[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 52 (Thursday, March 29, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H1762-H1775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Webster). Pursuant to House Resolution
597 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of
the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration
of the concurrent resolution, H. Con. Res. 112.
Will the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Biggert) kindly take the
chair.
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In the Committee of the Whole
Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of
the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 112) establishing the budget
for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022, with
Mrs. Biggert (Acting Chair) in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Wednesday,
March 28, 2012, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 4
printed in House Report 112 423 by the gentleman from California (Mr.
Honda) had been postponed.
Amendment No. 4 in the Nature of a Substitute Offered by Mr. Honda
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
(Mr. Honda) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 78,
noes 346, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 148]
AYES--78
Andrews
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Chu
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cummings
Davis (IL)
Deutch
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Farr
Fattah
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings (FL)
Hinchey
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kildee
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren, Zoe
Markey
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Miller (NC)
Moore
Moran
Nadler
Napolitano
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Pingree (ME)
Price (NC)
Richardson
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Scott, David
Serrano
Slaughter
Stark
Tonko
Velazquez
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
NOES--346
Ackerman
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Amodei
Austria
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonamici
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Cicilline
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Hochul
Holden
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Israel
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Keating
Kelly
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neal
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Pelosi
Pence
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Reyes
Ribble
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stivers
Stutzman
Sullivan
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Tsongas
Turner (NY)
Turner (OH)
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--7
Filner
Jackson (IL)
Mack
Meeks
Paul
Rangel
Towns
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining.
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Messrs. BUTTERFIELD and JOHNSON of Illinois changed their vote from
``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. FILNER. Madam Chair, on rollcall 148, I was away from the Capitol
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I
would have voted ``aye.''
Amendment No. 5 in the Nature of a Substitute Offered by Mr. Garrett
The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 5
printed in House Report 112 423.
Mr. GARRETT. I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL
YEAR 2013.
(a) Declaration.--Congress declares that the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013 is hereby
established and that the appropriate budgetary levels for
fiscal year 2012 and for fiscal years 2014 through 2022 are
set forth.
(b) Table of Contents.--
Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013.
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS
Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 102. Major functional categories.
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION SUBMISSIONS
Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives.
Sec. 202. Submission of reports on mandatory savings.
TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT
Sec. 301. Discretionary spending limits.
Sec. 302. Restrictions on advance appropriations.
Sec. 303. Emergency spending.
Sec. 304. Changes in allocations and aggregates resulting from
realistic scoring of measures affecting revenues.
Sec. 305. Allocation of new budget authority for fiscal year 2013.
Sec. 306. Prohibition on using revenue increases to comply with budget
allocations and aggregates.
Sec. 307. Application and effect of changes in allocations and
aggregates.
Sec. 308. Budget Protection Mandatory Account.
Sec. 309. Budget discretionary accounts.
Sec. 310. Treatment of rescission bills in the House.
Sec. 311. Sense of the House regarding baseline revenue projections.
Sec. 312. Sense of the House regarding long-term budget projections.
Sec. 313. Make it easier to amend appropriation bills.
TITLE IV--EARMARK MORATORIUM
Sec. 401. Earmark moratorium.
Sec. 402. Limitation of authority of the House Committee on Rules.
TITLE V--POLICY
Sec. 501. Policy statement on health care law repeal.
Sec. 502. Policy statement on bailouts of State and local governments.
Sec. 503. Policy statement on means-tested welfare programs.
Sec. 504. Policy statement on reforming the Federal budget process.
Sec. 505. Policy statement on reforming Federal regulation.
Sec. 506. Policy statement on medicare.
Sec. 507. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the
cancellation of unobligated balances.
Sec. 508. Policy statement on block granting Medicaid.
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS
SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS.
The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of
fiscal years 2012 through 2022:
(1) Federal revenues.--For purposes of the enforcement of
this resolution:
(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as
follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $1,887,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $2,059,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $2,249,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $2,459,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $2,627,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,770,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,892,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $3,021,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,173,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,332,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,499,000,000,000.
(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal
revenues should be changed are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $12,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $234,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $303,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $357,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $389,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $424,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $461,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $498,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $535,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $574,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $617,000,000,000.
(2) New budget authority.--For purposes of the enforcement
of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new
budget authority are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $3,069,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $2,663,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $2,512,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $2,561,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $2,632,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,698,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,788,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $2,923,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,035,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,141,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,289,000,000,000.
(3) Budget outlays.--For purposes of the enforcement of
this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget
outlays are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $3,120,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $2,818,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $2,653,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $2,654,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $2,713,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,764,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,834,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $2,970,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,081,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,186,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,340,000,000,000.
(4) Deficits (on-budget).--For purposes of the enforcement
of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget)
are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $1,233,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $759,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $405,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $195,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $86,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $6,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $58,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $51,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $92,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $146,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $159,000,000,000.
(5) Debt subject to limit.--Pursuant to section 301(a)(5)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate
levels of the public debt are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $16,076,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $17,003,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $17,586,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $17,967,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $18,266,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $18,520,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $18,737,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $18,954,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $19,129,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $19,252,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $19,352,000,000,000.
(6) Debt held by the public.--The appropriate levels of
debt held by the public are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $11,359,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $12,191,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $12,677,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $12,950,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $13,110,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $13,178,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $13,186,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $13,202,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $13,189,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $13,135,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $13,088,000,000,000.
SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES.
The Congress determines and declares that the appropriate
levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years
2012 through 2022 for each major functional category are:
(1) National Defense (050):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, $687,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $679,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, $659,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $673,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, $619,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $659,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, $633,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $640,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $647,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $647,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $619,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $608,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $635,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $618,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $653,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $639,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $672,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $657,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $690,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $675,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $709,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $699,000,000,000.
(2) International Affairs (150):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
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(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(4) Energy (270):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(6) Agriculture (350):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
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Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(8) Transportation (400):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(9) Community and Regional Development (450):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
(500):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(11) Health (550):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
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(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(12) Medicare (570):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(13) Income Security (600):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(14) Social Security (650):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(16) Administration of Justice (750):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
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(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(17) General Government (800):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(18) Net Interest (900):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, $224,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $224,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, $234,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $234,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, $249,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $249,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, $287,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $287,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $340,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $340,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $391,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $391,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $435,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $435,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $471,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $471,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $499,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $499,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $514,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $514,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $528,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $528,000,000,000.
(19) Allowances (920):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, $2,109,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $3,120,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, $1,770,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,911,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, $1,644,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,745,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, $1,641,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,727,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $1,645,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,726,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $1,688,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,765,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $1,718,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,781,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $1,799,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,860,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $1,864,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,925,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $1,937,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,997,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $2,052,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $2,113,000,000,000.
(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
(21) Global War on Terrorism and related activities (970):
Fiscal year 2012:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2013:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2014:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2015:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
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(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, an amount to be derived from
function 920.
(B) Outlays, an amount to be derived from function 920.
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION SUBMISSIONS
SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
(a) Submissions To Slow the Growth in Mandatory Spending
and To Achieve Deficit Reduction.--(1) Not later than
September 15, 2012, the House committees named in paragraph
(2) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on
the Budget of the House of Representatives. After receiving
those recommendations, the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives shall report to the House a
reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations
without any substantive revision.
(2) Instructions.--
(A) Committee on agriculture.--The Committee on Agriculture
of the House of Representatives shall report changes in laws
within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the level of
direct spending for that committee by $54,000,000,000 in
outlays for the period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022.
(B) Committee on education and the workforce.--The
Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of
Representatives shall report changes in laws within its
jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the level of direct
spending for that committee by $24,000,000,000 in outlays for
fiscal year 2013 and by $204,000,000,000 in outlays for the
period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022.
(C) Committee on energy and commerce.--The Committee on
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives shall
report changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to
reduce the level of direct spending for that committee by
$32,000,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2013 and by
$2,872,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal years
2013 through 2022.
(D) Committee on financial services.--The Committee on
Financial Services of the House of Representatives shall
report changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to
reduce the level of direct spending for that committee by
$3,000,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2013 and by
$45,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal years
2013 through 2022.
(E) Committee on natural resources.--The Committee on
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives shall
report changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to
reduce the level of direct spending for that committee by
$10,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal years
2013 through 2022.
(F) Committee on oversight and government reform.--The
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives shall report changes in laws within its
jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the level of direct
spending for that committee by $8,000,000,000 in outlays for
fiscal year 2013 and by$172,000,000,000 in outlays for the
period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022.
(b) Submission Providing for Changes in Revenue To Prevent
Tax Increases and Enact H.R. 3400.--The Committee on Ways and
Means of the House of Representatives shall report a
reconciliation bill not later than September 15, 2012, that
consists of changes in laws within its jurisdiction
sufficient to reduce revenues by not more than
$234,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2013 and by not more than
$4,392,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2013
through 2022.
(c) Revision of Allocations.--(1) Upon the submission to
the Committee on the Budget of the House of a recommendation
that has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely
by virtue of section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, the chairman of that committee may file with the
House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a)
of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates.
(2) Upon the submission to the House of a conference report
recommending a reconciliation bill or resolution in which a
committee has complied with its reconciliation instructions
solely by virtue of this section, the chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House may file with the House
appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of
such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates.
(3) Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant to this
subsection shall be considered to be allocations and
aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the
budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act.
SEC. 202. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS ON MANDATORY SAVINGS.
In the House, not later than September 15, 2012, all House
committees shall identify savings amounting to one percent of
total mandatory spending under its jurisdiction from
activities that are determined to be wasteful, unnecessary,
or lower-priority. For purposes of this section, the reports
by each committee shall be inserted in the Congressional
Record by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget not
later than September 15, 2012.
TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT
SEC. 301. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.
(a) Discretionary Spending Limits.--Spending limits for
total discretionary Federal spending are as follows:
Fiscal year 2013: $931,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2014: $931,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2015: $931,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2016: $931,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2017: $931,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2018: $950,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2019: $969,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2020: $988,000,000,000 in new budget authority.
Fiscal year 2021: $1,008,000,000,000 in new budget
authority.
Fiscal year 2022: $1,028,000,000,000 in new budget
authority.
(b) Enforcement.--In the House, it shall not be in order to
consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto
or conference report thereon, that causes discretionary
budget authority to exceed any level set forth in subsection
(a).
SEC. 302. RESTRICTIONS ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) In General.--(1) In the House, except as provided in
subsection (b), an advance appropriation may not be reported
in a bill or joint resolution making a general appropriation
or continuing appropriation, and may not be in order as an
amendment thereto.
(2) Managers on the part of the House may not agree to a
Senate amendment that would violate paragraph (1) unless
specific authority to agree to the amendment first is given
by the House by a separate vote with respect thereto.
(b) Exception.--In the House, an advance appropriation may
be provided for fiscal year 2013 and fiscal years 2014 for
programs, projects, activities or accounts identified in the
joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this
resolution under the heading ``Accounts Identified for
Advance Appropriations'' in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$23,565,000,000 in new budget authority.
(c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``advance
appropriation'' means any discretionary new budget authority
in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations
or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013 that first
becomes available for any fiscal year after 2013.
SEC. 303. EMERGENCY SPENDING.
(a) Designations.--
(1) Guidance.--In the House, if a provision of legislation
is designated as an emergency requirement under this section,
the committee report and any statement of managers
accompanying that legislation shall include an explanation of
the manner in which the provision meets the criteria in
paragraph (2). If such legislation is to be considered by the
House without being reported, then the committee shall cause
the explanation to be published in the Congressional Record
in advance of floor consideration.
(2) Criteria.--
(A) In general.--Any such provision is an emergency
requirement if the underlying situation poses a threat to
life, property, or national security and is--
(i) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building up
over time;
(ii) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring
immediate action;
(iii) subject to subparagraph (B), unforeseen,
unpredictable, and unanticipated; and
(iv) not permanent, temporary in nature.
(B) Unforeseen.--An emergency that is part of an aggregate
level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally
estimated in advance, is not unforeseen.
(b) Enforcement.--It shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives to consider any bill, joint resolution,
amendment or conference report that contains an emergency
designation unless that designation meets the criteria set
out in subsection (a)(2).
(c) Enforcement in the House of Representatives.--It shall
not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider a
rule or order that waives the application of subsection (b).
(d) Disposition of Points of Order in the House.--As
disposition of a point of order under subsection (b) or
subsection (c), the Chair shall put the question of
consideration with respect to the proposition that is the
subject of the point of order. A question of consideration
under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes by the
Member initiating the point of order and for 10 minutes by an
opponent of the point of order, but shall otherwise be
decided without intervening motion except one that the House
adjourn or that the Committee of the Whole rise, as the case
may be.
SEC. 304. CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS AND AGGREGATES RESULTING
FROM REALISTIC SCORING OF MEASURES AFFECTING
REVENUES.
(a) Whenever the House considers a bill, joint resolution,
amendment, motion or conference report, including measures
filed in compliance with section 201(b), that propose to
change Federal revenues, the impact of such measure on
Federal revenues shall be calculated by the Joint Committee
on Taxation in a manner that takes into account--
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(1) the impact of the proposed revenue changes on--
(A) Gross Domestic Product, including the growth rate for
the Gross Domestic Product;
(B) total domestic employment;
(C) gross private domestic investment;
(D) general price index;
(E) interest rates; and
(F) other economic variables; and
(2) the impact on Federal Revenue of the changes in
economic variables analyzed under paragraph (1).
(b) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may make
any necessary changes to allocations and aggregates in order
to conform this concurrent resolution with the determinations
made by the Joint Committee on Taxation pursuant to
subsection (a).
SEC. 305. ALLOCATION OF NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR
2013.
For the purposes of budget enforcement, the allocation of
new budget authority to the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives for fiscal year 2013 is
$931,000,000,000. Such allocation shall be the allocation
made pursuant to section 302(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 and shall be enforceable under section
302(f)(1) of that Act.
SEC. 306. PROHIBITION ON USING REVENUE INCREASES TO COMPLY
WITH BUDGET ALLOCATIONS AND AGGREGATES.
(a) For the purpose of enforcing this concurrent resolution
in the House, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget
shall not take into account the provisions of any piece of
legislation which propose to increase revenue or offsetting
collections if the net effect of the bill is to increase the
level of revenue or offsetting collections beyond the level
assumed in this concurrent resolution.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to any provision of a
piece of legislation that proposes a new or increased fee for
the receipt of a defined benefit or service (including
insurance coverage) by the person or entity paying the fee.
SEC. 307. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS
AND AGGREGATES.
(a) Application.--Any adjustments of allocations and
aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall--
(1) apply while that measure is under consideration;
(2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and
(3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as
practicable.
(b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates.--Revised
allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments
shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates contained in
this resolution.
(c) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this
resolution--
(1) the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct
spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and
surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall
be determined on the basis of estimates made by the
appropriate Committee on the Budget; and
(2) such chairman may make any other necessary adjustments
to such levels to carry out this resolution.
SEC. 308. BUDGET PROTECTION MANDATORY ACCOUNT.
(a)(1) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall
maintain an account to be known as the ``Budget Protection
Mandatory Account''. The Account shall be divided into
entries corresponding to the allocations under section 302(a)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the most recently
adopted concurrent resolution on the budget, except that it
shall not include the Committee on Appropriations.
(2) Each entry shall consist only of amounts credited to it
under subsection (b). No entry of a negative amount shall be
made.
(b)(1) Upon the engrossment of a House bill or joint
resolution or a House amendment to a Senate bill or joint
resolution (other than an appropriation bill), the chairman
of the Committee on the Budget shall--
(A) credit the applicable entries of the Budget Protection
Mandatory Account by the amounts specified in paragraph (2);
and
(B) reduce the applicable section 302(a) allocations by the
amount specified in paragraph (2).
(2) Each amount specified in paragraph (1)(A) shall be the
net reduction in mandatory budget authority (either under
current law or proposed by the bill or joint resolution under
consideration) provided by each amendment that was adopted in
the House to the bill or joint resolution.
(c)(1) If an amendment includes a provision described in
paragraph (2), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget
shall, upon the engrossment of a House bill or joint
resolution or a House amendment to a Senate bill or joint
resolution, other than an appropriation bill, reduce the
level of total revenues set forth in the applicable
concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year or
for the total of that first fiscal year and the ensuing
fiscal years in an amount equal to the net reduction in
mandatory authority (either under current law or proposed by
a bill or joint resolution under consideration) provided by
each amendment adopted by the House to the bill or joint
resolution. Such adjustment shall be in addition to the
adjustments described in subsection (b).
(2)(A) The provision specified in paragraph (1) is as
follows: ``The amount of mandatory budget authority reduced
by this amendment may be used to offset a decrease in
revenues.''
(B) All points of order are waived against an amendment
including the text specified in subparagraph (A) provided the
amendment is otherwise in order.
(d) As used in this rule, the term--
(1) ``appropriation bill'' means any general or special
appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making
supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations
through the end of fiscal year 2008 or any subsequent fiscal
year, as the case may be.
(2) ``mandatory budget authority'' means any entitlement
authority as defined by, and interpreted for purposes of, the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(e) During the consideration of any bill or joint
resolution, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall
maintain a running tally, which shall be available to all
Members, of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and
decreases of budget authority in the bill or joint
resolution.
SEC. 309. BUDGET DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNTS.
(a)(1) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall
maintain an account to be known as the ``Budget Protection
Discretionary Account''. The Account shall be divided into
entries corresponding to the allocation to the Committee on
Appropriations, and the committee's suballocations, under
section 302(a) and 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974.
(2) Each entry shall consist only of amounts credited to it
under subsection (b). No entry of a negative amount shall be
made.
(b)(1) Upon the engrossment of a House appropriations bill,
the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall--
(A) credit the applicable entries of the Budget Protection
Discretionary Account by the amounts specified in paragraph
(2).
(B) reduce the applicable 302(a) and (b) allocations by the
amount specified in paragraph (2).
(2) Each amount specified in subparagraph (A) shall be the
net reduction in discretionary budget authority provided by
each amendment adopted by the House to the bill or joint
resolution.
(c)(1) If an amendment includes a provision described in
paragraph (2), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget
shall, upon the engrossment of a House appropriations bill,
reduce the level of total revenues set forth in the
applicable concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal
year or for the total of that first fiscal year and the
ensuing fiscal years in an amount equal to the net reduction
in discretionary budget authority provided by each amendment
that was adopted by the House to the bill or joint
resolution. Such adjustment shall be in addition to the
adjustments described in subsection (b).
(2)(A) The provision specified in paragraph (1) is as
follows: ``The amount of discretionary budget authority
reduced by this amendment may be used to offset a decrease in
revenues.''
(B) All points of order are waived against an amendment
including the text specified in subparagraph (A) provided the
amendment is otherwise in order.
(d) As used in this rule, the term ``appropriation bill''
means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill
or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or
continuing appropriations through the end of fiscal year 2013
or any subsequent fiscal year, as the case may be.
(e) During the consideration of any bill or joint
resolution, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall
maintain a running tally, which shall be available to all
Members, of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and
decreases of budget authority in the bill or joint
resolution.
SEC. 310. TREATMENT OF RESCISSION BILLS IN THE HOUSE.
(a)(1) By February 1, May 1, July 30, and November 11 of
each session of Congress, the majority leader shall introduce
a rescission bill. If such bill is not introduced by that
date, then whenever a rescission bill is introduced during a
session on or after that date, a motion to discharge the
committee from its consideration shall be privileged after
the 10-legislative day period beginning on that date for the
first 5 such bills.
(2) It shall not be in order to offer any amendment to a
rescission bill except an amendment that increases the amount
of budget authority that such bill rescinds.
(b) Whenever a rescission bill passes the House, the
Committee on the Budget shall immediately reduce the
applicable allocations under section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by the total amount of
reductions in budget authority and in outlays resulting from
such rescission bill.
(c)(1) It shall not be in order to consider any rescission
bill, or conference report thereon or amendment thereto,
unless--
(A) in the case of such bill or conference report thereon,
it is made available to Members and the general public on the
Internet for at least 48 hours before its consideration; or
(B)(i) in the case of an amendment to such rescission bill
made in order by a rule, it is made available to Members and
the general public on the Internet within one hour after the
rule is filed; or
(ii) in the case of an amendment under an open rule, it is
made available to Members
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and the general public on the Internet immediately after
being offered; in a format that is searchable and sortable.
(2) No amendment to an amendment to a rescission bill shall
be in order unless germane to the amendment to which it is
offered.
(d) As used in this section, the term ``rescission bill''
means a bill or joint resolution which only rescinds, in
whole or in part, budget authority and which includes only
titles corresponding to the most recently enacted
appropriation bills that continue to include unobligated
balances.
SEC. 311. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING BASELINE REVENUE
PROJECTIONS.
For purposes of constructing its baseline revenue
projections, the Congressional Budget Office should assume
that any tax provision which is scheduled to expire under
current law will be extended through the duration of any
budget forecast by Congressional Budget Office so as to
ensure that expiring tax provisions and expiring spending
programs (other than direct appropriations) are treated in
like fashion.
SEC. 312. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING LONG-TERM BUDGET
PROJECTIONS.
For purposes of constructing its ten-year and long-term
budget projection reports, the Congressional Budget Office
should include an alternative scenario that assumes that
mandatory spending programs grow at the same rate as average,
projected nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
SEC. 313. MAKE IT EASIER TO AMEND APPROPRIATION BILLS.
The first sentence of clause 2(c) of rule XXI of the Rules
of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting ``,
except to the extent that it is a germane amendment to an
authorizing provision or a line item appropriation of the
bill under consideration'' after ``changing existing law''.
TITLE IV--EARMARK MORATORIUM
SEC. 401. EARMARK MORATORIUM.
(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order to consider--
(1) a bill or joint resolution reported by any committee,
or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that
includes a congressional earmark, limited tax benefit, or
limited tariff benefit; or
(2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by any
committee, or any amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that includes a congressional earmark, limited tax
benefit, or limited tariff benefit.
(b) Definitions.--For the purposes of this resolution, the
terms ``congressional earmark'', ``limited tax benefit'', and
``limited tariff benefit'' have the meaning given those terms
in clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives.
(c) Special Rule.--The point of order under subsection (a)
shall only apply to legislation providing or authorizing
discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other
spending authority, providing a Federal tax deduction,
credit, or exclusion, or modifying the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule in fiscal year 2012 or fiscal year 2013.
(d) Inapplicability.--This resolution shall not apply to
any authorization of appropriations to a Federal entity if
such authorization is not specifically targeted to a State,
locality, or congressional district.
SEC. 402. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
RULES.
The House Committee on Rules may not report a rule or order
that would waive the point of order set forth in the first
section of this resolution.
TITLE V--POLICY
SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL.
It is the policy of this resolution that the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111 148), and
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
(Public Law 111 152) should be repealed.
SEC. 502. POLICY STATEMENT ON BAILOUTS OF STATE AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS.
It is the policy of this resolution that the Federal
Government should not bailout State and local governments,
including State and local government employee pension plans
and other post-employment benefit plans.
SEC. 503. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS.
(a) Findings.--The House finds that:
(1) In 1996, President Bill Clinton and congressional
Republicans enacted reforms that have moved families off of
Federal programs and enabled them to provide for themselves.
(2) According to the most recent projections, over the next
10 years we will spend approximately $10 trillion on means-
tested welfare programs.
(3) Today, there are approximately 70 Federal programs that
provide benefits specifically to poor and low-income
Americans.
(4) Taxpayers deserve clear and transparent information on
how well these programs are working, and how much the Federal
Government is spending on means-tested welfare.
(b) Policy on Means-Tested Welfare Programs.--It is the
policy of this resolution that the President's budget should
disclose, in a clear and transparent manner, the aggregate
amount of Federal welfare expenditures, as well as an
estimate of State and local spending for this purpose, over
the next ten years.
SEC. 504. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING THE FEDERAL BUDGET
PROCESS.
It is the policy of this resolution that the Federal budget
process should be reformed so that it is easier to reduce
Federal spending than it is to increase it by enacting
reforms included in the Spending, Deficit, and Debt Control
Act of 2009 (H.R. 3964, 111th Congress).
SEC. 505. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING FEDERAL REGULATION.
It is the policy of this resolution that the cost of
regulations on job creators should be reduced by enacting
title II of the Jobs Through Growth Act (H.R. 3400), as
introduced on November 10, 2011.
SEC. 506. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE.
(a) Findings.--The House finds the following:
(1) More than 50 million Americans depend on Medicare for
their health security.
(2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended
that Medicare's long-term financial challenges be addressed
soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of
Medicare becomes more precarious and the threat to those in
and near retirement becomes more pronounced. According to the
Congressional Budget Office--
(A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted in
2022 and unable to pay scheduled benefits; and
(B) Medicare spending is growing faster than the economy
and Medicare outlays are currently rising at a rate of 6.3
percent per year, and under the Congressional Budget Office's
alternative fiscal scenario, direct spending on Medicare is
projected to reach 7 percent of GDP by 2035 and 14 percent of
GDP by 2085.
(3) Failing to address this problem will leave millions of
American seniors without adequate health security and younger
generations burdened with enormous debt to pay for spending
levels that cannot be sustained.
(b) Policy on Medicare Reform.--It is the policy of this
resolution to protect those in and near retirement from any
disruptions to their Medicare benefits and offer future
beneficiaries the same health care options available to
Members of Congress.
(c) Assumptions.--This resolution assumes reform of the
Medicare program such that:
(1) Current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in
and near retirement, without changes.
(2) For future generations, when they reach eligibility,
Medicare is reformed to provide a premium support payment and
a selection of guaranteed health coverage options from which
recipients can choose a plan that best suits their needs.
(3) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower-
income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks.
(4) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the
Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term.
SEC. 507. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE
CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.
(a) Findings.--The House finds the following:
(1) According to the Office of Management and Budget,
Federal agencies will hold $698 billion in unobligated
balances at the close of fiscal year 2013.
(2) These funds represent direct and discretionary spending
made available by Congress that remain available for
expenditure beyond the fiscal year for which they are
provided.
(3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding and it
remains available for obligation indefinitely.
(4) The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of
1974 requires the Office of Management and Budget to make
funds available to agencies for obligation and prohibits the
Administration from withholding or cancelling unobligated
funds unless approved by an act of Congress.
(5) Greater congressional oversight is required to review
and identify potential savings from unneeded balances of
funds.
(b) Policy on Deficit Reduction Through the Cancellation of
Unobligated Balances.--Congressional committees shall through
their oversight activities identify and achieve savings
through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated
balances that neither abrogate contractual obligations of the
Federal Government nor reduce or disrupt Federal commitments
under programs such as Social Security, veterans' affairs,
national security, and Treasury authority to finance the
national debt.
(c) Deficit Reduction.--Congress, with the assistance of
the Government Accountability Office, the Inspectors General,
and other appropriate agencies should make it a high priority
to review unobligated balances and identify savings for
deficit reduction.
SEC. 508. POLICY STATEMENT ON BLOCK GRANTING MEDICAID.
It is the policy of this resolution that Medicaid and the
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should be block
granted to the states by enacting the State Health
Flexibility Act of 2012 (H.R. 4160) as introduced on March 7,
2012.
Amend the title so as to read: ``Concurrent resolution
establishing the budget for the United States Government for
fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary
levels for fiscal year 2012 and fiscal years 2014 through
2022.''.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 597, the gentleman
from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett) and a Member opposed each will control 15
minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New Jersey.
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Mr. GARRETT. Madam Chair, I yield myself 2 minutes.
Last week, the House Republicans introduced a budget that takes the
first step towards reversing the path to debt and decline that the
President and his fellow Democrats have laid out for the American
people. Today the Republican Study Committee, the RSC, builds off of
that work and offers a plan to further cut spending and balance the
budget in just 5 years.
With real spending cuts today, enforceable spending cuts for
tomorrow, and commonsense changes to strengthen our Nation's safety net
programs and pro-growth tax reform, we can finally restore much-needed
certainty to the economy and reopen America for business.
To say that President Obama and Senate Democrats have failed to lead
on the most predictable economic crisis in our history would be an
understatement. Senate Democrats have not been in the debate at all,
failing to pass a budget for over 1,000 days. The President's most
recent attempt at a budget--well, it came a week late, and it adds
literally trillions of dollars to our Nation's debt.
Every American family understands the necessity of a balanced budget.
Families also understand that setting a budget sometimes is difficult.
It requires difficult choices. But even with accounting gimmicks and
the massive tax increases, our President's budget never, ever balances.
This is a void in leadership, and it has substantial consequences on
real Americans all across this country.
So, today, the RSC budget represents a clear, practical way for our
economy to--what?--begin to grow again. How do we do that? First, we
repeal ObamaCare once and for all. Next, we cut discretionary spending,
and we eliminate programs that are unconstitutional, duplicative, or
harmful. Perhaps most importantly, we don't kick this can down the road
and punt these tough decisions. We actually save our national safety
net programs that are currently going bankrupt today.
So with these commonsense solutions and by harnessing the power of
competition between private insurance plans and improving at the same
time the quality of care, we put Medicare on the path to long-term
solvency. This offers a real plan for the future. Today I urge all to
support the Republican Study Committee substitute.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I rise in opposition to this amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 15
minutes.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Yesterday we debated the Republican budget plan. Today, we have a
plan that's more of the same, except on steroids.
As we debated yesterday, the question is not whether we should reduce
the deficit or whether we should reduce the debt. Of course we should.
The question is how we do it. And we should do it in a way that doesn't
damage the ongoing economic recovery, which this proposal does. We
should do it in a way that is balanced, meaning we have shared
responsibility. The Democratic alternative that we'll debate shortly
has that balance.
We make difficult spending cuts but we also cut a lot of the
loopholes and special breaks in the Tax Code because if you don't do
any of that to reduce the deficit, it means you've got to reduce the
deficit at the expense of everyone and everything else. And that,
unfortunately, is what this budget does as well.
It ends the Medicare guarantee for seniors. It slashes Medicaid very
deeply, cutting the program by more than a third by the year 2022,
where two-thirds of the funding for that program goes to seniors in
nursing homes and disabled individuals. It cuts deeply into education
funding, both for prekindergarten/preschool as well as college. It cuts
deeply into those important investments, including transportation,
which we were debating earlier today. In fact, their transportation
proposal would cut transportation spending next year by 46 percent,
even though we have 17 percent unemployment in the construction
industry.
So this budget, like the one yesterday, makes the wrong choices for
America. We can reduce our deficits and debt. Let's just do it in a
balanced way with shared responsibility.
With that, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Nevada (Ms.
Berkley).
Ms. BERKLEY. I thank the gentleman from Maryland for yielding.
Madam Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to both the Garrett
substitute and the Ryan budget.
Today's debate is about one thing: priorities. Should Nevada seniors
be the priority for the United States Congress? Or should Wall Street
and Big Oil companies be the priority? The Republican budget proposal
answers that question very clearly.
Instead of tackling Nevada's record unemployment and foreclosure
rates, Washington Republicans are, instead, advocating to kill Medicare
by turning it over to profit-hungry insurance companies. This proposal
would raise the premiums for Nevada's seniors by up to $6,000 a year.
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Why would Republicans do this? In order to pay for more tax breaks
for corporations that ship good-paying American jobs overseas or to
continue taxpayer giveaways to Big Oil companies that made a record
$137 billion in profits last year alone?
Madam Chair, these are the wrong priorities. Wall Street millionaires
and Big Oil companies don't need our help. They're doing just fine. But
Nevada seniors are struggling to make ends meet. Putting private
insurance companies in between patients and their doctors would just
make things worse.
I encourage all of my colleagues to join me in rejecting this plan
and any plan that has the wrong priorities and tries to kill Medicare
by turning it over to private insurance companies whose only interest
is profits and not the health and well-being of our seniors.
Mr. GARRETT. At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the chairman of the
RSC, Mr. Jordan.
Mr. JORDAN. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
I just want to respond to two arguments my friend from Maryland has
made in his remarks and, frankly, made the last 2 days in this debate.
First, he says we need a balanced approach. Everyone understands when
Democrats talk about a balanced approach, what they mean is raising
taxes now and, oh, we promise--and you can count on this promise
because it's coming from politicians--we promise we will cut spending
later.
I would like to point out: If it's so important to raise taxes on the
American people and on certain businesses, why in the world didn't the
Democrats do this just 24 months ago when they controlled all of
government? In fact, they had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate
just 24 months ago. If it was so critical, why didn't you do it then?
So this balanced approach is not going to fly.
The other argument they make is somehow our proposal that Mr. Garrett
and his team put together, which I strongly support, that somehow it's
going to hurt economic growth. Someone's got to explain to me how
getting to balance in 5 years and then beginning to pay off a $16
trillion debt, a debt that is now bigger than our entire economy,
bigger than our entire GDP, someone's got to explain to me how that
will hurt economic growth. I actually think it will probably prevent a
downgrade, unlike last summer. If we'd have adopted this budget last
summer, my guess is we wouldn't have gotten a downgrade from S&P.
So I just want to commend the gentleman from New Jersey and his team
for his hard work and make this final point.
One of the things that makes our country special is this simple
phenomena: parents make sacrifices for their kids so that when they
grow up they have life better than they did. They, in turn, do it for
their children. And each generation in this country has done it for the
next--until today.
Today, for the first time in American history, we have a political
class who's living for the moment, spending for the moment, and sending
the bill to the next generation. It is wrong; it is unfair; it is
immoral. The only budget that's going to get us to balance in a
reasonable period of time, in a commonsense period of time that the
American people understand, is the budget that Mr. Garrett and his team
have put together.
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So I strongly support it and urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman
from New York (Mr. Engel).
Mr. ENGEL. I thank my friend for yielding to me.
I rise in opposition to this budget and in opposition to the extreme
Republican budget. Budgets are about priorities. And what are the
priorities of my Republican friends? Protect the wealthiest in this
country, protect big corporations, kill the seniors, and hurt middle
class people. This is just nothing that makes sense.
Their budget slashes services for the elderly, slashes Pell Grants,
slashes education services, slashes services of those with
disabilities, and increases tax cuts for the wealthiest people and the
wealthiest corporations. That's the Republican priority. They go after
Medicare, go after Medicaid, and give increased tax breaks to wealthy
people.
I don't think those are the priorities of the American people. I
think the priorities of the American people are in the Democrat
programs.
Let me remind my friend on the other side of the aisle, for 6 years,
under Mr. Bush, they controlled the Senate and the House and the
Presidency and did none of this--none of getting back to basics with
the budget and red ink as far as the eye can see. So the newfound
religion we see on the other side, please spare me.
What we do see from the other side, again, is to protect the
wealthiest, Big Oil, big corporations, hurt Medicare and Medicaid, hurt
the middle class, and tax breaks for the rich. Those are the Republican
priorities.
On the Democratic side, we care about the average person who's
struggling to make ends meet. We want to help the average person go to
school. These are our priorities.
Which are the priorities of the American people? I think it's the
Democratic priorities.
Mr. GARRETT. At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Louisiana, a man who understands that our President has failed to lead
by not presenting us a balanced budget, so he has presented one through
the RSC, Mr. Scalise.
Mr. SCALISE. I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for bringing this
amendment forward, this budget that implements what we would consider a
balanced approach, and that's what we call cut, cap, and balance.
That's what's so important about this amendment, this budget that we
bring forward with the RSC, is that, number one, the most important
thing is we finally control the wasteful Washington spending that has
added mountains and mountains of debt on the backs of our children and
grandchildren, which is just immoral. It's wrong and surely not fair to
send the bill for all this spending to our children and grandchildren
and continue it on autopilot, as President Obama's budget did--
President Obama's budget, by the way, which got no votes. Not even one
Democrat voted for the President's budget.
The contrast we bring here today is that in 5 years we will have a
balanced budget under this amendment that's being brought forward. So
we cut spending in areas where we've been needing to finally control
spending like families are controlling spending back home.
When families deal with tough economic times, they've already done
this. They tighten their belts and they make do with what they've got
and they live within their means. And Washington has refused to do it.
We finally put those fiscal constraints in Washington. But then we also
put caps in place so that until we get to a balanced budget, there's a
freeze on discretionary spending so that we're able to finally get to
what is ultimately a balanced Federal budget in 5 years.
And we go further. Of course, we repeal ObamaCare, which is something
that's been so devastating already to so many families that have lost
the health care that they like, and so many other things like the tax
increases that go with it--tax increases, by the way, which in many
areas hit middle class families real hard. We abolish that.
We even go further. We save Medicare. President Obama's budget
actually escalates Medicare's bankruptcy. In 12 years--and this, by the
way, is from President Obama's own Medicare actuaries--Medicare goes
bankrupt. They're willing to sit by and let that happen. We're not
willing to do that. We're going to save Medicare. This budget does
that, too. It has those reforms that Chairman Ryan brought forward that
actually put Medicare back on a sustainable growth path.
And then we have commonsense tax reform that actually lowers overall
rates.
This is a great budget that's been brought forward that's finally
responsible to address our problems.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Again, the reason the Republican budget and this budget do things
like end the Medicare guarantee, do things like cut deeply into
education for our kids' future, do things like cut Medicaid by over
$800 billion over 10 years, is because they're not asking the very
wealthy to share more responsibility in reducing the deficit. In fact,
they double down on tax cuts.
If you see from this chart from the Nonpartisan Tax Policy Institute,
simply by locking in the portion of the Bush tax cuts that benefit the
wealthy, millionaires, on average--people making over a million dollars
a years--will get $129,000. Then you heard talk about how they're going
to drop the top rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. That would give
people earning a million dollars over $265,000.
On top of that, they say they're going to do that in a deficit-
neutral manner. Well, to do that, you've got to make up $4.6 trillion
in revenue loss. They're going to do it by getting rid of all those
deductions. One of the biggest ones is the mortgage interest deduction
that helps middle-income people.
So the net result of what they're saying is more tax cuts for the
folks at the very top financed by increasing the tax burden on middle-
income Americans and financed by cutting important investments that
help grow our economy.
With that, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
Moran).
Mr. MORAN. Madam Chairman, this budget proposal is a stunningly
radical document because at its core is a massive redistribution of
income from the economically disadvantaged to the wealthiest members of
our society.
In order to fund historic, unnecessary, and unsustainable tax cuts
for the rich, this Republican budget would require us to nearly
eliminate our ability as a government to invest in our physical and
human infrastructure.
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In other words, it shows no faith in our Nation's future. It puts our
future in the hands of those who can afford to live in gated
communities and invest in foreign economies. In fact, more than two-
thirds of the non-defense cuts in this Republican plan come from
programs that directly benefit low-income Americans. The path laid out
by this resolution is one where, in my children's lifetime, most of the
Federal Government, with the exception of defense, Social Security, and
health care, would no longer have the money to function.
Now, what does it mean to virtually eliminate non-defense
discretionary spending? That's a budgetary term. But that includes
research at NIH; roads and public transportation; transit funding; Head
Start; education support; FBI; drug enforcement; food, meat, and drug
inspections; no national park maintenance or environmental protection.
That's what it means to virtually eliminate these functions of the
government.
The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I yield the gentleman from Virginia an additional 30
seconds.
Mr. MORAN. Madam Chairman, this is not a budget for the America that
we know today. It's a budget for Grover Norquist's America--a radical,
conservative fantasy land where government is no longer fiscally able
to play a role protecting those who need it most, protecting our most
precious natural resources and investing in the job creation
initiatives that will enable us to move forward as a people. That is
not a vision that we should want to see passed into law, let alone into
reality.
Mr. GARRETT. Madam Chairman, at this time, I am pleased to yield 2
minutes to the gentleman from Kansas
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who understands that this administration has failed our children by
continuing to take from them so this administration can spend today.
Mr. HUELSKAMP. I appreciate the hard work of my colleague from New
Jersey.
Today I rise in proud support of the RSC budget that we're discussing
here today. This budget offers a clear vision for fiscal responsibility
and limited government as well as a path toward accomplishing that
vision.
In just 3 days, the United States will have the highest corporate
business tax rate in the world. In a matter of months, every American,
every business owner and every investor will be subject to higher taxes
as a result of the expiration of the Bush-Obama tax cuts. That's right,
the Bush-Obama tax cuts will expire.
This budget addresses these looming challenges not only by proposing
to lower tax rates, but it also includes the ticket to make them a
reality with reconciliation instructions that require Congress to vote
before September 15 on comprehensive tax reform that will actually
create jobs in America.
On another note, this budget vastly improves Medicare and helps our
most needy. The costs of this program are consuming our already cash-
strapped Federal and State coffers. In many States, it's not uncommon
to spend more on Medicaid than on K 12 education. In converting
Medicaid to a block grant program, we will enhance State-level
accountability, respect the 10th Amendment, and give States the
freedom, flexibility and, yes, accountability they need in order to
serve their citizens better at the local and State level.
I urge all my colleagues to support this budget as the answer to
accomplishing America's priorities of cutting spending, keeping taxes
low, creating jobs, and balancing our budget in a matter of years, not
decades.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman
from Oregon, a member of the Budget Committee, Mr. Blumenauer.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. Make no mistake, this budget is actually the heart of
the budget philosophy of our friends from the other side of the aisle.
This is where they want to take America. Do you remember last time it
almost passed until the leadership was horrified, seeing that it was
winning. Then they started twisting arms to have people change their
votes so it would go down? It is disconnected from the real life
consequences of average Americans and what America needs.
There's a certain irony. We just approved a short-term extension of
the transportation bill which makes it impossible to use the full
construction cycle this summer because the Republicans would not allow
a vote on the bipartisan bill that passed the Senate. They were afraid
it would pass and we would have stability for 2 years.
The Ryan Budget Committee budget will cut transportation 46 percent
at a time when America's infrastructure desperately needs additional
investment. And this budget doesn't even identify the depths of the
cut. They shove it all into function 920, so it's disguised, but it's
likely 10 percent or more below the already intolerable levels of the
Ryan budget.
This is not what people are hearing from folks at home in terms of
what America needs to put people back to work, to strengthen our
communities, to deal with problems of water, sewer, transportation,
failing bridges and transit. It fails a fundamental test of the
partnership we've had for the last 66 years of a national priority to
rebuild, renew, and focus on transportation and infrastructure.
This is just one more reason why we should reject both of these
alternatives and support the program that has been offered by my friend
from the Budget Committee.
Mr. GARRETT. At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
South Carolina, who has been a stalwart leader in the legislation
before us in trying to have the U.S. live within a balanced budget.
Mr. MULVANEY. Madam Chairman, I thank my colleague from New Jersey
for the opportunity. We can and will, obviously, over the course of
this day, say a lot about this budget--a lot of bad things about this
budget. I prefer to focus on one positive thing above all others--one
thing. This budget actually balances. The budget actually balances.
Five years it takes to do that. It's not easy. In fact, it's very, very
hard to do that.
It's easier to borrow money. In fact, the reason that we borrow so
much money is because it's easier to do that than it is to go home and
tell people that we have to make hard decisions in order to balance the
budget, and we're afraid that if we go home and tell people that we
have to make difficult decisions, that they won't send us back the next
term. And make no mistake about it, the most important thing in many
people's minds in this Chamber is to make sure they come back next
term.
This budget challenges that. This budget balances.
The President's does not. We took it up last night, and it failed
overwhelmingly. No one supported it. It never balances. Later today,
we'll take up the Democratic budget, which also never balances. Budgets
that never balance raise a legitimate moral question, a moral issue. If
you borrow money with the intention of paying it back, that is debt.
There's no question. If you borrow money intending to pay it back, it's
debt. If you borrow money never intending to pay it back, that is
theft. That is theft, and that is what the President's budget
represents. That is what the Democrat budget represents. That's what so
many budgets over the course of the last generations in this town have
represented. We have borrowed money with no plan and no intention ever
to pay it back. And too many budgets in here today will simply continue
that cycle.
It's wrong. It's wrong to do to our children and our grandchildren,
and it's wrong to do for ourselves. You should never take something and
not even have a plan to pay it back. Say what you want to about the
Republican Study Committee budget, say what you want to later on about
the Republican budget that Mr. Ryan and the committee are offering, but
at least at the very end of the day, they offer some way to pay back
the money that we borrowed, and for those reasons alone, they merit our
support.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, we'll talk more later about the
Democratic alternative and how we address the deficit in a serious and
credible way without doing it in a manner that provides a windfall tax
break to folks at the top at the expense of everybody else.
For now, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey, a member
of the Budget Committee, Mr. Pascrell.
Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Chair, just when you thought it couldn't get any
worse, it does. I've listened to these words. ``Empty'' and ``pyrrhic''
come to my mind. How in God's name can you speak across the floor to
the people on this side and imply that the President is guilty of
thievery or theft when, from 2001 to now, here's the record--and I'll
wait if you want to interject. Please stand and say ``you're wrong'':
2001, tax cuts, not paid for; 2003, tax cuts, not paid for.
Mr. MULVANEY. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. PASCRELL. No, not yet. I'm not finished. Then you can interject
your thoughts. Don't look so startled, because what you've said is
startling. You didn't pay for those two tax cuts, you didn't pay for
two wars, and you didn't pay for the prescription drug plan that you
put into effect. In fact, you didn't even vote for it, Mr. Chairman,
yourself.
The point of the matter is, you pay for nothing, then you're accusing
us--you're accusing those on this side of the aisle of not being
responsible? Do you know what you've done? By 2020, the portion of the
debt gets bigger because of those things you folks did a few years ago,
and you have amnesia about it.
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR. The Chair must remind Members to address their
remarks to the Chair, not to others in the second person.
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Mr. MULVANEY. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. PASCRELL. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. MULVANEY. I thank my friend from New Jersey, for whom I have a
great deal of respect, Madam Chairwoman. And what he says is correct.
What he says is absolutely and without reservation correct. What this
government did during the first half of this
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decade was wrong. Borrowing the money as we did was wrong. To continue
it, Madam Chairwoman, is just as wrong.
Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Chairman, I take back my time. I think I've been
generous about that.
The only difference is, the President who was the President in 2001--
I'm glad you agree with me--came into circumstances very different from
the President who raised his hand in January of 2009, wasn't it? In
2000, we had a surplus of $5 trillion.
The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I yield the gentleman another 30 seconds.
Mr. PASCRELL. When this President raised his hand, we were losing
750,000 jobs a year, number one; and, number two, we had a deficit
beyond belief, Madam Chairman. And for us to compare, you must believe
in fairy tales.
Now, if you want to talk about a budget that's in balance, we can do
that; but if we continue on this path and not recognize history, we
will never come to balance. Let's be honest.
Mr. GARRETT. At this time, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the
gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock), who understands, first and
foremost, that Washington must do what every family in the United
States does, and that is to balance its budget.
Mr. McCLINTOCK. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
Madam Chairman, this Nation is on a collision course with a sovereign
debt crisis, the magnitude of which we have never experienced. This is
not some moonless night on the Atlantic. We are spending full speed
ahead toward that iceberg of debt in the full light of day, and we can
all see that plainly.
The House budget turns the ship just barely enough to avoid hitting
that same hazard which has already wrecked Greece. The RSC budget turns
us promptly and safely. It builds on the House Budget Committee's work,
but within the budget passed by the House last year as adjusted by the
sequester.
I've heard the descriptions--it's draconian, it's radical, it's
extreme. It returns us to the spending levels before the Obama-Pelosi
spending binge began in 2008. That might sound extreme to my friends
across the aisle, but I assure them many families have been working
within flat or even diminished family budgets since then and they have
every right to expect that their government, over the next 5 years,
does what they have already been doing over the past 5--work hard,
waste not, and live within your means. If we were to do so, this Nation
could see a balanced budget again within 5 years and redeem its
rightful place as the respected financial leader of the world.
We know the challenge. We see the American Dream at risk. And we know
that we have but a fleeting moment in history to avoid the hardest
times our Nation has ever known.
We still have a chance to place our retirement systems on a sound
financial footing, arrest the debilitating spiral of debt that
threatens the very survival of our Nation, and return our economy to
the prosperity it has known when it has enjoyed what Jefferson called a
``wise and frugal government.''
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 1\3/4\ minutes
remaining, and the gentleman from New Jersey has 3\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. GARRETT. At this time, I'd like to yield 3 minutes then to the
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Graves), who also has been a leader on this
in order to make sure that this House does what the American public
asks for, to live within our means and to bring this country to
prosperity.
Mr. GRAVES of Georgia. Madam Chair, these are serious times. We're
hearing a lot of rhetoric here today. We've got some revisionist
history. There's a lack of recollection that in 2006 and 2007 this body
was in control by the Democrats, the Senate was controlled by the
Democrats, and then the President inherited a mess from the Democrats
that were in control of these bodies, of which he was a part. A little
bit of revisionist history going on here today.
But the fact that the Members on the other side can stand here and
look into these cameras, into the faces of the children all across this
Nation and not provide them a solution is appalling. Every time it is:
let's push it off, let's push it off further. We have no plan to
balance the budget, we have no plan to pay off the debt, but we have a
balanced approach to continue down the same path. Now, a balanced
approach, that's like straddling the fence: it gets you nowhere, and at
some point you're going to fall off this fence, and it's going to hurt.
Today, we have the opportunity to reverse this trend of trillion-
dollar deficits and balance the budget in 5 years. Today, we will
decide whether to stop borrowing from the future to pay for the
present. This budget presents a path to the balanced budget without
raising taxes. It eliminates the death tax; it unlocks America's energy
sources. This budget unleashes the power and ingenuity of America's job
creators and addresses the entitlement elephant that is this impending
path of insolvency that lays before us. In 6 years, Madam Chair, we
will begin paying down the debt with this budget that's before us.
So we should no longer accept the Democrats' and President Obama's
decision to take us down this road to ruin, because we have a choice.
It's a choice between two destinies: it's a destiny of debt and
dependency--the wrong path--or it's the choice of a different path.
Maybe it's one of opportunity and prosperity, Madam Chair. I say we
choose the path of opportunity and prosperity. This budget--the budget
I refer to not as the RSC budget, but as America's budget--will put us
on that path to prosperity and opportunity.
Madam Chair, I encourage every Member of this body, regardless of
party, to support this budget because it is the children who are
looking out on us today, looking for that solution, looking for a
positive answer, and looking for us to work together. This is that
opportunity.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey has 1 minute
remaining.
Mr. GARRETT. If there are no other speakers, then I will close with
the remaining time.
Madam Chairman, as we come to the floor today, it is agreed on both
sides that there is plenty of blame to go around as to how we got into
this mess. Republican and Democrat on both sides of the aisle, this
administration and past administrations as well are to blame. We can
point fingers all day at blame, but what we should come here today to
do is point the finger at the solution to this problem.
The solution is the budget that we see on the floor today. The
solution is the RSC budget that we have here today on the floor. The
solution is to make sure that we do on the floor today what every
single family in this country and what every single business in this
country has always had to do, and that is to make the tough choices,
and that is to make the hard choices, and that is to live within our
means, and that is to have a balanced budget.
This is the only budget that will come to the floor today that will
actually do all that. This is the only budget that will come that will
make sure that we actually balance--not within 50 years, 40 years, 30
years, 20 years, 10 years. We will actually balance within 5 years, and
we will do so at the same time that we protect the safety net for our
seniors today and in the future. We will do so at the same time that we
protect our children in the future. We will do so at the same time that
we make sure that we do not borrow from the future to pay the bills
today.
I ask you to support the only budget that does all those things.
Support the RSC budget.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Chairman, one thing I hope we can all agree on
is that we need to protect our children and grandchildren and future
generations. The question is not whether we need to do that. Of course
we do. The issue is how. I keep hearing my colleagues come forward and
passionately talk about that, but they're absolutely unwilling to take
the balanced approach that has been recommended by bipartisan groups.
Everyone that's looked at this challenge says we've got to take a
combination of tough spending cuts, but we also need some revenue from
closing tax loopholes and asking folks at the very top to go back to
what they were paying during the
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Clinton administration--by the way, the last time that we had a
balanced budget.
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And yet, despite all that talk, they don't want us to close one
loophole. In fact, almost every Republican in this House has signed
this pledge to Grover Norquist saying they won't cut one tax loophole
for the purpose of deficit reduction; that they won't ask folks making
$1 million to contribute any more to deficit reduction. In fact, they
propose to give them another windfall tax cut.
That's the choice they make, and because of that choice, they cut our
investment in education for our kids. They cut investments that will
strengthen our economy, help build our infrastructure so we can
outcompete and outbuild and outeducate the rest of the world. That's
what we need to do for the future of our children.
I urge everybody to vote against this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. All time for debate has expired.
The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New
Jersey (Mr. Garrett).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. GARRETT. Madam Chair, in light of the fact that this House just
weeks ago voted * * *
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will suspend.
The gentleman has not been recognized for debate.
Recorded Vote
Mr. GARRETT. I ask for a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been requested. Those in favor
of taking this vote by a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number
having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their
vote by electronic device.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 136,
noes 285, answered ``present'' 3, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 149]
AYES--136
Adams
Akin
Amash
Amodei
Austria
Bachmann
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Culberson
DesJarlais
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gardner
Garrett
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Guinta
Hall
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herger
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
King (IA)
Kingston
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latta
Long
Lummis
Manzullo
Marchant
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Ribble
Rigell
Rivera
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ross (FL)
Royce
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (TX)
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Upton
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Woodall
Yoder
NOES--285
Ackerman
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fitzpatrick
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gonzalez
Granger
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Grimm
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Hurt
Israel
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Marino
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McNerney
Meehan
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Speier
Stark
Stivers
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tiberi
Tierney
Tonko
Tsongas
Turner (NY)
Turner (OH)
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Webster
Welch
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woolsey
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--3
Fattah
Polis
Waxman
NOT VOTING--7
Filner
Jackson (IL)
Mack
Maloney
Meeks
Rangel
Towns
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Messrs. DREIER, WALZ, BILIRAKIS, and YOUNG of Florida changed their
vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. RIVERA, HARPER, THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mrs. ELLMERS,
Messrs. SHIMKUS, HUNTER, HULTGREN, MICA, FINCHER, COFFMAN of Colorado,
TIPTON, Ms. FOXX, Messrs. OLSON, MURPHY of Pennsylvania, SHUSTER, and
BUCSHON changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
Messrs. ROSS of Arkansas, BISHOP of Georgia, CLAY, THOMPSON of
Mississippi, and MILLER of North Carolina changed their vote from
``present'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. FILNER. Mr. Chair, on rollcall 149, I was away from the Capitol
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I
would have voted ``no.''
Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now
rise.
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Latham) having assumed the chair, Mr. Thornberry, Acting Chair of the
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that
that Committee, having had under consideration the concurrent
resolution (H. Con. Res. 112) establishing the budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022, had come to no
resolution thereon.
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