[House Report 104-474]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-474
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                  PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF
 
          H.R. 3019, THE BALANCED BUDGET DOWNPAYMENT ACT, II

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   March 6, 1996.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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    Mr. Dreier, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 372]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 372, by a record vote of 9 to 2, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

               brief summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 3019, 
the ``Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, II'' under a modified 
closed rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate 
divided equally between the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Appropriations.
    The rule further provides for adoption in the House and in 
the Committee of the Whole of an amendment printed in section 2 
of the resolution.
    Only amendments specified in the Rules Committee report are 
in order an shall be considered only in the order printed in 
the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the 
report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by 
the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of 
the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. All 
points of order against the amendments specified in the report 
are waived.
    Finally, the rule provides that the previous question shall 
be considered as ordered on the bill to final passage without 
intervening motion except one motion to recommit which, if 
containing instructions may only be offered by the Minority 
Leader or his designee.

                            committee votes

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

Rules Committee Rollcall No. 294

    Date: March 6, 1996.
    Measure: Rule for consideration of H.R. 3019, Further 
Downpayment Toward a Balanced Budget.
    Motion By: Mr. Moakley.
    Summary of Motion: En bloc motion to make in order two 
amendments: (1) an amendment by Rep. Richardson to prevent the 
transfer of administrative jurisdiction over the Mojave 
National Preserve from the National Park Service to the Bureau 
of Land Management or any other department or agency; and (2) 
an amendment by Rep. Furse to repeal the emergency salvage 
timber sales program.
    Results: Rejected, 2 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Goss--Nay; Linder--Nay; 
Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; Waldholtz--Nay; 
Moakley--Yea; Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

Rules Committee Rollcall No. 295

    Date: March 6, 1996.
    Measure: Rule for consideration of H.R. 3019, Further 
Downpayment Toward a Balanced Budget.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order an amendment by Rep. 
Pallone to provide additional funding for the National Park 
Service, energy conservation, Indian health and education 
programs, veterans medical care, the EPA, grants for State 
revolving funds for water infrastructure financing, grants for 
State revolving funds for drinking water, and for the 
President's Americorps program.
    Results: Rejected, 2 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Goss--Nay; Linder--Nay; 
Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; Waldholtz--Nay; 
Moakley--Yea; Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

Rules Committee Rollcall No. 296

    Date: March 6, 1996.
    Measure: Rule for consideration of H.R. 3019, Further 
Downpayment Toward a Balanced Budget.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order an amendment by Rep. 
Sawyer providing funding at the end of the fiscal year 1995 
levels for each program, project and activity of the Department 
of Education.
    Results: Rejected, 2 to 9.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--Nay; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

Rules Committee Rollcall No. 297

    Date: March 6, 1996.
    Measure: Rule for consideration of H.R. 3019, Further 
Downpayment Toward a Balanced Budget.
    Motion By: Mr. Quillen.
    Summary of Motion: Report the rule favorably to the House.
    Results: Adopted, 9 to 2.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Yea; Dreier--Yea; Goss--Yea; 
Linder--Yea; Pryce--Yea; Diaz-Balart--Yea; McInnis--Yea; 
Waldholtz--Yea; Moakley--Nay; Hall--Nay; Solomon--Yea.

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER FOR H.R. 3019, THE BALANCED BUDGET 
                          DOWNPAYMENT ACT, II

    (1) Lowey--20 min.: Would strike section 509 (page 372 of 
H.R. 3019), relating to state discretion to not fund abortions 
under medicaid.
    (2) Istook--20 min.: Would require organizations that 
receive Federal grants to disclose amount of grant and good 
faith estimates of actual lobbying expenses and activities.
    (3) Crapo--20 min.: Lock-box amendment.
    (4) Obey--60 min.: Minority amendment if printed in the 
March 6, Congressional Record.

                  AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER BY THE RULE

1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Lowey of New York, or a 
                   Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

    Page 372, strike section 509 (relating to State discretion 
to not fund abortions under Medicaid).
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2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Istook of Oklahoma, or 
                  a Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

    At the end of the bill (preceding the short title), add the 
following new title:

     TITLE V--DISCLOSURE OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES BY FEDERAL GRANTEES

         disclosure of lobbying activities by federal grantees

    Sec. 5001. (a) Disclosure Requirements.--Not later than 
December 31 of each year, each organization receiving a Federal 
grant shall provide (via either electronic or paper medium) to 
each Federal entity that awarded or administered its grant an 
annual report for the previous Federal fiscal year, certified 
by the organization's chief executive officer or equivalent 
person of authority, setting forth--
          (1) the organization's name and grantee 
        identification number;
          (2) the amount or value of each grant (including all 
        administrative and overhead costs awarded), and the 
        description of each such grant and the name of the 
        Federal agency awarding such grant; and
          (3) a good faith estimate of the organization's 
        actual expenses on lobbying activities in the most 
        recent taxable year.
    (b) Exemptions.--This section shall not apply to an 
individual or a State, local, or Indian tribal government.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
          (1) Federal grant.--The term ``Federal grant'' means 
        money or real property that is paid or provided by the 
        Federal Government to any organization. Such term does 
        not include (A) any assistance described in section 
        6302(2) of title 31, United States Code; (B) any amount 
        paid under a procurement contract described in section 
        6303(1) of such title; or (C) any payment or assistance 
        described in clause (ii), (iii), (iv), or (vii) of 
        section 6501(4)(C) of such title.
          (2) Lobbying activity.--The term ``lobbying 
        activity'' means any activity that is either (A) a 
        lobbying activity within the meaning of section 3 of 
        the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; or (B) an activity 
        influencing legislation within the meaning of section 
        4911 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Such term 
        shall also include advocating the election or defeat of 
        any candidate for public office, or the passage or non-
        passage of any ballot proposition.
    (d) Public Accountability.--
          (1) Public availability of lobbying disclosure 
        forms.--Each Federal entity awarding a Federal grant 
        shall make publicly available the grant application, 
        and any annual report provided under subsection (a) by 
        the organization receiving the grant.
          (2) Accessibility to public.--The public's access to 
        the documents identified in paragraph (1) shall be 
        facilitated by the Federal entity by--
                  (A) placement of such documents in the 
                Federal entity's public document reading room;
                  (B) expediting any requests under section 552 
                of title 5, United States Code (the Freedom of 
                Information Act), ahead of any requests for 
                other information pending at such Federal 
                entity; and
                  (C) submitting to the Bureau of the Census a 
                report (standardized by the Office of 
                Management and Budget) setting forth the 
                information provided in such documents, which 
                the Bureau of the Census shall make available 
                to the public through the Internet.
          (3) Withholding prohibited.--Records described in 
        paragraph (1) shall not be subject to withholding, 
        except under the exemption set forth in subsection 
        (b)(7)(A) of section 552 of title 5, United States 
        Code.
          (4) Fees prohibited.--No fees for searching for or 
        copying such documents shall be charged to the public.
    (e) Construction.--No provision of this section may be 
construed to affect whether any organization is exempt from, or 
subject to, tax under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
    (f) Regulations.--The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall issue any regulations necessary to carry out 
this section.
    (g) Effective Date.--
          (1) In general.--This section shall take effect 
        January 1, 1996, and apply thereafter.
          (2) Prior activities not taken into account.--In 
        applying this section, only expenditures made after 
        December 31, 1995, in taxable years ending after such 
        date shall be taken into account.
          (3) Annualization for partial taxable years.--In the 
        case of a taxable year that ends after December 31, 
        1995, and begins before January 1, 1996, each of the 
        dollar amounts applicable under this section shall be 
        proportionally reduced to reflect the portion of such 
        taxable year after December 31, 1995.
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 3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Crapo of Idaho, or a 
                   Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

    At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the 
following new title:

                  TITLE V--DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX

SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Deficit Reduction Lock-box 
Act of 1996''.

SEC. 502. DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX LEDGER.

    (a) Establishment of Ledger.--Title III of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section:

                  ``deficit reduction lock-box ledger

    ``Sec. 314. (a) Establishment of Ledger.--The Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter in this section 
referred to as the ``Director'') shall maintain a ledger to be 
known as the ``Deficit Reduction Lock-box Ledger''. The Ledger 
shall be divided into entries corresponding to the 
subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations. Each entry 
shall consist of three parts: the `House Lock-box Balance'; the 
`Senate Lock-box Balance'; and the `Joint House-Senate Lock-box 
Balance'.
    ``(b) Components of Ledger.--Each component in an entry 
shall consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection 
(c). No entry of a negative amount shall be made.
    ``(c) Credit of Amounts to Ledger.--(1) The Director shall, 
upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House of 
Representatives and upon the engrossment of that bill by the 
Senate, credit to the applicable entry balance of that House 
amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to the net 
amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays 
resulting from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill.
    ``(2) The Director shall, upon the engrossment of Senate 
amendments to any appropriation bill, credit to the applicable 
Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance the amounts of new budget 
authority and outlays equal to--
          ``(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) 
        the amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-
        box Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budget 
        authority in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that bill; 
        and
          ``(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) 
        the amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance 
        plus (ii) the amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box 
        Balance for that bill.
    ``(3) Calculation of Lock-Box Savings in Senate.--For 
purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of 
reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting 
from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation 
bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on 
Appropriations shall be considered to be part of the original 
text of the bill.
    ``(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
`appropriation bill' means any general or special appropriation 
bill, and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, 
deficiency, or continuing appropriations through the end of a 
fiscal year.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth 
in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 313 the following new item:

``Sec. 314. Deficit reduction lock-box ledger.''.

SEC. 503. TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION.

    There shall be available to Members in the House of 
Representatives during consideration of any appropriations bill 
by the House a running tally of the amendments adopted 
reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in the 
bill as reported.

SEC. 504. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF 602(a) ALLOCATIONS AND SECTION 602(b) 
                    SUBALLOCATIONS.

    (a) Allocations.--Section 602(a) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
          ``(5) Upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to 
        any appropriation bill (as defined in section 314(d)) 
        for a fiscal year, the amounts allocated under 
        paragraph (1) or (2) to the Committee on Appropriations 
        of each House upon the adoption of the most recent 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal 
        year shall be adjusted downward by the amounts credited 
        to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance 
        under section 314(c)(2). The revised levels of budget 
        authority and outlays shall be submitted to each House 
        by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of that 
        House and shall be printed in the Congressional 
        Record.''.
    (b) Suballocations.--Section 602(b)(1) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ``Whenever an adjustment is made under 
subsection (a)(5) to an allocation under that subsection, the 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of each House shall 
make downward adjustments in the most recent suballocations of 
new budget authority and outlays under subparagraph (A) to the 
appropriate subcommittees of that committee in the total 
amounts of those adjustments under section 314(c)(2). The 
revised suballocations shall be submitted to each House by the 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that House and 
shall be printed in the Congressional Record.''.

SEC. 505. PERIODIC REPORTING OF LEDGER STATEMENTS.

    Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
``Such reports shall also include an up-to-date tabulation of 
the amounts contained in the ledger and each entry established 
by section 314(a).''.

SEC. 506. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    The discretionary spending limits for new budget authority 
and outlays for any fiscal year set forth in section 601(a)(2) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict 
conformance with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the 
amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for 
that fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing 
appropriations through the end of that fiscal year. Those 
amounts shall be the sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box 
Balances for that fiscal year, as calculated under section 
602(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That bill or 
joint resolution shall contain the following statement of law: 
``As required by section 6 of the Deficit Reduction Lock-box 
Act of 1995, for fiscal year [insert appropriate fiscal year] 
and each outyear, the adjusted discretionary spending limit for 
new budget authority shall be reduced by $ [insert appropriate 
amount of reduction] and the adjusted discretionary limit for 
outlays shall be reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of 
reduction] for the budget year and each outyear.'' 
Notwithstanding section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, section 306 of that Act as it applies to this 
statement shall be waived. This adjustment shall be reflected 
in reports under sections 254(g) and 254(h) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

SEC. 507. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--This title shall apply to all 
appropriations bills making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 
or any subsequent fiscal year.
    (b) FY96 Application.--In the case of any appropriation 
bill for fiscal year 1996 engrossed by the House of 
Representatives after August 4, 1995 and before the date of 
enactment of this bill, the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, and the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees 
on the Budget of the House of Representatives and of the Senate 
shall, within 10 calendar days after that date of enactment of 
this Act, carry out the duties required by this title and 
amendments made by it that occur after the date this Act was 
engrossed by the House of Representatives.
    (c) FY96 Allocations.--The duties of the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office and of the Committees on the Budget 
and on Appropriations of the House of Representatives pursuant 
to this title and the amendments made by it regarding 
appropriations bills for fiscal year 1996 shall be based upon 
the revised section 602(a) allocations in effect on August 4, 
1995.
    (d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
``Appropriation bill'' means any general or special 
appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making 
supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations through 
the end of a fiscal year.
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 4. An Amendment Printed in the Congressional Record of March 6, 1996, 
by Representative Obey of Wisconsin, Only if Offered by Representative 
              Obey or a Designee, Debatable for 60 Minutes

                                
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