[Senate Report 114-238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


114th Congress     }                                  {         Report
                                 SENATE
 2d Session        }                                  {        114-238

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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017

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                 April 18, 2016.--Ordered to be printed

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          Mr. Cochran, 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 section 102 of the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-74).
    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. 
On November 2, 2015, the President approved the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2015. Section 102 of that act provides for the 
Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to file an allocation, 
consistent with the terms of the Bipartisan Budget 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 April 18, 2016. The 
allocation will remain in effect until the adoption by the 
Congress of a budget resolution.
    This approach is not without precedent. An identical 
procedure for the providing of an allocation to the Committee 
for fiscal year 2014, and again in fiscal year 2015 was 
contained in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Also, for 
fiscal year 2012, and again in fiscal year 2013, such a 
procedure was contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011. No 
budget resolutions were adopted by Congress in any of those 
years. 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 a 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 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''. 
Neither the House nor the Senate considered a budget resolution 
for fiscal year 2011. Again, on June 20, 2013, the Committee 
adopted ``Committee Guidance'' for fiscal year 2014, which was 
ultimately superseded by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.
    The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 251 of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
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 2017
                                                                                    [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                                           Discretionary                                     Mandatory                         Total
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                          Subcommittee                                           Budget authority
                                                                 ------------------------------------------------  Outlays Total      Budget          Outlays         Budget          Outlays
                                                                     Security       Nonsecurity        Total                         authority                       authority
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies............  ..............          21,250          21,250          22,190         116,316         104,824         137,566         127,014
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................           5,117          51,168          56,285          64,425             320             330          56,605          64,755
Defense.........................................................         515,813             137         515,950         527,588             514             514         516,464         528,102
Energy and Water Development....................................          20,023          17,514          37,537          37,561  ..............  ..............          37,537          37,561
Financial Services and General Government.......................              33          22,360          22,393          23,518          21,937          21,930          44,330          45,448
Homeland Security...............................................           1,877          39,324          41,201          46,938           1,623           1,621          42,824          48,559
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.....................  ..............          32,034          32,034          32,787              62              62          32,096          32,849
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related      ..............         161,857         161,857         172,101         775,898         775,274         937,755         947,375
 Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch..............................................  ..............           4,399           4,399           4,307             139             139           4,538           4,446
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies           7,930          75,100          83,030          83,151         101,868         101,470         184,898         184,621
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.................  ..............          37,189          37,189          46,763             159             159          37,348          46,922
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related                275          56,199          56,474         120,471  ..............  ..............          56,474         120,471
 Agencies.......................................................
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      Total.....................................................         551,068         518,531       1,069,599       1,181,800       1,018,836       1,006,323       2,088,435       2,188,123
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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 April 14, 2016, 
the Committee adopted guidance to the subcommittees for fiscal 
year 2017 by a recorded vote of 29-1, a quorum being present. 
That adopted guidance was considered favorably reported as the 
fiscal year 2017 section 302(b) budget allocations upon the 
filing on April 18, 2016, by the Chairman of the Committee on 
the Budget of an allocation pursuant to section 102 of the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 to serve as a section 302(a) 
allocation for purposes of budget enforcement in the Senate. 
The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Cochran                    Mr. Moran
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Shelby
Mr. Alexander
Ms. Collins
Ms. Murkowski
Mr. Graham
Mr. Kirk
Mr. Blunt
Mr. Hoeven
Mr. Boozman
Mrs. Capito
Mr. Cassidy
Mr. Lankford
Mr. Daines
Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Leahy
Mrs. Murray
Mrs. Feinstein
Mr. Durbin
Mr. Reed
Mr. Tester
Mr. Udall
Mrs. Shaheen
Mr. Merkley
Mr. Coons
Mr. Schatz
Ms. Baldwin
Mr. Murphy

                                   [all]