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sional Budget Office (CBO) projections find that So-
cial Security will run cash deficits of more than $1.3 
trillion over the next 10 years. 
(5) The Disability Insurance program provides 
an essential income safety net for those with disabil-
ities and their families. According to CBO, between 
1970 and 2012 the number of disabled workers and 
their dependent family members receiving disability 
benefits has increased by more than 300 percent 
from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. This increase 
is not due strictly to population growth or decreases 
in health. Scholars David Autor and Mark Duggan 
have found that the increase in individuals on dis-
ability does not reflect a decrease in self-reported 
health. CBO attributes program growth to changes 
in demographics and the composition of the labor 
force as well as Federal policies. 
(6) In the past, Social Security has been re-
formed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the 
‘‘Greenspan Commission’’, which helped address So-
cial Security shortfalls for more than a generation. 
(7) Americans deserve action by the President 
and Congress to preserve and strengthen Social Se-
curity to ensure that Social Security remains a crit-
ical part of the safety net. 
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(b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the policy 
of this concurrent resolution that the House should work 
on a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably 
solvent. This concurrent resolution assumes, under a re-
form trigger, that— 
(1) if in any year the Board of Trustees of the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Fund annual Trustees Report determines that the 
75-year actuarial balance of the Social Security 
Trust Funds is in deficit, and the annual balance of 
the Social Security Trust Funds in the 75th year is 
in deficit, the Board of Trustees should, no later 
than September 30 of the same calendar year, sub-
mit to the President recommendations for statutory 
reforms necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actu-
arial balance and a positive annual balance in the 
75th year, and any recommendations provided to the 
President must be agreed upon by both Public 
Trustees of the Board of Trustees; 
(2) not later than December 1 of the same cal-
endar year in which the Board of Trustees submit 
their 
recommendations, 
the 
President 
should 
promptly submit implementing legislation to both 
Houses of Congress including recommendations nec-
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essary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance 
and a positive annual balance in the 75th year, and 
the majority leader of the Senate and the majority 
leader of the House should introduce the President’s 
legislation upon receipt; 
(3) within 60 days of the President submitting 
legislation, the committees of jurisdiction should re-
port a bill, which should be considered by the House 
or Senate under expedited procedures; and 
(4) legislation submitted by the President 
should— 
(A) protect those in or near retirement; 
(B) preserve the safety net for those who 
count on Social Security the most, including 
those with disabilities and survivors; 
(C) improve fairness for participants; 
(D) reduce the burden on and provide cer-
tainty for future generations; and 
(E) secure the future of the Disability In-
surance program while addressing the needs of 
those with disabilities today and improving the 
determination process. 
(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the 
policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress and the 
President should enact legislation on a bipartisan basis to 
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reform the Disability Insurance program prior to its insol-
vency in 2022 and should not raid the Social Security re-
tirement system without reforms to the Disability Insur-
ance system. This concurrent resolution assumes reform 
that— 
(1) ensures benefits continue to be paid to indi-
viduals with disabilities and their family members 
who rely on them; 
(2) prevents an 11 percent across-the-board 
benefit cut; 
(3) improves the Disability Insurance program; 
and 
(4) promotes opportunity for those trying to re-
turn to work. 
(d) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.—It is 
the policy of this concurrent resolution that any legislation 
Congress considers to improve the solvency of the Dis-
ability Insurance Trust Fund must also improve the long- 
term solvency of the combined Old Age and Survivors Dis-
ability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Fund. 
SEC. 609. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPEALING THE PRESI-
DENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW AND PROMOTING 
REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
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(1) The President’s health care law put Wash-
ington’s priorities before those of patients’. The Af-
fordable Care Act (ACA) has failed to reduce health 
care premiums as promised. Instead, the law man-
dated benefits and coverage levels, denying patients 
the opportunity to choose the type of coverage that 
best suits their health needs and driving up health 
coverage costs. A typical family’s health care pre-
miums were supposed to decline by $2,500; instead, 
average premiums have increased by $3,775. A re-
cent study conducted by the nonpartisan Congres-
sional Budget Office (CBO) estimates premiums to 
continue rising over the next decade, projecting an 
average increase of 8 percent per year between 2016 
and 2018, and increasing by nearly 60 percent by 
2026. 
(2) The President pledged, ‘‘If you like your 
health care plan, you can keep your health care 
plan.’’ Instead, CBO now estimates 7 million Ameri-
cans will lose employment-based health coverage due 
to the President’s health care law, further limiting 
patient choice. 
(3) Then-Speaker of the House Pelosi stated 
that the President’s health care law would create 4 
million jobs over the life of the law and almost 
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