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S 3 112th Congress Senate

Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act

Official title: A bill to promote fiscal responsibility and control spending.

Introduced: January 25, 2011 See on congress.gov
Economics and Public Finance Budget deficits and national debtCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsExecutive agency funding and structureIncome tax rates
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Social security and elderly assistanceTax reform and tax simplification
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It never became law before the 112th Congress (2011–2012) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Jan 25, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S128)
Jan 25, 2011
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 Latest action January 25, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S128)

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: (1) address the rising national debt and long-term fiscal challenges through a bipartisan agreement that significantly corrects our nation's long-term fiscal imbalances, closes the gap between projected revenues and expenditures, ensures U.S. economic security, and enhances future prosperity and growth; (2) reduce the deficit and stabilize the national debt without damaging the economic recovery; (3) consider deficit reduction proposals by leading budget experts and establish a plan that can attract broad bipartisan support; (4) ensure that any plan to address long-term fiscal problems is balanced and provides fundamental reform of the federal tax code along with prudent controls on spending; (5) eliminate tax expenditures that only serve special interests and take aggressive measures to close the tax gap and stop cheating; (6) ensure that the tax code fairly distributes the tax burden and helps American businesses compete in the global marketplace; (7) extend the solvency of Social Security and ensure that no savings are used to meet deficit reduction goals in the remainder of the budget; (8) achieve savings through the elimination or consolidation of duplicative programs and activities while modernizing government procurement practices to reduce waste and leverage better value; and (9) reject efforts to exempt tax breaks for millionaires and special interests from strong pay-as-you-go budgetary rules.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3: Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-3/
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"S. 3: Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-3/.
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