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HCONRES 19 107th Congress House Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Authorization Baby boom generation Budget resolutions Budget surpluses Congress Demography Economic forecasting Families Federal budget process Federal budgets Federal receipts and expenditures Government trust funds Health Legislation Medicare Old age, survivors and disability insurance Social Welfare Social security finance

Expressing the sense of the Congress that future budget resolutions should maintain our commitment to fiscal responsibility by using agreed-upon surplus, tax, and spending figures.

Introduced: January 31, 2001 See on congress.gov
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Expresses the sense of Congress that future budget resolutions and tax and spending legislation should maintain a commitment to fiscal responsibility by using agreed-upon surplus, tax, and spending figures derived from specified principles, including that the size of the surplus should exclude social security and Medicare trust funds.
What's happening now January 31, 2001

Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Mar 27, 2001
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 19: Expressing the sense of the Congress that future budget resolutions should maintain our commitment to fiscal responsibility by using agreed-upon surplus, tax, and spending figures.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-19/
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"H. Con. Res. 19: Expressing the sense of the Congress that future budget resolutions should maintain our commitment to fiscal responsibility by using agreed-upon surplus, tax, and spending figures.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-19/.
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H. Con. Res. 19, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-19/.
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[H. Con. Res. 19: Expressing the sense of the Congress that future budget resolutions should maintain our commitment to fiscal responsibility by using agreed-upon surplus, tax, and spending figures.](https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-19/)
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