Sunday, July 31, 2011

Senator Harry Reid's HR 2693: "Budget Control Act"

 Effects on Deficits Relative to CBO's March Baseline
Adjusted for Subsequent Appropriation Action
(in billions of dollars, fiscal years 2012-2021)
House Speaker
Majority Leader
Boehner's Plan,
Reid's Plan,
Proposed on July 27
Proposed on July 29
Caps on Discretionary Programs Excluding OCO
-756
-752
Program Integrity Initiatives
-1
-11
Other Mandatory Spending
-5
-11
Debt Service Savings, Non-OCO
-156
-153
Total Effect on the Deficit, Excluding OCO
-917
-927
Caps on Funding for OCO
N.A.
-1,044
Debt Service Savings, OCO Caps
N.A.
-223
TOTAL EFFECT ON THE DEFICIT
-917
                                -2,194
Notes:
OCO = Overseas contingency operations, which include the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and similar activities.
N.A. = not applicable
Details may not add to totals because of rounding.
As requested by the House and Senate leadership, CBO also calculated the net budgetary impact of the plans if the discretionary savings are measured relative to CBO’s January baseline projections. Relative to that baseline, CBO estimates that Speaker Boehner's proposal would reduce budget deficits by about $1.1 trillion between 2012 and 2021; Majority Leader Reid's proposal would reduce budget deficits by slightly more than $2.4 trillion between 2012 and 2021.
*Chart and Data from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report.


Open Congress Summary

Additional Sources of Information:
Link  to Rules Committee Summary
Link  to Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate
Link  to Money Trail 
Link  to GOP Spin

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