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
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Became law
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
Plain-English summary
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
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.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1