[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17264]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 CHANGES TO THE 2002 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ALLOCATION AND BUDGETARY 
                               AGGREGATES

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, section 314 of the Congressional Budget 
Act, as amended, requires the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee 
to adjust the budgetary aggregates and the allocation for the 
Appropriations Committee by the amount provided to the Internal Revenue 
Service for its earned income tax credit compliance initiative. The 
amount of the adjustment is limited to $146 million in budget authority 
in 2002.
  Pursuant to section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act, I hereby 
revise the 2002 allocation provided to the Senate Appropriations 
Committee in the concurrent budget resolution in the following amounts.
  Pursuant to section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act, I hereby 
revise the 2002 budget aggregates included in the concurrent budget 
resolution in the following amounts.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print table 1 and 2 in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

     TABLE 1.--REVISED ALLOCATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, 2002
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      Budget
                                                    authority   Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current Allocation:
  General Purpose Discretionary...................    546,945    537,091
  Highways........................................  .........     28,489
  Mass Transit....................................  .........      5,275
  Conservation....................................      1,760      1,232
  Mandatory.......................................    358,567    350,837
                                                   ---------------------
        Total.....................................    907,272    922,924
Adjustments:
  General Purpose Discretionary...................        146        143
  Highways........................................  .........  .........
  Mass Transit....................................  .........  .........
  Conservation....................................  .........  .........
  Mandatory.......................................  .........  .........
                                                   ---------------------
        Total.....................................        146        143
Revised Allocation:
  General Purpose Discretionary...................    547,091    537,234
  Highways........................................  .........     28,489
  Mass Transit....................................  .........      5,275
  Conservation....................................      1,760      1,232
  Mandatory.......................................    358,567    350,837
                                                   ---------------------
        Total.....................................    907,418    923,067
------------------------------------------------------------------------


                TABLE 2.--REVISED BUDGET AGGREGATES, 2002
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        Budget
                                       authority    Outlays     Surplus
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current allocation: Budget             1,515,220   1,481,112     187,553
 Resolution.........................
Adjustments: EITC Compliance                 146         143        -143
 Initiative.........................
Revised allocation: Budget             1,515,366   1,481,255     187,410
 Resolution.........................
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Prepared by SBC Majority staff on 9-19-01.



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