Calling for a modified freeze on Federal spending in fiscal year 1990.

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Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives favoring a modified budget freeze in FY 1990 as an equitable way of complying with the deficit reduction targets of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Calls for a freeze at FY 1989 levels of FY 1990 discretionary budget authority levels and aggregate Federal discretionary defense and nondefense spending. Lists as basic to a modified freeze the suspension of FY 1990: (1) Federal civilian and military pay increases; (2) farm price support increases; and (3) Medicare and Medicaid price inflation reimbursements. Exempts from the freeze any payments of interest for the national debt and entitlement coverage (except Medicare) for new program entrants.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 1989

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