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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-JUNE 5, 1997 111 STAT. 2749 (3) the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 expires in 1998 and needs to be extended; (4) since the enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act, Congress and the President have approved an average of $5,800,000,000 per year in emergency spending; and (5) a natural disaster in any particular State is unpredictable, by the United States is likely to experience a natural disaster almost every year. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE. —I t is the sense of the Senate that the functional totals underlying this concurrent resolution on the budget assume that the Congress should consider in the extension of the Budget Enforcement Act and in appropriations Acts— (1) provisions that budget for emergencies or that require emergency spending to be offset; (2) provisions that provide flexibility to meet emergency funding requirements associated with natural disasters; (3) Congress and the President should consider appropriating at least $5,000,000,000 every year to provide for natural disaster relief; and (4) Congress and the President should not designate anv emergency spending for natural disaster relief until such amounts provided in regular appropriations are exhausted. SEC. 323. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON ENFORCEMENT OF BIPARTISAN BUDGET AGREEMENT. (a) FINDINGS.— The Senate finds that— (1) the bipartisan budget agreement is contingent upon— (A) favorable economic conditions for the next 5 years; (B) accurate estimates of the fiscal impacts of assumptions in this resolution; and (C) enactment of legislation to reduce the deficit; and (2) if any of the conditions in paragraph (1) are not met, our ability to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 will be jeopardized. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE. —It is the sense of the Senate that the functional totals and limits in this resolution assume that— (1) reconciliation legislation should include legislation to enforce the targets set forth in the bipartisan budget agreement and to ensure the balanced budget goal is met; and (2) such legislation shall— (A) establish procedures to ensure the agreement is enforced in every year; (B) require that the President's annual budget and annual Congressional concurrent resolutions on the budget comply the agreement in every year; (C) consider provisions which provide that if the deficit is below or the surplus is above the deficits projected in the agreement in any year, such savings are locked in for deficit and debt reduction; and (D) consider provisions which budget for and control emergency spending in order to prevent the use of emergencies to evade the budget agreement. SEC. 324. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress finds that— (1) heart disease was the leading cause of death for both men and women in every year from 1970 to 1993;

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