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(B) The education reform and initiatives will be funded
at the level requested by the President for fiscal year
1998.
(C) The defense conversion programs will be funded
at the level requested by the President for fiscal year
1998.
(6) HEALTH
(FUNCTION
550).—(A) The Committee on
Labor and Human Resources will make every effort to
embark upon a sustained investment strategy in health
research and development over the next 5 years and sup-
port for the continuum of medical research should be a
central feature in any plan to reform the United States
health care system.
(B) The vast majority of rising mandatory program
costs is due to increasing Federal health care costs, and
these costs are assumed in the levels set forth in this
resolution.
(C) Health care reform is essential to curb the escalat-
ing costs of health entitlement programs to reduce the
deficit.
(D) The reduction in health costs in this budget resolu-
tion should be augmented by further savings in Federal
health outlays as a part of comprehensive health care
reform which will be reflected in future budget resolutions.
(E) Comprehensive health reform will result in long
term savings both for the public and private sectors of
the American economy, and reduce the deficit levels set
forth in this resolution at an ever increasing pace.
(F) Health care reform legislation should receive prior-
ity attention by the United States Congress with a target
date of enactment of such legislation being no later then
September 30, 1993.
(7) INCOME
SECURITY
(FUNCTION
600).—The Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC) program will be funded at
the level requested by the President for fiscal year 1998.
(8) ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (FUNCTION 750).—(A)
The Community Policing (‘‘Cops on the Beat’’) program
will be funded at the level requested by the President
for fiscal year 1998.
(B) Funds to reduce the availability and use of illegal
drugs will be shifted over the next 5 years so that the
allocation shall be equally distributed between the so-called
‘‘supply side’’ (interdiction, law enforcement, and inter-
national supply reduction efforts) and the so-called
‘‘demand side’’ (education, rehabilitation, treatment, and
research programs).
(b) DEBT LIMIT IN RECONCILIATION.—(1) Any concurrent
resolution on the budget that contains reconciliation directives
shall include a directive with respect to the statutory limit
on the public debt.
(2) Any change in the statutory limit on the public debt
that is recommended pursuant to a reconciliation directive shall
be included in the reconciliation legislation reported pursuant
to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for
that fiscal year.
(3) Except as provided in paragraph (4), the Senate shall
not consider any bill or joint resolution (or any amendment
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thereto or conference report thereon) that increases the statu-
tory limit on the public debt during a fiscal year above the
level set forth as appropriate for that fiscal year in the concur-
rent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year agreed to
under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(4) The prohibition of paragraph (3) shall not apply to
a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported pursu-
ant to section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
during any fiscal year (or any conference report thereon) that
contains a provision that—
(A) increases the statutory limit on the public debt
pursuant to a directive of the type described in section
310(a)(3) of that Act; and
(B) becomes effective on or after the first day of the
following fiscal year.
(c) DEFICIT REDUCTION ACCOUNT.—It is assumed that the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives should report
legislation to—
(1) establish a separate account in the Treasury into
which all of the amounts by which the aggregate levels
of Federal revenue should be increased would be deposited;
(2) ensure that any revenues deposited in such account
would not be available for appropriation; and
(3) provide that any such revenues deposited in such
account would be used to retire outstanding debt obliga-
tions of the United States Government.
(d) LINE-ITEM VETO AUTHORITY INCLUDING APPROPRIATIONS
AND TAX EXPENDITURES.—The President should be granted line-
item veto authority over items of appropriation and tax expendi-
tures and that line-item veto authority should expire at the
conclusion of the One Hundred Third Congress.
(e) USE OF SAVINGS FROM GOVERNMENT STREAMLINING.—
Any amounts saved through the efforts of the National Perform-
ance Review Task Force headed by the Vice President and
as a result of any other reorganization and streamlining of
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the Federal Government should be applied to offset the cost
of any economic stimulus package enacted in fiscal year 1993,
and any amounts saved in excess of those necessary to offset
the cost of any such economic stimulus should be applied to
reduce the Federal budget deficit and for no other purpose.
Attest:
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Attest:
Secretary of the Senate.