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Concord Coalition
Strike Directed Scoring in Railroad Retirement Bill.
To hide the true cost of the railroad retirement bill, the bill included "directed scoring" provisions which stipulate that the funds used to purchase securities many not be scored as outlays. Senator Domenici (R-NM) offered an amendment to strike the directed scoring provisions from the bill. The vote was on the Domenici amendment. The amendment was rejected.Taxpayers for Common Sense Action
Eliminate Directed Scorekeeping.
Directed scorekeeping (further described in TCS Action Senate vote 4) enables Congress to ignore the actual costs of legislation, by designating legislatively the cost of a provision rather than using the cost estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office. In this case, the directed scorekeeping designates the cost of a $15.6 billion provision to be only $250 million. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)offered an amendment to the Railroad Retirement bill (H.R. 10) to eliminate the directed scorekeeping provision from the bill.
The Senate rejected the Domenici Amendment.
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Domenici Amendment No. 2202 to Railroad Retirement.
This amendment would have striken a provision related to directed score which would have added 15 billion dollars to the budget deficit preventing passage of the legislation. Amendment rejected.