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1/25/2011--Introduced.

Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should:

(1) address the rising national debt and long-term fiscal challenges through a bipartisan agreement that significantly corrects our nation's long-term fiscal imbalances, closes the gap between projected revenues and expenditures, ensures U.S. economic security, and enhances future prosperity and growth;

(2) reduce the deficit and stabilize the national debt without damaging the economic recovery;

(3) consider deficit reduction proposals by leading budget experts and establish a plan that can attract broad bipartisan support;

(4) ensure that any plan to address long-term fiscal problems is balanced and provides fundamental reform of the federal tax code along with prudent controls on spending;

(5) eliminate tax expenditures that only serve special interests and take aggressive measures to close the tax gap and stop cheating;

(6) ensure that the tax code fairly distributes the tax burden and helps American businesses compete in the global marketplace;

(7) extend the solvency of Social Security and ensure that no savings are used to meet deficit reduction goals in the remainder of the budget;

(8) achieve savings through the elimination or consolidation of duplicative programs and activities while modernizing government procurement practices to reduce waste and leverage better value; and

(9) reject efforts to exempt tax breaks for millionaires and special interests from strong pay-as-you-go budgetary rules.

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S. 3 (112th): Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act

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S. 3 (112^th): Fiscal Responsibility and Spending Control Act