Date: May 9, 1985

Subject: Fiscal '86 Budget

Description: Dole (R-KS) amendment to recommit the concurrent resolution to the Budget Committee, to set budget targets for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1986, as follows: budget authority, $1,069.5 billion; outlays, $965 billion; revenues, $793.6 billion; deficit, $171.4 billion. The amendment also established dual annual caps on defense appropriations and on non-defense, discretionary (non-entitlement) appropriations as follows: fiscal 1986, defense, $303.2 billion, non-defense, $140.8 billion; 1987, defense, $324.1 billion, non-defense, $149.3 billion; 1988, defense, $347.6 billion, non-defense, 149.3 billion. It revised budget levels for fiscal 1985, and included reconciliation instructions requiring the Budget committees to recommend legislative savings to meet the budget targets by June 30, 1985. It would abolish more than a dozen domestic programs, and allow an inflation rate increase for defense spending.

Result: Amendment Agreed to, 50-49

Democrat: 1 Yeas, 45 Nays, 1 Not voting
Republican: 48 Yeas, 4 Nays, 1 Not voting

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