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reports such legislation, if, to the extent that the costs of
such legislation are not included in this concurrent resolution
on the budget, the enactment of such legislation will not
increase (by virtue of either contemporaneous or previously
passed deficit reduction) the deficit in this resolution for—
(A) fiscal year 1994; and
(B) the period of fiscal years 1994 through 1998.
(2) REVISED ALLOCATIONS.—Upon the reporting of legisla-
tion pursuant to paragraph (1), and again upon the submission
of a conference report on such legislation (if a conference report
is submitted), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of the Senate may file with the Senate appropriately revised
allocations under sections 302(a) and 602(a) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 and revised functional levels and
aggregates to carry out this subsection. Such revised allocations,
functional levels, and aggregates shall be considered for the
purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations,
functional levels, and aggregates contained in this concurrent
resolution on the budget.
(3) REPORTING
REVISED
ALLOCATIONS.—The appropriate
committee may report appropriately revised allocations pursu-
ant to section 302(b) and 602(b) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 to carry out this subsection.
SEC. 10. SOCIAL SECURITY FIRE WALL POINT OF ORDER IN THE
SENATE.
(a) ACCOUNTING
TREATMENT.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of this resolution, for the purpose of allocations and points
of order under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, the levels of social security outlays and revenues
for this resolution shall be the current services levels.
(b) APPLICATION
OF
SECTION
301(i).—Notwithstanding any
other rule of the Senate, in the Senate, the point of order established
under section 301(i) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall
apply to any concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal
year (as reported and as amended), amendments thereto, or any
conference report thereon.
SEC. 11. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING TAX REVENUES AND DEFI-
CIT REDUCTION.
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that any legisla-
tion enacting tax increases called for in this budget resolution
contain language providing that the net revenues generated by
the legislation shall not be counted for the purpose of calculating
the amount of any deficit increase called for in section 252(b)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.
SEC. 12. ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES.
(a) PURPOSE.—The Senate declares that it is essential to—
(1) ensure compliance with the deficit reduction goals
embodied in this resolution;
(2) extend the system of discretionary spending limits set
forth in section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;
(3) extend the pay-as-you-go enforcement system;
(4) prohibit the consideration of direct spending or receipts
legislation that would decrease the pay-as-you-go surplus that
the reconciliation bill pursuant to section 7 of this resolution
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will create under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985;
(5) adopt as part of this concurrent resolution such of
the enforcement procedures set forth in this subsection as this
concurrent resolution may constitutionally include; and
(6) enact, during this session of Congress, such of the
enforcement procedures set forth in this subsection as only
statute may constitutionally include.
(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—
(1) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, for the discre-
tionary category, the term ‘‘discretionary spending limit’’
means—
(A) with respect to fiscal year 1996:
$519,142,000,000 in new budget authority and
$547,263,000,000 in outlays;
(B) with respect to fiscal year 1997:
$528,079,000,000 in new budget authority and
$547,346,000,000 in outlays; and
(C) with respect to fiscal year 1998:
$530,639,000,000 in new budget authority and
$547,870,000,000 in outlays;
as adjusted for changes in concepts and definitions, changes
in inflation, and emergency appropriations.
(2) POINT OF ORDER IN THE SENATE.—
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), it shall
not be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1995, 1996, 1997,
or 1998 (or amendment, motion, or conference report on
such a resolution) that would exceed any of the discre-
tionary spending limits in this section.
(B) This subsection shall not apply if a declaration
of war by the Congress is in effect or if a joint resolution
pursuant to section 258 of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 has been enacted.
(c) ENFORCING PAY-AS-YOU-GO.—At any time after the enact-
ment of the reconciliation bill pursuant to section 7 of this resolu-
tion, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill,
joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report, that
would increase the deficit in this resolution for any fiscal year
through fiscal year 1998 or would increase the deficit for any
other fiscal year through fiscal year 2003, as measured by the
sum of—
(1) all applicable estimates of direct spending and receipts
legislation applicable to that fiscal year, other than any
amounts resulting from—
(A) full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit
insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the date of
enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990; and
(B) emergency provisions as designated under section
252(e) of that Act; and
(2) the estimated amount of savings in direct spending
programs applicable to that fiscal year resulting from the prior
year’s sequestration under that Act, if any (except for any
amounts sequestered as a result of a net deficit increase in
the fiscal year immediately preceding the prior fiscal year).
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(d) WAIVER.—This section may be waived or suspended in the
Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members,
duly chosen and sworn.
(e) APPEALS.—Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the
Chair relating to any provision of this section shall be limited
to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the
appellant and the manager of the concurrent resolution, bill, or
joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall
be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of
the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.
(f) DETERMINATION OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For purposes of this
section, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, and receipts
for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates
made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate.
(g) EXERCISE
OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—The Senate adopts
the provisions of this section—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate,
and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules
of the Senate, and such rules shall supersede other rules only
to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the
Senate to change those rules (so far as they relate to the
Senate) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same
extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate.
SEC. 13. SENSE OF THE SENATE PROVISIONS.
The following subsections are set forth as the sense of the
Senate:
(a) ASSUMPTIONS.—The levels and amounts set forth in
this resolution are based on the following assumptions:
(1) REVENUES.—(A) There shall not be an increase
in inland barge fuel taxes beyond those increases already
scheduled in current law.
(B) The Finance Committee will make every effort
to find alternative sources of revenues before imposing
new taxes on the benefits of Social Security beneficiaries
with threshold incomes (for purposes of the taxation of
Social Security benefits) of less than $32,000 for individuals
and $40,000 for married couples filing joint returns.
(C) Consistent with the position of the Administration,
the BTU tax will be imposed at the same rate on all
fuels purchased by households for home heating purposes,
and therefore the supplemental tax on oil will not be
imposed on such fuels.
(D) Any energy tax enacted during the One Hundred
Third Congress should provide such relief to the agriculture
industry as is necessary to ensure that the industry does
not absorb a disproportionate impact of that tax.
(2) NATIONAL DEFENSE (FUNCTION 050).—(A) If the esti-
mates for inflation for fiscal years 1994 through 1998 used
in the President’s fiscal year 1994 budget request and
this concurrent resolution are too low, the amounts for
budget authority and outlays for the National Defense (050)
and other budget functions should be increased to offset
the adverse effects of the higher inflation.
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(B) If Congress does not enact legislation freezing Fed-
eral pay levels for fiscal year 1994 and reducing the rates
of increase in Federal pay levels for fiscal years 1995
through 1997, as assumed for the President’s fiscal year
1994 budget request and this concurrent resolution, there
should be appropriate increases in the amounts of budget
authority and outlays for the National Defense (050) and
other budget functions in this concurrent resolution to allow
the departments and agencies of the Federal Government
to meet the resulting increases in costs for pay.
(C) Appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for the pro-
grams, projects, activities, and authorities under budget
functional category 050 (National Defense) should be made
at the levels of budget authority and outlays that are
provided for in this concurrent resolution for such func-
tional category for such fiscal year.
(D) If the appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for such
programs, projects, activities, and authorities are less than
the levels of budget authority and outlays that are provided
for in this concurrent resolution for such functional cat-
egory for such fiscal year, the savings resulting from the
lesser levels of appropriations should be used only for
reducing the deficit in the budget of the United States.
(E) The Congress should promptly reconsider the
amounts determined and declared by the Congress in this
resolution to be the appropriate levels of new budget
authority, outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new
primary loan guarantee commitments for fiscal years 1994
through 1998 for the National Defense (050) functional
category, in the event of material change in situations
affecting the security interests of the United States.
(3) GENERAL SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY (FUNC-
TION
250).—The budget authority and outlay figures for
function 250 in this resolution do not assume any amounts
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
for any fiscal year from 1994 through 1998 in excess of
the amounts proposed by the President for such fiscal
year.
(4) NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT (FUNCTION
300).—(A) Fees charged for domestic livestock grazing on
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of the Interior in western States should
be set at an amount that permits the ranching industry
to remain viable and reflects the economic realities of the
industry, rather than at an amount that meets arbitrary
revenue targets.
(B) Royalty fees charged for hardrock mining should
be set at an amount that permits the mining industry
to remain viable in the United States and reflects the
economic realities of the industry, rather than at an amount
that meets arbitrary revenue targets.
(5) EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, AND SOCIAL
SERVICES
(FUNCTION
500).—(A) The Head Start program
will be funded at the level requested by the President
for fiscal year 1998.