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 102 STAT. 4886

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION S — J U N E 10, 1988

consider reductions in social security as part of a budget reconciliation bill or resolution pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; (2) current law requires a balanced budget by fiscal year 1993, but includes the projected social security surpluses as offsetting deficits; and (3) current law requires the budget resolution to display budget authority, outlays, revenues, and the deficit excluding social security, in the aggregate and by function. Ob) It is the sense of the Congress that the National Economic Commission should— (1) study the budgetary treatment of social security, airport and highway, military retirement, civil service retirement, unemplo3ment and other trust funds and self-supporting public enterprise funds including Postal Service, Federal Eteposit Insurance Corporation, Comptroller of the Currency, National Credit Union Administration, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and Securities and Exchange Commission; (2) analyze the economic, budgetary, and programmatic effects of taking these funds off-budget; (3) consider the effects of setting trust fund surpluses aside as additional savings, including effects on the national savings rate, investment, and economic growth, as well as on program beneficisuies; (4) include in its final report a recommendation on the budgetary treatment of these funds; and (5) report on the means to achieve a balance in the remaining budget and on the economic effects of a unified budget surplus. Agreed to June 6, 1988.

June 10, 1988

EL SALVADOR—U.S. SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT

[H. Con. Res. 312] DUARTE AND FOR ITS GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE Whereas President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador has bat'tled for democracy in his country all his life; Whereas President Duarte has suffered beatings and exile for his beliefs; Whereas President Duarte was elected President in 1972 but was not permitted to take office; Whereas President Duarte nevertheless persevered and, in 1984, became El Salvador's first democratically-elected President in more than 50 years; Whereas President Duarte has been entrusted by the people of El Salvador with the task of leading a transition to genuine democracy in El Salvador; Whereas President Duarte has fought hard and courageously to accomplish such a transition; Whereas President Duarte has the full support of the American people in this struggle; Whereas President Duarte is and has always been a true friend and ally of the United States;

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