[House Report 117-390]
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                                               Union Calendar No. 298
117th Congress    }                                      {     Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session       }                                      {    117-390
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                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                        SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET

                    ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023

                    SUBMITTED BY MS. DeLAURO, CHAIR,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS









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 June 24, 2022.--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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                  ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut, Chair


  MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio                      KAY GRANGER, Texas
  DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina          HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky
  LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California       ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
  SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia         MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho
  BARBARA LEE, California                 JOHN R. CARTER, Texas
  BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota               KEN CALVERT, California
  TIM RYAN, Ohio                          TOM COLE, Oklahoma
  C. A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland     MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida
  DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida       STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas
  HENRY CUELLAR, Texas                    CHUCK FLEISCHMANN, Tennessee
  CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine                  JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, Washington
  MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois                  DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio
  DEREK KILMER, Washington                ANDY HARRIS, Maryland
  MATT CARTWRIGHT, Pennsylvania           MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada
  GRACE MENG, New York                    CHRIS STEWART, Utah
  MARK POCAN, Wisconsin                   STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi
  KATHERINE M. CLARK, Massachusetts       DAVID G. VALADAO, California
  PETE AGUILAR, California                DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington
  LOIS FRANKEL, Florida                   JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan
  CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois                  JOHN H. RUTHERFORD, Florida
  BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN, New Jersey       BEN CLINE, Virginia
  BRENDA L. LAWRENCE, Michigan            GUY RESCHENTHALER, Pennsylvania
  NORMA J. TORRES, California             MIKE GARCIA, California
  CHARLIE CRIST, Florida                  ASHLEY HINSON, Iowa
  ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona                TONY GONZALES, Texas
  ED CASE, Hawaii                         JULIA LETLOW, Louisiana
  ADRIANO ESPAILLAT, New York
  JOSH HARDER, California
  JENNIFER WEXTON, Virginia
  DAVID J. TRONE, Maryland
  LAUREN UNDERWOOD, Illinois
  SUSIE LEE, Nevada

                 Robin Juliano, Clerk and Staff Director

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                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                      Washington, DC, June24, 2022.
Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.

    Dear Madam Speaker:  By direction of the Committee on 
Appropriations, I submit herewith the Committee's report on the 
suballocation of the Committee's allocations for fiscal year 
2023.
    The suballocations contained in this report subdivide the 
allocations of budget authority and outlays in the ``Allocation 
of Spending Authority to the House Committee on 
Appropriations'' printed in the Congressional Record by the 
chair of the House Committee on the Budget on June 21, 2022, 
pursuant to H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress) and the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.

            Sincerely,
                                           Rosa L. DeLauro,
                                                             Chair.










  

                                               Union Calendar No. 298
117th Congress    }                                      {     Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session       }                                      {    117-390

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 REPORT ON THE SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023

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 June 24, 2022.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

   Ms. DeLauro, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                                 REPORT

                 SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR
                            FISCAL YEAR 2023

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the suballocation of the Committee's allocations for 
fiscal year 2023, pursuant to section 302(b) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. This report is consistent 
with the ``Allocation of Spending Authority to the House 
Committee on Appropriations'' printed in the Congressional 
Record by the chair of the House Committee on the Budget on 
June 21, 2022, pursuant to H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress) and 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    The submission of this report meets the requirement of 
section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and 
resulting requirement under the Rules of the House.
    The suballocations in this report do not include amounts 
for potential adjustments to the Committee on Appropriations' 
allocations for funding provided in reported bills for the 
purposes provided in H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress) and the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Those adjustments would be 
made after eligible funding is included in a bill reported to 
the House and the chair of the Committee on the Budget 
subsequently adjusts the Committee on Appropriations' section 
302(a) allocations.

                                                        SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OUTLAYS
                                                                                    [In millions of dollars]
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                           Subcommittee                                            Discretionary                               Mandatory                                     Total
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Agriculture:
    Budget authority..............................................                       27,200                                   189,364                                   216,564
    Outlays.......................................................                       30,800                                   179,563                                   210,363
Commerce, Justice, Science:
    Budget authority..............................................                       85,546                                       339                                    85,885
    Outlays.......................................................                       83,500                                       384                                    83,884
Defense:
    Budget authority..............................................                      761,681                                       514                                   762,195
    Outlays.......................................................                      732,950                                       514                                   733,464
Energy and Water:
    Budget authority..............................................                       56,275            ...........................................                       56,275
    Outlays.......................................................                       59,500            ...........................................                       59,500
Financial Services and General Government:
    Budget authority..............................................                       29,762                                    22,006                                    51,768
    Outlays.......................................................                       36,700                                    21,993                                    58,693
Homeland Security:
    Budget authority..............................................                       60,300                                     2,044                                    62,344
    Outlays.......................................................                       74,500                                     2,036                                    76,536
Interior, Environment:
    Budget authority..............................................                       44,775                                        64                                    44,839
    Outlays.......................................................                       44,800                                        65                                    44,865
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education:
    Budget authority..............................................                      224,399                                 1,134,027                                 1,358,426
    Outlays.......................................................                      303,500                                 1,130,832                                 1,434,332
Legislative Branch:
  All except Senate:
    Budget authority..............................................                        5,703                                       110                                     5,813
  Senate items:
    Budget authority..............................................                        1,297                                        27                                     1,324
  Total Legislative:
    Budget authority..............................................                        7,000                                       137                                     7,137
    Outlays.......................................................                        6,500                                       136                                     6,636
 
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs:
    Budget authority..............................................                      150,500                                   147,729                                   298,229
    Outlays.......................................................                      145,000                                   149,341                                   294,341
 
State, Foreign Operations:
    Budget authority..............................................                       64,575                                       159                                    64,734
    Outlays.......................................................                       69,000                                       159                                    69,159
 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development:
    Budget authority..............................................                       90,888            ...........................................                       90,888
    Outlays.......................................................                      170,059            ...........................................                      170,059
      Total:
          Budget authority........................................                    1,602,901                                 1,496,383                                 3,099,284
          Outlays.................................................                    1,756,809                                 1,485,023                                 3,241,832
 
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    NOTE.--The amounts in this report do not include spending 
recommended in fiscal year 2023 appropriation bills that is 
designated as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 1(e) of H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress), amounts becoming 
available in fiscal year 2023 that were previously designated 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent 
resolution on the budget, amounts provided pursuant to the 21st 
Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255), or amounts provided 
pursuant to section 14003 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-
136). Such amounts do not count against the committee's 
allocations in the House of Representatives, consistent with 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.



                             MINORITY VIEWS

    The Fiscal Year 2023 302(b) suballocations adopted by the 
House Appropriations Committee on June 22, 2022, totaled over 
$1.6 trillion. If enacted, discretionary spending would 
increase by $132 billion, or 9%, over Fiscal Year 2022, with a 
huge 14% increase in non-defense programs and only a 4.5% 
increase for the national defense.
    Underfunding the military when we face growing threats from 
Iran, Russia, and China is unacceptable and irresponsible. 
While our international adversaries dramatically increase their 
investments in military technology, the Majority refuses to 
provide funding levels to address the leadership challenges we 
face in keeping our country safe.
    When the Majority took control of the House, Senate, and 
White House at the beginning of the 117th Congress, their first 
order of business was to push through the completely partisan 
American Rescue Plan, with nearly $2 trillion in deficit 
spending. Though labeled a COVID relief bill, very little of it 
went to vaccines and therapeutics; most funding expanded the 
Federal bureaucracy, flooded the markets with too much money 
for limited goods and services, and allowed states and 
localities to use hundreds of billions of hard-earned taxpayer 
dollars on things like golf courses, luxury hotels, and ski 
resorts.
    All of this predictably contributed to the record-high 
inflation Americans face today. Larry Summers, National 
Economic Council Director for former President Obama, called 
the American Rescue Plan ``the least responsible macroeconomic 
policy we've had in the last 40 years'' and warned it would 
``set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in 
a generation.''\1\
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    \1\Appearance of Larry Summers on Bloomberg Television's Wall 
Street Week (Mar. 19. 2021): Summers, Lawrence H., The Biden stimulus 
is admirably ambitious. But it brings some big risks, too. The 
Washington Post, Op-ed (Feb. 4, 2021).
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    His prediction came true. Inflation is 8.6% over last year, 
a more than 40-year high. Economists recommend American 
families budget $460 more per month, just to cover rising 
prices for everyday goods and services.\2\ Gas prices are the 
highest they have ever been at an average $5 per gallon; energy 
prices are up 16%; and groceries are up 12%. The Majority seems 
to believe we can inflate our way out of inflation, by 
continuing to spend more on the same social programs. This is 
not sound economic policy.
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    \2\https://nypost.com/2022/06/10/inflation-costing-americans-an-
extra-460-per-month-analysis/.
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    The Appropriations Committee Majority had the opportunity 
to change course, but instead, the fiscally irresponsible 
subcommittee allocations were adopted without a single 
Republican vote. Republican Members understand the Nation 
cannot afford yet another spending spree on the same domestic 
programs or the massive borrowing needed to finance it, which 
have already resulted in runaway inflation. Republicans also 
voiced strong opposition to undercutting critical investments 
in our nation's defense, given the growing international 
threats to the United States. The Committee must reach 
agreement on sensible funding levels; limit additional spending 
on social programs that received too much funding last year; 
and focus taxpayer dollars on the most essential Federal 
responsibilities, including our national security.

                                               Kay Granger.

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