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Senatorial Papers of John H. Chafee, Washington Office: Budget, Appropriations, Social Security

Series: Budget
Dates: 1978-1999
Extent: 25 box(es) (12.5 linear feet)
Types of Materials: correspondence
hearings
legislation
memoranda
notes
reports

Scope and Content Note
The series contains records regarding domestic and international fiscal policy. The records consist of government reports, correspondence, memoranda, committee hearing testimonies, bills, notes, and briefing books. The records also include Senate Finance Committee budget reports, Chafee budget proposals, Clinton budget proposals, deficit reduction and economic plans.
Subjects include:
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation (1995-1998), regarding changes in spending and revenue laws.  These records include appropriation bills regarding environmental management, highway construction, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and Department of Labor. Also included are records concerning an riders exempting small farming operations from the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) oversight. Senators Chafee and Reed (D-RI) contested the bill after a Rhode Island youth was killed in tractor accident on a farm that fell under the exemption rule. Gang of Five (1983), centrist congressional coalition working papers regarding efforts to curb President Reagan’s defense budget expenditures, statements on bi-partisan budget proposals, and statistical data charts used for evidence in tax cut repeal legislation.  Foreign Operations Appropriations, containing reports on export financing support for various countries including economic assistance, military assistance, and multilateral assistance.
Grey Markets, relating to bans on parallel imports and trademark infringement by battery manufacturers.
Highway Bills, concerning the environmental effects of highway construction on national parks and public lands.
Line-Item Veto, a legislative debate on whether or not the President should have increased ability to control congressional spending through enhanced recessionary powers. Balanced Budget Amendments, including reconciliation bills, and resolutions regarding deficit management, social security reform, Medicare, and excise taxes. The records also consist of Chafee budget scorecards which are summaries of Senator Chafee’s votes on spending increases and decreases. The scorecards also list the dollar amounts and cost estimates for each vote.
Arrangement
The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
1 1 Ad Hoc Tax Group Reports 1990
2 Administration- Republican Budget Agreement May 1997
3 Amortization of Intangibles Task Force 1991
4 Amtrak Grant Jun 26, 1996
5 Appropriations Bills 1995
6 Appropriations Bills 1996
7 Appropriations Bills 1997-1998
8 Appropriations Bills 1998
9 Balanced Budget Amendment 1995
10 Balanced Budget Amendment 1995
11 Balanced Budget Amendment 1996
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
2 12 Balanced Budget Amendment: Briefing Book Jan-Feb 1995
13 Balanced Budget Amendment: Conference Agreement 1995
14 Balanced Budget Amendment: Conference Agreement 1995
15 Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment 1997
16 Balanced Budget Reform 1986
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
3 17 Balanced Budget Reform 1986
18 Balanced Budget Reform 1986
19 Bipartisan Budget Cutting Plan 1994
20 Bipartisan Budget Group 1996
21 “Blue Dog” Budget 1997
22 Budget Amendments 1984
23 Budget Amendments 1984
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
4 24 Budget Background Information 1990
25 Budget Background Information 1991
26 Budget Debate 1987
27 Budget Deficit Plan 1995
28 Budget Deficit Reduction 1995
29 Budget Deficit Reform 1992
30 Budget Enforcement Act 1990
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
5 31 Budget: Fiscal Years 1994-1996
32 Budget Information 1993
33 Budget: Monthly Treasury Statements 1991-1995
34 Budget Priorities 1985, 1986
35 Budget Process Review 1984-1993
36 Budget Proposals 1991
37 Budget Proposal Memoranda 1985
38 Budget Rescission Bill 1992
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
6 39 Budget Reconciliation 1985
40 Budget Reconciliation 1985
41 Budget Reconciliation 1985
42 Budget Reconciliation 1985- 1986
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
7 43 Budget Reconciliation 1985-1986
44 Budget Reconciliation 1986, 1987
45 Budget Reconciliation 1990
46 Budget Reconciliation 1990
47 Budget Reconciliation 1990
48 Budget Reconciliation 1998
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
8 49 Budget Reconciliation: Conference Sep- Nov 1989
50 Budget Reconciliation: Notebook Oct 1989
51 Budget Reconciliation (Taxes) 1997
52 Budget Reconciliation (Taxes) 1997
53 Budget Reconciliation (Taxes) 1997
54 Budget Reports 1990
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
9 55 Budget Reports 1988-1991
56 Budget Reports 1991
57 Budget Reports 1994-1995
58 Budget Resolution 1994
59 Budget Resolution 1994
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
10 60 Budget Resolution 1996
61 Budget Resolution 1997
62 Budget Resolution 1998
63 Budget Resolution 1999
64 Budget Resolution 1999
65 Budget Resolution 1999
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
11 66 Budget Resolution: Amendment 1982
67 Budget Resolution: Amendments 1993
68 Budget Resolution: Amendments 1997
69 Budget Resolution: Floor Debate 1998
70 Budget Savings Ideas 1996
71 Budget Statistics Reports 1992
72 Budget Summit Agreement Sep 30, 1990
73 Budget Summit Agreement: Medicare Provisions 1990
74 Budget Surplus Oct 1997
75 Budget Vote Analyses 1981-1985
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
12 76 California Earthquake Supplement Bill 1994
77 Centers for Technology Commercialization 1995
78 Center on Budget and Policy Reports 1998
79 Centrist Coalition Alternative Balanced Budget 1996
80 Chafee Budget Amendment 1987
81 Chafee Budget Positions 1985
82 Chafee Budget Proposal 1993
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
13 83 Chafee Budget Score Cards 1993-1994
84 Chafee Budget Score Cards 1998-1999
85 Chafee Proposal to Limit Federal Retirement Programs 1992
86 Chafee Votes on Budget Resolution 1981
87 Clinton Budget 1993, 1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
14 88 Clinton Economic Plan 1993
89 Clinton Economic Plan 1993
90 Clinton Economic Plan: Chafee Response 1993
91 Clinton Economic Proposal Impact on Small Business 1993
92 Corporate Owned Life Insurance 1997-1998
93 Deficit Bill Amendments 1985
94 Deficit Budget Data 1992
95 Deficit Hearing 1985
96 Deficit Projections 1992
97 Deficit Reduction 1990
98 Deficit Reduction Plan 1994
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
15 99 Disaster Relief Appropriations Bill 1992
100 Education Savings Account Conference Agreement Jun 24, 1998
101 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill 1997
102 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill 1993
103 Entitlement Caps Jun 9, 1995
104 Entitlement Commission 1994
105 Entitlement Program Estimates 1994
106 Federal Debt 1998
107 Federal Emergency Management Agency: Hurricane Bob 1991
108 Federal Outlay Information 1990-1993
109 Federal Retiree Cost of Living Adjustment 1994
110 Federal Retirement Benefits: Chafee Proposal 1992, 1993
111 Foreign Aid Reform Act 1996
112 Finance Articles 1978
113 Foreign Operations Appropriations 1993-1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
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16 114 Gang of Five: Budget Working Papers 1983
115 Gang of Five: Budget Working Papers 1983
116 Grey Markets 1983-1985
117 Grey Markets 1984-1985
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
17 118 Health and Human Services Budget Reports 1991,1994
119 Health-Budget Issues 1986
120 Heritage Foundation Reports: Families and Taxes 1993
121 Highway Bills 1993,1997
122 Highway Bills 1997
123 Highway Bills 1997
124 Honest Balanced Budget Proposal 1998
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
18 125 House Appropriations Bills 1989
126 Increase Medicare Age of Eligibility 1997
127 Interior Appropriations 1996
128 Interior Appropriations Committee 1998
129 Interior-Related Agencies Appropriations Bill 1993
130 Internal Revenue Service Survey Jan 1991
131 Kerry Budget-Cutting Plan 1993
132 Labor, Health and Human Services Bill 1993
133 Latino-Made Management Team 1992
134 Legislative Branch Appropriations 1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
19 135 Line-Item Veto 1992-1996
136 Line-Item Vetoes 1995
137 Line-Item Vetoes 1996
138 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 1990
139 Major Deficit Reduction Efforts Sep 1994
140 Market Promotion Program 1994
141 Medicaid Alternatives to Spending Cap 1986
142 Military Construction Appropriations Bill 1993
143 National and Community Services Trust Act 1993
144 National Center for Policy Analysis Reports 1991
145 National Civil Aviation Review Commission Aug 13, 1997
146 National Taxpayers Union 1992
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
20 147 Oil Taxation 1992
148 Omnibus Appropriations Bills 1996-1999
149 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Bill 1993
150 Penny-Kasich Deficit Reduction Proposal 1993
151 President’s Budget: Tax Proposals 1992
152 President’s Budget Proposals 1992
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
21 153 President’s Budget Proposals 1992
154 President’s Budget Proposals: Revenue Provisions 1992
155 President’s Budget Requests 1996
156 Pro Debt Reduction: Alan Greenspan Speech 1998
157 Reform and Simplification Act 1991
158 Reinventing America Federal Reform Act: Internet Budget Simulation 1996
159 Republican Economic Policy Task Force 1993
160 Retirement Income Security Cut 1985
161 Rhode Island State Budget Reports 1997, 1999
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
22 162 Rhode Island Tourism Grant 1992
163 Rural Jobs and Investment Act 1993
164 Senate Action on Budget 1987
165 Senate Targets 1997
166 Sequestration Update Report Apr 20, 1993
167 Spending Cuts 1991-1994
168 Spring Supplemental Appropriations Bill 1993
169 Statutory Limit on Public Debt, Joint Resolution on Sep 1985
170 Supplemental Appropriations Bill 1993
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
23 171 Tax Proposal Report May 1990
172 Taxpayer Confidentiality Data 1993
173 Technology and Infrastructure 1989-1995
174 Transportation 1994-1997
175 Transportation Appropriations Bill 1994
176 Treasury Budget Information 1993
177 Treasury Nominations 1990
178 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations 1992
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
24 179 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations 1994
180 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1994
181 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1995
182 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1996
183 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1998
184 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1999
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
25 185 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations Bill 1999
186 Treasury Reports Mar 1991
187 Trust Funds Jun 1996
188 “Truth in Budgeting Bill” 1992
189 Unfunded Mandates 1994-1995
190 Unfunded Mandates 1995
191 Veterans Administration, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations 1993

Series: Appropriations
Dates: 1989-1998
Extent: 3 box(es) (1.5 linear feet)
Types of Materials: articles
correspondence
legislation
memoranda
reports
speeches

Scope and Content Note
The series contains records related to federal appropriations for government departments and agencies. The records consist of bills, reports, memoranda, news articles, correspondence, congressional statements, and speeches. Subjects include appropriations for the Department of Agriculture’s farming natural disaster crisis relief, Meat Labeling Act, and Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act.
The series also includes appropriations bills for the departments of Veteran’s Affairs and Housing and Urban Development regarding budget expenditures, community development programs, and low-income housing preservation.
Arrangement
The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
1 1 Agriculture Appropriations 1993-1994
2 Agriculture Appropriations 1995
3 Agriculture Appropriations 1996
4 Agriculture Appropriations 1998
5 Agriculture Appropriations 1998
6 Appropriations: Letters and Reports 1995
7 Clinton Administration Positions on Appropriations 1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
1A 7A District of Columbia: Appropriations 1995-1997
7B District of Columbia: Appropriations 1997-1999
7C District of Columbia: Appropriations 1998-1999
7D District of Columbia Appropriations: News Articles, Memoranda 1997
8 Education Appropriations 1996
9 Emergency Food Supplemental 1993
10 Energy Appropriations Requests 1996
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
2 11 Fair Housing Provisions 1995
12 House Appropriations Impact on Rhode Island 1995-1996
13 Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Amendments 1995
14 Housing and Urban Development Requests 1995
15 Interior, Department of: Appropriations 1989-1990
16 Interior, Department of: Appropriations 1997
17 Interior, Department of: Appropriations 1997
18 Interior, Department of: Appropriations Memoranda 1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
3 19 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations 1997
20 Legislative Branch Appropriations 1997
21 Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight 1995
22 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1993
23 Public Housing Deregulation 1995
24 Treasury and Postal Appropriations 1996-1997
25 Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development: Omnibus Appropriations 1995
26 Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development: Appropriations 1996
27 Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development: Appropriations 1997

Series: Social Security
Dates: 1981-1999
Extent: 4 box(es) (2 linear feet)
Types of Materials: articles
correspondence
legislation
memoranda
notes
reports
speeches

Scope and Content Note
The series contains records related to funding, and management of social security retirement benefits. The records consist of reports, correspondence, memoranda, speeches, news articles, notes, and speeches.  Subjects include spending control, tax cut bills, earnings limits, reform amendments, retirement savings crisis, and the discussion of establishing social security as an independent agency.
Subjects also include:
Privatization of Social Security (1996-1997), regarding the viability of the social security system and the debate over whether or not to allow private companies to manage the large sums of money flowing into the social security trust fund.
Social Security Spending Control (1994-1998), addressing the problem of social security trust expenditures exceeding revenue, and the debate over whether or not to revise the social security investment policies.
Arrangement
The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
1 1 American Association of Retired Persons and Concord Debate 1998
2 Budget Statements 1981-1986
3 Calculating Benefits 1994-1995
4 Charts and Graphs 1999
5 Computation of Retirement Benefits 1996
6 Covered Foreign Work 1995
7 Current Issues 1998
8 Direct Deposit of Benefits 1997
9 Earnings Limit 1990, 1994
10 Earnings Limit Hearing 24-May-94
11 Earnings Limit Possible Chafee Proposal 1989, 1993
12 Earnings Limit Senate Finance Committee Mark-Up 1992-1993
13 Earnings Test Bill 1989-1991
14 Economic Security Education Kit 1998
15 Electronic Funds Transfer Rules 1997
16 Government Pension Offset 1994
17 Household Employees 1993
18 Independence and Program Improvements Act 1994
19 Issues 1998
20 Kerrey Simpson Proposal 1994-1995
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
2 21 Long Term Solvency 1995
22 Military Retirees 1995
23 Milkulski Bill to Change Payment Dates 1996
24 Money’s Worth Analysis 1993-1994
25 Moynihan Reform Proposal 1998
26 Moynihan Tax Cut 1990-1991
27 Myth of Entitlement Crisis 1994-1995
28 Notch Background Information 1989-1992
29 Notch Commission 1994
30 Notch Issue Statements/ Memos 1988-1992
31 Notch Legislation 1990
31A Pension Restoration Act 1991
32 Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement 1993
33 Privatization and Consumer Price Index 1996-1997
34 Reform Proposal 1998
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
3 35 Retirement 1995
36 Retirement Age 1993
37 Retirement Savings Crisis Baby Boomers Generation 1995-1996
38 Social Security Spending Control 1994-1996
39 Social Security Spending Control 1997-1998
Box
Folder
Title
Date(s)
Extent
4 40 Social Security as Independent Agency 1989-1992
41 Social Security as Independent Agency 1993
42 Social Security Number as National Identification Number 1995-1998
43 Spousal Pension Offset n.d.
44 Staff and Administrative Issues 1992, 1995
45 Taxation of Benefits 1994
46 Taxes 1994-1995
47 Trustees Report on Medicare 1999
48 Web Site 1997
49 Windfall Offset 1993
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