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sibility and Reform, and ten former Chairmen of the 
Council of Economic Advisors all concluded that 
debt is growing at unsustainable rates and must be 
brought under control. 
(4) Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated, ‘‘Our national debt is 
our biggest national security threat.’’. 
(5) According to the Congressional Budget Of-
fice, if entitlements are not reformed, entitlement 
spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid 
will exceed the historical average of revenue collec-
tions as a share of the economy within forty years. 
(6) According to the Congressional Budget Of-
fice, under current policies, debt would reach levels 
that the economy could no longer sustain in 2037 
and a fiscal crisis is likely to occur well before that 
date. 
(7) To avoid a fiscal crisis, Congress must 
enact legislation that makes structural reforms to 
entitlement programs. 
(8) Instead of automatic debt increases (the 
‘‘Gephardt rule’’ was repealed by the House in 
House Resolution 5) and automatic spending in-
creases, Congress needs to put limits on spending 
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with automatic reductions if spending limits are not 
met. 
(9) The adoption of a conference report on this 
concurrent resolution will not cause the automatic 
passage of an increase in the debt limit by the 
House of Representatives. 
(10) Changes in debt levels assumed in this res-
olution are contingent upon its proposed spending 
reductions being achieved. 
(11) From 1990 to 2002, there were statutory 
enforceable limits on discretionary spending. 
(12) The budget lacks controls over spending in 
the short-term and the long-term. Greater trans-
parency and controls, particularly for entitlement 
spending in the long-term, are needed to provide 
Congress with tools to tackle this growing threat of 
a fiscal crisis. 
(b) POLICY ON DEBT CONTROLS.—It is the policy of 
this concurrent resolution on the budget that in order to 
begin to bring debt under control the following statutory 
spending and debt controls are needed: 
(1) Enforceable statutory caps on discretionary 
spending at levels set forth in this fiscal year 2012 
concurrent resolution on the budget for the period of 
fiscal years 2012 through 2021. 
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(2) Any increase in the statutory debt limit be 
accompanied by the enactment of a budget enforce-
ment mechanism to ensure that if spending reduc-
tions are not achieved there would be— 
(A) 
an 
across-the-board 
reduction 
in 
spending at the end of the year; 
(B) a fast-track process or failsafe mecha-
nism to give Congress the ability to expedite 
consideration of legislation to reduce spending 
and 
avoid 
the 
automatic 
across-the-board 
spending reductions; and 
(C) an exemption of Social Security from 
these enforcement mechanisms, with Social Se-
curity solvency ensured as provide in section 
502. 
(3) Limits on total spending with long-term 
structural reforms that— 
(A) require— 
(i) the Office of Management and 
Budget and the Congressional Budget Of-
fice to make long-term budget projections 
(similar to the timeframes of projections 
made by the Social Security and Medicare 
trustees); 
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(ii) the inclusion of the estimated 
long-term fiscal impact of the President’s 
budget in the President’s annual budget 
submission; 
(iii) in the Congressional Budget Of-
fice’s reestimate of the President’s budget, 
an estimate of the long-term impact of the 
President’s budget; and 
(iv) in Congressional Budget Office 
estimates on legislation, an estimate of the 
long-term impact of legislation that has a 
significant impact on the long-term budget; 
(B) require enactment of enforceable caps 
on total spending as a share of gross domestic 
product as set forth in this resolution; 
(C) require the review by Congress of Con-
gressional Budget Office projections relative to 
the statutory caps and enactment of legislation 
to reduce spending to meet those caps; 
(D) require enactment of an enforcement 
mechanism to ensure that if these spending re-
ductions are not achieved, there would be an 
across-the-board reduction in spending at the 
end of the year; 
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(E) require enactment of a fast-track proc-
ess or failsafe mechanism to provide Congress 
with the ability to expedite consideration of leg-
islation to reduce spending and avoid the auto-
matic across-the-board spending reductions; and 
(F) exempt Social Security from these en-
forcement mechanisms, with Social Security sol-
vency ensured as provided in section 501. 
TITLE VI—SENSE OF THE HOUSE 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON A RESPONSIBLE DEF-
ICIT REDUCTION PLAN MUST CONSIDER ALL 
PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THOSE AT THE PEN-
TAGON AND THE OTHER NATIONAL SECU-
RITY AGENCIES. 
It is the sense of the House that the Nation’s debt 
is an immense security threat to our country, just as Ad-
miral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has 
stated; the Government Accountability Office has recently 
issued a report documenting billions of dollars of waste 
and duplication at Government agencies, including the De-
partment of Defense, and the Department of Defense has 
never passed a clean audit; the bipartisan National Com-
mission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and the bi-
partisan Rivlin-Domenici Debt Reduction Task Force 
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were correct in concluding that all programs, including na-
tional security, should be ‘‘on the table’’ as part of a def-
icit reduction plan; and any budget plan serious about re-
ducing the deficit must follow this precept to consider all 
programs, including national security programs, the larg-
est segment of discretionary spending. 
SEC. 602. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING THE IMPOR-
TANCE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. 
It is the sense of the House that— 
(1) additional legislative action is needed to en-
sure that States have the necessary resources to col-
lect all child support that is owed to families and 
allow them to pass 100 percent of support on to 
families without financial penalty; and 
(2) when 100 percent of child support payments 
are passed to the child, rather than administrative 
expenses, program integrity is improved and child 
support participation increases. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 15, 2011. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 36 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 34 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Establishing the budget for the United States Gov-
ernment for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 
through 2021. 
MAY 2, 2011 
Received and referred to the Committee on the Budget; 
committee discharged pursuant to Section 300 of the 
Congressional Budget Act; placed on the calendar 
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