Bill113th Congress

S. 43

Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act

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Introduced
Jan 22, 2013
Origin Chamber
Senate
Policy Area
Economics and Public Finance
Latest Action
Jan 22, 2013

Sponsor

Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]

Republican·OH
Bioguide ID: P000449
First Name: Rob
Last Name: Portman
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Bill Details

Update Date
Jan 5, 2022
Origin Chamber
Senate
Bill Type
S
Bill Number
43
Congress
113
Introduced Date
Jan 22, 2013
Policy Area
Economics and Public Finance
Is Law
No
Jan 22, 2013IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

Source: Senate

Jan 22, 2013IntroReferral10000

Introduced in Senate

Source: Library of Congress

Introduced in Senate· Jan 22, 20130

Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in the event of a near breach of the current $14.294 trillion public debt limit, to issue a debt limit warning to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means that includes a determination as to when extraordinary measures may be necessary in order to prolong the funding of the federal government in the absence of a debt limit increase.

Requires any formal presidential request to increase the public debt limit to include the amount of the proposed debt limit increase and be accompanied by proposed legislation to reduce spending over the sum of the current and following 10 years by an amount equal to or greater than the amount of the requested debt limit increase. Prohibits net interest savings from being counted towards the spending reductions.

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases the statutory debt limit unless it contains such net spending reductions.

Prohibits Congress from voting on any measure that increases the public debt limit unless the cost estimate of that measure prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has been publicly available on the CBO website for at least 24 hours.

Permits waiver or suspension of this prohibition, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.

Budget Committee

Senate· Standing
Budget deficits and national debtBudget processExecutive agency funding and structureLegislative rules and procedurePresidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Introduced in Senate

Jan 22, 2013

Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act — Informed