[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12359]
[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 
                          YEARS 2004 AND 2005

  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 to the Appropriations 
Committee and budgetary aggregates established by the budget 
resolution. These revisions increase the amount of new budget authority 
available to the House Appropriations Committee to reflect both 
technical changes and additional funds for wildland fire suppression 
provided by the Interior appropriations bill reported to the House 
today. My authority to make these adjustments is derived from sections 
312 and 313 of S. Con. Res. 95, as made applicable to the House of 
Representatives by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress).
  Section 313 of the conference report to accompany S. Con. Res. 95 
provides for an increase in budget authority and outlays to the House 
Appropriations Committee upon reporting of the first bill by that 
committee. This increase, which totals $7,158,000,000 in new budget 
authority and $14,516,000,000 in outlays, is necessary both to increase 
the discretionary levels from the discretionary limits that are binding 
in the Senate (by virtue of Section 504 of the fiscal year budget 
resolution) to the levels envisioned by the conference agreement, and 
to achieve comparability in the budgetary treatment of Project 
Bioshield between the President's budget request and the conference 
agreement. I am hereby increasing the allocation and budgetary 
aggregates by these amounts.
  Section 312 of S. Con. Res. 95 provides for a supplemental increase 
in budget authority and outlays to the House Appropriations Committee 
if additional funds are provided in 2004 or 2005 for wildland fire 
suppression. The adjustment is available for fiscal year 2005 if 
regular appropriations provided by the reported bill are at least 10-
year average of obligations for such activities. Because this 
requirement has been met, I am increasing the 302(a) allocation of 
budget authority to the Appropriations Committee by $500,000,000 in 
both 2004 and 2005 to reflect the additional amounts provided in the 
Interior appropriations bill. Outlays flowing from this budget 
authority total $330,000,000 in 2004 and $420,000,000 in 2005.
  After the adjustments specified in these two sections, the 302(a) 
allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations becomes 
$786,065,000,000 in budget authority and $861,672,000,000 in outlays 
for fiscal year 2004 and $821,919,000,000 in budget authority and 
$905,748,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2005. The corresponding 
budgetary aggregates become $1,881,055,000,000 in budget authority and 
$1,903,832,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2004 and 
$2,012,726,000,000 in budget authority and $2,010,964,000,000 in 
outlays for fiscal year 2005.

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