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Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2015-02-24 00:00:00

Makes any sequestration ordered by the President under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) inapplicable to funding of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Health
Date: 2015-02-25 00:00:00

Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2015 

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt certain Food and Drug Administration user fees from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-02-26 00:00:00

Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence, and Essential Law Enforcement Departments Act of 2015 or the SHIELD Act of 2015

 Requires, in the event that the U.S. public debt limit is reached, priority payment of the pay and allowances of: (1) members of the Armed Forces, including reserves, who perform active service; and (2) critical law enforcement officers employed by federal agencies.

Requires the Department of the Treasury, during a period of lapsed appropriations for the Armed Forces or federal agencies employing critical law enforcement officers, to make available necessary amounts to continue such pay and allowances.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 30 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 60 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 90 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 120 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 150 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 180 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 210 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 240 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 270 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 300 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 330 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 365 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Requires the President's annual buget submission to Congress to provide an estimate of the pro rata cost to individuals who file an income tax return of any projected deficit for the fiscal year.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00

Grant Return for Deficit Reduction Act 

This bill permits states and localities to return unused federal grant funds to the general fund of the Treasury for the purpose of deficit reduction. The Office of Management and Budget is required to submit to Congress a report detailing funds returned under this bill.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Health
Date: 2015-03-18 00:00:00

Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2015

This bill requires any new presidential sequestration order for FY2016-FY2017 to declare that no reduction shall be made with respect to payments for physician-administered drugs and biologicals under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to the extent that such payments are made based on their average sales price.

The Government Accountability Office must examine the shift of cancer care from physician-run community cancer clinics to hospitals and its consequences to costs to the federal government and to Medicare beneficiaries for cancer care under the Medicare program.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-18 00:00:00

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 2015

This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act of 1974, and the Rules of the House of Representatives to change the process for the President's budget submission, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations bills, and government strategic and performance plans from the current annual process to a biennial process, in which a biennium is the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.

The Congressional Budget Office must submit to Congress a quarterly analysis comparing revenues, spending, and the deficit or surplus for the current fiscal year to assumptions included in the congressional budget resolution.

The House Budget Committee must use the second session of each Congress to study issues with long-term budgetary and economic implications.

The bill creates a point of order in the House and Senate against authorizations of appropriations that do not include specific authorizations covering at least each fiscal year in one or more bienniums.

The Office of Management and Budget must report to Congress on the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period.

The bill requires the biennial process to take effect beginning with the FY2020 budget process and sets forth procedures and requirements for a transition period during the 115th Congress.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-19 00:00:00

This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to notify Congress when the debt of the U.S. government has reached the statutory limit and if Treasury has begun using reduction measures to avoid default. Treasury must also specify which reduction measures are currently being used.

Reduction measures include the issuance of debt by the Federal Financing Bank to exchange debt that is subject to the limit; suspending investments in the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Thrift Savings Fund; suspending investments in the Exchange Stabilization Fund; suspending, redeeming, or selling investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund or the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund; and other measures Treasury determines to be appropriate.

For each day the debt is at the statutory limit, Treasury must publicly disclose reduction measures currently being used, the amounts that have been used and remain available for each measure, and the date on which Treasury estimates that all measures will be exhausted and the government will begin defaulting.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-03-25 00:00:00

Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2015

 This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act of 1974, and the Rules of the House of Representatives to change the process for the President's budget submission, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations bills, and government strategic and performance plans from the current annual process to a biennial process, in which a biennium is the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.

The House Budget Committee must use the second session of each Congress to study issues with long-term budgetary and economic implications.

The bill creates a point of order in the House and Senate against authorizations of appropriations that do not include specific authorizations covering at least each fiscal year in one or more bienniums.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-04-14 00:00:00

Shut Down the Shutdowns Act or the Don't Interrupt America Act 

This bill prevents a government shutdown by automatically providing continuing appropriations to a federal agency if an appropriation expires prior to passage of a new appropriations measure funding the agency. If the prior appropriation expires before new appropriations are provided, the bill appropriates funds to the agency at the rate of the previous appropriation and under the same terms and conditions.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-04-30 00:00:00

Debt Limit Control and Accountability Act of 2015 

This bill prohibits the Department of the Treasury from using extraordinary measures either to prevent the United States from reaching the statutory debt limit or once the debt limit has been reached.

Under the bill, extraordinary measures are: suspending investments of the Thrift Savings Plan G Fund or the Exchange Stabilization Fund; suspending the issuance of new securities to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund; redeeming early securities held by the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund; suspending the issuance of new State and Local Government Series securities and savings bonds; replacing Treasury securities subject to the debt limit with debt issued by the Federal Financing Bank; or any other extraordinary actions taken by Treasury to avoid defaulting on the obligations of the United States.

The bill also repeals statutory provisions that established procedures for presidential modification of the debt ceiling.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2015-05-12 00:00:00

Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2015 

This bill requires the President's annual budget to include the total amount proposed for intelligence or intelligence related activities of each element of the government engaged in these activities in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted. The budget must also include the estimated appropriation required for these activities for each of the next four fiscal years.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-05-14 00:00:00

No Adding, No Padding Act 

This bill requires the President's annual budget to include additional details regarding current spending levels and proposed increases.

The budget must include: (1) a list of programs and funding levels that will be a one-time expense for the year for which the budget is submitted, and (2) a proposal for reducing spending in each of the four years following the year for which the budget is submitted.

For each item in the budget that is being conducted in the current year, the budget must include: the funding provided in the current year, any proposed change in the funding, and the justification for the change. If the budget proposes an increase in funding for an item, it must also include the amount of the adjustment that is due to inflation and increases in employee salaries or benefits.

The budget must also include estimates for funding that would be included in the budget for the following year if programs and activities received the same amount of funding as provided in the current year.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-05-20 00:00:00

Maximizing America's Prosperity Act of 2015 

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit total noninterest federal spending to a specified percentage of potential gross domestic product (GDP).

The cap begins at 19% of potential GDP for FY2016 and decreases each fiscal year until it reaches 16% of potential GDP for FY2024 and subsequent fiscal years. The total cap for each year fiscal year must be reduced by an amount equal to the unfunded direct costs of federal mandates for the year.

The bill revises the existing sequestration process to establish a new process to enforce the limits established by this bill. To enforce the caps, the bill's sequestration process would impose automatic cuts to discretionary spending. No discretionary budget account is permitted to be reduced by more than 5% of its budgetary resources.

The bill eliminates adjustments to spending limits that are currently permitted for emergency spending. The President's budget must include an allowance for emergency spending that is no less than 1% of discretionary spending for the year. The appropriations committees must set aside for emergencies 1% of the funding allocation provided to the committees by the budget resolution.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-05-21 00:00:00

Budget Integrity Act 

This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare long-term cost estimates for reported legislation with a gross budgetary impact of at least 0.25% of gross domestic product in either of the next two 10-year periods.

The bill also creates a point of order against considering legislation in the House or the Senate that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits above $5 billion in either of the two periods.

The CBO and the Office of Management and Budget must issue long-term budget projections that cover 40 years. The Government Accountability Office must report on the effects of long-term debt.

The bill amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to deem the House to have passed any necessary changes to the statutory debt limit upon adoption of the budget resolution.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-06-24 00:00:00

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to modify provisions that allocate spending between defense and nondefense spending.

The bill replaces the separate annual discretionary spending limits (commonly known as firewalls) for security and nonsecurity spending for FY2016-FY2021, with annual limits for total discretionary spending.

The bill also revises procedures for sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. The requirement that automatic cuts be evenly distributed between defense and nondefense spending is replaced with specified cuts in nondefense and defense direct spending for FY2016-FY2021.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2015-07-14 00:00:00

Honoring Our Trust Relationships Act of 2015 or the HOT-R Act 

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt specified American Indian and Alaska Native programs administered by the Departments of the Interior, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Health and Human Services from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Congress
Date: 2015-07-15 00:00:00

Giveback Deficit Reduction Act 

This bill requires appropriations for Member's Representational Allowances for the House of Representatives that remain at the end of the fiscal year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit or debt reduction. The Member's Representational Allowance is the budget authorized for each Member of Congress in support of the conduct of official and representational duties.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-07-23 00:00:00

Baseline Reform Act of 2015 

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to change the assumptions used in calculating the baseline for discretionary spending, which is the spending that is provided and controlled by appropriations bills.

The baseline is a projection of federal spending and receipts during the fiscal year under current law. It is used by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to estimate the cost of legislation and produce other budget projections.

The bill requires the baseline to cover a ten-year period and changes the assumptions the CBO and the OMB must use to project discretionary spending. It eliminates adjustments required under current law for inflation, expiring housing contracts, social insurance administrative expenses, and changes in federal pay and other benefits. By removing these adjustments, the bill requires the baseline to assume that discretionary spending will continue without an increase or a decrease to account for these factors.

The bill also requires the CBO to annually submit to the congressional budget committees by July 1 the Long-Term Budget Outlook for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 and at least the next 40 fiscal years.
Topic: Macroeconomics — National Budget
Subject: Economics and public finance
Date: 2015-07-28 00:00:00

Expedited Consideration of Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Act of 2015 

This bill amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to establish expedited procedures for congressional consideration of legislation to carry out recommendations included in the Office of Management and Budget's annual Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings report. The report lists proposals included in the President's budget to cut, consolidate, or otherwise produce savings from mandatory and discretionary spending programs. The authority provided by this bill terminates on the date of the sine die adjournment of Congress during 2018.