[Senate Report 104-285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104d Congress                                                    Report
                                 SENATE

   2d Session                                                   104-285
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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE CONCURRENT 
                      RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 1997

                                     



        Submitted pursuant to sections 302(b) and 602(b) of the

              Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended

                                 by the

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                              U.S. Senate

                 June 20, 1996.--Ordered to be printed


104d Congress                                                    Report
                                 SENATE

   2d Session                                                   104-285
_______________________________________________________________________



   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE CONCURRENT 
                      RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 1997

                                _______


                 June 20, 1996.--Ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________


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

                              R E P O R T

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report pursuant to sections 302(b)(1) and 602(b)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended.
    The Budget Act requires that as soon as practicable after a 
concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed to, the Committee 
on Appropriations shall submit to the Senate a report 
subdividing among its subcommittees the new budget authority 
and total outlays allocated to the Committee in the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on 
such resolution. The conference report on the concurrent 
resolution for fiscal year 1997 (H. Con. Res. 178) was agreed 
to by Congress on June 13, 1996.

               AMOUNTS CONTAINED IN THE BUDGET RESOLUTION

    Pursuant to sections 302(a)(2) and 602(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended, the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997 (H. 
Rept. 104-612) contains several allocations and suballocations 
to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
    The amounts contained therein were subsequently amended by 
the tables printed in the Congressional Record on June 11, 1996 
(pp. S6058-S6060).
    In summary, the Committee received an allocation comprised 
as follows:

                        [In millions of dollars]                        
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget                    
                Category                     authority        Outlays   
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Defense discretionary...................         266,362         264,968
Nondefense discretionary................         226,305         270,571
Mandatory...............................         298,528         296,734
                                         -------------------------------
      Subtotal..........................         791,195         832,273
Violent crime reduction.................           4,683           3,073
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................         795,878         835,346
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note.--Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.                    

    The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 304 of 
the budget resolution, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may increase the 602(a) allocation of the Committee on 
Appropriations if certain conditions relating to funding of the 
superfund program are met.
    In addition, under the terms of section 307 of the budget 
resolution, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
increase the 602(a) allocation of the Committee on 
Appropriations if certain conditions relating to a continuing 
resolution are met.

            ALLOCATIONS TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF DIRECT SPENDING

    Section 302(b)(1)(B) of the Budget Act, requires that the 
Committee subdivide its allocation of budget authority and 
outlays to subcommittees between controllable and other 
amounts. For the purposes of this section, amounts listed as 
mandatory are not controllable. Section 602(b)(1) requires that 
the Committee subdivide its allocation of budget authority and 
outlays for discretionary spending consistent with the budget 
resolution--among its subcommittees. The following table sets 
forth by subcommittee, in conformance with the above sections 
of the Budget Act and section 201 of the budget resolution, the 
Committee allocations of budget authority and outlays:

                                                      SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997                                                     
                                                                [In millions of dollars]                                                                
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                                                       Defense             Nondefense         Violent crime          Mandatory              Total       
                                                ------------------------------------------    reduction fund   -----------------------------------------
                  Subcommittee                                                            ---------------------                                         
                                                   Budget    Outlays    Budget    Outlays    Budget               Budget    Outlays    Budget    Outlays
                                                 authority            authority            authority   Outlays  authority            authority          
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related                                                                                                             
 Agencies......................................  .........  ........     12,802    13,349  .........  ........     42,300    40,813     55,102    54,162
Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary............        235       209     24,258    24,730      4,440     2,915        540       529     29,473    28,383
Defense........................................    244,565   242,985  .........        12  .........  ........        196       196    244,761   243,193
District of Columbia...........................  .........  ........        718       718  .........  ........  .........  ........        718       718
Energy and Water Development...................     11,600    11,233      8,518     8,849  .........  ........  .........  ........     20,118    20,082
Foreign Operations.............................  .........  ........     11,950    13,311  .........  ........         44        44     11,994    13,355
Interior and Related Agencies..................  .........  ........     12,118    12,920  .........  ........         59        62     12,177    12,982
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Educa-                                                                                                            
 tion..........................................  .........  ........     65,600    69,442        123        52    222,327   222,340    288,050   291,834
Legislative Branch.............................  .........  ........      2,188     2,179  .........  ........         92        92      2,280     2,271
Military Construction..........................      9,833    10,375  .........  ........  .........  ........  .........  ........      9,833    10,375
Transportation and Related Agencies............  .........        37     12,190    35,416  .........  ........        605       602     12,795    36,055
Treasury, Postal Service, General Government...  .........  ........     11,016    10,971        120       106     12,511    12,509     23,647    23,586
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies..............        129       129     64,225    78,674  .........  ........     19,854    19,547     84,208    98,350
Deficiencies...................................  .........  ........        722  ........  .........  ........  .........  ........        722  ........
                                                --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total....................................    266,362   264,968    226,305   270,571      4,683     3,073    298,528   296,734    795,878   835,346
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Note.--Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.                                                                                                    

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, the Committee en 
bloc ordered reported the 602(b) allocation included herein, 
granted authority for revisions to allocations as necessary, 
and ordered reported an original DOD appropriations bill and 
H.R. 3517, the military construction appropriations bill, 1997, 
subject to their budget allocations, by a recorded vote of 24-
3, a quorum being present. The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Hatfield                   Mr. Leahy
Mr. Stevens                         Mr. Lautenberg
Mr. Cochran                         Mr. Harkin
Mr. Specter
Mr. Domenici
Mr. Bond
Mr. Gorton
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Mack
Mr. Burns
Mr. Shelby
Mr. Jeffords
Mr. Gregg
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Byrd
Mr. Inouye
Mr. Hollings
Mr. Johnston
Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Reid
Mr. Kerrey
Mr. Kohl
Mrs. Murray

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