TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Levels and Amounts Title II: Reconciliation Directions Title III: Budget Enforcement Title IV: Sense of Congress, House, and Senate Provisions Establishes the budget for FY 1997 and sets appropriate budget levels for FY 1998 through 2002. Title I: Levels and Amounts - Sets forth recommended budgetary levels for Federal revenues, total new budget authority, total budget outlays, deficits, public debt, direct loan obligations, and primary loan guarantee commitments. (Sec. 102) Sets forth the amounts of increase in public debt subject to limitation. (Sec. 103) Sets forth Social Security revenues and outlays for purposes of Senate enforcement. (Sec. 104) Sets forth appropriate levels of new budget authority, budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new primary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1997 through 2002 for each major functional category. Title II: Reconciliation Directions - Sets forth reconciliation instructions for FY 1997 through 2002 for the authorizing committees. Sets forth instructions in the House of Representatives for: (1) welfare and Medicaid reform and tax relief; (2) Medicare preservation; and (3) tax and miscellaneous direct spending reforms. Establishes a corresponding three-step reconciliation process in the Senate. Title III: Budget Enforcement - Sets forth discretionary spending limits for FY 1997 through 2002. (Sec. 302) Requires amounts realized from the sales of government assets to be scored with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues. (Sec. 303) Provides for the determination of the cost of a direct loan under the Federal direct student loan program. (Sec. 304) Provides for deficit neutral adjustments after enactment of legislation which reforms the Superfund program and extends Superfund taxes. (Sec. 305) Authorizes revenue and spending aggregates in the Senate to be reduced and allocations revised for legislation that reduces revenues by providing family tax relief, fuel tax relief, and incentives to stimulate savings, investment, job creation, and economic growth if such legislation will not increase the deficit. (Sec. 306) States that the provisions of this title are adopted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives. (Sec. 307) Permits an adjustment, for FY 1997, in the nondefense discretionary outlay level to avoid a Government shutdown. Title IV: Sense of Congress, House, and Senate Provisions - Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning: (1) baselines; (2) loan sales; (3) Medicaid; (4) children; (5) debt repayment; (6) a balanced budget; (7) tax reductions; (8) Medicare; (9) revenue assumptions; (10) domestic violence; (11) student loans; (12) welfare recipients and drugs; (13) the index for inflation; (14) taxation of social security benefits; (15) drug smugglers; (16) corporate subsidies; (17) welfare reform; and (18) FCC spectrum auctions. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives concerning emergency spending. Expresses the sense of the Senate concerning: (1) youth at risk; (2) budget estimates; (3) the gas tax; (4) budgetary savings; (5) excess government computers for schools; (6) Federal retreats; (7) the essential air service program of the Department of Transportation; (8) the retirement savings of homemakers; (9) National Institutes of Health funding for anti-addiction drugs; (10) employer education assistance; (11) the Economic Development Administration; (12) the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program; (13) the Davis-Bacon Act; (14) Operations Southern Watch and Provide Comfort (to restrict military aggression against Kurdish and Shiite people of Iraq); (15) the Medicare trust fund; (16) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund; and (17) AMTRAK.
HCONRES 178 - 104Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
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Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S6167-6186)
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 53-46. Record Vote No: 159.(consideration: CR S6186)
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 53-46. Record Vote No: 159. (consideration: CR S6186)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Rule H. Res. 450 passed House.
Mr. Kasich brought up conference report H. Rept. 104-612 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 450. (consideration: CR S6117-6137)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 211 (Roll no. 236).(consideration: CR H6257-6267)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 211 (Roll no. 236). (consideration: CR H6257-6267)
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 450 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 178. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be debated for one hour, equally divided and controlled.
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 104-612 filed.(text of conference report: CR H6007-6039)
Conference report H. Rept. 104-612 filed. (text of conference report: CR H6007-6039)
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement held at the desk in Senate.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Mr. Kasich asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. (consideration: CR H5725)
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Sabo moved that the House instruct conferees.
DEBATE - Mr. Schumer asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the Sabo motion be limited to not to exceed thirty minutes. Agreed to without objection.
Pursuant to the previous unanimous consent agreement, the House proceeded with thirty minutes of debate on the Sabo motion to instruct conferees on the part of the House to do the following: agree to the Senate-passed levels of discretionary spending, as set by the amendment offered by Sen. Domenici; agree to sec. 325 of the Senate-passed resolution, relating to "balance billing" of Medicare patients by health care providers; agree to sec. 326 of the Senate-passed resolution, relating to Federal nursing home quality standards; and agree to sec. 327 of the Senate-passed resolution, relating to protection under the Medicaid program against spousal impoverishment.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 187 - 205 (Roll no. 209). (consideration: CR H5731-5732)
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Budget for consideration of the House concurrent resolution and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Kasich, Hobson, Walker, Kolbe, Shays, Herger, Sabo, Stenholm, Slaughter, and Coyne.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S5538)
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S.CON.RES. 57 amended.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate in lieu of S.CON.RES. 57 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 53-46. Record Vote No: 156.
Resolution agreed to in Senate in lieu of S.CON.RES. 57 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 53-46. Record Vote No: 156.
Senate insists on its amendment asks for a conference, appoints conferees Domenici; Grassley; Nickles; Gramm; Bond; Gorton; Exon; Hollings; Johnston; Lautenberg. (consideration: CR S5538)
Received in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 413.
Rule H. Res. 435 passed House.
Considered as unfinished business, pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 435. (consideration: CR H5198-5260)
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 435, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Payne (NJ) amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 435, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Orton amendment in the nature of a substitute.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 435, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Sabo amendment.
GENERAL DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 435, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with an additional forty minutes of general debate.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H. Con. Res. 178.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 195 (Roll no. 179).
On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 195 (Roll no. 179).
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Consideration initiated by previous order of the House. (consideration: CR H5104-5133)
Considered by previous order of the House.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union pursuant to a previous order of the House.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Dave Camp to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with up to three hours of general debate.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 435 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 178. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order.
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H. Con. Res. 178 as unfinished business.
Introduced in House
The House Committee on The Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 104-575, by Mr. Kasich.
The House Committee on The Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 104-575, by Mr. Kasich.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 283.