[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 113 (Tuesday, September 10, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8446-S8447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REVISIONS TO THE 2002 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS AND THE 
                          BUDGETARY AGGREGATES

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, section 314 of the Congressional Budget 
Act, as amended, requires the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee 
to adjust the budgetary aggregates and the allocation for the 
Appropriations Committee by the amount of appropriations designated as 
emergency spending pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
  On July 23, I filed adjustments to the 2002 budgetary aggregates and 
allocation for the Appropriations Committee resulting from the $29.9 
billion in emergency funding included in the conference report to H.R. 
4775, the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery 
From and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States (Public Law 
107-206). The legislation, however, included $5.1 billion in emergency 
funding that the Congress made contingent on the President designating 
the total amount as emergency spending within 30 days of enactment. On 
August 13, the President announced that he would not declare the $5.1 
billion as emergency spending, thereby vitiating the entire amount. 
Consequently, I am lowering the adjustments I made on July 23 by the 
amount of the contingency--$5.1 billion in budget authority--as well as 
by the estimated amount of the contingency's impact on 2002 outlays--
$0.96 billion.
  Pursuant to section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act, I hereby 
revise the 2002 allocation provided to the Senate Appropriations 
Committee in the concurrent budget resolution in the following amounts:

     TABLE 1.--REVISED ALLOCATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, 2002
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget
                                             authority        Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current Allocation:
  General Purpose Discretionary.........         734,126         700,500
  Highways..............................               0          28,489
  Mass Transit..........................               0           5,275
  Conservation..........................           1,760           1,473
  Mandatory.............................         358,567         350,837
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................       1,094,453       1,086,574
Adjustments:
  General Purpose Discretionary.........          -5,139            -962
  Highways..............................               0               0
  Mass Transit..........................               0               0
  Conservation..........................               0               0
  Mandatory.............................               0               0
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................          -5,139            -962
Revised Allocation:
  General Purpose Discretionary.........         728,987         699,538
  Highways..............................               0          28,489

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  Mass Transit..........................               0           5,275
  Conservation..........................           1,760           1,473
  Mandatory.............................         358,567         350,837
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................       1,089,314       1,085,612
------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Pursuant to section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act, I hereby 
revise the 2002 budget aggregates included in the concurrent budget 
resolution in the following amounts.

                TABLE 2.--REVISED BUDGET AGGREGATES, 2002
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget
                                             authority        Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current allocation: Budget Resolution...       1,710,450       1,653,782
Adjustments: Emergency Spending.........          -5,139            -962
Revised allocation: Budget Resolution...       1,705,311       1,652,820
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prepared by SBC Majority Staff on 9-10-02.



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