis-
sions and changes contained in this Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A to Z Spending Cuts
Plan’’.
TITLE I—DISCRETIONARY CAP
ADJUSTMENTS
SECTION 
101. 
DOWNWARD 
ADJUSTMENT 
OF 
DISCRE-
TIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.
The discretionary spending limits (new budget au-
thority and outlays) for fiscal year 1995 set forth in sec-
tion 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, as calculated by the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget, in amounts equal
to the aggregate amounts of rescissions under title II for
that fiscal year.
SEC. 102. PAYGO SCORECARD.
Reductions in outlays in a fiscal year resulting from
any provision in this Act shall not be taken into account
for any purpose under section 252 of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 103. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS FOR FISCAL
YEARS 1995–1998.
(a) REDUCTION IN DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIM-
ITS.—The discretionary spending limits (budget authority
and outlays) for each of fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997,
and 1998 set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict conform-
ance with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced as cal-
culated by the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, by the aggregate amounts of rescissions under
title II for any fiscal year, plus any additional savings for
that fiscal year as a result of the enactment of title III.
(b) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of subsection
(a), the term ‘‘additional savings for that fiscal year as
a result of the enactment of title III’’ means the net aggre-
gate amount (if any) by which the OMB current services
baseline for discretionary appropriations (before any re-
scissions made under title II) for all programs, projects,
and activities for which new authorization levels or obliga-
tion limits are established by title II exceeds those new
authorization levels for fiscal years 1996, 1997, or 1998,
as the case may be, or the amount by which the program
changes (changes in authorizing statutes which reduce the
need for future discretionary appropriations) result in a
reduction in outlays.
TITLE II—REDUCTIONS IN
SPENDING
SEC. 201. RESCISSIONS.
TITLE III—CHANGES IN AUTHOR-
IZATION STATUTES TO EF-
FECT 
SPENDING 
REDUC-
TIONS
SEC. 301. CHANGES.
TITLE IV—SENSE OF THE CON-
GRESS ON THE REDUCTION
OF 
THE 
DISCRETIONARY
SPENDING CAPS
SEC. 401. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the Sense of Congress that each reduction in
the discretionary spending caps caused by the spending
cuts in title II and title III of this Act shall result in reduc-
tions in future spending for that particular program only.
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