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                                                  Union Calendar No. 84
114th Congress   }                                       {       Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session     }                                       {      114-118
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                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                    REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET

                    ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016

                   SUBMITTED BY MR. ROGERS, CHAIRMAN,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

[GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]


  May 18, 2015.--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

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                   HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman


  RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey     NITA M. LOWEY, New York
  ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama             MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
  KAY GRANGER, Texas                      PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana       
  MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho               JOSE E. SERRANO, New York      
  JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas             ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut               
  ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida                 DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina      
  JOHN R. CARTER, Texas                   LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
  KEN CALVERT, California                 SAM FARR, California
  TOM COLE, Oklahoma                      CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
  MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida              SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia
  CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania           BARBARA LEE, California 
  TOM GRAVES, Georgia                     MICHAEL M. HONDA, California
  KEVIN YODER, Kansas                     BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota
  STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas                  STEVE ISRAEL, New York 
  JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska              TIM RYAN, Ohio           
  THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida               C.A.DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland
  CHARLES J. FLEISCHMANN, Tennessee       DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida
  JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, Washington       HENRY CUELLAR, Texas
  DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio                    CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine
  DAVID G. VALADAO, California            MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois
  ANDY HARRIS, Maryland                   DEREK KILMER, Washington
  MARTHA ROBY, Alabama
  MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada
  CHRIS STEWART, Utah
  E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia
  DAVID W. JOLLY, Florida
  DAVID YOUNG, Iowa
  EVAN H. JENKINS, West Virginia
  STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi
 
                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 18, 2015.
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 
2016.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of spending 
authority provided to the Committee on Appropriations in the 
Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference for 
S. Con. Res. 11, the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2016.
            Sincerely,
                                             Harold Rogers,
                                                          Chairman.

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                                                  Union Calendar No. 84
114th Congress    }                                     {        Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session      }                                     {       114-118

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 REPORT ON THE REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL 
                               YEAR 2016

                                _______
                                

  May 18, 2015.--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

                                 REPORT

    REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the revised suballocation of budget allocations for 
fiscal year 2016 pursuant to section 302(b) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The report is consistent with 
the ``Allocation of Spending Authority to House Committee on 
Appropriations'' included in the Joint Explanatory Statement of 
the Committee of Conference for S. Con. Res. 11, the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 as well as with 
the current law levels for discretionary spending required by 
the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25) and enforced 
through sequestration.
    The Committee, in distributing the allocation among the 12 
regular appropriations bills, has remained within the 
allocation's
totals.

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              REVISED SUBALLOCATIONS TO SUBCOMMITTEES FISCAL YEAR 2016 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OUTLAYS
                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                    Discretionary
                                                             --------------------------
                        Subcommittee                            General     Global War   Mandatory      Total
                                                                Purpose     on Terror
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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
 Administration:
    Budget authority........................................       20,650  ...........      115,461      136,111
    Outlays.................................................       22,064  ...........      108,308      130,372
Commerce, Justice, Science:
    Budget authority........................................       51,378  ...........          319       51,697
    Outlays.................................................       62,400  ...........          320       62,720
Defense:
    Budget authority........................................      490,235       88,421          514      579,170
    Outlays.................................................      519,579       46,849          514      566,942
Energy and Water Development:
    Budget authority........................................       35,402  ...........  ...........       35,402
    Outlays.................................................       36,195  ...........  ...........       36,195
Financial Services and General Government:
    Budget authority........................................       20,249  ...........       21,512       41,761
    Outlays.................................................       22,092  ...........       21,505       43,597
Homeland Security:
    Budget authority........................................       39,320  ...........        1,604       40,924
    Outlays.................................................       44,716  ...........        1,583       46,299
Interior, Environment:
    Budget authority........................................       30,170  ...........           62       30,232
    Outlays.................................................       31,940  ...........           62       32,002
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education:
    Budget authority........................................      153,052  ...........      725,992      879,044
    Outlays.................................................      169,100  ...........      726,035      895,135
Legislative Branch:
  All except Senate:
    Budget authority........................................        3,341  ...........          109        3,450
    Outlays.................................................        3,515  ...........          108        3,623
  Senate items:
    Budget authority........................................          959  ...........           26          985
    Outlays.................................................          728  ...........           26          754
  Total Legislative:
    Budget authority........................................        4,300  ...........          135        4,435
    Outlays.................................................        4,243  ...........          134        4,377
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs:
    Budget authority........................................       76,056          532       94,537      171,125
    Outlays.................................................       78,242            2       94,292      172,536
State, Foreign Operations:
    Budget authority........................................       40,500        7,334          159       47,993
    Outlays.................................................       47,055        1,947          159       49,161
Transportation, HUD:
    Budget authority........................................       55,270  ...........  ...........       55,270
    Outlays.................................................      119,018  ...........  ...........      119,018
      Grand total:
          Budget authority..................................    1,016,582       96,287      960,295    2,073,164
          Outlays...........................................    1,156,644       48,798      952,912    2,158,354
 
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                 MINORITY VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE LOWEY

    The Republican allocations reflect a budget resolution that 
failed to win the vote of a single Democratic member in the 
House or in the Senate because it fails to help hard-working 
Americans succeed, making it more difficult to own a home, 
attend college and build a secure retirement. Moreover, the 
President clearly stated he will veto appropriation bills if 
they are written to conform to Republican sequester 
allocations. The fact is: there is no way to get from these 
allocations to enacted appropriations bills.
    Pragmatic, responsible legislators on both sides of the 
aisle recognize the need for a new topline, foremost among them 
our chairmen of both the THUD Subcommittee and the full 
Committee:
     Chairman Diaz-Balart said we ``need a long term 
and sustainable budgetary agreement, in statute, that 
adequately fixes sequestration and provides a long term path 
for stability in both the non-defense and defense areas of the 
discretionary budget.''
     Chairman Rogers said, ``The defense hawks are 
unhappy; nondefense supporters are not happy with the numbers--
so I think the pressure is going to build at some point in time 
to try to do something'' about funding levels.
    Yet we are considering bills that draw a stark contrast in 
our parties' visions for this country. Republicans would 
restrict job creation, restrain economic growth, and harm hard-
working Americans by curtailing critical investments in 
infrastructure, job training, and biomedical research. 
Republican allocations will result in cuts to NIH research 
grants; fewer kids enrolled in high-quality early learning 
programs; reduced support for Pell Grants; CDBG and HOME 
reduced to the lowest levels in the history of the program; 
progress on transit programs funded through the Capital 
Investment Grants program stalled; nothing done to alleviate 
the shortage of affordable and appropriate housing for the 
elderly and disabled, and a public health system that is less 
prepared for the next infectious disease outbreak.
    By contrast, the President's budget provides hope by 
investing $200 million for a Precision Medical Initiative, $600 
million for advanced research of medical countermeasures for 
public health threats, fully funding transportation and housing 
capital improvement programs and providing an additional $2.4 
billion for early education programs and $1 billion for Title I 
to support our highest need schools.
    Sequestration in effect amounts to mindless austerity and 
it has been a failure. In committee, Democrats offered an 
alternative reflecting the President's request. Unfortunately, 
it was defeated on a party-line vote. Let's not idly stand by 
and allow sequester-level caps to threaten important defense 
and non-defense priorities alike.

                                                     Nita M. Lowey.

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