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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—JUNE 29, 1995 109 STAT. 1027 (D) the Federal interest in the program should be protected with adequate safeguards, such as auditing or maintenance of effort provisions, and that Federal goals and principles may be appropriate; (3) Congress should examine Federal functions to determine those that could be more conveniently, efficiently, and eflTectively performed by the private sector and, in order to facilitate the privatization of these functions— (A) provisions of law that prohibit or "lockout" the private sector from competing for the provision of certain services should be eliminated; (B) section 257(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 should be repealed or modified to permit the sale of assets when appropriate to privatization goals; (C) each Federal agency and department should be encouraged to develop and evaluate privatization initiatives; and (D) the "Common Rule", modified by Executive Order 12803, should be modified to delete grant repayment provisions which restrict local governments and prevent private sector investments in Federal-aid facilities; (4) Congress, in fulfilling its responsibility to future generations, should— (A) enact a plan that balances the budget by 2002 and develop a regimen for paying off the Federal debt; and (B) once the budget is in balance, use the surpluses to implement that regimen; (5) in considering child nutrition programs— (A) reductions in nutrition program spending should be achieved without compromising the nutritional wellbeing of program recipients; (B) school lunches should continue to meet minimal nutrition requirements and should not have to compete with alternative foods of minimal nutritional value during lunch hours; and (C) the content of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package should continue to be based on scientific evidence; and (6) science and technology development are critical to sustainable long-term economic growth and priority should be given to Federal funding for science and basic and applied research. SEC. 305. SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT TAX REDUCTIONS SHOULD BENEFIT WORKING FAAULIES. It is the sense of the Senate that this concurrent resolution on the budget assumes any reductions in taxes should be structured to benefit working families by providing family tax relief and incentives to stimulate savings, investment, job creation, and economic growth. SEC. 306. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF AGRI- CULTURE SAVINGS. It is the sense of the Senate that, in response to the reconciliation instructions in section 105 of this resolution, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry should provide