S 46 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 22, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2013
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act - Requires the following to take equal priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit: (1) the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on debt held by the public; (2) the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security to pay monthly Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act; and (3) the payment of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces on active duty.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, if the Secretary determines that incoming revenue will not be sufficient to finance the priorities described in this Act over the following two weeks, to: (1) notify Congress of the expected revenue shortfall, and (2) raise the debt limit by the amount necessary to cover the difference between incoming revenue and the revenue needed to finance such priorities on a two-week basis.

Prohibits such a debt limit increase from exceeding the difference between expected outlays for the listed priorities and expected revenue. Places in reserve and applies to the following two-week period any amount of incoming revenue in excess of the amount projected by the Secretary as necessary to finance such priorities.

Cosponsors 28

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2013 to Feb 7, 2013, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-IAChuck GrassleyOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-LADavid VitterOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-NVDean HellerOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-IDJames E. RischOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-OKJames M. InhofeOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-AZJeff FlakeOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-WYJohn BarrassoOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-GAJohnny IsaksonOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-NHKelly AyotteOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-FLMarco RubioOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-WYMichael B. EnziOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-UTMike LeeOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-WIRon JohnsonOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-MORoy BluntOriginalJan 22, 2013
R-GASaxby ChamblissOriginalJan 22, 2013

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 22, 2013Introduced in Senate
  2. Jan 22, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Subjects

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  1. Jan 22, 2013Introduced in Senate

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