[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 129, 114th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
<> FEDERAL BUDGET--FISCAL YEAR 2016

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016.

(a) Declaration.--Congress declares that this concurrent resolution
is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that
this concurrent resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels
for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this concurrent
resolution is as follows:

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016.

TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses

Sec. 1101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 1102. Major functional categories.

Subtitle B--Levels and Amounts in the Senate

Sec. 1201. Social Security in the Senate.
Sec. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the
Senate.

TITLE II--RECONCILIATION

Sec. 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate.
Sec. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives.

TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement in Both Houses

Sec. 3101. Point of order against increasing long-term deficits or
direct spending.
Sec. 3102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on
Terrorism.
Sec. 3103. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs.
Sec. 3104. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in
mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund.
Sec. 3105. Fair-value credit estimates.
Sec. 3106. Scoring rule for currency modernization.
Sec. 3107. Long-term scoring of changes in spending limits and extension
of highway programs.
Sec. 3108. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and
deficits.
Sec. 3109. Congressional Budget Office estimates of measures with
significant outlay effects.
Sec. 3110. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset.
Sec. 3111. Information for Congress and the public about projected
Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits.
Sec. 3112. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to
incorporate macroeconomic effects.

Subtitle B--Budget Enforcement in the Senate

Sec. 3201. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the
Senate.
Sec. 3202. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate.
Sec. 3203. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates in the Senate.
Sec. 3204. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain
reconciliation legislation.
Sec. 3205. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score in the
Senate.

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Sec. 3206. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills in
the Senate.
Sec. 3207. Scoring rule for certain energy contracts in the Senate.
Sec. 3208. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate.

Subtitle C--Budget Enforcement in the House of Representatives

Sec. 3301. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency in
the House of Representatives.
Sec. 3302. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury
to the Highway Trust Fund in the House of Representatives.
Sec. 3303. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources in
the House of Representatives.
Sec. 3304. Limitation on advance appropriations in the House of
Representatives.
Sec. 3305. Certain energy contracts in the House of Representatives.

Subtitle D--Other Provisions

Sec. 3401. Submission of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud,
and abuse.
Sec. 3402. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses.
Sec. 3403. Application and effect of changes in allocations and
aggregates.
Sec. 3404. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.
Sec. 3405. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

TITLE IV--RESERVE FUNDS

Subtitle A--Reserve Funds in Both Houses

Sec. 4101. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase
opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans.

Subtitle B--Reserve Funds in the Senate

Sec. 4301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of
economic growth and private sector job creation in the United
States.
Sec. 4302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's
priorities.
Sec. 4303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and
affordable health care choices for all.
Sec. 4304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the
State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Sec. 4305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms.
Sec. 4306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child welfare.
Sec. 4307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers.
Sec. 4308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and
administration.
Sec. 4309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure
in America.
Sec. 4310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation.
Sec. 4311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United
States through international trade.
Sec. 4312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment
opportunities for disabled workers.
Sec. 4313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform.
Sec. 4314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation.
Sec. 4315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental
statutes.
Sec. 4316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources
legislation.
Sec. 4317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral
rights.
Sec. 4318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine
lands program.
Sec. 4319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health.
Sec. 4320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for
payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of
local government.
Sec. 4321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system
reform.
Sec. 4322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program
administration.
Sec. 4323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with
freely associated states.
Sec. 4324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural
hospitals and create sustainable access for rural
communities.
Sec. 4325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid
demonstration programs to promote independent living and
integrated work for the disabled.
Sec. 4326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid
for the provision of services under Medicare.
Sec. 4327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation's
community health centers.
Sec. 4328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of
independent agencies, which may include subjecting the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular
appropriations process.

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Sec. 4329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance
529 college savings plans.
Sec. 4330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas
diplomatic facilities of the United States.
Sec. 4331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding,
enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.
Sec. 4332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting
manufacturing in the United States.
Sec. 4333. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without
legal status in the United States from qualifying for a
refundable tax credit.
Sec. 4334. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or
modification.
Sec. 4335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin,
methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse.
Sec. 4336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of
Defense civilian workforce.
Sec. 4337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense
reform.
Sec. 4338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce
development, job training, and reemployment programs.
Sec. 4339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and
invest in energy efficiency and conservation.
Sec. 4340. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and
protect the Second Amendment.
Sec. 4341. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal
funds for the bailout of improvident State and local
governments.
Sec. 4342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and
lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in
Medicaid.
Sec. 4343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access,
choice, and accountability in veterans care through the
Veterans Choice Card program.
Sec. 4344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay.
Sec. 4345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation
submitted to Congress by the President of the United States
to protect and strengthen Social Security.
Sec. 4346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-
driven student loan repayment option.
Sec. 4347. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of
water quality.
Sec. 4348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel.
Sec. 4349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to family and medical
leave.
Sec. 4350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health
care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care.
Sec. 4351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to
higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal
Pell Grant program.
Sec. 4352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in
health premium billing.
Sec. 4353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions.
Sec. 4354. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the
Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core
without penalty.
Sec. 4355. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of
certain Federal land.
Sec. 4356. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding
of international organizations during the implementation of
the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate
ratification and adoption of implementing legislation.
Sec. 4357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived
sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for
violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive
nuclear agreement.
Sec. 4358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United
States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in
Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981.
Sec. 4359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable
accommodations for pregnant workers.
Sec. 4360. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the
Federal estate tax.
Sec. 4361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the
Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions.
Sec. 4362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately
held water rights and permits.
Sec. 4363. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting
awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering
or not entering into agreements with labor organizations.

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Sec. 4364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from
being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax
rate.
Sec. 4365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American
workers.
Sec. 4366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the
migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras.
Sec. 4367. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper
economic consideration in designation of critical habitat.
Sec. 4368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end ``too big to fail''
bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in
total assets).
Sec. 4369. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington's
illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act.
Sec. 4370. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding
for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Sec. 4371. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return
of children who have been legally adopted by United States
citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sec. 4372. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new
nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense
and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Sec. 4373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax
treatment of public safety officer death benefits.
Sec. 4374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the
backlog of sexual assault evidence kits.
Sec. 4375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel
fabrication.
Sec. 4376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of
Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies.
Sec. 4377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement
security.
Sec. 4378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness
of the United States.
Sec. 4379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the
conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local
economic development are compatible.
Sec. 4380. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity.
Sec. 4381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement
Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter
into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement
agencies.
Sec. 4382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost
savings in office space used by Federal agencies.
Sec. 4383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical
assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs
through small business development centers.
Sec. 4384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that
medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet
the needs of women veterans.
Sec. 4385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient
resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy.
Sec. 4386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to
marijuana edibles by children in States that have
decriminalized marijuana.
Sec. 4387. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage
lending to rural areas.
Sec. 4388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of
Arctic polar icebreakers.
Sec. 4389. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health
conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic
substances during service in the Armed Forces.
Sec. 4390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family
of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company
Program.
Sec. 4391. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection,
investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of
websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to
advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet.
Sec. 4392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the
reliability of the electricity grid.
Sec. 4393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open
Internet.
Sec. 4394. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the
Federal regulatory process.
Sec. 4395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage
of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening
test under the Medicare program.
Sec. 4396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of
the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture
of the United States.

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Sec. 4397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the
BioShield Special Reserve Fund.
Sec. 4398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the
nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force.
Sec. 4399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic
growth and job creation for small businesses and full funding
for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries.
Sec. 4400. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of
full-time employee.
Sec. 4401. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the
effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory
process.
Sec. 4402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the
Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program.
Sec. 4403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the
increased use of performance contracting in Federal
facilities.
Sec. 4404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving
information sharing by the Inspector General of the
Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations
relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied
health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly
relate to patient care, and other management issues of the
Department.
Sec. 4405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate
regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions.
Sec. 4406. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for
National and Community Service.
Sec. 4407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that
Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure
obligations in criminal prosecutions.
Sec. 4408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research.
Sec. 4409. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to
necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries.
Sec. 4410. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the
construction of infrastructure projects that are of national
and regional significance and projects in high priority
corridors.
Sec. 4411. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the
United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense
spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring
the security of NATO.
Sec. 4412. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation
and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment
provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States
Government.
Sec. 4413. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher
education data and transparency.
Sec. 4414. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children.
Sec. 4415. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional
funding for international strategic communications.
Sec. 4416. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary
education.
Sec. 4417. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research.
Sec. 4418. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine.
Sec. 4419. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and
surface mining safety research.
Sec. 4420. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare.

Subtitle C--Reserve Funds in the House of Representatives

Sec. 4501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President's health care
law.
Sec. 4502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care
reform.
Sec. 4503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare
provisions of the President's health care law.
Sec. 4504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children's Health
Insurance Program.
Sec. 4505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education.
Sec. 4506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements.
Sec. 4507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code.
Sec. 4508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures.
Sec. 4509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation.
Sec. 4510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform.
Sec. 4511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for national defense.

TITLE V--ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Sec. 5001. Direct spending.

TITLE VI--POLICY STATEMENTS

Subtitle A--Policy Statements in Both Houses

Sec. 6101. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment.

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Sec. 6102. Policy statement on Social Security.

Subtitle B--Policy Statement in the House of Representatives

Sec. 6201. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform.
Sec. 6202. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation.
Sec. 6203. Policy statement on tax reform.
Sec. 6204. Policy statement on trade.
Sec. 6205. Policy statement on repealing the President's health care law
and promoting real health care reform.
Sec. 6206. Policy statement on Medicare.
Sec. 6207. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery
and innovation.
Sec. 6208. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform.
Sec. 6209. Policy statement on higher education and workforce
development opportunity.
Sec. 6210. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sec. 6211. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies.
Sec. 6212. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and
unauthorized spending.
Sec. 6213. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the
cancellation of unobligated balances.
Sec. 6214. Policy statement on agency fees and spending.
Sec. 6215. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer
dollars.
Sec. 6216. Policy statement on ``No Budget, No Pay''.
Sec. 6217. Policy statement on national security funding.

TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses

SEC. 1101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS.

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025:
(1) Federal revenues.--For purposes of the enforcement of
this concurrent resolution:
(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are
as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $2,676,733,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,776,156,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,870,206,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $2,982,310,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,107,111,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,247,391,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,392,968,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $3,554,412,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $3,723,973,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $3,906,111,000,000.
(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of
Federal revenues should be changed are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $0.
Fiscal year 2017: $0.
Fiscal year 2018: $0.
Fiscal year 2019: $0.
Fiscal year 2020: $0.
Fiscal year 2021: $0.
Fiscal year 2022: $0.
Fiscal year 2023: $0.
Fiscal year 2024: $0.

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Fiscal year 2025: $0.
(2) New budget authority.--For purposes of the enforcement
of this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total
new budget authority are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $3,039,215,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,956,581,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,970,682,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $3,107,123,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,234,011,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,313,719,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,420,057,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $3,484,446,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $3,504,239,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $3,634,452,000,000.
(3) Budget outlays.--For purposes of the enforcement of this
concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget
outlays are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $3,091,442,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $2,982,215,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $2,963,926,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $3,086,454,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $3,205,304,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $3,291,249,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $3,434,709,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $3,470,642,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $3,466,541,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $3,610,342,000,000.
(4) Deficits.--For purposes of the enforcement of this
concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as
follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $414,709,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $206,059,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $93,720,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $104,144,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $98,193,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $43,858,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $41,741,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: -$83,770,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: -$257,432,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: -$295,769,000,000.
(5) Public debt.--Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels of the
public debt are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $19,059,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $19,490,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $19,826,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $20,164,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $20,494,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $20,773,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $21,033,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $21,188,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $21,194,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $21,149,000,000,000.
(6) Debt held by the public.--The appropriate levels of debt
held by the public are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $13,842,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $14,124,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $14,307,000,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2019: $14,523,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $14,757,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $14,965,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $15,204,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $15,354,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $15,374,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $15,405,000,000,000.

SEC. 1102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES.

Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new
budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 2025 for each
major functional category are:
(1) National Defense (050):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $531,306,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $564,325,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $544,515,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $549,357,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $557,764,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $548,021,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $571,039,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $560,439,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $585,330,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $572,493,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $599,646,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $585,628,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $632,804,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $615,907,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $646,039,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $628,518,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $659,310,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $638,235,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $673,490,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $658,011,000,000.
(2) International Affairs (150):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $40,202,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $46,028,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $40,246,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $43,086,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $41,176,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $41,818,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $42,100,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $41,391,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:

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(A) New budget authority, $43,092,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $41,518,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $44,085,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $42,005,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $45,333,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $42,749,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $46,348,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $43,510,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $47,408,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $44,367,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $48,485,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $45,266,000,000.
(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $29,187,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $29,555,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $29,771,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $29,707,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $30,432,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $30,162,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $31,104,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $30,647,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $31,805,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $31,283,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $32,508,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $31,875,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $33,242,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $32,579,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $33,978,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $33,306,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $34,743,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $34,053,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $35,517,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $34,815,000,000.
(4) Energy (270):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, -$3,201,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,412,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $1,962,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $1,095,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, -$746,000,000.

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(B) Outlays, -$2,111,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, -$856,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,936,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, -$884,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,811,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, -$948,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,657,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, -$1,030,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,651,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, -$1,098,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,643,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, -$1,144,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,614,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, -$1,153,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$1,589,000,000.
(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $36,374,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $39,499,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $37,654,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $40,016,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $38,325,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $39,595,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $38,923,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $39,465,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $40,388,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $40,563,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $41,191,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $41,461,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $41,650,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $41,770,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $42,496,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $42,726,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $43,935,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $43,453,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $45,039,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $44,409,000,000.
(6) Agriculture (350):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $19,098,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $21,572,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $22,846,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $22,376,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $21,964,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,853,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $20,652,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,875,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $19,681,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,132,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $19,545,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,025,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $19,509,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $18,979,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $20,119,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,590,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $20,253,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,699,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $20,540,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,028,000,000.
(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, -$997,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$10,566,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, -$8,697,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$21,748,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, -$8,277,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$25,173,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, -$7,401,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$26,866,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, -$5,156,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$22,499,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, -$4,806,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$19,423,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, -$4,250,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$20,716,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, -$3,613,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$21,520,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, -$2,754,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$21,962,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, -$2,278,000,000.

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(B) Outlays, -$22,335,000,000.
(8) Transportation (400):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $72,055,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $87,153,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $72,715,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $82,838,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $73,262,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $79,648,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $73,696,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $78,845,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $74,070,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $78,268,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $74,409,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $77,871,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $55,154,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $73,378,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $56,254,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $66,074,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $56,798,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $62,874,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $57,190,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $61,710,000,000.
(9) Community and Regional Development (450):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $15,486,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,692,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $16,344,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,144,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $16,737,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,692,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $16,973,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,450,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $16,984,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,702,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $16,903,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $20,682,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $9,965,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $19,034,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $9,947,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $15,892,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $9,993,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $13,220,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $10,077,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $11,515,000,000.
(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
(500):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $83,315,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $93,293,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $89,084,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $92,888,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $91,432,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $91,193,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $90,189,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $89,369,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $92,597,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $91,891,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $93,900,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $93,562,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $95,502,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $95,022,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $96,984,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $96,608,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $98,820,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $98,336,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $100,785,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $100,297,000,000.
(11) Health (550):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $433,064,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $430,917,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $397,209,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $394,211,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $387,638,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $397,302,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $398,203,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $399,888,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $420,326,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $411,116,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $426,184,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $426,218,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $442,681,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $442,701,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $461,378,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $461,378,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $476,599,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $476,631,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $493,913,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $494,059,000,000.
(12) Medicare (570):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $579,430,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $579,361,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $571,876,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $571,830,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $566,754,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $566,656,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $628,736,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $628,652,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $667,036,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $666,951,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $711,198,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $711,111,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $800,458,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $800,363,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $812,590,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $812,496,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $815,240,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $815,139,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $923,187,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $923,082,000,000.
(13) Income Security (600):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $523,086,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $523,645,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $496,233,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $492,511,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $485,055,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $476,530,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $476,663,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $471,357,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:

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(A) New budget authority, $484,015,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $478,199,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $489,999,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $484,318,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $498,503,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $497,869,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $503,364,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $499,521,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $510,872,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $501,192,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $517,417,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $511,441,000,000.
(14) Social Security Retirement and Disability (650):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $33,885,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $33,928,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $36,563,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $39,424,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $42,634,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $46,104,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $46,104,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $49,712,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $49,712,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $53,547,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $53,547,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $57,455,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $57,455,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $61,546,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $61,546,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $65,751,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $65,751,000,000.
(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $166,261,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $171,862,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $164,546,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $168,559,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $162,740,000,000.

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(B) Outlays, $162,753,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $174,599,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $173,869,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $179,485,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $178,581,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $183,721,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $182,821,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $196,041,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $195,056,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $192,637,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $191,640,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $189,442,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $188,356,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $203,290,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $202,189,000,000.
(16) Administration of Justice (750):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $50,976,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $56,455,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $57,639,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $56,693,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $55,885,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $54,562,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $57,582,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $56,699,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $59,324,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $61,755,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $61,247,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $62,635,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $63,791,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $63,748,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $65,688,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $65,589,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $67,626,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $67,266,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $69,425,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $68,892,000,000.
(17) General Government (800):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $23,151,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $22,981,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $23,194,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $23,289,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $23,426,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $23,371,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $24,000,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $23,685,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $24,703,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $24,290,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $25,202,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $24,878,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $25,962,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $25,562,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $26,698,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $26,272,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $27,130,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $26,766,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $27,881,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $27,435,000,000.
(18) Net Interest (900):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $367,542,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $367,542,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $416,418,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $416,418,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $479,446,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $479,446,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $533,121,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $533,121,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $579,344,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $579,344,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $611,558,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $611,558,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $642,888,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $642,888,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $669,066,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $669,066,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $687,195,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $687,195,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $694,215,000,000.

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(B) Outlays, $694,215,000,000.
(19) Allowances (920):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $25,256,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $45,538,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, -$21,661,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$5,856,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, -$50,890,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$40,133,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, -$60,624,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$53,987,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, -$72,620,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$65,480,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, -$104,010,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$98,128,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, -$119,157,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$111,033,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, -$131,418,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$122,924,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, -$168,306,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$160,427,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, -$204,728,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$186,150,000,000.
(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, -$82,548,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$82,548,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, -$96,446,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$96,446,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, -$103,441,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$103,441,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, -$101,796,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$101,796,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, -$101,191,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$101,191,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, -$105,094,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$105,094,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, -$112,536,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$112,536,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, -$120,466,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$120,466,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, -$130,467,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$130,467,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, -$143,591,000,000.
(B) Outlays, -$143,591,000,000.
(21) Overseas Contingency Operations (970):
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $96,287,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $48,798,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $64,598,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $65,684,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $62,593,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $63,758,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $57,586,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $60,653,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $49,578,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $54,095,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $47,569,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $50,191,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $0.
(B) Outlays, $19,493,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $0.
(B) Outlays, $7,554,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $0.
(B) Outlays, $2,683,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $0.
(B) Outlays, $892,000,000.

Subtitle B--Levels and Amounts in the Senate

SEC. 1201. SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE SENATE.

(a) Social Security Revenues.--For purposes of Senate enforcement
under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the
amounts of revenues of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $793,987,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $826,098,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $858,899,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $892,421,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $927,413,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $963,896,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $1,002,225,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $1,041,673,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $1,082,208,000,000.

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Fiscal year 2025: $1,124,298,000,000.
(b) Social Security Outlays.--For purposes of Senate enforcement
under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the
amounts of outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016: $777,085,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $822,772,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $878,895,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $937,383,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $1,002,161,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $1,070,556,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022: $1,143,375,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023: $1,221,800,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024: $1,305,195,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025: $1,393,212,000,000.
(c) Social Security Administrative Expenses.--In the Senate, the
amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Federal Old-
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability
Insurance Trust Fund for administrative expenses are as follows:
Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $5,146,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,205,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $5,296,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,296,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $5,469,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,440,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $5,645,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,614,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $5,827,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,795,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $6,012,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $5,980,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $6,205,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $6,172,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $6,399,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $6,365,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $6,600,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $6,565,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $6,805,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $6,769,000,000.

SEC. 1202. POSTAL SERVICE DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES IN THE
SENATE.

In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget
outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary administrative expenses
are as follows:

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Fiscal year 2016:
(A) New budget authority, $266,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $265,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017:
(A) New budget authority, $277,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $277,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018:
(A) New budget authority, $288,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $288,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019:
(A) New budget authority, $299,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $298,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020:
(A) New budget authority, $310,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $310,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021:
(A) New budget authority, $321,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $320,000,000.
Fiscal year 2022:
(A) New budget authority, $334,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $333,000,000.
Fiscal year 2023:
(A) New budget authority, $346,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $345,000,000.
Fiscal year 2024:
(A) New budget authority, $358,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $357,000,000.
Fiscal year 2025:
(A) New budget authority, $371,000,000.
(B) Outlays, $370,000,000.

TITLE II--RECONCILIATION

SEC. 2001. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE.

(a) In General.--
(1) Committee on finance.--The Committee on Finance of the
Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to
reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the
period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
(2) Committee on health, education, labor, and pensions.--
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the
Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to
reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the
period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
(3) Submissions.--In the Senate, not later than July 24,
2015, the Senate Committees named in paragraphs (1) and (2)
shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the
Budget of the Senate. Upon receiving all such recommendations,
the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall report to the
Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all such
recommendations without any substantive revision.
(b) Limit on Senate Consideration of Reconciliation.--
(1) Point of order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider a bill or joint resolution reported pursuant to
subsection (a), or an amendment to, conference report on, or
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resolution, which would increase the public debt limit under
section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, during the period
of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
(2) Waiver.--This subsection may be waived or suspended in
the Senate only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(3) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required
to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on the point of
order raised under this subsection.

SEC. 2002. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(a) In General.--
(1) Committee on education and the workforce.--The Committee
on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives
shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce
the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.     (2) Committee on energy and
commerce.--The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives shall submit changes in laws within its
jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than
$1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
(3) Committee on ways and means.--The Committee on Ways and
Means of the House of Representatives shall submit changes in
laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less
than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.
(4) Submission providing for deficit reduction.--In the
House of Representatives, not later than July 24, 2015, the
committees named in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) shall submit
their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives to carry out this section.
(b) Reconciliation Procedures.--
(1) Estimating assumptions.--
(A) Assumptions.--In the House of Representatives,
for purposes of titles III and IV of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631 et seq. and 651 et
seq.), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of
the House of Representatives shall use the baseline
underlying the Congressional Budget Office's March 2015
update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025
(January 2015) when making estimates of any bill or
joint resolution, or any amendment thereto, amendment
between the Houses in relation thereto, or conference
report thereon. If adjustments to the baseline are made
subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent
resolution, then such Chairman shall determine whether
to use any of these adjustments when making such
estimates.
(B) Intent.--The authority set forth in subparagraph
(A) should only be exercised if the estimates used to
determine the compliance of such measures with the
budgetary requirements included in this concurrent
resolution are inaccurate because adjustments made to
the baseline are inconsistent with the assumptions
underlying the budgetary levels set forth in this
concurrent resolution. Such inaccurate adjustments made
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concurrent resolution may include selected adjustments
for rulemaking, judicial actions, adjudication, and
interpretative rules that have major budgetary effects
and are inconsistent with the assumptions underlying the
budgetary levels set forth in this concurrent
resolution.
(C) Congressional budget office estimates.--Upon the
request of the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of the House of Representatives, the Congressional
Budget Office shall prepare for any measure an estimate
based on the baseline determination made by such
Chairman pursuant to subparagraph (A).
(2) Repeal of the president's health care law through
reconciliation.--In the House of Representatives, in preparing
their submissions under subsection (a) to the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives, the committees named in
subsection (a) shall--
(A) note the policies discussed in title VI that
repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care
related provisions of the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010; and
(B) determine the most effective methods by which
the health care laws referred to in subparagraph (A)
shall be repealed in their entirety.
(3) Revision of budgetary levels.--
(A) In general.--Upon the submission of a
reconciliation recommendation to the House of
Representatives or the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives or the submission of a
conference report to the House of Representatives
pursuant to this section, in which a committee is deemed
to have complied with its directive by virtue of section
310(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
641(c)), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of
the House of Representatives may file with the House of
Representatives appropriately revised allocations,
aggregates, and functional levels.
(B) Revision.--Allocations and aggregates revised
pursuant to this paragraph shall be considered to be
allocations and aggregates established by this
concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section
301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
632).

TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement in Both Houses

SEC. 3101. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING LONG-TERM DEFICITS OR
DIRECT SPENDING.

(a) Congressional Budget Office Analysis of Proposals.--The Director
of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable,
prepare an estimate of whether a measure would cause, relative to
current law, a net increase in on-budget deficits in the Senate, and a
net increase in direct spending in the House, in excess of
$5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods
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years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted
concurrent resolution on the budget--
(1) in the Senate, for each bill and joint resolution
reported by a committee, other than the Committee on
Appropriations, and amendments thereto, amendments between the
Houses in relation thereto, conference reports thereon, and
motions thereon; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for each bill and joint
resolution reported by a committee, other than the Committee on
Appropriations, and amendments thereto and conference reports
thereon.
(b) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order--
(1) in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in
excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal
year periods described in subsection (a); and
(2) in the House of Representatives to consider any bill or
joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that would cause a net increase in direct spending in
excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal
year periods described in subsection (a).
(c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal in the Senate.--
(1) Waiver.--In the Senate, subsection (b) may be waived or
suspended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(2) Appeal.--In the Senate, an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required
to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of
order raised under subsection (b).
(d) Limitation.--The provisions of this section shall not apply to--
(1) in the Senate, any bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, conference reports, or motions
for which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
Senate has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or
limits contained in this concurrent resolution pursuant to
section 4303(1); and
(2) in the House of Representatives, any bills or joint
resolutions, or amendments thereto or conference reports
thereon, for which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of House of Representatives has made adjustments to the
allocations, levels, or limits contained in this concurrent
resolution pursuant to section 4501, 4502, or 4503.
(e) Determinations of Budget Levels.--For purposes of this section--
(1) the levels of net increases in deficits shall be
determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee
on the Budget of the Senate; and
(2) the levels of net increases in direct spending shall be
determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee
on the Budget of the House of Representatives.
(f) Repeal in the Senate.--In the Senate, section 311 of S. Con.
Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for
fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply.

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(g) Sunset in the House of Representatives.--In the House of
Representatives, this section shall remain in effect through September
30, 2017.

SEC. 3102. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON
TERRORISM.

(a) Separate Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism
Allocation.--In the Senate and the House of Representatives, there shall
be a separate allocation of new budget authority and outlays provided to
the Committee on Appropriations for the purposes of Overseas Contingency
Operations/Global War on Terrorism, which shall be deemed an allocation
under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
633(a)). Section 302(a)(3) of such Act shall not apply to such separate
allocation.
(b) 302 Allocations.--The separate allocation referred to in
subsection (a) shall be the exclusive allocation for Overseas
Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism under section 302(b) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(b)). The Committee on
Appropriations of the applicable House of Congress may provide
suballocations of such separate allocation under such section 302(b).
(c) Application.--
(1) In general.--For purposes of enforcing the separate
allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(f)), the
``first fiscal year'' and the ``total of fiscal years'' shall be
deemed to refer to fiscal year 2016. Section 302(c) of such Act
(2 U.S.C. 633(c)) shall not apply to such separate allocation.
(2) Additional senate enforcement.--In the Senate, section
302(f)(2)(A) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
633(f)(2)(A)) shall apply with respect to the separate
allocation to the Committee on Appropriations referred to in
subsection (a).
(d) Designations.--New budget authority or outlays shall only be
counted toward the allocation referred to in subsection (a) if they are
designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C.
901(b)(2)(B)(A)(ii)).
(e) Adjustments.--For purposes of subsection (a) for fiscal year
2016, no adjustment shall be made under section 314(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any adjustment would be made under
section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(B)(A)(ii)).
(f) Adjustments To Fund Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War
on Terrorism.--The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
applicable House of Congress may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and
other appropriate budgetary levels related to Overseas Contingency
Operations/Global War on Terrorism or the allocation under section
302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the
Committee on Appropriations set forth in the joint statement of managers
accompanying this concurrent resolution to account for new information.

SEC. 3103. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST CERTAIN CHANGES IN MANDATORY PROGRAMS.

(a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``CHIMP'' means a
provision that--

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(1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending
or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 902) (as in
effect prior to September 30, 2002) if the provision was
included in legislation other than appropriation Acts; and
(2) results in a net decrease in budget authority in the
budget year, but does not result in a net decrease in outlays
over the period of the total of the current year, the budget
year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently
adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.
(b) Points of Order.--
(1) In the senate.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for
a full fiscal year, or an amendment thereto, amendment between
the Houses in relation thereto, conference report thereon, or
motion thereon, that includes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would
cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all
such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more
than the amount specified in paragraph (3).
(2) In the house of representatives.--
(A) In general.--A provision in a bill or joint
resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal year
that proposes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the
absolute value of the total budget authority of all such
CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be
more than the amount specified in paragraph (3), shall
not be in order in the House of Representatives.
(B) Amendments and conference reports.--It shall not
be in order in the House of Representatives to consider
an amendment to, or a conference report on, a bill or
joint resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal
year if such amendment thereto or conference report
thereon proposes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause
the absolute value of the total budget authority of all
such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to
be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3).
(3) Amount.--The amount specified in this paragraph is--
(A) for fiscal year 2016, $19,100,000,000;
(B) for fiscal year 2017, $19,100,000,000;
(C) for fiscal year 2018, $17,000,000,000; and
(D) for fiscal year 2019, $15,000,000,000.
(c) Determination.--For purposes of this section, budgetary levels
shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Chairman
of the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress.
(d) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal in the Senate.--In the Senate,
subsection (b) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of
three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote
of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn,
shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a
point of order raised under subsection (b).
(e) Repeal.--In the Senate, section 314 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009,
shall no longer apply.

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SEC. 3104. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST PROVISIONS THAT CONSTITUTE CHANGES IN
MANDATORY PROGRAMS AFFECTING THE CRIME VICTIMS FUND.

(a) Definition.--In this section--
(1) the term ``CHIMP'' has the meaning given such term in
section 3103(a); and
(2) the term ``Crime Victims Fund'' means the Crime Victims
Fund established under section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act
of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601).
(b) Point of Order in the Senate.--
(1) In general.--When the Senate is considering a bill or
joint resolution making full-year appropriations for fiscal year
2016, or an amendment thereto, amendment between the Houses in
relation thereto, conference report thereon, or motion thereon,
if a point of order is made by a Senator against a provision
containing a CHIMP affecting the Crime Victims Fund that, if
enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget
authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund in
relation to fiscal year 2016 to be more than $10,800,000,000,
and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, that provision
shall be stricken from the measure and may not be offered as an
amendment from the floor.
(2) Form of the point of order.--A point of order under
paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section
313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
644(e)).
(3) Conference reports.--When the Senate is considering a
conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in
relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order
being made by any Senator pursuant to paragraph (1), and such
point of order being sustained, such material contained in such
conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the
Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the
Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further
amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further
amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall
consist of only that portion of the conference report or House
amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion
in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such
point of order is sustained against a conference report (or
Senate amendment derived from such conference report by
operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in
order.
(4) Supermajority waiver and appeal.--In the Senate, this
subsection may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chose and sworn. An
affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal of the
ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this
subsection.
(5) Determination.--For purposes of this subsection,
budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates
provided by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
Senate.
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(1) In general.--A provision in a bill or joint resolution
making full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that
proposes a CHIMP affecting the Crime Victims Fund that, if
enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget
authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund in
relation to fiscal year 2016 to be more than $10,800,000,000,
shall not be in order in the House of Representatives.
(2) Amendments and conference reports.--It shall not be in
order in the House of Representatives to consider an amendment
to, or a conference report on, a bill or joint resolution making
full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2016 if such amendment
thereto or conference report thereon proposes a CHIMP affecting
the Crime Victims Fund that, if enacted, would cause the
absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs
affecting the Crime Victims Fund in relation to fiscal year 2016
to be more than $10,800,000,000.
(3) Determination.--For purposes of this subsection,
budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates
provided by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives.
(d) Review of Procedures Regarding CHIMPs.--The Committee on the
Budget and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the
Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives shall review existing budget enforcement procedures
regarding CHIMPs included in appropriations legislation. These
committees of jurisdiction should consult with other relevant committees
of jurisdiction and other interested parties to review such procedures,
including for Crime Victims Fund spending, and include any agreed upon
recommendations in subsequent concurrent resolutions on the budget.

SEC. 3105. FAIR-VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES.

(a) Fair-value Estimates.--Upon the request of the Chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee
on the Budget of the House of Representatives, any estimate prepared by
the Congressional Budget Office under title V of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.) of the cost of a measure shall
include, when practicable, an additional estimate of the cost, measured
on a fair-value basis--
(1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon.
(b) Estimates for Housing and Student Loan Programs.--Any estimate
prepared by the Congressional Budget Office under title V of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.) of the cost of a
provision in a measure relating to a housing, residential mortgage, or
student loan program shall include an additional estimate of the cost,
measured on a fair-value basis--
(1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon.
(c) Enforcement in the House of Representatives.--If the Director of
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pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the Chairman of the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives may use such estimate to
determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
621 et seq.) and other budgetary enforcement controls.

SEC. 3106. SCORING RULE FOR CURRENCY MODERNIZATION.

In the Senate and the House of Representatives, for purposes of
determining points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
(2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any
provision contained in a measure relating to a transition from the $1
note to a $1 coin shall--
(1) in the Senate, for each bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion--
(A) record the changes in budget authority, outlays,
and revenues of the provision in the first year in which
the provision takes effect;
(B) determine the changes in budget authority,
outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net
present value estimate of the changes in budget
authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a
30-year period; and
(C) incorporate the changes in budget authority,
outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral
changes; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for each bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon--
(A) record the changes in budget authority, outlays,
and revenues of the provision in the first year in which
the provision takes effect;
(B) determine the changes in budget authority,
outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net
present value estimate of the changes in budget
authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a
30-year period; and
(C) incorporate the changes in budget authority,
outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral
changes.

SEC. 3107. LONG-TERM SCORING OF CHANGES IN SPENDING LIMITS AND EXTENSION
OF HIGHWAY PROGRAMS.

(a) Scoring of Legislation Increasing the Discretionary Spending
Limits.--Any estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office shall
provide, in addition to such estimate, an estimate of the changes in
budget authority, outlays, and revenues under the legislation over the
period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045--
(1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion that increases the discretionary spending limits under
section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)); and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon,
that increases the discretionary spending limits under section
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)).
(b) Scoring of Legislation Relating to the Highway Trust Fund.--Any
estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office

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shall provide, in addition to such estimate, an estimate of the changes
in budget authority, outlays, and revenues under the legislation over
the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045--
(1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion that transfers amounts from the general fund of the
Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon,
that transfers amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to
the Highway Trust Fund.

SEC. 3108. REQUIRING CLEARER REPORTING OF PROJECTED FEDERAL SPENDING AND
DEFICITS.

When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to
the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall
provide a projection of Federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the
30-year period beginning with the budget year, expressed in terms of
dollars and as a percent of gross domestic product, as part of its
annual update required under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 621 et seq.).

SEC. 3109. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES OF MEASURES WITH
SIGNIFICANT OUTLAY EFFECTS.

The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the extent
practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes during the second and
third decade of enactment for any spending legislative provision--
(1) which proposes a change or changes to law that the
Congressional Budget Office determines has an outlay impact in
excess of 0.25 percent of the gross domestic product of the
United States during the first decade or in the tenth year; or
(2) with respect to which the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives has requested such an
estimate.

SEC. 3110. PROHIBITING THE USE OF GUARANTEE FEES AS AN OFFSET.

In the Senate and the House of Representatives, for purposes of
determining points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
(2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any
provision that increases, or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees
of the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation shall not be counted in estimating the level of
budget authority, outlays, or revenues--
(1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or
motion; and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon.

SEC. 3111. INFORMATION FOR CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT PROJECTED
FEDERAL OUTLAYS, REVENUES, AND DEFICITS.

As part of the annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook
required under section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of

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1974 (2 U.S.C. 602(e)), and at any other time the Congressional Budget
Office releases projections of Federal deficits over any term of years,
the Congressional Budget Office shall publish with its projection a 1-
page statement--
(1) summarizing and categorizing total outlays, receipts,
surpluses, and deficits of the Federal Government on a unified
basis for that same prospective time period; and
(2) categorizing and subtotaling separately--
(A) outlays for mandatory programs and for
discretionary programs;
(B) outlays, payroll tax revenue, and offsetting
receipts for Social Security and for Medicare;
(C) the surplus or deficit of revenues over outlays
for Social Security and for Medicare; and
(D) revenues.

SEC. 3112. HONEST ACCOUNTING: COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR LEGISLATION TO
INCORPORATE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS.

(a) CBO and JCT Estimates.--During the 114th Congress, any estimate
provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) or by the Joint
Committee on Taxation to the Congressional Budget Office under section
201(f) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 601(f)) for major legislation considered in
the House of Representatives or the Senate shall, to the greatest extent
practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic
output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables
resulting from such major legislation.
(b) Contents.--Any estimate referred to in subsection (a) shall, to
the extent practicable, include--
(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects
(including macroeconomic variables described in subsection (a))
of the major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning
after the last fiscal year of the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget that sets forth budgetary
levels required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632); and
(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the
source of data underlying that estimate.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Major legislation.--The term ``major legislation''
means--
(A) in the Senate, a bill, joint resolution,
conference report, amendment, amendment between the
Houses, or treaty--
(i) for which an estimate is required to be
prepared pursuant to section 402 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653)
and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before
incorporating macroeconomic effects and not
including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the
period of years of the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or
greater than--
(I) 0.25 percent of the current
projected gross domestic product of the
United States for that fiscal year; or

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(II) for a treaty, equal to or
greater than $15,000,000,000 for that
fiscal year; or
(ii) designated as such by--
(I) the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget of the Senate for all direct
spending and revenue legislation; or
(II) the Senator who is Chairman or
Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on
Taxation for revenue legislation; and
(B) in the House of Representatives, a bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report
thereon--
(i) for which an estimate is required to be
prepared pursuant to section 402 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653)
and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before
incorporating macroeconomic effects and not
including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the
period of years of the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or
greater than 0.25 percent of the current projected
gross domestic product of the United States for
that fiscal year; or
(ii) designated as such by--
(I) the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget of the House of
Representatives for all direct spending
and revenue legislation; or
(II) the Member who is Chairman or
Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on
Taxation for revenue legislation.
(2) Budgetary effects.--The term ``budgetary effects'' means
changes in revenues, direct spending outlays, and deficits.
(3) Timing shifts.--The term ``timing shifts'' means--
(A) provisions that cause a delay of the date on
which outlays flowing from direct spending would
otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal
year; or
(B) provisions that cause an acceleration of the
date on which revenues would otherwise occur from one
fiscal year to the prior fiscal year.

Subtitle B--Budget Enforcement in the Senate

SEC. 3201. EXTENSION OF ENFORCEMENT OF BUDGETARY POINTS OF ORDER IN THE
SENATE.

(a) Extension of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 Points of Order.--
(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any provision of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.),
subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) of section 904 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) shall
remain in effect for purposes of Senate enforcement through
September 30, 2025.
(2) Repeal.--In the Senate, section 205 of S. Con. Res. 21
(110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for
fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply.

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(b) Other Points of Order.--
(1) Pay-As-You-Go.--Section 201(d) of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2008, is repealed.
(2) Short-term deficits.--Section 404(e) of S. Con. Res. 13
(111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for
fiscal year 2010, is repealed.

SEC. 3202. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE SENATE.

(a) In General.--
(1) Point of order.--Except as provided in subsection (b),
it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill,
joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the
Houses, or conference report that would provide an advance
appropriation for a discretionary account.
(2) Definition.--In this section, the term ``advance
appropriation'' means any new budget authority provided in a
bill or joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal year
2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after
2016, or any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint
resolution making general appropriations or continuing
appropriations for fiscal year 2017, that first becomes
available for any fiscal year after 2017.
(b) Exceptions.--Advance appropriations may be provided--
(1) for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for programs, projects,
activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory
statement of managers accompanying this concurrent resolution
under the heading ``Accounts Identified for Advance
Appropriations'' in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$28,852,000,000 in new budget authority in each fiscal year;
(2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and
(3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical
Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities
accounts of the Veterans Health Administration.
(c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
(1) Waiver.--In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required
to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of
order raised under subsection (a).
(d) Form of Point of Order.--A point of order under subsection (a)
may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 644(e)).
(e) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a conference
report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or
joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator
pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such
material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be
stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of
whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a
further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further
amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of
only that portion of the conference report or House amendment,

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as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall
be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained
against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such
conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment
shall be in order.

SEC. 3203. SUPERMAJORITY ENFORCEMENT OF UNFUNDED MANDATES IN THE SENATE.

Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 658d(a)) shall be subject to the waiver and appeal
requirements of subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3), respectively, of section
904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note).

SEC. 3204. REPEAL OF SENATE POINT OF ORDER AGAINST CERTAIN
RECONCILIATION LEGISLATION.

Section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply in
the Senate.

SEC. 3205. PROHIBITION ON AGREEING TO LEGISLATION WITHOUT A SCORE IN THE
SENATE.

(a) In General.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order to vote on
passage of matter that requires an estimate under section 402 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653), unless such estimate
was made publicly available on the website of the Congressional Budget
Office not later than 28 hours before the time the vote commences.
(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
(1) Waiver.--In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required
to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of
order raised under subsection (a).

SEC. 3206. PROTECTING THE SAVINGS IN REPORTED RECONCILIATION BILLS IN
THE SENATE.

In the Senate, section 310(d)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 (2 U.S.C. 641(d)(1)) shall apply and may be waived in accordance
with the procedures applicable to a point of order raised under section
310(d)(2) of such Act.

SEC. 3207. SCORING RULE FOR CERTAIN ENERGY CONTRACTS IN THE SENATE.

(a) Estimates.--In the Senate, for purposes of determining points of
order established under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
621 et seq.) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any estimate by
the Congressional Budget Office of a provision in a bill, joint
resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the
Houses that directly or indirectly modifies the use of the authority to
enter covered energy savings contracts shall--
(1) record in the first year in which the provision would
become effective, the changes in budget authority, outlays, and
revenues (as estimated in accordance with paragraph (2)) of

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any modifications to the use of the authority to enter the
covered energy savings contracts;
(2) in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays,
and revenues of the legislation, calculate the costs and savings
arising from covered energy savings contracts, including
required payments under the covered energy savings contracts,
anticipated savings from reductions in energy use, and other
anticipated costs and reductions in spending associated with the
covered energy savings contracts, on a net present value basis;
and
(3) classify the effects of the provision to be changes in
spending subject to the availability of appropriations.
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in subsection (a) shall be
construed to modify the methodology for estimating the changes in budget
authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision that--
(1) does not relate to covered energy savings contracts in a
bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or
amendment between the Houses that contains a provision described
in subsection (a); or
(2) provides appropriations.
(c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``covered energy savings
contract'' means--
(1) an energy savings performance contract authorized under
section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42
U.S.C. 8287); and
(2) a utility energy service contract, as described in the
Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Federal use of
energy savings performance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 (M-
98-13), and the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on
the Federal use of energy saving performance contracts and
utility energy service contracts, dated September 28, 2012 (M-
12-21), or any successor to either memorandum.

SEC. 3208. ADJUSTMENT FOR WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION FUNDING IN THE SENATE.

If a measure becomes law that amends the adjustments to
discretionary spending limits established under section 251(b) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C.
901(b)) for wildfire suppression funding, which may include criteria for
making such an adjustment, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of the Senate may adjust the allocation called for in section 302(a) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the
appropriate committee or committees of the Senate, and may adjust all
other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained in
this concurrent resolution, as necessary, consistent with such measure.

Subtitle C--Budget Enforcement in the House of Representatives

SEC. 3301. LIMITATION ON MEASURES AFFECTING SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(a) In General.--For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent
resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 2016, it
shall not be in order to consider in the House of Representatives a bill
or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference

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report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least 0.01
percent of the present value of future taxable payroll of the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund established under section
201(a) of the Social Security Act for the 75-year period utilized in the
most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to
section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act.
(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to a measure that
would improve the actuarial balance of the combined balance in the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal
Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the 75-year period utilized in the
most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to
section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act.

SEC. 3302. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF THE TREASURY
TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

In the House of Representatives, for purposes of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.), the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.), and the
rules or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint
resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that
transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway
Trust Fund, amounts transferred shall be counted as new budget authority
and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the
transfer occurs.

SEC. 3303. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF BUDGETARY RESOURCES IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(a) Adjustments of Discretionary and Direct Spending Levels.--In the
House of Representatives, if a committee (other than the Committee on
Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment
thereto is offered or any conference report thereon is submitted,
providing for a decrease in direct spending (budget authority and
outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year and also provides for an
authorization of appropriations for the same purpose, upon the enactment
of such measure, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives may decrease the allocation to such committee
and increase the allocation of discretionary spending (budget authority
and outlays flowing therefrom) to the Committee on Appropriations for
fiscal year 2016 by an amount equal to the new budget authority (and
outlays flowing therefrom) provided for in a bill or joint resolution
making appropriations for the same purpose.
(b) Determinations.--In the House of Representatives, for the
purpose of enforcing this concurrent resolution, the allocations and
aggregate levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new
entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for fiscal year
2016 and the period of fiscal years 2016 through fiscal year 2025 shall
be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives and such
Chairman may adjust applicable levels of this concurrent resolution.

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SEC. 3304. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.

(a) In General.--In the House of Representatives, except as provided
for in subsection (b), any bill or joint resolution, or amendment
thereto or conference report thereon, making a general appropriation or
continuing appropriation may not provide for advance appropriations.
(b) Exceptions.--An advance appropriation may be provided for
programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report to
accompany this concurrent resolution or the joint explanatory statement
of managers to accompany this concurrent resolution under the heading--
(1) General.--``Accounts Identified for Advance
Appropriations''.
(2) Veterans.--``Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance
Appropriations''.
(c) Limitations.--The aggregate level of advance appropriations
shall not exceed--
(1) General.--$28,852,000,000 in new budget authority for
all programs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
(2) Veterans.--$63,271,000,000 in new budget authority for
programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified
pursuant to subsection (b)(2).
(d) Definition.--The term ``advance appropriation'' means any new
discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution,
or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making general
appropriations or continuing appropriations, for the fiscal year
following fiscal year 2016.

SEC. 3305. CERTAIN ENERGY CONTRACTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House of Representatives shall assess the implementation of
section 3207 of this concurrent resolution through a collaborative
assessment with the Senate and the Congressional Budget Office of the
appropriate scorekeeping methodology for evaluating the budgetary
effects of energy savings performance contracts authorized under section
801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8287).

Subtitle D--Other Provisions

SEC. 3401. SUBMISSION OF FINDINGS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD,
AND ABUSE.

(a) In General.--In the Senate and the House of Representatives, all
committees are directed to review programs within their jurisdiction to
identify waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication, and increase the use of
performance data to inform committee work.
(b) Review.--Committees are also directed to review the applicable
matters for congressional consideration identified in the Office of
Inspector General semiannual reports and the Office of Inspector
General's list of unimplemented recommendations and on the Government
Accountability Office's High Risk list and the annual report to reduce
program duplication.
(c) Report.--After completing the oversight and performance reviews
of programs within their jurisdiction under subsections (a) and (b), the
committees are directed to include recommendations

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for improved governmental performance in their annual views and
estimates reports submitted by the committees to the Committees on the
Budget of the applicable House of Congress under section 301(d) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(d)).

SEC. 3402. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)(1)), section 13301 of
the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 632 note), and section
2009a of title 39, United States Code, the report accompanying this
concurrent resolution on the budget or the joint explanatory statement
accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the
budget shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations of
the applicable House of Congress amounts for the discretionary
administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the
United States Postal Service.
(b) Special Rule.--In the Senate and the House of Representatives,
for purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(f)), estimates of the level of total new
budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure shall include
any discretionary amounts described in subsection (a).

SEC. 3403. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS AND
AGGREGATES.

(a) Application.--Any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made
pursuant to this concurrent resolution shall--
(1) apply while that measure is under consideration;
(2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and
(3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as
practicable.
(b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates.--Revised
allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments shall be
considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 621 et seq.) as allocations and aggregates contained in this
concurrent resolution.
(c) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this
concurrent resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays,
direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and
surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be
determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget
of the applicable House of Congress.
(d) Aggregates, Allocations and Application.--In the House of
Representatives, for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget
enforcement, the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or
amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the Chairman
of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives makes
adjustments or revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other
budgetary levels of this concurrent resolution shall not be subject to
the points of order set forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives or section 3101 of this concurrent
resolution.

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SEC. 3404. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS.

Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing for a
change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the Committee on the
Budget of the applicable House of Congress may make adjustments to the
levels and allocations in this concurrent resolution in accordance with
section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)).

SEC. 3405. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.

Congress adopts the provisions of this title--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and
the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they
shall be considered as part of the rules of each House or of
that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules
shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are
inconsistent with such other rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
either the Senate or the House of Representatives to change
those rules (insofar as they relate to that House) at any time,
in the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any
other rule of the Senate or House of Representatives.

TITLE IV--RESERVE FUNDS

Subtitle A--Reserve Funds in Both Houses

SEC. 4101. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE POVERTY AND INCREASE
OPPORTUNITY AND UPWARD MOBILITY FOR STRUGGLING AMERICANS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate and the
Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and
other appropriate levels in this resolution--
(1) in the Senate, for one or more bills, joint resolutions,
amendments, amendments between the Houses, conference reports,
or motions relating to programs or policies designed to reduce
poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for
struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial
independence by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would neither
adversely impact job creation nor increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020
or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025;
and
(2) in the House of Representatives, for one or more bills,
joint resolutions, amendments, or conference reports relating to
programs or policies designed to reduce poverty and increase
opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans on the
road to personal and financial independence by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would neither adversely impact job creation nor
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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Subtitle B--Reserve Funds in the Senate

SEC. 4301. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INCREASE THE PACE OF
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PRIVATE SECTOR JOB CREATION IN THE
UNITED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) growing the economy;
(2) lowering the after-tax costs of investment, savings, and
work;
(3) reducing the costs to business and individuals from the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(4) reducing the costs borne by economic activity in the
United States stemming from Federal regulations, including the
costs incurred by individuals in complying with Federal law when
starting a business;
(5) reducing the costs of frivolous lawsuits;
(6) creating a more competitive financial sector to support
economic growth and job creation while enhancing the credit
worthiness of lending institutions; or
(7) improving the ability of policy makers to estimate the
economic effects of policy change through the enhanced use of
economic models and data in scoring legislation;

without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4302. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S
PRIORITIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to enhanced funding for national security or
domestic discretionary programs by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4303. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROTECT FLEXIBLE AND
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE CHOICES FOR ALL.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution, and make adjustments to the pay-
as-you-go ledger that are deficit-neutral over 11 years, for one or more
bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses,
motions, or conference reports relating to--
(1) full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 119) and the health

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care related provisions of the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152; 124 Stat. 1029);
or
(2) replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 119) or the health care related
provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
of 2010 (Public Law 111-152; 124 Stat. 1029);

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4304. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR IMPROVING ACCESS TO THE
STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving access to affordable health
care for low-income children, including the State Children's Health
Insurance Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that
purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4305. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR OTHER HEALTH REFORMS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) the requirement to individually purchase, or jointly
provide, health insurance;
(2) extending expiring health care provisions;
(3) the September 11th terrorism attacks at the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville Crash site, which may
include legislation that extends medical monitoring and
treatment services and compensation for first responders,
survivors, and their families;
(4) improvements in medical research, innovation and safety;
or
(5) strengthening program integrity initiatives to reduce
fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal health care programs;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4306. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD WELFARE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) child nutrition programs;

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(2) replacing ineffective policies and programs with
evidence-based alternative that improve the welfare of
vulnerable children; or
(3) policies that protect children from sexual predators in
our schools or communities;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4307. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR VETERANS AND SERVICEMEMBERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the improvement of the delivery of
benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers by the amounts
provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4308. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TAX REFORM AND
ADMINISTRATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) reforming the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(2) amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend
certain expiring tax relief provisions;
(3) innovation and high quality manufacturing jobs,
including the repeal of the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical
device manufacturers; or
(4) operations and administration of the Department of the
Treasury;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4309. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INVEST IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE
IN AMERICA.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Federal investment in the infrastructure
of the United States, including programs that expedite the deployment of
broadband to rural areas by the amounts provided in such legislation for
that purpose, provided that such legislation shall not include transfers
from other trust funds but may include transfers from the general fund
of the Treasury that are offset, provided further that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total

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of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4310. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AIR TRANSPORTATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Federal spending on civil air traffic
control services, which may include air traffic management at airport
towers across the United States or at facilities of the Federal Aviation
Administration, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that
purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4311. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE JOBS IN THE UNITED
STATES THROUGH INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) suspending or reducing tariffs on miscellaneous imports;
(2) reauthorization of trade related Federal agencies;
(3) implementing international trade agreements;
(4) reauthorizing or extending trade adjustment assistance
programs;
(5) reauthorizing preference programs; or
(6) enhancing the protection of United States intellectual
property rights at the border and abroad;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4312. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISABLED WORKERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the administration of disability benefits
and the improved employment of disabled workers by the amounts provided
in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4313. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACT REFORM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports that amend the Higher

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Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) by the amounts provided
in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4314. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ENERGY LEGISLATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) reform of the management of civilian and defense nuclear
waste;
(2) reform and reauthorization of programs at the Department
of Energy related to research and development of alternative or
renewable forms of energy, fossil fuel exploration and use,
clean coal technologies (including carbon capture and
sequestration), nuclear energy, or the electricity grid;
(3) expansion of North American energy production; or
(4) reform of the permitting and siting processes for energy
infrastructure;

without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4315. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REFORM ENVIRONMENTAL
STATUTES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to reform of environmental statutes to
promote job growth by the amounts provided in such legislation for that
purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4316. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR WATER RESOURCES
LEGISLATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving flood control, expanding
opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental
restoration of the nation's waterways, assisting the States in carrying
out drought prevention plans, strengthening waterborne commerce in the
Nation's ports and harbors, or relating to the authority of the
Secretary of the Interior to designate funds for rural water projects
and Indian irrigation and water settlement projects, without raising new
revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either

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the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4317. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND ON MINERAL SECURITY AND MINERAL
RIGHTS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) reducing reliance on mineral imports; or
(2) the authority to deduct certain amounts from mineral
revenues payable to States;

without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4318. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REFORM THE ABANDONED MINE
LANDS PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.) without raising new
revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4319. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE FOREST HEALTH.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) increasing timber production from Federal lands and
providing bridge funding to counties and other units of local
government until timber production levels increase;
(2) decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads;
(3) improving stewardship contracting; or
(4) reform of the process of budgeting for wildfire
suppression operations;

without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4320. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REAUTHORIZE FUNDING FOR
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES TO COUNTIES AND OTHER UNITS OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates,

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and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills,
joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions,
or conference reports relating to Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT),
which may include funding the payments in lieu of taxes program at
levels roughly equivalent to lost tax revenues due to the presence of
Federal land without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in
such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would
not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4321. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FINANCIAL REGULATORY SYSTEM
REFORM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to regulatory relief for small financial
firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory
framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal
Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without
raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4322. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE FEDERAL PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving the processing of earnings
reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security
Disability Insurance programs by the amounts provided in such
legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4323. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPLEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH
FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the implementation of agreements between
the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free
Association without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

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SEC. 4324. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROTECT PAYMENTS TO RURAL
HOSPITALS AND CREATE SUSTAINABLE ACCESS FOR RURAL
COMMUNITIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals
and creating sustainable access for rural communities without raising
new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4325. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ENCOURAGE STATE MEDICAID
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE INDEPENDENT LIVING AND
INTEGRATED WORK FOR THE DISABLED.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to encouraging State Medicaid demonstration
programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the
disabled without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4326. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ALLOW PHARMACISTS TO BE PAID
FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES UNDER MEDICARE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision
of services under Medicare without raising new revenue, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4327. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE OUR NATION'S
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to supporting and improving community health
centers without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

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SEC. 4328. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE FUNDING OF
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES, WHICH MAY INCLUDE SUBJECTING THE
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU TO THE REGULAR
APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the funding of independent agencies,
which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to
the regular appropriations process without raising new revenue, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4329. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REFORM, IMPROVE, AND ENHANCE
529 COLLEGE SAVINGS PLANS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to reforms, improvements, and enhancements
of 529 college savings plans by the amounts provided in such legislation
for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4330. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SECURING OVERSEAS
DIPLOMATIC FACILITIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic
facilities of the United States by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4331. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO EXPANDING,
ENHANCING, OR OTHERWISE IMPROVING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise
improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016

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through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4332. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROMOTING
MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in
the United States, which may include educational or research and
development initiatives, public-private partnerships, or other programs,
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4333. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROHIBIT ALIENS WITHOUT
LEGAL STATUS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM QUALIFYING FOR A
REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to benefits for aliens without legal status
in the United States, which may include prohibiting qualification for
certain tax benefits without raising new revenue, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4334. DEFICIT-REDUCTION RESERVE FUND FOR REPORT ELIMINATION OR
MODIFICATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports that achieve savings through the elimination,
modification, or the reduction in frequency of congressionally mandated
reports from Federal agencies, and reduce the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. The Chairman may also make
adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure
that the deficit reduction achieved is used for deficit reduction only.
The adjustments authorized under this section shall be of the amount of
deficit reduction achieved.

SEC. 4335. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ADDRESS HEROIN,
METHAMPHETAMINE, AND PRESCRIPTION OPIOID ABUSE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to addressing efforts

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to combat heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse by the
amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4336. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO STRENGTHEN OUR DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE CIVILIAN WORKFORCE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to strengthening our civilian workforce by
the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of
either the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4337. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
REFORM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving Department of Defense financial
management, which may include achieving full auditability or eliminating
waste, fraud, and abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4338. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE FEDERAL WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT, JOB TRAINING, AND REEMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to reducing inefficient overlap, improving
access, and enhancing outcomes with Federal workforce development, job
training, and reemployment programs by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4339. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROVIDE ENERGY ASSISTANCE AND
INVEST IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--

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(1) energy efficiency, which may include weatherization and
energy efficiency retrofit programs for low-income individuals;
(2) the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which may
include seasonal assistance and crisis fuel assistance to low-
income individuals;
(3) Federal programs for land and water conservation,
including the Land and Water Conservation Fund; or
(4) the reduction of duplicative Federal green building
programs;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4340. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO END OPERATION CHOKE POINT AND
PROTECT THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Department of Justice, which may
include ending the Operation Choke Point program, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4341. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PREVENT THE USE OF FEDERAL
FUNDS FOR THE BAILOUT OF IMPROVIDENT STATE AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to a prohibition, except in the case of
Federal assistance provided in response to a natural disaster, on any
entity of the Federal Government providing funds to State and local
governments to prevent receivership or to facilitate exit from
receivership or to prevent default on its obligations by a State
government by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4342. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES AND
LOWER THE COSTS OF CARING FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX CHILDREN IN
MEDICAID.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving the health outcomes and
lowering the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid,
which may include creating or expanding integrated delivery models or
improving care coordination, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes,

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provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4343. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE ACCESS,
CHOICE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN VETERANS CARE THROUGH THE
VETERANS CHOICE CARD PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to maintaining and enhancing access, choice,
and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card
program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4344. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROMOTING EQUAL PAY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to promoting equal pay, which may include
preventing discrimination on the basis of sex and preventing retaliation
against employees for seeking or discussing wage information, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4345. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO LEGISLATION
SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the
President of the United States to protect current beneficiaries of the
Social Security program and prevent the insolvency of the program by the
amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4346. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO A SIMPLIFIED INCOME-
DRIVEN STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT OPTION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more

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bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses,
motions, or conference reports relating to addressing student loan debt,
which may include reducing overlapping student loan repayment programs
and creating a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option,
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4347. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO KEEPING THE FEDERAL
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT FOCUSED ON THE PROTECTION OF
WATER QUALITY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to ensuring that Federal jurisdiction under
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is
focused on water quality, which may include limiting jurisdiction based
on the movement of birds, mammals, or insects through the air or over
the land, the movement of water through the ground, or the movement of
rainwater or snowmelt over the land, or limiting jurisdiction over
puddles, isolated ponds, roadside ditches, irrigation ditches,
stormwater systems, wastewater systems, or water delivery, reuse, or
reclamation systems, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new
revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4348. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SUPPORTING ISRAEL.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to United States policy toward Israel and
the prevention of anti-Semitism in Europe, which may include preventing
the United Nations and other international institutions, including human
rights organizations, from taking unfair or discriminatory action
against Israel, and supporting efforts to prevent anti-Semitism in
Europe, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4349. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO FAMILY AND MEDICAL
LEAVE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to efforts to improve workplace benefits and
reduce health care costs, which may include tax credits for employers
providing paid family and medical leave,

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by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4350. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING HEALTH
CARE TO VETERANS WHO HAVE GEOGRAPHIC INACCESSIBILITY TO
CARE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing health care to veterans who
reside more than 40 miles driving distance from the closest medical
facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides the care
sought by the veteran by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4351. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO INCREASING ACCESS TO
HIGHER EDUCATION FOR LOW-INCOME AMERICANS THROUGH THE
FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to increasing access to higher education for
low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program, which may
include allowing for 1 or more additional payment periods during the
same award year, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4352. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO TRANSPARENCY IN
HEALTH PREMIUM BILLING.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to increased disclosure of any Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) tax in health
insurance monthly premium statements by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4353. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO CARBON EMISSIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the

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Houses, motions, or conference reports related to carbon emissions,
which may include prohibitions on Federal taxes or fees imposed on
carbon emissions from any product or entity that is a direct or indirect
source of emissions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4354. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REQUIRING THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW STATES TO OPT OUT OF COMMON CORE
WITHOUT PENALTY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to prohibiting the Federal Government from
mandating, incentivizing, or coercing States to adopt the Common Core
State Standards or any other specific academic standards, instructional
content, curricula, assessments, or programs of instruction and allowing
States to opt out of the Common Core State Standards without penalty by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4355. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE DISPOSAL OF
CERTAIN FEDERAL LAND.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to initiatives to sell or transfer to, or
exchange with, a State or local government any Federal land that is not
within the boundaries of a National Park, National Preserve, or National
Monument by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4356. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROHIBITING FUNDING
OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE UNITED NATIONS ARMS TRADE TREATY PRIOR TO SENATE
RATIFICATION AND ADOPTION OF IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to funding, which may include prohibiting
funding for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat or any
international organizations created to

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support the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior
to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4357. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REIMPOSING WAIVED
SANCTIONS AND IMPOSING NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN FOR
VIOLATIONS OF THE JOINT PLAN OF ACTION OR A COMPREHENSIVE
NUCLEAR AGREEMENT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Iran, which may include efforts to
immediately reimpose waived sanctions and impose new sanctions against
the Government of Iran if the President cannot make a determination and
certify that Iran is complying with the Joint Plan of Action or a
comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4358. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SUPPORTING UNITED
STATES CITIZENS HELD HOSTAGE IN THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN
TEHRAN, IRAN, BETWEEN NOVEMBER 3, 1979, AND JANUARY 20,
1981.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to supporting citizens of the United States
held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between
November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4359. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REASONABLE
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PREGNANT WORKERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to efforts to increase employment
opportunities and prevent employment discrimination, which may include
measures to prevent employment discrimination against pregnant workers,
to provide pregnant workers with a right to workplace accommodations,
and to ensure that employers comply with requirements regarding such
workplace accommodations for pregnant workers, by the amounts provided
in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not

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increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4360. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE THE
FEDERAL ESTATE TAX.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to changes in the Federal income tax laws,
which may include eliminating the Federal estate tax, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4361. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REGULATION BY THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the regulation by the Environmental
Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions, which may include a
prohibition on withholding highway funds from States that refuse to
submit State Implementation Plans required under the Clean Power Plan of
the Agency, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4362. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROTECTING PRIVATELY
HELD WATER RIGHTS AND PERMITS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to protecting communities, businesses,
recreationists, farmers, ranchers, or other groups that rely on
privately held water rights and permits from Federal takings by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4363. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROHIBITING
AWARDING OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS BASED ON AWARDEES
ENTERING OR NOT ENTERING INTO AGREEMENTS WITH LABOR
ORGANIZATIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the

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Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition on the
awarding of construction contracts on behalf of the Government based
upon any solicitations, bid specifications, project agreements, or other
controlling documents that require or prohibit bidders, offerors,
contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to agreements
with one or more labor organizations or discriminate against or give
preference to such bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors
based on their entering or refusing to enter into such agreements by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4364. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PREVENT AMERICAN JOBS FROM
BEING MOVED OVERSEAS BY REDUCING THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX
RATE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to preventing American jobs from being moved
overseas, which may include a reduction in the corporate income tax
rate, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4365. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INCREASE WAGES FOR AMERICAN
WORKERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to reaffirming the ability of States to
adopt minimum wages higher than the Federal minimum wage level
commensurate with the cost of living in the State, which may include the
adoption of pro-employment and wage-increasing policies by providing
pro-growth tax relief and eliminating excessive government mandates, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4366. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DETERRING THE
MIGRATION OF UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN FROM EL SALVADOR,
GUATEMALA, AND HONDURAS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to deterring the attempted migration of
unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras into
the United States, which may include the expedited removal of unlawful
entrants from noncontiguous countries, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for

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those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4367. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING PROPER
ECONOMIC CONSIDERATION IN DESIGNATION OF CRITICAL HABITAT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to critical habitat designations, which may
include requirements that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
examine the cumulative economic effects of the designation, such as on
land or property uses or values, regional employment, or revenue impacts
on States and units of local government, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4368. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO END ``TOO BIG TO FAIL''
BAILOUTS FOR WALL STREET MEGA-BANKS (OVER $500 BILLION IN
TOTAL ASSETS).

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to any bank holding companies with over
$500,000,000,000 in total assets to better protect taxpayers, including
such measures as capital or leverage requirements, restrictions on the
growth, activities, or operations of a company, or divestiture of assets
or operations of any company that is unable to present a credible plan
to facilitate an orderly bankruptcy or resolution, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4369. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENDING WASHINGTON'S
ILLEGAL EXEMPTION FROM THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE
CARE ACT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that all
Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and all
political appointees of the Administration procure their health
insurance on the individual exchange in the same way as Americans at the
same income level by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4370. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO INCREASING FUNDING
FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN ISRAEL
FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to increasing funding for United States
embassies, which may include the relocation of the United States Embassy
in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4371. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROMOTING THE RETURN
OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN LEGALLY ADOPTED BY UNITED STATES
CITIZENS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to promoting the return of children who have
been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic
Republic of the Congo by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4372. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW
NUCLEAR-CAPABLE CRUISE MISSILE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AND THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the development of a new nuclear-capable
cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear
Security Administration by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4373. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROVIDE EQUITY IN THE TAX
TREATMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER DEATH BENEFITS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing tax equity for death benefits
paid to the families of public safety officers

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who lose their lives in the line of duty by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4374. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ELIMINATING THE
BACKLOG OF SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault
evidence kits, which may include auditing the hidden backlog of untested
sexual assault kits and ensuring that the collection and processing of
DNA evidence by law enforcement agencies from crimes is carried out in
an appropriate and timely manner, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4375. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO MIXED OXIDE FUEL
FABRICATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication by the
amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4376. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REFORMING OFFICES OF
INSPECTORS GENERAL AND PREVENTING EXTENDED VACANCIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to strengthening and reforming Federal
Offices of Inspectors General, reducing vacancies in such Offices, and
providing for improvements in the overall economy, efficiency, and
effectiveness of Inspectors General by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4377. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING RETIREMENT
SECURITY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more

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bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses,
motions, or conference reports relating to improving retirement security
by making it easier for small businesses to provide retirement plans for
their employees by easing the administrative burden and by encouraging
individuals to increase their savings by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4378. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVENESS
OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving basic science research and
development programs in the United States by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4379. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING THAT THE
CONSERVATION OF NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT POPULATIONS AND
LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARE COMPATIBLE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), which may include requirements that State
conservation plans relating to the northern long-eared bat are given
maximum flexibility to be successful so as to preserve and protect local
and rural economies before any Federal listing decision is made with
respect to the northern long-eared bat, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4380. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO IMPROVE CYBERSECURITY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to increased sharing of cybersecurity threat
information while protecting individual privacy and civil liberties
interests by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4381. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ALLOW THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO ENTER
INTO JOINT TASK FORCES WITH TRIBAL AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Drug Enforcement Administration and
Federal Bureau of Investigation entering into joint task forces with
tribal and local law enforcement agencies by the amounts provided in
such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would
not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4382. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENCOURAGING COST
SAVINGS IN OFFICE SPACE USED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to encouraging cost savings in office space
used by Federal agencies, which may include encouraging Federal agencies
to utilize office space unused by the Federal Government before
purchasing or renting additional space, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4383. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ASPIRING ENTREPRENEURS
THROUGH SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing technical assistance to small
businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development
centers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4384. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING THAT
MEDICAL FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
MEET THE NEEDS OF WOMEN VETERANS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to ensuring that

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medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs
of women veterans by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4385. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SUPPORTING EFFICIENT
RESOURCING FOR THE ASIA REBALANCE POLICY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing funding related to supporting
efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4386. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PREVENTING ACCESS TO
MARIJUANA EDIBLES BY CHILDREN IN STATES THAT HAVE
DECRIMINALIZED MARIJUANA.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to preventing access to edible marijuana
products by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4387. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING MORTGAGE
LENDING TO RURAL AREAS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4388. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF
ARCTIC POLAR ICEBREAKERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the construction of Arctic polar
icebreakers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not

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increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4389. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO RESEARCHING HEALTH
CONDITIONS OF THE DESCENDANTS OF VETERANS EXPOSED TO TOXIC
SUBSTANCES DURING SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to researching health conditions of the
descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in
the Armed Forces by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4390. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO RAISING THE FAMILY
OF FUNDS LIMIT OF THE SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY
PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Small Business Investment Company
Program of the Small Business Administration, which may include raising
the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company
Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4391. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DETECTION,
INVESTIGATION, AND PROSECUTION OF THE OWNERS AND OPERATORS
OF WEBSITES WHO KNOWINGLY ALLOW SUCH WEBSITES TO BE USED TO
ADVERTISE COMMERCIAL SEX WITH CHILDREN OVER THE INTERNET.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to online child sex trafficking, which may
include the detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and
operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to
advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4392. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROTECTING THE
RELIABILITY OF THE ELECTRICITY GRID.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to prohibiting the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or issuing
any regulation that would reduce the reliability of the electricity grid
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4393. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE OPEN
INTERNET.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to protecting the open Internet and
promoting further innovation and investment in Internet services,
content, infrastructure, and technologies by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4394. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REFORMING THE
FEDERAL REGULATORY PROCESS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to--
(1) creating an effective mechanism for the review of the
existing Federal regulatory burden to identify rules for repeal
or modification that--
(A) impose paperwork burdens that could be reduced
substantially without significantly diminishing
regulatory effectiveness;
(B) impose disproportionately high costs on small
businesses;
(C) could be strengthened in their effectiveness
while reducing regulatory costs;
(D) have been rendered obsolete by technological or
market changes;
(E) have achieved their goals and can be repealed
without target problems recurring;
(F) impose the greatest opportunity costs in terms
of economic growth;
(G) are ineffective;
(H) overlap, duplicate, or conflict with other
Federal regulations or with State or local regulations;
or
(I) impose costs that are not justified by benefits
produced for society within the United States;

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(2) reforming the process by which new regulations are made
by Federal agencies, including independent agencies, for the
purposes of--
(A) prioritizing early public outreach in the
rulemaking process;
(B) ensuring the use of the best available
scientific, economic, and technical data;
(C) preventing the misuse of guidance documents to
skirt public input;
(D) ensuring the use of best practices for
regulatory analysis, including cost-benefit analysis,
into each step of the rulemaking process;
(E) facilitating the adoption by Federal agencies of
the least costly regulatory alternative that would
achieve the goals of the statutory authorization;
(F) ensuring more careful consideration of proposed
high-cost rules;
(G) ensuring effective oversight of the Federal
regulatory program, including independent regulatory
commissions, by the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs;
(H) improving the consideration of adverse impacts
on small businesses;
(I) providing greater transparency in the rulemaking
process; and
(J) improving compliance with section 515 of the
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for
Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554; 114 Stat. 2736A-
153) (commonly known as the ``Information Quality
Act''), the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (2
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), and chapter 6 of title 5, United
States Code (commonly known as the ``Regulatory
Flexibility Act'');
(3) enhancing accountability by facilitating fair and
effective judicial review of agency actions; and
(4) ensuring that Congress can effectively exercise its
appropriate role in the regulatory process through legislation
and oversight;

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4395. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING COVERAGE
OF VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPIES AS A COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING
TEST UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing coverage of virtual
colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare
program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4396. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE MODERNIZATION OF
THE NUCLEAR COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATIONS
ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to modernizing the triad of strategic
nuclear delivery systems, the nuclear command and control system, and
the nuclear weapons stockpile, and supporting related infrastructure, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4397. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO BARDA AND THE
BIOSHIELD SPECIAL RESERVE FUND.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to strengthening our national security,
which may include fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4398. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING THE
NUCLEAR FORCES AND MISSIONS OF THE AIR FORCE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the nuclear force improvement program of
the Air Force by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4399. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROMOTING ECONOMIC
GROWTH AND JOB CREATION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND FULL
FUNDING FOR AT-SEA AND DOCKSIDE MONITORING FOR CERTAIN
FISHERIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to promoting economic growth and job
creation by making it easier for small businesses to plan their capital
investments and reducing the

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uncertainty of taxation, and supporting at-sea and dockside monitoring
for fisheries that have received economic disaster assistance, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4400. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports related to the employer penalties under the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), which may
include changes to the definition of ``full time employee'' under that
Act, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4401. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING THE
EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF THE FEDERAL REGULATORY
PROCESS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving the effectiveness and
efficiency of the Federal regulatory process by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4402. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO EXPEDITE AWARDS UNDER THE
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE WHISTLEBLOWER PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the processing of award submissions,
which may include the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4403. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENCOURAGING THE
INCREASED USE OF PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING IN FEDERAL
FACILITIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the

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Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging the
increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4404. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING
INFORMATION SHARING BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WITH RESPECT TO
INVESTIGATIONS RELATING TO SUBSTANDARD HEALTH CARE, DELAYED
AND DENIED HEALTH CARE, PATIENT DEATHS, OTHER FINDINGS THAT
DIRECTLY RELATE TO PATIENT CARE, AND OTHER MANAGEMENT ISSUES
OF THE DEPARTMENT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving information sharing by the
Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to
investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied
health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to
patient care, and other management issues of the Department by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that
such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period
of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4405. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ADDRESS THE DISPROPORTIONATE
REGULATORY BURDENS ON COMMUNITY BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to alleviating disproportionate regulatory
burdens on community banks and credit unions by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4406. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROTECT THE CORPORATION FOR
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the Corporation for National and
Community Service by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4407. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING THAT
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEYS COMPLY WITH DISCLOSURE
OBLIGATIONS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to ensuring that all Department of Justice
attorneys comply with all legal and ethical obligations in criminal
prosecutions, which may include legislation that ensures the disclosure
to the defendant in a timely manner of all information known to the
Government that tends to negate the guilt of the defendant, mitigate the
offense charged or the sentence imposed, or impeach the Government's
witnesses or evidence, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4408. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Federal investments in precision medicine
and biomedical research, which may include increasing funding to account
for inflation, to support finding ways to prevent, treat, and cure
diseases or conditions like Alzheimer's and other life-threatening or
chronic illnesses, and to provide long-term cost savings to the Federal
Government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4409. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING ACCESS TO
NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that
Medicare beneficiaries have access to equipment like eye tracking
accessories for speech generating devices and speech generating devices
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4410. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PRIORITIZING THE
CONSTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE OF NATIONAL
AND REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND PROJECTS IN HIGH PRIORITY
CORRIDORS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the prioritization of the Federal
investment in the infrastructure of the United States on projects that
are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority
corridors of the National Highway System by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4411. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENCOURAGING THE
UNITED STATES' NATO ALLIES TO REVERSE DECLINES IN DEFENSE
SPENDING AND BEAR A MORE PROPORTIONATE BURDEN FOR ENSURING
THE SECURITY OF NATO.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to encouraging the United States' NATO
allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more
proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the
total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4412. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE INVESTIGATION
AND RECOVERY OF MISSING WEAPONS AND MILITARY EQUIPMENT
PROVIDED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF YEMEN BY THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to the investigation and to the extent
practicable the recovery of missing weapons and military equipment
provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government to
ensure that such items are not in the possession of or used by radical
extremist groups operating in the country by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation
would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4413. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING HIGHER
EDUCATION DATA AND TRANSPARENCY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to improving higher education data and
transparency by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4414. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO NATIVE CHILDREN.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Native children or the construction of
Bureau of Indian Education schools, which may include replacement school
construction, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4415. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
FUNDING FOR INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to funding for international counter-
propaganda communications in order to combat misinformation, undermine
ideologies of violence and hatred, and ensure moderate voices are heard
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4416. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to reforming and strengthening elementary
and secondary education by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the
deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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SEC. 4417. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO SUPPORT RESEARCH.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to Federal investments in scientific
research and development, which may include supporting biomedical
research to find ways to prevent, treat, and cure diseases or conditions
like Alzheimer's and other life-threatening or chronic illnesses,
providing long-term cost savings to the Federal Government, and
supporting national security, basic energy research, innovative
solutions, and American competitiveness, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years
2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

SEC. 4418. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to providing support to the Government of
Ukraine, which may include the provision of lethal defensive articles,
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of
the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4419. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO UNDERGROUND AND
SURFACE MINING SAFETY RESEARCH.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to underground and surface mining safety
research by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4420. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO SAVING MEDICARE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise
the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other
appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint
resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or
conference reports relating to extending the life of the Federal
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which may include the creation of a point
of order against legislation that accelerates the insolvency of such
Trust Fund, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or
the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

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Subtitle C--Reserve Funds in the House of Representatives

SEC. 4501. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE
LAW.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any
bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that consists solely of the full repeal of the Affordable Care
Act and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

SEC. 4502. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROMOTING REAL HEALTH CARE
REFORM.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any
bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that promotes real health care reform, if such measure would
not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.

SEC. 4503. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO THE MEDICARE
PROVISIONS OF THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE LAW.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any
bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that repeals all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending
included in the Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such measure would not increase the
deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4504. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH
INSURANCE PROGRAM.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution,
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure
extends the State Children's Health Insurance Program, but only if such
measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years
2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4505. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution,
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure
reforms, expands access to, and improves, as determined by such
Chairman, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure
would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.

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SEC. 4506. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any
bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or
amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that implements a trade
agreement, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for
the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4507. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORMING THE TAX CODE.

In the House of Representatives, if the Committee on Ways and Means
reports a bill or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the
allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent
resolution for the budgetary effects of any such bill or joint
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such
measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years
2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4508. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any
bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or
amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that decreases revenue,
but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period
of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4509. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRANSPORTATION.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution,
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure
maintains the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, but only if such
measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years
2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4510. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution,
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure
reforms, improves and updates the Federal retirement system, as
determined by such Chairman, but only if such measure would not increase
the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

SEC. 4511. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE.

In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on
the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary
levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint

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resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such
measure supports the following activities: Department of Defense
training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, modernization
of equipment, auditability of financial statements, or military
compensation and benefit reforms, by the amount provided for these
purposes, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit
(without counting any net revenue increases in that measure) over the
period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.

TITLE V--ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEC. 5001. DIRECT SPENDING.

(a) Means-Tested Direct Spending.--
(1) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the
following:
(A) For means-tested direct spending, the average
rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the
10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 6.8
percent.
(B) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated
average rate of growth in the total level of outlays
during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year
2016 is 4.6 percent under current law.
(2) Proposed reforms.--The following reforms are proposed
under this concurrent resolution by the House of Representatives
for means-tested direct spending:
(A) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a Democratic
President reformed welfare by limiting the duration of
benefits, giving States more control over the program,
and helping recipients find work. In the 5 years
following passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare
caseloads fell, and workers' wages increased. This
budget assumes the enactment of proposals to reduce
poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for
struggling Americans on the road to personal and
financial independence. Based on the successful welfare
reforms of the 1990s, these proposals would improve work
requirements and provide flexible funding for States to
help those most in need find gainful employment, escape
poverty, and move up the economic ladder.
(B) For Medicaid, this budget is predicated on a
framework proposed by the chairmen of the committees of
jurisdiction of the House of Representatives and the
Senate, to modernize and improve the program while
increasing State flexibility and protecting the most
vulnerable populations. This budget also assumes the
repeal of the Medicaid expansions in the President's
health care law.
(b) Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending.--
(1) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the
following:
(A) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the average
rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the
10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 5.4
percent.

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(B) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the
estimated average rate of growth in the total level of
outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal
year 2016 is 5.5 percent under current law.
(2) Medicare reforms.--For Medicare, this budget advances
policies to put seniors, not the Federal Government, in control
of their health care decisions. Putting seniors in charge of how
their health care dollars are spent will encourage providers to
compete against each other on price and quality. Improvements to
Medicare are necessary to extend the life of the Federal
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and protect the program for future
generations.

TITLE VI--POLICY STATEMENTS

Subtitle A--Policy Statements in Both Houses

SEC. 6101. POLICY STATEMENT ON BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should
pass, and send to the States for their approval, a joint resolution
amending the Constitution of the United States to require an annual
balanced Federal budget.

SEC. 6102. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY.

It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the President
and Congress should work together on a bipartisan basis to preserve
Social Security for current and future generations. To achieve that
goal--
(1) Congress should enact legislation to prevent the near-
term insolvency of the Disability Insurance program, improve the
administration and coordination of benefits, and increase
employment opportunities for disabled workers; and
(2) the President should submit legislation to Congress
addressing the long-term insolvency of both the Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance program and the Disability Insurance
program, and such legislation should achieve a sustainable
annual cash-flow balance between taxes and benefits over the
foreseeable future, rather than temporarily increasing and then
depleting the balance of Government securities held by each
program's trust fund.

Subtitle B--Policy Statement in the House of Representatives

SEC. 6201. POLICY STATEMENT ON BUDGET PROCESS AND BASELINE REFORM.

(a) Findings.--
(1) In 1974, after more than 50 years of executive dominance
over fiscal policy, Congress acted to reassert its ``power of
the purse'', and passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act.

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(2) The measure explicitly sought to establish congressional
control over the budget process, to provide for annual
congressional determination of the appropriate level of taxes
and spending, to set important national budget priorities, and
to find ways in which Members of Congress could have access to
the most accurate, objective, and highest quality information to
assist them in discharging their duties.
(3) Far from achieving its intended purpose, however, the
process has instituted a bias toward higher spending and larger
government. The behemoth of the Federal Government has largely
been financed through either borrowing or taking ever greater
amounts of the national income through high taxation.
(4) The process does not treat programs and policies
consistently and shows a bias toward higher spending and higher
taxes.
(5) It assumes extension of spending programs (of more than
$50 million per year) scheduled to expire.
(6) Yet it does not assume the extension of tax policies in
the same way. consequently, extending existing tax policies that
may be scheduled to expire is characterized as a new tax
reduction, requiring offsets to ``pay for'' merely keeping tax
policy the same even though estimating conventions would not
require similar treatment of spending programs.
(7) The original goals set for the congressional process are
admirable in their intent, but because the essential mechanisms
of the process have remained the same, and ``reforms'' enacted
over the past 40 years have largely taken the form of layering
greater levels of legal complexity without reforming or
reassessing the very fundamental nature of the process.
(b) Policy Statement.--It is the policy of this concurrent
resolution on the budget that as the primary branch of Government,
Congress must:
(1) Restructure the fundamental procedures of budget
decision making.
(2) Reassert Congress's ``power of the purse'', and
reinforce the balance of powers between Congress and the
President, as the 1974 Act intended.
(3) Create greater incentives for lawmakers to do budgeting
as intended by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, especially
adopting a budget resolution every year.
(4) Encourage more effective control over spending,
especially currently uncontrolled direct spending.
(5) Consider innovative fiscal tools such as: zero based
budgeting, which would require a department or agency to justify
its budget as if it were a new expenditure; and direct spending
caps to enhance oversight of automatic pilot spending that
increases each year without congressional approval.
(6) Promote efficient and timely budget actions, so that
lawmakers complete their budget actions by the time the new
fiscal year begins.
(7) Provide access to the best analysis of economic
conditions available and increase awareness of how fiscal policy
directly impacts overall economic growth and job creation.
(8) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the
procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane and
opaque.
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(10) Include procedures by which current tax laws may be
extended and treated on a basis that is not different from the
extension of entitlement programs.
(c) Budget Process Reform.--Comprehensive budget process reform
should also remove the bias in the baseline against the extension of
current tax laws in the following ways:
(1) Permanent extension of tax laws should not be used as a
means to increase taxes on other taxpayers.
(2) For those expiring tax provisions that are proposed to
be permanently extended, Congress should use a more realistic
baseline that does not require them to be offset.
(3) Tax-reform legislation should not include tax increases
just to offset the extension of current tax laws.
(d) Legislation.--The Committee on the Budget of the House of
Representatives intends to draft legislation during the 114th Congress
that will rewrite the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 to fulfill the goals of making the congressional budget process
more effective in ensuring taxpayers' dollars are spent wisely and
efficiently.

SEC. 6202. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) Although the United States economy technically emerged
from recession more than 5 years ago, the subsequent recovery
has felt more like a malaise than a rebound. Real gross domestic
product GDP growth over the past 5 years has averaged slightly
more than 2 percent, well below the 3.2 percent historical trend
rate of growth in the United States. Although the economy has
shown some welcome signs of improvement of late, the Nation
remains in the midst of the weakest economic recovery of the
modern era.
(2) Looking ahead, CBO expects the economy to grow by an
average of just 2.3 percent over the next 10 years. That level
of economic growth is simply unacceptable and insufficient to
expand opportunities and the incomes of millions of middle-
income Americans.
(3) Sluggish economic growth has also contributed to the
country's fiscal woes. Subpar growth means that revenue levels
are lower than they would otherwise be while government spending
(e.g. welfare and income-support programs) is higher. Clearly,
there is a dire need for policies that will spark higher rates
of economic growth and greater, higher-quality job
opportunities.
(4) Although job gains have been trending up of late, other
aspects of the labor market remain weak. The labor force
participation rate, for instance, is hovering just under 63
percent, close to the lowest level since 1978. Long-term
unemployment also remains a problem. Of the roughly 8.7 million
people who are currently unemployed, 2.7 million (more than 30
percent) have been unemployed for more than 6 months. Long-term
unemployment erodes an individual's job skills and detaches them
from job opportunities. It also undermines the long-term
productive capacity of the economy.
(5) Perhaps most important, wage gains and income growth
have been subpar for middle-class Americans. Average hourly
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percent over the past year. Prior to the recession, average
hourly earnings were tracking close to 4 percent. Likewise,
average income levels have remained flat in recent years. Real
median household income is just under $52,000, one of the lowest
levels since 1995.
(6) The unsustainable fiscal trajectory has cast a shadow on
the country's economic outlook. investors and businesses make
decisions on a forward-looking basis. they know that today's
large debt levels are simply tomorrow's tax hikes, interest rate
increases, or inflation and they act accordingly. This debt
overhang, and the uncertainty it generates, can weigh on growth,
investment, and job creation.
(7) Nearly all economists, including those at the CBO,
conclude that reducing budget deficits (thereby bending the
curve on debt levels is a net positive for economic growth over
time. The logic is that deficit reduction creates long-term
economic benefits because it increases the pool of national
savings and boosts investment, thereby raising economic growth
and job creation.
(8) CBO analyzed the House Republican fiscal year 2016
budget resolution and found it would increase real output per
capita (a proxy for a country's standard of living) by about
$1,000 in 2025 and roughly $5,000 by 2040 relative to the
baseline path. That means more income and greater prosperity for
all Americans.
(9) In contrast, if the Government remains on the current
fiscal path, future generations will face ever-higher debt
service costs, a decline in national savings, and a ``crowding
out'' of private investment. This dynamic will eventually lead
to a decline in economic output and a diminution in our
country's standard of living.
(10) The key economic challenge is determining how to expand
the economic pie, not how best to divide up and re-distribute a
shrinking pie.
(11) A stronger economy is vital to lowering deficit levels
and eventually balancing the budget. According to CBO, if annual
real GDP growth is just 0.1 percentage point higher over the
budget window, deficits would be reduced by $326 billion.
(12) This budget resolution therefore embraces pro-growth
policies, such as fundamental tax reform, that will help foster
a stronger economy, greater opportunities and more job creation.
(b) Policy on Economic Growth and Job Creation.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to
promote faster economic growth and job creation. By putting the budget
on a sustainable path, this concurrent resolution ends the debt-fueled
uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to the tax code will put
American businesses and workers in a better position to compete and
thrive in the 21st century global economy. This concurrent resolution
targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in
favor of special interests. All of the reforms in this concurrent
resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow
and expanding opportunity for all Americans.

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SEC. 6203. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) A world-class tax system should be simple, fair, and
promote (rather than impede) economic growth. The United States
tax code fails on all three counts: It is notoriously complex,
patently unfair, and highly inefficient. The tax code's
complexity distorts decisions to work, save, and invest, which
leads to slower economic growth, lower wages, and less job
creation.
(2) Over the past decade alone, there have been 4,107
changes to the tax code, more than one per day. Many of the
major changes over the years have involved carving out special
preferences, exclusions, or deductions for various activities or
groups. These loopholes add up to more than $1 trillion per year
and make the code unfair, inefficient, and highly complex.
(3) In addition, these tax preferences are
disproportionately used by upper-income individuals.
(4) The large amount of tax preferences that pervade the
code end up narrowing the tax base. A narrow tax base, in turn,
requires much higher tax rates to raise a given amount of
revenue.
(5) It is estimated that American taxpayers end up spending
$160 billion and roughly 6 billion hours a year complying with
the tax code waste of time and resources that could be used in
more productive activities.
(6) Standard economic theory shows that high marginal tax
rates dampen the incentives to work, save, and invest, which
reduces economic output and job creation. Lower economic output,
in turn, mutes the intended revenue gain from higher marginal
tax rates.
(7) Roughly half of United States active business income and
half of private sector employment are derived from business
entities (such as partnerships, S corporations, and sole
proprietorships) that are taxed on a ``pass-through'' basis,
meaning the income flows through to the tax returns of the
individual owners and is taxed at the individual rate structure
rather than at the corporate rate. Small businesses, in
particular, tend to choose this form for Federal tax purposes,
and the top Federal rate on such small business income can reach
nearly 45 percent. For these reasons, sound economic policy
requires lowering marginal rates on these pass-through entities.
(8) The United States corporate income tax rate (including
Federal, State, and local taxes) sums to slightly more than 39
percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Tax rates
this high suppress wages and discourage investment and job
creation, distort business activity, and put American businesses
at a competitive disadvantage with foreign competitors.
(9) By deterring potential investment, the United States
corporate tax restrains economic growth and job creation. The
United States tax rate differential with other countries also
fosters a variety of complicated multinational corporate
behaviors intended to avoid the tax, which have the effect of
moving the tax base offshore, destroying American jobs, and
decreasing corporate revenue.

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(10) The ``worldwide'' structure of United States
international taxation essentially taxes earnings of United
States firms twice, putting them at a significant competitive
disadvantage with competitors with more competitive
international tax systems.
(11) Reforming the United States tax code to a more
competitive international system would boost the competitiveness
of United States companies operating abroad and it would also
greatly reduce tax avoidance.
(12) The tax code imposes costs on American workers through
lower wages, on consumers in higher prices, and on investors in
diminished returns.
(13) Revenues have averaged about 17.4 percent of the
economy throughout modern American history. Revenues rise above
this level under current law to 18.3 percent of the economy by
the end of the 10-year budget window.
(14) Attempting to raise revenue through new tax increases
to meet out-of-control spending would sink the economy and
Americans' ability to save for their retirement and their
children's education.
(15) This concurrent resolution also rejects the idea of
instituting a carbon tax in the United States, which some have
offered as a new source of revenue. Such a plan would damage the
economy, cost jobs, and raise prices on American consumers.
(16) Closing tax loopholes to fund spending does not
constitute fundamental tax reform.
(17) The goal of tax reform should be to curb or eliminate
loopholes and use those savings to lower tax rates across the
board not to fund more wasteful Government spending. Washington
has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
(18) Many economists believe that fundamental tax reform
(i.e. a broader tax base and lower tax rates) would lead to
greater labor supply and increased investment, which, over time,
would have a positive impact on total national output.
(19) Heretofore, the congressional scorekeepers the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on
Taxation (JCT).
(20) Static scoring implicitly assumes that the size of the
economy (and therefore key economic variables such as labor
supply and investment) remains fixed throughout the considered
budget horizon. This is an abstraction from reality.
(21) A new House of Representatives rule was adopted at the
beginning of the 114th Congress to help correct this problem.
This rule requires CBO and JCT to incorporate the macroeconomic
effects of major legislation into their official cost estimates.
(22) This rule seeks to bridge the divide between static
estimates and scoring that incorporates economic feedback
effects by providing policymakers with a greater amount of
information about the likely economic impact of policies under
their consideration while at the same time preserving
traditional scoring methods and reporting conventions.
(b) Policy on Tax Reform.--In the House of Representatives, it is
the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should enact
legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the

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United States tax code to promote economic growth, create American jobs,
increase wages, and benefit American consumers, investors, and workers
through fundamental tax reform that--
(1) simplifies the tax code to make it fairer to American
families and businesses and reduces the amount of time and
resources necessary to comply with tax laws;
(2) substantially lowers tax rates for individuals and
consolidates the current seven individual income tax brackets
into fewer brackets;
(3) repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax;
(4) reduces the corporate tax rate; and
(5) transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of
international taxation.

SEC. 6204. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) Opening foreign markets to American exports is vital to
the United States economy and beneficial to American workers and
consumers. The Commerce Department estimates that every $1
billion of United States exports supports more than 5,000 jobs
here at home.
(2) The United States can increase economic opportunities
for American workers and businesses through the expansion of
trade, adherence to trade agreement rules by the United States
and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign trade
barriers to United States goods and services.
(3) Trade Promotion Authority is a bipartisan and bicameral
effort to strengthen the role of Congress in setting negotiating
objectives for trade agreements, to improve consultation with
Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear framework
for congressional consideration and implementation of trade
agreements.
(4) Global trade and commerce is not a zero-sum game. The
idea that global expansion tends to ``hollow out'' United States
operations is incorrect. Foreign-affiliate activity tends to
complement, not substitute for, key parent activities in the
United States such as employment, worker compensation, and
capital investment. When United States headquartered
multinationals invest and expand operations abroad it often
leads to more jobs and economic growth at home.
(5) Trade agreements have saved the average American family
of four more than $10,000 per year, as a result of lower duties.
Trade agreements also lower the cost of manufacturing inputs by
removing duties.
(6) American businesses and workers have shown that, on a
level playing field, they can excel and surpass the
international competition.
(7) When negotiating trade agreements, United States laws on
Intellectual Property (IP) protection should be used as a
benchmark for establishing global IP frameworks. Strong IP
protections have contributed significantly to the United States
status as a world leader in innovation across sectors, including
in the development of life-saving biologic medicines. The data
protections afforded to biologics in United States law,
including 12 years of data protection, allow continued
development of pioneering medicines to benefit patients both in
the United States and abroad. To maintain the cycle of
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achieve truly 21st century trade agreements, it is vital that
our negotiators insist on the highest standards for IP
protections.
(8) The status quo of the current tax code also undermines
the competitiveness of United States businesses and costs the
United States economy investment and jobs.
(9) The United States currently has an antiquated system of
international taxation whereby United States multinationals
operating abroad pay both the foreign-country tax and United
States corporate taxes. They are essentially taxed twice. This
puts them at an obvious competitive disadvantage. A modern and
competitive international tax system would facilitate global
commerce for United States multinational companies and would
encourage foreign business investment and job creation in the
United States.
(10) The ability to defer United States taxes on their
foreign operations, which some erroneously refer to as a ``tax
loophole,'' cushions this disadvantage to a certain extent.
Eliminating or restricting this provision (and others like it)
would harm United States competitiveness.
(11) This budget resolution advocates fundamental tax reform
that would lower the United States corporate rate, now the
highest in the industrialized world, and switch to a more
competitive system of international taxation. This would make
the United States a much more attractive place to invest and
station business activity and would chip away at the incentives
for United States companies to keep their profits overseas
(because the United States corporate rate is so high).
(b) Policy on Trade.--In the House of Representatives, it is the
policy of this concurrent resolution to pursue international trade,
global commerce, and a modern and competitive United States
international tax system to promote job creation in the United States.
The United States should continue to seek increased economic
opportunities for American workers and businesses through the expansion
of trade opportunities, adherence to trade agreements and rules by the
United States and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign
trade barriers to United States goods and services by opening new
markets and by enforcing United States rights. To that end, Congress
should pass Trade Promotion Authority to strengthen the role of Congress
in setting negotiating objectives for trade agreements, to improve
consultation with Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear
framework for congressional consideration and implementation of trade
agreements.

SEC. 6205. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPEALING THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE LAW
AND PROMOTING REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) The President's health care law put Washington's
priorities first, and not patients'. The Affordable Care Act
(ACA) has failed to reduce health care premiums as promised;
instead, the law mandated benefits and coverage levels, denying
patients the opportunity to choose the type of coverage that
best suits their health needs and driving up health coverage
costs. A typical family's health care premiums were supposed to
decline by $2,500 a year; instead, according to the 2014
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Health Benefits Survey, health care premiums have increased by 7
percent for individuals and families since 2012.
(2) The President pledged, ``If you like your health care
plan, you can keep your health care plan.'' Instead, the
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now estimates 9 million
Americans with employment-based health coverage will lose those
plans due to the President's health care law, further limiting
patient choice.
(3) Then-Speaker of the House, Pelosi, said that the
President's health care law would create 4 million jobs over the
life of the law and almost 400,000 jobs immediately. Instead,
the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the reduction in
hours worked due to Obamacare represents a decline of about 2.0
to 2.5 million full-time equivalent workers, compared with what
would have occurred in the absence of the law. The full impact
on labor represents a reduction in employment by 1.5 percent to
2.0 percent, while additional studies show less modest results.
A recent study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
estimates that Obamacare will reduce employment by up to 3
percent, or about 4 million full-time equivalent workers.
(4) The President has charged the Independent Payment
Advisory Board, a panel of unelected bureaucrats, with cutting
Medicare by an additional $20.9 billion over the next ten years,
according to the President's most recent budget.
(5) Since ACA was signed into law, the administration has
repeatedly failed to implement it as written. The President has
unilaterally acted to make a total of 28 changes, delays, and
exemptions. The President has signed into law another 17 changes
made by Congress. The Supreme Court struck down the forced
expansion of Medicaid; ruled the individual ``mandate'' could
only be characterized as a tax to remain constitutional; and
rejected the requirement that closely held companies provide
health insurance to their employees if doing so violates these
companies' religious beliefs. Even now, almost five years after
enactment, the Supreme Court continues to evaluate the legality
of how the President's administration has implemented the law.
All of these changes prove the folly underlying the entire
program--health care in the United States cannot be run from a
centralized bureaucracy.
(6) The President's health care law is unaffordable,
intrusive, overreaching, destructive, and unworkable. Its
complex structure of subsidies, mandates, and penalties
perversely impact individuals, married couples, and families.
The law should be fully repealed, allowing for real, patient-
centered health care reform: the development of real health care
reforms that puts patients first, that make affordable, quality
health care available to all Americans, and that build on the
innovation and creativity of all the participants in the health
care sector.
(b) Policy on Promoting Real Health Care Reform.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the
President's health care law should be fully repealed and real health
care reform promoted in accordance with the following principles:
(1) In general.--Health care reform should enhance
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responsiveness in health care coverage for all Americans,
putting patients, families, and doctors in charge, not
Washington, DC. These reforms should encourage increased
competition and transparency. Under the President's health care
law, government controls Americans' health care choices. Under
true, patient-centered reform, Americans would.
(2) Affordability.--Real reform should be centered on
ensuring that all Americans, no matter their age, income, or
health status, have the ability to afford health care coverage.
The health care delivery structure should be improved, and
individuals should not be priced out of the health insurance
market due to pre-existing conditions, but nationalized health
care is not only unnecessary to accomplish this, it undermines
the goal. Individuals should be allowed to join together
voluntarily to pool risk through mechanisms such as Individual
Membership Associations and Small Employer Membership
Associations.
(3) Accessability.--Instead of Washington outlining for
Americans the ways they cannot use their health insurance,
reforms should make health coverage more portable. Individuals
should be able to own their insurance and have it follow them in
and out of jobs throughout their career. Small business owners
should be permitted to band together across State lines through
their membership in bona fide trade or professional associations
to purchase health coverage for their families and employees at
a low cost. This will increase small businesses' bargaining
power, volume discounts, and administrative efficiencies while
giving them freedom from State-mandated benefit packages. Also,
insurers licensed to sell policies in one State should be
permitted to offer them to residents in any other State, and
consumers should be permitted to shop for health insurance
across State lines, as they are with other insurance products
online, by mail, by phone, or in consultation with an insurance
agent.
(4) Quality.--Incentives for providers to deliver high-
quality, responsive, and coordinated care will promote patient
outcomes and drive down health care costs. Likewise, reforms
that work to restore the patient-physician relationship by
reducing administrative burdens and allowing physicians to do
what they do best--care for patients.
(5) Choices.--Individuals and families should be free to
secure the health care coverage that best meets their needs,
rather than instituting one-size-fits-all directives from
Federal bureaucracies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the
Department of Health and Human Services, and the Independent
Payment Advisory Board.
(6) Innovation.--Instead of stifling innovation in health
care technologies, treatments, medications, and therapies with
Federal mandates, taxes, and price controls, a reformed health
care system should encourage research, development and
innovation.
(7) Responsiveness.--Reform should return authority to
States wherever possible to make the system more responsive to
patients and their needs. Instead of tying States' hands with
Federal requirements for their Medicaid programs, the Federal
Government should return control of this program to the States.
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up Federal debt and threaten to bankrupt State budgets, but
States are better positioned to provide quality, affordable care
to those who are eligible for the program and to track down and
weed out waste, fraud and abuse. Beneficiary choices in the
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid
should be improved. States should make available the purchase of
private insurance as an option to their Medicaid and SCHIP
populations (though they should not require enrollment).
(8) Reforms.--Reforms should be made to prevent lawsuit
abuse and curb the practice of defensive medicine, which are
significant drivers increasing health care costs. The burden of
proof in medical malpractice cases should be based on compliance
with best practice guidelines, and States should be free to
implement those policies to best suit their needs.

SEC. 6206. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) More than 50 million Americans depend on Medicare for
their health security.
(2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended
that Medicare's long-term financial challenges be addressed
soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of
Medicare becomes more precarious and the threat to those in or
near retirement becomes more pronounced. According to the
Medicare Trustees Report--
(A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be
exhausted in 2030 and unable to pay scheduled benefits;
(B) Medicare enrollment is expected to increase by
over 50 percent in the next two decades, as 10,000 baby
boomers reach retirement age each day;
(C) enrollees remain in Medicare three times longer
than at the outset of the program;
(D) current workers' payroll contributions pay for
current beneficiaries;
(E) in 2013, the ratio was 3.2 workers per
beneficiary, but this falls to 2.3 in 2030 and continues
to decrease over time;
(F) most Medicare beneficiaries receive about three
dollars in Medicare benefits for every one dollar paid
into the program; and
(G) Medicare spending is growing faster than the
economy and Medicare outlays are currently rising at a
rate of 6.5 percent per year over the next 10 years.
According to the Congressional Budget Office's 2014
Long-Term Budget Outlook, spending on Medicare is
projected to reach 5 percent of gross domestic product
(GDP) by 2043 and 9.3 percent of GDP by 2089.
(3) Failing to address this problem will leave millions of
American seniors without adequate health security and younger
generations burdened with enormous debt to pay for spending
levels that cannot be sustained.
(b) Policy on Medicare Reform.--In the House of Representatives, it
is the policy of this concurrent resolution to preserve the program for
those in or near retirement and strengthen Medicare for future
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(c) Assumptions.--This concurrent resolution assumes reform of the
Medicare program such that--
(1) current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in or
near retirement;
(2) permanent reform of the sustainable growth rate is
responsibly accounted for to ensure physicians continue to
participate in the Medicare program and provide quality health
care for beneficiaries;
(3) when future generations reach eligibility, Medicare is
reformed to provide a premium support payment and a selection of
guaranteed health coverage options from which recipients can
choose a plan that best suits their needs;
(4) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for-service as a
plan option;
(5) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower
income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks; and
(6) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the
Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term.

SEC. 6207. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY
AND INNOVATION.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) For decades, the Nation's commitment to the discovery,
development, and delivery of new treatments and cures has made
the United States the biomedical innovation capital of the
world, bringing life-saving drugs and devices to patients and
well over a million high-paying jobs to local communities.
(2) Thanks to the visionary and determined leadership of
innovators throughout America, including industry, academic
medical centers, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
the United States has led the way in early discovery. The United
States leadership role is being threatened, however, as other
countries contribute more to basic research from both public and
private sources.
(3) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development predicts that China, for example, will outspend the
United States in total research and development by the end of
the decade.
(4) Federal policies should foster innovation in health
care, not stifle it. America should maintain its world
leadership in medical science by encouraging competitive forces
to work through the marketplace in delivering cures and
therapies to patients.
(5) Too often the bureaucracy and red-tape in Washington
hold back medical innovation and prevent new lifesaving
treatments from reaching patients. This concurrent resolution
recognizes the valuable role of the NIH and the indispensable
contributions to medical research coming from outside
Washington.
(6) America is the greatest, most innovative Nation on
Earth. Her people are innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries,
and relentless builders of the future. Americans were
responsible for the first telephone, the first airplane, the
first computer, for putting the first man on the moon, for
creating the first vaccine for polio and for legions of other
scientific and medical breakthroughs that have improved and
prolonged human health and life for countless people in America
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(b) Policy on Medical Innovation.--
(1) In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of
this concurrent resolution to support the important work of
medical innovators throughout the country, including private-
sector innovators, medical centers and the National Institutes
of Health.
(2) At the same time, the budget calls for continued strong
funding for the agencies that engage in valuable research and
development, while also urging Washington to get out of the way
of researchers, discoverers and innovators all over the country.

SEC. 6208. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY REFORM.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) Excessive regulation at the Federal level has hurt job
creation and dampened the economy, slowing the Nation's recovery
from the economic recession.
(2) Since President Obama's inauguration in 2009, the
administration has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations
in the Federal Register including 70,066 pages in 2014.
(3) The National Association of Manufacturers estimates the
total cost of regulations is as high as $2.03 trillion per year.
Since 2009, the White House has generated more than $494 billion
in regulatory activity, with an additional $87.6 billion in
regulatory costs currently pending.
(4) The Dodd-Frank financial services legislation (Public
Law 111-203) has resulted in more than $32 billion in compliance
costs and saddled job creators with more than 63 million hours
of compliance paperwork.
(5) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act to date has
added 132.9 million annual hours of compliance paperwork,
imposing $24.3 billion of compliance costs on the private sector
and an $8 billion cost burden on the States.
(6) The highest regulatory costs come from rules issued by
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); these regulations are
primarily targeted at the coal industry. In June 2014, the EPA
proposed a rule to cut carbon pollution from the Nation's power
plants. The proposed standards are unachievable with current
commercially available technology, resulting in a de-facto ban
on new coal-fired power plants.
(7) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly 40 percent of
the United States electricity at a low cost. Unfairly targeting
the coal industry with costly and unachievable regulations will
increase energy prices, disproportionately disadvantaging
energy-intensive industries like manufacturing and construction,
and will make life more difficult for millions of low-income and
middle class families already struggling to pay their bills.
(8) Three hundred and thirty coal units are being retired or
converted as a result of EPA regulations. Combined with the de-
facto prohibition on new plants, these retirements and
conversions may further increase the cost of electricity.
(9) A recent study by the energy market analysis group
Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. estimates the average energy bill
in West Virginia will rise $750 per household by 2020, due in
part to EPA regulations. West Virginia receives 95 percent of
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(10) The Heritage Foundation found that a phase-out of coal
would cost 600,000 jobs by the end of 2023, resulting in an
aggregate gross domestic product decrease of $2.23 trillion over
the entire period and reducing the income of a family of four by
$1,200 per year. Of these jobs, 330,000 will come from the
manufacturing sector, with California, Texas, Ohio, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Indiana, North Carolina,
Wisconsin, and Georgia seeing the highest job losses.
(b) Policy on Federal Regulatory Reform.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that
Congress should, in consultation with the public burdened by excessive
regulation, enact legislation that--
(1) promotes economic growth and job creation by eliminating
unnecessary red tape and streamlining and simplifying Federal
regulations;
(2) requires the implementation of a regulatory budget to be
allocated amongst Government agencies, which would require
congressional approval and limit the maximum costs of
regulations in a given year;
(3) requires congressional approval of all new major
regulations (those with an impact of $100 million or more)
before enactment as opposed to current law in which Congress
must expressly disapprove of regulation to prevent it from
becoming law, which would keep Congress engaged as to pending
regulatory policy and prevent costly and unsound policies from
being implemented and becoming effective;
(4) requires a three year retrospective cost-benefit
analysis of all new major regulations, to ensure that
regulations operate as intended;
(5) reinforces the requirement of regulatory impact analysis
for regulations proposed by executive branch agencies but also
expands the requirement to independent agencies so that by law
they consider the costs and benefits of proposed regulations
rather than merely being encouraged to do so as is current
practice; and
(6) requires a formal rulemaking process for all major
regulations, which would increase transparency over the process
and allow interested parties to communicate their views on
proposed legislation to agency officials.

SEC. 6209. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY.

(a) Findings on Higher Education.--The House of Representatives
finds the following:
(1) A well-educated workforce is critical to economic, job,
and wage growth.
(2) Roughly 20 million students are enrolled in American
colleges and universities.
(3) Over the past decade, tuition and fees have been growing
at an unsustainable rate. Between the 2004-2005 Academic Year
and the 2014-2015 Academic Year--
(A) published tuition and fees at public 4-year
colleges and universities increased at an average rate
of 3.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation;
(B) published tuition and fees at public two-year
colleges and universities increased at an average rate
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(C) published tuition and fees at private nonprofit
4-year colleges and universities increased at an average
rate of 2.2 percent per year above the rate of
inflation.
(4) Federal financial aid for higher education has also seen
a dramatic increase. The portion of the Federal student aid
portfolio composed of Direct Loans, Federal Family Education
Loans, and Perkins Loans with outstanding balances grew by 119
percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2014.
(5) This spending has failed to make college more
affordable.
(6) In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama
noted: ``We can't just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition;
we'll run out of money''.
(7) American students are chasing ever-increasing tuition
with ever-increasing debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, student debt now stands at nearly $1.2 trillion.
This makes student loans the second largest balance of consumer
debt, after mortgage debt.
(8) Students are carrying large debt loads and too many fail
to complete college or end up defaulting on these loans due to
their debt burden and a weak economy and job market.
(9) Based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office,
the Pell Grant Program will face a fiscal shortfall beginning in
fiscal year 2017 and continuing in each subsequent year in the
current budget window.
(10) Failing to address these problems will jeopardize
access and affordability to higher education for America's young
people.
(b) Policy on Higher Education Affordability.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to
address the root drivers of tuition inflation, by--
(1) targeting Federal financial aid to those most in need;
(2) streamlining programs that provide aid to make them more
effective;
(3) maintaining the maximum Pell grant award level at $5,775
in each year of the budget window; and
(4) removing regulatory barriers in higher education that
act to restrict flexibility and innovative teaching,
particularly as it relates to non-traditional models such as
online coursework and competency-based learning.
(c) Findings on Workforce Development.--The House of Representatives
finds the following:
(1) 8.7 million Americans are currently unemployed.
(2) Despite billions of dollars in spending, those looking
for work are stymied by a broken workforce development system
that fails to connect workers with assistance and employers with
trained personnel.
(3) The House Education and Workforce Committee successfully
consolidated 15 job training programs in the recently enacted
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
(d) Policy on Workforce Development.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to
address the failings in the current workforce development system, by--
(1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job
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(2) empowering states with the flexibility to tailor funding
and programs to the specific needs of their workforce, including
the development of career scholarships.

SEC. 6210. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) For years, there has been serious concern regarding the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucratic mismanagement
and continuous failure to provide veterans timely access to
health care and benefits.
(2) In 2014, reports started breaking across the Nation that
VA medical centers were manipulating wait-list documents to hide
long delays veterans were facing to receive health care. The VA
hospital scandal led to the immediate resignation of then-
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.
(3) In 2015, for the first time ever, VA health care was
added to the ``high-risk'' list of the Government Accountability
Office (GAO), due to management and oversight failures that have
directly resulted in risks to the timeliness, cost-
effectiveness, and quality of health care.
(4) In response to the scandal, the House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs held several oversight hearings and ultimately
enacted the Veterans' Access, Choice and Accountability Act of
2014 (VACAA) (Public Law 113-146) to address these problems.
VACAA provided $15 billion in emergency resources to fund
internal health care needs within the department and provided
veterans enhanced access to private-sector health care under the
new Veterans Choice Program.
(b) Policy on the Department of Veterans Affairs.--This budget
supports the continued oversight efforts by the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs of the House of Representatives to ensure the VA is not only
transparent and accountable, but also successful in achieving its goals
in providing timely health care and benefits to America's veterans. The
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives will continue to
closely monitor the VA's progress to ensure resources provided by
Congress are sufficient and efficiently used to provide needed benefits
and services to veterans.

SEC. 6211. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGIES.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) Given the thousands of Federal programs and trillions of
dollars the Federal Government spends each year, assessing and
accounting for Federal fiscal activities and liabilities is a
complex undertaking.
(2) Current methods of accounting leave much to be desired
in capturing the full scope of government and in presenting
information in a clear and compelling way that illuminates the
best options going forward.
(3) Most fiscal analysis produced by the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) is conducted over a relatively short time
horizon: 10 or 25 years. While this time frame is useful for
most purposes, it fails to consider the fiscal consequences over
the longer term.
(4) Additionally, current accounting methodology does not
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situation over the long run affects Americans of various age
cohorts.
(5) Another consideration is how Federal programs should be
accounted for. The ``accrual method'' of accounting records
revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred,
while the ``cash method'' records revenue and expenses when cash
is actually paid or received.
(6) The Federal budget accounts for most programs using cash
accounting. Some programs, however, particularly loan and loan
guarantee programs, are accounted for using accrual methods.
(7) GAO has indicated that accrual accounting may provide a
more accurate estimation of the Federal Government's liabilities
than cash accounting for some programs specifically those that
provide some form of insurance.
(8) Where accrual accounting is used, it is almost
exclusively calculated by CBO according to the methodology
outlined in the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA). CBO
uses fair value methodology instead of FCRA to measure the cost
of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example.
(9) FCRA methodology, however, understates the risk and thus
the true cost of Federal programs. An alternative is fair value
methodology, which uses discount rates that incorporate the risk
inherent to the type of liability being estimated in addition to
Treasury discount rates of the proper maturity length.
(10) The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that
``adopting a fair-value approach would provide a more
comprehensive way to measure the costs of Federal credit
programs and would permit more level comparisons between those
costs and the costs of other forms of federal assistance'' than
the current approach under FCRA.
(b) Policy on Federal Accounting Methodologies.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that
Congress should, in consultation with the Congressional Budget Office
and the public affected by Federal budgetary choices, adopt Government-
wide reforms of budget and accounting practices so the American people
and their representatives can more readily understand the fiscal
situation of the Government of the United States and the options best
suited to improving it. Such reforms may include but should not be
limited to the following:
(1) Providing additional metrics to enhance our current
analysis by considering our fiscal situation comprehensively,
over an extended time horizon, and as it affects Americans of
various age cohorts.
(2) Expanding the use of accrual accounting where
appropriate.
(3) Accounting for certain Federal credit programs using
fair value accounting as opposed to the current approach under
the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.

SEC. 6212. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND
UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required
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in Federal programs, and has so identified dozens of such
examples.
(2) In its report to Congress on Government Efficiency and
Effectiveness, the Comptroller General has stated that
addressing the identified waste, duplication, and overlap in
Federal programs could ``lead to tens of billions of dollars of
additional savings.''.
(3) In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 the GAO issued reports
showing excessive duplication and redundancy in Federal programs
including--
(A) two hundred nine Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics education programs in 13
different Federal agencies at a cost of $3 billion
annually;
(B) two hundred separate Department of Justice crime
prevention and victim services grant programs with an
annual cost of $3.9 billion in 2010;
(C) twenty different Federal entities administer 160
housing programs and other forms of Federal assistance
for housing with a total cost of $170 billion in 2010;
(D) seventeen separate Homeland Security
preparedness grant programs that spent $37 billion
between fiscal years 2011 and 2012;
(E) fourteen grant and loan programs, and three tax
benefits to reduce diesel emissions;
(F) ninety-four different initiatives run by 11
different agencies to encourage ``green building'' in
the private sector; and
(G) twenty-three agencies implemented approximately
670 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010 at
a cost of nearly $15 billion.
(4) The Federal Government spends more than $80 billion each
year for approximately 1,400 information technology investments.
GAO has identified broad acquisition failures, waste, and
unnecessary duplication in the Government's information
technology infrastructure. experts have estimated that
eliminating these problems could save 25 percent or $20 billion.
(5) GAO has identified strategic sourcing as a potential
source of spending reductions. In 2011 GAO estimated that saving
10 percent of the total or all Federal procurement could
generate more than $50 billion in savings annually.
(6) Federal agencies reported an estimated $106 billion in
improper payments in fiscal year 2013.
(7) Under clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives, each standing committee must hold at least one
hearing during each 120 day period following its establishment
on waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs.
(8) According to the Congressional Budget Office, by fiscal
year 2015, 32 laws will expire, possibly resulting in $693
billion in unauthorized appropriations. Timely reauthorizations
of these laws would ensure assessments of program justification
and effectiveness.
(9) The findings resulting from congressional oversight of
Federal Government programs should result in programmatic
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(b) Policy on Reducing Unnecessary, Wasteful, and Unauthorized
Spending.--
(1) Each authorizing committee of the House of
Representatives annually should include in its Views and
Estimates letter required under section 301(d) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives of
programs within the jurisdiction of such committee whose funding
should be reduced or eliminated.
(2) Committees of jurisdiction should review all
unauthorized programs funded through annual appropriations to
determine if the programs are operating efficiently and
effectively.
(3) Committees should reauthorize those programs that in the
committees' judgment should continue to receive funding.
(4) For those programs not reauthorized by committees, the
House of Representatives should enforce the limitations on
funding such unauthorized programs in the House rules. If the
strictures of the rules are deemed to be too rapid in
prohibiting spending on unauthorized programs, then milder
measures should be adopted and enforced until a return to the
full prohibition of clause 2(a)(1) of rule XXI of the Rules of
the House.

SEC. 6213. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE
CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) According to the most recent estimate from the Office of
Management and Budget, Federal agencies were expected to hold
$844 billion in unobligated balances at the close of fiscal year
2015.
(2) These funds represent direct and discretionary spending
previously made available by Congress that remains available for
expenditure.
(3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding and it
remains available for obligation indefinitely.
(4) The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of
1974 requires the Office of Management and Budget to make funds
available to agencies for obligation and prohibits the
Administration from withholding or cancelling unobligated funds
unless approved by an Act of Congress.
(5) Greater congressional oversight is required to review
and identify potential savings from canceling unobligated
balances of funds that are no longer needed.
(b) Policy on Deficit Reduction Through the Cancellation of
Unobligated Balances.--In the House of Representatives, committees
should through their oversight activities identify and achieve savings
through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances that
neither abrogate contractual obligations of the Government nor reduce or
disrupt Federal commitments under programs such as Social Security,
veterans' affairs, national security, and Treasury authority to finance
the national debt.
(c) Deficit Reduction.--The House of Representatives, with the
assistance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspectors
General, and other appropriate agencies should continue to make it a
high priority to review unobligated balances and identify savings for
deficit reduction.

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SEC. 6214. POLICY STATEMENT ON AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) A number of Federal agencies and organizations have
permanent authority to collect fees and other offsetting
collections and to spend these collected funds.
(2) The total amount of offsetting fees and offsetting
collections is estimated by the Office of Management and Budget
to be $525 billion in fiscal year 2016.
(3) Agency budget justifications are, in some cases, not
fully transparent about the amount of program activity funded
through offsetting collections or fees. This lack of
transparency prevents effective and accountable government.
(b) Policy on Agency Fees and Spending.--In the House of
Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that
Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control
spending and conduct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact
legislation requiring programs that are funded through fees, offsetting
receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new budget authority
annually. Such allocation may arise from--
(1) legislation originating from the authorizing committee
of jurisdiction for the agency or program; or
(2) fee and account specific allocations included in annual
appropriation Acts.

SEC. 6215. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF TAXPAYER
DOLLARS.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) The budget for the House of Representatives is $188
million less than it was when Republicans became the majority in
2011.
(2) The House of Representatives has achieved significant
savings by consolidating operations and renegotiating contracts.
(b) Policy on Responsible Stewardship of Taxpayer Dollars.--In the
House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution
that:
(1) The House of Representatives must be a model for the
responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources and therefore must
identify any savings that can be achieved through greater
productivity and efficiency gains in the operation and
maintenance of House services and resources like printing,
conferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, grounds
maintenance, postage, and rent. This should include a review of
policies and procedures for acquisition of goods and services to
eliminate any unnecessary spending. The Committee on House
Administration should review the policies pertaining to the
services provided to Members and committees of the House of
Representatives, and should identify ways to reduce any
subsidies paid for the operation of the House gym, barber shop,
salon, and the House dining room.
(2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase first class
airfare or to lease corporate jets for Members of Congress.
(3) Retirement benefits for Members of Congress should not
include free, taxpayer-funded health care for life.

SEC. 6216. POLICY STATEMENT ON ``NO BUDGET, NO PAY''.

In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent
resolution that Congress should agree to a concurrent resolution

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on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, the House of Representatives has not
agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget, the payroll
administrator of the House of Representatives should carry out this
policy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 113-3, the No
Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, and should place in an escrow account all
compensation otherwise required to be made for Members of the House of
Representatives. Withheld compensation should be released to Members of
the House of Representatives the earlier of the day on which the House
of Representatives agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget,
pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or the
last day of that Congress.

SEC. 6217. POLICY STATEMENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY FUNDING.

(a) Findings.--The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) Russian aggression, the growing threats of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant in the Middle East, North Korean
and Iranian nuclear and missile programs, and continued Chinese
investments in high-end military capabilities and cyber warfare
shape the parameters of an increasingly complex and challenging
security environment.
(2) All four current service chiefs testified that the
National Military Strategy could not be executed at
sequestration levels.
(3) The independent and bipartisan National Defense Panel
conducted risk assessments of force structure changes triggered
by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) and concluded that in
addition to previous cuts to defense dating back to 2009, the
sequestration of defense discretionary spending has ``caused
significant shortfalls in U.S. military readiness and both
present and future capabilities''.
(4) The President's fiscal year 2016 budget irresponsibly
ignores current law and requests a defense budget $38 billion
above the caps for rhetorical gain. By creating an expectation
of spending without a plan to avoid the BCA's guaranteed
sequester upon breaching of its caps, the White House's proposal
compounds the fiscal uncertainty that has affected the
military's ability to adequately plan for future contingencies
and make investments crucial for the Nation's defense.
(5) The President's budget proposes $1.8 trillion in tax
increases, in addition to the $1.7 trillion in tax hikes the
Administration has already imposed. The President's tax
increases would further burden economic growth and is not a
realistic source for offsets to fund defense sequester
replacement.
(b) Policy on Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Funding.--In fiscal
year 2015, the House-passed budget resolution anticipated $566 billion
for national defense in the discretionary base budget for fiscal year
2016. With no necessary statutory change yet provided by Congress, the
BCA statute would require limiting national defense discretionary base
funding to $523 billion in fiscal year 2016. However, in total with $90
billion, the House of Representatives Budget estimate for Overseas
Contingency Operations funding for the Department of Defense, the fiscal
year 2016 budget provides over $613 billion total for defense spending
that is higher than the President's budget request for the fiscal year.

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(c) Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund.--(1) The budget
resolution recognizes the need to ensure robust funding for national
defense while maintaining overall fiscal discipline. The budget
resolution prioritizes our national defense and the needs of the
warfighter by providing needed dollars through the creation of the
``Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund''.
(2) The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund provides the
mechanism for Congress to responsibly allocate in a deficit-neutral way
the resources the military needs to secure the safety and liberty of
United States citizens from threats at home and abroad. The Defense
Readiness and Modernization Fund will provide the chair of the Committee
on the Budget of the House of Representatives the ability to increase
allocations to support legislation that would provide for the Department
of Defense warfighting capabilities, modernization, training and
maintenance associated with combat readiness, activities to reach full
auditability of the Department of Defense's financial statements, and
implementation of military and compensation reforms.
(d) Sequester Replacement for National Defense.--This concurrent
resolution encourages an immediate reevaluation of Federal Government
priorities to maintain the strength of America's national security
posture. In identifying policies to restructure and stabilize the
Government's major entitlement programs which, along with net interest,
will consume all Federal revenue in less than 20 years, the budget also
charts a course that can ensure the availability of needed national
security resources.

Agreed to May 5, 2015.