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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H. Con. Res. 71 (Reported in House) — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the app... · Sec. 507

Sec. 507. Policy statement on budget enforcement

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It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the House should— adopt an annual budget resolution before spending and tax legislation is considered in either House of Congress; assess measures for timely compliance with budget rules in the House; pass legislation to strengthen enforcement of the budget resolution; comply with the discretionary spending limits set forth in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; prevent the use of accounting gimmicks to offset higher spending; modify scoring conventions to encourage the commercialization of Federal Government activities that can best be provided by the private sector; and discourage the use of savings identified in the budget resolution as offsets for spending or tax legislation.
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