Subject Budget deficits and national debt | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | HB1911 | Smarter Solutions for Students Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set the annual interest rate on Direct Stafford loans and Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans at the rate on high-yield 10-year Treasury n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-20 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 57. |
| US | SB953 | Student Loan Affordability Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend until June 30, 2015, existing interest rates for loans made to undergraduate students under the Federal Direct Stafford Loan program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 74. |
| US | HB807 | Full Faith and Credit Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to any other authority provided by law, to issue obligations to pay with legal tender, and solely for the purpose of paying, the principal and interest on U.S. obligation... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-13 |
| US | HB1642 | Security Clearance Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | HJR38 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall v... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HB1766 | Safe and Reliable Air Travel Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction, under any sequestration ordered by the President, funds made available for the opera... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | SB28 | Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), upon request by Brigham Young University, to convey an approximately 80-acre parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah. R... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. |
| US | SB799 | Requires the President, by May 15, 2013, to submit to Congress a qualifying sequester replacement plan proposing to cancel permanently at least $85.333 billion of budgetary resources available for FY2013 from any discretionary appropriations or direc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 65. |
| US | HB1762 | Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 2013 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require: (1) biennial (instead of annual) budget resolutions, (2) biennial appropriations Acts, and (3) biennial government strategic and performance p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB253 | Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), upon request by Brigham Young University, to convey an approximately 80-acre parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah. R... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. |
| US | SB788 | Makes available for the federal government for FY2013 the amount that would have been made available for the fiscal year if the following actions had not occurred: sequestration of discretionary spending limits and automatic sequestrations to enforc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64. |
| US | HB1713 | Social Security and Medicare Protection Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget (or related measure) that would set fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | HB1715 | Expedited Consideration of Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Act of 2013 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose to carry out all or part of the recommendations contained in the most... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | HB505 | Balancing Act - Title I: Repeal Sequester - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Controlled Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal certain sequestration requirements for enforcemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB607 | Delays until January 1, 2016, the effective date of any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or of any health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 that were scheduled to take effect in 20... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SB787 | Restoring Integrity to our Government Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HR173 | Waste Whistleblower Protection Resolution - Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that, in order to avoid unnecessary consequences of sequestration, federal employees should be: (1) encouraged to submit suggestions for ways to make budg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SCR14 | Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2014-FY2023. Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-22 |
| US | HB1643 | Employee Hardship Financial Relief Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | HB1654 | Budget Process Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to require: (1) the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include a descriptive analysis for the second decade budget impact of a measure when s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | SB720 | Buffett Rule Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1), in addition to any tax owed, which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and transferred to an account used to red... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1571 | Buffett Rule Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1), in addition to any tax owed, which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury and transferred to an account used to red... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1416 | Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2013 - Declares that, notwithstanding the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, the budgetary resources sequestered for payments for drugs and biologicals under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | SB692 | Returned Exclusively For Unpaid National Debt Act or REFUND Act - Rescinds unwanted amounts, as identified by a state from a projected allocation, from any federal funds required to be allocated by formula among all states that agree to use them for ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-10 |
| US | HB1457 | Fiscal Instruction for a Vibrant Economy Act or FIVE Act - Requires, for FY2013, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, and for FY2014 and each subsequent fiscal year, within 30 days after the President's budget submission to Congress, each fede... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-10 |
| US | HB1478 | Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to include any item for the pay of Members of Congress within the definition of accounts subject ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-10 |
| US | SB682 | Comprehensive Student Loan Protection Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set the interest rate on Direct Loans, for any 12-month period beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30, at the bond equivalent r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB1432 | Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act - Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 to increase funding to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for air traffic organization activities. Allocates certain ap... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB787 | Infrastructure Jobs and Energy Independence Act - Deems the Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2010-2015 issued by the Secretary of the Interior to be approved as a final oil and gas leasing program under the Outer Con... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR35 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits all outlays for a fiscal year (including those for debt service and other debt functions) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR36 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall v... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB1017 | American Land Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), for FY2013-FY2017, to offer for competitive sale by auction 8% of the federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 8% of the Nati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| US | HB1021 | Land Acquisition to cut National Debt Act or LAND Act - Bars the Secretary of the Interior from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage being under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service (NPS), the U.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| US | HB1165 | Maximize Offshore Resource Exploration Act of 2013 or MORE Act of 2013 - Declares without force or effect all federal prohibitions against the expenditure of appropriated funds to conduct natural gas leasing and preleasing activities for any area of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 |
| US | SCR8 | Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 |
| US | HCR25 | Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-F... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Received in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33. |
| US | HB1371 | Restores to the Indian Health Service that portion of its FY2013 funds that were sequestered under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and that exceeded 2% of its FY2013 funding. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | HB1336 | Voluntary Debt Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to donate an amount (not less than $1) or designate a portion of any overpayment of tax (not less than $1) to be donated, in addition to any tax owed, which sh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | SB625 | Biennial Appropriations Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require biennial (instead of annual) appropriations Acts, with the exception of annual defense appropriation bills. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| US | HB1270 | Honest Budget Act of 2013 - Amends procedures in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 that make it out of order in the Senate to consider appropriations legislation until the Senate agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget. Permits waivers or ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| US | HR115 | Sets forth the levels of payment for 113th Congress expenses (including staff salaries) for the Committees on: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) the Budget; (4) Education and the Workforce; (5) Energy and Commerce; (6) Ethics; (7) Financial Se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB1231 | Transparency on Prioritizing Spending Act - Requires the President, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to report to Congress a list, in descending order of prioritization, of which federal obligations will be paid in the event that the U.S. ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| US | SB581 | 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. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1181 | Sequestration of Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013 - Reduces the annual rate of pay for each Member of Congress for pay periods after the November 2014 federal general election by 8.2% of the applicable rate in effect for the most recent pay pe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1202 | One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish the aggregate projected outlay (outlay cap) (less net interest payments) for FY2014 at the FY20... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1174 | Sound Dollar Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to: (1) pursue the goal of long-term price stability, and (2) establis... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1124 | TIGER Grants for Job Creation Act - Makes supplemental appropriations of $500 million for each of FY2013 and FY2014 for the Department of Transportation (DOT) for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | SB547 | One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish the aggregate outlay (outlay cap) (less net interest payments) for FY2014 at $3.329 billion, le... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HR111 | Calls for the President to refrain from any further vacations at the taxpayers' expense until such sums have been saved that the White House can be reopened for public tours. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| US | HB668 | 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. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
