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Require Presidential Leadership and No Deficit Act or Require a PLAN Act - Directs the President, if his budget for FY2014, as submitted to Congress, results in a projected deficit in every fiscal year for which estimates are provided in it, to submit by April 1, 2013, a supplemental unified budget (the total level of outlays, total level of receipts, and the resulting deficit or surplus of the U.S. government for a fiscal year).
Requires a supplemental unified budget to include:
the information required by law for the President's budget,
Requires the unified budget to include, under a separate heading entitled "Direct Spending," a category for "Means-Tested Direct Spending and a category for "Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending" which specify:
the average rate of growth for each category in the total amount of outlays during the 10-year period preceding the budget year,
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 444 as passed House amended on Feb 6, 2013. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Feb 6, 2013Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveFeb 6, 2013
House Feb 6, 2013 · the primary vote
To require that, if the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such budget, the President shall submit a supplemental unified budget by April 1, 2013, which identifies a fiscal year in which balance is achieved, and for other purposes
Passed
253 Yea 167 Nay 11 not voting
Party-line vote 27 of 420 voting members broke with their own party: 26 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 444 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 444 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
15 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.