Date: May 21, 1997
Subject: Fiscal 1998 Budget Resolution
Description: Doolittle (R-CA) substitute amendment, offered on behalf of the Conservative Action Team, to balance the budget by 2002 by cutting non-defense discretionary spending to levels requested in the President's fiscal 1997 budget, and allowing an increase in net tax cuts to $192.5 billion over five years from $85 billion -- an additional savings of $109 billion that would be applied to further tax cuts. The substitute would allow a point of order to be raised against any legislation that would cause total outlays to exceed total receipts in fiscal 2002 and in subsequent years.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 119-313
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