S 851 in Congressional Session 109

Official Summary

 

Bill Number : S 851

 

Title : A bill to reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility.

 

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/19/2005--Introduced. Fiscal Responsibility for a Sound Future Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend through FY 2005 the spending caps for discretionary, highway, and mass transit categories in new budget authority and outlays. Declares that Congress should enact a limit on total discretionary spending for FY 2006. Retains (eliminates the expiration of) pay-as-you-go. Reenacts into law (effective for FY 2005) certain budget enforcement mechanisms through FY 2015. Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider under expedited procedures applicable to reconciliation in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 any measure that increases the deficit in the: (1) first fiscal year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; (2) first five fiscal years covered by such adoption; or (3) first five fiscal years following such period. Amends H.Con.Res. 95 (108th Congress) to revise provisions concerning the Pay-As-You-Go point of order rule in the Senate to: (1) modify the formula used to estimate the baseline; and (2) extend the application of such rule through FY 2015.

Votes

Title : A bill to reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility.
Votes in the US Senate
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Votes in the US House
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Sponsors

 
Congressional Sponsors of S 851
 
Bill Number : S 851
Title : A bill to reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility.
Sponsor: Sen Conrad, Kent [ND] (introduced 4/19/2005)      
ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

    Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Dayton, Mark [MN] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Nelson, Bill [FL] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV [WV] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Salazar, Ken [CO] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 4/19/2005

    Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 4/19/2005

Other Info

Bill Number : S 851
Title : A bill to reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility.
 
 
ALL ACTIONS:
 
4/19/2005:Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
 
4/20/2005:Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 83.