Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Speaker should immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to complete work on a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution with the Senate.

Bill: 113-hres-174
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-23
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Van Hollen. Petition No: 113-3. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/113/lrc/pd/petitions/DisPet0003.xml">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Speaker should follow regular House procedure and immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to negotiate a FY2014 budget resolution conference agreement with the Senate. </p> <p><BR> <BR> </p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 174 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 23, 2013 Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Ms. Pelosi , Mr. Clyburn , Mr. Hoyer , Mr. Becerra , Mr. Crowley , Mr. Israel , Ms. DeLauro , Mr. Andrews , Ms. Schwartz , Mr. Yarmuth , Mr. Pascrell , Mr. Ryan of Ohio , Ms. Moore , Ms. Castor of Florida , Mr. McDermott , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Cicilline , Mr. Jeffries , Mr. Pocan , Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico , Mr. Huffman , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Schrader , Mr. George Miller of California , Mrs. Napolitano , Mr. Doggett , Ms. Velázquez , Mr. Butterfield , Ms. Eshoo , Mr. Tonko , Mr. Foster , Mr. Levin , Mr. Langevin , Mr. Gallego , Mr. Lewis , Ms. Wasserman Schultz , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Mrs. Lowey , Mr. Conyers , Ms. Fudge , Ms. Meng , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Welch , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. Kind , Ms. Kaptur , Ms. Linda T. Sánchez of California , Ms. DelBene , Ms. Norton , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Ms. Tsongas , Mr. Cooper , Mrs. Christensen , Mr. Dingell , Mr. Hinojosa , Ms. Slaughter , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mr. Enyart , Ms. Bordallo , Mr. Smith of Washington , Mr. Kildee , Mr. Honda , Mr. Carney , Mr. Waxman , Ms. DeGette , Mr. Thompson of California , Mr. Larson of Connecticut , Mr. Cuellar , and Mr. Rush ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Speaker should immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to complete work on a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution with the Senate.

Whereas the House of Representatives and the Senate have each passed a budget resolution for fiscal year 2014; Whereas the Republican majority in the House of Representatives has repeatedly called for transparency and regular order in the budgetary process, including a statement by the Speaker on March 4, 2013, that It’s time for us to get back to regular order in the House ; Whereas the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 sets a statutory deadline of April 15 for Congress to complete action on adopting a conference agreement on the concurrent budget resolution, and the Congress is not in compliance with the deadline; Whereas the sequester threatens to impose sharp cuts in investments that are essential to our economic growth, and should be addressed in a budget resolution conference agreement; Whereas a conference agreement on the budget resolution is necessary to set a uniform discretionary allocation to facilitate the process of crafting and enacting 2014 appropriations bills in a timely manner; and Whereas the unresolved budget issues bring unnecessary uncertainty to the economy: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Speaker should follow regular House procedure and immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to negotiate a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution conference agreement with the Senate.