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HR 2156 108th Congress House Economics and Public Finance Balanced budgets Budget deficits Budget surpluses Congress Congressional reporting requirements Debt limit Federal budgets Government trust funds Planning-programming-budgeting Social Welfare Social security finance

To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.

Introduced: May 20, 2003 See on congress.gov
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May 20, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.
May 20, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Provides for a temporary increase in the public debt limit by $375 billion.

Requires the President to submit a ten-year plan to Congress that will bring the Federal unified budget into balance by FY 2008 and, thereafter, make uninterrupted progress in reducing the use of Social Security trust fund surpluses to finance the deficit in the non-Social-Security budget.

What's happening now May 20, 2003

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.

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 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Jul 7, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2156: To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2156/
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