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Public Health Emergency Fund Act [HB-5723]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Provides $5 billion in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Public Health Emergency Fund. The bill designates the funds as an emergency requirement and provides that the funds are only available if the President subsequently designates the funds. (Emergency spending is exempt from discretionary spending limits and other budget enforcement rules.) HHS may use the funds provided by this bill to acquire products such as drugs, vaccines and other biological products, and medical devices for deposit
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Wolverine CubeSats for Education Resolution [HCR-85]
[Science ]
[Aerospace ]
[Education ]
Expressing support for the CubeSat Launch Initiative and recognizing the launch of WeissSat-1.
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Mandatory Spending Control and Accountability Act [HB-5538]
[Budget and Spending ]
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to subject certain direct spending programs to annual appropriations, and for other purposes.
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To amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that annual budget submissions of the President to Congress provide an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the deficit and of the public debt. [HB-5490]
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[Taxes ]
Requires the President's annual budget submission to Congress to include estimates of the cost per individual taxpayer for (1) the public debt, and (2) any projected budget deficit for the fiscal year.
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It’s About Time Act [HB-5264]
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Changes the calendar period for the federal fiscal year (currently October 1 through September 30) to January 1 through December 31 beginning in 2020.
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Sustainable Budget Act of 2019 [HB-5211]
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[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Social Security ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Establishes the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform within the legislative branch to identify policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term. The commission must propose recommendations that (1) are designed to balance the budget, excluding interest payments on the debt, within 10 years; and (2) meaningfully improve the long-term fiscal outlook, including changes to address the growth of entitlement spending and the gap between projected federal revenues and expenditures.
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A Fast-Tracked Executive Rescission Review (AFTER) of Appropriations Act of 2019 [HB-5220]
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[Taxes ]
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for a legislative line-item veto to expedite consideration of rescissions, and cancellations of items of new direct spending and limited tax benefits.
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RAFT Act of 2019 Reforming America’s Fiscal Toolkit Act of 2019 [HB-5178]
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[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for procedures to meet a target ratio of public debt to gross domestic product, and for other purposes.
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Transparency in Government Act of 2019 [HB-5150]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Financial Stability Act of 2010, and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to improve access to information in the legislative and executive branches of the Government, and for other purposes.
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Budget Process Enhancement Act [HB-5085]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
To remove the discretionary inflater from the baseline and to provide that the salaries of Members of a House of Congress will be held in escrow if that House has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.
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Debt Ceiling Alternative Act [HB-5083]
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[Finance ]
[Social Security ]
Establishes requirements and authorities for notifying Congress, issuing bonds, proposing rescissions, and selling assets if the debt limit will be reached. The Department of the Treasury must notify Congress if it estimates that the U.S. debt will reach the statutory debt limit during a quarter. After Congress is notified, Treasury must issue bonds that (1) have an interest rate linked to the nominal gross domestic product of the United States, (2) may only be used to pay the principal and interest on obligations of the United States held by the
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Homebuyer Protection Act of 2019 [HB-5055]
[Finance ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibits the chairs of the congressional budget committees from counting increases to guarantee fees as offsets for budget enforcement purposes. The bill includes an exception for legislation that increases guarantee fees to finance reforms to the secondary mortgage market. (Guarantee fees are charged by enterprises, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association [Fannie Mae] and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation [Freddie Mac], to guarantee the payment of principal and interest on loans. prevents the fees from being used to offset provisions
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Private Foundation Excise Tax Simplification Act of 2019 [HB-4953]
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[Nonprofit ]
Reduces the excise tax on the net investment income of private foundations from 2% to 1.39%.
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Pro-Growth Budgeting Act [HB-4959]
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[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
Requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate a macroeconomic impact analysis in their cost estimates for major legislation. The macroeconomic impact analysis (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring) must include the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the legislation.
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TRUST Act Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act [HB-4907]
[Social Security ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Establishes congressional rescue committees to develop recommendations and legislation to improve critical social contract programs. A critical social contract program is a federal program for which a federal trust fund is established (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, and federal highway programs), with outlays of at least $20 billion during the year preceding the year in which this bill is enacted, and for which the amount of dedicated federal funds and federal trust fund balances will be inadequate to meet the total amount of outlays of the program
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Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2020 [HB-4894]
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[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires federal agencies to make budget justification materials available to the public. The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget to make certain details regarding the materials available to the public, including a list of the agencies that submit budget justification materials to Congress, the dates that the materials are submitted to Congress and posted online, and links to the materials.
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SWAG Act Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government Act [S.2722]
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[Taxes ]
Prohibits the use of federal funds for publicity, propaganda, swag, or mascots, with exceptions. Swag is a product or merchandise distributed at no cost with the sole purpose of advertising or promoting an agency, organization, program, or agenda. Each agency shall, as part of the annual budget justification submitted to Congress, report on the public relations and advertising spending of the agency for the preceding fiscal year.
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TRUST Act Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act [S.2733]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Social Security ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Funding ]
Establishes congressional rescue committees to develop recommendations and legislation to improve critical social contract programs. A critical social contract program is a federal program for which a federal trust fund is established (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, and federal highway programs), with outlays of at least $20 billion during the year preceding the year in which this bill is enacted, and for which the amount of dedicated federal funds and federal trust fund balances will be inadequate to meet the total amount of outlays of the program
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America Grows Act of 2019 [HB-4714]
[Agriculture ]
[Funding ]
[Science ]
To prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in agriculture research.
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Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2019 [S.2618]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Taxes ]
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Temporarily expands the awards program for cost-saving identifications by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement to include identifications of surplus salaries and expenses funds. Savings resulting from such identifications shall generally be used for deficit reduction, but agencies may retain up to 10% of such savings for the purpose of paying cash awards to employees for making the identifications. An officer may not receive such award if the officer (1) serves in a position at level one of the Executive Schedule; (2) is the head
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