[House Report 113-454]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


113th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     113-454
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 336

                                     

                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                    REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET

                    ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015

                   SUBMITTED BY MR. ROGERS, CHAIRMAN,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS




  May 19, 2014.--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
 
 FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia            NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 JACK KINGSTON, Georgia             MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New JerseyPETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa                   JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama        ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 KAY GRANGER, Texas                 JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
 MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho          ED PASTOR, Arizona
 JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas        DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
 ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida            LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
 JOHN R. CARTER, Texas              SAM FARR, California
 KEN CALVERT, California            CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
 TOM COLE, Oklahoma                 SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia
 MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida         BARBARA LEE, California
 CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania      ADAM B. SCHIFF, California
 TOM GRAVES, Georgia                MICHAEL M. HONDA, California
 KEVIN YODER, Kansas                BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota
 STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas             TIM RYAN, Ohio
 ALAN NUNNELEE, Mississippi         DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida
 JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska         HENRY CUELLAR, Texas
 THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida          CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine
 CHARLES J. FLEISCHMANN, Tennessee  MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois
 JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, Washington  WILLIAM L. OWENS, New York         
 DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio               
 DAVID G. VALADAO, California       
 ANDY HARRIS, Maryland              
 MARTHA ROBY, Alabama               
 MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada             
 CHRIS STEWART, Utah                
                                    

               William E. Smith, Clerk and Staff Director

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                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                      Washington, DC, May 19, 2014.
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 
revised suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 
2015.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal 
year 2015 spending authority to the House Committee on 
Appropriations provided pursuant to section 115 of the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-67) as well as section 
3 of H. Res. 557.
    This action is necessary to continue with development of 
the 12 regular appropriations bills for fiscal year 2015. The 
Committee, in distributing the allocation among the regular 
appropriations bills, has remained within the allocation's 
totals.
            Sincerely,
                                             Harold Rogers,
                                                          Chairman.

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 336
113th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     113-454

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 REPORT ON THE REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL 
                               YEAR 2015

                                _______
                                

  May 19, 2014.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

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

                              R E P O R T

    REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the revised suballocation of budget allocations for 
fiscal year 2015.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal 
year 2015 spending authority provided to the Committee on 
Appropriations by the House pursuant to section 115 of the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-67) as well as section 
3 of H. Res. 557.
    This report supersedes the interim suballocations reported 
by the Committee in House Report 113-425, as made applicable by 
the House of Representatives (113th Congress). The Committee 
adopted the interim suballocations because of the special 
circumstances it faced as it began the fiscal year 2015 
appropriations process. In contrast, this report fully 
allocates the overall allocation given to the Committee and 
provides 302(b) suballocations to all 12 subcommittees, 
allowing it to proceed with the development of its 
appropriations bills under regular order.

              REVISED SUBALLOCATIONS TO SUBCOMMITTEES FISCAL YEAR 2015 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OUTLAYS
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                   Discretionary
                                                           ----------------------------
                       Subcommittee                           General       Overseas     Mandatory      Total
                                                              Purpose    Contingencies
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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
 Administration:
    Budget authority......................................       20,880  .............      114,937      135,817
    Outlays...............................................       21,848  .............      107,310      129,158
Commerce, Justice, Science:
    Budget authority......................................       51,202  .............          317       51,519
    Outlays...............................................       61,641  .............          308       61,949
Defense:
    Budget authority......................................      490,960        79,445           514      570,919
    Outlays...............................................      519,550        36,849           514      556,913
Energy and Water Development:
    Budget authority......................................       34,010  .............  ...........       34,010
    Outlays...............................................       38,350  .............  ...........       38,350
Financial Services and General Government:
    Budget authority......................................       21,276  .............       21,498       42,774
    Outlays...............................................       22,750  .............       21,491       44,241
Homeland Security:
    Budget authority......................................       39,220  .............        1,576       40,796
    Outlays...............................................       45,568  .............        1,580       47,148
Interior, Environment:
    Budget authority......................................       30,220  .............           62       30,282
    Outlays...............................................       30,191  .............           62       30,253
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education:
    Budget authority......................................      155,693  .............      643,680      799,373
    Outlays...............................................      159,922  .............      644,792      804,714
Legislative Branch:
  All except Senate:
    Budget authority......................................        3,323  .............          107        3,430
    Outlays...............................................        3,491  .............          106        3,597
  Senate items:
    Budget authority......................................          935  .............           25          960
    Outlays...............................................          728  .............           25          753
  Total Legislative:
    Budget authority......................................        4,258  .............          132        4,390
    Outlays...............................................        4,219  .............          131        4,350
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs:
    Budget authority......................................       71,499  .............       85,535      157,034
    Outlays...............................................       76,100  .............       85,290      161,390
State, Foreign Operations:
    Budget authority......................................       42,381         5,912           159       48,452
    Outlays...............................................       42,319         3,132           159       45,610
Transportation, HUD:
    Budget authority......................................       52,029  .............  ...........       52,029
    Outlays...............................................      118,974  .............  ...........      118,974
      Grand total:
            Budget authority..............................    1,013,628        85,357       868,410    1,967,395
            Outlays.......................................    1,141,432        39,981       861,637    2,043,050
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                             MINORITY VIEWS

    It should come as no surprise that Democrats on the 
Committee voted unanimously to oppose the subcommittee 
allocations offered by the Chairman. They do not meet the 
challenges we face today.
    All but one of the Members of this Committee voted for the 
budget deal that prevented another shutdown, averted default, 
and provided this Committee two years' worth of certainty. 
Everyone on this Committee, except one Member, also supported 
the FY 2014 omnibus bill containing all twelve appropriations 
bills.
    For Fiscal Year 2015, the Appropriations Committee has a 
cap that is less than $2 billion higher than last year. Lower 
than expected receipts to the Treasury will squeeze these bills 
by more than the increase. According to CBO, FHA receipts in 
the Transportation HUD bill will be $2.964 billion lower than 
last year.
    We all understand that $1.014 trillion is not going to 
allow a lot of increases or new investments. Tough choices will 
be required to prioritize the programs in each bill.
    However, the majority's allocations do not rise to today's 
challenges. They fail to recognize the inadequacy of last 
year's levels for NIH and medical research; the need for 
critical investments in airports, transit, bridges, and 
highways to create jobs; the obligation to preserve the 
environment and to invest in public safety and the health of 
our communities; the unsustainability of relying on 
discretionary appropriations under the cap to pay for wildfire 
suppression and Payment in Lieu of Taxes; and the necessity to 
address financial reform and acknowledge that the Affordable 
Care Act is the law of the land.
    The majority proposes to cut Labor HHS by $1.080 billion 
from last year's insufficient allocation and $2.325 billion 
from the President's request. The majority proposes to cut the 
President's request for the Financial Services subcommittee by 
7.1%. We cannot approve the allocations proposed by the 
majority.
    To complete the omnibus last year at $1.012 trillion 
required some creativity and a lot of bipartisan cooperation. 
We are committed to working within the overall allocation, with 
at least as much creativity and compromise as was needed last 
year, to make these bills as effective as possible in 
addressing today's challenges. Some will fall short. In the 
latter portion of the process, however, when we negotiate with 
the Senate, we will have to do what we have historically done 
on this Committee: make it work.

                                                     Nita M. Lowey.

                                  
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