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TO: DIRECTOR FRANK RAINES
DEPUTY DIRECTOR JACK LEW
DEPUTY DIRECTOR JOHN KOSKINEN
FROM: OMB LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
DATE: MAY 19, 1997
SUBJECT: LEGISLATIVE REPORT
SUPPLEMENTAL
The Disaster/Bosnia Supplemental Conference will take place tomorrow at
11:00 am. After the weekly policy luncheons, the Conferees intend to meet
again at 5:00 pm and continue until they are finished. The House Rules
Committee announced that they plan to take up both the Supplemental and
the Budget Resolution Conference Reports on Wednesday, though that
schedule may get pushed back.
BUDGET RESOLUTION --SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE
Early Monday evening, the Senate Budget Committee voted to report the
budget resolution to the Senate by a vote of 17-4 (no votes were: Gramm,
Grams, Hollings, Sarbanes). Floor action will begin Tuesday afternoon.
The Committee took the following action on amendments during the mark-up:
o Conrad Sense of Senate amendment urging efforts on structural
entitlement reforms and making CPI more accurate:
Approved 17-4
o Wyden amendment to remove the 0+98 and 0+99 firewalls; and
reduce defense spending to last yearO,s budget resolution
level: Defeated 6-15
o Bond/Durbin/Conrad/Hollings sense of Senate to increase
self-employed health deduction to 100 percent: Approved by
voice vote
o Murray sense of Senate that function 500 includes adequate
resources for teacher training in technology:
Defeated 10-11
o Murray sense of Senate on adequate resources for early childhood
development and education: Defeated 10-11
BUDGET RESOLUTION -- HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE
The House Rules Committee today adopted the rule to consider H.R. 84, the
Budget Resolution, which will go to the House floor on Tuesday. The rule
is a modified closed rule, and provides for 5 hours of debate.
The Rule makes in order the following five amendments:
1 Congressional Black Caucus (Waters/Thompson) substitute amendment, which
does not provide for any new tax cuts until the budget balances in 2002.
The amendment fully funds a child health initiative to cbver all 10
million uninsured children, includes $25.5 billion in Medicare savings,
and includes the PresidentO,s $20.6 billions in welfare addbacks. (60
minutes debate)
2 Doolittle substitute amendment, which balances the budget by 2002,
increases tax cuts by $109.3 billion, reduces NDD spending, and allows a
point of order to be raised against any concurrent resolution on the
budget or on any bill that would cause total outlays to exceed total
receipts in 2002 or thereafter. (20 minutes debate)
3 BrownO,s 0&investment08 substitute amendment, which balances the budget
by 2002, and provides for tax cuts only after the budget is actually
balanced. The amendment provides increases in investments including R&D,
transportation, and education and training. It offsets the increases by
limiting defense spending, incorporating the Medicare reform proposals
from the Budget Agreement, and including the reductions in unwarranted
benefits proposed by the President. (20 minutes debate)
4 Kennedy substitute amendment, which spends $100 billion more than the
Budget Agreement in priority areas of health, education, transportation,
R&D, and economic development.
5 Shuster substitute amendment, which increases outlays from the
Transportation Trust fund over 5 years to equal revenues over that period.
(20 minutes debate)
If the House adopts a substitute amendment, its adoption concludes
consideration of the concurrent resolution, and precludes consideration of
the other amendments. The Minge amendment -- which included Sense of the
Congress enforcement language to include a mechanism to trigger cuts in
entitlement programs and to sunset tax cuts if projections prove to be
inaccurate -- was not made in order. Chairman Kasich, however, will give
Minge 20 minutes of floor time to talk about his amendment. In addition,
the rule waives the so-called Gephardt Rule, which means that they will
address the debt ceiling as a part of the reconciliation, rather than
automatically altering the debt limit upon adoption of the resolution.
(Please contact our office at 5-4790 if you need a copy of the Rule.)
Also on Tuesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will mark-up S.
261, DomeniciO,s Biennial budget bill, and S. 207, a bill to establish a
Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission.
CONGRESS TODAY (5/19):
SENATE
No legislative business.
HOUSE
Pro Forma Session
CONGRESS TOMORROW (5/20)
SENATE
At 10:00 am, if the Senate reaches an agreement, it will complete
consideration of H.R. 1122, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, with a vote on
final passage likely at 2:15 pm.
[SAP sent, 5/14: President will veto]
The Senate then plans to begin consideration of the Budget Resolution (see
above). All amendments must be offered during TuesdayO,s session.
(allowed up to 50 hours debate)
HOUSE
Convene at 10:30 am for morning hour and for legislative business at 12:00
noon to consider the following bills (3) under suspension of the rule:
1 S.Con.Res 26 - Permitting the Use of the Rotunda of the Capitol
for a Congressional Ceremony Honoring Mother Teresa
[No SAP]
2 H.R.1650 - A Bill to Award a Congressional Gold Medal to Mother
Teresa
[NO SAP]
3 H.Res. 147 - Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives
that the House of Representatives Should Participate in
and Support Activities to Provide Decent Homes for the
People of the United States
[No SAP]
At 2:00 pm, the House will begin consideration of the H.Con.Res.S4 -
Budget Resolution (Modified Open Rule -- 5 hours general debate). Solomon
stated that he expects the Rule to pass by voice vote. A late night
session is expected, with a final vote to occur after 9:00 pm. The House
will recess between 6pm and Spm for a Holocaust service, so stacked votes
may occur after that time. The votes on amendments will occur in the
order that they were listed in the rule. (See above)
[Raines letter pending]
CONGRESS -- LONG-TERM SCHEDULE
SENATE
The remainder of the week:
Continue consideration of the Budget Resolution.
Other items for consideration prior to recess:
Implementing legislation for the Chemical Weapons Convention (4 hour time
limit on debate)
Conference Report on the Supplemental Appropriations Bill
[Raines Letter sent, 5/19: The President will veto the bill over the
automatic CR and the Secretary of Interior will recommend
veto over RS2477.]
S. 4 - Comp Time Legislation (continued debate possible)
HOUSE
Wednesday, May 21 and Thursday May 22
The House will convene at 9:0.0 am on Wednesday, and 10:00 am on Thursday.
Consider the following bills under suspension of the rule (likely):
1 H.R. 1377 - Savings are Vital to EveryoneD,s Retirement Act of
1997
[SAP pending]
2 H.R. 911 - Volunteer Protection Act
[SAP pending]
3 H.Con.Res. 63 - Reaffirming the Commitment of the United States
to the Principles of the Marshall Plan
[SAP under discussion]
4 H.R. 1306 - Riegle-Neal Clarification Act of 1997
[Treasury letter pending]
5 H.Res. 121 - Expressing the Sense of the House of the
Representatives Regarding the March 30, 1997,
Terrorist Crenade Attack in Cambodia
[No SAP]
6 H.R. 956 - Drug-Free Community Act
[SAP pending]
Consider H.R. 408 - International Dolphin Conservation Program Act
(Subject to a Rule)
[SAP pending: Administration strongly supports]
Consider H.Con.Res. - Budget Resolution Conference Report (Subject to a
Rule)
Consider H.R. 1469 - FY 97 Supplemental Appropriations Act Conference
Report (Subject to a Rule)
[Raines Letter sent, 5/19: The President will veto the bill over
the automatic CR and the Secretary of Interior will
recommend veto over RS2477.]
Friday, May 23
Out of session
