[House Report 112-465]
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112th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     112-465
                                                            
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 325

                                     

                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                  SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

                          FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

                   SUBMITTED BY MR. ROGERS, CHAIRMAN,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                     MINORITY AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS




  May 8, 2012.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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                                  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                    HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman

 C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida\1\       NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
 JERRY LEWIS, California\1\         MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
 FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia            PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 JACK KINGSTON, Georgia             NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New JerseyJOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa                   ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama        JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
 JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri           JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
 KAY GRANGER, Texas                 ED PASTOR, Arizona
 MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho          DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
 JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas        MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
 ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida            LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
 DENNY REHBERG, Montana             SAM FARR, California
 JOHN R. CARTER, Texas              JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana        CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
 KEN CALVERT, California            STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey
 JO BONNER, Alabama                 SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia
 STEVEN C. LaTOURETTE, Ohio         BARBARA LEE, California
 TOM COLE, Oklahoma                 ADAM B. SCHIFF, California
 JEFF FLAKE, Arizona                MICHAEL M. HONDA, California
 MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida         BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota         
 CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania      
 STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio                
 CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming         
 TOM GRAVES, Georgia                
 KEVIN YODER, Kansas                
 STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas             
 ALAN NUNNELEE, Mississippi         
   
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               William B. Inglee, Clerk and Staff Director

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                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                       Washington, DC, May 8, 2012.
Hon. John A. Boehner,
The Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.

    Dear Mr. Speaker: By direction of the Committee on 
Appropriations, I submit herewith the Committee's report on the 
suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 2013.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal 
year 2013 spending authority to the House Committee on 
Appropriations established in H. Con. Res. 112 (112th Congress) 
and the accompanying report, H. Rept. 112-421, as given force 
and effect by section 2(a) of H. Res. 614 (112th Congress).
            Sincerely,
                                             Harold Rogers,
                                                          Chairman.

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 325
112th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     112-465

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 REPORT ON THE SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

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  May 8, 2012.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted 
                             the following

                                 REPORT

        SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal 
year 2013 pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal 
year 2013 spending authority to the House Committee on 
Appropriations established in H. Con. Res. 112 (112th Congress) 
and the accompanying report, H. Rept. 112-421, as given force 
and effect by section 2(a) of H. Res. 614 (112th Congress).

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                  SUBALLOCATIONS TO SUBCOMMITTEES FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OUTLAYS
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                   Discretionary
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                       Subcommittee                           General       Overseas     Mandatory      Total
                                                              Purpose    Contingencies
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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
 Administration:
    Budget authority......................................       19,405  .............       42,558       61,963
    Outlays...............................................       22,189  .............       33,003       55,192
Commerce, Justice, Science:
    Budget authority......................................       51,131  .............          328       51,459
    Outlays...............................................       62,953  .............          358       63,311
Defense:
    Budget authority......................................      519,220        88,480           514      608,214
    Outlays...............................................      573,828        48,461           514      622,803
Energy and Water Development:
    Budget authority......................................       32,098  .............  ...........       32,098
    Outlays...............................................       40,692  .............  ...........       40,692
Financial Services and General Government:
    Budget authority......................................       21,150  .............       21,240       42,390
    Outlays...............................................       23,939  .............       21,234       45,173
Homeland Security:
    Budget authority......................................       39,117  .............        1,423       40,540
    Outlays...............................................       44,924  .............        1,431       46,355
Interior, Environment:
    Budget authority......................................       28,000  .............           58       28,058
    Outlays...............................................       31,058  .............           58       31,116
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education:
    Budget authority......................................      150,002  .............      591,679      741,681
    Outlays...............................................      162,564  .............      593,169      755,733
Legislative Branch:
  All except Senate:
    Budget authority......................................        3,333  .............          113        3,446
    Outlays...............................................        3,466  .............          113        3,579
  Senate items:
    Budget authority......................................          956  .............           27          983
    Outlays...............................................          915  .............           27          942
  Total Legislative:
    Budget authority......................................        4,289  .............          140        4,429
    Outlays...............................................        4,381  .............          140        4,521
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs:
    Budget authority......................................       71,747  .............       71,576      143,323
    Outlays...............................................       79,101             2        71,331      150,434
State, Foreign Operations:
    Budget authority......................................       40,132         8,245           159       48,536
    Outlays...............................................       49,070         2,662           159       51,891
Transportation, HUD:
    Budget authority......................................       51,606  .............  ...........       51,606
    Outlays...............................................      115,161  .............  ...........      115,161
      Grand total:
          Budget authority................................    1,027,896        96,725       729,675    1,854,296
          Outlays.........................................    1,209,860        51,125       721,397    1,982,382

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  MINORITY VIEWS OF FULL COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE NORM 
                                 DICKS

    The House subcommittee 302(b) allocations are based on an 
overall allocation that reneges on our hard-fought agreement 
for discretionary spending in the Budget Control Act. As my 
colleagues remember, finding the right balance for 
discretionary spending in last year's August budget 
negotiations was not easy. In fact, it was considered a major 
accomplishment with the eventual compromise passed with the 
support of 28 Republicans in the Senate and 174 in the House.
    That agreement provided the Appropriations Committee with 
bipartisan allocations for 10 years and allowed the 
Appropriations Committee to complete its work for FY12, 
providing one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation 
during that session. Many of us on the Appropriations 
Committee, both Republicans and Democrats, had hoped that the 
allocations in the BCA meant that we had put the worst of the 
budget brinkmanship behind us.
    That hope didn't last long. In March of this year, the 
House Budget committee reported an FY13 allocation at $1.028 
trillion, -$19 billion below what we had agreed to in the BCA 
and upending the FY 2013 appropriations process before it had a 
chance to begin.
    House Republicans have now put themselves at odds with 
Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, The White House, as well 
as House Democrats. The President has vowed to veto any 
appropriations bills until House Republicans return to the 
bipartisan allocation. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell 
just recently reaffirmed his support of the BCA allocation as 
did Ranking Member Thad Cochran by voting for Senate FY13 
subcommittee allocations at the agreed level of $1.047 
trillion. In that markup Senator Cochran noted:

          ``It is appropriate in my view for the Committee to 
        proceed on the basis of the discretionary caps enacted 
        into law less than nine months ago. Seventy-four 
        Senators did support it including a majority of Members 
        of both parties in the Senate and a majority of Members 
        on both sides of the Committee . . . it is certainly 
        reasonable for us to proceed consistent with the law.''

    The Democratic objection to re-litigating the Budget 
Control Act is substantive as well as procedural. Our economy 
has just begun to show signs of recovery. In stark contrast, 
several European countries have recently slipped into double-
dip recessions with many economists concluding that drastic 
austerity measures share much of the blame.
    Our economic recovery needs the certainty of a functioning 
budget process as well as continued investments in 
infrastructure, innovation and the social safety net. The 
Republican budget allocation undermines both.
    Furthermore, these 302(b) allocations protect many 
subcommittees from austerity, while reserving the brunt of the 
cuts for the largest domestic discretionary bills; a strategy 
the President has also threatened with a veto and one that 
several House Republicans have said publicly they won't accept.
    Primarily, funding for the Labor, Health and Human Services 
bill is woefully inadequate with a proposal that is $6.3 
billion below last year's level. Programs funded in the Labor, 
HHS and Education bill are vitally important to providing 
Americans the resources they need in these difficult times: 
offering crucial child-care assistance for low-income working 
parents, improving elementary and secondary education, helping 
students afford a college education, advancing medical 
research, and assisting workers get the job training they need 
when unemployment is high. According to the most recent data, 
the number of Americans living in poverty has risen to its 
highest level in 52 years. In these tough economic times, we 
simply must make this bill and these programs a priority.
    The allocation for the Interior bill is $1.7 billion below 
the President's request, and nearly $1.2 billion below last 
year's bill. As far as I know, the need for safe and clean 
drinking water projects in each of our states did not decline 
over the past year. Now is certainly not the time to be 
underfunding this bill either.
    For these reasons, I proposed an amendment during full 
committee consideration of these allocations that brought the 
committee back to the agreed upon level of $1.047 trillion. 
That amendment failed on a party line vote, with many 
Republican members voting NO who had previously voted in favor 
of the Budget Control Act just 9 months earlier.
    I believe that the position of House Republicans is 
unsustainable and that by the end of the process we will be 
back to the agreed upon allocation of $1.047 trillion with 
their breach of trust having only served to slow the process 
down.

                                                        Norm Dicks.

                ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE FLAKE

    The coming months will require every member of Congress to 
face difficult decisions and make tough choices. However, with 
the adoption of these fiscal year 2013 302(b) allocations, the 
House Appropriations Committee runs the risk of illustrating 
that it is out of touch with the dire fiscal reality the nation 
is facing.
    The national debt has passed the $15 trillion mark and 
continues to climb, and the $1.2 trillion dollar deficit 
expected this year marks the fourth consecutive year that the 
federal government is deficit-spending at levels over one 
trillion dollars. I opposed the proposed spending allocations 
because they fail to fully realize the new fiscal realities 
that our nation faces.
    I commend the House of Representatives for adopting this 
year's Ryan budget and capping the coming year's discretionary 
spending at $1.028 trillion. However, the fiscal year 2013 
302(a) allocation passed on the House floor is a spending 
ceiling, not a floor. This committee is not bound to spend up 
to that level. The Appropriations Committee has the rare 
opportunity of setting levels of spending. I believe the 
committee owes it to the taxpayers to seek the deepest level of 
reductions in discretionary spending possible.
    During consideration of the 302(b) allocations, I offered 
an amendment with alternative subcommittee allocations that 
would have cut total discretionary spending by an additional 
$97 billion and brought total discretionary spending to $931 
billion for fiscal year 2013. That spending level is consistent 
with the discretionary spending cap included in the Republican 
Study Committee alternative budget offered earlier this year. 
It is representative of a more fiscally sound path forward for 
this coming year and was supported by a majority of the 
Republican Conference.
    Many states and local governments around the country are 
required to balance their budgets on an annual basis and have 
been forced to make some extremely tough decisions these past 
few years. Unfortunately, the federal government has no such 
balanced budget requirement and continues to spend without 
restraint. Now is the time to show the American people that 
Congress is serious about fiscal responsibility and reducing 
the size and scope of the federal government. I submit that the 
302(b) allocations adopted by the Committee miss that mark.
                                                        Jeff Flake.

                                  
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