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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-JUNE 13, 1996 110 STAT. 4469 104th Congress should maintain Medicare beneficiaries right to remain in the current Medicare fee-for-service program and also should maintain the existing prohibitions against additional charges by providers under the Medicare fee-for-service program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act ("balance billing"), and that Medicare beneficiaries should be offered the greatest opportunity possible to choose private plans that will offer lower out-of-pocket costs than what they currently pay in the Medicare fee-for-service program, and to choose a health care delivery option that best meets their needs. SEC. 415. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING REQUIREMENTS THAT WELFARE RECIPIENTS BE DRUG-FREE. In recognition of the fact that American workers are required to be drug-free in the workplace, it is the sense of Congress that this concurrent resolution on the budget assumes that the States may require welfare recipients to be drug-free as a condition for receiving such benefits and that random drug testing may be used to enforce such requirements. SEC. 416. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON AN ACCURATE INDEX FOR INFLA- TION. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress finds that— (1) a significant portion of Federal expenditures and revenues are indexed to measurements of inflation; (2) a variety of inflation indices exist which vary according to the accuracy with which such indices measure increases in the cost of living; and (3) Federal Government usage of inflation indices which overstate true inflation has the demonstrated effect of accelerating Federal spending, increasing the Federal budget deficit, increasing Federal borrowing, and thereby enlarging the projected burden on future American taxpayers. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—I t is the sense of Congress that the assumptions underlying this budget resolution include that all Federal spending and revenues which are indexed for inflation should be calibrated by the most accurate inflation indices which are available to the Federal Government. SEC. 417. SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT THE 1993 INCOME TAX INCREASE ON SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS SHOULD BE REPEALED. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that— (1) the fiscal year 1994 budget proposal of President Clinton to raise Federal income taxes on the Social Security benefits of senior citizens with income as low as $25,000, and those provisions of the fiscal year 1994 recommendations of the Budget Resolution and the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act in which the One Hundred Third Congress voted to raise Federal income taxes on the Social Security benefits of senior citizens with income as low as $34,000 should be repealed; (2) President Clinton has stated that he believes he raised Federal taxes too much in 1993; and (3) the budget resolution should react to President Clinton's fiscal year 1997 budget which documents the fact that in the history of the United States, the total tax burden has never been greater than it is today. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—I t is the sense of Congress that the assumptions underlying this resolution include—

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