To reform the concept of baseline budgeting.
Baseline Reform Act of 1994 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to revise the definition of baseline to provide for certain inflation adjustments only for the purpose of adjusting discretionary spending limits.
Requires the President's budget to include: (1) estimated expenditures and appropriations for the current year; (2) new budget authority in budget outlay comparisons; and (3) a certain comparison of levels of estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations that includes the proposed increase or decrease in spending in percentage terms.
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make conforming changes to the development of the concurrent resolution on the budget.
Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include in reports to budget committees certain current year comparisons and a table on sources of spending growth under current law in total mandatory spending for the budget year and the ensuing four fiscal years.
Requires the CBO to include in cost estimates of pending legislation a comparison of prior year spending levels to current year levels.
Requires the CBO to report to the Congress annually on all programs, projects, and activities that fall within the definition of direct spending.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Rules. H. Rept. 103-688, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Rules. H. Rept. 103-688, Part I.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 512 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4907 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered except motion to recommit. Measure will be read by section. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute now printed in the bill. No amendment to the substitute shall be in order except those amendments printed in the report accompanying this resolution, if offered in the order and manner specified in the report.
Rule H. Res. 512 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 512. (consideration: CR H8000-8022)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4907 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered except motion to recommit. Measure will be read by section. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute now printed in the bill. No amendment to the substitute shall be in order except those amendments printed in the report accompanying this resolution, if offered in the order and manner specified in the report.
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House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 512 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Patricia Schroeder to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 512, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Penny amendment in the nature of a substitute.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 512, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Spratt amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 4907.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
On passage Passed by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.