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US Congress 117th Congress

Cost Estimates Improvement Act [HB-638] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ]
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide that any estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Committee on Taxation shall include costs relating to servicing the public debt, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Andy Biggs Introduced In House on 02/01/2021

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Safe from the Start Act of 2021 [HB-571] [Human Rights ] [Human Services ] [International ] [Public Health ]
To improve United States consideration of, and strategic support for, programs to prevent and respond to gender-based violence beginning with the onset of humanitarian emergencies, to build the capacity of humanitarian assistance to address the immediate and long-term challenges resulting from such violence, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Introduced In House on 01/28/2021

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Expressing the moral responsibility of the Congress to end adult and child poverty in the United States. [HR-67] [Poverty ] [Children and Youth ] [Human Services ] [Economic Development ]
Expressing the moral responsibility of the Congress to end adult and child poverty in the United States.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Introduced In House on 01/28/2021

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San Francisco Bay Restoration Act [HB-610] [Environmental ] [Water ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Public Health ]
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant program to support the restoration of San Francisco Bay.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Environment And Public Works. on 06/16/2021

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Balanced Budget Accountability Act [S.48] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ]
A bill to reduce a portion of the annual pay of Members of Congress for the failure to adopt a concurrent resolution on the budget which does not provide for a balanced budget, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Daines Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 01/26/2021

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Roadmap to Congressional Reform Act [HB-470] [Budget and Spending ]
To withhold the salaries of Members of Congress upon failure to agree to a budget resolution, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hern Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution, Civil Rights, And Civil Liberties. on 03/05/2021

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2021 Regular Session

Relating To School Impact Fees. [SB-468] [Education ] [Housing ] [Construction ] [Budget and Spending ] [Property Tax ]
Repeals the school impact fee exemptions for nonresidential development and housing subject to the transient accommodations tax when seeking development in a designated school impact district requiring county subdivision approval, county building permit, or condominium property regime approval of the project. Allows construction cost component impact fees to be used to improve or renovate existing structures for school use. Repeals the requirement that an expenditure plan for all collected impact fees be incorporated into the department of education's (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole The Committee(s) On Edn Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 03/23/2021

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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Paris Agreement shall have no effect in the United States until it is renegotiated to ensure the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and receives the advice and consent to ratification of the United States Senate. [HR-59] [Environmental ] [Energy ] [International ] [Climate Change ]
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Paris Agreement shall have no effect in the United States until it is renegotiated to ensure the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and receives the advice and consent to ratification of the United States Senate.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Introduced In House on 01/21/2021

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Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act [HB-315] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Health ]
To amend the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to extend the temporary suspension of Medicare sequestration, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Norton Introduced In House on 01/13/2021

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Inaction Has Consequences Act [HB-180] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
To hold the salaries of Members of a House of Congress in escrow if the House of Congress does not pass regular appropriation bills on a timely basis during a Congress, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wittman Introduced In House on 01/04/2021

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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget. [HJR-2] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Vern Buchanan Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution, Civil Rights, And Civil Liberties. on 03/04/2021

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No Budget, No Pay Act [HB-178] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
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 by April 15, 2021.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wittman Introduced In House on 01/04/2021

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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both Houses of Congress have agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year. [HJR-7] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ] [Ethics ]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both Houses of Congress have agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Gallagher Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution, Civil Rights, And Civil Liberties. on 03/04/2021

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Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes. [HR-8] [Elections ] [Ethics ]
Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steny Hoyer Considered As Privileged Matter. on 01/04/2021

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Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2021 [HB-22] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, to require the budget justifications and appropriation requests of agencies be made publicly available.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 01/06/2021

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Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring that each agency and department's funding is justified. [HJR-13] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring that each agency and department's funding is justified.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Perry Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution, Civil Rights, And Civil Liberties. on 03/04/2021

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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on addressing the reckless and unsustainable national debt while committing necessary resources to the COVID-19 pandemic. [HR-1261] [Budget and Spending ] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Inflation ] [Economic Development ]
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on addressing the reckless and unsustainable national debt while committing necessary resources to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. H. Morgan Griffith Introduced In House on 12/14/2020

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Make Rules Matter Act [SR-287] [Budget and Spending ]
A resolution establishing appropriate thresholds for certain budget points of order in the Senate, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joni Ernst Referred To The Committee On The Budget. (text: Cr S5147) on 07/29/2019

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Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act [HB-8840] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Health ]
Continues to exempt Medicare from budget sequestration orders until the end of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Suozzi Introduced In House on 12/02/2020

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US Congress 114th Congress

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget. [SJR-6] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ] [National Security ] [Defense ] [Military ] [Finance ]
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress authorizes the excess by a two-thirds vote of each chamber. The prohibition excludes outlays for repayment of debt principal and receipts derived from borrowing. The amendment prohibits total outlays for any fiscal year from exceeding 18% of the gross domestic product (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins Committee On The Judiciary. Hearings Held. on 03/16/2016

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