[Senate Report 116-104]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


116th Congress  }                                          {   Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session    }                                          {  116-104

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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020

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               September 12, 2019.--Ordered to be printed

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           Mr. Shelby, 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 204 of the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-37).
    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 August 2, 2019, the President approved the Bipartisan Budget 
Act of 2019. Section 204 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 September 9, 2019 
(Congressional Record pp. S5354-5356). This allocation reflects 
an increase of $8,000,000 in nonsecurity budget authority in 
fiscal year 2020 and all of the associated fiscal year 2020 
outlays from amounts that were designated as an emergency 
requirement in both the Additional Supplemental Appropriations 
for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-20) and the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian 
Assistance and Border Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 
(Public Law 116-26). The allocation will remain in effect until 
the adoption by the Congress of a budget resolution.
    This approach is not without precedent. The Bipartisan 
Budget Acts of 2015 and 2018 included an identical procedure 
for the providing of an allocation to the Committee for fiscal 
years 2017 and 2019, while the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 
did the same for fiscal year 2014, and again in fiscal year 
2015. Also, for fiscal year 2012, and again in fiscal year 
2013, such a procedure was contained in the Budget Control Act 
of 2011. In fiscal year 2017, no budget resolution was adopted 
by Congress until January 13, 2017. For each of the other 
fiscal years referenced, no budget resolution was ever adopted 
by Congress. 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, 
while on July 20, 2017, ``Committee Guidance'' for fiscal year 
2018 was adopted by the Committee, which was superseded first 
by the adoption of a budget resolution on October 26, 2017, and 
then ultimately by an adjustment to that budget resolution 
resulting from the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 
2018.
    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)); reemployment 
services and eligibility assessments (sec. 251(b)(2)(E)); 
disaster funding (sec. 251(b)(2)(D)); wildfire suppression 
(sec. 251(b)(2)(F)); and the 2020 census (sec. 251(b)(2)(G)).
    Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees:

                                                                          SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020
                                                                                    [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............  ..............          23,108          23,108          23,946         105,588          97,934         128,696         121,880
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................           5,695          65,138          70,833          74,436             336             329          71,169          74,765
Defense.........................................................         622,373             143         622,516         623,896             514             514         623,030         624,410
Energy and Water Development....................................          24,400          24,466          48,866          46,492  ..............  ..............          48,866          46,492
Financial Services and General Government.......................              34          24,162          24,196          23,807          22,483          22,475          46,679          46,282
Homeland Security...............................................           2,383          50,800          53,183          63,552           1,802           1,796          54,985          65,348
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.....................  ..............          35,800          35,800          34,996              64              65          35,864          35,061
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related      ..............         178,299         178,299         186,856         830,578         829,945       1,008,877       1,016,801
 Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch..............................................  ..............           5,092           5,092           5,112             150             149           5,242           5,261
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies          11,315          93,500         104,815          99,563         119,192         118,839         224,007         218,402
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.................  ..............          47,000          47,000          48,428             159             159          47,159          48,587
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related                300          74,000          74,300         133,167  ..............  ..............          74,300         133,167
 Agencies.......................................................
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      Total.....................................................         666,500         621,508       1,288,008       1,364,251       1,080,866       1,072,205       2,368,874       2,436,456
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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 12, 
2019, the Committee ordered favorably reported the fiscal year 
2020 section 302(b) budget allocations, by a recorded vote of 
16-15, a quorum being present. The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Shelby                     Mr. Leahy
Mr. McConnell                       Mrs. Murray
Mr. Alexander                       Mrs. Feinstein
Ms. Collins                         Mr. Durbin
Ms. Murkowski                       Mr. Reed
Mr. Graham                          Mr. Tester
Mr. Blunt                           Mr. Udall
Mr. Moran                           Mrs. Shaheen
Mr. Hoeven                          Mr. Merkley
Mr. Boozman                         Mr. Coons
Mrs. Capito                         Mr. Schatz
Mr. Kennedy                         Ms. Baldwin
Mrs. Hyde-Smith                     Mr. Murphy
Mr. Daines                          Mr. Manchin
Mr. Rubio                           Mr. Van Hollen
Mr. Lankford

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