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S 2627 110th Congress Senate Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Authorization Biennial budgets Budget reconciliation Budget resolutions Congress Congressional budget Congressional reporting requirements Federal budget process Fiscal year Governmental investigations House rules and procedure Legislation Planning-programming-budgeting Senate rules and procedure Strategic planning

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act

Introduced: February 13, 2008 See on congress.gov
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Feb 13, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S972-975)
Feb 13, 2008
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S971-972)
Feb 13, 2008
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require: (1) biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions; (2) biennial appropriations Acts; and (3) biennial government strategic and performance plans.

Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period with a biennial budget process based on such period; and (2) report the findings to the House and Senate Budget Committees.

What's happening now February 13, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S972-975)

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Cornyn, John
Texas · Feb 26, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2627: Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2627/
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"S. 2627: Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2627/.
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S. 2627, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2627/.
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