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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 12, 1994 108 STAT. 5099 TITLE III—SENSE OF CONGRESS PROVISIONS SEC. 31. CONTROLLING GROWTH OF ENTITLEMENT OR MANDATORY SPENDING. It is the sense of the Congress that legislation should be enacted providing enforceable limits to control the growth of entitlement or mandatory spending. SEC. 32. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN BUDGET PROCESS LEGISLATION. It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the following legislation should be enacted: (1) Legislation providing enforceable limits to control the growth of entitlement or mandatory spending. (2) Amendments to the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to establish a regular procedure to provide assistance for disasters and other emergencies without adding to the deficit. (3) Legislation granting the President expedited rescission authority over appropriations measures, as provided by H.R. 1578, as passed the House. SEC. 33. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON CONTROLLING NON-SOCIAL SECU- RITY MANDATORY SPENDING. It is the sense of the Senate that the Congress should— (1) after enacting health care reform legislation, enact annual caps to control the growth of entitlement or mandatory spending; (2) include within these caps all mandatory spending programs except Social Security, deposit insurance, and net interest; (3) provide that these caps shall be set so that programs providing benefits to individuals may grow for inflation, changes in the numbers of beneficiaries, and an additional growth allowance; (4) provide that these caps shall be adjusted annually in the President's budget for changes in inflation and the number of beneficiaries since Congress enacted the caps (excluding any changes due to legislation); (5) provide an enforcement mechanism in the event that total mandatory spending exceeds the caps; and (6) enact caps on tax expenditures similar to those for mandatory spending so as to ensure that reductions in Federal spending for mandatory programs are not achieved by shifting spending to tax expenditures. SEC. 34. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING THE BUDGETARY ACCOUNTING OF HEALTH CARE REFORM. It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Congress should measure the costs and benefits of all hegilth care reform legislation against a uniform set of economic and technical assumptions; (2) before enacting major changes in the health care system, the Congress should have available to it reliable estimates of the costs of competing plans prepared in a comparable manner; and

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