[House Report 104-142]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



   104th Congress 1st   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES        Report
         Session
                                                       104-142
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                                                  Union Calendar No. 65


                              R E P O R T

                                 on the
 
            SUBDIVISION OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996



                             together with



                            DISSENTING VIEWS



                 SUBMITTED BY MR. LIVINGSTON, CHAIRMAN,



                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS




 June 15, 1995.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

    BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, 
             Chairman
                                     JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
                                     JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana
                                     C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
                                     RALPH REGULA, Ohio
                                     JERRY LEWIS, California
                                     JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois
                                     HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky
                                     JOE SKEEN, New Mexico
                                     FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
                                     TOM DeLAY, Texas
                                     JIM KOLBE, Arizona
                                     BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada
                                     JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa
                                     RON PACKARD, California
                                     SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama
                                     JAMES T. WALSH, New York
                                     CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina
                                     DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio
                                     ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma
                                     HENRY BONILLA, Texas
                                     JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan
                                     DAN MILLER, Florida
                                     JAY DICKEY, Arkansas
                                     JACK KINGSTON, Georgia
                                     FRANK RIGGS, California
                                     RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New 
                                     Jersey
                                     ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi
                                     MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York
                                     GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, Jr., 
                                     Washington
                                     JIM BUNN, Oregon
DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin             MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
LOUIS STOKES, Ohio
TOM BEVILL, Alabama
JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
CHARLES WILSON, Texas
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
JULIAN C. DIXON, California
VIC FAZIO, California
W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina
STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois
RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas
ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
JIM CHAPMAN, Texas
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado
NANCY PELOSI, California
PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania
ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California
NITA M. LOWEY, New York
RAY THORNTON, Arkansas
  James W. Dyer, Clerk and Staff 
             Director
                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                     Washington, DC, June 15, 1995.
Hon. Newt Gingrich,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: By direction of the Committee on 
Appropriations, I submit herewith the Committee's report on the 
subdivision of budget authority and outlays, consistent with 
the ``Allocation of Spending Responsibility to House Committees 
Pursuant to Section 302(a)/602(a) of the Congressional Budget 
Act'' beginning on page 144 of House Report 104-120 to 
accompany H. Con. Res. 67, setting forth the Congressional 
Budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 as adopted by the 
House on May 18, 1995.
    The Committee on Appropriations has been allocated $491.213 
billion in discretionary budget authority and $537.201 billion 
in outlays. The Committee, in distributing this among the 13 
regular appropriations bills, has remained within the 
allocation.
    The subdivision was ordered reported by the Committee on 
June 13, 1995.
            Sincerely,
                                          Bob Livingston, Chairman.
                                                  Union Calendar No. 65
104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 1st Session                                                    104-142
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    REPORT ON THE SUBDIVISION OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996

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 June 15, 1995.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________


  Mr. Livingston, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T
               report on the subdivision of budget totals

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the subdivision of budget totals for fiscal year 
1996.
    The Committee on Appropriations has been allocated $491.213 
billion in discretionary budget authority and $537.201 billion 
in outlays. The Committee, in distributing this among the 13 
regular appropriations bills, has remained within the 
allocation.




                          full committee votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 2(l)(2)(b) of rule XI 
of the House of Representatives, the results of each roll call 
vote on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with 
the names of those voting for and those voting against, are 
printed below:

Rollcall

    Date: June 13, 1995.
    Measure: Fiscal year 1996 Sec. 602(B) subdivision.
    Motion by: Mr. Obey.
    Description of motion: Amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to the Sec. 602(B) subdivision.
    Results: Rejected, 19 to 29.
        MEMBERS VOTING YEA            MEMBERS VOTING NAY
Mr. Bevill                          Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Coleman                         Mr. Bunn
Mr. Dixon                           Mr. Callahan
Mr. Durbin                          Mr. Dickey
Mr. Fazio                           Mr. Forbes
Mr. Foglietta                       Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Hefner                          Mr. Hobson
Mr. Hoyer                           Mr. Istook
Ms. Kaptur                          Mr. Kingston
Mrs. Lowey                          Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Mollohan                        Mr. Lewis
Mr. Obey                            Mr. Lightfoot
Ms. Pelosi                          Mr. Livingston
Mr. Sabo                            Mr. McDade
Mr. Skaggs                          Mr. Miller
Mr. Stokes                          Mr. Myers
Mr. Thornton                        Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Torres                          Mr. Neumann
Mr. Visclosky                       Mr. Packard
                                    Mr. Porter
                                    Mr. Regula
                                    Mr. Riggs
                                    Mr. Rogers
                                    Mr. Skeen
                                    Mrs. Vucanovich
                                    Mr. Walsh
                                    Mr. Wicker
                                    Mr. Wolf
                                    Mr. Young
                   DISSENTING VIEWS OF HON. DAVE OBEY

    Failure of the House and Senate Budget Committees to 
produce an agreement on a Congressional budget in a timely 
manner has left this committee in the unfortunate position of 
tying subcommittee spending allocations to the level in the 
House passed Budget resolution rather than the actual 
Congressional Budget as required in law.
    The House-passed budget relies on particularly deep 
reductions in the area of discretionary spending as a means of 
simultaneously providing large tax cuts aimed at well-to-do 
taxpayers and reducing budget deficits. Needless to say, the 
task faced by the committee in apportioning the declining 
resources allotted discretionary programs under the provisions 
of House Budget Resolution is a difficult one.
    Unfortunately, the allocation arrived at by the majority is 
not one which Democratic members of the Committee can support. 
It focuses the pain on a relatively small portion of the 
discretionary budget while providing large increases in the 
area of defense (which now accounts for more than half of all 
discretionary spending.) The committee allocation for Defense 
is not only out of line with the amounts supported by committee 
Democrats but is also at variance with the amounts supported by 
Senate Republicans. The Livingston allocations provide the 
three appropriation subcommittees with the bulk of spending 
authority for the Defense Function (Function 050 of the budget) 
with more than $7 billion in spending above the levels assumed 
in the Senate-passed budget resolution. This also places the 
House allocation for Defense programs $7 billion above the 
Fiscal 1996 budget request from the Pentagon.
    The consequence of this dramatic shift of resources toward 
the military portion of the discretionary budget is to require 
even deeper cuts in the domestic portion. The allocation that 
was adopted places the committee on a course which will result 
in a major reduction in student assistance for higher 
education, biomedical research against dread disease, direct 
financial support of local schools, medical care for veterans, 
job training, support of a wide range of scientific activities, 
programs for environmental cleanup, improvement of our highways 
and transportation system and enforcement of our laws and 
support for local police.
    For that reason, the Democratic members of the Committee 
supported an alternative allocation of funds within the 
constraints of the House-passed Budget Resolution. That 
alternative did not spend one dime more than the one which was 
adopted by the Republican majority. It simply established a 
different set of priorities within the spending framework which 
House Republicans have adopted.
    The Democratic proposal might be called ``Domenici Plus 
One.'' That is because it provides for all of the defense 
spending proposed by the Republican Senate and increases 
defense by one billion beyond the Senate level.
    In addition, the proposal takes $1.5 billion that the 
chairman has proposed be put aside for future federal disaster 
assistance payments and redistributes those funds to reduce the 
proposed levels of domestic reductions. This is not done 
because we believe that future disasters should be financed out 
of federal deficit spending but because we believe that it is 
time that the states take the step to insure themselves against 
these recurring emergencies in accordance with legislation 
which has already been introduced and which a number of members 
of this committee are already sponsors.
    We would redistribute the savings from these two sources to 
seven subcommittees to fund programs critical to health, safety 
and future economic prosperity. These would include:
          $900 million for Commerce-Justice for maintaining our 
        commitment for stronger federal support of law 
        enforcement.
          $200 million in outlays for transportation which 
        would permit the obligation of an additional billion in 
        federal highway contract authority and support of 
        additional efforts to improve aviation safety.
          More than $2.2 billion for VA-HUD to protect Veterans 
        medical services, fund needed priorities in space and 
        science and reduce the hit on low income elderly 
        housing programs.
          $300 million for Agriculture which will protect the 
        safety of our food and medicines and prevent deeper 
        cuts in nutrition for pregnant mothers.
          $100 million for Treasury, Post Office which would 
        tighten our efforts to block entry of illegal aliens.
          $500 million for the Interior Subcommittee to deal 
        with a myriad of problems they face including adequate 
        funding for our National Park System.
          A little less than $3 billion to lessen the 
        extraordinary hit which the Chairman's mark takes on 
        the Labor-H subcommittee. This would reduce the damage 
        that will otherwise be done to student assistance 
        programs, biomedical research, grants to local school 
        districts, fuel assistance and summer goals.
    This allocation leaves us far below the levels requested by 
the President for most domestic programs and far below the 
levels which we will fund most domestic programs in the current 
year even after adoption of the rescission package. It is very 
modest and does not control all of the damage. But it does 
control a good deal of damage while still a generous allocation 
to Defense. It is the very least this committee should do. In 
fact, it should do much more.

                                         OBEY PROPOSED 602(b) ALLOCATION                                        
                    [Compared to Fiscal 1995, Revised 1995, President's Request, Livingston]                    
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                                                                  President's                 Obey       Obey   
              Subcommittee                1995 Base      1995      budget \2\  Livingston   proposed   proposed 
                                                     Revised \1\      1996       602(b)      change   allocation
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Budget authority:                                                                                               
    Agriculture.........................    $13,396     $13,314      $14,717      $13,260       $300     $13,560
    Comm.-Jus.-State....................     26,346      25,897       30,047       26,922        900      27,822
    DC..................................        712         712          712          712          0         712
    Energy & Water......................     20,493      20,059       20,726       18,850          0      18,850
    Interior............................     13,517      13,234       14,472       12,700        500      13,200
    Labor/HHS/Ed........................     70,016      66,844       73,513       60,101      2,910      63,011
    Legislative.........................      2,367       2,351        2,618        2,262          0       2,262
    Transportation......................     13,694      10,997       10,685       12,500         80      12,580
    Treasury, Postal....................     11,614      11,025       13,117       11,426        100      11,526
    VA/HUD/ind..........................     70,417      61,557       71,683       61,700      2,230      63,930
                                         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
      Domestic Subs.....................    242,572     225,990      252,290      220,433      7,020     227,453
                                         =======================================================================
    Mil Con.............................      8,836       8,735       10,698       11,198          0      11,198
    National Security...................    243,430     241,405      236,180      243,499     -5,520     237,979
                                         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
      Defense Subs......................    252,266     250,140      246,878      254,697     -5,520     249,177
                                         =======================================================================
    Foreign Ops.........................     13,634      13,609       14,813       12,200          0      12,200
    Disaster Reserve....................  .........  ...........  ...........       1,500     -1,500           0
    Welfare Reserve.....................  .........  ...........  ...........       2,383          0       2,383
                                         =======================================================================
      Grand total.......................    508,472     489,739      513,981      491,213          0     491,213
Outlays:                                                                                                        
    Agriculture.........................     13,831      13,800       14,522       13,521        240      13,761
    Comm.-Jus.-State....................     26,448      26,336       28,245       26,316        600      26,916
    DC..................................        712         712          712          712          0         712
    Energy & Water \3\..................     20,592      20,421       20,586       19,738       -175      19,563
    Interior............................     14,032      13,913       14,306       13,191        250      13,441
    Labor/HHS/Ed........................     72,043      70,228       74,085       67,392      1,250      68,642
    Legislative.........................      2,361       2,357        2,543        2,279          0       2,279
    Transportation......................     37,550      37,425       37,779       36,963        200      37,163
    Treasury, Postal....................     12,125      12,037       12,806       11,838         60      11,898
    VA/HUD/ind..........................     77,370      76,363       79,902       73,595        900      74,495
                                         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
      Domestic Subs.....................    277,064     273,592      285,486      265,545      3,325     268,870
                                         =======================================================================
    Mil Con.............................      9,119       9,095        9,585        9,613          0       9,613
    National Security...................    243,901     243,424      241,308      243,731     -1,825     241,906
                                         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
      Defense Subs......................    253,020     252,519      250,893      253,344     -1,825     251,519
                                         =======================================================================
    Foreign Ops.........................     14,132      14,040       14,417       13,900          0      13,900
    Disaster Reserve....................          0           0            0        1,500     -1,500           0
    Welfare Reserve.....................          0           0            0        2,912          0       2,912
                                         =======================================================================
      Grand total.......................    267,152     540,151      550,796      537,201          0     537,201
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\1\ Assumes enactment of Rescissions.                                                                           
\2\ Excludes contract authority for Transportation.                                                             
\3\ Reflects subcommittee action.                                                                               

                                                         Dave Obey.