H.R. 6474 - Implementation of Simpson-Bowles Spending Reductions Act of 2012

Implementation of Simpson-Bowles Spending Reductions Act of 2012

H.R. 6474 — 112^th Congress (2011–2012)

Summary

To adopt the seven immediate reforms recommended by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to reduce spending and make the Federal government more efficient. (by CRS)

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Title

To adopt the seven immediate reforms recommended by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to reduce spending and make the Federal government more efficient.

Other Titles

• Implementation of Simpson-Bowles Spending Reductions Act of 2012

Sponsor

Dennis A. Ross

Co-Sponsors

Subjects

• Economics and public finance
• Accounting and auditing
• Adoption and foster care
• Adult day care
• Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
• Air quality
• Alternative and renewable resources
• Appropriations
• Aviation and airports
• Building construction
• Capital gains tax
• Child care and development
• Coal
• Congressional operations and organization
• Congressional oversight
• Corporate finance and management
• Disability and paralysis
• Educational facilities and institutions
• Electric power generation and transmission
• Emergency medical services and trauma care
• Employee benefits and pensions
• Employee hiring
• Endangered and threatened species
• Energy efficiency and conservation
• Environmental technology
• Executive Office of the President
• Executive agency funding and structure
• Fires
• First responders and emergency personnel
• Forests, forestry, trees
• Government buildings, facilities, and property
• Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
• Government information and archives
• Health care costs and insurance
• Health facilities and institutions
• Health personnel
• Higher education
• House of Representatives
• Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
• Income tax credits
• Income tax deductions
• Income tax exclusion
• Income tax rates
• Indian social and development programs
• Industrial facilities
• Inflation and prices
• Insurance industry and regulation
• Interest, dividends, interest rates
• Land transfers
• Legislative rules and procedure
• Life, casualty, property insurance
• Low- and moderate-income housing
• Members of Congress
• Motor carriers
• Motor fuels
• Motor vehicles
• Navigation, waterways, harbors
• Oil and gas
• Poverty and welfare assistance
• Public utilities and utility rates
• Railroads
• Real estate business
• Research and development
• Residential rehabilitation and home repair
• Securities
• Senate
• Small business
• Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
• Solid waste and recycling
• State and local taxation
• Student aid and college costs
• Tariffs
• Tax treatment of families
• Taxation of foreign income
• Teaching, teachers, curricula
• Television and film
• Transportation costs
• Water quality
• Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Related Bills

• H.R. 547 (112^th) : Individual AMT Repeal Act of 2011
• H.R. 934 (112^th) : To Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Reduce the Corporate Rate of Tax to 18 Percent.
• H.R. 2114 (112^th) : Reducing the Size of the Federal Government Through Attrition Act of 2011
• H.R. 3029 (112^th) : Reducing the Size of the Federal Government Through Attrition Act of 2011
• H.R. 3858 (112^th) : To Provide That Members of Congress Shall Not Receive a Cost of Living Adjustment in Pay During 2013.
• S. 1611 (112^th) : Reducing the Size of the Federal Government Through Attrition Act of 2011
• S. 1671 (112^th) : Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act
• S. 1837 (112^th) : Rebuilding America Act
• S. 1930 (112^th) : Earmark Elimination Act of 2011
• S. 1936 (112^th) : Implementation of Simpson-Bowles Spending Reductions Act of 2011
• S. 2210 (112^th) : No Pay Raise for Congress Act of 2012

Major Actions

Introduced	9/20/2012
Referred to Committee

Bill History

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There have been no votes on this bill.

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	9/20/2012
		9/20/2012	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
		9/20/2012	Referred to House Ways and Means
		9/20/2012	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
		9/20/2012	Referred to House House Administration
		9/20/2012	Referred to House Rules
		9/20/2012	Referred to House Budget

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