[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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