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HRES 132 105th Congress House Social Welfare Commerce Congress Consumer price indexes Cost of living adjustments Department of Labor Economics and Public Finance Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal employees Government Operations and Politics Government economists Government spending reductions Labor and Employment Legislation Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives against reductions in Social Security benefits and arbitrary reductions in the Consumer Price Index.

Introduced: April 24, 1997 Introduced by: Sanders, Bernard Independent · Vermont See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 9, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Apr 30, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Apr 24, 1997
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Apr 24, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 24, 1997
Referred to House Ways and Means
Apr 24, 1997
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the 105th Congress should not consider any proposal for reducing benefits under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Program under title II of the Social Security Act; and (2) the Congress should consider neither proposals for arbitrary reductions in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) nor proposals for any transfer of the responsibility for establishing, maintaining, or adjusting the CPI to an outside, politically appointed commission, but rather should ensure that the accuracy and integrity of the CPI continue to be maintained by the professional economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor.

What's happening now May 9, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 4