[Senate Report 105-31]
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105th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE

 1st Session                                                     105-31
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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE CONCURRENT 
                      RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 1998


                                     



        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 19, 1997.--Ordered to be printed



105th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE

 1st Session                                                     105-31
_______________________________________________________________________


   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE CONCURRENT 
                      RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 1998

                                _______
                                

                 June 19, 1997.--Ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________


   Mr. Stevens, 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 1998 (H. Con. Res. 84) was agreed to 
by Congress on June 5, 1997.

               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 1998 (H. 
Rept. 105-116) contains several allocations and suballocations 
to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
    In summary, the Committee received an allocation comprised 
as follows:

                        [In millions of dollars]                        
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget                    
                Category                     authority        Outlays   
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Defense discretionary...................         269,000         266,823
Nondefense discretionary................         242,457         279,117
Mandatory...............................         277,312         278,725
                                         -------------------------------
      Subtotal..........................         788,769         824,665
Violent crime reduction.................           5,500           3,592
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................         794,269         828,257
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note.--Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.                    

    The Committee notes that, under the terms of several 
sections of title II 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 specific programs are met. These 
provisions address such items as: funding for the International 
Monetary Fund (sec. 202); housing assistance under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (sec. 203); selected land 
acquisitions and exchanges (sec. 205); arrearages for 
international organizations, international peacekeeping, and 
multilateral development banks (sec. 206); intercity passenger 
rail (secs. 207 and 207A); mass transit (sec. 208); and 
highways (sec. 209).
    In addition, an upward adjustment for funding of continuing 
disability reviews is provided for under the terms of section 
103 of Public Law 104-121 and section 211(d)(5) of the welfare 
reform bill (Public Law 104-193). The Committee notes that 
since enactment of these two provisions the Congressional 
Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget have made 
a change in the scoring treatment of this program.

                     Emergency Reserve Subcommittee

    The Committee has established a 14th subcommittee, the 
Emergency Reserve Subcommittee. The Balanced Budget Agreement 
recently fashioned by the congressional leadership and the 
administration does not mandate an emergency reserve to provide 
for unforeseen contingencies. Rather, the negotiators assumed 
that such contingencies would be funded outside the 
discretionary budget totals, through use of the authority of 
section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. Such an assumption is 
not consistent with recent congressional sentiment and action--
which call for all emergency funding to be paid for within the 
discretionary totals of the budget resolution.
    Consequently, the Committee believes that it would be 
prudent to provide such a reserve in the initial Committee 
allocation. First, it is unlikely that Congress and the 
administration will be able to identify and mutually support 
the rescission of large balances on unobligated funds in fiscal 
year 1998, as was accomplished in the fiscal year 1997 
supplemental appropriations and rescissions bill. Those 
balances are now gone. Second, the Committee is cognizant of 
the deleterious programmatic effects of financing emergencies 
through across-the-board reductions, particularly if the need 
arises late in the fiscal year.

            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 1998                                                     
                                                                [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......................................  .........  ........     13,748    14,167  .........  ........     35,048    35,205     48,796    49,372
Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary............        297       322     25,388    25,472      5,225     3,401        522       532     31,432    29,727
Defense........................................    246,648   244,252  .........         7  .........  ........        197       197    246,845   244,456
District of Columbia...........................  .........  ........        805       479  .........  ........  .........  ........        805       479
Energy and Water Development...................     12,143    11,977      9,039     8,880  .........  ........  .........  ........     21,182    20,857
Foreign Operations.............................  .........  ........     13,200    13,083  .........  ........         44        44     13,244    13,127
Interior and Related Agencies..................  .........  ........     13,000    13,472  .........  ........         55        50     13,055    13,522
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Educa-                                                                                                            
 tion..........................................  .........  ........     79,197    75,779        144        64    206,611   209,167    285,952   285,010
Legislative Branch.............................  .........  ........      2,347     2,337  .........  ........         92        92      2,439     2,429
Military Construction..........................      9,183     9,985  .........  ........  .........  ........  .........  ........      9,183     9,985
Transportation and Related Agencies............  .........        59     12,057    36,893  .........  ........        698       665     12,755    37,617
Treasury and General Government................  .........  ........     12,501    12,269        131       127     12,713    12,712     25,345    25,108
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies..............        129       128     60,065    76,154  .........  ........     21,332    20,061     81,526    96,343
Emergency reserve..............................        600       100      1,110       125  .........  ........  .........  ........      1,710       225
                                                --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total....................................    269,000   266,823    242,457   279,117      5,500     3,592    277,312   278,725    794,269   828,257
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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, subject to 
amendment, and granted authority for revisions to allocations 
as necessary, by a recorded vote of 27-0, a quorum being 
present. The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Stevens
Mr. Cochran
Mr. Domenici
Mr. Bond
Mr. Gorton
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Burns
Mr. Shelby
Mr. Gregg
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Craig
Mr. Faircloth
Mrs. Hutchison
Mr. Byrd
Mr. Inouye
Mr. Hollings
Mr. Leahy
Mr. Bumpers
Mr. Lautenberg
Mr. Harkin
Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Reid
Mr. Kohl
Mrs. Murray
Mr. Dorgan
Mrs. Boxer

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