Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action
Congressional Budget Resolution.
At the start of the congressional budget process each year, Congress decides on a Budget Resolution as a blueprint to guide all policy decisions that have budget implications. The Fiscal Year 2002 House Budget Resolution allowed for consideration of nearly $2 trillion in total tax relief. In developing the Budget Resolution, the House Budget Committee relied on overly optimistic economic and budget projections, and did not specify a final level of spending for the military, thereby allowing themselves to promise more spending while making no allowance for it in their budget.
The proponents of the Budget Resolution claimed that they could pay for the tax cuts, increase spending, and still balance the budget and pay down debt. Taxpayers for Common Sense rightly feared that the lost revenues, increased spending and use of overly optimistic projections, after four successive years of budget surpluses, would lead to large budget deficits.
The House passed the Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Resolution.
Children's Defense Fund Action Council
Budget Resolution.
Adoption of the concurrent resolution that would set broad spending and revenue targets. The resolution calls for cutting taxes by $1.6 trillion over 10 years and allowing for a 3.5 percent increase in non-defense discretionary spending.
This was a critical vote about the Members’ and the nation’s priorities. The vote put the House on record in support of a congressional budget plan that used the bulk of the budget surplus for massive new tax cuts over the next ten years while at the same time placing severe limits on any new spending for programs for children, including education, child care, Head Start and the many others contained in the Act to Leave No Child Behind (H.R. 1990/S. 940).
Service Employees International Union
2002 Budget Resolution.
The 2002 budget resolution provides an outline for the 2002 budget that would spend $2 trillion on all programs, including a 4 percent increase on spending for discretionary programs, including education, health care, and programs for working families.Democrats.com
Bush "Greed Before Need" Budget #1 (FY 2002).
Assumes $5.6 trillion surplus despite expected recession. Promises $2 trillion tax cut, with 45% of the cuts going to the wealthiest 1%.National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
HCONRES83: Fiscal 2002 Budget Resolution - Adoption.
Adoption of the concurrent resolution that would set broad spending and revenue targets. The resolution calls for cutting taxes by $1.6 trillion over
10 years.
The group opposed this budget that squandered the Social Security and Medicare surpluses on
tax breaks and also provided inadequate resources for a meaningful Medicare prescription drug benefit.The concurrent resolution was adopted.