HR 2402 112th Congress House Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Budget deficits and national debt Coast guard Congressional oversight Defense spending Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security Executive agency funding and structure Medicare Military personnel and dependents Social security and elderly assistance

Prioritize Spending Act of 2011

Introduced: August 2, 2012 Introduced by: Webster, Daniel Republican · Florida See on congress.gov

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Jun 24, 2011

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Jun 24, 2011

Introduced in House

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Prioritize Spending Act of 2011 - Requires amounts necessary for incurred federal obligations, in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit, to be made available to certain obligations, in prioritized order, before all other obligations.

Prioritizes such obligations in the following descending order: (1) amounts necessary to carry out the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on public debt; (2) amounts determined by the Secretary of Defense (DOD) (and the Secretary of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including their reserve components, who perform active service; (3) amounts certified to Congress by the President as necessary to carry out vital national security priorities; (4) amounts necessary to carry out the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security to pay monthly old-age, survivors', and disability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (5) amounts necessary to make payments under the Medicare program under SSA title XVIII.