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Members offered amendments and debated provisions of budget reconciliation legislation. Much of the focus was spending cuts to free funds for hurricane recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast.

Committee members marked up the fiscal year 2006 budget resolution bill and debated spending priorities for next year. Committee members made opening remarks.

As committee members marked up the fiscal year 2006 budget resolution bill, amendments to the legislation were submitted and debated one at a time.

Committee staff members made a presentation about data in the budget resolution, and committee members questioned them. The committee continued its mark up of the FY 2006 budget resolution.

Chairman Greenspan testified about the state of the U.S. economy, proposed economic reforms, the fiscal future of Social Security, and tax policy. In his remarks he emphasized the need to ad…

Witnesses testified about long-term budget implications of proposed Social Security reforms and discussed the analyses of their respective agencies on the problems facing Social Security. Th…

Director Bolton testified about President Bush’s fiscal year 2006 budget. He was questioned extensively about the president’s Social Security reform proposal, including a partial change to i…

The 109th Congress convened and House members were sworn in. Speaker of the House Hastert was re-elected and rules for the 109th Congress were debated and adopted.