TITLE: Predictability and Control: Twin Reasons for Restoring Budget Disciplines

CIS-NO: 2002-H261-19  
SOURCE: Committee on the Budget. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Apr. 25, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+58 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1035-B-01; 1035-B-02  
SUDOC: Y4.B85/3:107-28  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-28. Hearing to review proposals to extend and revise budget pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) requirements and discretionary spending cap provisions under the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Budget enforcement procedures extension and revision

DESCRIPTORS:  
    BUDGET OF THE U.S.; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; PUBLIC DEBT; BUDGET ENFORCEMENT ACT

02-H261-19 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Apr. 25, 2002 p. 5-30
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   DONOHUE, THOMAS J. (President and CEO, Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.; also representing Americans for Transportation Mobility)
   FRENZEL, BILL (Co-Chairman, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Support for reauthorization of the Budget Enforcement Act; need for sustained transportation infrastructure funding; importance of discretionary spending caps and PAYGO restrictions; support for extension of PAYGO and discretionary spending caps.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Budget enforcement procedures extension and revision
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.; AMERICANS FOR TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY; COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET
 
 
02-H261-19 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Apr. 25, 2002 p. 31-58
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   ANDERSON, BARRY B. (Deputy Director, CBO)
   KOGAN, RICHARD (Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
   IRVING, SUSAN J. (Director, Federal Budget Analysis, GAO)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Analysis of Government spending and budget enforcement issues (related graphs, p. 35-39 passim); recommendations to revise budget enforcement policies; support for extension of PAYGO and discretionary spending caps.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Budget enforcement procedures extension and revision
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

LOAD-DATE: June 5, 2003