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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Budget deficits</title>
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  <updated>2008-06-04T20:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3091 Medicare Wound Therapy Patient Protection Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-04:/action/159255</id>
    <updated>2008-06-04T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt negative pressure wound therapy pumps and related supplies and accessories from the Medicare competitive acquisition program until the clinical comparability of such products can be validated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6091 Save Medicare Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-19:/action/158521</id>
    <updated>2008-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Security Act to preserve access to physicians' services under the Medicare Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3006 Budget Enforcement Legislative Tool Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3006/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-11:/action/156878</id>
    <updated>2008-05-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish procedures for the expedited consideration by Congress of certain proposals by the President to rescind amounts of budget authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.J.Res.81 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to control spending.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hj81/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-29:/action/151883</id>
    <updated>2008-04-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to control spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2823 Transportation Empowerment Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2823/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-06:/action/148993</id>
    <updated>2008-04-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to empower States with authority for most taxing and spending for highway programs and mass transit programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2785 Save Medicare Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2785/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-12:/action/147957</id>
    <updated>2008-03-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Security Act to preserve access to physicians' services under the Medicare program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Con.Res.70 Budget resolution FY2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-sc70/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-06:/action/147015</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.312 Budget resolution FY2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hc312/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-06:/action/147152</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4751 More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4751/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-16:/action/140476</id>
    <updated>2007-12-16T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide that annual Social Security account statements indicate, in estimating the level of projected benefits of eligible individuals, the effect on such benefits levels of benefit reductions which may be necessary, in the absence of future legislative remedies, by reason of anticipated insolvency of the Social Security Trust Funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4664 Social Security Surplus Protection Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4664/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-12:/action/140283</id>
    <updated>2007-12-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for investment and protection of the Social Security surplus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.J.Res.24 A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-sj24/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-12:/action/137326</id>
    <updated>2007-11-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2228 FEED Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2228/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-23:/action/134799</id>
    <updated>2007-10-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to extend and improve agricultural programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.J.Res.19 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which requires (except during time of war and subject to suspension by Congress) that the total amount of money expended by the United States during any fiscal year not exceed the amount of certain revenue received by the United States during such fiscal year and not exceed 20 per centum of the gross national product of the United States during the previous calendar year.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-sj19/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-30:/action/131122</id>
    <updated>2007-09-30T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which requires (except during time of war and subject to suspension by Congress) that the total amount of money expended by the United States during any fiscal year not exceed the amount of certain revenue received by the United States during such fiscal year and not exceed 20 per centum of the gross national product of the United States during the previous calendar year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3654 SAFE Commission Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3654/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-24:/action/130275</id>
    <updated>2007-09-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish a commission to develop legislation designed to reform tax policy and entitlement benefit programs and ensure a sound fiscal future for the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2771 Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2771/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-18:/action/118839</id>
    <updated>2007-06-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2720 Food and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2720/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-13:/action/118273</id>
    <updated>2007-06-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reform commodity programs and to increase nutrition, conservation, and energy programs of the Department of Agriculture, to reduce the national budget deficit, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2685 Fiscal Honesty and Accountability Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2685/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-11:/action/121784</id>
    <updated>2007-06-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to extend the discretionary spending caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.J.Res.45 Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hj45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-11:/action/120807</id>
    <updated>2007-06-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2469 Biennial Budgeting Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2469/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-22:/action/121738</id>
    <updated>2007-05-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide a biennial budget for the United States Government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.15 Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s15/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-21:/action/113485</id>
    <updated>2007-05-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish a new budget process to create a comprehensive plan to rein in spending, reduce the deficit, and regain control of the Federal budget process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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