[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 4, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6852-S6854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       BUDGET SCOREKEEPING REPORT

  Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I rise to submit to the Senate the budget 
scorekeeping report for December 2019. This is my second scorekeeping 
report since I filed the deemed budget resolution for fiscal year 2020 
on September 9, 2019, as required by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, 
BBA19. The report compares current-law levels of spending and revenues 
with the amounts agreed to in BBA19. In the Senate, this information is 
used to determine whether budgetary points of order lie against pending 
legislation. The Republican staff of the Budget Committee and the 
Congressional Budget Office, CBO, prepared this report pursuant to 
section 308(b) of the Congressional Budget Act, CBA. The information 
included in this report is current through November 25, 2019.
  Since I filed the last scorekeeping report on October 16, 2019, two 
measures with significant enforceable budgetary effects have been 
enacted. The first, the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, 
and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-69), provided 
continuing appropriations and extended several authorizing provisions. 
Specifically, division A of that law extended discretionary 
appropriations through December 20, 2019, and division B extended a 
number of health programs, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 
program, and certain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provisions. 
Division B also extended and increased benefits under the U.S. Victims 
of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund and repealed a rescission of highway 
funding that had been included in the 2015 highway bill. CBO estimated 
that division B would increase outlays by $1.1 billion over 10 years.
  The second measure with significant budgetary effects to be enacted 
was the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act (P.L. 116-
71). This law directed the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue 
silver coins to commemorate the women who played a vital role in 
rallying support for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. CBO 
estimated that P.L. 116-71 would save $2 million in 2020 and be budget 
neutral over the 5- and 10-year windows.
  Budget Committee Republican staff prepared tables A-D.
  Table A gives the amount by which each Senate authorizing committee 
exceeds or is below its allocation for budget authority and outlays 
under the fiscal year 2020 deemed budget resolution. This information 
is used for enforcing committee allocations pursuant to section 302 of 
the CBA.
  The two enacted pieces of legislation that I mentioned earlier led to 
the Environment and Public Works Committee, EPW, exceeding its 
allocation (P.L. 116-69) and the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 
Committee generating $2 million in savings in 2020 (P.L 116-71). The 
House of Representatives' construction of division B of the P.L. 116-
69, which combined numerous authorizing matters into one division, 
contributed to EPW's breach of its allocation. As EPW's highway 
rescission repeal provided the largest single budgetary effect, the 
entire division's effects were assigned to EPW consistent with 
longstanding congressional enforcement practices. It is important to 
note that EPW's highway repeal alone was scored by CBO as not producing 
an outlay or deficit effect. A detailed discussion of CBO's scoring of 
a similar provision is included in CBO's formal August 2019 estimate of 
S. 1992, a bill to amend the FAST Act to repeal a rescission of funds, 
which was reported earlier this year from EPW.
  Table B provides the amount by which the Senate Committee on 
Appropriations is below or exceeds the statutory spending limits. This 
information is used to determine points of order related to the 
spending caps found in sections 312 and 314 of the CBA. The table shows 
that the Appropriations Committee is compliant with spending limits for 
current the fiscal year. Those limits for regular discretionary 
spending are $666.5 billion for accounts in the defense category and 
$621.5 billion for accounts in the nondefense category of spending. As 
no full-year appropriations measures have been enacted for fiscal year 
2020, the amounts shown on the table reflect the budgetary authority 
effects of advanced or permanent appropriations made available in prior 
law.
  The 2018 budget resolution contained points of order limiting the use 
of changes in mandatory programs, CHIMPs, in appropriations bills. 
Table C, which tracks the CHIMP limit of $15 billion for 2020, shows 
the Appropriations Committee has not yet enacted full-year CHIMPs for 
this fiscal year.
  Table D provides the amount of budget authority enacted for 2020 that 
has been designated as either for an emergency or for overseas 
contingency operations pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. Funding 
that receives either of these designations results in cap adjustments 
to enforceable discretionary spending limits. There is no limit on 
either emergency or overseas contingency operations spending; however, 
any senator may challenge the designation with a point of order to 
strike the designation on the floor.
  In addition to the tables provided by Budget Committee Republican 
staff, I am submitting CBO tables, which I will use to enforce budget 
totals approved by Congress.
  CBO provided a spending and revenue report for 2020, Table 1, which 
helps enforce aggregate spending levels in budget resolutions under CBA 
section 311. In its report, CBO annualizes the temporary effects of the 
latest continuing resolution, which provides funding through December 
20, 2019. For the enforcement of budgetary aggregates, the Budget 
Committee excludes this temporary funding. As such, the committee views 
current-law levels as being $1,173.2 billion and $668.4 billion below 
budget resolution levels for budget authority and outlays, 
respectively. Details on 2020 levels can be found in CBO's second 
table.
  Current-law revenues are consistent with the levels assumed by the 
budget resolution.
  Social Security levels are consistent with the budget resolution's 
figures for all enforceable periods.
  CBO's report also provides information needed to enforce the Senate 
pay-as-you-go, PAYGO, rule, table 3. This rule was established under 
section 4106 of the 2018 budget resolution. The Senate PAYGO scorecard 
shows that there is currently $2 million in room in 2020 due to the 
enactment of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act. 
Please note that the deficit effects of division B of the Further 
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act 
of 2019 are excluded from the Senate's PAYGO scorecard pursuant to 
Title VIII of division B of that law.
  This submission also includes a table tracking the Senate's budget 
enforcement activity on the floor since the enforcement filing on 
September 9, 2019. No budgetary points of order have been raised since 
that filing.
  All years in the accompanying tables are fiscal years.
  I ask unanimous consent that this statement and the accompanying 
tables be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

 TABLE A.--SENATE AUTHORIZING COMMITTEES--ENACTED DIRECT SPENDING ABOVE
                   (+) OR BELOW (-) BUDGET RESOLUTIONS
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                            2020    2020-2024  2020-2029
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Armed Services:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0

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Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:
    Budget Authority....................        -2          0          0
    Outlays.............................        -2          0          0
Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Energy and Natural Resources:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Environment and Public Works:
    Budget Authority....................     8,058     38,589     77,069
    Outlays.............................       415        683      1,130
Finance:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Foreign Relations:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Homeland Security and Governmental
 Affairs:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Judiciary:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Rules and Administration:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Intelligence:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Veterans' Affairs:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Indian Affairs:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
Small Business:
    Budget Authority....................         0          0          0
    Outlays.............................         0          0          0
                                         -------------------------------
    Total
        Budget Authority................     8,056     38,589     77,069
        Outlays.........................       413        683     1,130
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This table is current through November 25, 2019. This table tracks the
  spending effects of legislation enacted compared to allowable levels.
  Each authorizing committee's initial allocation can be found in the
  Senate Budget Committee Chairman's Congressional Record filing on
  September 9, 2019.


TABLE B.--SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE--ENACTED REGULAR DISCRETIONARY
                           APPROPRIATIONS \1\
               [Budget authority, in millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      2020
                                       ---------------------------------
                                          Security \2\   Nonsecurity \2\
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Statutory Discretionary Limits........          666,500          621,500
 
          Amount Provided by Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
 
Agriculture, Rural Development, and                   0                9
 Related Agencies.....................
Commerce, Justice, Science, and                       0                0
 Related Agencies.....................
Defense...............................               42                0
Energy and Water Development..........                0                0
Financial Services and General                        0                0
 Government...........................
Homeland Security.....................                0                9
Interior, Environment, and Related                    0                0
 Agencies.............................
Labor, Health and Human Services,                     0           24,682
 Education, and Related Agencies......
Legislative Branch....................                0                1
Military Construction, Veterans                       0           71,821
 Affairs, and Related Agencies........
State, Foreign Operations, and Related                0                0
 Programs.............................
Transportation and Housing and Urban                  0            4,400
 Development, and Related Agencies....
                                       ---------------------------------
        Current Level Total...........               42          100,922
    Total Enacted Above (+) or Below (-        -666,458        -520,578
     ) Statutory Limits...............
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This table is current through November 25, 2019. As no full-year
  appropriaitons bills have been enacted this cycle, the budget
  authority displayed here represents funding made available through
  either advance or permanent appropriations.
\1\ This table excludes spending pursuant to adjustments to the
  discretionary spending limits. These adjustments are allowed for
  certain purposes in section 251(b)(2) of BBEDCA.
\2\ Security spending is defined as spending in the National Defense
  budget function (050) and nonsecurity spending is defined as all other
  spending.


 TABLE C.--SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE--ENACTED CHANGES IN MANDATORY
                       SPENDING PROGRAMS (CHIMPS)
                 [Budget authority, millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                               2020
------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHIMPS Limit for Fiscal Year 2020.......................          15,000
 
                   Senate Appropriations Subcommittees
 
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies....               0
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies........               0
Defense.................................................               0
Energy and Water Development............................               0
Financial Services and General Government...............               0
Homeland Security.......................................               0
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.............               0
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related               0
 Agencies...............................................
Legislative Branch......................................               0
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related                   0
 Agencies...............................................
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.........               0
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and                     0
 Related Agencies.......................................
                                                         ---------------
        Current Level Total.............................               0
    Total CHIMPS Above (+) or Below (-) Budget                  -15,000
     Resolution.........................................
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This table is current through November 25, 2019.


    TABLE D.--SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE--ENACTED EMERGENCY AND OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS SPENDING
                                     [Budget authority, millions of dollars]
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                                                                         2020
                                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Emergency and Overseas Contingency                 Emergency                  Overseas Contingency Operations
   Operations Designated Spending    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                         Security \1\     Nonsecurity \1\      Security \1\     Nonsecurity \1\
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Additional Supplemental                               0                  8                  0                  0
 Appropriations for Disaster Relief
 Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-20) \2\........
                                     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Current Level Total.............                  0                  8                  0                 0
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This table is current through November 25, 2019.
\1\ Security spending is defined as spending in the National Defense budget function (050) and nonsecurity
  spending is defined as all other spending.
\2\ The Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 was enacted after the publication
  of CBO's May 2019 baseline but before the Senate Budget Committee Chairman published the deemed budget
  resolution for 2020 in the Congressional Record. Pursuant to the Bipatisan Budget Act of 2019, the budgetary
  effects of this legislation have been incorporated into the current level as previously enacted funds.

                                                    U.S. Congress,


                                  Congressional Budget Office,

                                 Washington, DC, December 4, 2019.
     Hon. Mike Enzi,
     Chairman, Committee on the Budget,
     U.S. Senate, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: The enclosed report shows the effects of 
     Congressional action on the fiscal year 2020 budget and is 
     current through November 25, 2019. This report is submitted 
     under section 308(b) and in aid of section 311 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act, as amended.
       The estimates of budget authority, outlays, and revenues 
     are consistent with the allocations, aggregates, and other 
     budgetary levels printed in the Congressional Record on 
     September 9, 2019, pursuant to section 204 of the Bipartisan 
     Budget Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-37).
       Since our last letter dated October 16, 2019, the Congress 
     has cleared and the President has signed the following 
     legislation that has significant effects on budget authority 
     and outlays in fiscal year 2020: Further Continuing 
     Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act 
     (Public Law 116-69); and Women's Suffrage Centennial 
     Commemorative Coin Act (Public Law 116-71).
           Sincerely,
                                                Phillip L. Swagel,
                                                         Director.
       Enclosure.

  TABLE 1.--SENATE CURRENT LEVEL REPORT FOR SPENDING AND REVENUES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020, AS OF NOVEMBER 25, 2019
                                            [In billions of dollars]
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                                                                                                 Current Level
                                                               Budget         Current Level      Over/Under (-)
                                                             Resolution                            Resolution
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ON-BUDGET
    Budget Authority...................................            3,704.2            3,773.5               69.3
    Outlays............................................            3,681.5            3,700.5               19.0
    Revenues...........................................            2,740.5            2,740.5                0.0
OFF-BUDGET:
    Social Security Outlays a..........................              961.2              961.2                0.0
    Social Security Revenues...........................              940.4              940.4                0.0
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Source: Congressional Budget Office.
a Excludes administrative expenses paid from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the
  Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund of the Social Security Administration, which are off-budget, but are
  appropriated annually.


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 TABLE 2.--SUPPORTING DETAIL FOR THE SENATE CURRENT LEVEL REPORT FOR ON-BUDGET SPENDING AND REVENUES FOR FISCAL
                                       YEAR 2020, AS OF NOVEMBER 25, 2019
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                         Budget  Authority       Outlays            Revenues
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Previously Enacted: a b
    Revenues...........................................               n.a.               n.a.          2,740,538
    Permanents and other spending legislation..........          2,397,769          2,309,887               n.a.
    Authorizing and Appropriation legislation..........                  0            595,528                  0
    Offsetting receipts................................           -954,573           -954,573               n.a.
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Previously Enacted......................          1,443,196          1,950,842          2,740,538
Enacted Legislation:
    Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health                    693                795                  0
     Extenders Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-59)...............
    Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and                 8,058                415                  0
     Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-69)
    Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act                  -2                 -2                  0
     (P.L. 116-71).....................................
Continuing Resolution: a
    Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and             1,242,511            687,329                  0
     Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-69)
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Enacted Legislation.....................          1,251,260            688,537                  0
Entitlements and Mandatories...........................          1,079,063          1,061,080                  0
    Total Current Level b..............................          3,773,519          3,700,459          2,740,538
    Total Senate Resolution c..........................          3,704,246          3,681,491          2,740,538
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Current Level Over Senate Resolution...........             69,273             18,968               n.a.
        Current Level Under Senate Resolution..........               n.a.               n.a.               n.a.
Memorandum:
Revenues, 2020-2029:
    Senate Current Level...............................               n.a.               n.a.         34,847,317
    Senate Resolution c................................               n.a.               n.a.         34,847,317
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
        Current Level Over Senate Resolution...........               n.a.               n.a.               n.a.
        Current Level Under Senate Resolution..........               n.a.               n.a.               n.a.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office.
n.a. = not applicable; P.L. = public law.
a Sections 1001-1004 of the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255) require that certain funding provided for 2017
  through 2026 to the Department of Health and Human Services--in particular the Food and Drug Administration
  and the National Institutes of Health--be excluded from estimates for the purpose of the Balanced Budget and
  Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Deficit Control Act) and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
  Control Act of 1974 (Congressional Budget Act). Therefore, the amounts shown in this report do not include
  $562 million in budget authority and $854 million in estimated outlays.
b For purposes of enforcing section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act in the Senate, the resolution, as
  approved by the Senate, does not include budget authority, outlays, or revenue for off-budget amounts. As a
  result, amounts in this current level report do not include those items.
c Section 204 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 requires the Chair of the Senate Committee on the Budget to
  publish the aggregate spending and revenue levels for fiscal year 2020; those aggregate levels were first
  published in the Congressional Record on September 9, 2019. The Chair of the Senate Committee on the Budget
  has the authority to revise the budgetary aggregates for the budgetary effects of certain revenue and spending
  measures pursuant to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent
  resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018, as updated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Budget
                                    Authority     Outlays      Revenues
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Original Aggregates printed on       3,703,553    3,680,696    2,740,538
 September 9, 2019...............
    Revisions:
        Adjustment for P.L. 116-           693          795            0
         59, Continuing
         Appropriations Act,
         2020, and Health
         Extenders Act of 2019
         (pursuant to sections
         311 and 314 of the
         Congressional Budget Act
         of 1974 and section 3005
         of H. Con. Res. 71).....
                                  --------------------------------------
    Revised Senate Resolution....    3,704,246    3,681,491    2,740,538
------------------------------------------------------------------------


                 TABLE 3.--SUMMARY OF THE SENATE PAY-AS-YOU-GO SCORECARD AS OF NOVEMBER 25, 2019
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                  2019         2020      2019-2024    2019-2029
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Beginning Balance a.........................................            0            0            0            0
Enacted Legislation b c
    Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health                     0         n.a.         n.a.         n.a.
     Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R. 4378, P.L. 116-59) d.......
    Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2019 (S.239,            0            0            0            0
     P.L. 116-65)...........................................
    Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act (H.R. 1396,             0            *            *            *
     P.L. 116-68)...........................................
    Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further            0            *            *            *
     Health Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R. 3055, P.L. 116-69) e
    Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act (H.R.            0           -2            0            0
     2423, P.L. 116-71).....................................
    Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (H.R. 724,                0            *            *            *
     P.L. 116-72)...........................................
    Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (S.                0            *            *            *
     1838, P.L. 116-76).....................................
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                        0           -2            *            *
 
Impact on Deficit...........................................            0           -2            0            0
    Total Change in Outlays.................................            0           -2            0            0
    Total Change in Revenues................................            0            0            0           0
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Source: Congressional Budget Office.
n.a. = not applicable; P.L. = public law.
a On September 9, 2019, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget reset the Senate's Pay-As-You-Go
  Scorecard to zero for all fiscal years.
b The amounts shown represent the estimated effect of the public laws on the deficit.
c Excludes off-budget amounts.
d The budgetary effects of division B of this act are excluded from the Senate's PAYGO scorecard, pursuant to
  sec. 1701(b) of the act. The budgetary effects of division A were fully incorporated into the PAYGO ledger
  pursuant to the authority provided to the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee in section 3005 of H. Con.
  Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. The Chairman exercised
  that an adjustment in the Congressional Record on September 26, 2019.
e The budgetary effects of division B of this act are excluded from the Senate's PAYGO scorecard, pursuant to
  sec. 1801(b) of the act.


                ENFORCEMENT REPORT OF POINTS OF ORDER RAISED SINCE THE FY 2020 ENFORCEMENT FILING
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                                                                                         Motion to
                      Vote                           Date       Measure     Violation      Waive        Result
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                           No points of order have been raised as of September 9, 2019
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