[Senate Report 115-260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
115th Congress } { Report
SENATE
2d Session } { 115-260
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ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019
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May 24, 2018.--Ordered to be printed
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Mr. Shelby, from the Committee on Appropriations,
submitted the following
REPORT
The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, as amended, and section 30103 of the Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123).
The Congressional Budget Act requires that as soon as
practicable after a concurrent resolution on the budget is
agreed to, the Committee on Appropriations shall submit to the
Senate a report subdividing among its subcommittees the new
budget authority and total outlays allocated to the Committee
in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference
report on such a resolution.
Under the provisions of section 301(a) of the Congressional
Budget Act, the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent
resolution on the budget no later than April 15 of each year.
On February 9, 2018, the President approved the Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2018. Section 30103 of that act provides for the
Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to file an allocation,
consistent with the terms of the Bipartisan Budget Act, to
serve as a section 302(a) allocation for purposes of budget
enforcement in the Senate. The allocation was filed by the
Chairman of the Budget Committee on May 7, 2018. The allocation
will remain in effect until the adoption by the Congress of a
budget resolution.
This approach is not without precedent. The Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2015 included an identical procedure for the
providing of an allocation to the Committee for fiscal year
2017, while the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 did the same for
fiscal year 2014, and again in fiscal year 2015. Also, for
fiscal year 2012, and again in fiscal year 2013, such a
procedure was contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011. In
fiscal year 2017, no budget resolution was adopted by Congress
until January 13, 2017. For each of the other fiscal years
referenced, no budget resolution was ever adopted by Congress.
A similar procedure (S. Res. 308; 101st Congress) was agreed to
in the Senate on July 12, 1990, providing an allocation for the
Committee for fiscal year 1991. The budget resolution was
finally adopted on October 9, 1990. A similar resolution (S.
Res. 209; 105th Congress) was agreed to in the Senate on April
2, 1998, providing an allocation for the Committee for fiscal
year 1999. Conferees were unable to resolve their differences
on a budget that year. In August 2004, the President approved
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law
108-287). Section 14007 of that act set an allocation
consistent with the conference report on S. Con. Res. 95, the
budget resolution for fiscal year 2005. That budget conference
report was never adopted by the Congress. Again, in June 2006,
the President approved the Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and
Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109-234). Section 7035 of
that act provided section 302(a) allocations to the Committee
on Appropriations for fiscal year 2007. Conferees on the fiscal
year 2007 budget resolution were unable to resolve their
differences.
In other years, in the absence of a budget resolution, the
Committee has proceeded with internal guidance, but without any
budget enforcement procedures in the Senate. In June 1984, the
Committee adopted a non-binding allocation of non-defense
spending. That year the budget resolution was adopted by the
Congress on October 1. Again, in July 2002, the Committee
adopted a non-binding allocation. That year the Senate did not
consider a budget resolution for fiscal year 2003. On July 15,
2010, the Committee adopted its own ``Committee Guidance''.
Neither the House nor the Senate considered a budget resolution
for fiscal year 2011. Again, on June 20, 2013, the Committee
adopted ``Committee Guidance'' for fiscal year 2014, which was
ultimately superseded by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013,
while on July 20, 2017, ``Committee Guidance'' for fiscal year
2018 was adopted by the Committee, which was superseded first
by the adoption of a budget resolution on October 26, 2017, and
then ultimately by an adjustment to that budget resolution
resulting from the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of
2018.
The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 251 of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may increase the
302(a) allocation of the Committee on Appropriations if certain
conditions relating to funding of specific programs are met.
These provisions address such programs as: costs of emergencies
(sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(i)); costs of overseas contingency
operations (sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(ii)); continuing disability
reviews and redeterminations (sec. 251(b)(2)(B)); healthcare
fraud and abuse control (sec. 251(b)(2)(C)); reemployment
services and eligibility assessments (sec. 251(b)(2)(E)); and
disaster funding (sec. 251(b)(2)(D)).
Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees:
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019
[In millions of dollars]
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Discretionary Mandatory Total
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Subcommittee Budget authority
------------------------------------------------ Outlays Total Budget Outlays Budget Outlays
Security Nonsecurity Total authority authority
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies............ .............. 23,235 23,235 24,446 107,124 98,764 130,359 123,210
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................ 5,400 57,595 62,995 70,644 319 332 63,314 70,976
Defense......................................................... 607,000 130 607,130 596,916 514 514 607,644 597,430
Energy and Water Development.................................... 21,892 21,874 43,766 43,842 .............. .............. 43,766 43,842
Financial Services and General Government....................... 31 23,657 23,688 24,131 22,406 22,398 46,094 46,529
Homeland Security............................................... 2,058 46,276 48,334 58,758 1,740 1,736 50,074 60,494
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies..................... .............. 35,853 35,853 35,277 62 62 35,915 35,339
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related .............. 179,288 179,288 184,701 783,118 782,757 962,406 967,458
Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch.............................................. .............. 4,790 4,790 4,702 145 145 4,935 4,847
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 10,319 86,767 97,086 90,346 109,472 109,086 206,558 199,432
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs................. .............. 46,418 46,418 47,750 159 159 46,577 47,909
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related 300 71,117 71,417 132,628 .............. .............. 71,417 132,628
Agencies.......................................................
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Total..................................................... 647,000 597,000 1,244,000 1,314,141 1,025,059 1,015,953 2,269,059 2,330,094
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(c), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE
SENATE
Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, on May 24, 2018,
the Committee ordered favorably reported the fiscal year 2019
section 302(b) budget allocations, by a recorded vote of 31-0,
a quorum being present. The vote was as follows:
Yeas Nays
Chairman Shelby
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Alexander
Ms. Collins
Ms. Murkowski
Mr. Graham
Mr. Blunt
Mr. Moran
Mr. Hoeven
Mr. Boozman
Mrs. Capito
Mr. Lankford
Mr. Daines
Mr. Kennedy
Mr. Rubio
Mrs. Hyde-Smith
Mr. Leahy
Mrs. Murray
Mrs. Feinstein
Mr. Durbin
Mr. Reed
Mr. Tester
Mr. Udall
Mrs. Shaheen
Mr. Merkley
Mr. Coons
Mr. Schatz
Ms. Baldwin
Mr. Murphy
Mr. Manchin
Mr. Van Hollen
[all]