[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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