[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 18966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


           CHANGES TO 302(a) ALLOCATIONS AND SPENDING LIMITS

  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, the President's fiscal year 2006 budget 
request includes four cap adjustments to encourage adequate funding for 
program integrity efforts. In each of the four programs, continuing 
disability reviews, IRS tax enforcement, health care fraud and abuse 
control, and unemployment insurance, additional funding dedicated to 
program integrity can reduce improper payments and return money to the 
treasury. For example, the administration estimates that each $1 
expended on continuing disability reviews returns $10 to taxpayers.
  Consistent with the President's request, section 404b of H. Con. Res. 
95, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006, 
permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to make adjustments 
to the 302a allocations to the Appropriations Committee and 
discretionary spending limits when certain conditions are met relating 
to appropriations levels for these four program integrity initiatives. 
I note that our distinguished ranking member, Senator Conrad, is a real 
leader in the area of tax enforcement and worked to ensure that our 
congressional budget included $446 million to address the tax gap.
  These conditions having been met in the reported Labor, HHS, 
Education, and Transportation, Treasury, Judiciary, HUD appropriations 
bills, I ask consent to insert a table into the Record which reflects 
the revised discretionary spending limits and 302a allocations to the 
Senate Appropriations Committee. The revised allocations for 
discretionary budget authority and outlays are the appropriate levels 
to be used for enforcement during consideration of the fiscal year 2006 
appropriations bills.
  I ask unanimous consent to have the following chart printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

  ADJUSTMENTS TO FY 2006 302(a) ALLOCATIONS TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON
          APPROPRIATIONS AND 2006 DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS
                             [$ in millions]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Initial                     New
                                   allocation/   Adjustment  allocation/
                                       cap                       cap
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary BA.................      842,265          755      843,020
OT...............................      916,081          755      916,836
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