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Provides that if a funding gap occurs during FY2014 impacting the Armed Forces, amounts shall be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at a rate for operations as provided for military personnel accounts by the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 (division C of P.L. 113-6), for the purpose of providing pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during such funding gap.

Defines "funding gap" as any period after September 30, 2013, for which interim or full-year appropriations for the military personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for FY2014 have not been enacted by a law.

Date: 2013-09-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Defending Veterans from Sequestration Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt administrative expenses of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from any presidential sequestration order issued under that Act.

Date: 2013-09-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Military Pay Protection Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a government-wide shutdown, to make available to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the shutdown. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the DOD Secretary, to: (1) DOD civilian personnel providing support to such members, and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members.

Makes additional funding available as necessary to prevent interruptions or delays in the performance of domestic disaster relief and recovery operations during the shutdown.

Defines "government-wide shutdown" as any portion of a fiscal year during which none of the appropriation bills for the fiscal year have become law and an Act or joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year is not in effect.

Date: 2013-09-26
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Pay Our Military Act - Appropriates for FY2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to: (1) members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, who perform active service during such period; and (2) civilian personnel and contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD) (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to such members of the Armed Forces.

Requires the appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act to remain available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015.

Date: 2013-09-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Preserve our National Security Act - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for pay and allowances to: (1) members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, who perform active service during FY2014, as well as employees of agencies part of the National Intelligence Program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and (2) civilian personnel and contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD), employees of agencies within the National Intelligence Program, and employees of DHS and VA who are providing support or benefits to veterans or support to U.S. national security interests related to military, intelligence services, and securing and staffing borders and ports of entry.

Makes such appropriations, funds, and authority granted by this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any purpose for which amounts are made available by this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015.

Date: 2013-09-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Shutdown Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving pay until a government spending agreement on future spending is agreed to by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Makes such prohibition effective with the termination of a fiscal year at the end of which the House and Senate fail to reach agreement on government spending.

Directs the Committee on House Administration, consistent with the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act, to consider the definition of "employing authority" under House Rules where Members of Congress would be deemed "non-essential."

Requires the amendments made by this Act to apply with respect to any adjustment which, but for this Act, would otherwise become effective in the event of a lapse in appropriations for government spending where the government would thereby shut down.

Date: 2013-09-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during any funding gap during FY2014 when interim or full-year appropriations for the following activities have not been enacted, from amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to transfer to the head of the appropriate executive agency such amounts as are necessary to continue payment of: (1) pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, on active duty; and (2) payment of salaries and benefits for sworn federal law enforcement officers.

Requires such payments to be given priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit.

Date: 2013-09-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Military Pay Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in the event that U.S. debt reaches the statutory limit, to make available the following: (1) such amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) determines to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances without interruption to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, as well as civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors; and (2) such amounts as the President certifies to Congress as are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during any funding gap, to make emergency appropriations: (1) to continue to provide pay and allowances without interruption to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, as well as civilian employees of DOD (and DHS in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors; and (2) for such amounts as the President certifies to Congress as are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities.

Date: 2013-09-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act - Provides for compensation of federal employees furloughed due to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations.

Date: 2013-09-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
No Government No Pay Act of 2013 - Requires the withholding of pay of a Member of Congress during a government shutdown equal to the product of 1 day's worth of pay under such annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the government shutdown is in effect. Makes such withholding applicable to days occurring during the 114th and succeeding Congresses.

Date: 2013-09-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Appropriates for FY2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for FY2013 and under the authority and conditions provided in such Acts, to administer and furnish the compensation, pension benefits, readjustment benefits, insurance and indemnities, housing benefits, and vocational rehabilitation benefits provided for under federal veterans' benefits laws.

Requires the appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act to remain available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015.

Date: 2013-10-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Continuing Protection for Victims and Law Enforcement Act - Appropriates for FY2014, for any period during which a joint resolution or other Act making appropriations for commerce, justice, science, and related agencies is not in effect, such sums as may be necessary for continuing law enforcement, crime prevention, and victim services programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) for which funds were made available in title II of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of P.L. 113-6), at a rate for operations as provided for by such Act (as reduced by the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013).

Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted under this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.

Date: 2013-10-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Support Our Armed Forces Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) all Department of Defense (DOD) and Coast Guard civilian employees, including military technicians (dual status), and all defense contractor employees provide vital support to the Armed Forces; and (2) all members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who perform inactive-duty training or annual training during a government shutdown should be paid for performing such duty, just as other members of the Armed Forces who perform active service will be paid.

Amends the Pay Our Military Act (P.L. 113-39) to make FY2014 continuing appropriations for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect to provide for:

 pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components, who perform inactive-duty training or annual training (under such Act only members performing active service) during such period; pay and allowances to all civilian personnel of DOD (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard), including military technicians (dual status), non-dual status technicians, and federally-reimbursed state civilian employees supporting the National Guard (under such Act only personnel whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service); and compensation to all employees of DOD and DHS contractors who are performing activities under a contract with DOD, or DHS in the case of the Coast Guard (under such Act only contractors whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service).

Date: 2013-10-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Pay Accountability Act - Requires the pay of Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President to be withheld during any period of: (1) a lapse in appropriations for any federal agency as a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution, or (2) the federal government's inability to make payments or meet obligations because the public debt limit.

Provides for such withheld amounts to be deposited in an escrow account to be transferred (on the last day of the Congress involved with respect to a Member, or the last day of the term of office involved with respect to the President or Vice President) to the Secretary of the Treasury and deposited in the Treasury for deficit reduction.

Date: 2013-10-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Provides for federal, state, and local employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations (from the Treasury) that began on or about October 1, 2013, to be compensated at their standard rate for the period of such lapse in appropriations.

Defines "state or local employee" as an individual employed by the government of a state, municipality, or political subdivision, or by the government of the District of Columbia, whose principal employment is in connection with an activity financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States.

Date: 2013-10-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Hold Congress Accountable Act - Requires a reduction in the annual rate of pay of a Member of Congress during a government shutdown equal to the product of 1 day's worth of pay under such annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the government shutdown is in effect. Makes such reduction applicable to days occurring after the date of the general election for federal office held in November 2014.

Requires any amount of pay of a Member of Congress in the 113th Congress that is reduced due to a government shutdown to be held in escrow until the last day of the 113th Congress and released for payment to Members at that time.

Date: 2013-10-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Appropriates for FY2014, for any period during which a joint resolution or other Act making appropriations for commerce, justice, science, and related agencies is not in effect, such sums as may be necessary to continue emergency training and critical training by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), at a rate for operations as provided by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6), as reduced by the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013.

Defines: (1) "emergency training" as training of new employees in positions designated as "emergency"; and (2) "critical training" as training of state and local officers, training for international law enforcement officers occurring in the United States, and training of international law enforcement officers abroad (such as the training of officers who will be working in a combat zone) that is deemed necessary to protect human life or property.

Date: 2013-10-03
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that all civilian employees and contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Coast Guard serve to provide support to members of the Armed Forces.

Amends the Pay Our Military Act (P.L. 113-39) to make FY2014 continuing appropriations for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect to provide for: (1) pay and allowances to all civilian personnel of DOD (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) (under such Act only personnel whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service); and (2) compensation to all employees of contractors of DOD, and DHS in the case of the Coast Guard (under such Act only contractors whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service).

Requires the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard) to ensure that all civilian personnel of DOD and the Coast Guard who were not in "retained" or "excepted" status at any time during the period beginning on October 1, 2013, are treated as retained or excepted during the period for which such continuing appropriations are made available, effective as of the enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 30-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 60-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 90-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 120-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 150-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 180-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 210-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 240-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 270-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 300-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 330-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt - Makes the public debt limit inapplicable for a 365-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-10-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Military and Federal Civilian Employee Pay Act - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2014 to provide the pay and allowances of: (1) federal employees, (2) members of the reserve components of the Armed Services who perform inactive duty training during such period, and (3) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Provides for payment of the pay and allowances of those employees who were furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that began on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations.

Date: 2013-10-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Shutdown Prioritization Act or the SPA Act - Prohibits the Architect of the Capitol from operating an exercise facility for Members of the House of Representatives during a government shutdown (defined as a lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department as a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution).

Date: 2013-10-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Default Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-3) to suspend the public debt limit through December 31, 2014.

Revises the special rule relating to obligations issued during the suspension period to provide for an increase in the debt limit, effective January 1, 2015, to the extent that: (1) the face amount of obligations issued and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) outstanding on January 1, 2015, exceeds (2) the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act.

Prohibits an obligation from being taken into account unless its issuance was necessary to fund a commitment incurred by the federal government that required payment before January 1, 2015.

Date: 2013-10-10
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Protecting States, Opening National Parks Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse any state for state funds expended for an activity conducted in FY2014 during the federal government shutdown that was necessary to operate and open to the public a National Park located, in whole or in part, within the state. Requires any such activity to have been: (1) authorized under federal law, (2) conducted in a manner and at a level not substantially greater in scope or cost than how the activity would have been conducted by the federal government, and (3) not a settlement of or defense against a claim of liability on the part of the state.

Date: 2013-10-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Veterans Services Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), during any period after September 30, 2013, for which VA appropriations for FY2014 have not been enacted, to ensure that VA employees who are excepted from furlough provide: (1) veterans service organizations with the same access to VA facilities as such organizations had on September 30, 2013, (2) veterans with the same access to veterans service organizations using such facilities as was provided on September 30, 2013, and (3) such services as necessary to ensure the safety and security of such veterans and veterans service organizations in the same manner as was provided on September 30, 2013.

Date: 2013-10-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Treats all federal employees, during any lapse in appropriations beginning on or about October 1, 2013, as performing services relating to emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property (employees excepted from furlough). Subjects excepted employees to the rules relating to leave and holidays during a lapse in appropriations that would apply if no lapse had occurred.

 Provides for the compensation of federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations for the period for which they were furloughed at their standard rate and as soon as practicable after such lapse ends.

Date: 2013-10-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Debt Limit Reform Act - Grants the President, or the President's designee, authority to increase the public debt limit. Excludes from the public debt limit amount obligations held by the U.S. government.

Date: 2013-10-15
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Pay America First Act - Makes this Act effective if the federal government defaults on its legal obligations for the first time in its history, as evidenced by one or more of certain actions taken by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Counts among such actions withholding from making payments of debt obligations to foreign bond holders, including those in China, Iran, and the Cayman Islands, before:

 making a payment of a debt obligation to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds or redeeming a debt obligation held by those trust funds; redeeming a debt obligation held by a trust fund providing veterans benefits, including the Veterans Special Life Insurance Fund, the Veterans Reopened Insurance Fund, the Armed Forces Retirement Home Fund, and the Court of Veteran Appeals Retirement Fund; redeeming a debt obligation held by an intragovernmental fund to assist Americans during a natural disaster, including reserves for the National Flood Insurance Program and other disaster relief funds appropriated to the President; or making a payment of debt obligations to the Department of Defense (DOD), including civilian and uniformed personnel (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force), military active pay and military retirement benefits, and military benefits to their families. Requires the Secretary, after exercising such authority, to report each week to Congress on the payments issued and amount of revenues incoming and remaining reserves for upcoming payments issued.

Date: 2013-10-16
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Provide Access and Retain Continuity Act or the PARC Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with, and provide reimbursement to, states to conduct activities determined to have a direct economic impact on tourism, mining, timber, or general transportation in the state that are otherwise not being conducted by the federal government during a partial shutdown of the federal government due to a lapse in appropriations.

Requires the Secretary to approve or deny a petition for such an agreement not later than 90 days after receiving it and deems such petition approved if the Secretary does not act on it within the 90-day period.

Date: 2013-10-23
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Fannie-Freddie Debt Elimination Act of 2013 - Requires any amounts paid or repaid to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to be transferred to the special Treasury account into which money received as gifts and proceeds from the sale or redemption of gifts is deposited for reduction of the national debt.

Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any agreement to further alter, amend, or change any provision of the Amended and Restated Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements referred to by this Act that relates to dividend payment dates, dividend periods, dividend rates, or dividend amounts.

Date: 2013-10-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Housing and community development
Pay Our Bills Act - Authorizes an extension of the presidential authority to modify the public debt ceiling (subject to enactment of a congressional joint resolution of disapproval).

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow an additional amount required to meet existing commitments if the President certifies to Congress that the public debt is within $100 billion of the current limit and that further borrowing is required. (The debt limit was $16.699 trillion before its suspension in the Continuing Appropriations Act, FY2014 [P.L. 113-46].)

Authorizes Congress to use current requirements for expedited consideration of the joint resolution. Increases the debt limit by the certified amount if the time for disaproval has lapsed without enactment of the joint resolution.

Suspends the debt limit for the period beginning on the date on which the President submits such a certification to Congress and ending on the earlier of:

 15 calendar days after Congress receives the certification, or enactment of a joint resolution disapproving the President's exercise of authority for the debt limit under that certification. Increases the debt limit, effective on the day after the certification is submitted, to the extent that:

 the face amount of public debt obligations and those whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the U.S. government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary) outstanding on the day after such date exceeds the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date the President certifies Congress. Excludes from such formula any obligation whose issuance was not necessary to fund a commitment that required payment before the day after the certification is submitted to Congress.

Prohibits the debt limit from being increased if a joint resolution of disapproval is enacted within 15 days after receipt by Congress (in session or not) of a presidential certification that the public debt is within $100 billion of the current limit.

Provides for expedited consideration of such a joint resolution in the House and Senate.

Date: 2013-10-29
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Furloughed Federal Employee Double Dip Elimination Act - Requires regulations pertaining to the compensation of any federal employees who receive back pay for any period in which such employee was furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations to require such back pay to be treated in the same way as federal wages attributable to such employee, and the period to which such back pay relates to be treated in the same way as a period of federal service attributable to such employee (thereby disqualifying such employee for receipt of state unemployment compensation).

Date: 2013-11-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2013 - Amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 to require the federal government to provide compensation to the employees of federal contractors that provide retail, food, custodial, and security services to the federal government who were placed on unpaid leave as a result of any lapse in appropriations beginning on or about October 1, 2013.

Date: 2013-11-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Allows an income tax credit to employers for shutdown payments to employees who provide services under a federal contract in a federal building used for official purposes by any office or entity over which the House Committee on Administration had jurisdiction during the 113th Congress.

Defines "shutdown payments" as any payment made to an individual for wages the individual would have received if the individual were performing services for the employer under such contract during the period of October 1, 2013, through October 16, 2013, when the federal government was closed due to a lapse in appropriations.

Date: 2013-11-20
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Taxation
Debt Management Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, within 21 to 60 days before any date on which the Secretary anticipates the public debt will reach the current debt limit, to appear before specified congressional committees to provide specified information. (The debt limit was $16.699 trillion before its suspension in the Continuing Appropriations Act, FY2014 [P.L. 113-46].)

Requires the Secretary to include in such appearance:

 a report on the state of the public debt, including (1) its historical trajectory, major drivers of the current debt and their quantities, and debt projections; and (2) how, if the debt limit is raised, the United States will meet existing debt obligations, including principal and interest; a detailed explanation of: (1) any proposal of the President to reduce the structural deficit in the short-term (the following fiscal year), medium-term (approximately 3-5 years), and long-term (approximately 10 years); (2) the impact an increased debt limit will have on future federal spending, service provision, and the status of the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency; (3) projections of fiscal health and resilience to long-term entitlement program pressures (including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid), given the proposed measures to reduce the structural deficit and the amount of increase in the debt limit; and (4) any proposal of the President to reduce the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio, based on current trends, with the exclusion of extreme events (i.e. military, economic, and natural catastrophes); and a detailed report on the progress of implementing all such proposals. Declares that this report shall only be delivered if a Secretary has already appeared at least once during any term of office for a particular President.

Date: 2013-11-21
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Jobs Score Act of 2013 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of any public bill or resolution reported from a congressional committee (except each chamber's Committee on Appropriations) to estimate the number of jobs which would be created, sustained, or lost in carrying out such measure in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in each of the four ensuing fiscal years, together with the basis for each such estimate.

Requires such analysis, to the extent practicable, to include regional and state-level estimates of such jobs.

Date: 2013-11-21
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Provide for the Common Defense Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to nullify the presidential sequestration order issued for the revised security category (discretionary appropriations in budget function 050) for FY2014-FY2015 to enforce a specified budget goal.

Establishes the discretionary spending limit for the revised security category for each such fiscal year.

Amends part B (Supplemental Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to adjustments to the calculation of Medicare parts B and D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) premiums for high income beneficiaries for 2017 and subsequent years.

Reduces the monthly amount of the Medicare parts B and D premium subsidies (with a corresponding increase in the monthly premium amount) for individuals whose modified adjusted gross income exceeds the threshold amount by specified applicable percentages for modified adjusted gross incomes in certain ranges starting at $85,000 (40%) and finally exceeding $214,000 (90%).

Revises the temporary adjustment to income thresholds used to calculate premiums between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2019, to extend it through December 31 of the first year after 2019 after the year in which at least 25% of individuals enrolled in the Medicare parts B and D are subject to a reduction to the monthly amount of the applicable premium subsidy.

Increases by $25 per year the part B deductible for new enrollees after January 1, 2017, and subsequent years.

Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to establish caps beginning with FY2014 for: (1) combined crop insurance provider rates of return, and (2) reimbursements for crop insurance provider administrative and operating expenses.

Reduces according to a specified formula the crop insurance premium for catastrophic risk protection coverage.

Reduces the portion of premium paid by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (premium subsidies) for the following coverages: (1) additional insurance, (2) enterprise and whole farm units, (3) area revenue plans, and (4) area yield plans.

Requires an additional .4% increase per year, beginning in calendar 2014, in the percentage of basic pay that federal employees or Members of Congress must contribute to their pension plans under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Reduces government contributions to CSRS and FERS by the amount of such increased employee contributions.

 Eliminates annuity supplements for federal employees hired after 2013.

 Revises the definition of “price index,” for purposes of cost-of-living adjustments to federal employee benefits, to mean the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (Chained CPI) instead of the Consumer Price Index.

Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Surivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to require the use of the Chained CPI for calculation of Social Security cost-of-living adjustments.

Date: 2013-12-03
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Allowing Commerce to Continue in the Event of Successive Shutdowns Act or the ACCESS Act - Prohibits any federal department or agency from preventing a private business from operating during a government shutdown (i.e., a lapse in appropriations due to a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution) if the business is located on property leased by the business from the federal government.

Date: 2013-12-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Sequester Delay and Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act - Title I: Extension of Sequestration - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to: (1) repeal the across-the-board reductions in discretionary spending mandated by such Act in FY2014 and FY2015, and (2) increase the budget authority in FY2016 for the security and nonsecurity budget categories.

Title II: Deterring the Use of Tax Havens for Tax Evasion - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to impose restrictions on foreign jurisdictions or financial institutions operating in the United States that are of primary money laundering concern or that significantly impede U.S. tax enforcement.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to:

 expand reporting requirements for U.S. persons who hold an interest in a passive foreign investment company; establish a rebuttable presumption against the validity of transactions by institutions that do not comply with reporting requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act; treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled primarily in the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes; require tax withholding agents and financial institutions to report certain information about beneficial owners of foreign-owned financial accounts; treat swap payments sent offshore as taxable U.S. source income; and impose additional requirements for third party summonses used to obtain information in tax investigations that do not identify the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued (i.e., John Doe summons). Title III: Other Measures to Combat Tax Haven Abuses - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to: (1) require corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to report annually, on a country-by country basis, on employees, gross revenues, payments made to governments, and other financial information; and (2) impose a fine for failure to disclose any holdings or transactions involving equity or debt instruments known to involve a foreign entity that would otherwise be subject to disclosure requirements.

Makes investment advisers and persons engaged in forming new business entities subject to anti-money laundering requirements.

Title IV Ending Corporate Offshore Tax Avoidance - Imposes new restrictions on U.S. corporations and other entities with foreign income with respect to: (1) tax deductions allocable to deferred foreign income, (2) the recalculation of foreign income taxes, (3) intangible property transferred overseas, (4) tax evasion activities by U.S. corporations reincorporating in a foreign country, and (5) loans to U.S. shareholders from controlled foreign corporations.

Date: 2013-12-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Taxation
Federal Employee Pay Restoration Act - Requires federal employees who were furloughed as a result of the presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such furlough.

Date: 2013-12-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (the Act) to exempt from any presidential sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) funds made available under the Act or derived from the other authorized funding sources for the purpose of making payments to eligible states and counties containing certain federal lands (payments in lieu of federal payment of state property taxes).

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, using authorized payment sources, to reimburse each state or county that, in response to a presidential sequestration order issued during FY2013, repaid some of the payment it received during FY2013 either by: (1) returning a portion of it to the Secretary, (2) having funds deducted from other amounts due the state or county under the Act, or (3) providing some combination of returning and deducting funds. Requires the Secretary to waive the repayment requirement for any state or county that did not repay the required portion of the payment it received during FY2013 despite such order.

Date: 2014-01-15
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Social Security Administration Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner of Social Security to submit an annual budget estimate of the Social Security Administration (SSA) (instead of a budget) directly to Congress and the President (instead of first to the President, who would submit it to Congress).

Revises requirements for the general contents of the SSA budget, requiring inclusion of the number of cases pending at each hearing office and the average processing time.

Prohibits the Commissioner from closing or consolidating SSA field or hearing offices, or otherwise limiting public access to one, until 180 days after submitting to specified congressional committees a detailed report outlining and justifying the process for selecting field offices to be closed, consolidated, or otherwise have limited access.

Prohibits the Commissioner from closing an SSA field or hearing office, consolidating two or more such offices, or otherwise imposing any new limitation on public access to any such office unless the Commissioner follows certain administrative procedures.

Date: 2014-02-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Social welfare
Debt Limit Reform and Congressional Pay for Performance Act of 2014 - Suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on February 8, 2014, and ending on April 15, 2024.

Revises the special rule relating to obligations issued during the suspension period to provide for an increase in the debt limit, effective April 16, 2024, to the extent that: (1) the face amount of obligations issued and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) outstanding on April 16, 2024, exceeds (2) the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date of enactment of this Act.

 Prohibits an obligation from being taken into account unless its issuance was necessary to fund a commitment incurred by the federal government that required payment before April 16, 2024.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on December 31 of each of calendar years 2015 through 2023 to determine:

 the sum of the face amount of obligations issued and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the federal government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury), outstanding at any time, for the most recent fiscal year which ended before the calendar year; the amount equal to a specified applicable percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as determined by the Secretary of Commerce, for such fiscal year; and the percentage by which the sum of outstanding obligations for the most recent fiscal year exceeds, if it does, the applicable percentage of the GDP for that fiscal year. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require the Director of OMB to reduce each annual rate of pay for Members of Congress by the percentage by which such sum of outstanding obligations for the most recent fiscal year exceeds the applicable percentage of the GDP for that fiscal year for all pay periods occurring during the calendar year beginning after that fiscal year.

Prohibits any cost of living adjustment to the rate of pay for any Member of Congress during the next calendar year.

Date: 2014-02-10
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Increases the public debt limit to $19.250 trillion.

Requires the House of Representatives and the Senate each to vote upon a proposed amendment to the Constitution entitled "Joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States" or entitled "Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to restrict the power of Congress to enact legislation increasing any amount spent under entitlement programs or creating new entitlement programs."

States that if such vote fails to achieve a two-thirds majority in either house of Congress then there shall be another vote in that house on either such amendment within 90 days.

Date: 2014-02-10
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance