[Senate Report 110-393]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



110th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 2d Session                                                     110-393

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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FROM THE CONCURRENT 
                      RESOLUTION, FISCAL YEAR 2009

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                 June 19, 2008.--Ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report pursuant to section 302(b) 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 a resolution. The conference report on the concurrent 
resolution for fiscal year 2009 (S. Con. Res. 70) was agreed to 
by the Congress on June 5, 2008.

                  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 2009 (H. Rept. 110-659; filed May 
20, 2008) contains allocations to the Senate Committee on 
Appropriations for fiscal year 2009.
    In summary, the Committee received an allocation comprised 
as follows:

                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget
                Category                     authority        Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
General purpose discretionary...........       1,011,718       1,106,112
Mandatory...............................         621,707         608,653
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    Total...............................       1,633,425       1,714,765
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    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. 
312(c)(2)(A)); Internal Revenue Service tax compliance (sec. 
312(c)(2)(B)); control of health care fraud and abuse (sec. 
312(c)(2)(C)); reviews of improper unemployment insurance 
payments (sec. 312(c)(2)(D)); and costs of overseas deployments 
and other contingencies (sec. 312(c)(3)).
    Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees:

                                                      SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009
                                                                [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....          20,435          21,543          76,307          63,526          96,742          85,069
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies........          57,900          58,432             221             224          58,121          58,656
Defense.................................................         487,737         526,031             279             279         488,016         526,310
Energy and Water Development............................          33,258          32,552  ..............  ..............          33,258          32,552
Financial Services and General Government...............          22,380          22,809          20,661          20,663          43,041          43,472
Homeland Security.......................................          42,252          42,792           1,152           1,148          43,404          43,940
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.............          27,750          29,041              62              63          27,812          29,104
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and             152,661         150,482         478,375         478,340         631,036         628,822
 Related Agencies.......................................
Legislative Branch......................................           4,400           4,286             127             127           4,527           4,413
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related           73,000          67,377          44,374          44,134         117,374         111,511
 Agencies...............................................
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.........          36,620          35,619             149             149          36,769          35,768
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and             53,325         115,148  ..............  ..............          53,325         115,148
 Related Agencies.......................................
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      Total.............................................       1,011,718       1,106,112         621,707         608,653       1,633,425       1,714,765
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