[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10354-10382]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010

  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 316, I call 
from the Speaker's table the Senate concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
13) setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014, and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate concurrent resolution.
  The text of the Senate concurrent resolution is as follows:

                            S. Con. Res. 13

       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring),

     SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 
                   YEAR 2010.

       (a) Declaration.--Congress declares that this resolution is 
     the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 
     and that this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary 
     levels for fiscal years 2009 and 2011 through 2014.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this 
     concurrent resolution is as follows:

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010.

                TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 102. Social Security.
Sec. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses.
Sec. 104. Major functional categories.

                        TITLE II--RESERVE FUNDS

Sec. 201. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to transform and modernize 
              America's health care system.
Sec. 202. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in clean energy and 
              preserve the environment.
Sec. 203. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for higher education.
Sec. 204. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition and WIC.
Sec. 205. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in America's 
              infrastructure.
Sec. 206. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote economic 
              stabilization and growth.
Sec. 207. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America's veterans and 
              wounded servicemembers.
Sec. 208. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for judicial pay and judgeships 
              and postal retiree assistance.
Sec. 209. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense acquisition and 
              contracting reform.
Sec. 210. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in our Nation's 
              counties and schools.
Sec. 211. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Food and Drug 
              Administration.
Sec. 212. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for bipartisan congressional 
              sunset commission.
Sec. 213. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve domestic fuels 
              security.
Sec. 214. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a comprehensive 
              investigation into the current financial crisis.
Sec. 215. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increased transparency at 
              the Federal Reserve.
Sec. 216. Deficit-Neutral reserve fund for improving child welfare.
Sec. 217. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to fully fund the Long-Term 
              Stability/Housing for Victims Program.
Sec. 218. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for providing a nonrefundable 
              Federal income tax credit for the purchase of a principal 
              residence during a 1-year period.
Sec. 219. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for monitoring of FHA-insured 
              lending.
Sec. 220. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the systemic 
              inequities of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement that 
              lead to access problems in rural areas.
Sec. 221. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide for accelerated 
              carbon capture and storage and advanced clean coal power 
              generation research, development, demonstration, and 
              deployment.
Sec. 222. Expenditure of remaining TARP funds.
Sec. 223. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for prohibiting undeserved 
              contracting performance bonuses.
Sec. 224. Deficit-reduction reserve fund to ensure the pledge of 
              President Obama to eliminate wasteful, inefficient, and 
              duplicative programs.
Sec. 225. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Violence Against Women 
              Act (VAWA) and the Family Violence Prevention and 
              Services Act (FVPSA), and other related programs.
Sec. 226. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for ending abusive no-bid 
              contracts.
Sec. 227. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visitation programs.
Sec. 228. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for 2lst Century Community 
              Learning Centers.
Sec. 229. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide for the extension of 
              the top individual tax rates for small businesses.
Sec. 230. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for pension coverage for 
              employees of Department of Energy laboratories and 
              environmental cleanup sites.
Sec. 231. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for provision of critical 
              resources to firefighters and fire departments.
Sec. 232. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for the elimination and 
              recovery of improper payments.
Sec. 233. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the repeal of the 1993 
              increase in the income tax on social security benefits.
Sec. 234. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation to increase the 
              amount of capital losses allowed to individuals.

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Sec. 235. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for foster care financing 
              reform.
Sec. 236. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for healthcare professionals for 
              the Veterans Health Administration.
Sec. 237. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to repeal deductions from 
              mineral revenue payments to States.
Sec. 238. Reserve fund to promote tax equity for States without 
              personal income taxes.
Sec. 239. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for setting performance 
              standards to identify failing Government programs.
Sec. 240. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite research on 
              viability of use of higher ethanol blends at service 
              station pump.
Sec. 241. Deficit-neutral reserve funds to enhance drug-control efforts 
              within our communities and along our borders.
Sec. 242. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote individual savings 
              and financial security.
Sec. 243. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the National Health Service 
              Corps.
Sec. 244. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve animal health and 
              disease program.
Sec. 245. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increase in the end strength 
              for active duty personnel of the Army.
Sec. 246. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for wildland fire management 
              activities.
Sec. 247. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief.
Sec. 248. Point of order against legislation that provides additional 
              relief for the estate tax beyond the levels assumed in 
              this budget resolution unless an equal amount of 
              additional tax relief is provided to middle-class 
              taxpayers.
Sec. 249. Deficit-neutral reserve fund increase FDIC and NCUA borrowing 
              authority.
Sec. 250. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for innovative loan guarantee 
              program of the Department of Energy.
Sec. 251. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for nuclear research and 
              development.
Sec. 252. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the 2012 completion of Food 
              and Drug Administration facilities.
Sec. 253. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Energy Star for Small 
              Business Program.

                       TITLE III--BUDGET PROCESS

                     Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement

Sec. 301. Discretionary spending limits, program integrity initiatives, 
              and other adjustments.
Sec. 302. Point of order against advance appropriations.
Sec. 303. Emergency legislation.
Sec. 304. Point of order against legislation increasing short-term 
              deficit.
Sec. 305. Point of order against provisions of appropriations 
              legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs 
              affecting the Crime Victims Fund.
Sec. 306. Point of order against legislation that raises taxes on 
              middle-income taxpayers.
Sec. 307. Point of order on legislation that raises income tax rates on 
              Small Businesses.
Sec. 308. Point of order against legislation that imposes a National 
              energy tax on middle-income taxpayers.
Sec. 309. Point of order on legislation that imposes a marriage tax 
              penalty.
Sec. 310. Point of order on legislation that increases revenue above 
              the levels established in the budget resolution.
Sec. 311. Point of order on legislation that increases taxes during any 
              period when the unemployment rate is in excess of 5.8 
              percent.
Sec. 312. Point of order against legislation that causes significant 
              job loss.
Sec. 313. Limitations on legislation that would permit the Secretary of 
              Veterans Affairs to recover from a private health insurer 
              of a disabled veteran amounts paid for treatment of such 
              disability.
Sec. 314. Point of order.
Sec. 315. Restrictions on unfunded mandates on States and local 
              governments.
Sec. 316. Point of order on legislation that eliminates the ability of 
              Americans to keep their health plan or their choice of 
              doctor.

                      Subtitle B--Other Provisions

Sec. 321. Oversight of government performance.
Sec. 322. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative 
              expenses.
Sec. 323. Application and effect of changes in allocations and 
              aggregates.
Sec. 324. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.
Sec. 325. Debt disclosure requirement.
Sec. 326. Debt disclosures.
Sec. 327. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

                TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

     SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS.

       The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014:
       (1) Federal revenues.--For purposes of the enforcement of 
     this resolution:
       (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 
     follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $1,506,196,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $1,620,072,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $1,918,926,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $2,123,586,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $2,286,601,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $2,489,829,000,000.
       (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal 
     revenues should be changed are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: -$26,374,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: -$45,914,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: -$169,705,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: -$236,806,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: -$228,736,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: -$143,829,000,000.
       (2) New budget authority.--For purposes of the enforcement 
     of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new 
     budget authority are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $3,668,049,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $2,853,966,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $2,799,858,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $2,812,313,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $2,990,082,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $3,164,644,000,000.
       (3) Budget outlays.--For purposes of the enforcement of 
     this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget 
     outlays are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $3,355,533,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $2,981,026,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $2,937,215,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $2,856,956,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $3,003,162,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $3,152,972,000,000.
       (4) Deficits.--For purposes of the enforcement of this 
     resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $1,849,337,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $1,360,954,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $1,018,289,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $733,370,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $716,560,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $663,142,000,000.
       (5) Public debt.--Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels of 
     the public debt are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $12,067,919,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $13,298,235,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $14,394,517,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $15,303,842,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $16,175,508,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $17,022,970,000,000.
       (6) Debt held by the public.--The appropriate levels of 
     debt held by the public are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $7,754,355,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $8,817,043,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $9,702,393,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $10,345,439,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $10,919,379,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $11,471,742,000,000.

     SEC. 102. SOCIAL SECURITY.

       (a) Social Security Revenues.--For purposes of Senate 
     enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Federal 
     Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal 
     Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $653,117,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $668,208,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $694,864,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $726,045,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $766,065,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $802,166,000,000.
       (b) Social Security Outlays.--For purposes of Senate 
     enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Federal 
     Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal 
     Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $513,029,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $544,140,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $564,523,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $586,897,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $612,017,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $639,054,000,000.
       (c) Social Security Administrative Expenses.--In the 
     Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget 
     outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
     Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for 
     administrative expenses are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $5,296,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $4,945,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,072,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $5,934,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,568,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $6,433,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,895,000,000.

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       (B) Outlays, $6,809,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $7,223,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $7,148,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $7,599,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $7,517,000,000.

     SEC. 103. POSTAL SERVICE DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE 
                   EXPENSES.

       In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and 
     budget outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary 
     administrative expenses are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $253,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $253,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $262,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $262,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $267,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $267,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $272,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $272,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $277,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $277,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $283,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $283,000,000.

     SEC. 104. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES.

       Congress determines and declares that the appropriate 
     levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 
     2009 through 2014 for each major functional category are:
       (1) National Defense (050):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $693,557,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $671,725,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $691,703,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $695,628,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $619,767,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $662,705,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $628,785,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $642,223,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $639,535,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $641,425,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $653,458,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $646,834,000,000.
       (2) International Affairs (150):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $55,333,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $38,011,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,667,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $48,853,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $48,186,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $51,034,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,421,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $51,649,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,324,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $52,556,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $55,992,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $53,223,000,000.
       (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $35,389,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $30,973,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $31,139,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,467,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $33,993,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $33,032,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $35,008,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $33,749,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $35,557,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $34,971,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $36,211,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $36,066,000,000.
       (4) Energy (270):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $43,919,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $2,952,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $4,488,999,999.
       (B) Outlays, $6,209,999,999.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $4,404,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $8,906,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $4,427,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $10,341,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $4,619,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $5,613,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $4,540,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $484,000,000.
       (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $56,009,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $36,834,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $37,687,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $40,690,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $37,914,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $39,928,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $38,376,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $39,419,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $38,256,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $38,883,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $38,602,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $38,788,000,000.
       (6) Agriculture (350):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $24,974,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,070,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,620,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,881,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $24,602,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,914,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,500,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $17,410,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,295,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $21,877,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,920,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $21,906,000,000.
       (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $694,439,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $665,437,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $61,113,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $85,818,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $25,931,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $37,798,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $9,305,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $8,400,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,985,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $5,329,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $10,958,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$2,762,000,000.
       (8) Transportation (400):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $122,457,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $87,784,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $75,246,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $95,695,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $75,301,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $96,147,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $75,885,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $95,184,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $75,758,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $95,017,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $75,642,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $94,972,000,000.
       (9) Community and Regional Development (450):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,811,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $29,983,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,338,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $28,924,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,152,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $25,574,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,194,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $22,263,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,043,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $19,640,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $16,068,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $17,870,000,000.
       (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 
     (500):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $164,276,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $73,219,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $94,430,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $140,624,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $107,858,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $141,412,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $117,121,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $118,480,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $115,931,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $118,911,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $125,788,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $120,959,000,000.
       (11) Health (550):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $380,158,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $354,397,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $385,447,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $389,191,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $363,906,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $368,001,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $368,156,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $367,749,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $387,170,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $382,650,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $396,523,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $397,368,000,000.
       (12) Medicare (570):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $427,076,000,000.

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       (B) Outlays, $426,736,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $442,828,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $442,959,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $487,518,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $487,336,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $491,854,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $491,626,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $539,711,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $539,862,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $592,893,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $592,733,000,000.
       (13) Income Security (600):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $520,123,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $503,020,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $536,609,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $539,949,200,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $507,502,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $511,313,800,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $450,091,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $450,856,400,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $454,160,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $453,934,500,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $454,931,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $453,726,100,000.
       (14) Social Security (650):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $31,820,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $31,264,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $20,255,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $20,378,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,380,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,513,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $26,478,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $26,628,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $29,529,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $29,679,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $32,728,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,728,000,000.
       (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $97,705,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $94,831,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $106,490,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $105,593,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $112,806,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $112,355,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $108,643,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $108,048,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $113,722,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $113,071,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $115,929,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $115,388,000,000.
       (16) Administration of Justice (750):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $55,783,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $49,853,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,499,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $52,064,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $52,061,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $54,204,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $51,866,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $53,839,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $51,651,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $52,679,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $51,488,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $51,635,000,000.
       (17) General Government (800):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $30,405,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $24,629,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,324,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,024,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,483,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,328,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,715,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,814,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,445,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,260,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,812,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,113,000,000.
       (18) Net Interest (900):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $289,021,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $289,021,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $284,558,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $284,558,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $323,794,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $323,794,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $387,620,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $387,620,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $470,073,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $470,073,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $557,326,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $557,326,000,000.
       (19) Allowances (920):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $0.
       (B) Outlays, $0.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, -$16,031,999,999.
       (B) Outlays, -$7,037,199,999.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, -$16,046,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$15,266,800,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, -$17,512,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$17,654,400,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, -$19,097,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$18,658,500,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, -$20,674,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$19,891,100,000.
       (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, -$78,206,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$78,206,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, -$68,444,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$68,444,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, -$71,653,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$71,653,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, -$74,620,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$74,620,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, -$77,585,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$77,585,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, -$79,491,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$79,491,000,000.

                        TITLE II--RESERVE FUNDS

     SEC. 201. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO TRANSFORM AND 
                   MODERNIZE AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

       (a) Transform and Modernize America's Health Care System.--
     The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise 
     the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and 
     other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution, and 
     make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger that are 
     deficit-neutral over 11 years, for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     are deficit-neutral, reduce excess cost growth in health care 
     spending and are fiscally sustainable over the long term, 
     and--
       (1) protect families' financial health including 
     restraining the growth of health premiums and other health-
     related costs;
       (2) make health coverage affordable to businesses (in 
     particular to small business and individuals who are self-
     employed), households, and governments, including by reducing 
     wasteful and inefficient spending in the health care system 
     with periodic reports on savings achieved through these 
     efforts, and by moving forward with improvements to the 
     health care delivery system, including Medicare;
       (3) aim for universality of health coverage;
       (4) provide portability of coverage and assurance of 
     coverage with appropriate consumer protections;
       (5) guarantee choice of health plans and health care 
     providers to Americans;
       (6) invest in prevention and wellness and address issues of 
     health disparities;
       (7) improve patient safety and quality care, including the 
     appropriate use of health information technology and health 
     data, and promote transparency in cost and quality 
     information to Americans; or
       (8) maintain long-term fiscal sustainability and pays for 
     itself by reducing health care cost growth, improving 
     productivity, or dedicating additional sources of revenue;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not result in 
     diminishing a taxpayers' ability to deduct charitable 
     contributions as an offset to pay for such purposes, and 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 
     2019.
       (b) Other Revisions.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee 
     on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that--
       (1) increase the reimbursement rate for physician services 
     under section 1848(d) of the Social Security Act and that 
     include financial incentives for physicians to improve the 
     quality and efficiency of items and services furnished to 
     Medicare beneficiaries through the use of consensus-based 
     quality measures;
       (2) include measures to encourage physicians to train in 
     primary care residencies and ensure an adequate supply of 
     residents and physicians;
       (3) improve the Medicare program for beneficiaries and 
     protect access to outpatient therapy services (including 
     physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language 
     pathology services) through measures such as repealing the 
     current outpatient therapy caps while protecting 
     beneficiaries from associated premium increases;
       (4) promote payment policies under the Medicare program 
     that reward quality and

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     efficient care and address geographic variations in spending; 
     or
       (5) protect Medicare Advantage enrollees from premium 
     increases and benefit reductions in their Medicare Advantage 
     plans that would result from the estimate of the national per 
     capita Medicare Advantage growth percentage contained in the 
     Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Advance Notice of 
     Methodological Changes for Calender Year 2010, as proposed on 
     February 20, 2009, that is made using the Medicare payment 
     rates for physicians' services assumed in such Advance Notice 
     rather than the Medicare payment rates for physicians' 
     services assumed in the President's budget proposal for 
     fiscal year 2010 (which accounts for additional expected 
     Medicare payments for such services);

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 202. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INVEST IN CLEAN 
                   ENERGY AND PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT.

       (a) Investing in Clean Energy and Preserving the 
     Environment.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 
     Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     would reduce our Nation's dependence on imported energy 
     including through expanded offshore oil and gas production in 
     the Outer Continental Shelf, produce green jobs, promote 
     renewable energy development, strengthen and retool 
     manufacturing supply chains, create a clean energy investment 
     fund, improve electricity transmission, encourage 
     conservation and efficiency (including through industrial 
     energy efficiency programs), make improvements to the Low 
     Income Home Energy Assistance Program, set aside additional 
     funding from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for arctic 
     oil spill research conducted by the Oil Spill Recovery 
     Institute, implement water settlements, or preserve or 
     protect public lands, oceans or coastal areas, by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 
     that such legislation would not increase the cost of 
     producing energy from domestic sources, including oil and gas 
     from the Outer Continental Shelf or other areas; would not 
     increase the cost of energy for American families; would not 
     increase the cost of energy for domestic manufacturers, 
     farmers, fishermen, or other domestic industries; and would 
     not enhance foreign competitiveness against U.S. businesses; 
     and would not increase the deficit over either the period of 
     the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of 
     the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. The legislation 
     may include tax provisions.
       (b) Climate Change Legislation.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that would invest in clean energy technology initiatives, 
     decrease greenhouse gas emissions (without regulating carbon 
     dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 
     from biological processes associated with livestock 
     production), create new jobs in a clean technology economy, 
     strengthen the manufacturing competitiveness of the United 
     States, diversify the domestic clean energy supply to 
     increase the energy security of the United States, protect 
     consumers (including policies that address regional 
     differences), provide incentives for cost-savings achieved 
     through energy efficiencies, provide voluntary opportunities 
     for agriculture and forestry communities to contribute to 
     reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, 
     and help families, workers, communities, and businesses make 
     the transition to a clean energy economy, without increasing 
     electricity or gasoline prices or increasing the overall 
     burden on consumers, through the use of revenues and policies 
     provided in such legislation, without increasing electricity 
     or gasoline prices, by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (c) Allocations.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget shall not revise the allocations in this 
     resolution if the legislation provided for in subsections (a) 
     or (b) is reported from any committee pursuant to section 310 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

     SEC. 203. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that make higher 
     education more accessible and affordable while maintaining a 
     competitive student loan program that provides students and 
     institutions of higher education with a comprehensive choice 
     of loan products and services, which may include legislation 
     to expand and strengthen student aid, such as Pell Grants, or 
     increase college enrollment and completion rates for low-
     income students, such as by investing in programs such as the 
     programs under subpart 4 of part A of title IV of the Higher 
     Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070c et seq.), such as by 
     investing in programs such as the programs under chapters 1 
     and 2 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the Higher 
     Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a-11 et seq., 1070a-21 
     et seq.), by the amounts provided in such legislation for 
     those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019. The legislation may include 
     tax provisions.

     SEC. 204. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD NUTRITION 
                   AND WIC.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 
     reauthorize child nutrition programs or the Special 
     Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and 
     Children (the WIC program), by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 205. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INVESTMENTS IN 
                   AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE.

       (a) Infrastructure.--
       (1) In general.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     provide for a robust Federal investment in America's 
     infrastructure, which may include projects for public 
     housing, energy, water, transportation, including freight and 
     passenger rail, or other infrastructure projects, by the 
     amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.
       (2) Denali commission.--The Chairman of the Budget 
     Committee may also revise the allocations to allow funding 
     for the Denali Commission established by section 303(a) of 
     the Denali Commission Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 3121 note; 112 
     Stat. 2681-637) for each applicable fiscal year at a level 
     equal to not less than the level of funding made available 
     for the Denali Commission during fiscal year 2006.
       (b) Surface Transportation.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that provide new budget authority for surface transportation 
     programs to the extent such new budget authority is offset by 
     an increase in receipts to the Highway Trust Fund (excluding 
     transfers from the general fund of the Treasury into the 
     Highway Trust Fund not offset by a similar increase in 
     receipts), provided further that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (c) Multimodal Transportation Projects.--The Chairman of 
     the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations 
     of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other 
     appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or 
     conference reports that would authorize multimodal 
     transportation projects that--
       (1) provide a set of performance measures;
       (2) require a cost-benefit analysis be conducted to ensure 
     accountability and overall project goals are met; and
       (3) provide flexibility for States, cities, and localities 
     to create strategies that meet the needs of their 
     communities,

     by the amounts provided in that legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.
       (d) Flood Control Projects.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that provide for levee modernization, maintenance, repair, 
     and improvement, by the amounts provided in that legislation 
     for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

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       (e) Allowing Amtrak Passengers to Securely Transport 
     Firearms on Passenger Trains.--None of amounts made available 
     in the reserve fund authorized under this section may be used 
     to provide financial assistance for the National Railroad 
     Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) unless Amtrak passengers are 
     allowed to securely transport firearms in their checked 
     baggage.

     SEC. 206. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC 
                   STABILIZATION AND GROWTH.

       (a) Manufacturing.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports, 
     including tax legislation, that would revitalize and 
     strengthen the United States domestic manufacturing sector by 
     increasing Federal research and development, by expanding the 
     scope and effectiveness of manufacturing programs across the 
     Federal Government, by increasing efforts to train and 
     retrain manufacturing workers, by enhancing workers' 
     technical skills in the use of the new advanced manufacturing 
     technologies to produce competitive energy efficient 
     products, by increasing support for sector workforce 
     training, by increasing support for the redevelopment of 
     closed manufacturing plants, by increasing support for 
     development of alternative fuels and leap-ahead automotive 
     and energy technologies such as advanced batteries, or by 
     establishing tax incentives to encourage the continued 
     production in the United States of advanced technologies and 
     the infrastructure to support such technologies, by the 
     amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.
       (b) Tax Relief.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution by the amounts provided by one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that would provide tax relief, including but not limited to 
     extensions of expiring and expired tax relief, such as 
     enhanced charitable giving from individual retirement 
     accounts, including life-income gifts, or refundable tax 
     relief and enhancement of the employer-provided child care 
     credit and enhancement of the dependent care tax credit, by 
     the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.
       (c) Tax Reform.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would reform 
     the Internal Revenue Code to ensure a sustainable revenue 
     base that would lead to a fairer and more efficient tax 
     system and to a more competitive business environment for 
     United States enterprises, by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (d) Flood Insurance Reform.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     would provide for flood insurance reform and modernization, 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.
       (e) Trade.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 
     Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports related to trade 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.
       (f) Housing Assistance.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     related to housing assistance, which may include low income 
     rental assistance, assistance provided through the Housing 
     Trust Fund created under section 1131 of the Housing and 
     Economic Recovery Act of 2008, and legislation that allows 
     for a temporary suspension of the 10 percent tax penalty in 
     order for struggling families to make an early withdrawal 
     from their qualified retirement accounts to pay their monthly 
     mortgage payments, by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (g) Unemployment Mitigation.--The Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports which 
     reduce the unemployment rate or provide assistance to the 
     unemployed, particularly in the states and localities with 
     the highest rates of unemployment, or improve the 
     implementation of the unemployment compensation program, by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 207. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA'S VETERANS 
                   AND WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that would expand the number 
     of disabled military retirees who receive both disability 
     compensation and retired pay, accelerate the phase-in of 
     concurrent receipt, eliminate the offset between Survivor 
     Benefit Plan annuities and Veterans' Dependency and Indemnity 
     Compensation, enhance servicemember education benefits for 
     members of the National Guard and Reserve by ensuring those 
     benefits keep pace with the national average cost of tuition, 
     provide for the payment of retired pay for members of the 
     Alaska Territorial Guard who served in the Alaska Territorial 
     Guard during and after World War II, or expand veterans' 
     benefits (including for veterans living in rural areas), by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 208. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR JUDICIAL PAY AND 
                   JUDGESHIPS AND POSTAL RETIREE ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Judicial Pay and Judgeships.--The Chairman of the 
     Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of 
     a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that would authorize salary adjustments for justices and 
     judges of the United States, or increase the number of 
     Federal judgeships, by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (b) Postal Retirees.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee 
     on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     adjustments to funding for postal retiree health coverage, by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 209. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE 
                   ACQUISITION AND CONTRACTING REFORM.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that--
       (1) enhance the capability of the Federal acquisition or 
     contracting workforce to achieve better value for taxpayers;
       (2) reduce the use of no-bid and cost-plus contracts;
       (3) reform Department of Defense processes for acquiring 
     weapons systems in order to reduce costs, improve cost and 
     schedule estimation, enhance developmental testing of 
     weapons, or increase the rigor of reviews of programs that 
     experience critical cost growth;
       (4) reduce the award of contracts to contractors with 
     seriously delinquent tax debts;
       (5) reduce the use of contracts, including the continuation 
     of task orders, awarded under the Logistics Civil 
     Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III;
       (6) reform Department of Defense processes for acquiring 
     services in order to reduce costs, improve costs and schedule 
     estimation, enhance oversight, or increase the rigor of 
     reviews of programs that experience critical cost growth;

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       (7) reduce the use of contracts for acquisition, oversight, 
     and management support services; or
       (8) enhance the capability of auditors and inspectors 
     general to oversee Federal acquisition and procurement;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 210. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INVESTMENTS IN OUR 
                   NATION'S COUNTIES AND SCHOOLS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide for 
     the reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community 
     Self Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) or make 
     changes to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act of 1976 (Public 
     Law 94-565), or both, by the amounts provided by that 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 211. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG 
                   ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) Regulation.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that authorize the 
     Food and Drug Administration to regulate products and assess 
     user fees on manufacturers and importers of those products to 
     cover the cost of the Food and Drug Administration's 
     regulatory activities, by the amounts provided in that 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (b) Drug Importation.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee 
     on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that permit the 
     safe importation of prescription drugs approved by the Food 
     and Drug Administration from a specified list of countries, 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.
       (c) Food Safety.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
     the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     would improve the safety of the food supply in the United 
     States, by the amounts provided in such legislation for these 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 212. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR BIPARTISAN 
                   CONGRESSIONAL SUNSET COMMISSION.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that--
       (1) provide for a bipartisan congressional sunset 
     commission, that will review Federal programs, focusing on 
     unauthorized and nonperforming programs;
       (2) provide for a process that will help abolish obsolete 
     and duplicative Federal programs;
       (3) provide for improved government accountability and 
     greater openness in Government decisionmaking; and
       (4) provide for a process that ensures that Congress will 
     consider the commission's reports and recommendations;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 213. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE DOMESTIC 
                   FUELS SECURITY.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports to achieve 
     domestic fuels security by authorizing the Department of 
     Defense to procure alternative fuels from domestic sources 
     under contracts for up to 20 years, provided that such 
     procurement is consistent with section 526 of the Energy 
     Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-140) 
     and provided further that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 214. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPREHENSIVE 
                   INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT FINANCIAL 
                   CRISIS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide 
     resources for a comprehensive investigation to determine the 
     cause of the current financial crisis, hold those responsible 
     accountable, and provide recommendations to prevent another 
     financial crisis of this magnitude from occurring again by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 215. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASED 
                   TRANSPARENCY AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that increase 
     transparency at the Federal Reserve System, including audits 
     of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and 
     the Federal reserve banks, to include--
       (1) an evaluation of the appropriate number and the 
     associated costs of Federal reserve banks;
       (2) publication on its website, with respect to all lending 
     and financial assistance facilities created by the Board to 
     address the financial crisis, of--
       (A) the nature and amounts of the collateral that the 
     central bank is accepting on behalf of American taxpayers in 
     the various lending programs, on no less than a monthly 
     basis;
       (B) the extent to which changes in valuation of credit 
     extensions to various special purpose vehicles, such as 
     Maiden Lane I, Maiden Lane II, and Maiden Lane III, are a 
     result of losses on collateral which will not be recovered;
       (C) the number of borrowers that participate in each of the 
     lending programs and details of the credit extended, 
     including the extent to which the credit is concentrated in 
     one or more institutions; and
       (D) information on the extent to which the central bank is 
     contracting for services of private sector firms for the 
     design, pricing, management, and accounting for the various 
     lending programs and the terms and nature of such contracts 
     and bidding processes; and
       (3) including the identity of each entity to which the 
     Board has provided all loans and other financial assistance 
     since March 24, 2008, the value or amount of that financial 
     assistance, and what that entity is doing with such financial 
     assistance;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 216. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR IMPROVING CHILD 
                   WELFARE.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this 
     resolution by the amounts provided by one or more bills, 
     joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 
     that would make improvements to child welfare programs, 
     including strengthening the recruitment and retention of 
     foster families, or make improvements to the child support 
     enforcement program, by the amounts provided in that 
     legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation 
     would not increase the deficit over either the period of the 
     total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the 
     total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 217. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO FULLY FUND THE 
                   LONG-TERM STABILITY/HOUSING FOR VICTIMS 
                   PROGRAM.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other levels and limits in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that would fully fund the 
     Long-Term Stability/Housing for Victims Program under the 
     Violence Against Women Act which builds collaborations 
     between domestic violence service providers and housing 
     providers and developers to leverage existing resources and 
     create housing solutions that meet victims' need for long-
     term housing at the authorized level, by the amounts provided 
     in that legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

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     SEC. 218. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROVIDING A 
                   NONREFUNDABLE FEDERAL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR THE 
                   PURCHASE OF A PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE DURING A 1-
                   YEAR PERIOD.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this 
     resolution by the amounts provided by a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
     would provide a one-time nonrefundable Federal income tax 
     credit for the purchase of a principal residence during a 1-
     year period in the amount of the lesser of $15,000 or 10 
     percent of the purchase price of such residence, exclusive of 
     any other credit available for the purchase of a residence, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 219. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MONITORING OF FHA-
                   INSURED LENDING.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 
     increase the capacity of the Inspector General of the 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate 
     cases of mortgage fraud of Federal Housing Administration 
     loans, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 220. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ADDRESS THE 
                   SYSTEMIC INEQUITIES OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID 
                   REIMBURSEMENT THAT LEAD TO ACCESS PROBLEMS IN 
                   RURAL AREAS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would address 
     the systemic inequities of Medicare and Medicaid 
     reimbursement that lead to access problems in rural areas, 
     including access to primary care and outpatient services, 
     hospitals, and an adequate supply of providers in the 
     workforce, by the amounts provided in such legislation for 
     those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 221. DEFICIT NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROVIDE FOR 
                   ACCELERATED CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE AND 
                   ADVANCED CLEAN COAL POWER GENERATION RESEARCH, 
                   DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, AND DEPLOYMENT.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels and limits in this 
     resolution by the amounts provided by a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
     would accelerate the research, development, demonstration, 
     and deployment of advanced technologies to capture and store 
     carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and 
     other industrial emission sources and to use coal in an 
     environmentally acceptable manner.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 222. EXPENDITURE OF REMAINING TARP FUNDS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that reaffirm that 
     the remaining Troubled Asset Relief Program funds shall be 
     used to save homes, save small businesses, help the municipal 
     bond market, make credit more widely available, and provide 
     additional resources for the Special Inspector General for 
     the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Congressional 
     Oversight Panel, and the Government Accountability Office for 
     vigorous audit and evaluation of all expenditures and 
     commitments made under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, by 
     the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 223. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROHIBITING 
                   UNDESERVED CONTRACTING PERFORMANCE BONUSES.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 
     prohibit federally funded bonuses awarded to contractors and 
     government executives responsible for over budget projects 
     and programs that fail to meet basic performance 
     requirements, by the amounts provided in that legislation for 
     that purpose, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2010 through 2019.

     SEC. 224. DEFICIT-REDUCTION RESERVE FUND TO ENSURE THE PLEDGE 
                   OF PRESIDENT OBAMA TO ELIMINATE WASTEFUL, 
                   INEFFICIENT, AND DUPLICATIVE PROGRAMS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that achieves 
     savings by going through the Federal Budget line by line, as 
     President Obama has called for, to eliminate wasteful, 
     inefficient, and duplicative spending by requiring--
       (1) the head of every department and agency to provide a 
     report to Congress within 90 days after the date of enactment 
     of this resolution on programs that are duplicative, 
     inefficient, or failing, with recommendations for elimination 
     and consolidation of these programs,
       (2) the Office of Management and Budget to provide a report 
     to Congress within 90 days after the date of enactment of 
     this resolution on programs that are duplicative government-
     wide, with recommendations for elimination or consolidation 
     of these programs, and
       (3) every standing committee of the Senate to conduct at 
     least one oversight hearing each fiscal year in order to 
     identify wasteful, inefficient, outdated, and duplicative 
     programs that could be eliminated and consolidated,

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 225. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE VIOLENCE 
                   AGAINST WOMEN ACT (VAWA) AND THE FAMILY 
                   VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES ACT (FVPSA), 
                   AND OTHER RELATED PROGRAMS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide 
     resources for programs administered through the Violence 
     Against Women Act and the Family Violence Prevention and 
     Services Act, and other related programs, by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 
     that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 
     either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 
     2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 
     2019.

     SEC. 226. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ENDING ABUSIVE NO-
                   BID CONTRACTS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would end 
     abusive no-bid contracts by requiring all Federal contracts 
     over $25,000 to be competitively bid, by the amounts provided 
     in that legislation for that purpose, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2010 through 2019.

     SEC. 227. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HOME VISITATION 
                   PROGRAMS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide funds 
     to States to establish or expand quality programs of early 
     childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, 
     child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification 
     of developmental and health delays, including potential 
     mental health concerns, and that--
       (1) serve pregnant women, or parent's or other primary 
     caregivers and their children under the age of entry into 
     kindergarten through quality programs of early childhood home 
     visitation;
       (2) are delivered by nurses, social workers, child 
     development specialists, or other well-trained and competent 
     staff, as demonstrated by education or training and the 
     provision of ongoing specific training and supervision in the 
     model of service being delivered;
       (3) have outcomes and research standards that--
       (A) demonstrate ongoing positive outcomes for children, 
     parents and other primary caregivers that enhance child 
     health and development;
       (B) conform to a clear consistent home visitation model 
     that has been in existence for at least 3 years and that--

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       (i) is research-based, grounded in relevant empirically-
     based knowledge;
       (ii) is linked to program determined outcomes;
       (iii) is associated with a national organization or 
     institution of higher education that has comprehensive home 
     visitation program standards that ensure high quality service 
     delivery and continuous program quality improvement; and
       (iv) has demonstrated significant positive outcomes when 
     evaluated using well-designed and rigorous randomized 
     controlled or well-designed and rigorous quasi-experimental 
     research designs, and the evaluation results have been 
     published in a peer-reviewed journal; and
       (4) show, establish, or propose linkages to high quality 
     early learning opportunities;
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 228. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR 21ST CENTURY 
                   COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other levels and limits in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that would increase funding 
     for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 229. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROVIDE FOR THE 
                   EXTENSION OF THE TOP INDIVIDUAL TAX RATES FOR 
                   SMALL BUSINESSES.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that maintains the 
     rates of tax under section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 for the highest two rate brackets at 33 percent and 35 
     percent, respectively, for individuals who receive more than 
     50 percent of income from a small business concern (as 
     defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act), by the 
     amounts provided by that legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 230. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PENSION COVERAGE 
                   FOR EMPLOYEES OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
                   LABORATORIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP SITES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would authorize 
     funding to cover the full cost of pension obligations for 
     current and past employees of laboratories and environmental 
     cleanup sites under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
     Energy (including benefits paid to security personnel) in a 
     manner that does not impact the missions of those 
     laboratories and environmental cleanup sites.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 231. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROVISION OF 
                   CRITICAL RESOURCES TO FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRE 
                   DEPARTMENTS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other levels and limits in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that would provide 
     firefighters and fire departments with critical resources 
     under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant and the Staffing 
     for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Grant 
     of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that 
     such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 
     the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or 
     the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 232. DEFICIT-REDUCTION RESERVE FUND FOR THE ELIMINATION 
                   AND RECOVERY OF IMPROPER PAYMENTS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the aggregates, allocations, functional totals, and 
     other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution upon 
     enactment of legislation that achieves savings by requiring 
     that Federal departments and agencies eliminate improper 
     payments and increase the use of the recovery audits and uses 
     such savings to reduce the deficit, by the amount of such 
     savings, provided that such legislation would decrease the 
     deficit.

     SEC. 233. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE 
                   1993 INCREASE IN THE INCOME TAX ON SOCIAL 
                   SECURITY BENEFITS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this 
     resolution by the amounts provided by a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
     would repeal the 1993 increase in the income tax on social 
     security benefits, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 234. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR LEGISLATION TO 
                   INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL LOSSES ALLOWED 
                   TO INDIVIDUALS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that increases the 
     amount by which a capital loss of an individual is allowed, 
     by the amounts provided by that legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 235. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FOSTER CARE 
                   FINANCING REFORM.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would--
       (1) change the Federal foster care payment system from a 
     system that supports programs to one that supports children, 
     whatever their best placement may be, and one that promotes 
     permanency for children;
       (2) when it is determined to be in the best interests of 
     the child, promote and improve family support, family 
     preservation, including residential family treatment for 
     families suffering from substance abuse and addiction, and 
     time-limited family reunification services;
       (3) provide for subsidies and support programs that are 
     available to support the needs of the children prior to 
     removal, during removal, and post placement, whether through 
     reunification, adoption, kinship adoption, or guardianship;
       (4) promote innovation and best practice at the State 
     level; and
       (5) guarantee that public funds are used to effectively 
     meet the needs of children who have been abused or neglected;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 236. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTHCARE 
                   PROFESSIONALS FOR THE VETERANS HEALTH 
                   ADMINISTRATION.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would--
       (1) increase the number of healthcare professionals in the 
     Veterans Health Administration to meet the needs of the 
     expanding number of veterans and to fill healthcare 
     professional positions in the Veterans Health Administration 
     that are currently vacant; and
       (2) provide enhanced incentives for healthcare 
     professionals of the Veterans Health Administration who serve 
     in rural areas;

     by the amounts provided in that legislation for that purpose, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the total of the period of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years of 
     2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 237. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REPEAL DEDUCTIONS 
                   FROM MINERAL REVENUE PAYMENTS TO STATES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would repeal the 
     requirement to deduct certain amounts from mineral revenues 
     payable to States under the heading ``administrative 
     provisions'' under the heading ``Minerals Management 
     Service'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR'' of 
     title I of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-8).
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

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     SEC. 238. RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE TAX EQUITY FOR STATES 
                   WITHOUT PERSONAL INCOME TAXES.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the aggregates, allocations, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     would provide for the permanent extension of the deduction 
     for state and local sales taxes, by the amounts provided in 
     such legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 239. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR SETTING 
                   PERFORMANCE STANDARDS TO IDENTIFY FAILING 
                   GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would develop 
     performance measures for each program receiving Federal 
     assistance under their jurisdiction, by the amounts provided 
     in that legislation for that purpose, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2010 through 2019.

     SEC. 240. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO EXPEDITE RESEARCH 
                   ON VIABILITY OF USE OF HIGHER ETHANOL BLENDS AT 
                   SERVICE STATION PUMP.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would expedite 
     research at the Department of Energy and the Environmental 
     Protection Agency on the viability of the use of higher 
     ethanol blends at the service station pump.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 241. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUNDS TO ENHANCE DRUG-
                   CONTROL EFFORTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES AND 
                   ALONG OUR BORDERS.

       (a) HIDTA.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 
     Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     increase the number of counties designated as High Intensity 
     Drug Trafficking Areas to provide coordination, equipment, 
     technology, and additional resources to combat drug 
     trafficking and its harmful consequences in critical regions 
     of the United States by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.
       (b) Drug Smuggling.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee 
     on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 
     limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     increase drug interdiction funding at the Department of 
     Homeland Security to combat drug smuggling across 
     international borders by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 242. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL 
                   SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL SECURITY.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the aggregates, allocations, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 
     promote financial security through financial literacy, 
     retirement planning, and savings incentives, including 
     individual development accounts and child savings accounts, 
     provided that such legislation does not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total fiscal years 2009 through 
     2014 or the period of the total fiscal years 2009 through 
     2019.

     SEC. 243. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE NATIONAL 
                   HEALTH SERVICE CORPS.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions or conference reports that provide the 
     National Health Service Corps with $235,000,000 for fiscal 
     year 2010, by the amount provided in that legislation for 
     those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total for 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total for 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 244. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE ANIMAL 
                   HEALTH AND DISEASE PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would ensure 
     that the animal health and disease program established under 
     section 1433 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3195) is 
     fully funded.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 245. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASE IN THE 
                   END STRENGTH FOR ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL OF THE 
                   ARMY.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other levels and limits in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     motions, or conference reports that would reduce the strain 
     on the United States Armed Forces by authorizing an increase 
     in the end strength for active duty personnel of the Army to 
     a level not less than 577,400 persons, by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that 
     such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 
     the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or 
     the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 246. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR WILDLAND FIRE 
                   MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would--
       (1) allow wildland fire management funds for hazardous 
     fuels reduction and hazard mitigation activities in areas at 
     high risk of catastrophic wildfire to be distributed to areas 
     demonstrating highest priority needs, as determined by the 
     Chief of the Forest Service; and
       (2) provide that no State matching funds are required for 
     the conduct of activities described in paragraph (1).
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 247. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ESTATE TAX RELIEF.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would provide 
     for estate tax reform legislation establishing--
       (1) an estate tax exemption level of $5,000,000, indexed 
     for inflation,
       (2) a maximum estate tax rate of 35 percent,
       (3) a reunification of the estate and gift credits, and
       (4) portability of exemption between spouses, and

     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 248. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT PROVIDES 
                   ADDITIONAL RELIEF FOR THE ESTATE TAX BEYOND THE 
                   LEVELS ASSUMED IN THIS BUDGET RESOLUTION UNLESS 
                   AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL TAX RELIEF IS 
                   PROVIDED TO MIDDLE-CLASS TAXPAYERS.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order to 
     consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report that would provide estate tax relief beyond 
     $3,500,000 per person ($7,000,000 per married couple) and a 
     graduated rate ending at less that 45 percent unless an equal 
     amount of tax relief is provided to Americans earning less 
     than $100,000 per year and that such relief is in addition to 
     the amounts assumed in this budget resolution.
       (b) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only 
     by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
     chosen and sworn.
       (c) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate duly chosen and sworn shall be required 
     to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on any point 
     of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 249. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND INCREASE FDIC AND NCUA 
                   BORROWING AUTHORITY.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the aggregates, allocations, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, motions, or

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     conference reports to increase the borrowing authority of the 
     Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Credit 
     Union Administration, provided that such legislation does not 
     increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 250. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INNOVATIVE LOAN 
                   GUARANTEE PROGRAM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that authorizes an 
     additional $50,000,000,000 for use to provide loan guarantees 
     for eligible projects under title XVII of the Energy Policy 
     Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16511 et seq.).
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 251. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH 
                   AND DEVELOPMENT.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that authorizes 
     nuclear research and development activities, including the 
     Generation IV program, the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative, 
     and the Light Water Reactor Sustainability program.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

     SEC. 252. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE 2012 
                   COMPLETION OF FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
                   FACILITIES.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports in order to 
     provide sufficient funding for the General Services 
     Administration to complete construction of the Food and Drug 
     Administration White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland by 
     2012, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.

     SEC. 253. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ENERGY STAR FOR 
                   SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would set aside, 
     from amounts made available for the Energy Star Program of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency, at least 2 percent for 
     the Energy Star for Small Business Program.
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in that subsection would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2019.

                       TITLE III--BUDGET PROCESS

                     Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement

     SEC. 301. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS, PROGRAM INTEGRITY 
                   INITIATIVES, AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS.

       (a) Senate Point of Order.--
       (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     section, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider 
     any bill or joint resolution (or amendment, motion, or 
     conference report on that bill or joint resolution) that 
     would cause the discretionary spending limits in this section 
     to be exceeded.
       (2) Supermajority waiver and appeals.--
       (A) Waiver.--This subsection may be waived or suspended in 
     the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of 
     the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (B) Appeals.--Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of 
     the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection shall 
     be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
     controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or 
     joint resolution. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this subsection.
       (b) Senate Discretionary Spending Limits.--In the Senate 
     and as used in this section, the term ``discretionary 
     spending limit'' means--
       (1) for fiscal year 2009, $1,391,471,000,000 in new budget 
     authority and $1,220,843,000,000 in outlays; and
       (2) for fiscal year 2010, $1,079,050,000,000 in new budget 
     authority and $1,268,104,000,000 in outlays;
     as adjusted in conformance with the adjustment procedures in 
     subsection (c).
       (c) Adjustments in the Senate.--
       (1) In general.--After the reporting of a bill or joint 
     resolution relating to any matter described in paragraph (2), 
     or the offering of an amendment thereto or the submission of 
     a conference report thereon--
       (A) the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     adjust the discretionary spending limits, budgetary 
     aggregates, and allocations pursuant to section 302(a) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, by the amount of new budget 
     authority in that measure for that purpose and the outlays 
     flowing therefrom; and
       (B) following any adjustment under subparagraph (A), the 
     Senate Committee on Appropriations may report appropriately 
     revised suballocations pursuant to section 302(b) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to carry out this 
     subsection.
       (2) Matters described.--Matters referred to in paragraph 
     (1) are as follows:
       (A) Continuing disability reviews and ssi 
     redeterminations.--If a bill or joint resolution is reported 
     making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates 
     $273,000,000 for continuing disability reviews and 
     Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the Social 
     Security Administration, and provides an additional 
     appropriation of up to $485,000,000 for continuing disability 
     reviews and Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for 
     the Social Security Administration, then the discretionary 
     spending limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on 
     Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for that purpose, but not to 
     exceed $485,000,000 in budget authority and outlays flowing 
     therefrom for fiscal year 2010.
       (B) Internal revenue service tax enforcement.--If a bill or 
     joint resolution is reported making appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2010 that appropriates $7,100,000,000 for the Internal 
     Revenue Service for enhanced tax enforcement to address the 
     Federal tax gap (taxes owed but not paid) and provides an 
     additional appropriation of up to $890,000,000 for the 
     Internal Revenue Service for enhanced tax enforcement to 
     address the Federal tax gap, then the discretionary spending 
     limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, 
     and aggregates may be adjusted by the amounts provided in 
     such legislation for that purpose, but not to exceed 
     $890,000,000 in budget authority and outlays flowing 
     therefrom for fiscal year 2010.
       (C) Health care fraud and abuse control.--If a bill or 
     joint resolution is reported making appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2010 that appropriates up to $311,000,000 to the Health 
     Care Fraud and Abuse Control program at the Department of 
     Health and Human Services, then the discretionary spending 
     limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, 
     and aggregates may be adjusted by the amounts provided in 
     such legislation for that purpose, but not to exceed 
     $311,000,000 in budget authority and outlays flowing 
     therefrom for fiscal year 2010.
       (D) Unemployment insurance improper payment reviews.--If a 
     bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations 
     for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $10,000,000 for in-
     person reemployment and eligibility assessments and 
     unemployment insurance improper payment reviews, and provides 
     an additional appropriation of up to $50,000,000 for in-
     person reemployment and eligibility assessments and 
     unemployment insurance improper payment reviews, then the 
     discretionary spending limits, allocation to the Senate 
     Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, 
     but not to exceed $50,000,000 in budget authority and outlays 
     flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010.
       (E) Reducing waste in defense contracting.--If a bill or 
     joint resolution is reported making appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2010 that appropriates up to $100,000,000 to the 
     Department of Defense for additional activities to reduce 
     waste, fraud, abuse, and overpayments in defense contracting 
     or to enhance the capability of the defense acquisition or 
     contracting workforce to save taxpayer resources, then the 
     discretionary spending limits, allocation to the Senate 
     Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, 
     but not to exceed $100,000,000 in budget authority and 
     outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010.
       (3) Adjustments to support ongoing overseas contingency 
     operations.--The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 
     Budget may adjust the discretionary spending limits, 
     allocations to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and 
     aggregates for one or more--
       (A) bills reported by the Senate Committee on 
     Appropriations or passed by the House of Representatives;
       (B) joint resolutions or amendments reported by the Senate 
     Committee on Appropriations;
       (C) amendments between the Houses received from the House 
     of Representatives or

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     Senate amendments offered by the authority of the Senate 
     Committee on Appropriations; or
       (D) conference reports;

     making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for overseas 
     contingency operations by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes (and so designated pursuant to 
     this paragraph), up to $130,000,000,000 in budget authority 
     for fiscal year 2010 and the new outlays flowing therefrom.
       (4) Revised appropriations for fiscal year 2010.--
       (A) In general.--If after adoption of this resolution by 
     the Congress, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) re-
     estimates the President's request for discretionary spending 
     in fiscal year 2010 at an aggregate level different from the 
     CBO preliminary estimate dated March 20, 2009, the Chairman 
     of the Senate Committee on the Budget may adjust the 
     discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and 
     allocations pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 by the amount of budget authority and 
     outlays flowing therefrom, to reflect the difference between 
     such re-estimate and the CBO preliminary estimate dated March 
     20, 2009.
       (B) Suballocations.--Following any adjustment under 
     subparagraph (A), the Senate Committee on Appropriations may 
     report appropriately revised suballocations pursuant to 
     section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to 
     carry out this paragraph.
       (d) Inapplicability.--In the Senate, subsections (a), (b), 
     (c), and (d) of section 312 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th 
     Congress) shall no longer apply.

     SEC. 302. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) In General.--
       (1) Point of order.--Except as provided in subsection (b), 
     it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, 
     joint resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report 
     that would provide an advance appropriation.
       (2) Definition.--In this section, the term ``advance 
     appropriation'' means any new budget authority provided in a 
     bill or joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2010 that first becomes available for any fiscal year 
     after 2010, or any new budget authority provided in a bill or 
     joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2011, that first becomes 
     available for any fiscal year after 2011.
       (b) Exceptions.--Advance appropriations may be provided--
       (1) for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 for programs, projects, 
     activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory 
     statement of managers accompanying this resolution under the 
     heading ``Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations'' in 
     an aggregate amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new 
     budget authority in each year;
       (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and
       (3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical 
     Services, Medical Administration, Medical Facilities, and 
     Medical and Prosthetic Research accounts of the Veterans 
     Health Administration.
       (c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
       (1) Waiver.--In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under subsection (a).
       (d) Form of Point of Order.--A point of order under 
     subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in 
     section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       (e) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a 
     conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 
     relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any 
     Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order 
     being sustained, such material contained in such conference 
     report shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed 
     to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede 
     from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or 
     concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as 
     the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of 
     only that portion of the conference report or House 
     amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such 
     motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which 
     such point of order is sustained against a conference report 
     (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by 
     operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be 
     in order.
       (f) Inapplicability.--In the Senate, section 313 of S. Con. 
     Res. 70 (110th Congress) shall no longer apply.

     SEC. 303. EMERGENCY LEGISLATION.

       (a) Authority To Designate.--In the Senate, with respect to 
     a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or 
     appropriations for discretionary accounts that Congress 
     designates as an emergency requirement in such measure, the 
     amounts of new budget authority, outlays, and receipts in all 
     fiscal years resulting from that provision shall be treated 
     as an emergency requirement for the purpose of this section.
       (b) Exemption of Emergency Provisions.--Any new budget 
     authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision 
     designated as an emergency requirement, pursuant to this 
     section, in any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report shall not count for purposes of sections 
     302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 
     201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) (relating to pay-as-
     you-go), section 311 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress) 
     (relating to long-term deficits), and sections 301 and 304 of 
     this resolution (relating to discretionary spending and 
     short-term deficits). Designated emergency provisions shall 
     not count for the purpose of revising allocations, 
     aggregates, or other levels pursuant to procedures 
     established under section 301(b)(7) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 for deficit-neutral reserve funds and 
     revising discretionary spending limits set pursuant to 
     section 301 of this resolution.
       (c) Designations.--If a provision of legislation is 
     designated as an emergency requirement under this section, 
     the committee report and any statement of managers 
     accompanying that legislation shall include an explanation of 
     the manner in which the provision meets the criteria in 
     subsection (f).
       (d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``direct 
     spending'', ``receipts'', and ``appropriations for 
     discretionary accounts'' mean any provision of a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
     affects direct spending, receipts, or appropriations as those 
     terms have been defined and interpreted for purposes of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       (e) Point of Order.--
       (1) In general.--When the Senate is considering a bill, 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report, if a 
     point of order is made by a Senator against an emergency 
     designation in that measure, that provision making such a 
     designation shall be stricken from the measure and may not be 
     offered as an amendment from the floor.
       (2) Supermajority waiver and appeals.--
       (A) Waiver.--Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended in 
     the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (B) Appeals.--Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of 
     the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection shall 
     be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
     controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or 
     joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of 
     three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and 
     sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling 
     of the Chair on a point of order raised under this 
     subsection.
       (3) Definition of an emergency designation.--For purposes 
     of paragraph (1), a provision shall be considered an 
     emergency designation if it designates any item as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to this subsection.
       (4) Form of the point of order.--A point of order under 
     paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in 
     section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       (5) Conference reports.--When the Senate is considering a 
     conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 
     relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any 
     Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order 
     being sustained, such material contained in such conference 
     report shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed 
     to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede 
     from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or 
     concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as 
     the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of 
     only that portion of the conference report or House 
     amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such 
     motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which 
     such point of order is sustained against a conference report 
     (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by 
     operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be 
     in order.
       (f) Criteria.--
       (1) In general.--For purposes of this section, any 
     provision is an emergency requirement if the situation 
     addressed by such provision is--
       (A) necessary, essential, or vital (not merely useful or 
     beneficial);
       (B) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building up 
     over time;
       (C) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring 
     immediate action;
       (D) subject to subparagraph (B), unforeseen, unpredictable, 
     and unanticipated; and
       (E) not permanent, temporary in nature.
       (2) Unforeseen.--An emergency that is part of an aggregate 
     level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally 
     estimated in advance, is not unforeseen.
       (g) Inapplicability.--In the Senate, section 204(a) of S. 
     Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on 
     the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply.

     SEC. 304. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION INCREASING 
                   SHORT-TERM DEFICIT.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report (except measures within the

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     jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations) that would 
     cause a net increase in the deficit in excess of 
     $10,000,000,000 in any fiscal year provided for in the most 
     recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget unless 
     it is fully offset over the period of all fiscal years 
     provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent 
     resolution on the budget.
       (b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal in the Senate.--
       (1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only 
     by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
     chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain 
     an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order 
     raised under this section.
       (c) Determinations of Budget Levels.--For purposes of this 
     section, the levels shall be determined on the basis of 
     estimates provided by the Senate Committee on the Budget.
       (d) Sunset.--This section shall expire on September 30, 
     2018.
       (e) Inapplicability.--In the Senate, section 315 of S. Con. 
     Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution in the 
     budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply.

     SEC. 305. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST PROVISIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
                   LEGISLATION THAT CONSTITUTE CHANGES IN 
                   MANDATORY PROGRAMS AFFECTING THE CRIME VICTIMS 
                   FUND.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order to 
     consider any appropriations legislation, including any 
     amendment thereto, motion in relation thereto, or conference 
     report thereon, that includes any provision or provisions 
     affecting the Crime Victims Fund, as defined by section 1402 
     of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601), which 
     constitutes a change in a mandatory program that would have 
     been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under 
     section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 
     2002) were they included in legislation other than 
     appropriations legislation. A point of order pursuant to this 
     section shall be raised against such provision or provisions 
     as described in subsections (d) and (e).
       (b) Determination.--The determination of whether a 
     provision is subject to a point of order pursuant to this 
     section shall be made by the Committee on the Budget of the 
     Senate.
       (c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--This section may be 
     waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote 
     of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An 
     affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the 
     Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain 
     an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order 
     raised under this section.
       (d) General Point of Order.--It shall be in order for a 
     Senator to raise a single point of order that several 
     provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer 
     may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the 
     provisions against which the Senator raised the point of 
     order. If the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of 
     order as to some of the provisions (including provisions of 
     an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the 
     Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions 
     (including provision of an amendment, motion, or conference 
     report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the 
     point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this 
     section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point 
     of order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of order 
     as it applies to some or all of the provisions against which 
     the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is 
     amendable in accordance with rules and precedents of the 
     Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of 
     order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding 
     Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all 
     of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled.
       (e) Form of the Point of Order.--When the Senate is 
     considering a conference report on, or an amendment between 
     the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order 
     being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such 
     point of order being sustained, such material contained in 
     such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, 
     and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of 
     whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur 
     with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment 
     with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further 
     amendment shall consist of only that portion of the 
     conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not 
     so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case 
     in which such point of order is sustained against a 
     conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such 
     conference report by operation of this subsection), no 
     further amendment shall be in order.

     SEC. 306. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT RAISES 
                   TAXES ON MIDDLE-INCOME TAXPAYERS.

       (a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses, 
     motion, or conference report that--
       (1) would cause revenues to be more than the level of 
     revenues set forth for that first fiscal year or for the 
     total of that fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years in the 
     applicable resolution for which allocations are provided 
     under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
     and
       (2) includes a Federal tax increase which would have 
     widespread applicability on middle-income taxpayers.
       (b) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (1) Middle-income taxpayers.--The term ``middle-income 
     taxpayers'' means single individuals with $200,000 or less in 
     adjusted gross income (as defined in section 62 of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986) and married couples filing 
     jointly with $250,000 or less in adjusted gross income (as so 
     defined).
       (2) Widespread applicability.--The term ``widespread 
     applicability'' includes the definition with respect to 
     individual income taxpayers in section 4022 (b)(1) of the 
     Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 
     1998.
       (3) Federal tax increase.--The term ``Federal tax 
     increase'' means--
       (A) any amendment to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     that, directly or indirectly, increases the amount of Federal 
     tax; or
       (B) any legislation that the Congressional Budget Office 
     would score as an increase in Federal revenues.
       (c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
       (1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the 
     Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the 
     Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 307. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT RAISES INCOME 
                   TAX RATES ON SMALL BUSINESSES.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order, 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report that includes any provision which increases 
     Federal income tax rates.
       (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``Federal income 
     tax rates'' means any rate of tax imposed under subsection 
     (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, 11(b), or 55(b) of 
     the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
       (c) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the 
     Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (d) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 308. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT IMPOSES A 
                   NATIONAL ENERGY TAX ON MIDDLE-INCOME TAXPAYERS.

       (a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses, 
     motion, or conference report that includes a National energy 
     tax increase which would have widespread applicability on 
     middle-income taxpayers.
       (b) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (1) Middle income taxpayers.--The term ``middle-income'' 
     taxpayers means single individuals with $200,000 or less in 
     adjusted gross income (as defined in section 62 of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986) and married couples filing 
     jointly with $250,000 or less in adjusted gross income (as so 
     defined).
       (2) Widespread applicability.--The term ``widespread 
     applicability'' includes the definition with respect to 
     individual income taxpayers in section 4022(b)(1) of the 
     Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 
     1998.
       (3) National energy tax increase.--The term ``National 
     energy tax increase'' means any legislation that the 
     Congressional Budget Office would score as leading to an 
     increase in the costs of producing, generating or consuming 
     energy.

     SEC. 309. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT IMPOSES A 
                   MARRIAGE TAX PENALTY.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order, 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report that includes any provision which imposes 
     or increases a marriage tax penalty.
       (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``marriage 
     penalty'' means any provision under which the Federal income 
     tax liability of taxpayers filing a joint return under 
     section 6013 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is greater 
     than such tax liability of such taxpayers if such taxpayers 
     were unmarried and had filed individual tax returns under 
     section 1(c) of such Code.
       (c) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only 
     by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
     chosen and sworn.
       (d) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

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     SEC. 310. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT INCREASES 
                   REVENUE ABOVE THE LEVELS ESTABLISHED IN THE 
                   BUDGET RESOLUTION.

       (a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses, 
     motion, or conference report that would cause revenues to be 
     more than the level of the revenues set forth, prior to any 
     adjustment made pursuant under any reserve fund, for that 
     first fiscal year or for the total of that fiscal year and 
     the ensuing fiscal years in the applicable resolution for 
     which allocations are provided under section 302(a) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       (b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
       (1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the 
     Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the 
     Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 311. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT INCREASES TAXES 
                   DURING ANY PERIOD WHEN THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 
                   IN EXCESS OF 5.8 PERCENT.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order, 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report during any period in which the unemployment 
     rate in the United States (as measured by the most recent 
     Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey and 
     based on the national seasonally adjusted rate for persons 
     age 16 and over) exceeds 5.8 percent if such bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report increases 
     taxes.
       (b) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only 
     by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
     chosen and sworn.
       (c) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 312. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT CAUSES 
                   SIGNIFICANT JOB LOSS.

       (a) In general.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses, 
     motion, or conference report that--
        (1) would cause revenues to be more than the level of 
     revenues set forth for that first fiscal year or for the 
     total of that fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years in the 
     applicable resolution for which allocations are provided 
     under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
     and
       (2) would cause significant job loss in manufacturing- or 
     coal-dependent regions of the United States such as the 
     Midwest, Great Plains or South.
       (b) Supermajority waiver and appeal.--
       (1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the 
     Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the 
     Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

     SEC. 313. LIMITATIONS ON LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PERMIT THE 
                   SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO RECOVER FROM A 
                   PRIVATE HEALTH INSURER OF A DISABLED VETERAN 
                   AMOUNTS PAID FOR TREATMENT OF SUCH DISABILITY.

       (a) Point of Order.--If the Senate is considering 
     legislation, upon a point of order being made by any Senator 
     against the legislation, or any part of the legislation, that 
     the legislation, if enacted, would result in providing 
     authority to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recover 
     from a private health insurer of a veteran with a service-
     connected disability amounts paid by the Secretary for the 
     furnishing of care or treatment for such disability, and the 
     point of order is sustained by the Presiding Officer, the 
     Senate shall cease consideration of the legislation.
       (b) Waivers and Appeals.--
       (1) Waivers.--
       (A) In general.--Before the Presiding Officer rules on a 
     point of order described in subsection (a), any Senator may 
     move to waive the point of order and the motion to waive 
     shall not be subject to amendment.
       (B) Vote.--A point of order described in subsection (a) is 
     waived only by the affirmative vote of 60 Members of the 
     Senate, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeals.--
       (A) In general.--After the Presiding Officer rules on a 
     point of order described in subsection (a), any Senator may 
     appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on the point of 
     order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on which 
     the Presiding Officer ruled.
       (B) Vote.--A ruling of the Presiding Officer on a point of 
     order described in subsection (a) is sustained unless 60 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, vote not to 
     sustain the ruling.
       (3) Debate.--
       (A) In general.--Debate on the motion to waive under 
     paragraph (1) or on an appeal of the ruling of the Presiding 
     Officer under paragraph (2) shall be limited to 1 hour.
       (B) Division.--The time shall be equally divided between, 
     and controlled by, the Majority leader and the Minority 
     Leader of the Senate, or their designees.
       (c) Legislation Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``legislation'' means a bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
     motion, or conference report.
       (d) Termination.--The provisions of this section shall 
     terminate on December 31, 2012.

     SEC. 314. POINT OF ORDER.

       (a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses, 
     motion, or conference report that--
       (1) weakens any authorized anti-terrorism tool or 
     investigative method provided by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 
     (PL 107-56), the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
     Act of 2004 (PL 108-458), the USA Patriot Improvement and 
     Reauthorization Act of 2005 (PL 109-177), or the FISA 
     Amendments Act of 2008 (PL 110-261); or
       (2) eliminates any authorized anti-terrorism tool or 
     investigative method provided by any of the statutes referred 
     to in paragraph (1).
       (b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeals.--
       (1) Waiver.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in 
     the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of 
     the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
       (2) Appeals.--Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of 
     the Chair relating to any provision of subsection (a) shall 
     be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
     controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or 
     joint resolution. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under subsection (a).

     SEC. 315. RESTRICTIONS ON UNFUNDED MANDATES ON STATES AND 
                   LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, or 
     conference report that would increase the direct costs of one 
     or more States or local governments by an amount that exceeds 
     the threshold provided under section 424(a)(1) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 658c(a)(1)).
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).

     SEC. 316. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT ELIMINATES THE 
                   ABILITY OF AMERICANS TO KEEP THEIR HEALTH PLAN 
                   OR THEIR CHOICE OF DOCTOR.

       (a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order, 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
     conference report that eliminates the ability of Americans to 
     keep their health plan or their choice of doctor (as 
     determined by the Congressional Budget Office).
       (b) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only 
     by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
     chosen and sworn.
       (c) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
     Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
     required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
     point of order raised under this section.

                      Subtitle B--Other Provisions

     SEC. 321. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE.

       In the Senate, all committees are directed to review 
     programs within their jurisdiction to root out waste, fraud, 
     and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to 
     issues raised by Government Accountability Office reports. 
     Based on these oversight efforts and committee performance 
     reviews of programs within their jurisdiction, committees are 
     directed to include recommendations for improved governmental 
     performance in their annual views and estimates reports 
     required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act 
     of 1974 to the Committees on the Budget.

     SEC. 322. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY 
                   ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

       In the Senate, notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget 
     Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 2009a of title 39, 
     United States Code, the joint explanatory statement 
     accompanying the conference report on any concurrent 
     resolution on the budget shall include in its allocations 
     under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
     to the Committees on Appropriations amounts for the 
     discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security 
     Administration and of the Postal Service.

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     SEC. 323. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 
                   AND AGGREGATES.

       (a) Application.--Any adjustments of allocations and 
     aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall--
       (1) apply while that measure is under consideration;
       (2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and
       (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 
     practicable.
       (b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates.--Revised 
     allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments 
     shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates contained in 
     this resolution.
       (c) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this 
     resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, 
     direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, 
     deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal 
     years shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by 
     the Senate Committee on the Budget.

     SEC. 324. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 
                   DEFINITIONS.

       Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing 
     for a change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the 
     Senate Committee on the Budget may make adjustments to the 
     levels and allocations in this resolution in accordance with 
     section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 
     2002).

     SEC. 325. DEBT DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT.

       (a) In General.--It shall not be in order to consider a 
     budget resolution in the Senate unless it contains a debt 
     disclosure section including all, and only, the following 
     disclosures regarding debt:

     ``SEC. __. DEBT DISCLOSURES.

       ``(a) In General.--The levels assumed in this  budget 
     resolution allow the gross Federal debt of the nation to 
     rise/fall by $______ from the current year, fiscal year 20__, 
     to the fifth year of the budget window, fiscal year 20__.
       ``(b) Per Person.--The levels assumed in this  budget 
     resolution allow the gross Federal debt of the nation to 
     rise/fall by $____ on every United States citizen from the 
     current year, fiscal year 20__ to the fifth year of the 
     budget window, fiscal year 20__.
       ``(c) Social Security.--The levels assumed in this budget 
     resolution project that $____ of the Social Security surplus 
     will be spent over the 5-year budget window, fiscal years 
     20__ through 20__, on things other than Social Security.''.
       (b) Social Security.--If any portion of the Social Security 
     surplus is projected to be spent in any year or the gross 
     Federal debt in the fifth year of the budget window is 
     greater than the gross debt projected for the current year, 
     as described in section 101(5) of this resolution, the 
     report, print, or statement of managers accompanying the 
     budget resolution shall contain a section that--
       (1) details the circumstances making it in the national 
     interest to allow Federal debt to increase rather than taking 
     steps to reduce the debt; and
       (2) provides a justification for allowing the surpluses in 
     the Social Security Trust Fund to be spent on other functions 
     of Government even as the baby boom generation retires, 
     program costs are projected to rise dramatically, the debt 
     owed to Social Security is about to come due, and the Trust 
     Fund is projected to go insolvent.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section, the term ``gross Federal 
     debt'' means the nominal levels of (or changes in the levels 
     of) gross Federal debt (debt subject to limit as set forth in 
     section 101(5) of this resolution) measured at the end of 
     each fiscal year during the period of the budget, not debt as 
     a percentage of gross domestic product, and not levels 
     relative to baseline projections.

     SEC. 326. DEBT DISCLOSURES.

       (a) In General.--The levels assumed in this budget 
     resolution allow the gross Federal debt of the nation to rise 
     by $4,960,000,000,000 from the current year, fiscal year 
     2009, to the fifth year of the budget window, fiscal year 
     2014.
       (b) Per Person.--The levels assumed in this budget 
     resolution allow the gross Federal debt of the nation to rise 
     by $16,200 on every United States citizen from the current 
     year, fiscal year 2009, to the fifth year of the budget 
     window, fiscal year 2014.
       (c) Social Security.--The levels assumed in this budget 
     resolution project that $700,000,000,000 of the Social 
     Security surplus will be spent over the 5-year budget window, 
     fiscal years 2010 through 2014, on things other than Social 
     Security.

     SEC. 327. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.

       Congress adopts the provisions of this title--
       (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, 
     and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of 
     the Senate and such rules shall supersede other rules only to 
     the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; 
     and
       (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
     the Senate to change those rules at any time, in the same 
     manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any other 
     rule of the Senate.


                      Motion Offered by Mr. Spratt

  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Spratt moves to strike all after the resolving clause 
     and to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of House 
     Concurrent Resolution 85 as adopted by the House as follows:

     SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 
                   YEAR 2010.

       (a) Declaration.--Congress declares that this resolution is 
     the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 
     and that this resolution sets forth the

  
      appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009 and for 
     fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
       (b) Table of Contents.--

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010.

                TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 102. Major functional categories.

                        TITLE II--RECONCILIATION

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House.
Sec. 202. Reconciliation in the Senate.

                        TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS

Sec. 301. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform.
Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college access, 
              affordability, and completion.
Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy 
              independence.
Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America's veterans and 
              servicemembers.
Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for certain tax relief.
Sec. 306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program.
Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition.
Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for structural unemployment 
              insurance reforms.
Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child support.
Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable Housing Trust 
              Fund.
Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visiting.
Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Low-Income Home Energy 
              Assistance Program trigger.
Sec. 313. Reserve fund for the Surface Transportation Reauthorization.
Sec. 314. Current policy reserve fund for Medicare improvements.
Sec. 315. Current policy reserve fund for middle class tax relief.
Sec. 316. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the alternative 
              minimum tax (AMT).
Sec. 317. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the Estate and Gift 
              Tax.

                      TITLE IV--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Sec. 401. Adjustments for direct spending and revenues.
Sec. 402. Adjustments to discretionary spending limits.
Sec. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations.
Sec. 404. Oversight of Government performance.
Sec. 405. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative 
              expenses.
Sec. 406. Application and effect of changes in allocations and 
              aggregates.
Sec. 407. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.
Sec. 408. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

                            TITLE V--POLICY

Sec. 501. Policy on middle-class tax relief and revenues.
Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities.

                      TITLE VI--SENSE OF THE HOUSE

Sec. 601. Sense of the House on veterans' and servicemembers' health 
              care.
Sec. 602. Sense of the House on homeland security.
Sec. 603. Sense of the House on promoting American innovation and 
              economic competitiveness.
Sec. 604. Sense of the House regarding pay parity.
Sec. 605. Sense of the House on college affordability.
Sec. 606. Sense of the House on Great Lakes restoration.
Sec. 607. Sense of the House regarding the importance of child support 
              enforcement.

                TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

     SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS.

       The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2014:
       (1) Federal revenues.--For purposes of the enforcement of 
     this resolution:
       (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 
     follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $1,532,571,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $1,659,525,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $1,933,072,000,000.

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       Fiscal year 2012: $2,190,099,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $2,361,429,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $2,507,846,000,000.
       (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal 
     revenues should be changed are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $0.
       Fiscal year 2010: -$6,461,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: -$155,559,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: -$170,294,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: -$153,908,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: -$125,832,000,000.
       (2) New budget authority.--For purposes of the enforcement 
     of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new 
     budget authority are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $3,675,133,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $2,892,061,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $2,866,329,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $2,913,316,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $3,095,704,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $3,286,135,000,000.
       (3) Budget outlays.--For purposes of the enforcement of 
     this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget 
     outlays are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $3,357,255,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $2,996,234,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $2,981,872,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $2,939,612,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $3,093,577,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $3,261,525,000,000.
       (4) Deficits (on-budget).--For purposes of the enforcement 
     of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) 
     are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $1,824,684,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $1,336,709,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $1,048,800,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $749,513,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $732,148,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $753,679,000,000.
       (5) Debt subject to limit.--Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate 
     levels of the public debt are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $12,017,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $13,223,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $14,350,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $15,276,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $16,162,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $17,100,000,000,000.
       (6) Debt held by the public.--The appropriate levels of 
     debt held by the public are as follows:
       Fiscal year 2009: $7,730,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010: $8,768,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011: $9,684,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012: $10,344,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013: $10,934,000,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014: $11,577,000,000,000.

     SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES.

       The Congress determines and declares that the appropriate 
     levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 
     2009 through 2014 for each major functional category are:
       (1) National Defense (050):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $618,057,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $646,810,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $562,033,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $606,043,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $570,107,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $587,945,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $579,135,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $576,023,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $589,895,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $584,670,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $603,828,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $595,476,000,000.
       (2) International Affairs (150):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $40,885,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $37,797,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $45,320,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $43,461,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $49,146,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $48,642,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,742,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $52,123,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $59,160,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $55,773,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $64,388,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $59,292,000,000.
       (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $35,389,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $30,973,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $31,139,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,467,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $31,493,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,407,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $33,373,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,465,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $34,419,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $33,614,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $35,686,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $34,835,000,000.
       (4) Energy (270):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $43,919,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $2,952,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $5,489,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $7,267,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $5,539,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $11,322,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $5,732,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $13,400,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,098,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $12,133,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,227,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $10,512,000,000.
       (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $56,009,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $36,834,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $37,387,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $40,450,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $38,600,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $40,237,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $39,249,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $40,058,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $39,348,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $39,754,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $40,017,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $39,957,000,000.
       (6) Agriculture (350):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $24,974,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,070,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,690,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,951,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $24,691,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,998,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,644,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $17,540,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,497,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $22,063,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,182,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $22,150,000,000.
       (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $694,439,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $665,437,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $60,933,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $85,638,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $26,181,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $37,954,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $9,561,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $8,645,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $17,247,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $5,585,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $11,226,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$2,500,000,000.
       (8) Transportation (400):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $122,457,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $87,784,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $88,151,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $95,695,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $89,071,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $96,474,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $90,047,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $95,851,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $90,866,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $96,150,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $91,809,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $96,793,000,000.
       (9) Community and Regional Development (450):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,811,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $29,983,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $18,308,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $29,303,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,232,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $27,530,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,311,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $25,722,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,202,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $24,155,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,270,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $22,752,000,000.
       (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 
     (500):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $164,276,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $73,219,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $93,689,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $140,300,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $107,858,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $141,108,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:

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       (A) New budget authority, $117,121,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $118,391,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $115,931,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $118,888,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $125,788,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $120,959,000,000.
       (11) Health (550):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $380,158,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $354,397,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $383,911,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $388,746,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $364,910,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $367,628,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $369,852,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $368,556,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $389,719,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $384,359,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $400,451,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $400,173,000,000.
       (12) Medicare (570):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $427,076,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $426,736,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $449,653,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $449,784,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $505,171,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $504,962,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $513,824,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $513,591,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $558,235,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $558,381,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $616,315,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $616,150,000,000.
       (13) Income Security (600):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $520,123,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $503,020,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $536,169,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $539,918,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $510,575,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $513,410,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $478,039,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $478,323,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $483,386,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $482,745,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $485,396,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $483,758,000,000.
       (14) Social Security (650):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $31,820,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $31,264,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $20,255,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $20,378,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,380,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,513,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $26,478,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $26,628,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $29,529,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $29,679,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $32,728,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $32,728,000,000.
       (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $97,705,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $94,831,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $106,365,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $105,468,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $112,842,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $112,386,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $108,702,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $108,103,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $113,803,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $113,151,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $116,021,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $115,480,000,000.
       (16) Administration of Justice (750):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $55,783,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $49,853,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $52,857,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $51,630,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,892,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $55,503,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,738,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $55,441,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $53,569,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $54,526,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $54,247,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $54,058,000,000.
       (17) General Government (800):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $30,405,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $24,629,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $21,979,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $22,757,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,316,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,147,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,737,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,795,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $22,750,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,492,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $23,415,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $23,629,000,000.
       (18) Net Interest (900):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $288,955,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $288,955,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $284,085,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $284,085,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $323,266,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $323,266,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $387,483,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $387,483,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $470,452,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $470,452,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $560,137,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $560,137,000,000.
       (19) Allowances (920):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $14,450,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $1,788,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $9,422,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $4,893,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $8,052,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $5,903,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $6,518,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $4,750,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $5,543,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $4,122,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $3,865,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $2,962,000,000.
       (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, -$78,206,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$78,206,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, -$68,774,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$68,774,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, -$71,993,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$71,993,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, -$74,970,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$74,970,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, -$77,945,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$77,945,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, -$79,861,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, -$79,861,000,000.
       (21) Overseas Deployments and Other Activities (970):
       Fiscal year 2009:
       (A) New budget authority, $82,648,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $25,129,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2010:
       (A) New budget authority, $130,000,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $92,774,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2011:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $76,530,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2012:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $67,694,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2013:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $57,830,000,000.
       Fiscal year 2014:
       (A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000.
       (B) Outlays, $52,085,000,000.

                        TITLE II--RECONCILIATION

     SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE.

       (a) Health Care Reform.--
       (1) Not later than September 29, 2009, the House Committee 
     on Energy and Commerce shall report changes in laws to reduce 
     the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 
     2009 through 2014.
       (2) Not later than September 29, 2009, the House Committee 
     on Ways and Means shall report changes in laws to reduce the 
     deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 
     through 2014.
       (b) Investing in Education.--Not later than September 30, 
     2009, the House Committee on Education and Labor shall report 
     changes in laws to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for 
     the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014.
       (c) Single Engrossment.--The House may direct the Clerk to 
     add at the end of a bill addressed by this section the text 
     of another measure addressed by this section as passed by the 
     House to form a single engrossed reconciliation bill within 
     the meaning of section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974.

     SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE.

       (Senate reconciliation instructions to be supplied by the 
     Senate.)

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                        TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS

     SEC. 301. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH CARE 
                   REFORM.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that makes improvements to health care in 
     America, which may include making affordable health coverage 
     available for all, improving the quality of health care, 
     reducing rising health care costs, building on and 
     strengthening existing public and private insurance coverage, 
     including employer-sponsored coverage, and preserving choice 
     of provider and plan by the amounts provided in such measure 
     if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 
     the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of 
     rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 302. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COLLEGE ACCESS, 
                   AFFORDABILITY, AND COMPLETION.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that makes college more affordable or 
     accessible or that increases college enrollment and 
     completion through reforms to the Higher Education Act of 
     1965 or other legislation, including increasing the maximum 
     Pell grant award annually by an amount equal to one 
     percentage point more than the Consumer Price Index, by the 
     amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not 
     increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time 
     period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
     House of Representatives.

     SEC. 303. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASING ENERGY 
                   INDEPENDENCE.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that--
       (1) provides tax incentives for or otherwise encourages the 
     production of renewable energy or increased energy 
     efficiency;
       (2) encourages investment in emerging energy or vehicle 
     technologies or carbon capture and sequestration;
       (3) limits and provides for reductions in greenhouse gas 
     emissions;
       (4) assists businesses, industries, States, communities, 
     the environment, workers, or households as the United States 
     moves toward reducing and offsetting the impacts of 
     greenhouse gas emissions; or
       (5) facilitates the training of workers for these 
     industries (``green collar jobs'');
     by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
     not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either 
     time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 
     the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 304. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA'S VETERANS 
                   AND SERVICEMEMBERS.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that--
       (1) enhances health care for military personnel or 
     veterans;
       (2) maintains the affordability of health care for military 
     retirees or veterans;
       (3) improves disability benefits or evaluations for wounded 
     or disabled military personnel or veterans, including 
     measures to expedite the claims process;
       (4) expands eligibility to permit additional disabled 
     military retirees to receive both disability compensation and 
     retired pay (concurrent receipt); or
       (5) eliminates the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan 
     annuities and veterans' dependency and indemnity 
     compensation; and
     does not authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to 
     bill private insurance companies for treatment of health 
     conditions that are related to veterans' military service, by 
     the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
     not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either 
     time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 
     the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 305. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CERTAIN TAX 
                   RELIEF.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that provides for tax relief that supports 
     working families, businesses, States, or communities, by the 
     amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not 
     increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time 
     period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
     House of Representatives.

     SEC. 306. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A 9/11 HEALTH 
                   PROGRAM.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that would establish a program, including 
     medical monitoring and treatment, addressing the adverse 
     health impacts linked to the September 11, 2001, attacks by 
     the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
     not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either 
     time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 
     the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 307. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD NUTRITION.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that reauthorizes, expands, or improves 
     child nutrition programs by the amounts provided in such 
     measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or 
     decrease the surplus for either time period provided in 
     clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives.

     SEC. 308. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR STRUCTURAL 
                   UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REFORMS.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that makes structural reforms to make the 
     unemployment insurance system respond better to serious 
     economic downturns by the amounts provided in such measure if 
     such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the 
     surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule 
     XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 309. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD SUPPORT.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that increases parental support for 
     children, particularly from non-custodial parents, including 
     legislation that results in a greater share of collected 
     child support reaching the child, by the amounts provided in 
     such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit 
     or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in 
     clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives.

     SEC. 310. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE AFFORDABLE 
                   HOUSING TRUST FUND.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that capitalizes the existing Affordable 
     Housing Trust Fund by the amounts provided in such measure if 
     such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the 
     surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule 
     XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 311. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HOME VISITING.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that provides funds to states for a program 
     or programs of home visits to low-income mothers-to-be and 
     low-income families which will produce sizeable, sustained 
     improvements in the health and well-being of children and 
     their parents, by the amounts provided in such measure if 
     such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the 
     surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule 
     XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 312. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR LOW-INCOME HOME 
                   ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TRIGGER.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that makes the Low-Income Home Energy 
     Assistance Program more responsive to energy price increases 
     by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
     not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either 
     time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 
     the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 313. RESERVE FUND FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION 
                   REAUTHORIZATION.

       The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report that reauthorizes surface transportation 
     programs or that authorizes other transportation-related 
     spending by providing new contract authority by the amounts 
     provided in such measure if such measure establishes or 
     maintains a solvent Highway Trust Fund over the period of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2015. ``Solvency'' is defined as a 
     positive cash balance. Such measure may include a transfer 
     into the Highway Trust Fund from other Federal funds, as long 
     as the transfer of Federal funds is fully offset.

     SEC. 314. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MEDICARE 
                   IMPROVEMENTS.

       (a) Procedure.--The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
     may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report that would increase outlays 
     by an amount not to exceed $87,290,000,000 in fiscal years

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     2010 through 2014 and, for the purposes of the Rules of the 
     House of Representatives, by an amount not to exceed 
     $284,970,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by 
     reforming the Medicare payment system for physicians to--
       (1) change incentives to encourage efficiency and higher 
     quality care in a way that supports fiscal sustainability;
       (2) improve payment accuracy to encourage efficient use of 
     resources and ensure that primary care receives appropriate 
     compensation;
       (3) improve coordination of care among all providers 
     serving a patient in all appropriate settings; or
       (4) hold providers accountable for their utilization 
     patterns and quality of care.
       (b) Applicability.--For the purposes of section 401(a) of 
     this resolution, the revisions made pursuant to this section 
     shall apply only to a measure that includes the policies and 
     the amounts described in this section.

     SEC. 315. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MIDDLE CLASS TAX 
                   RELIEF.

       (a) Procedure.--The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
     may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report that would decrease revenues 
     (or increase outlays, as appropriate) by an amount not to 
     exceed $698,571,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 
     and, for the purposes of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives, by an amount not to exceed 
     $1,848,523,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019, by 
     extending certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 for middle class tax relief, including the--
       (1) 10 percent individual income tax bracket;
       (2) marriage penalty relief;
       (3) child credit at $1,000 and partial refundability of the 
     credit;
       (4) education incentives;
       (5) other incentives for middle class families and 
     children;
       (6) other reductions to individual income tax brackets; and
       (7) small business tax relief.
       (b) Applicability.--For the purposes of section 401(a) of 
     this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this 
     section shall apply only to a measure that includes the 
     policies and the amounts described in this section.

     SEC. 316. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM OF THE 
                   ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX (AMT).

       (a) Procedure.--The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
     may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report that would decrease revenues 
     by an amount not to exceed $68,650,000,000 in fiscal years 
     2010 through 2014 and fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by 
     reforming the AMT so that tens of millions of working 
     families will not become subject to it.
       (b) Applicability.--For the purposes of section 401(a) of 
     this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this 
     section shall apply only to a measure that includes the 
     policies and the amounts described in this section.

     SEC. 317. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM OF THE 
                   ESTATE AND GIFT TAX.

       (a) Procedure.--The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
     may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report that would decrease revenues 
     by an amount not to exceed $72,033,000,000 in fiscal years 
     2010 through 2014 and, for the purposes of the Rules of the 
     House of Representatives, by an amount not to exceed 
     $256,244,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by 
     reforming the Estate and Gift Tax so that only a minute 
     fraction of estates owe tax, by extending the law as in 
     effect in 2009 for the Estate and Gift Tax.
       (b) Applicability.--For the purposes of section 401(a) of 
     this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this 
     section shall apply only to a measure that includes the 
     policies and the amounts described in this section.

                      TITLE IV--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

     SEC. 401. ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIRECT SPENDING AND REVENUES.

       (a) Adjustments to Maintain Current Policy.--
       (1) Subject to the condition specified in paragraph (3), 
     when the chairman of the Committee on the Budget evaluates 
     the budgetary effects of a provision in any bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report for the purposes 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, or 
     the Rules of the House of Representatives relative to 
     baseline estimates that are consistent with section 257 of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, he shall exclude from his evaluation the budgetary 
     effects of such provision if such effects would have been 
     reflected in a baseline adjusted to maintain current policy.
       (2) Paragraph (1) applies only to a provision with respect 
     to which the chairman of the Committee on the Budget has 
     exercised his authority to make budgetary adjustments under 
     sections 314, 315, 316, and 317 of this resolution.
       (3) Paragraph (1) shall apply only if the House of 
     Representatives has previously passed a bill to impose 
     statutory pay-as-you-go requirements, or the measure 
     containing the provision being evaluated by the chairman of 
     the Committee on the Budget imposes such requirements, and 
     only if such bill is designated as providing statutory pay-
     as-you-go-requirements under this subsection.
       (b) Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).--
     Prior to consideration of a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $3,200,000,000 in funding 
     for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program and 
     provides additional appropriations of up to $1,900,000,000 
     for that program, then the chairman of the Committee on the 
     Budget may revise the budgetary treatment of such additional 
     amounts and allocate such additional budget authority and 
     outlays resulting from that budget authority to the Committee 
     on Appropriations.
       (c) Deposit Insurance.--When the chairman of the Budget 
     Committee evaluates the budgetary effects of a provision of a 
     bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report for 
     the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this 
     resolution, or the Rules of the House of Representatives, the 
     chairman shall exclude the budgetary effects of any provision 
     that affects the full funding of the deposit insurance 
     guarantee commitment in effect on the date of enactment of 
     Public Law 110-343, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 
     of 2008.

     SEC. 402. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

       (a) Program Integrity Initiatives.--
       (1) Social security administration program integrity 
     initiatives.--
       (A) In general.--Prior to consideration of any bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report making 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates 
     $273,000,000 for continuing disability reviews and 
     Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the Social 
     Security Administration and (except as provided in 
     subparagraph (B)) provides an additional appropriation of up 
     to $485,000,000, and that amount is designated for continuing 
     disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income 
     redeterminations for the Social Security Administration, the 
     allocation to the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
     increased by the amount of the additional budget authority 
     and outlays resulting from that budget authority for fiscal 
     year 2010.
       (B) Asset verification.--The additional appropriation of 
     $485,000,000 may also provide that a portion of that amount, 
     not to exceed $34,000,000, instead may be used for asset 
     verification for Supplemental Security Income recipients, but 
     only if and to the extent that the Office of the Chief 
     Actuary estimates that the initiative would be at least as 
     cost effective as the redeterminations of eligibility 
     described in subparagraph (A).
       (2) Internal revenue service tax compliance.--Prior to 
     consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 
     that appropriates $5,117,000,000 to the Internal Revenue 
     Service for Enforcement and provides an additional 
     appropriation of up to $387,000,000 for Enforcement to 
     address the Federal tax gap, and provides that such sums as 
     may be necessary shall be available from the Operations 
     Support account in the Internal Revenue Service to fully 
     support these Enforcement activities, the allocation to the 
     Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount 
     of the additional budget authority and outlays resulting from 
     that budget authority for fiscal year 2010.
       (3) Health care fraud and abuse control program.--Prior to 
     consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 
     that appropriates up to $311,000,000, and the amount is 
     designated to the health care fraud and abuse control program 
     at the Department of Health and Human Services, the 
     allocation to the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
     increased by the amount of additional budget authority and 
     outlays resulting from that budget authority for fiscal year 
     2010.
       (4) Unemployment insurance program integrity activities.--
     Prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $10,000,000 for in-person 
     reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment 
     insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of 
     Labor and provides an additional appropriation of up to 
     $50,000,000, and the amount is designated for in-person 
     reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment 
     insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of 
     Labor, the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations 
     shall be increased by the amount of additional budget 
     authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority 
     for fiscal year 2010.
       (5) Partnership fund for program integrity innovation.--
     Prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report that provides discretionary 
     budget authority for a Partnership

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     Fund for Program Integrity Innovation in the Office of 
     Management and Budget in an amount not to exceed $175,000,000 
     for fiscal year 2010 and that designates the amount for the 
     Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation in the 
     Office of Management and Budget, the allocation to the 
     Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount 
     of the additional budget authority and outlays resulting from 
     that budget authority for fiscal year 2010.
       (6) Procedure for adjustments.--Prior to consideration of 
     any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report, 
     the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall make the 
     adjustments set forth in this subsection for the incremental 
     new budget authority in that measure and the outlays 
     resulting from that budget authority if that measure meets 
     the requirements set forth in this subsection.
       (b) Costs of Overseas Deployments and Emergency Needs.--
       (1) Overseas deployments and related activities.--If any 
     bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report makes 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2009 or fiscal year 2010 for 
     overseas deployments and related activities and such amounts 
     are so designated pursuant to this subparagraph, then new 
     budget authority, outlays, or receipts resulting therefrom 
     shall not count for the purposes of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974 or this resolution.
       (2) Emergency needs.--If any bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, or conference report makes appropriations for 
     discretionary amounts and such amounts are designated as 
     necessary to meet emergency needs, then new budget authority 
     and outlays resulting therefrom shall not count for the 
     purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or this 
     resolution.

     SEC. 403. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any 
     bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 
     making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation 
     may not provide for advance appropriations.
       (b) Exceptions.--An advance appropriation may be provided 
     for fiscal year 2011 for programs, projects, activities, or 
     accounts identified in the report to accompany this 
     resolution or the joint explanatory statement of managers to 
     accompany this resolution under the heading ``Accounts 
     Identified for Advance Appropriations'' in an aggregate 
     amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority, 
     and for 2012, accounts separately identified under the same 
     heading.
       (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``advance 
     appropriation'' means any new discretionary budget authority 
     provided in a bill or joint resolution making general 
     appropriations or any new discretionary budget authority 
     provided in a bill or joint resolution making continuing 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that first becomes 
     available for any fiscal year after 2010.

     SEC. 404. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE.

       All committees are encouraged to conduct rigorous oversight 
     hearings to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in all aspects 
     of Federal spending and Government operations, giving 
     particular scrutiny to issues raised by the Federal Office of 
     the Inspector General or the Comptroller General of the 
     United States. Based upon these oversight efforts, the 
     committees are encouraged to make recommendations to reduce 
     wasteful Federal spending to promote deficit reduction and 
     long-term fiscal responsibility. Such recommendations should 
     be submitted to the Committee on the Budget in the views and 
     estimates reports prepared by committees as required under 
     301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

     SEC. 405. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY 
                   ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget 
     Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus 
     Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the joint explanatory 
     statement accompanying the conference report on any 
     concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its 
     allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations amounts for 
     the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social 
     Security Administration and of the Postal Service.
       (b) Special Rule.--For purposes of applying section 302(f) 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the 
     level of total new budget authority and total outlays 
     provided by a measure shall include any off-budget 
     discretionary amounts.

     SEC. 406. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 
                   AND AGGREGATES.

       (a) Application.--Any adjustments of allocations and 
     aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall--
       (1) apply while that measure is under consideration;
       (2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and
       (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 
     practicable.
       (b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates.--Revised 
     allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments 
     shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in 
     this resolution.
       (c) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this 
     resolution, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, 
     direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, 
     deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal 
     years shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by 
     the Committee on the Budget.
       (d) Adjustments.--The chairman of the Committee on the 
     Budget may adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other 
     levels in this resolution for legislation which has received 
     final Congressional approval in the same form by the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate, but has yet to be presented 
     to or signed by the President at the time of final 
     consideration of this resolution.

     SEC. 407. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 
                   DEFINITIONS.

       Upon the enactment of any bill or joint resolution 
     providing for a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, 
     the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall adjust any 
     appropriate levels and allocations in this resolution 
     accordingly.

     SEC. 408. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.

       The House adopts the provisions of this title--
       (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
     Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 
     of the rules of the House, and these rules shall supersede 
     other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent 
     with other such rules; and
       (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
     the House of Representatives to change those rules at any 
     time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the 
     case of any other rule of the House of Representatives.

                            TITLE V--POLICY

     SEC. 501. POLICY ON MIDDLE-CLASS TAX RELIEF AND REVENUES.

       It is the policy of this resolution to minimize fiscal 
     burdens on working families and their children and 
     grandchildren. It is the policy of this resolution to extend 
     the following tax relief consistent with current policy--
       (1) relief for the tens of millions of middle-income 
     households who would otherwise be subject to the Alternative 
     Minimum Tax (AMT) under current law;
       (2) middle-class tax relief; and
       (3) elimination of estate taxes on all but a minute 
     fraction of estates by reforming and substantially increasing 
     the unified tax credit.
     In total, this resolution supports the extension of 
     $1,700,000,000,000 in tax relief to individuals and families 
     relative to current law. This resolution supports additional, 
     deficit-neutral tax relief, including the extension of AMT 
     relief, the research and experimentation tax credit, the 
     deduction for State and local sales taxes, the enactment of a 
     tax credit for school construction bonds, and other tax 
     relief for working families. The cost of enacting such 
     policies may be offset by reforms within the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 that produce higher rates of tax compliance to 
     close the ``tax gap'' and reduce taxpayer burdens through tax 
     simplification. The President's budget proposes a variety of 
     other revenue offsets. Unless expressly provided, this 
     resolution does not assume any of the specific revenue offset 
     proposals provided for in the President's budget. Decisions 
     about specific revenue offsets are made by the Ways and Means 
     Committee, which is the tax-writing committee.

     SEC. 502. POLICY ON DEFENSE PRIORITIES.

       It is the policy of this resolution that--
       (1) there is no higher priority than the defense of our 
     Nation, and therefore the Administration and Congress will 
     make the necessary investments and reforms to strengthen our 
     military so that it can successfully meet the threats of the 
     21st century;
       (2) acquisition reform is needed at the Department of 
     Defense to end excessive cost growth in the development of 
     new weapons systems and to ensure that weapons systems are 
     delivered on time and in adequate quantities to equip our 
     servicemen and servicewomen;
       (3) the Department of Defense should review defense plans 
     to ensure that weapons developed to counter Cold War-era 
     threats are not redundant and are applicable to 21st century 
     threats;
       (4) sufficient resources should be provided for the 
     Department of Defense to aggressively address the 758 
     unimplemented recommendations made by the Government 
     Accountability Office (GAO) since 2001 to improve practices 
     at the Department of Defense, which could save billions of 
     dollars that could be applied to priorities identified in 
     this section;
       (5) the Department of Defense should review the role that 
     contractors play in its operations, including the degree to 
     which contractors are performing inherently governmental 
     functions, to ensure it has the most effective mix of 
     government and contracted personnel;
       (6) the Department of Defense report to Congress on its 
     assessment of Cold War-era

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     weaponry, its progress on implementing GAO recommendations, 
     and its review of contractors at the Department as outlined 
     in paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) by a date to be determined by 
     the appropriate committees;
       (7) the GAO provide a report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees by December 31, 2009, on the 
     Department of Defense's progress in implementing its audit 
     recommendations;
       (8) ballistic missile defense technologies that are not 
     proven to work through adequate testing and that are not 
     operationally viable should not be deployed, and that no 
     funding should be provided for the research or development of 
     space-based interceptors;
       (9) cooperative threat reduction and other nonproliferation 
     programs (securing ``loose nukes'' and other materials used 
     in weapons of mass destruction), which were highlighted as 
     high priorities by the 9/11 Commission, need to be funded at 
     a level that is commensurate with the evolving threat;
       (10) readiness of our troops, particularly the National 
     Guard and Reserves, is a high priority, and that continued 
     emphasis is needed to ensure adequate equipment and training;
       (11) improving military health care services and ensuring 
     quality health care for returning combat veterans is a high 
     priority;
       (12) military pay and benefits should be enhanced to 
     improve the quality of life for military personnel and their 
     families;
       (13) the Department of Defense should make every effort to 
     investigate the national security benefits of energy 
     independence, including those that may be associated with 
     alternative energy sources and energy efficiency conversions;
       (14) the Administration's budget requests should continue 
     to comply with section 1008, Public Law 109-364, the John 
     Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2007, and that to the extent practicable overseas military 
     operations should no longer be funded through emergency 
     supplemental appropriations; and
       (15) when assessing security threats and reviewing the 
     programs and funding needed to counter these threats, the 
     Administration should do so in a comprehensive manner that 
     includes all agencies involved in our national security.

                      TITLE VI--SENSE OF THE HOUSE

     SEC. 601. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON VETERANS' AND SERVICEMEMBERS' 
                   HEALTH CARE.

       It is the sense of the House that--
       (1) the House supports excellent health care for current 
     and former members of the United States Armed Services--they 
     have served well and honorably and have made significant 
     sacrifices for this Nation;
       (2) the President's budget will improve health care for 
     veterans by increasing appropriations for VA by 10 percent 
     more than the 2009 level, increasing VA's appropriated 
     resources for every year after 2010, and restoring health 
     care eligibility to additional nondisabled veterans with 
     modest incomes;
       (3) VA is not and should not be authorized to bill private 
     insurance companies for treatment of health conditions that 
     are related to veterans' military service;
       (4) VA may find it difficult to realize the level of 
     increase in medical care collections estimated in the 
     President's budget for 2010 using existing authorities; 
     therefore, this resolution provides $540,000,000 more for 
     Function 700 (Veterans Benefits and Services) than the 
     President's budget to safeguard the provision of health care 
     to veterans;
       (5) it is important to continue providing sufficient and 
     timely funding for veterans' and servicemembers' health care; 
     and
       (6) this resolution provides additional funding above the 
     2009 levels for VA to research and treat mental health, post-
     traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.

     SEC. 602. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.

       It is the sense of the House that because making the 
     country safer and more secure is such a critical priority, 
     the resolution therefore provides robust resources in the 
     four budget functions--Function 400 (Transportation), 
     Function 450 (Community and Regional Development), Function 
     550 (Health), and Function 750 (Administration of Justice)--
     that fund most nondefense homeland security activities that 
     can be used to address our key security priorities, 
     including--
       (1) safeguarding the Nation's transportation systems, 
     including rail, mass transit, ports, and airports;
       (2) continuing with efforts to identify and to screen for 
     threats bound for the United States;
       (3) strengthening border security;
       (4) enhancing emergency preparedness and training and 
     equipping first responders;
       (5) helping to make critical infrastructure more secure and 
     resilient against the threat of terrorism and natural 
     disasters;
       (6) making the Nation's cyber infrastructure resistive to 
     attack; and
       (7) increasing the preparedness of the public health 
     system.

     SEC. 603. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON PROMOTING AMERICAN INNOVATION 
                   AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS.

       It is the sense of the House that--
       (1) the House should provide sufficient investments to 
     enable our Nation to continue to be the world leader in 
     education, innovation, and economic growth as envisioned in 
     the goals of the America COMPETES Act;
       (2) this resolution builds on significant funding provided 
     in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for scientific 
     research and education in Function 250 (General Science, 
     Space and Technology), Function 270 (Energy), Function 300 
     (Natural Resources and Environment), Function 500 (Education, 
     Training, Employment, and Social Services), and Function 550 
     (Health);
       (3) the House also should pursue policies designed to 
     ensure that American students, teachers, businesses, and 
     workers are prepared to continue leading the world in 
     innovation, research, and technology well into the future; 
     and
       (4) this resolution recognizes the importance of the 
     extension of investments and tax policies that promote 
     research and development and encourage innovation and future 
     technologies that will ensure American economic 
     competitiveness.

     SEC. 604. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING PAY PARITY.

       It is the sense of the House that rates of compensation for 
     civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at 
     the same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of 
     compensation for members of the uniformed services.

     SEC. 605. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY.

       It is the sense of the House that nothing in this 
     resolution should be construed to reduce any assistance that 
     makes college more affordable and accessible for students, 
     including but not limited to student aid programs and 
     services provided by nonprofit State agencies.

     SEC. 606. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON GREAT LAKES RESTORATION.

       It is the sense of the House that this resolution 
     recognizes the importance of funding for an interagency 
     initiative to address regional environmental issues that 
     affect the Great Lakes, and that coordinated planning and 
     implementation among the Federal, State, and local government 
     and nongovernmental stakeholders is essential to more 
     effectively addressing the most significant problems within 
     the Great Lakes basin.

     SEC. 607. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF 
                   CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

       It is the sense of the House that--
       (1) additional legislative action is needed to ensure that 
     States have the necessary resources to collect all child 
     support that is owed to families and to allow them to pass 
     100 percent of support on to families without financial 
     penalty; and
       (2) when 100 percent of child support payments are passed 
     to the child, rather than administrative expenses, program 
     integrity is improved and child support participation 
     increases.

  The motion was agreed to.
  The Senate concurrent resolution, as amended, was concurred in.


                       Motion to Go to Conference

  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 316, I move 
that the House insist upon its amendment to Senate Concurrent 
Resolution 13 and request a conference with the Senate thereon.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. SPRATT. I yield the gentleman from Wisconsin, my ranking member, 
half of the allocated time, 30 minutes.
  I reserve the balance of my time so that Mr. Ryan can proceed.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. At this time, Mr. Speaker, I believe I will 
reserve the balance of my time and allow the gentleman from South 
Carolina to get started.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, before leaving here for the spring vacation, 
the district work period, the House passed, by a significant majority, 
some 233 ``ayes,'' the resolution before us today, which we are moving 
to go to conference.
  With that resounding vote of support, we would like to see the 
conference concluded as soon as possible so that the House and Senate 
both may proceed with the consideration, floor debate, and passage of 
appropriation bills.
  I would, therefore, urge that all Members of the House, particularly 
those who supported this resolution originally, vote now to go to 
conference so that we can resolve our differences with the Senate and 
put behind us on a timely basis the budget resolution for 2010.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to move the 
process along on going to conference on the budget resolutions.
  I just spent the last week doing 25 listening sessions throughout the 
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Congressional District, which is the district I am privileged to 
represent, talking to the people I represent about the fiscal future of 
America, how we just went through this process of the House passing a 
budget resolution, the other body passing their version of the budget 
resolution.
  There is very little distinction between the President's budget, the 
House-passed budget resolution and the Senate budget resolution. 
Therefore, this move to go to conference should not be a very lengthy 
conference because the differences between the two are very few and far 
between, with the exception of the process called reconciliation.
  We will talk about that a little bit more. But I think it's important 
to understand what this is. And I spent a lot of my time talking with 
constituents about that, because they think sort of when you pass a 
budget resolution, the budget is done and it's passed.
  That is how it works in our State legislatures, which is, a budget is 
a budget and it's passed and it's executed. This is the beginning of 
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  The best way to think about the process we are engaging in and what 
we are doing right here with the budget resolution is the budget 
resolution is the fiscal architecture of the Federal Government. It's 
the blueprint of what our government should look like, how big it 
should get, what is the fiscal policy of it. So we are here debating 
these blueprints of the Federal Government. And the blueprints were 
approved by the House a couple of week ago, by the Senate, and now the 
idea here is to smooth out any differences, which are few and far 
between, and then move forward to implement the component parts of the 
budget. So once this process is done, then we have the architectural 
diagrams in place; then we go start building the government that's 
being proposed here. The new cap-and-trade legislation, new national 
health care legislation, all these new spending bills, the tax 
increases, that's where Congress goes from here, which is once the 
budget resolution is done, start implementing these pieces, the goal of 
which is by this fall all of this is in law and is done.
  Let me reiterate what we are talking about here, just the huge 
magnitude of what's being proposed here. Just with respect to the cost 
of government to the future generations, our debt, this budget proposes 
more debt, more borrowing, under this Presidency than all prior 
Presidencies combined. This budget proposes that our publicly held 
debt, the amount of bonds we have to go out there and sell to the 
Chinese, to the Japanese, to other people to cash flow our government, 
our debt will double in 5\1/2\ years and triple in 10\1/2\ years.
  What's more, what this budget says we ought to do is we should chase 
ever higher spending, an unprecedented level of new spending with ever 
higher taxes. It not only proposes the largest tax increase in American 
history, which is $1.5 trillion, taxes on energy, taxes on incomes, on 
small businesses, on the very investments that make up our savings 
portfolios, our 401(k)s, our pension plans, things that are probably 
going down by about 40 percent for the average American, not only are 
those tax increases huge, the spending increases are much larger.
  So what these architectural designs do, what this blueprint for the 
Federal Government that the President has sent to Congress that 
Congress is now in the midst of rubber-stamping does is it says let's 
have this unprecedented gusher of new spending, let's chase it with 
higher taxes. Those taxes never quite catch up with the spending, and 
the result is an unprecedented increase in our national debt.
  Mr. Speaker, this is how you end prosperity in America. Name me a 
great country that has been able to increase standards of living, 
increase jobs, increase prosperity where they increase the size of 
government, the taxes of government, the borrowing of government like 
this. This is an unprecedented spending, taxing, and borrowing spree 
which we simply do not stand for, which we simply can't go along with.
  And I want to draw your attention to one other point: This 
unprecedented borrowing spree is done in the face of an already bleak 
fiscal future for this country. This is an ad that has been taken out 
in many newspapers across America by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, 
a nonpartisan advocacy group that says America should get its fiscal 
house in order. It just shows this tip of the iceberg. Today's economic 
crisis is the tip of the iceberg. What this says is right now to pay 
the bills for the Federal Government, right now to make sure that the 
government programs that everybody has come to know, Medicare, 
Medicaid, and Social Security, right now those three programs alone 
show us a $56 trillion unfunded liability. What that means is for 
everybody in America today, my mother's generation, my generation, my 
children's generation--and my children are 4, 5, and 7 years old--for 
us to pay the bills of all the government promises that are being made 
to these three generations, today we would have to set aside $56 
trillion, invest it at Treasury rates in order to just make sure these 
programs are solvent. It is an enormous fiscal liability.
  Rather than tackling this problem, rather than confronting America's 
fiscal wreck that's coming, rather than getting us under control, what 
does this budget resolution do? It makes it worse. It adds more debt on 
top of this debt. It is saying never mind the fact that all these 
programs are going insolvent, never mind the fact that we're not even 
prepared for the baby boomers, never mind the fact that today the per-
household debt is $483,000 per household, for every household in 
America right now today they owe $483,000 just to pay the bills we have 
already racked up that are unpaid for the Federal Government, the 
majority wants to what? Not fix it but make it worse. Rather than 
getting spending under control, it goes out of control. I mean the 
Environmental Protection Agency this year alone gets a 124 percent 
increase in their budget. On and on and on the spending goes.
  Rather than getting taxes under control so entrepreneurs can keep 
more of what they earn; so small businesses, the economic engine of 
America, have an incentive to go back to work to hire people, not to 
lay people off, taxes go out of control. And rather than tackling this 
challenge of debt, what are they doing? They are accelerating our 
increase of debt, accelerating the fact that $483,000 per family is 
owed today and makes it much, much worse.
  At the end of the day, what it's really all about is freedom. The 
question really before the American people today is with the 
government's taking more and more money out of your pocket, with the 
government's growing and making more and more decisions here in 
Washington, with the government's making the decisions on how your 
health care is to be delivered rather than you and your doctor making 
the decision, with the government's taking over the energy sector, the 
health care sector, 25 percent of our economy, with the government's 
saying to future generations we are going to have to take more money 
out of your pocket in order to pay the bills, in order to borrow the 
money, you have less freedom. And this just shows you how the President 
and the majority here in Congress are proposing a dramatic and radical 
new increase in the size of government way beyond where we have 
historically been.
  I asked the Congressional Budget Office before this budget came due, 
what will the tax rates on my three children have to be if we're going 
to have to finance all this growth of government through taxes, which 
ultimately must happen? If the government is to spend beyond its means 
by borrowing, somebody's going to have to pay that back through higher 
taxes, and that's the next generation. And the answers I got from the 
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office keep me awake at night.
  As I mentioned, I am in my late thirties. My kids are 4, 5, and 7 
years old. And what they said was really scary. They said that by the 
time my three kids are my age, in order to pay these bills that they 
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today the 10 percent bracket, would have to go to 25 percent. The 
middle-income tax bracket for middle-income taxpayers would have to go 
to 66 percent income tax rate. And the top tax bracket, the ones that 
small businesses pay, will go to 88 percent.
  That's the ending of America. That's the end of prosperity. That is 
severing the legacy of this country. And the legacy of this country is 
that each generation takes its challenges seriously, fixes those 
problems so that they can bequeath onto the next generation a more 
prosperous, a more secure America. We are at risk for severing that 
legacy for the first time in the history of this country. If we consign 
to the next generation that burden of debt, that increase in tax rates, 
there is no way we will be able to provide a higher standard of living 
to the next generation of Americans.
  But the matter is even more urgent than that. The matter is urgent to 
the fact that we are in the worst recession we have seen since the 
1940s. It's a global recession. And the question we ought to be asking 
ourselves: Should we be raising all these taxes in the middle of a 
recession? Should we be raising the energy fees on consumers by 
anywhere from $1,600 to $3,500 a year in a recession? Should we be 
raising taxes on small businesses, which create most of our jobs, in a 
recession? Should we be raising taxes on the assets that make up our 
pension plans, our children's 401(k) plans, their college education 
plans, our IRAs in a recession? Of course not. Unfortunately, that's 
precisely what the President and this budget do.
  This is a huge moment for America. And Americans may not know this 
because they are greasing this thing through so fast: It's a moment 
where America may abandon its tireless principles, its timeless ideas 
that built this country, the idea that the goal of government is to 
protect our rights and to equalize opportunity for all so people can 
stake their claim and make the most of their lives and replace that 
with more of a Europeanized notion where we try to micromanage the 
results of people's lives, where people are less concerned about their 
liberty and more concerned about security.
  We believe in having a safety net to help people who cannot help 
themselves. We believe in having a safety net to help people when they 
are down on their luck. But we reject the philosophy and the approach 
of this budget which says we need to have more than that, we need to 
have a society where more and more Americans become dependent on the 
government itself for their own well-being.
  We want people to maximize their potential. We want people to make 
the most of their lives. We don't want to lull people in lives of 
complacency where they are becoming more and more dependent on the 
Federal Government. We have seen what those ideas do. We see them on 
display in foreign capitals all around the world. Higher unemployment, 
a lower standard of living, stagnant wages, decaying societies. That's 
not America. That is not what this country is. It's not the idea of 
America. We want the idea of America that we have known for the 20th 
century to be the idea of America in the 21st century. That's what this 
budget is about. That's what this blueprint or this architecture that 
we are debating here today is really all about.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would remind my friend and all Members of the House that President 
Obama came to office less than 100 days ago. And when he came, he found 
on the doorstep waiting for him a budget that was deep in deficit. By 
our calculation, the Bush administration is responsible for at least 
$1.3 trillion of the deficit we are now struggling with trying to 
resolve and work down in the budget before us, $1.3 trillion out of a 
projected deficit this year of $1.752 trillion.
  The economy, the worst since the Great Depression, happened on the 
watch of President Bush. He can't escape it. He was in office 8 years, 
and it happened in the midst of his tenure in office. The debt 
accumulation during that administration due to the deficits that have 
steadily racked up almost every year after the first 2 years of his 
administration, the deficit added over $5 trillion to the debt of the 
United States.
  And to deal with the wretched conditions in our economy and to keep 
this economy from slipping into a downward death spiral, the Bush 
administration undertook some aggressive actions, I think rightly so, 
such as the TARP, dealing with troubled asset programs. They undertook 
a number of these remedial actions at significant cost to the Federal 
Government. I don't fault them for that. They did what needed to be 
done in order to keep the economy from going deeper into the rut. But 
we are here living with the consequences of that.
  The major reason we have a deficit so swollen, $1.752 trillion, is 
not because of what's about to happen with the adoption of this budget. 
This budget works the deficit down. It's because of what did happen 
during 8 years of the Bush administration when we finally ended up with 
the worst recession since the Great Depression.
  So we are dealing with the aftermath of the Bush administration here 
today, and we have a budget which builds upon the budget sent to us by 
President Obama. It takes the deficit from where it is, $1.752 trillion 
this year, and reduces it to $586 billion within 4 years. I would like 
to see it go further, beyond that. But we have given the House and the 
Congress a 5-year budget that will put us on a path downward from $1.7 
trillion, $1.8 trillion to $586 billion by 2013 and perhaps even better 
by 2014.

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  I think we should go further. We have got to go further. I will be 
the first to acknowledge that when you look at OMB's projections of the 
10 years lying ahead of us, in the second 5-year period of that 10-year 
span, in that period of time the deficit starts going back up again. We 
don't want that to happen. But we can best make the policy that will 
address that second 5-year period when we are out of this economy, when 
we are standing on firmer ground than we are today and we know a bit 
more about the future of the economy and the budget than we do at this 
point in time.
  In the meantime, what we are doing is prescribing over the next 5 
years a budget that will go down, down, down, from $1.752 trillion to 
$586 billion. I say that is a fiscally responsible budget. So did the 
House.
  When this measure was before us, before we left for the Easter-
Passover break, when this measure was before us, the concurrent 
resolution, 233 Members of the House voted to pass our resolution, our 
budget resolution which now comes before us on a motion to go to 
conference.
  Mr. Ryan presented, or his side presented, the Republicans presented 
two budget alternatives. One received 137 votes. 137 votes, that is 80 
votes less than a majority, with 293 noes. The other received 111 
votes. We received 233 votes.
  I think the House has spoken and spoken resoundingly. They listened 
to the debate, then they read the materials we put out, they decided 
this is a better way to go. This is a responsible budget because it 
takes us over the foreseeable future to a much, much lower budget, 
something we can do, because this year's budget is swollen. $1.7 
trillion is totally unsustainable, totally intolerable, but it is 
swollen by actions that have been taken that are countercyclical in 
order to get this economy out of the rut it is in right here today. 
Once you leave those nonrecurring expenditures out, you can credibly 
say that we can get from where we are to a deficit in the mid-500s in a 
4-year period of time.
  Now, you are going to hear a lot of talk about tax cuts. But read the 
committee report and you will see in short summary exactly some of the 
highlights and features of this particular bill. If you read the very 
last page, you will see that our budget resolution calls for reducing 
revenues, for tax cuts. Provided under the CBO baseline forecast, this 
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billion over the first 5 years and $1.48 trillion in total tax 
reductions.
  We have been taunted in the past by those saying that when we came to 
power we wouldn't continue the middle income tax cuts; we would allow 
them to expire on December 31, 2010, as they are prescribed to expire. 
But we protect those tax cuts. The marital penalty, mitigation 
provisions in the marital penalty relief bill, the 10 percent bracket, 
which is a big tax cut for many working Americans, the child tax 
credit, all of these we preserve and extend in our particular bill, 
including the estate tax. We simply say with respect to the estate tax, 
just leave it in place as it is in 2010, that is, with a $3.5 million 
per decedent exemption, $7 million for a couple.
  All of these things are in the package before us. That is why it 
received a resounding vote of support from the House just a few weeks 
ago and why it is a better choice and why we need now to finish the 
work we began, go on to conference and adopt a concurrent budget 
resolution which will be the ruling law for the coming fiscal year.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the vice 
ranking member of the Budget Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Hensarling).
  Mr. HENSARLING. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  I can think of no greater act of irresponsibility for this House of 
Representatives here and now than to take this budget to conference. 
This is a budget that will place more debt, more debt on our Nation in 
the next 10 years than was run up in the previous 220. That is right, 
Mr. Speaker. This budget, this budget is laying the framework for more 
debt to be placed on our Nation in the next 10 years than was placed in 
the previous 220.
  Now, I must admit that I find it somewhat amusing that every time one 
of my friends from the other side of the aisle, including the 
distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee, comes to the floor to 
debate, they always want to play the blame game, Mr. Speaker. They 
always want to point the finger at somebody else and they speak of, 
well, there is this problem that was inherited.
  Well, maybe there was a problem that President Obama inherited, but 
he inherited it from a Democratic-controlled Congress. When the 
Democrats took over Congress, the deficit stood at $161 billion. Now we 
know in just two short years, two short years, we are looking at a 
budget deficit of $1.8 trillion, a 10-fold increase, Mr. Speaker.
  Yes, that is a challenge inherited by the President from the 
Democratic Congress. But to be fair to the Democratic Congress, he is 
really only inheriting about a $1.3 trillion budget deficit from them. 
He is adding about half a trillion dollars of it himself to get to the 
$1.8 trillion.
  When the Democrats took control of Congress, the unemployment rate 
stood at 4.4 percent. Now it is over 8 percent, almost double.
  When the Democrats took control of Congress, the Dow stood at 12,400. 
I need not tell anybody in this Chamber that it is down almost 40 
percent now.
  Now, I don't blame my colleagues for every single woe that our Nation 
faces today, but they seemingly take no responsibility and seemingly 
are more interested in pointing the finger than solving the problem. 
And when they so-called try to solve the problem, all we have is a 
borrow, tax and spend budget. Borrow, tax and spend, that is what this 
budget is all about.
  If history is my guide, Mr. Speaker, no nation in the history of the 
world has been able to borrow and spend its way into prosperity. Many 
have tried, including our own. In the Great Depression, Henry 
Morgenthau, FDR's Secretary of Treasury, once said, ``We have tried 
spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and 
it does not work. After 8 years of this administration, we have just as 
much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot.'' 
That was at the outset of World War II, after 10 years.
  Many of us know about Japan's lost decade. An industrialized economy, 
not unlike our own, they had a real estate bubble burst on them in the 
early nineties. They passed eight different so-called government 
stimulus bills in 10 years, and in 10 years they created no new jobs, 
no new economic growth, and their per capita income went from second, 
second in the world, to 10th in the world. Now, how many young people 
in that nation were never able to go to college, never able to start a 
new business, never able to own a home because of the debt placed on 
that nation?
  As The New York Times wrote about the experience, and let me say 
again, The New York Times, not Rush Limbaugh, not National Review, in a 
recent article they said, ``During those two decades, Japan accumulated 
the largest public debt in the world. This has led many to conclude 
that spending did little more than sink Japan deeply into debt, leaving 
an enormous tax burden for future generations.''
  The article from The New York Times goes on to say, ``Among ordinary 
Japanese, the spending is widely disparaged for having turned the 
nation into a public works-based welfare state, making regional 
economies dependent on Tokyo for jobs.''
  Mr. Speaker, we need to learn from our neighbor's history. We need to 
learn from our own history. This is a budget that will not only spend 
too much and tax too much, but place a level of burden of debt on 
future generations that is absolutely unconscionable.
  Even prior to this horrendous budget, we were on track to have to 
double taxes, double taxes on the next generation just to balance the 
budget. This is a budget that will triple, triple the national debt in 
just 10 years, and run up more debt in the next 10 years than in the 
previous 220.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I rarely use the word ``immoral'' in political 
debate, but I think placing that level of debt on my 7-year-old 
daughter and my 5-year-old son and all the children of America is 
immoral. This budget should not be taken to conference.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlelady from 
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro).
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this resolution and a 
budget that addresses our Nation's priorities, confronts our economic 
crisis today, and makes critical investments in our long-term growth. 
With this budget, we have laid out a clear path to cut the deficit by 
nearly two-thirds and to cut taxes for middle-class Americans. It 
reduces wasteful spending while making long overdue investments to get 
our country back on track.
  The truth is we cannot afford to wait. Failure to reform and invest 
have produced 8 years of the slowest growth in three-quarters of a 
century. Every day, I hear stories from my constituents. The single 
mother who lost her job and the health care coverage that went with it. 
Now she fights daily just to make sure her children can get the care 
they need to stay healthy.
  To the small business owner, to stay afloat in a market where credit 
has become so tight, simply making payroll is not a sure thing.
  The student who excelled in school but won't be going to college 
because he or she cannot afford it.
  And the homeowner who worked and saved and did everything right, but 
still finds himself or herself underwater on the verge of foreclosure.
  Our Nation owes its citizens far better. There will be no growth, no 
opportunity and no jobs unless we invest in our future. We cannot fix 
our economy unless we take concrete steps to create jobs, transition to 
a clean energy economy, make health care more affordable, and improve 
education, pursue true reform, get the big things right and focus on 
our national priorities. Focus on health care by addressing the burdens 
that the current health care system places on families, aiming to 
improve quality, efficiency and accountability of health care in order 
to control costs and provide resources to expand access.
  There are no easy answers when it comes to making our health care 
system work for everyone, but one thing is clear: This is our window of 
opportunity. This budget is an essential first step to ensuring 
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It gives us the flexibility to give people real choices when it comes 
to their health care; the choice to keep what they have now, or to have 
a new choice of a private or public health insurance plan.
  Focus on education, the key to economic opportunity, especially in 
these tough economic times. When too many of our children and adults 
are not prepared to compete or when our region's workforce does not 
meet the demands our employers, our entire Nation suffers. This budget 
expands access and increases funding for early childhood education, 
creates a new tax credit to help cover college costs, and raises the 
Pell Grant award.
  Focus on energy independence, because from rising prices to rising 
temperatures to the dangerous actions of hostile regimes abroad, one 
thing is clear: If we do not take action, young people today, not to 
mention their children and their grandchildren, will face dire 
consequences.
  This budget builds a framework for developing and producing new 
energy and jobs, modernizing the electricity grid to make it more 
efficient, secure and reliable, increasing the efficiency of Federal 
buildings, and helping to make State and local governments more energy 
efficient.
  Focus on infrastructure to create jobs for transportation, energy 
projects, maintaining highways, rebuilding bridges, transit and water 
systems. This budget lays the groundwork for a national infrastructure 
bank to give these projects the priority they deserve and the leveraged 
resources to maximize their impact, all to create good jobs that cannot 
be outsourced while spurring economic growth and keeping our Nation 
competitive.
  No matter where we focus, our goals are clear: To move from recovery 
to growth. This budget builds on the powerful down payment we made with 
the recovery package that President Obama signed into law this spring.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand behind this responsible 
budget. It is the foundation of a strong economy, true reform and 
future growth.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I reserve my time.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Andrews).
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman.
  This debate really is very timely because the number one issue on the 
minds of the American people is the economic crisis, and although we 
use the language of the budget, what we are really talking about here 
is whether to adopt or not adopt a plan to fix the economic crisis 
facing the country.

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  Literally, the motion that we're debating right now is whether to try 
to reach an agreement with the Senate about that plan, and we'll take a 
vote on whether to go forward or not. I hope everybody votes to go 
forward with the process.
  But I assume, Mr. Speaker, the minority's not really debating the 
process; they're debating the substance, and that's good and that's 
welcome.
  I think for us to fix this economic crisis we need to do three 
things, and the President has stepped forward to try to do these three 
things. The first is to get the economy kick-started in the short run. 
The President proposed legislation that would put construction workers 
back to work, that would help first-time homebuyers with their down 
payment for a new home, that would let people deduct the sales tax when 
they buy a car or truck, that would stop the hemorrhaging of layoffs 
from schools around the country by a significant increase in Federal 
aid to schools. And we passed that. And it's about 2 months old, and 
we're hoping that it will work.
  The second leg of recovery is to stop the meltdown of the financial 
system. You know, the two parties came together in the fall and passed 
legislation that was very controversial, very easy to vote against, to 
try to rescue the financial system and the banking system, not for the 
benefit of the shareholders of banks, but for the benefit of borrowers 
and depositors and all of us who depend upon the banking system. And 
the new Secretary of the Treasury has gone forward with a different 
version of how to implement that plan, and it's playing out in the 
marketplace, and we're hoping that that plan will be successful.
  The third piece of the recovery plan is a long-term plan to deal with 
the long-term problems of the country. The President proposed a way to 
deal with the problem of borrowing too much money to run the country, 
and we passed in the House a budget that cuts the deficit by two-thirds 
and we hope will stimulate the economic growth that will pay down the 
debt as we did in the 1990s.
  The President proposed a plan that would start us toward fixing our 
health care system, to control costs for businesses and families, so 
that the metastasizing growth of health care costs is reduced and 
subdued, and that's included in this budget.
  The President has proposed a plan to deal with our energy dependency 
upon imported foreign oil; and although the specifics of that are not 
included in this budget, this House, at the appropriate time, will take 
up that debate and will either pass it or not.
  And, finally, the President talked about improving the job skills of 
our workers so we are more competitive in global economic competition 
with some major reforms in the way we pay for getting a college or 
higher education.
  Now, you can disagree with the way the President went about these 
objectives. But I think what you can't do is propose essentially 
nothing as an alternative. And I know there were alternatives on the 
floor during the budget debate. But the reality is the minority has 
kind of set itself up here to tell us what it's against, and I respect 
that.
  We're for something very different. We're for a plan that reduces the 
deficit by two-thirds. We're for a plan that stops the hemorrhaging 
from our pocketbooks in America's health care system. We want to debate 
and eventually adopt a plan that will terminate our addiction to 
imported oil. We're for a plan that raises the skills and aspirations 
of every worker, every man, woman and child in this country. That is 
what we are for. And we want to go forward with the other body and with 
the President and, hopefully, with the other party in a way that will 
implement a plan that will make this economy recover.
  So that's what we're talking about today: Should we or should we not 
go forward with a plan that will help the economy recover?
  We've laid out our ideas. We believe in them. We think the track 
record shows that they work. There really are two competing sets of 
ideas about how to fix the economy. The minority believes that massive 
reductions in taxes for the wealthiest Americans and deregulation of 
the economy will produce prosperity for all. We don't believe that. We 
think that lower deficits, investment in education and health care, 
infrastructure, sensible regulation of the marketplace will produce 
prosperity for all.
  There's a record, Mr. Speaker. Their method, tried in the last 8 
years, has, frankly, led us to the economic catastrophe we're 
experiencing today. Our method, by and large, tried in the 1990s, led 
to a very different result. For every one job----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SPRATT. Could I ask how much time we have left?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 13\1/2\ minutes.
  Mr. SPRATT. I yield the gentleman 1 additional minute.
  Mr. ANDREWS. For every one job that their strategy produced, ours 
produced 108. For every dollar of economic growth that their strategy 
produced, ours produced $1.69. A middle class family, during the last 8 
years, saw their purchasing power drop by $500, at least, compared to 
what it was 8 years ago. And finally, the purchasing power of the 
middle class family during our strategy being invoked saw purchasing 
power for middle class families increase by over $5,000. That's the 
record. That's the choice. Let's get on with it and go to conference.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. At this time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to

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yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett).
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin. And 
I would have liked to thank the gentleman from New Jersey if he had 
yielded because he has made that same statement over and over and over 
again on the floor with regard to how many more jobs would be produced 
under their budget and under the proposals by the Republicans. And each 
time when we try to ask him where his documentation for that or where 
the proof is so that he can prove it to the American public, as just 
happened right now, he has refused to do so.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Will the gentleman yield? I would be happy to supply 
that answer.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. And I would like to respond in kind just 
as you responded in kind to me. So when you're on your time we would 
like to have that documentation. We'd very much like to see it.
  I also appreciate the fact that the gentleman from New Jersey, that 
he says that the Democrats are presenting to us a different form of 
budget. Absolutely. The American public, I think, is outraged with the 
type of budget that they are presenting. It's a budget that spends too 
much, borrows too much and taxes too much. It spends more than any 
other government or any other budget that we've ever seen in the 
history of this country.
  So much of the time they lament the fact that we are brought to this 
table today because of the budgets of the previous administration. Yet, 
what do they do? On the one hand they're saying that those previous 
administrations failed to spend enough, and that's why they have to 
spend more; but on the other hand, they lament the fact that over and 
over again the previous administrations spent too much. So which is it? 
Was the previous administration spending too much or too little? They 
speak out of both sides of their mouth.
  And as far as borrowing, that poor child that is born today, that 
poor child that is born today, he will realize that he will be burdened 
with upwards of over $30,000 in debt just because of the extra spending 
in this legislation. That's on top of the $57 trillion of indebtedness 
that's already incurred by that child being born.
  So the child born today, before he can even think about putting a few 
pennies away, or his parents or his grandparents can put a few pennies 
away in his piggy bank, if you will, to start saving up for his college 
education or his marriage or a new car, first of all, they have to 
start putting away pennies to start paying for this indebtedness that 
the other side of the aisle is creating.
  You know, I came down to this floor because I heard the chairman of 
the Budget Committee responding to the ranking member of the Budget 
Committee, and I appreciate the work of the ranking member and the 
points that you were making as to when you were saying that now is not 
the time when we are in such difficult equations.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I yield the gentleman 1 additional minute.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. And we are in such difficult times, now is 
not the time to be putting further burdens on the American family. I 
appreciate that.
  I believe you yielded, or the chairman then responded by saying, 
we're in this situation because the budget that we had previously was a 
budget that spent too much and had problems with that budget. Wasn't 
that the response that we heard?
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Yes.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. So the problem was, the reason we're here 
today, according to the other side of the aisle, was that the previous 
budget, the budget we're operating under right now, was spending too 
much. Is that what we heard from the other side of the aisle?
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. That's right.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. I would ask then--I would yield some time 
to the chairman of the Budget Committee, if the chairman of the Budget 
Committee would yield to a question, if the chairman of the Budget 
Committee would yield to a question.
  Mr. SPRATT. I beg your pardon. I was discussing something with 
another of our Members on the floor.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. I certainly appreciate that. We were just 
discussing the reason that I was on the floor was, in part, response to 
your colloquy with the ranking member before, and you were saying that 
part of the reason we're here today is because of the budget problems 
that you experienced coming into this administration, the Obama 
administration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. And your comment was, it's a problem with 
the previous budgets. That was your comment on the floor.
  Mr. SPRATT. I'd say we're cleaning up in the aftermath of the Bush 
administration's 8 years of fiscal policy that left us $5 trillion 
deeper in debt.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. I appreciate that. Can you just tell me 
one question: Whose name appears on the current budget that we're 
operating under right now? Who submitted that to this Congress?
  Mr. SPRATT. The budget before us now began with the President's 
submission, as it has since 1921.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Not the budget that's right before us, 
that we are operating under right now. Whose budget, for the last 2 
years, has come before this House to be voted upon?
  Mr. SPRATT. We voted upon it here. But who occupied the White House? 
Who sent us the budget?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I yield the gentleman an additional 15 
seconds.
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. The point is, and the chairman, I 
appreciate the gentleman, the point of the matter is we are operating 
under a Democrat budget, and I believe it would be Mr. Spratt's name 
that would be on the budget that we're currently operating under for 
the last 2 years as the Democrat Party has been in control of this 
House for the last 2 years. So it's not that we're looking at a new 
administration. It's that for the last 2 years the budget that we're 
spending has come from the other side of the aisle.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling) manage our time for a moment 
until I return.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Wisconsin?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 5 minutes to the gentlelady from 
Pennsylvania (Ms. Schwartz).
  Ms. SCHWARTZ. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your important work.
  When I was sworn into Congress in 2005, I reached out and wanted to 
secure a position on the House Budget Committee. I did so because I 
understood then, as I do now, that budgets are critically important. 
The Federal budget is not just abstract numbers on a page. It is a 
reflection of our priorities and our values and of the America that we 
want to leave to our children and our grandchildren.
  The budget proposed by President Obama and modified by the Democratic 
Congress and before us today and going to conference committee is an 
economic road map that establishes the amount of money that Congress is 
authorized to spend in this year's appropriations bill. It does not set 
the level for specific programs, and it does not change current law. 
Both sides of the aisle understand this.
  The budget looks forward; but before we do, we have to understand how 
we got where we are today and what we inherited. This administration, 
this Congress, inherited from the previous administration a record 
deficit of $5.8 trillion, doubling of the national debt in 8 years, 
tripling the amount of debt that's owed to foreign countries, and an 
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  The fact is that President Obama and Congress are dealing with 
enormous challenges, and that is why it is imperative that we pass a 
strong, responsible budget that addresses the immediate challenges 
before us and makes the investments that we need to make for our future 
economic competitiveness.
  Our budget establishes a new fiscal framework. It includes a long 
overdue return to honest budgeting and fiscal responsibility. The 
budget embraces President Obama's goal to rebuild our economy and make 
those strategic target investments in health care, in energy and in 
national security. It is essential that we tackle the annual deficit, 
and we've laid out an ambitious marker that we are committed to cutting 
the deficit in half in 5 years.
  First and foremost, then, we have an honest budgeting practice. The 
budget plans for spending in ways that we have not since I've been here 
and for the 8 years before for sure. It talks about spending and sets 
out spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, for domestic national disasters, 
for tax relief and for obligated entitlements.
  Through the economic recovery and reinvestment plan, Congress has 
already taken action, significant action, to improve our economic 
competitiveness and well-being, and this budget builds on that by 
making investments again in education, in energy independence, and, 
yes, on health care for all Americans. Each of these areas requires us 
to find common ground. And this budget ensures that we are able, in 
Congress, working with the Senate, to define the specific means and the 
specific ways to accomplish these goals.
  To compete in the 21st century global economy, we do need an educated 
and skilled workforce for the future, and this budget puts resources in 
early education initiatives and investments in basic education, K-12, 
and better enables Americans to afford to go to college with student 
loans.
  Our economic and national security also depends on America being more 
energy independent, and this budget sets aside a revenue-neutral 
reserve fund that calls on Congress to find a way towards energy 
independence through alternative, home-grown, cleaner energy and energy 
efficiency.
  And, of course, in health care: we have both a moral and economic 
responsibility to find a uniquely American solution to health care 
reform, to containing costs, to improving quality, to making sure that 
every American has access to health care. And, again, there is a 
revenue-neutral reserve fund with reconciliation language in this 
budget that calls on us to do the work in the next year to make sure 
that we can accomplish these goals.
  These goals are shared by many Americans, and they are within our 
reach if we are to work together. We cannot continue the policies of 
the last 8 years. We need to change the way we do budgeting. We need to 
change our investments. We need to move forward with this budget.
  Pennsylvania, and certainly all American families and businesses, 
need Congress to work with President Obama again to work together to 
address their concerns, as has been set out in this budget. Simply 
saying ``no,'' simply saying we should go back to the policies of the 
last 8 years that got us in this mess is not the way to go.

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  I call on all of us to work together to move forward on this 
conference report to make sure we are doing all that we can to make 
sure that America is strong, safe and more economically competitive. 
This budget does that, and I say we move forward.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan) will resume control of the remaining time.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. At this time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to 
yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry).
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my ranking member for yielding time 
on this important debate of the day.
  Today, we are talking about the budget resolution. The budget passed 
by this Congress--I voted ``no''--increases spending at a rapid rate. 
We haven't seen such a rapid growth of government since Jimmy Carter 
was President of the United States in the malaise days of the 1970s, 
but I think it's equally interesting that we're debating the budget 
resolution today because, just yesterday, President Obama announced 
that he is finding savings in the budget, and they're trying to find 
savings of $100 billion out of our budget.
  Well, today, this budget resolution will spend over $3 trillion, and 
so the savings that President Obama has announced is the equivalent of 
an average family of four in the United States deciding not to buy a 
Starbucks coffee--just one day, not for the year, just one day. The 
equivalent savings for a family is about $1.25. Actually, I don't even 
think you can buy a Starbucks coffee for $1.25 anymore; but instead of 
doing the hard work of paring down government spending and finding 
priorities and funding those priorities and finding those areas of 
government that are inefficient and ineffective and are not getting 
results for people, this budget simply taxes too much, spends too much 
and borrows too much.
  In the end, with our borrowing costs going up as government, we'll 
see inflation in the coming years, inflation that will erode seniors' 
ability to purchase health care, inflation that will erode families' 
capacities to educate their children and fund their education. These 
things are real. Unfortunately, though a budget deals with people, 
we're not doing the right thing for the American people because we're 
going to see a massive tax increase in this budget. We're going to see 
a carbon cap-and-trade, a national energy tax. We're going to see 
health care changes where the government takes more capacity and 
control away from individual patients and doctors and puts it in the 
hands of government bureaucrats. Our tax dollars will continue to go 
up, and our tax rates will go up. Now, this is not for the rich. It's 
for everyone when you have the tax bills going up that much.
  What I would urge my colleagues to do is to reject this motion to go 
to conference. I think it's time that we do the right thing for the 
American people and not increase spending to the rapid tune that this 
budget does, not tax them more and not borrow more. With that, I urge 
my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  Mr. SPRATT. For the purpose of response, I yield 90 seconds to the 
gentleman from New Jersey.
  Mr. ANDREWS. I thank my chairman for yielding.
  My neighbor from New Jersey, Mr. Speaker, asked the source of the 
statistics I used. Here is the answer:
  One job for every 108 is the source of the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics. In the Bush administration, the average number of private-
sector jobs created per month was 2,000 per month. Under our strategy, 
it was 217,000 jobs per month. The economic growth figure is from the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis. It is derived by looking at the average 
rate of GDP growth during the 1990s and during the sunny years of the 
last 8 years we've just endured. The source of the purchasing power of 
middle class families is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of 
the Census is derived this way.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Will the gentleman yield for a clarifying 
question on that?
  Mr. ANDREWS. I have only 90 seconds.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Is it not the case that the Republicans 
controlled Congress from 1995 to the year 2000, controlling the 
appropriations and the tax bills that came through Congress at that 
time?
  Mr. ANDREWS. Reclaiming my time, it is also the case that every 
single Republican voted against the plan that created that economic 
growth.
  The source of the median family income is the BLS, the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics. The Bureau of the Census is derived by looking at the 
real family income of the median American family from when the prior 
President took office to when he left and a similar comparison in the 
1990s. We'll put it in the Record. Those are the facts. They're

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very uncomfortable for the minority, but they speak for themselves.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes 
to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Culberson).
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, the TEA parties that took place across 
this country on April 15 represent the tip of the iceberg of intense 
frustration among taxpayers and Americans of all walks of life. 
Everyone in America feels instinctively that this Congress and 
President are spending too much money and are growing the government 
too fast. We are on the brink, Mr. Speaker, of what is literally a fork 
in the road for the United States.
  We will either on the path laid out by the budget proposed by the 
majority, the liberal majority--and I try to avoid party labels because 
this is about what's in the best interest of America being fiscally 
conservative or fiscally liberal. The fiscally liberal majority has 
laid out a budget that will put America on a path to become Argentina. 
The fiscally conservative minority, led by the very able ranking member 
of the Budget Committee, Mr. Ryan, has laid out a very thoughtful, 
fiscally conservative alternative.
  Mr. Ryan recognizes, as do those of us in the minority--those fiscal 
conservatives who are working together to lay out thoughtful 
alternatives--that America needs a little dose of Dave Ramsey, the 
financial guru, who, in our personal lives, recommends and knows, as we 
all know, that you can't pay off borrowed money with borrowed money. 
Dave Ramsey quite correctly points out, when you've run up too much 
debt, you stop.
  Those TEA parties across America, Mr. Speaker, were the American 
people speaking out and telling Congress, ``Stop it. No new taxes. No 
new debt. No new spending.'' Any elected official who neglects that 
very sincere and heartfelt message from their constituents is in 
serious trouble in the next election.
  This country is in serious trouble. Let's deal with it in a 
thoughtful, fiscally conservative way by controlling spending, by 
cutting spending, by cutting taxes, by letting Americans keep more of 
their own hard-earned money so they will invest it to create jobs and 
to create wealth as we know works. Historical fact shows that keeping 
more of my own money allows me to invest it in the way I see best that 
will lead to job creation, that will lead to personal growth.
  America needs a strong dose of Dave Ramsey's good medicine, and 
that's what the alternative budget--the motion to recommit by Mr. 
Ryan--attempts to do, which is to get America back on a path toward 
fiscal prosperity. If we don't act in a fiscally conservative way 
immediately, the Comptroller of the United States has said in a letter 
sent to my office last March that, in a short 12 years, the American 
Treasury bill, the American T-bill--the safest investment in the 
history of the world--will be graded as junk bonds. Now, that's an 
incredible assertion from the auditor of the United States. The 
Comptroller of the United States says that the cumulative unfunded 
liabilities created by this Congress are so massive that, if we don't 
stop spending and start to control spending, T-bills will become junk 
bonds.
  Mr. Chairman and Mr. Speaker, I urge the Members to listen to their 
constituents. Just say ``no.'' Thank you. No new spending. No new 
taxes. No new debt. Support Mr. Ryan's motion to recommit.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, so I 
reserve the right to close.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Is the chairman reserving the right to close? 
Do I infer that he has no more additional speakers?
  Mr. SPRATT. Does the gentleman have further speakers?
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I have one additional speaker.
  Mr. SPRATT. Why don't you proceed with that speaker. Then I'll 
proceed with closing.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. All right. I will yield the remainder of our 
time, 3\1/2\ minutes, I believe----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Three and a quarter minutes.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I will yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina, who doesn't want the 3 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I just recognize the eloquence of the 
gentleman from Wisconsin, and want to make sure that he has some time 
at the end, and I appreciate it very much.
  I want to talk about Debt Day for just a minute. I want to show you 
some things, some figures. We don't have a bar graph which would show 
this a little bit better; but in the year 2002, Debt Day occurred on 
September 2, 2002. This year, Debt Day is going to occur on 4/26/09. 
Debt Day is an illustration of the size of government spending relative 
to the revenue the government receives and is calculated by taking the 
ratio of the Federal revenues to the Federal outlays projected by the 
Congressional Budget Office.
  So we are going to have the earliest Debt Day we have ever had in 
this country. In large part, it's due to the Democrats' $1 trillion 
stimulus spending bill, the more than $400 billion omnibus spending 
bill, loaded with 9,000 unscrutinized earmarks, and another $350 
billion in bailout funds Democrats have green-lighted since the 
beginning of the year.
  This is an abomination for our country. We should never be in this 
shape. John Adams said there are two ways to conquer a country--one is 
by the sword and the other is by debt. We are being conquered from 
within by our own people who have no sense of shame and no sense of 
shame for what they're doing to our children and grandchildren, and 
they should have because, in years past, they've criticized 
Republicans. Majority Leader Hoyer said $350 billion in deficit back on 
March 17, 2005, was wrong. Even the chairman of the Budget Committee 
made comments over and over again in 2005 that we had a terrible 
deficit. It's nothing compared to what they have proposed to us, and as 
I said, it is a shame.
  This budget that they have increases spending by over $1 trillion 
over 5 years. It increases taxes by $1.2 trillion. They have done 
nothing to work with us, and this is an abomination.
  Mr. SPRATT. I reserve the right to close. Does the gentleman have 
further time?
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Yes, I'll consume the remainder of our time. 
May I inquire, Mr. Speaker: We have 2 minutes left, I believe, or 1\1/
2\ minutes?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. One and a quarter minutes.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I yield myself the rest of the time.
  Mr. Speaker, I'll just simply close this portion of our debate by 
saying this: Let's all admit that both parties have made mistakes in 
the past. That happens. The question is: Are we going to make things 
worse or are we going to make things better?
  It is so clear, so obvious to just about any observer out there that 
piling on a new mountain of debt, a new gusher of spending and the 
largest tax increase in American history is not going to make things 
better; it's going to make things worse.
  Now, the one thing that the American people do get out of this is 
they get a choice. We disagree with this budget, and so rather than 
just simply criticizing, we proposed an alternative, an alternative 
that keeps taxes down and helps small businesses, an alternative that 
controls and cuts spending, an alternative that gets our debt under 
control and that puts us on a path to pay our debt off. It is a stark 
difference than this budget, which is making its way through Congress, 
being steamrolled through to give us the largest expansion in 
government we've seen in the history of this country, the third and 
final great wave, the building on the New Deal and the Great Society, 
which will give us a larger Federal Government unlike any we have seen 
in the history of this country in the past.
  It is a budget that doubles the national debt in 5\1/2\ years and 
triples it in 10\1/2\ years. It is a budget that gives us a huge tax 
increase in the middle of a recession and that makes everybody pay more 
for energy, and it's a budget that basically is borne upon the 
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for society to grow. We reject that idea. That's why we're not 
supporting this budget.
  Mr. SPRATT. I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, this is where we are. Bobby Jones, a great golfer once 
said, ``You play the ball where it lies.'' The fact of the matter is 
that after 8 years of the Bush administration this, sadly, is where the 
ball lies.
  When President Obama came to office less than 100 days ago--and 
remembering that, I think everyone would have to fairly concede these 
are not problems that he created. When he came to office, he found 
awaiting him on the doorstep of the White House a budget that was $1 
trillion, nearly $800 billion in deficit for this year and 
substantially in deficit for the forthcoming year.

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  He didn't create it; he didn't ask for it. It was thrust upon him and 
left to him by the Bush administration.
  He found an economy in crisis and he found that remedial steps had 
been taken that cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars, a 
good portion of which is being spent out--the TARP program is an 
example, the takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is an example. All 
of these things cost substantial sums, and they were policies taken 
before this administration came to office. They have swollen the 
deficit to the unprecedented size of $1.7 billion this year.
  The budget that we are proposing--which I now seek to have sent to 
conference so we can wrap it up, put it to bed and make it 
enforceable--the budget that we are proposing is a deficit-reduction 
budget. How can I say that? I can say that because we show credibly, I 
believe, that the budget deficit declines from $1.752 trillion under 
our resolution to $586 billion in the year 2013. In 4 fiscal years, we 
will reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars.
  How can we do that?
  One of the reasons we can do it is that quite a few of the items that 
have swollen the deficit in this and next fiscal year are nonrecurring, 
and when they are finally played out, the problem of debt reduction 
will be much, much more manageable. That is, if we have a plan, it will 
be manageable. We cannot simply leave it to some open-ended plan. And 
so what we have proposed here is a plan that will systematically, 
methodically move the deficit down, down, down by $1 trillion over the 
next 4 to 5 fiscal years.
  Now, it's a deficit reduction budget. No question about it. But it is 
not so committed to deficit reduction that it overlooks and postpones 
other priorities. For example, national defense will grow by 4 percent, 
a healthy growth rate that means national defense, including what is 
spent on supplementals for Iraq and Afghanistan, will be $686 billion 
next year.
  Veterans. Let's not forget our veterans. We appreciate them more than 
ever. We will be putting $5 billion more into veterans health care, 
raising it to $53 billion.
  Health care reform. This budget tackles issues that other 
administrations have either ignored, dodged, avoided, or failed to 
implement. Health care reform. Tough nut to crack, but it takes it on.
  The environment. Energy independence, critically important. We've 
seen it with the spike in energy prices over the last year. This is 
something we need to do and do now. This bill provides for that.
  Education. If you want to be able to say to a small child the next 
time you go in an elementary classroom, You can go to college. Yes, you 
can. You can go to college like anybody else. Yes, you can, then you 
should vote for this resolution because it strengthens Pell Grants by 
more than any bill we've passed in a long time to come.
  So this is a deficit reduction bill, which is a bill with a 
conscience, with priorities, that carefully laid out here and carefully 
provided for here, and, therefore, I would submit that everyone 
interested in education, the environment, energy independence should 
take a close look at this bill.
  Now, it's been said that we have substantially increased taxes in 
this bill. That's not true. Read CBO's report. Over the next 5 years, 
there is a net reduction in tax revenues of some $480 billion and $1 
trillion more than that over the next 5 years after that. There is 
deficit reduction left here. The marital penalty provisions, the middle 
class, middle-income tax cuts that we passed in 2001 and 2003 are, for 
the most part, all reenacted and extended by this resolution.
  So 233 Members, a very solid majority of the House, listened to the 
arguments pro and con, read and listened to the debate and decided this 
is a better way to go. I submit, let's stick with the course we set for 
ourselves several weeks ago. Let's send this budget on to conference 
where we can make it an enforceable piece of legislation.
  Ms. SCHWARTZ. Mr. Speaker, the House and Senate began final work on 
the Budget Resolution, and the Budget is more than numbers on a page--
it is a statement of the priorities, values and goals of our President, 
this Congress and our nation.
  The House Budget embraces the President's goals of rebuilding the 
economy and creating new jobs, restoring fiscal integrity, and making 
investments for our future prosperity and security.
  Simply put, we will only be prepared, we will only be economically 
competitive, if we tackle the immediate economic and fiscal challenges 
before us, make essential investments that enable us to meet future 
challenges, and do so in a way that is fiscally responsible.
  As the Budget Committee Vice Chair, I know that the President's 
Budget, modified by Congress, meets these goals.
  The House Budget is an honest budget. It anticipates expenditures and 
it restores fiscal balance by committing to cut the deficit in half in 
five years.
  And, most significantly, the budget makes smart investments that will 
contain costs and expand access to health care, build energy 
independence, and improve educational achievement, all critical if we 
are to grow the economy and be economically competitive in a global 
marketplace.
  We should pass the Budget Resolution and begin the task ahead.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I want to clearly explain the sources of 
the data I have used to compare the strength of the economy during 
President Clinton's time in office as compared to the economy during 
the Bush administration. During the Bush administration, an average of 
2,000 private sector jobs were created per month. For purposes of 
comparison, 217,000 private sector jobs were created per month under 
President Clinton. These statistics are drawn from Bureau of Labor 
Statistics data. To provide further evidence for the relative success 
of Presidents Clinton and Bush, it is helpful to look at economic 
growth during their Presidencies. President Clinton created $1.68 in 
economic growth for every dollar of economic growth created under the 
Bush administration. These numbers are taken directly from research by 
the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Finally, and perhaps most convincing, 
is the stark difference between the change in purchasing power, for the 
median household, between the Clinton and the Bush years. Under 
President Bush, the median household had $500 less purchasing power as 
of 2007 as compared to the beginning of Bush's Presidency. Under 
President Clinton the purchasing power of the median household rose by 
over $5,000. These numbers were drawn from data compiled by the Bureau 
of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. My friends on the 
other side of the aisle may prefer to ignore these comparisons; 
however, I am of the opinion that we must learn from our past to better 
prepare for the future. As we work to create jobs and get the economy 
back on track, it is useful to keep in mind the lessons of the past two 
decades.
  Mr. SPRATT. I yield back my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time has expired.
  The question is on the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.

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