FY 1995 REPUBLICAN BUDGET RESOLUTION MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS DESCRIPTION Strengthen the 10 year pay-as-you-go point of order. While the 10 year pay-as-you-go point of order that was established by last year's budget resolution is permanent, it does not currently apply to budget resolutions and could be repealed by a subsequent budget resolution. This proposal would make future budget resolutions subject to this point of order. Express sense of the Senate that the financial transactions associated with health care reform legislation that includes an employer mandate should be included in the budget. Express sense of the Senate that Congress should enact a comprehensive reform of the Federal tax code to encourage savings and investment. Express sense of the Senate that Congress and Federal agencies should assess and limit mandates on state and local governments and the private sector. Include a welfare reserve fund to allow spending reductions to finance deficit-neutral welfare reform legislation. Include a health care reserve fund to allow spending and revenue changes to finance deficit-neutral health care reform legislation. Include a reserve fund to allow spending reductions to pay for revenue losses associated with trade-related legislation such as GATT. Provide for the Senate Budget Committee's approval for any reserve fund adjustment that exceeds $1 billion in FY 1995 or $10 billion for the period FY 1995-1999. Require that the budgetary effects of emergency legislation be counted for purposes of the Budget Act, making any emergency legislation that increases the deficit subject to a 60 vote point of order. Emergency legislation would continue not to be counted for OMB's calculations and could not trigger a sequester. Extend separate caps on defense and nondefense discretionary funding through FY 1997 and the cap on total discretionary spending through FY 1999. Provide a 60 vote point of order against a budget resolution or appropriations legislation that would exceed these caps. Allow savings from asset sales to be counted. PETE V. DOMENICI. TRENT LOTT. MINORITY VIEWS OF SENATORS GREGG AND NICKLES This Budget Resolution looks backwards, not forwards. In adopting it, the Committee looked back to what happened last year and patted itself on the back. All of the Committee's descriptions of this budget speak in terms of last year's action. Accordingly, with this Budget Resolution, the Budget Committee approved a do-nothing budget that expresses satisfaction with the status quo. Although the Republicans and four brave Democrats did force a 5-year $26 billion cut in discretionary spending, that is not where our budget problems lie. We all know that the deficit basically hovers for two to three years before beginning to climb again after 1998 and then exploding into the next century. That deficit explosion results from entitlement spending, not discretionary spending. Yet, we are told we cannot cut entitlements, because that would undermine Health Care Reform. That refrain was repeated continuously by Administration officials during Budget Committee hearings, and by majority party members during Budget Committee markup while rebuffing Republican amendments. Indeed, speculative harm to Health Care Reform has become an all-purpose shield, used to deflect every proposal with which the Administration disagrees. This year, therefore, the Budget Committee decided to look back. It decided not to attempt anything that might harm Health Care Reform. The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the Administration's health care reform proposal demonstrated the extremely weak basis for the Budget Committee's decision. CBO told us that the deficit would increase, not decrease, under the Administration's plan. Thus, if the 103rd Congress' action on health care reform does not, in fact, reverse the deficit's projected upward path, then we hope the Budget Committee will begin the 104th Congress by addressing entitlements, and regain its leadership position on Congressional budget matters. JUDD GREGG. 77-533 (336) 103D CONGRESS 2d Session SENATE REPORT 103-239 YAVAPAI-PRESCOTT INDIAN TRIBE WATER RIGHTS MARCH 22 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 22), 1994.-Ordered to be printed Mr. MITCHELL (for Mr. INOUYE), from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1146] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 1146) having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of S. 1146 is to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, Yavapai County, Arizona, by ratifying and otherwise providing for the implementation of a settlement agreement negotiated by the Tribe, the city of Prescott, the Chino Valley Irrigation District, the State of Arizona and the United States. BACKGROUND The members of the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe are descendants of Indians who hunted, gathered and farmed in the Verde River valley and other areas of central and middle-western Arizona hundreds of years ago. The Yavapai first encountered Spanish explorers in 1538, but subsequently had little contact with non-Indians until the nineteenth century. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the War with Mexico, and by its terms the lands on which the Yavapai lived became a part of the public domain of the United States. Prior to the 1860's, American exploring and trapping parties visited Yavapai territory, but made no effort to establish settlements. |