[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15878]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     REVISIONS TO THE 302(a) ALLOCATIONS AND BUDGETARY AGGREGATES 
ESTABLISHED BY THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 
                                  2004

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. NUSSLE. Mr. Speaker, I submit for printing in the Congressional 
Record revisions to the 302(a) allocations and budgetary aggregates 
established by H. Con. Res. 95, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget 
for Fiscal Year 2004. The authority to make these adjustments is 
derived from Section 404 of H. Con. Res. 95 (H. Rept. 108-71).
  As reported, H.R. 2555, the Homeland Security appropriations bill for 
fiscal year 2004, provides new budget authority of $890,000,000 for 
medical countermeasures against biological terror attacks. That 
appropriation would be authorized under a bill (H.R. 2122) that has 
been reported to the House by the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
Government Reform. Section 404 of the budget resolution permits the 
Chairman of the Budget Committee to increase the allocation to the 
House committee that provides such budget authority pursuant to a 
reported authorization bill in an amount not to exceed $890,000,000 in 
budget authority for fiscal year 2004 and outlays flowing therefrom.
  While I am concerned that the reported bill provides an advance 
appropriation for fiscal year 2005 of $2.528 billion that, if enacted, 
could be limited next year to achieve budgetary savings for the fiscal 
year 2005 appropriations bill, I will exercise my discretion under the 
budget resolution and increase the fiscal year 2004 allocation to the 
House Committee on Appropriations since the requirements of Section 404 
of the budget resolution have been met. I therefore increase the fiscal 
year 2004 302(a) allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations by 
$890,000,000 in new budget authority and $258,000,000 in outlays, 
making the allocation to that Committee $785,565,000,000 in budget 
authority and $861,342,000,000 in outlays.
  Questions may be directed to Dan Kowalski at 67270.

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