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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 105
Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise spending
cuts set forth in this resolution to save $190 billion over the next
5 fiscal years unless the committee determines that any such cuts would
be unjustified.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 1, 1993
Mr. GOSS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Rules
RESOLUTION
Instructing the Committee on the Budget to make the precise
spending cuts set forth in this resolution to save $190
billion over the next 5 fiscal years unless the committee
determines that any such cuts would be unjustified.
Resolved, That (a) the Committee on the Budget is
authorized and directed to report a concurrent resolution
on the budget for fiscal year 1994 that includes the spend-
ing reductions set forth in subsection (b) over the 5-year
period beginning with fiscal year 1994 which would save
$190 billion, unless the committee determines that any
such cuts would be unjustified. Any such determination
shall be set forth in the report accompanying that concur-
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rent resolution, which report shall include the reasons for
each such determination.
(b) The spending reductions referred to in subsection
(a) are the following:
(1) Cancel the National Aerospace Plane
(NASP).
(2) Continue partial civilian hiring freeze for
DOD through 1997.
(3) Cancel NASA’s advanced solid rocket
motor.
(4) Cancel the Superconducting Supercollider.
(5) Cut space station funding by 15 percent.
(6) Eliminate below-cost timber sales from na-
tional forests.
(7) Lower target prices for subsidized crops by
3 percent annually.
(8) Eliminate price support for wool and mo-
hair.
(9) Eliminate the honey program.
(10) Eliminate the market promotion program.
(11) End the Federal crop insurance program
and replace with standing authority for disaster as-
sistance.
(12) Limit Federal highway spending to the
amount brought in by motor vehicle fuel taxes.
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(13) Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
(14) Reduce Commodity Credit Corporation
subsidies to those with off-farm incomes over
$100,000.
(15) Extend the current law eliminating the
statute of limitations on collecting defaulted student
loans.
(16) Terminate most Federal commissions.
(17) Fully implement H.R. 2452 (102d Con-
gress) to provide additional energy conservation
measures for Federal agencies.
(18) Enact H.R. 1080 to prohibit direct Fed-
eral benefits and unemployment benefits to illegal
aliens.
(19) Eliminate the tobacco price-support pro-
gram.
(20) Consolidate the Office of Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
(21) Close 20 underutilized black lung offices.
(22) Bring Government Printing Office wages
in line with Federal Government counterparts.
(23) Allow private sector investment in the
space shuttle.
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(24) Eliminate Farmer’s Home Administration
(FmHA) duplication with Small Business Adminis-
tration.
(25) Eliminate the Rural Electrification Admin-
istration.
(26) Terminate all highway ‘‘demonstration
projects’’.
(27) Lower by 15 percent the travel budgets of
nonpostal civilian agencies, then cap future growth
at the inflation rate.
(28) Lower by 10 percent per year the pro-
jected growth rate of nonpostal civilian agencies’
overhead costs, excluding travel.
(29) Abolish cotton price supports and loan
programs.
(30) Cut the foreign affairs budget (major func-
tional category 150) by 15 percent.
(31) Phase out the Foreign Agricultural Service
cooperation funding.
(32) Eliminate the Appalachian Regional Com-
mission.
(33) Roll back Members’ and Senators’ pay
raise to $89,500.
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(34) Sell the national helium reserves to a joint
venture comprised of current employees and other
private investors.
(35) Sunset appropriations to former Speakers
of the House after 3 years.
(36) Reduce the franking allocation to Members
of Congress by 50 percent.
(37) Cut the National Endowment for the Arts
by 50 percent.
(38) Cut funding for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by 50 percent.
(39) Phase out subsidies for Amtrak.
(40) Phase out ACTION as a tax supported
program.
(41) Raise grazing fees.
(42) Facilitate contracting out and privatization
of military commissaries.
(43) Close the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion.
(44) Phase out the United States Fire Adminis-
tration.
(45) End funding for all nonenergy related
Tennessee Valley Authority activities.
(46) Eliminate essential air services subsidies.
(47) Eliminate consumer homemaking grants.
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(48) Privatize the House and Senate gym-
nasiums.
(49) Reduce the legislative branch appropria-
tion by 25 percent.
(50) Close the Bureau of Mines and merge its
data gathering activities with other Department of
the Interior research agencies.
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