[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 75 (Thursday, May 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BUDGET COMMITTEE COST ESTIMATE--S. 2844

  Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I offer for the Record the Budget 
Committee's cost estimate of S. 2844, the Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017.
  The reported measure provides $56.5 billion in discretionary budget 
authority for fiscal year 2017, which will result in new outlays of 
$46.3 billion. When outlays from prior-year budget authority are taken 
into account, nonemergency discretionary outlays for the bill will 
total $120.5 billion.
  The reported bill matches its section 302(b) allocation set forth in 
S. Rept. 114-238 for budget authority for both the security and 
nonsecurity categories and is below the 302(b) allocation for outlays 
by $10 million.
  The bill contains emergency-designated appropriations, which are 
effectively exempt from budget enforcement. The Budget Act provides a 
mechanism to prevent abuse of the emergency designation in the form of 
the 314(e) point of order, which allows any Senator to challenge 
whether the appropriation is actually needed for an emergency. 
Specifically, the bill transfers to the community planning and 
development account previously appropriated emergency-designated 
Housing and Urban Development spending for administrative costs related 
to disaster relief efforts. This transfer does not change budget 
authority, but increases outlays by $1 million. I will adjust the 
allocations by this amount unless a challenge to the use of the 
emergency designation is successful, which would occur if fewer than 60 
Senators agree that the appropriation is needed for an emergency 
purpose.
  I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the table 
displaying the Budget Committee scoring of the bill.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

    S. 2844, 2017 TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS--SPENDING COMPARISONS--SENATE-
                                                  REPORTED BILL
                                         (Fiscal Year 2017, $ millions)
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                                                      Budget Authority                       Outlays
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                                                  Security       Nonsecurity         Total            Total
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Senate-reported bill........................             275-           56,199           56,474          120,461
Senate 302(b) allocation....................              275           56,199           56,474          120,471
2016 Enacted................................              210           57,391           57,601          120,469
President's request.........................              211           51,781           51,992          118,800
SENATE-REPORTED BILL COMPARED TO:
    Senate 302(b) allocation-----...........                0                0                0              -10
    2016 Enacted............................             65--           -1,192           -1,127            -8---
    President's request.....................            64---           4,418-           4,482-   1,661---------
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Includes emergency-designated spending.



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