105th Congress > House > Vote 43

Date: March 12, 1997

Result: 231-197 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 44

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Budget General Interest

Sponsor: SUNUNU, John E. (R-NH)

Bill number: HRES89

Question: On Agreeing to the Resolution

Description: Request New Balanced Budget from the President

Bill summary: Requests the President to submit a detailed plan to balance the Federal budget by FY 2002, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), that: (1) uses the most recent CBO economic and technical assumptions; (2) reduces the deficit through programmatic reforms rather than alternative budgetary procedures such as automatic spending cuts and the sunsetting of tax cuts; (3) realizes a significant proportion of its total savings in the first three years; and (4) offers sufficient Medicare reforms to forestall the imminent bankruptcy of the Medicare trust funds for a substantial period.

Bill titles: Requesting the President to submit a budget for fiscal year 1998 that would balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2002 without relying on budgetary contingencies.

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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