[Senate Report 112-76]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
112th Congress Report
SENATE
1st Session 112-76
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ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
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September 8, 2011.--Ordered to be printed
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Mr. Inouye, from the Committee on Appropriations,
submitted the following
REPORT
The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, as amended, and to section 106(b)(1) of the Budget
Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25).
The Congressional 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.
Under the provisions of section 301(a) of the Congressional
Budget Act, the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent
resolution on the budget no later than April 15 of each year.
In the absence of such congressional action, on August 2, 2011,
the President approved the Budget Control Act of 2011. Section
106(b)(1) of that act provides for the chairman of the
Committee on the Budget to file an allocation, consistent with
the terms of the Budget Control Act, to serve as a section
302(a) allocation for purposes of budget enforcement in the
Senate. The allocation was filed by the chairman of the Budget
Committee on September 7, 2012. The allocation will remain in
effect until the adoption by Congress of a budget resolution.
This approach is not without precedent. A similar procedure
(S. Res. 308; 101st Congress) was agreed to in the Senate on
July 12, 1990, providing an allocation for the Committee for
fiscal year 1991. The budget resolution was finally adopted on
October 9, 1990. A similar resolution (S. Res. 209; 105th
Congress) was agreed to in the Senate on April 2, 1998,
providing an allocation for the Committee for fiscal year 1999.
Conferees were unable to resolve their differences on budget
that year. In August 2004, the President approved the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-
287). Section 14007 of that act set an allocation consistent
with the conference report on S. Con. Res. 95, the budget
resolution for fiscal year 2005. That budget conference report
was never adopted by the Congress. Again, in June 2006, the
President approved the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane
Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109-234). Section 7035 of that act
provided section 302(a) allocations to the Committee on
Appropriations for fiscal year 2007. Conferees on the fiscal
year 2007 budget resolution were unable to resolve their
differences.
In other years, in the absence of a budget resolution, the
Committee has proceeded with internal guidance, but without any
budget enforcement procedures in the Senate. In June 1984, the
Committee adopted a non-binding allocation of a non-defense
spending. That year the budget resolution was adopted by the
Congress on October 1. Again, in July 2002, the Committee
adopted a non-binding allocation. That year the Senate did not
consider a budget resolution for fiscal year 2003. On July 15,
2010, the Committee adopted its own ``Committee Guidance''.
Last year neither the House nor the Senate considered a budget
resolution for fiscal year 2011.
The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 251 of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended by section 101 of the Budget Control Act of 2011,
under 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: costs of
emergencies (sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(i)); costs of overseas
contingency operations (sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(ii)); continuing
disability reviews and redeterminations (sec. 251(b)(2)(B));
healthcare fraud and abuse control (sec. 251(b)(2)(C)); and
disaster funding (sec. 251(b)(2)(D)).
Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees:
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
[In millions of dollars]
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Discretionary Mandatory Total
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Subcommittee Budget authority Outlays
---------------------------------------------------------------- Budget Outlays Budget Outlays
Security Nonsecurity Total Total authority authority
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies............ 1,750 18,030 19,780 22,931 116,916 104,805 136,696 127,736
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................ 84 52,617 52,701 63,570 272 284 52,973 63,854
Defense......................................................... 512,992 33 513,025 590,430 514 514 513,539 590,944
Energy and Water Development.................................... 11,050 20,575 31,625 45,071 .............. .............. 31,625 45,071
Financial Services and General Government....................... .............. 21,731 21,731 25,920 21,455 21,450 43,186 47,370
Homeland Security............................................... 41,000 .............. 41,000 44,985 1,440 1,402 42,440 46,387
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies..................... .............. 29,275 29,275 29,275 456 456 29,731 29,731
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 299 156,835 157,134 177,858 540,370 540,108 697,504 717,966
Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch.............................................. 10 4,297 4,307 4,385 136 136 4,443 4,521
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 72,311 221 72,532 78,555 68,448 68,201 140,980 146,756
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs................. 44,504 136 44,640 51,120 159 159 44,799 51,279
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related .............. 55,250 55,250 127,900 .............. .............. 55,250 127,900
Agencies.......................................................
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Total..................................................... 684,000 359,000 1,043,000 1,262,000 750,166 737,515 1,793,166 1,999,515
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In addition to the budget allocation for the budget year,
the chairman of the Committee on the Budget filed a 302(a)
allocation for fiscal year 2011.
Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees for
fiscal year 2011:
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011
[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.... 19,922 23,603 116,980 101,878 136,902 125,481
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies........ 53,428 65,348 257 267 53,685 65,615
Defense................................................. 670,848 678,503 292 292 671,140 678,795
Energy and Water Development............................ 31,682 44,775 .............. .............. 31,682 44,775
Financial Services and General Government............... 21,950 24,877 20,780 20,775 42,730 45,652
Homeland Security....................................... 41,782 46,374 1,401 1,376 43,183 47,750
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies............. 29,559 33,102 446 446 30,005 33,548
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 156,177 202,525 549,607 549,745 705,784 752,270
Related Agencies.......................................
Legislative Branch...................................... 4,541 4,554 133 131 4,674 4,685
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related 77,723 83,993 70,284 70,099 148,007 154,092
Agencies...............................................
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs......... 48,162 51,711 159 159 48,321 51,870
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and 55,367 131,690 .............. .............. 55,367 131,690
Related Agencies.......................................
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Total............................................. 1,211,141 1,391,055 760,339 745,168 1,971,480 2,136,223
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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, on September 7,
2011, the Committee ordered favorably reported en bloc the
fiscal year 2012 budget allocation a proposed by the Chairman,
and a bill (H.R. 2112) making appropriations for Agriculture,
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2012, and for other purposes, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; a bill (H.R. 2354) making appropriations for
energy and water development and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other purposes,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and a bill
(H.R. 2017) making appropriations for the Department of
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2012, and for other purposes, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; provided, that each bill be subject to further
amendment and that each bill be consistent with its spending
allocations, by a recorded vote of 29-1, a quorum being
present. The vote was as follows:
Yeas Nays
Chairman Inouye Mr. Johnson (WI)
Mr. Leahy
Mr. Harkin
Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Kohl
Mrs. Murray
Mrs. Feinstein
Mr. Durbin
Mr. Johnson (SD)
Ms. Landrieu
Mr. Reed
Mr. Lautenberg
Mr. Nelson
Mr. Pryor
Mr. Tester
Mr. Brown
Mr. Cochran
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Shelby
Mrs. Hutchison
Mr. Alexander
Ms. Collins
Ms. Murkowski
Mr. Graham
Mr. Kirk
Mr. Coats
Mr. Blunt
Mr. Moran
Mr. Hoeven
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