[Senate Report 118-45]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


118th Congress     }                                 {         Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session       }                                 {         118-45

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   ALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES OF BUDGET TOTALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024

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                 June 22, 2023.--Ordered to be printed

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          Mrs. Murray, from the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        submitted the following

                                 REPORT

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on budget allocations for fiscal year 2024, pursuant to 
section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    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 121 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 June 21, 
2023 (Congressional Record pp. S2180-S2181). 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, 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 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: 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)); 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 2024
                                                                                    [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............  ..............          25,993          25,993          27,904         174,241         169,505         200,234         197,409
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies................           6,827          62,810          69,637          88,235             385             441          70,022          88,676
Defense.........................................................         823,080             187         823,267         804,459             514             514         823,781         804,973
Energy and Water Development....................................          33,422          23,308          56,730          65,693  ..............  ..............          56,730          65,693
Financial Services and General Government.......................              43          16,764          16,807          34,982          22,334          22,326          39,141          57,308
Homeland Security...............................................           3,459          53,464          56,923          82,362           1,147           1,147          58,070          83,509
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.....................  ..............          37,850          37,850          46,545              64              65          37,914          46,610
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related      ..............         195,231         195,231         260,863       1,064,077       1,062,276       1,259,308       1,323,139
 Agencies.......................................................
Legislative Branch..............................................  ..............           6,761           6,761           6,897             137             137           6,898           7,034
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies          19,070         135,282         154,352         150,873         209,944         195,630         364,296         346,503
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.................  ..............          58,358          58,358          65,183             159             159          58,517          65,342
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related                448          87,643          88,091         179,386  ..............  ..............          88,091         179,386
 Agencies.......................................................
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      Total.....................................................         886,349         703,651       1,590,000       1,813,382       1,473,002       1,452,200       3,063,002       3,265,582
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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 June 22, 2023, 
the Committee ordered favorably reported the fiscal year 2024 
section 302(b) budget allocations by a recorded vote of 15-13 
with a quorum being present. The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chair Murray                        Ms. Collins
Mrs. Feinstein                      Mr. McConnell
Mr. Durbin                          Ms. Murkowski
Mr. Reed                            Mr. Graham
Mr. Tester                          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. Hagerty
Mr. Manchin                         Mrs. Britt
Mr. Van Hollen                      Mrs. Fischer
Mr. Heinrich
Mr. Peters

                                   [all]