zli12321/Bills huggingface dataset:
Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013 - 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 administer and provide benefits and services to veterans, dependents, and survivors under specified veterans' benefits laws, including those concerning:

 compensation for service-connected disability or death, dependency and indemnity compensation for service-connected deaths, pension for non-service-connected disability or death or for service, benefits for children of certain veterans, specially adapted housing for disabled veterans, burial benefits, certain educational assistance programs, training and rehabilitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and automobiles and adaptive equipment for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces. Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act 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 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: 2013-09-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
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: 2013-10-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
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: 2013-10-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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: 2013-10-15
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Return Our State Shares Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt the following payments to states from any presidential sequestration order issued under that Act:

 Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration (14-5029-0-2-303), Financial assistance to states pursuant to the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 from the Land Acquisition and State Assistance account (14-5035-0-2-303), Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund (20-8625-0-7-452), Payments of states' shares from certain Gulf of Mexico leases (14-5535-0-2-302), Payments to states under the Mineral Leasing Act and associated payments (14-5003-0-2-999), and Sport Fish Restoration (14-8151-0-7-303).

Date: 2013-11-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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 standard setting body designated by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) (which establishes accounting principles "generally accepted" for securities laws), the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, or the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Date: 2013-12-09
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to prohibit the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from implementing the otherwise required 50% sequestrations for FY2014 and FY2015 of discretionary appropriations and direct spending accounts within function 050 (defense function) under the Act.

Requires OMB instead to reduce such discretionary appropriations and direct spending amounts by $15 billion for FY2014 and $30 billion for FY2015.

Requires OMB for each of FY2016-FY2021 to increase the otherwise applicable amount of the reduction to such discretionary appropriations and direct spending accounts by different specified amounts. (Thus implements the originally required cuts, in their entirety, over the duration of sequestration.)

Requires:

 OMB to issue a revised sequestration preview report for FY2014 and a revised report on the Joint Committee reductions for FY2014 to reflect the amendments made by this Act, and the President to issue a revised sequestration order of direct spending budgetary reductions for FY2014.

Date: 2013-12-17
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Repeals a provision of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 that reduces the cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement pay of members of the Armed Forces under age 62.

Date: 2014-01-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Medicare Protection Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the eligibility age under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act should not be increased, and (2) the Medicare program should not be privatized or turned into a voucher system.

Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, with respect to extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation, to require a provision to be considered extraneous if it eliminates or reduces guaranteed benefits for individuals entitled to, or enrolled for, benefits under Medicare or restricts the eligibility for such program. (Thus subjects such a provision to a point of order and stricken from the bill.)

Date: 2014-03-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Health
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

National Park Access Act - Requires the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the government shutdown in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for that unit.

Date: 2014-03-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Accurate Budgeting Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Joint Committee on Taxation to prepare for each major revenue bill or resolution, reported by specified congressional tax committees or considered on the floor of either chamber, as a supplement to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimates, a macroeconomic impact analysis of the budgetary effects of the legislation for: (1) the 10-fiscal year period beginning with the first fiscal year for which such estimate was prepared, and (2) each of the next three 10-fiscal year periods.

Defines "major revenue bill or resolution" as a bill, resolution, or conference report for which either:

 the sum of the positive changes in revenues resulting from such measure (not including the impact of any timing shifts for the due date for estimated corporate income tax payments) for any fiscal year in the period for which a CBO cost estimate is prepared, or the absolute value of the sum of the negative changes in revenues resulting from such measure, is greater than 0.25% of the current projected U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) for that fiscal year.

Date: 2014-05-21
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA) (title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) to revise the budgetary treatment of federal direct loans and loan guarantees to account for them on a fair value basis. 

 Requires the President's budget to reflect the costs of direct loan and loan guarantee programs by including the planned level of new direct loan obligations or loan guarantee commitments associated with each appropriations request. Requires agency estimates with and without a risk component that reflects the impact of using a fair value estimate to account for market risk.

Requires new budget authority and funding limitations for the cost of new direct loan obligations or loan guarantee commitments to be provided in advance. Prohibits modifications that increase costs unless budget authority has been provided in advance. Defines "cost" to include the risk component. Includes exemptions. 







Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to permit adjustment of discretionary spending limits for this Act.



Changes the budgetary treatment of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).

Date: 2014-06-03
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Medicare Protection Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the eligibility age under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act should not be increased, and (2) the Medicare program should not be privatized or turned into a voucher system.

Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, with respect to extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation, to require a provision to be considered extraneous if it eliminates or reduces guaranteed benefits for individuals entitled to, or enrolled for, benefits under Medicare or restricts the eligibility for such program. (Thus subjects such a provision to a point of order and stricken from the bill.)

Date: 2014-06-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Health
One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2014 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish and enforce new spending caps. Establishes the aggregate outlay cap (less net interest payments) for FY2015 at $3.774 trillion, less 1%. Reduces the outlay cap for FY2016-FY2017 by 1% of the previous fiscal year's outlay cap.

Requires the outlay cap for FY2018 and subsequent fiscal years to be 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP) for that fiscal year as estimated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prohibits outlays from being less than those for the preceding fiscal year for any fiscal year beginning with FY2019.

Requires OMB to enforce the spending caps using a sequestration to eliminate any excess spending through automatic cuts. Eliminates most exemptions from sequestration.



Permits the budget committees to report a resolution directing the committees of their respective chambers to change existing law to achieve the spending reductions necessary to meet the outlay limits if a sequestration is projected.





Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to create procedures for the House and Senate to enforce the outlay caps established in this Act.

Date: 2014-06-19
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Federal Debt Management Act of 2014 - Limits the Department of the Treasury's authority to manage the debt of the United States by using extraordinary measures to prevent the public debt limit from being exceeded.

Limits the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the investing of amounts or the issuance of obligations for the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the Thrift Savings Fund, the Exchange Stabilization Fund, or any other fund or account for the purposes of preventing the public debt of the United States from exceeding the public debt limit.

Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress additional information regarding the Daily Treasury Statement, including: (1) all cash flow and debt transaction information used in preparing the Daily Treasury Statement, and (2) forecasts for the cash flow and debt transactions of the federal government.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Regulatory Cost Assessment Act of 2014 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish and enforce a federal regulatory budget.

Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to submit jointly to the President and Congress an analysis of the cost and economic effects of federal regulations, including recommendations for improvements to the regulatory budgeting process.

Requires CBO to submit: (1) a baseline projecting the federal regulatory cost over at least five fiscal years, (2) analysis of the regulatory cost of legislation reported by congressional committees, and (3) look-back reviews comparing CBO estimates with actual costs.

Requires a concurrent resolution on the budget to include levels for the federal regulatory cost for at least five fiscal years. Establishes a process for allocating the totals among congressional committees and subcommittees, programs, and major functional categories. Establishes a point of order against legislation that would cause the allocations to be exceeded and specifies requirements for waiving the point of order.

Requires the President's budget to include an analysis of the cost of compliance with current and proposed federal regulations and proposals for complying with the levels and allocations established under this Act.

Amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act to require agencies to provide additional analysis of the private sector costs for compliance with new regulations.

Requires federal agencies and the Government Accountability Office to provide reports and cost estimates for specified regulations.

Date: 2014-12-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Do Your Job Act - Prohibits either chamber from recessing or standing adjourned, between enactment of this Act and enactment of a concurrent budget resolution setting a deficit level of $0 or a surplus by FY2024, for a period that exceeds 24 hours.

Requires each Member of Congress to submit a budget for the fiscal year for official travel by the Member and the Member's employees to: (1) the Secretary of the Senate for a Senator, and (2) the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representative for a Member of the House.

Rescinds, effective on October 1 of each fiscal year, any unobligated amounts made available for official travel by a Member of Congress or his or her employee during the previous fiscal year. Requires rescinded funds to be used for deficit reduction.

Date: 5/8/2014
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Keeping Public Lands Open Act - Provides that if an appropriations measure for a covered account for a fiscal year is not enacted before the beginning of that fiscal year and a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for such account is not in effect, such sums as necessary shall be made available without further appropriation to continue any activity for which funds were provided from such account in the preceding fiscal year.

Defines "covered account" to mean specified appropriation accounts of: (1) the Department of the Interior for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including amounts for activities of the National Wildlife Refuge System, habitat conservation, the Migratory Bird Conservation Account, the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and land acquisition; (2) the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), including amounts for the National Landscape Conservation System, land acquisition, and the activities of recreation management, resource protection, and maintenance; (3) the Department of the Interior for the National Park Service, including amounts for land acquisition and state assistance; and (3) the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the Forest Service, including amounts for land acquisition, law enforcement operations, and the activities of recreation, heritage, and wilderness.

Date: 5/13/2014
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill makes 1% across-the-board rescissions in discretionary spending for FY2015 and FY2016, excluding spending for defense, homeland security, and veterans affairs. It also requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a report to Congress specifying the account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to this bill.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
This bill makes 2% across-the-board rescissions in discretionary spending for FY2015 and FY2016, excluding spending for defense, homeland security, and veterans affairs. It also requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a report to Congress specifying the account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to this bill.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
This bill makes 5% across-the-board rescissions in discretionary spending for FY2015 and FY2016, excluding spending for defense, homeland security, and veterans affairs. It also requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a report to Congress specifying the account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to this bill.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Prohibits disinvestment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Social welfare
Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2015

This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the budgetary treatment of federal loans and loan guarantees to account for them on a fair value basis. Under a fair value approach, costs are measured using market rates rather than the lower Treasury interest rates currently used.

Estimates for loan guarantees and direct loans in the President's budget are required to include a risk component that reflects the impact of using a fair value estimate to account for market risk. A risk component must also be included in estimates used for requirements under current law that appropriations be provided in advance for the costs of new direct loans, loan guarantees, or modifications that increase costs.

The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to permit adjustments to discretionary spending limits for this Act.

The bill also changes the budgetary treatment of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).

 Agency budget justification materials are required to be posted on the public website of the agency on the same day the materials are submitted to Congress.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act

 Requires the following to take equal priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit: (1) the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on debt held by the public; (2) the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security to pay monthly Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act; and (3) the payment of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces on active duty.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Transparency on Prioritizing Spending Act 

This bill requires the President to submit a report to Congress detailing the priority of paying obligations of the federal government in the event that the statutory debt limit is reached. The report must be submitted no later than 30 days after enactment of this Act.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
No Budget, No Pay Act

Prohibits the payment of any pay to any Member of Congress (excluding the Vice President): (1) if both houses of Congress have not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year before October 1 of that fiscal year and have not passed all the regular appropriations bills for the next fiscal year by such date, or (2) until both houses of Congress approve such a budget resolution and pass all such appropriations bills. Prohibits any retroactive pay for such a period.

Date: 2015-01-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
Defending Veterans from Sequestration Act of 2015

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 from any presidential sequestration order issued under that Act.

Date: 2015-01-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the Economy Act (Long-Term SCORE Act) 

This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare long-term cost estimates for legislation reported by congressional committees. It also establishes a long-term budget scoring division within CBO. The bill requires the long-term estimates to cover at least each of the next four ten-year periods. CBO currently provides cost estimates over a 5- or10-year period.

Date: 2015-01-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
This bill permits the President to delay the submission of the budget for a fiscal year if appropriations or continuing appropriations for any of the annual bills have only been provided for part of the current fiscal year. The President is permitted to delay the submission of the budget beyond the existing first Monday in February deadline until all full-year appropriations for the current fiscal year have been enacted.

Date: 2015-02-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Default Prevention Act 

(Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to continue to borrow to pay the principal and interest on certain obligations if the debt of the United States exceeds the statutory limit.

 If the debt limit is exceeded, Treasury is required to issue obligations solely for the payment of the principal and interest on debt held by the public or the Social Security trust funds. The bill prohibits Treasury from using obligations issued under this bill to compensate Members of Congress.

If Treasury exercises authority provided by this bill, a report must be submitted to Congress including an accounting of: (1) the principal on mature obligations and interest that is due or accrued, and (2) obligations issued under this bill.

Date: 2015-02-03
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Cancel the Sequester Act of 2015 

This bill repeals provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 that authorize sequestration to enforce specified deficit reduction goals. 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.

Date: 2015-02-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Balanced Budget Accountability Act

 Requires each house of Congress to adopt a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year which provides that, for each fiscal year for which a budget is provided under the resolution (beginning by FY2025), total outlays do not exceed total receipts and are not more than 18% of the gross domestic product for such fiscal year.

Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon the adoption by a chamber of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President pro Tempore of the Senate (as the case may be) a certification as to whether or not that chamber has met the requirements of this Act with respect to the resolution.

Requires the appropriate payroll administrator of each chamber to deposit in an escrow account all mandatory payments for compensation of Members of Congress serving in that chamber if CBO does not certify that it has adopted a concurrent budget resolution for FY2016 before April 16, 2015.

Requires deposits to begin on such date and to be released to appropriate Members on the earlier of:

 the day on which CBO certifies that the chamber has met the requirements of this Act with respect to FY2016, or the last day of the 114th Congress. Sets forth the same requirements for FY2017 if CBO does not certify that a chamber has adopted a concurrent budget resolution for FY2017 before April 16, 2016.

Requires legislation in the House and Senate that increases revenue to be agreed upon only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of that chamber.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
DHS Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

This bill requires federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations when funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires under current law on February 27, 2015, to be compensated after the lapse in appropriations ends.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Government operations and politics
No Homeland Security, No Pay Act

Requires the appropriate payroll administrator of each house of Congress to withhold a portion of the pay of a Member of Congress during a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) equal to the product of one day's worth of pay under the annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the DHS shutdown is in effect.

Requires any amount of pay of a Member of Congress in the 114th Congress that is withheld due to a DHS shutdown to be held in escrow until the last day of the 114th Congress and released for payment to Members at that time.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Congress
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 standard setting body designated by the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish accounting principles "generally accepted" for securities laws.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
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 Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
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.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
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.

Date: 2015-02-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Health
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.

Date: 2015-02-26
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
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.)

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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Health
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.

Date: 2015-03-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-19
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-03-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-04-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-04-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-05-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
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.

Date: 2015-05-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-05-20
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-05-21
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance
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.

Date: 2015-06-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (National Budget)
Subject: Economics and public finance