[Senate Report 115-154]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


115th Congress }                                           {  Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session   }                                           {  115-154

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FURTHER REVISED ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL 
                               YEAR 2017

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               September 13, 2017.--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 revising the section 302(b) allocation to its 
subcommittees for fiscal year 2017 set forth in Senate Report 
114-238 (April 18, 2016) and revised in Senate Report 114-253 
(May 12, 2016), Senate Report 114-257 (May 18, 2016), Senate 
Report 114-273 (June 8, 2016), Senate Report 114-278 (June 15, 
2016), Senate Report 114-286 (June 27, 2016), Senate Report 
114-358 (September 26, 2016), Senate Report 114-405 (December 
9, 2016), Senate Report 115-001 (January 17, 2017) and Senate 
Report 115-043 (May 4, 2017).
    Section 302(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended, provides that at any time after a committee reports 
its allocations such committee may report to its House an 
alteration of such allocations. This report is submitted 
pursuant to this section.
    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. Section 102 of the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-74) 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 
(Congressional Record pp. S2121).
    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)).
    On April 18, 2016, the Committee on Appropriations filed an 
initial allocation to its subcommittees pursuant to its section 
302(a) allocation.
    On May 12, 2016, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee (Congressional 
Record pp. S2743-2744) reflecting permissible increases in the 
fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. These increases 
reflect $1,000,000 in outlays designated as an emergency 
requirement.
    On May 26, 2016, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
further revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee 
(Congressional Record pp. S3279-3280) reflecting permissible 
increases in the fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. 
These increases reflect $508,000,000 in outlays designated as 
an emergency requirement.
    On June 27, 2016, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
further revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee 
(Congressional Record pp. S4580-4581) reflecting permissible 
changes in the fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. These 
changes reflect an increase of $172,000,000 in security budget 
authority designated for overseas contingency operations/global 
war on terrorism, plus associated outlays. In addition, the 
revised 302(a) allocation reflects a reduction of $126,000,000 
in outlays designated as an emergency requirement to adjust the 
further revised 302(a) allocation filed on May 26, 2016.
    On September 26, 2016, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
further revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee 
(Congressional Record pp. S6076-6078) reflecting permissible 
changes in the fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. These 
changes reflect an increase of $10,000,000 in outlays 
designated for disaster relief and a reduction of $72,000,000 
in outlays designated as an emergency requirement to adjust the 
further revised 302(a) allocations filed on June 27, 2016.
    On December 9, 2016, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
further revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee 
(Congressional Record pp. S7015) reflecting permissible changes 
in the fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. These changes 
reflect an increase of $5,775,000,000 in security budget 
authority and $4,300,000,000 in nonsecurity budget authority 
designated for overseas contingency operations/global war on 
terrorism, plus associated outlays. In addition, the revised 
302(a) allocation reflects an increase of $2,704,000,000 in 
nonsecurity budget authority designated as an emergency 
requirement, plus associated outlays, and an increase of 
$1,416,000,000 in nonsecurity budget authority designated for 
disaster relief, plus associated outlays.
    Section 102 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (Public 
Law 114-74) included language providing for its expiration if a 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017 was 
agreed to by the Senate and the House of Representatives 
pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974. On Thursday, January 12, 2017, the Senate passed such a 
resolution, S. Con. Res. 3, and on Friday, January 13, 2017, 
the House of Representatives passed the same resolution without 
changes. Section 4001 of S. Con. Res. 3 included an instruction 
to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to file 
an allocation to replace the section 302(a) allocation that was 
being used for purposes of budget enforcement in the Senate 
pursuant to section 102 of the Bipartisan Budget Act. That 
allocation was filed by the Chairman of the Budget Committee on 
January 17, 2017 (Congressional Record pp. S340-341). The 
levels included in S. Con. Res. 3, as well as the 302(a) 
allocation filed by the Chairman of the Budget Committee, 
continue to be consistent with the spending limits set forth in 
the Bipartisan Budget Act. The 302(a) allocation also includes 
all of the permissible changes outlined above that were 
previously filed in calendar year 2016 by the Committee on the 
Budget. Therefore, the further revised allocations to 
subcommittees for 2017 presented below remain unchanged from 
the ones previously filed on December 9, 2016.
    On May 4, 2017, the Committee on the Budget filed a further 
revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee (Congressional 
Record pp. S2747) reflecting permissible increases in the 
fiscal year 2017 discretionary allocation. The revised 302(a) 
allocation reflects an increase of $76,985,000,000 in security 
budget authority and $16,485,000,000 in nonsecurity budget 
authority designated for overseas contingency operations/global 
war on terrorism, plus associated outlays. The revised 302(a) 
allocation also reflects an increase of $6,713,000,000 in 
nonsecurity budget authority designated for disaster relief, 
plus associated outlays, and an increase of $1,960,000,000 in 
nonsecurity budget authority provided for continuing disability 
reviews and redeterminations and for health care fraud and 
abuse control, plus associated outlays. The revised 302(a) 
allocation likewise reflects an increase of $1,444,000,000 in 
nonsecurity budget authority designated as an emergency 
requirement, plus associated outlays.
    On September 7, 2017, the Committee on the Budget filed a 
further revised 302(a) allocation for the Committee reflecting 
permissible increases in the fiscal year 2017 discretionary 
allocation. The revised 302(a) allocation reflects an increase 
of $15,250,000,000 in nonsecurity budget authority designated 
as an emergency requirement, plus associated outlays.
    The further revised allocations to subcommittees for 2017 
are set forth below:

                                                                  FURTHER REVISED 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............  ..............          21,083          21,083          21,548         116,316         104,824         137,399         126,372
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................           5,200          51,539          56,739          64,417             320             330          57,059          64,747
Defense.........................................................         598,326             138         598,464         571,009             514             514         598,978         571,523
Energy and Water Development....................................          19,956          18,841          38,797          37,883  ..............  ..............          38,797          37,883
Financial Services and General Government.......................              33          21,932          21,965          23,419          21,937          21,930          43,902          45,349
Homeland Security...............................................           2,039          54,645          56,684          48,055           1,623           1,621          58,307          49,676
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.....................  ..............          32,687          32,687          33,325              62              62          32,749          33,387
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related      ..............         162,985         162,985         171,419         775,898         775,274         938,883         946,693
 Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch..............................................  ..............           4,440           4,440           4,359             139             139           4,579           4,498
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies           8,146          74,650          82,796          82,935         101,868         101,470         184,664         184,405
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.................  ..............          57,371          57,371          52,011             159             159          57,530          52,170
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related                300          68,492          68,792         120,546  ..............  ..............          68,792         120,546
 Agencies.......................................................
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      Total.....................................................         634,000         568,803       1,202,803       1,230,926       1,018,836       1,006,323       2,221,639       2,237,249
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