[Senate Report 110-226]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



110th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session                                                    110-226

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 FURTHER REVISED ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE 
                CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 2008

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                November 8, 2007.--Ordered to be printed

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

                                 REPORT

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report revising the section 302(b) allocation to subcommittees 
set forth in Senate Report 110-86 (June 18, 2007), Senate 
Report 110-87 (June 19, 2007), Senate Report 110-133 (July 24, 
2007), Senate Report 110-149 (September 4, 2007), Senate Report 
110-186 (October 1, 2007), and Senate Report 110-221 (November 
7, 2007).
    Section 302(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended, provides that at any time after a committee reports 
its allocations such committee may report to its House an 
alteration of such allocations. This report is submitted 
pursuant to this section.
    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 a resolution. The conference report on the concurrent 
resolution for fiscal year 2008 (S. Con. Res. 21) was agreed to 
by the Congress on May 17, 2007.

                  AMOUNTS CONTAINED IN THE RESOLUTION

    Pursuant to section 302(a) 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 2008 (H. Rept. 110-153) contains 
allocations to the Senate Committee on Appropriations for 
fiscal year 2008.
    On June 14, 2007, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee (Congressional 
Record pp. S7721-7723) reflecting an increase in discretionary 
spending of $1,000,000 in budget authority and $1,000,000 in 
outlays, pursuant to section 207(f) of the budget resolution, 
and amending the allocation for mandatory spending contained in 
the resolution.
    The Committee notes that, under the terms of several 
provisions of the budget resolution, the chairman of the 
Committee on the Budget may increase the 302(a) allocation of 
the Committee on Appropriations if certain conditions relating 
to funding of specific programs are met. These provisions 
address such programs as: continuing disability reviews and 
Supplemental Security Income [SSI] redeterminations (sec. 
207(c)(2)(A)); Internal Revenue Service tax enforcement (sec. 
207(c)(2)(B)); control of health care fraud and abuse (sec. 
207(c)(2)(C)); reviews of improper unemployment insurance 
payments (sec. 207(c)(2)(D)); and costs of overseas deployments 
and other contingencies (sec. 207(c)(2)(E)).
    On July 23, 2007, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
revised allocation (Congressional Record, pp. S9771-9772) 
reflecting an increase of $1,042,000,000 in budget authority 
and $699,000,000 in outlays, pursuant to subparagraphs A, B, C 
and D of section 207(c)(2) of Senate Concurrent Resolution 21 
(110th Congress).
    Set forth below are the revised allocations to 
subcommittees:

                                                  REVISED SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008
                                                                [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                   Discretionary                     Mandatory                         Total
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                      Subcommittee                            Budget                          Budget                          Budget
                                                             authority        Outlays        authority        Outlays        authority        Outlays
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies....          18,709          20,072          69,055          55,661          87,764          75,733
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies........          54,000          54,500             234             225          54,234          54,725
Defense.................................................         459,875         475,980             263             263         460,138         476,243
Energy and Water Development............................          32,273          33,229  ..............               1          32,273          33,230
Financial Services and General Government...............          21,800          21,625          21,394          21,388          43,194          43,013
Homeland Security.......................................          35,570          39,502           1,072           1,066          36,642          40,568
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.............          27,150          28,574              54              55          27,204          28,629
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and             150,789         148,000         455,281         455,156         606,070         603,156
 Related Agencies.......................................
Legislative Branch......................................           4,051           4,178             126             126           4,177           4,304
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related           64,745          55,021          41,384          41,229         106,129          96,250
 Agencies...............................................
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.........          34,243          33,516             159             159          34,402          33,675
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and             50,981         114,900  ..............  ..............          50,981         114,900
 Related Agencies.......................................
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      Total.............................................         954,095       1,029,097         589,022         575,329       1,543,117       1,604,426
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