Takano (D-CA): Amendment No.1 – Makes changes to the findings section, clarifying that Congress holds responsibility for passing budgets and appropriating funds.
Y 194
N 228
Schrader (D-OR): Amendment No.2 – Adds a finding stating Simpson-Bowles created a balanced package of revenue and spending reforms to stabalize the federal debt as a share of the economy that should form the basis for meeting the requirements of this act.
Y 75
N 348
Fleming (R-LA): Amendment No.3 – Requires one of the additional policies presented in the supplemental unified budget to be an evaluation of duplicative agencies and proposals to consolidate them for cost-savings.
Adopted Voice
Y ✓
N
Messer (R-IN): Amendment No. 4 – Requires the supplemental unified budget to include the cost, per taxpayer, of the annual deficit for each year in which such budget is projected to result in a deficit.
Adopted Voice
Y ✓
N
Scalise (R-LA): Amendment No. 5 –
Requires the supplemental budget to address direct (mandatory) spending, broken out into means-tested and non-means-tested categories.
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