United States · Amendment · HAMDT

HAMDT 843 (103rd)

An amendment in the nature of a substitute to change the definition of baseline to eliminate the inflation adjustment for discretionary spending. The amendment also requires that the President's proposed budget include a comparison of the proposed levels of spending with this baseline, as well as the percentage increases or decreases from this baseline. Further, the amendment specifies that the "starting point" for deliberations in the House and Senate Budget Committees on a budget resolution for the next fiscal year must be the estimated levels of spending for the current fiscal year. It also requires that any increases or decreases in the budget resolution must be from those estimated levels and that the report on the budget resolution must include these comparisons, along with the percentage changes from the baseline.

Taxation · Budget