[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S6136]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             BUDGET ENFORCEMENT LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019

  Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, section 251 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, BBEDCA, establishes statutory 
limits on discretionary spending and allows for various adjustments to 
those limits. In addition, sections 302 and 314(a) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 allow the chairman of the Budget Committee to 
establish and make revisions to allocations, aggregates, and levels 
consistent with those adjustments.
  The Senate will soon consider the conference report to H.R. 5895, a 
spending measure covering programs within the jurisdiction of the 
Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water, military 
construction and Veterans Affairs, and the Legislative Branch. The 
military construction portion of this legislation includes funding for 
military construction designated as overseas contingency operations 
funding pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of BBEDCA. These 
provisions provide $921 million in budget authority for fiscal year 
2019. The inclusion of the overseas contingency operations designations 
with these provisions makes this spending eligible for an adjustment 
under the Congressional Budget Act.
  On June 18, 2018, I filed an adjustment relating to S. Amdt. 2910 to 
H.R. 5895, which contained appropriations for the same three 
appropriations subcommittees. The military construction portion of the 
amendment contained $921 million in revised security budget authority 
designated as overseas contingency operations, and the budgetary 
adjustment was made to accommodate this spending.
  Since the level of overseas contingency operations spending in the 
conference report is consistent with the previously filed levels and 
appropriately designated, those funds are now available for use in this 
conference report, and no further budgetary adjustment is warranted at 
this time.

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