[Senate Report 118-190]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
118th Congress } { Report
SENATE
2nd Session } { 118-190
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ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025
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July 11 (legislative day July 10), 2024--Ordered to be printed
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Mrs. Murray, from the Committee on Appropriations,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report on budget allocations for fiscal year 2025.
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.
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.
On June 3, 2023, the President approved the Fiscal
Responsibility Act of 2023. Section 122 of that act provides
for the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to file an
allocation, consistent with the terms of the Fiscal
Responsibility 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 May 14,
2024 (Congressional Record pp. S3678-S3680).
This approach is not without precedent. The Bipartisan
Budget Acts of 2015, 2018, and 2019 included an identical
procedure for the provision of an allocation to the Committee
for fiscal years 2017, 2019, and 2021, while the Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2013 did the same for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
For fiscal years 2012 and 2013, such a procedure was contained
in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
In the absence of a budget resolution, the Committee has
adopted internal guidance without budget enforcement procedures
in the Senate. In June 1984, the Committee adopted a nonbinding
allocation of nondefense funding. That year, the budget
resolution was adopted by the Congress on October 1. The Senate
did not consider a budget resolution for fiscal year 2003, and
in July 2002, the Committee adopted a nonbinding allocation.
Neither the House nor the Senate considered a budget resolution
for fiscal year 2011, and on July 15, 2010, the Committee
adopted its own ``Committee Guidance.'' For fiscal year 2014,
the Committee adopted ``Committee Guidance'' on June 20, 2013,
which was ultimately superseded by the Bipartisan Budget Act of
2013. For fiscal year 2018, the Committee adopted ``Committee
Guidance'' on July 20, 2017, which was superseded by the
adoption of a budget resolution on October 26, 2017, and 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 the costs of
emergencies (sec. 251(b)(2)(A)(i)), continuing disability
reviews and redeterminations (sec. 251(b)(2)(B)), healthcare
fraud and abuse control (sec. 251(b)(2)(C)), disaster funding
(sec. 251(b)(2)(D)), reemployment services and eligibility
assessments (sec. 251(b)(2)(E)), and wildfire suppression (sec.
251(b)(2)(F)).
Set forth below are the allocations to subcommittees:
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025
[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............ .............. 27,049 27,049 28,432 165,607 152,668 192,656 181,100
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................ 6,613 62,622 69,235 88,027 487 541 69,722 88,568
Defense......................................................... 830,687 178 830,865 848,329 514 514 831,379 848,843
Energy and Water Development.................................... 34,971 26,496 61,467 70,916 .............. .............. 61,467 70,916
Financial Services and General Government....................... 48 21,127 21,175 29,914 22,394 22,385 43,569 52,299
Homeland Security............................................... 3,138 57,378 60,516 91,641 1,187 1,002 61,703 92,643
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies..................... .............. 37,650 37,650 52,252 64 65 37,714 52,317
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related .............. 198,655 198,655 250,586 1,150,142 1,148,619 1,348,797 1,399,205
Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch.............................................. .............. 7,000 7,000 5,162 143 143 7,143 5,305
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 19,307 129,569 148,876 144,176 221,911 218,068 370,787 362,244
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs................. .............. 55,705 55,705 73,024 161 161 55,866 73,185
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related 448 87,259 87,707 187,338 .............. .............. 87,707 187,338
Agencies.......................................................
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Total..................................................... 895,212 710,688 1,605,900 1,869,797 1,562,610 1,544,166 3,168,510 3,413,963
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