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114TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 114–49 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION (H. 

CON. RES. 27) ESTABLISHING THE BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 AND SETTING FORTH APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2017 THROUGH 2025 

MARCH 23, 2015.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. WOODALL, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 163] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 163, by a record vote of 6 to 3, report the same to the 

House with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 25, establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal 

year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

years 2017 through 2025, under a structured rule. The resolution 

provides four hours of general debate with three hours confined to 

the congressional budget equally divided and controlled by the 

chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget and one hour on the subject of economic goals and policies equally divided and controlled by Rep. Brady of Texas and Rep. Carolyn 

Maloney of New York or their respective designees. The resolution 

waives all points of order against consideration of the concurrent 

resolution and provides that the concurrent resolution shall be considered as read. The resolution makes in order only those amendments printed in this report. Each such amendment may be offered 

only in the order printed in this report, may be offered only by a 

Member designated in this report, shall be considered as read, 

shall be debatable for the time specified in this report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, and shall 

not be subject to amendment. The resolution waives all points of 

order against the amendments printed in this report. The resolution provides that if more than one such amendment is adopted, 

then only the one receiving the greater number of affirmative votes 

shall be considered as finally adopted. In the case of a tie for the 

greater number of affirmative votes, then only the last amendment 


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to receive that number of affirmative votes shall be considered as 

finally adopted. The resolution provides, upon the conclusion of 

consideration of the concurrent resolution for amendment, a final 

period of general debate, which shall not exceed 10 minutes equally 

divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 

of the Committee on the Budget. The resolution permits the chair 

of the Budget Committee to offer amendments in the House pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to 

achieve mathematical consistency. The resolution provides that the 

concurrent resolution shall not be subject to a demand for division 

of the question of its adoption. 

EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

Although the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution, the Committee is not aware of 

any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature. 

The waiver of all points of order against amendments printed in 

this report, includes a waiver of clause 10(c) of rule XVIII, which 

prohibits amendments from proposing to change the appropriate 

level of public debt set forth in the concurrent resolution. The waiver is necessary for all amendments printed in this report except for 

amendment #5, offered by Mr. Price of Georgia, printed in this report. 

COMMITTEE VOTES

The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion to 

report, together with the names of those voting for and against, are 

printed below: 

Rules Committee record vote No. 33 

Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #1, offered by Rep. McGovern 

(MA), which prevents cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by exempting SNAP from reconciliation instructions and prevents SNAP from being converted into a block 

grant. Defeated: 3–6 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ ................... Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Yea 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Nay Mr. McGovern ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Nay Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Yea 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Nay Mr. Polis ........................................................... ...................

Mr. Stivers ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Nay 

Rules Committee record vote No. 34 

Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 6–3 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ ................... Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Nay 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Yea Mr. McGovern ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Yea Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Nay 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Yea Mr. Polis ........................................................... ...................

Mr. Stivers ........................................................ Yea 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Yea 


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Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Yea 

SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. Grijalva (AZ), Ellison (MN), Pocan (WI), Lee, Barbara (CA), 

Schakowsky (IL), Conyers (MI), McDermott (WA): CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS SUBSTITUTE establishes 

funding levels to fix an economy that, for too long, has failed to 

provide the opportunities American families need to get ahead. The 

budget creates 8.4 million high quality jobs, while reducing the deficit and providing a boost to America’s long-term global competitiveness. (30 minutes) 

2. Butterfield (NC), Scott, Bobby (VA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Moore, 

Gwen (WI): CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS SUBSTITUTE 

makes significant investments in education, job training, transportation and infrastructure, and advanced research and development 

programs that will accelerate our economic recovery. It includes 

funding for a comprehensive jobs bill and targeted investments to 

reduce and eradicate poverty in America. Additionally, the CBC 

budget protects the social safety net without cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or SNAP. The CBC budget makes tough 

but responsible decisions to raise new revenue by making our tax 

system fairer, saving more than $1.9 trillion on the deficit over the 

next decade. The CBC Budget will put our nation on a sustainable 

fiscal path by reducing our annual budget deficit to 2.3% of GDP 

by FY 2025. (30 minutes) 

3. Stutzman (IN), Flores (TX): REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE establishes the budget for the United 

States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. Balances in six years, encourages pro-growth tax reform, and provides 

for our national defense. (30 minutes) 

4. Van Hollen (MD): DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS SUBSTITUTE reflects policies that will boost the economy to create more broadly 

shared prosperity while putting the federal budget on a fiscally responsible path, with debt declining as a share of the economy. It 

provides for tax policies that help the middle class and those working their way into the middle class by raising the take-home pay 

of hard-working Americans, and rejects the sequester caps to make 

needed investments that create jobs for those still seeking work, 

that educate our children and prepare them for success, and that 

sharpen the nation’s competitive edge. (30 minutes) 

5. Price, Tom (GA): SUBSTITUTE This amendment is identical 

to the reported resolution. The total level of new budget authority 

for the Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 

function (Function 970) remains at $94 billion in Fiscal Year 2016. 

The amendment also retains a deficit-neutral reserve fund for 

Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism in section 513. This section permits the Chair of the Committee on the 

Budget to adjust the 302(a) allocations to the Committee on Appropriations, and other appropriate levels, for any appropriations 

measure that provides new budget authority for Overseas Contingency Operations in excess of $73.5 billion up to $94 billion in Fiscal Year 2016. (10 minutes) 


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6. Price, Tom (GA): SUBSTITUTE The amendment increases 

new budget authority for the Overseas Contingency Operations/ 

Global War on Terrorism function (Function 970) by $2 billion, 

from $94 billion to $96 billion in Fiscal Year 2016. The amendment 

increases the outlay amounts for OCO over the period of Fiscal 

Years 2016 to 2025. As a consequence of the increase in OCO/ 

GWOT, conforming increases are made in total budget authority 

and outlays, deficits, interest, debt subject to limit, and debt held 

by the public. Even with the increase in overall budget and outlays, 

the budget resolution remains in balance in Fiscal Year 2024 and 

thereafter. The amendment also strikes a deficit-neutral reserve 

fund for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism in section 513 of the reported resolution. This section would 

have permitted the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to 

adjust the 302(a) allocations to the Committee on Appropriations 

for any appropriations measure that provided new budget authority 

in excess of $73.5 billion up to $94 billion in Fiscal Year 2016. (30 

minutes) 

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRIJALVA

OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—Congress declares that this resolution is the 

concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that 

this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

year 2015 and 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 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 201. Direct spending. 

TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 301. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2015 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 2015: $2,397,906,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2016: $3,011,600,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,363,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,484,023,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,611,419,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,764,354,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,936,524,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,113,414,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,305,297,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,511,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,723,308,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: -$29,871,00,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $340,098,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $611,103,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $639,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $656,337,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $686,652,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $722,007,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $760,933,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $794,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $836,409,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $868,535,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total 

new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: $3,364,224,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,700,423,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,671,036,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,715,311,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,879,230,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $4,055,790,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,200,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,434,308,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,575,085,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,705,499,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,935,827,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget 

outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: $3,307,153,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,688,702,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,630,273,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,676,002,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,851,980,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $4,012,330,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,165,094,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,401,070,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,524,231,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,636,441,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,881,361,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: -$909,247,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2016: -$677,102,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$266,584,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$191,979,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$240,561,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$247,976,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$228,570,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$287,656,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$218,934,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$125,165,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$158,053,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The budgetary levels of the 

public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: $18,874,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $19,720,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $20,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $20,607,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,061,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $21,522,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $21,964,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $22,442,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $22,872,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $23,231,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $23,610,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The budgetary levels of debt 

held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: $13,767,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $14,503,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $14,827,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $15,088,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $15,421,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $15,785,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $16,156,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $16,613,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $17,039,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $17,411,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $17,867,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary levels 

of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2015 through 

2024 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $596,720,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $590,195,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $540,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $570,644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $550,795,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $555,424,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $560,791,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $552,067,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $571,839,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $562,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $586,141,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $573,944,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $600,467,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $586,697,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $615,501,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $605,662,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $630,886,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $615,621,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $648,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $627,135,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $664,060,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $647,739,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $64,111,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $58,607,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $58,004,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $63,812,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,796,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $62,354,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,103,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $60,995,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,785,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $62,073,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,494,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $63,155,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,905,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,489,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,595,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,282,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,741,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $68,136,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,267,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,014,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,907,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2015: 


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(A) New budget authority $33,555,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,588,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $37,823,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,245,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $40,918,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,558,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $40,364,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,711,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $39,815,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,677,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $40,547,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,054,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $41,282,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,588,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $42,048,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $43,159,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,156,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $44,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,225,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $45,477,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,349,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $13,057,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,783,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $19,255,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,944,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,526,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,929,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,982,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,414,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,166,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,494,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,771,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,596,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,852,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 


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(A) New budget authority, $19,698,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,879,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $20,511,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,382,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $21,331,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,151,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $22,185,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,978,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $40,203,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,149,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $45,346,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,322,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $48,757,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,914,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $49,001,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,788,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $48,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,699,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $50,582,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $51,124,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,328,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,129,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,509,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $55,023,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,171,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $56,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,718,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $20,856,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,038,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $19,874,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,785,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,441,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,332,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $22,444,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,695,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $21,083,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,257,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $20,090,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,512,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $20,536,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,994,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $20,415,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,860,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $21,062,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,505,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $21,142,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,558,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $21,462,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,934,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority -$13,573,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$27,482,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $22,596,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,784,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $23,213,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,423,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,032,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,653,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $907,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,632,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,269,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,396,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,513,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,413,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,735,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,809,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,738,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,651,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,205,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $24,536,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,995,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $160,537,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $164,218,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $201,058,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $205,978,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $171,812,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $177,425,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $172,680,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $177,406,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $163,577,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $168,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $159,506,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $165,356,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $150,440,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $156,858,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $152,880,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $159,980,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $155,363,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $163,113,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $157,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $166,022,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $160,484,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $169,482,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $21,665,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,322,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $19,549,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,333,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,631,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,763,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,963,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,471,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,029,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,094,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,120,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $25,152,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $21,116,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,773,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $21,129,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,473,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $21,530,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,273,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $22,008,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,686,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $22,534,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,108,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $272,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $272,495,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $328,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $323,907,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $200,312,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $195,293,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $173,602,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $171,432,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $168,570,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $167,804,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $173,767,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $172,246,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $177,659,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $176,414,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $181,815,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $179,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $186,704,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $184,267,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $190,822,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $188,075,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $194,350,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $191,490,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $495,569,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $486,108,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $534,967,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $541,531,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $585,819,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $585,963,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $609,092,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $610,103,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $632,934,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $634,452,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $666,788,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $657,365,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $690,145,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $690,026,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $726,916,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $726,254,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $763,443,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $762,573,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $802,035,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $801,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $840,653,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $839,972,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $542,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $541,942,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $581,875,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,231,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $581,353,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $581,261,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $589,432,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $589,302,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $656,196,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $655,941,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $700,224,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $700,013,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $748,937,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $748,712,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $843,411,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $843,073,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $864,642,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $863,476,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $876,647,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $875,217,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $972,674,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $977,111,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $614,473,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $602,805,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $664,717,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $654,441,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $670,301,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $655,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $648,386,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $636,318,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $661,408,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $656,010,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $684,016,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $677,559,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $703,622,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $697,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $728,814,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $727,605,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $747,206,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $740,590,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $768,296,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $755,384,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $795,550,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $787,126,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $31,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,621,000,000. 

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. 


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(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 2015: (A) New budget authority $160,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $159,625,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $181,292,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $182,078,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $184,608,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $184,426,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $180,332,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $179,790,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $189,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $189,769,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $194,649,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $193,880,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $198,924,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $197,982,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $211,288,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $210,116,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $208,612,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $207,036,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $206,159,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $204,371,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $220,777,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $218,909,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $59,793,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,048,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $77,732,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,566,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $69,470,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,795,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $67,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,498,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $68,310,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,295,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $70,010,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,460,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $71,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,925,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $74,399,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,997,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $76,600,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,698,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $78,856,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $84,772,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $75,860,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $24,945,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,831,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $25,248,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,566,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,282,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,307,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,939,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,072,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,534,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,830,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,295,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 


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(A) New budget authority, $28,631,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,106,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $29,449,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,938,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $30,243,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,733,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $30,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,351,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $31,693,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,151,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority $326,529,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $326,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $377,249,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $377,249,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $430,763,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $430,763,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $499,872,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $499,872,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $557,611,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $557,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $608,177,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $608,177,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $645,267,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $645,267,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $682,266,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $682,266,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $716,017,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $716,017,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $742,865,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $742,865,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $760,812,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $760,812,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority $5,709,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,719,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $7,967,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,838,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $4,849,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,181,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $838,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,881,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$2,043,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$398,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$7,633,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,727,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$10,868,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$7,855,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$13,111,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$11,070,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$13,541,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$12,146,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$12,881,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$12,413,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$13,641,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$13,025,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority -$106,825,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$106,825,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$78,012,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$78,012,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,445,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$93,810,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,810,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,497,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,497,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$89,327,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$89,327,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,978,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,978,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$95,188,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$95,188,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$97,408,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$97,408,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$102,090,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$102,090,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$105,007,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$105,007,000,000. 

TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 201. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) For means-tested direct spending, the average rate of 

growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period 

preceding fiscal year 2015 is 6.8 percent. 

(2) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average 

rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11-year 

period beginning with fiscal year 2015 is 5.1 percent under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for means-tested direct spending: 

(A) The People’s Budget implements a new tax credit to 

reward Americans for their hard work. This policy would 

provide a refundable tax credit for two years for up to $800 

for working individuals earning less than $95,000 and up 

to $1200 for households earning less than $190,000. Modeled off the Making Work Pay tax credit, this targeted tax 

credit would immediately raise disposable income for low 

and middle-income families. 

(B) The People’s Budget adopts President Obama’s 

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to expand eligibility, including for childless workers. Continues enhanced credits 

originally implemented under the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act to target those most in need. This includes extending the Child and Dependent Care Credit 

and the American Opportunity Tax Credit through 2024. 

(C) The People’s Budget includes the President’s proposal to boost the Child Tax Credit maximum deduction to 

$3,000. It makes key expansions permanent to protect 50 

million Americans who would otherwise be at jeopardy for 

losing part or all of their EITC or CTC. 

(D) The People’s Budget creates a debt free college that 

provides Federal matching program to supports state efforts to expand investments in higher education, bring 

down costs for students, and increase aid to students to 

help them cover the total cost of college attendance without taking on debt. The program would encourage innovation by states and colleges to improve efficiency and enable 

speedy and less-costly degree completion. By treating higher education as a public good worth investing in, we can 

once again make higher education accessible to all. 

(E) The People’s Budget allows students refinance their 

student loans at low rates and allows private borrowers to 

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dent borrowers to reduce the value of their debt will free 

up income for purchases and will create a job-creating ripple effect throughout the entire economy. 

(F) The People’s Budget restores cuts made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and permanently adopts the enhanced levels established in the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The vast majority of SNAP recipients are households with children, seniors and individuals with disabilities, but recent cuts lowered average benefits by $216 in 2014. Providing families 

with basic food security through SNAP is one of the most 

effective ways the Federal Government can stimulate the 

economy. (G) The People’s Budget provides an additional $10 billion for child nutrition programs including program expansion and improvements for summer meals; essential improvements and expansion funding for preschool nutrition 

including increases in meal reimbursements to fulfill the 

new meal pattern, an additional meal or snack for children 

in long-term care, and expanded program eligibility; and 

investments in school meals and school kitchens. 

(H) The People’s Budget replaces the 40 percent excise 

tax with a public option to allow the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services to offer a public insurance option 

within the health insurance marketplaces. This ensures 

choice, competition, and stability in coverage. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the premium costs 

for Americans under the public option will be 7 to 8 percent lower than costs in private exchange plans. The repeal of the excise tax costs $87 billion while savings from 

the public option are $218 billion. 

(I) The People’s Budget continues funding for the entire 

CHIP program until 2019. 

(J) The People’s Budget protects States programs by 

fully retaining maintenance of effort requirements and 

eliminating any States ability to arbitrarily implement enrollment caps. Without action, Federal funding for CHIP 

will expire jeopardizing the health care coverage of more 

than 10 million children and pregnant women. 

(K) The People’s Budget permits the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate prescription drug 

prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers. Giving HHS 

the ability to negotiate prices, as the Department of Veterans Affairs currently does, will save Medicare $157 billion and will reduce costs for seniors. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) For non means-tested direct spending, the average rate 

of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period 

preceding fiscal year 2015 is 5.4 percent. 

(2) For non means-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11- 

year period beginning with fiscal year 2014 is 5.5 percent 

under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

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(A) The People’s Budget allows those who have lost a job 

through no fault of their own to claim up to 99 weeks of 

unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states for 

up to two years. According to the Economic Policy Institute, this would boost real GDP growth by 0.4 percentage 

points and increase employment by 539,000 jobs in 2015. 

(B) The People’s Budget also adopts President Obama’s 

reforms to improve system solvencies and incentivize job 

training. 

(C) The People’s Budget includes funding to replace SGR 

with a payment system that focuses on equity for primary 

care and protections for low-income beneficiaries. The 

budget pays for the reform through added overall revenues, which does not require cost to be passed to Medicare 

beneficiaries in any form. 

(D) The People’s Budget improves the Affordable Care 

Act by repealing the excise tax on high-priced health 

plans. Proponents of the provision hoped that this tax 

would slow the rate of growth of health costs, while raising 

revenue. However, in an effort to avoid the tax, employers 

who traditionally offer excellent benefits have started offering less generous plans. This is an ineffective tool to 

bend the cost curve. Since the tax is attached to premiums 

instead of coverage it has the potential to hit plans it 

wasn’t intended to impact. 

(E) The People’s Budget establishes a representative democracy that truly reflects the diversity and values of our 

nation by providing funding for the public financing of 

campaigns. This gives a voice to small donors that have 

been drowned out by dark money. Public financing keeps 

politicians accountable to the voters that elect them instead of to special interest money. In the era of the devastating Citizens United decision, big money has taken the 

reins of our election process. It is now more important 

than ever to provide candidates with effective alternatives 

to finance their campaigns. 

(F) The People’s Budget uses the Experimental Price 

Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) to calculate Cost of Living 

Adjustments (COLA) for Federal retirement programs 

other than Social Security. Affected programs include civil 

service retirement, military retirement, Supplemental Security Income, veteran’s pensions and compensations. CPIE is the most sensible and accurate measure of the real 

costs that seniors face in retirement, current underpricing 

of costs amount to cutting benefits for those on fixed incomes. 

(G) The People’s Budget makes a down payment of $820 

billion to help close the nation’s infrastructure deficit while 

protecting against climate change and creating millions of 

living wage jobs. The budget also helps boost private financing for critical state and local projects by creating a 

public-private infrastructure bank. The American Society 

of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the United 

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rent levels over the next decade just to make required repairs to roads, bridges, water, and energy systems. 

TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET 

ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as provided in subsection 

(b), any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may 

not provide for advance appropriations. 

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Advance appropriations may be provided for all 

programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a 

bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or any new 

discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution 

making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2016. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘Concurrent resolution setting 

forth the congressional budget for the United States Government 

for fiscal year 2016 and including the appropriate budgetary levels 

for fiscal year 2015 and fiscal years 2017 through 2025.’’. 

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

BUTTERFIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE

FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and declares that 

this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 

2016 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 

2017 through 2025. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 

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

Sec. 2. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 3. Major functional categories. 

Sec. 4. Direct spending. 

SEC. 2. 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: $2,885,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,001,837,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,122,928,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,262,675,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,412,112,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,570,317,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2022: $3,739,136,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,923,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,117,015,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,321,625,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $209,444,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $226,261,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $253,208,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $280,546,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $305,165,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $323,097,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $346,345,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $369,052,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $393,236,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $415,719,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total 

new budget authority are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,491,530,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,462,637,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,553,354,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,698,090,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,869,284,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,023,836,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,186,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,377,127,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,568,349,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,742,339,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget 

outlays are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,257,091,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,452,451,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,568,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,707,443,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,848,991,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,990,253,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,163,913,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,336,870,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,513,283,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,700,933,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: -$371,145,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$450,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$445,413,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$444,768,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$436,879,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$419,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$424,777,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$413,594,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$396,268,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$379,308,000,000. 


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(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The budgetary levels of the 

public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,024,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $19,703,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $20,395,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,078,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $21,753,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $22,413,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $23,061,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $23,719,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $24,385,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $25,022,000,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The budgetary levels of debt 

held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,807,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $14,338,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $14,876,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $15,438,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $16,016,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $16,605,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $17,232,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $17,886,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $18,566,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $19,278,000,000,000. 

SEC. 3. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The 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, $570,380,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $582,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,126,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $573,904,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $593,364,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $575,837,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $601,639,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $588,174,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $607,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $597,134 ,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $620,245,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $606,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $632,525,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $622,398,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $645,784,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $630,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $659,080,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $638,461,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $672,415,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $655,940,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $56,611,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,973,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $49,862,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,951,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $51,103,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,224,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $51,779,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,273,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $52,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,558,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $53,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,887,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $54,555,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,578,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $55,647,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,330,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $56,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,251,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $57,872,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,149,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,059,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,705,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,672,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,712,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,302,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,768,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,517000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,948,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,822,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,606,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 


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(A) New budget authority, $35,279,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,618,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $35,962,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $36,658,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $37,372,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,650,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $9,210,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,041,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $6,587,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,554,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $6,559,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,074,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $6,491,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,427,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $6,512,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,737,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $6,614,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,920,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $6,714,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,074,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,846,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,280,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,966,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,102,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,635,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,870,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,455,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $45,024,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,590,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,212,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $42,685,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,574,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $43,638,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,001,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $43,839,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,057,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $43,963,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,257,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $44,633,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,866,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $45,398,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,915,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $46,321,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,727,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $23,384,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,078,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $26,162,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,089,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $25,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,533,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $23,879,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,060,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $22,301,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,994,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,723,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,260,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,046,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,650,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,243,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,660,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,503,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,975,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $15,582,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,976,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, -$730.000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $14,606,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,487,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $14,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,383,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,656,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $13,902,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$406,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $14,460,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,066,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $14,422,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $14,755,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $15,425,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,736,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $245,892,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $122,661,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $176,674,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $146,865,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $131,913,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $156,511,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $123,250,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $155,123,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $122,563,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $141,858,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $124,274,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $124,077,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $105,359,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $117,792,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $107,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $116,434,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $109,091,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $116,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $111,012,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $116,517,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $48,976,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,311,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $28,102,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,794,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $18,642,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,629,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $14,820,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,036,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $14,754,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,819,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $14,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,835,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $14,687,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,049,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $14,708,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $15,556,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $14,790,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $14,642,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $14,922,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $14,712,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $167,660,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $116,847,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $166,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $170,992,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $147,556,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $161,185,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $144,976,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $148,166,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $149,874,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $146,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $147,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $149,495,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $152,965,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $149,868,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $156,609,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $153,664,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $158,238,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $157,731,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $159,178,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $160,116,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $523,793,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $534,537,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $567,859,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $571,527,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $592,821,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $594,697,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $618,482,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $619,697,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $650,054,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $640,838,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $669,658,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $669,578,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $703,692,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $702,828,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $736,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $736,533,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $772,527,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $772,045,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $808,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $808,818,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $597,870,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $578,208,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $582,723,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $582,652,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $592,008,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $591,924,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $659,492,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $659,296,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $705,139,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $704,988,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $755,603,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $755,441,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $853,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $852,997,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $876,724,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $875,621,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $891,991,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $890,628,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $989,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $994,440,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $552,562,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $542,072,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $562,214,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $553,285,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $565,415,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $554,225,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $578,484,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $574,423,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $591,965,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $586,272,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $605,932,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $599,737,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $626,224,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $625,034,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $637,171,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $631,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $648,928,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $636,719,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $671,986,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $664,262,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (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: 


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(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, $57,445,000,000. 

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, $178,175,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $177,617,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $177,070,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $179,863,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $173,734,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $173,836,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $182,946,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $183,353,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $187,113,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $186,926,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $190,682,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $190,233,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $202,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $201,895,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $198,729,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $197,995,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $195,068,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $194,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $208,439,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $207,621,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 


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Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $62,250,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,064,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $64,731,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $62,804,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,595,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $62,227,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,039,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $62,656,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,043,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $63,787,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,359,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $65,489,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,777,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $66,525,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,622,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $67,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $67,525,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $72,547,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $72,319,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $30,301,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,743,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,432,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,122,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,244,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,463,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,966,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,318,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,683,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,130,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,267,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,835,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,245,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,396,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,795,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $34,729,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,155,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $35,308,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,666,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $368,027,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $368,027,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $421,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $421,270,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $495,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $495,009,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $560,645,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $560,645,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $620,300,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $620,300,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $666,257,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $666,257,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $712,670,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $712,670,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $756,488,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $756,488,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $794,483,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $794,483,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $824,027,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $824,027,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, -$36,770,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$36,776,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$20,241,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$9,339,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,161,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,429,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$6,425,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,314,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$10,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$7,449,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$165,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, -$1,458,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$52,229,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$52,706,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $5,072,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,647,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $78,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,180,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $25,333,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,313,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, -$78,016,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$78,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$88,445,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$93,810,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,810,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$90,497,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,497,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$89,327,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$89,327,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$92,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,987,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$95,188,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$95,188,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$97,408,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$97,408,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$102,090,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$102,090,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$105,007,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$105,007,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $18,085,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $7,357,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $3,675,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $1,312,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $69,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $47,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $40,000,000. 

SEC. 4. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) This concurrent resolution retains the social safety net 

that has lifted millions of Americans out of poverty and protects both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and 

Medicaid from draconian spending cuts. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) 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. 

(2) For nonmeans-test 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. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: 

(A) For Medicare, this budget rejects proposals to end 

the Medicare guarantee and shift rising health care costs 

onto seniors by replacing Medicare with vouchers or premium support for the purchase of private insurance. Such 

proposals will expose seniors and persons with disabilities 

on fixed incomes to unacceptable financial risks, and they 

will weaken the traditional Medicare program. Instead, 

this budget builds on the success of the Affordable Care 

Act, which made significant strides in health-care cost containment and put into place a framework for continuous 

innovation. This budget supports comprehensive reforms to 


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give physicians and other care providers incentives to provide high-quality, coordinated, efficient care, in a manner 

consistent with the goals of fiscal sustainability. It makes 

no changes that reduce benefits available to seniors and 

individuals with disabilities in Medicare. 

(B) Any savings derived from changes or reforms to 

Medicare and Social Security should be used to extend the 

solvency of these vital programs and not be used to offset 

the cost of cutting taxes. 

3. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE STUTZMAN

OF INDIANA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and declares that 

this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 

2016 and sets forth 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 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 

Sec. 202. Reconciliation procedures. 

Sec. 203. Additional guidance for reconciliation. 

Sec. 204. Policy statement on reconcilation to repeal Obamacare. 

TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 301. Cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. 

Sec. 302. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency. 

Sec. 303. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. 

Sec. 304. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 

Highway Trust Fund. 

Sec. 305. Limitation on advance appropriations. 

Sec. 306. Fair value credit estimates. 

Sec. 307. Limitation on long-term spending. 

Sec. 308. Allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism. 

Sec. 309. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 

Sec. 310. Concepts, aggregates, allocations and application. 

Sec. 311. Rulemaking powers. 

TITLE IV—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 401. Direct spending. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the 2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the replacement of Obamacare. 

Sec. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the 

2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program. 

Sec. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. 

Sec. 506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. 

Sec. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. 


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Sec. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation reform. 

Sec. 509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity 

and upward mobility. 

Sec. 510. Implementation of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement. 

Sec. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve account for reforming SNAP. 

Sec. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security Disability Insurance Reform. 

Sec. 513. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program. 

Sec. 514. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. 

Sec. 515. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. 

Sec. 516. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement. 

TITLE VI—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 601. Policy statement on health care law repeal. 

Sec. 602. Policy statement on replacing the President’s health care law. 

Sec. 603. Policy statement on Medicare. 

Sec. 604. Policy statement on Medicaid State flexibility block grants. 

Sec. 605. Policy statement on Social Security. 

Sec. 606. Policy statement on means-tested welfare programs. 

Sec. 607. Policy statement on reform of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 

Sec. 608. Policy statement on work requirements. 

Sec. 609. Policy statement on a carbon tax. 

Sec. 610. Policy statement on regulation of greenhouse gases by the Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

Sec. 611. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. 

Sec. 612. Policy statement on tax reform. 

Sec. 613. Policy statement on trade. 

Sec. 614. Policy statement on energy production. 

Sec. 615. Policy statement on Federal regulatory policy. 

Sec. 616. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. 

Sec. 617. Policy statement on Federal funding of abortion. 

Sec. 618. Policy statement on transportation reform. 

Sec. 619. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 620. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized 

spending. 

Sec. 621. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. 

Sec. 622. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. 

Sec. 623. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 

Sec. 624. Policy statement on creation of a Committee to Eliminate Duplication and 

Waste. 

Sec. 625. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. 

Sec. 626. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. 

Sec. 627. Policy statement on scorekeeping for outyear budgetary effects in appropriation Acts. 

Sec. 628. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. 

Sec. 629. No Budget, no Pay. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. 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: $2,666,755,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. 

(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. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total 

new budget authority are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $2,804,255,329,803. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,795,462,458,903. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,865,997,991,741. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,000,376,760,861. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,108,966,585,790. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,172,280,451,129. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,271,239,346,757. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,353,376,032,969. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,385,534,274,531. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,492,980,109,634. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget 

outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,875,014,856,384. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,814,832,468,381. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,849,474,859,887. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,972,316,101,289. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,068,172,096,646. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,144,578,956,503. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,261,322,193,088. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,323,765,840,982. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,340,157,830,662. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,464,735,098,225. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: -$208,259,856,384. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$51,504,468,381. 

Fiscal year 2018: $8,656,140,113. 

Fiscal year 2019: $1,830,898,711. 

Fiscal year 2020: $31,237,903,354. 

Fiscal year 2021: $97,384,043,497. 

Fiscal year 2022: $127,365,806,912. 

Fiscal year 2023: $226,622,159,018. 


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Fiscal year 2024: $381,986,169,338. 

Fiscal year 2025: $440,912,901,775. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The budgetary levels of the 

public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $18,913,744,958,460. 

Fiscal year 2017: $19,314,491,964,331. 

Fiscal year 2018: $19,563,830,455,326. 

Fiscal year 2019: $19,857,958,879,371. 

Fiscal year 2020: $20,123,855,366,287. 

Fiscal year 2021: $20,351,214,337,587. 

Fiscal year 2022: $20,715,329,820,423. 

Fiscal year 2023: $20,901,532,189,180. 

Fiscal year 2024: $20,717,769,565,646. 

Fiscal year 2025: $20,684,027,272,338. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The budgetary levels of debt 

held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,703,981,750,475. 

Fiscal year 2017: $13,960,949,960,296. 

Fiscal year 2018: $14,067,434,872,731. 

Fiscal year 2019: $14,248,184,941,570. 

Fiscal year 2020: $14,422,683,320,242. 

Fiscal year 2021: $14,587,672,210,472. 

Fiscal year 2022: $14,936,858,695,742. 

Fiscal year 2023: $15,125,854,409,576. 

Fiscal year 2024: $14,963,760,099,108. 

Fiscal year 2025: $15,014,505,127,509. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary levels 

of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 

2024 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $578,280,777,857. 

(B) Outlays, $613,862,153,570. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,506,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $572,025,184,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $607,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $586,422,160,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $620,019,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $604,237,912,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $632,310,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $617,552,672,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $644,627,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $630,610,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $657,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $648,269,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $670,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $656,389,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $683,771,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $663,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $698,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $683,350,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $37,513,493,257. 

(B) Outlays, $41,995,505,479. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $38,762,853,450. 

(B) Outlays, $39,934,846,949. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,651,643,950. 

(B) Outlays, $38,866,220,775. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $40,528,536,020. 

(B) Outlays, $38,354,273,029. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $41,461,865,977. 

(B) Outlays, $38,697,741,578. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $41,925,063,701. 

(B) Outlays, $39,232,179,719. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $43,126,001,914. 

(B) Outlays, $39,982,610,336. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $44,095,485,241. 

(B) Outlays, $40,732,800,911. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $45,103,629,772. 

(B) Outlays, $41,553,888,595. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,133,401,274. 

(B) Outlays, $42,416,153,641. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $28,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,003,392,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,932,305,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,924,301,820. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,578,662,625. 

(B) Outlays, $29,357,268,851. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,226,743,853. 

(B) Outlays, $29,798,265,570. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,904,449,193. 

(B) Outlays, $30,387,989,039. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,583,742,872. 


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(B) Outlays, $30,957,291,773. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $32,292,588,187. 

(B) Outlays, $31,636,998,973. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $33,002,947,480. 

(B) Outlays, $32,338,214,946. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $33,741,782,114. 

(B) Outlays, $33,058,954,535. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $34,488,239,558. 

(B) Outlays, $33,794,801,398. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $-5,761,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,930,371,957. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$3,819,314,062. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,757,967,962. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$10,728,702,937. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,111,452,050. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$8,096,589,163. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,078,305,078. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$5,254,611,266. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,969,957,520. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$3,171,638,088. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,763,905,675. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$2,599,805,029. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,680,623,026. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$2,195,039,484. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,596,392,352. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$2,064,102,846. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,606,962,951. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$3,109,301,299. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,918,880,787. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $31,299,572,447. 

(B) Outlays, $33,745,933,147. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,804,397,584. 

(B) Outlays, $33,763,424,433. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,940,706,078. 

(B) Outlays, $33,072,114,262. 

Fiscal year 2019: 


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(A) New budget authority, $32,545,716,150. 

(B) Outlays, $33,019,236,283. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $32,800,053,945. 

(B) Outlays, $32,914,442,144. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $32,731,162,151. 

(B) Outlays, $33,002,142,690. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $33,463,492,711. 

(B) Outlays, $33,583,695,102. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $33,834,190,867. 

(B) Outlays, $34,011,836,980. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $34,301,960,627. 

(B) Outlays, $33,902,619,669. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $31,926,499,137. 

(B) Outlays, $31,416,919,831. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $19,898,010,335. 

(B) Outlays, $20,942,095,280. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $22,827,846,850. 

(B) Outlays, $22,957,388,865. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $21,738,376,840. 

(B) Outlays, $21,154,062,249. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,657,292,553. 

(B) Outlays, $20,032,522,337. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,587,456,346. 

(B) Outlays, $19,144,471,168. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,048,816,297. 

(B) Outlays, $18,608,414,371. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,995,149,863. 

(B) Outlays, $18,586,093,026. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,569,077,258. 

(B) Outlays, $19,145,484,076. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,766,828,555. 

(B) Outlays, $19,306,333,800. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,999,880,260. 

(B) Outlays, $19,600,090,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$3,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$16,616,676,000. 


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Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$12,373,102,500. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,620,296,710. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$10,252,355,063. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,997,848,520. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$8,800,690,294. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,586,750,251. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$6,903,060,242. 

(B) Outlays, -$27,479,356,095. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$6,522,465,808. 

(B) Outlays, -$21,768,710,970. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$5,741,907,919. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,819,106,102. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$4,965,387,525. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,305,538,861. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$3,990,905,601. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,635,008,871. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$3,370,433,193. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,844,501,407. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $32,470,539,628. 

(B) Outlays, $69,973,708,016. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $61,354,221,079. 

(B) Outlays, $61,459,750,057. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $62,202,314,885. 

(B) Outlays, $65,144,457,480. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $67,630,814,158. 

(B) Outlays, $67,324,272,537. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $68,886,671,678. 

(B) Outlays, $68,004,790,643. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,163,658,354. 

(B) Outlays, $69,472,273,861. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $71,515,161,060. 

(B) Outlays, $70,923,592,736. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,915,482,431. 

(B) Outlays, $72,212,261,043. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $74,164,815,548. 

(B) Outlays, $73,292,369,608. 


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Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $75,667,811,114. 

(B) Outlays, $74,468,932,745. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $7,082,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,927,516,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $7,688,082,500. 

(B) Outlays, $16,753,320,710. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $8,088,559,563. 

(B) Outlays, $15,382,887,620. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $8,381,194,111. 

(B) Outlays, $13,788,745,754. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $8,408,701,972. 

(B) Outlays, $12,567,244,658. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $8,304,604,699. 

(B) Outlays, $12,095,209,451. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $8,303,596,421. 

(B) Outlays, $10,936,853,095. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $8,358,935,928. 

(B) Outlays, $9,345,212,395. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $8,446,554,262. 

(B) Outlays, $8,890,070,466. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $8,578,595,232. 

(B) Outlays, $8,930,419,157. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $80,620,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $84,652,371,460. 

(B) Outlays, $90,413,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $86,829,771,467. 

(B) Outlays, $87,166,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,313,474,733. 

(B) Outlays, $85,090,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $87,600,206,105. 

(B) Outlays, $87,369,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $88,609,236,615. 

(B) Outlays, $88,976,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 


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(A) New budget authority, $89,849,057,844. 

(B) Outlays, $90,167,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $90,938,338,847. 

(B) Outlays, $91,346,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $92,345,533,818. 

(B) Outlays, $92,701,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $94,001,410,265. 

(B) Outlays, $94,334,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $356,215,596,566. 

(B) Outlays, $365,098,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $360,899,454,985. 

(B) Outlays, $365,047,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $362,983,956,484. 

(B) Outlays, $364,881,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $363,685,568,372. 

(B) Outlays, $364,491,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $373,679,065,768. 

(B) Outlays, $364,281,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $363,974,828,600. 

(B) Outlays, $364,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $363,806,363,913. 

(B) Outlays, $363,895,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $363,626,231,239. 

(B) Outlays, $363,693,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $363,258,019,916. 

(B) Outlays, $363,340,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $362,556,573,042. 

(B) Outlays, $362,722,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $577,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $577,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $574,936,390,472. 

(B) Outlays, $574,877,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $576,281,682,302. 

(B) Outlays, $576,241,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $635,992,586,992. 

(B) Outlays, $635,913,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $676,174,392,195. 

(B) Outlays, $676,081,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $721,343,299,702. 

(B) Outlays, $721,248,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $799,902,931,815. 

(B) Outlays, $799,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $815,174,505,146. 

(B) Outlays, $814,979,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $821,746,349,714. 

(B) Outlays, $821,637,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $914,308,332,995. 

(B) Outlays, $914,192,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $511,965,047,286. 

(B) Outlays, $513,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $477,846,923,208. 

(B) Outlays, $473,264,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $477,561,645,878. 

(B) Outlays, $467,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $474,689,337,990. 

(B) Outlays, $468,970,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $502,140,825,023. 

(B) Outlays, $496,703,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $487,249,815,351. 

(B) Outlays, $482,256,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $502,185,290,642. 

(B) Outlays, $502,042,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $508,544,506,797. 

(B) Outlays, $502,891,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $515,858,098,800. 

(B) Outlays, $504,805,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $531,835,180,620. 

(B) Outlays, $525,361,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $33,878,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. 

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 $166,579,024,441. 

(B) Outlays, $170,021,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,542,167,817. 

(B) Outlays, $164,087,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $162,507,078,640. 

(B) Outlays, $161,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, 174,058,258,503$. 

(B) Outlays, $173,248,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $178,729,646,992. 

(B) Outlays, $177,778,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $182,762,771,139. 

(B) Outlays, $181,819,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $194,775,102,635. 

(B) Outlays, $193,755,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $191,156,854,593. 

(B) Outlays, $190,134,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $187,957,947,124. 

(B) Outlays, $186,853,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $201,405,233,201. 


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(B) Outlays, $200,283,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $47,707,173,265. 

(B) Outlays, $51,229,224,208. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $50,772,740,952. 

(B) Outlays, $52,693,526,677. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $50,372,110,771. 

(B) Outlays, $51,732,859,609. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $51,813,152,904. 

(B) Outlays, $51,556,175,542. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $53,466,802,554. 

(B) Outlays, $53,290,287,822. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $55,249,674,911. 

(B) Outlays, $54,787,383,199. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $57,676,483,435. 

(B) Outlays, $57,175,876,713. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $59,454,977,724. 

(B) Outlays, $58,940,292,949. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $61,272,247,363. 

(B) Outlays, $60,740,753,844. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $62,947,151,651. 

(B) Outlays, $62,414,282,909. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $23,593,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,576,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,761,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,817,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,279,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,252,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,947,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,602,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,114,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 


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(A) New budget authority, $25,695,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,840,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $26,010,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $26,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,825,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $364,527,455,629. 

(B) Outlays, $364,527,455,629. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $410,767,708,539. 

(B) Outlays, $410,767,708,539. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $469,730,877,172. 

(B) Outlays, $469,730,877,172. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $517,032,292,681. 

(B) Outlays, $517,032,292,681. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $557,654,430,424. 

(B) Outlays, $557,654,430,424. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $583,121,216,629. 

(B) Outlays, $583,121,216,629. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $603,387,733,236. 

(B) Outlays, $603,387,733,236. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $618,088,639,892. 

(B) Outlays, $618,088,639,892. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $623,301,410,548. 

(B) Outlays, $623,301,410,548. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $620,928,755,085. 

(B) Outlays, $620,928,755,085. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$85,168,180,447. 

(B) Outlays, -$79,367,705,942. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,768,588,431. 

(B) Outlays, -$73,377,282,997. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$99,007,336,916. 

(B) Outlays, -$91,392,129,561. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$107,257,928,704. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,115,606,117. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$120,538,310,875. 

(B) Outlays, -$112,317,659,215. 


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Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$126,001,335,995. 

(B) Outlays, -$119,487,538,544. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$176,422,893,971. 

(B) Outlays, -$157,543,531,001. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$148,027,713,468. 

(B) Outlays, -$134,530,970,997. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$149,789,895,183. 

(B) Outlays, -$138,129,598,581. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$178,976,219,310. 

(B) Outlays, -$156,393,874,346. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$73,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$73,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$83,832,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$83,832,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$90,115,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,115,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$90,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,594,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$92,193,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$96,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$96,623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$99,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$99,437,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$104,343,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$104,343,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$111,213,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$111,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$117,896,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$117,896,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $57,900,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,289,626,954. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,715,564,000. 

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(A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,758,382,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,117,067,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

(a) SUBMISSION PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF OBAMACARE.—Not 

later than July 15, 2015, the committees named in subsection (b) 

shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives to carry out this section. 

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.— 

(1) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.—The 

Committee on Education and the Workforce shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $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 shall submit changes in laws within 

its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $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 shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION PROCEDURES. 

(a) ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS.— 

(1) ASSUMPTIONS.—In the House, for purposes of titles III 

and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair of 

the Committee on the Budget shall use the baseline underlying 

the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when making estimates of 

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subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent resolution, then 

such chair shall determine whether to use any of these adjustments when making such estimates. 

(2) INTENT.—The authority set forth in paragraph (1) should 

only be exercised if the estimates used to determine the compliance of such measures with the budgetary requirements included in the 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 after 

the adoption of this 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. 

(3) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES.—Upon the 

request of the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 

House for any measure, the Congressional Budget Office shall 

prepare an estimate based on the baseline determination made 

by such chair pursuant to paragraph (1). 

(b) REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW THROUGH

RECONCILIATION.—In preparing their submissions under section 

201(a) to the Committee on the Budget, the committees named in 

section 201(b) shall— 

(1) note the policies described in the report accompanying 

this concurrent resolution on the budget that repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the 

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and 

(2) determine the most effective methods by which the health 

care laws referred to in paragraph (1) shall be repealed in their 

entirety. 

(c) REVISION OF BUDGETARY LEVELS.— (1) SUBMISSION.—Upon the submission to the Committee on 

the Budget of the House of a recommendation that has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget may file with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of such Act 

and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(2) CONFERENCE REPORT.—Upon the submission to the House 

of a conference report recommending a reconciliation bill or 

resolution in which a committee has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of this section, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House may file 

with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 

302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(3) REVISION.—Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant 

to this subsection shall be considered to be allocations and aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act. 

SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FOR RECONCILIATION. 

(a) GUIDANCE.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on the 

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resolution pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974 and set forth in section 201. 

(b) PUBLICATION.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may cause the material prepared pursuant to subsection (a) to be printed in the Congressional Record on the appropriate date, but not later than the date set forth in this title on 

which committees must submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget in order to comply with the reconciliation instructions set forth in section 201. 

SEC. 204. POLICY STATEMENT ON RECONCILATION TO REPEAL 

OBAMACARE. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the reconciliation submissions set forth in section 201 shall fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), and the Health 

Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111– 

152). 

TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 301. COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR LEGISLATION TO INCORPORATE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS. 

(a) CBO ESTIMATES.—For purposes of the enforcement of this 

concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 

2016, an estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office 

under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any 

major legislation considered in the House or the Senate during fiscal year 2016 shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital 

stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(b) JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION ESTIMATES.—For purposes of 

the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, any estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 

economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(c) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in this section shall, to 

the extent practicable, include— 

(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (a) and 

(b)) of such legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning 

after the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution sets forth 

budgetary levels required by section 301 of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974; and 

(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the 

source of data underlying that estimate. 

(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 

(1) the term ‘‘major legislation’’ means any bill or joint resolution— 

(A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

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corporating macroeconomic effects) in any fiscal year over 

the 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 

(B) designated as such by the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget for all direct spending legislation other than 

revenue legislation or the Member who is chair or vice 

chair, as applicable, of the Joint Committee on Taxation 

for revenue legislation; and 

(2) the term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ means changes in revenues, 

budget authority, outlays, and deficits. 

SEC. 302. LIMITATION ON MEASURES AFFECTING SOCIAL SECURITY 

SOLVENCY. 

(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 or the Senate a 

bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least .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. 303. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, 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 amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the 

Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) and 

311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 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. 304. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF 

THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND. 

For purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or the 

rules or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that 

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way Trust Fund shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the 

transfer occurs. 

SEC. 305. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, 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’’; and 

(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); and 

(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. 306. FAIR VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. 

(a) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES.—Upon the request of the chair or 

ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, any estimate of 

the budgetary effects of a measure prepared by the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ‘‘credit reform’’ shall, as a supplement to such estimate, and to the extent practicable, also provide 

an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by such 

measure. 

(b) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES FOR HOUSING AND STUDENT LOAN

PROGRAMS.—Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office prepares an estimate pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 of the budgetary effects which would be 

incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and if the Director determines that such bill or joint resolution has a budgetary 

effect related to a housing, residential mortgage or student loan 

program under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

then the Director shall also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of such bill or joint 

resolution that result in such effect. 

(c) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the 

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termine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and 

other budgetary enforcement controls. 

SEC. 307. LIMITATION ON LONG-TERM SPENDING. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, it shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than 

the Committee on Appropriations), or an amendment thereto or a 

conference report thereon, if the provisions of such measure have 

the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of 

$5,000,000,000 for any period described in subsection (b). 

(b) TIME PERIODS.—The applicable periods for purposes of this 

section are any of the four consecutive ten fiscal-year periods beginning in the fiscal year following the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 308. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 

GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 

(a) SEPARATE OCO/GWOT ALLOCATION.—In the House, 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. 

(b) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 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 shall not apply to such separate allocation. 

(c) DESIGNATIONS.—New budget authority or outlays counting toward the allocation established by subsection (a) shall be designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(d) 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. 

SEC. 309. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF BUDGETARY 

RESOURCES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House, if a committee (other than the Committee on 

Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or offers any 

amendment thereto or submits a conference report thereon, 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 chair of the Committee on the Budget 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, for the purpose of enforcing 

this concurrent resolution, the allocations and aggregate levels of 

new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement 

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termined on the basis of estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the Budget and such chair may adjust applicable levels 

of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 310. CONCEPTS, AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION. 

(a) CONCEPTS, ALLOCATIONS, AND APPLICATION.—In the House— 

(1) upon a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust any allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent 

resolution accordingly; 

(2) any adjustments of the allocations, aggregates, and other 

budgetary levels made pursuant to this concurrent resolution 

shall— 

(A) apply while that measure is under consideration; 

(B) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and 

(C) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 

practicable; 

(3) section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) shall have 

no force or effect for any reconciliation bill reported pursuant 

to instructions set forth in this concurrent resolution; 

(4) the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels 

to reflect changes resulting from the most recently published 

or adjusted baseline of the Congressional Budget Office; and 

(5) the term ‘‘budget year’’ means the most recent fiscal year 

for which a concurrent resolution on the budget has been 

adopted. 

(b) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION.—In the House, 

for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement— 

(1) the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget 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 207 of this concurrent resolution; and 

(2) revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these 

adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 311. RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House of Representatives, and these rules 

shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

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TITLE IV—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 401. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution 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 five years following 

passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and 

workers’ wages increased. This resolution applies the lessons of welfare reform to both the Supplemental Nutrition 

Assistance Program and Medicaid. 

(B) For Medicaid, this resolution recommends conversion 

from direct spending to a discretionary program subject to 

appropriation. Pending this reform, this resolution assumes the conversion of the Federal share of Medicaid 

spending into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet 

each State’s needs. Such a reform would end the misguided one-size-fits-all approach that has tied the hands of 

State governments. Instead, each State would have the 

freedom and flexibility to tailor a Medicaid program that 

fits the needs of its unique population. Moreover, this resolution assumes the repeal of the Medicaid expansions in 

the President’s health care law, relieving State governments of its crippling one-size-fits-all enrollment mandates. 

(C) For the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 

recommends conversion from direct spending to a discretionary program subject to appropriation. Pending this reform, this resolution assumes the conversion of the program into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet each 

State’s needs. The allotment would increase based on the 

Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and 

beneficiary growth. Such a reform would provide incentives for States to ensure dollars will go towards those who 

need them most. Additionally, it requires that more stringent work requirements and time limits apply under the 

program. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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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year period beginning with fiscal year 2016 is 5.5 percent 

under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: 

(A) For Medicare, this resolution advances policies to put 

seniors, not the Federal Government, in control of their 

health care decisions. Those in or near retirement will see 

no changes, while future retirees would be given a choice 

of private plans competing alongside the traditional feefor-service Medicare program. Medicare would provide a 

premium-support payment either to pay for or offset the 

premium of the plan chosen by the senior, depending on 

the plan’s cost. The Medicare premium-support payment 

would be adjusted so that the sick would receive higher 

payments if their conditions worsened; lower-income seniors would receive additional assistance to help cover outof-pocket costs; and wealthier seniors would assume responsibility for a greater share of their premiums. Putting 

seniors in charge of how their health care dollars are spent 

will force providers to compete against each other on price 

and quality. This market competition will act as a real 

check on widespread waste and skyrocketing health care 

costs. 

(B) In keeping with a recommendation from the National 

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, this resolution calls for Federal employees—including Members of 

Congress and congressional staff—to make greater contributions toward their own retirement. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 501. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE 2010 HEALTH 

CARE LAWS. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that only consists of a full repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health 

Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 

SEC. 502. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPLACEMENT 

OF OBAMACARE. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, replaces the Patient Protection and 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. 503. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE 2010 HEALTH CARE LAWS. 

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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 Patient Protection and 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. 504. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE SUSTAINABLE 

GROWTH RATE OF THE MEDICARE PROGRAM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that includes provisions amending or superseding the system for 

updating payments under section 1848 of the Social Security Act, 

if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 505. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORMING THE 

TAX CODE. 

In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill 

or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 

the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 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 when the macroeconomic effects of such reforms 

are taken into account. 

SEC. 506. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 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. 507. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 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. 508. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRANSPORTATION 

REFORM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or 

conference report thereon, if such measure reforms the Federal 

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increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 

2025. 

SEC. 509. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE POVERTY 

AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY AND UPWARD MOBILITY. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or 

conference report thereon, if such measure reforms policies and 

programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward 

mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely impact 

job creation nor increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 

2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 510. IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEFICIT AND LONG-TERM DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution to accommodate the enactment of a deficit 

and long-term debt reduction agreement if it includes permanent 

spending reductions and reforms to direct spending programs. 

SEC. 511. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE ACCOUNT FOR REFORMING 

SNAP. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that reforms the supplemental nutrition assistance program 

(SNAP). 

SEC. 512. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR SOCIAL SECURITY 

DISABILITY INSURANCE REFORM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that reforms the Social Security Disability Insurance program 

under title II of the Social Security Act. 

SEC. 513. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM. 

In the House, the chair 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. 514. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure would 

not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 

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SEC. 515. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 516. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT. 

The chair 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 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 VI—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 601. POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE LAW REPEAL. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the Patient Protection and 

Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), and the Health Care 

and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–152) 

should be repealed. 

SEC. 602. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPLACING THE PRESIDENT’S 

HEALTH CARE LAW. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 Employer 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 

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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. 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 REPLACING THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW.— It is the policy of this resolution that the President’s health care 

law must not only be repealed, but also replaced by enacting the 

American Health Care Reform Act. 

SEC. 603. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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.—It is the policy of this resolution to protect those in or near retirement from any disruptions to 

their Medicare benefits and offer future beneficiaries the same 

health care options available to Members of Congress. 

(c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes reform of the Medicare program such that: 

(1) Current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in or 

near retirement. 

(2) For future generations, when they 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. 

(3) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for-service as an 

option. 

(4) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower-income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks. 

(5) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the 

Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term. 

(6) The Medicare eligibility age is gradually increased to 

keep pace with increases in longevity. 

(7) Medicare is simplified by combining parts A and B and 

reforms to Medigap plans are implemented. 

SEC. 604. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAID STATE FLEXIBILITY 

BLOCK GRANTS. 

It is the policy of this resolution that Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should be block granted 

to the States in a manner prescribed by the State Health Flexibility Act. 

SEC. 605. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Security. Since enactment, Social Security has served as a vital leg on the ‘‘threelegged stool’’ of retirement security, which includes employer 

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(2) The Social Security Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Social Security’s long-term financial challenges 

be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial 

condition of Social Security becomes more precarious and the 

threat to seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 

benefits becomes more pronounced: 

(A) In 2016, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be 

exhausted and program revenues will be unable to pay 

scheduled benefits. 

(B) In 2033, the combined Old-Age and Survivors and 

Disability Trust Funds will be exhausted, and program 

revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 

(C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds in 2033, 

benefits will be cut nearly 25 percent across the board, 

devastating those currently in or near retirement and 

those who rely on Social Security the most. 

(3) The recession and continued low economic growth have 

exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis facing Social Security. The 

most recent CBO projections find that Social Security will run 

cash deficits of $1.7 trillion over the next 10 years. 

(4) Lower-income Americans rely on Social Security for a 

larger proportion of their retirement income. Therefore, reforms should take into consideration the need to protect lowerincome Americans’ retirement security. 

(5) The Disability Insurance program provides an essential 

income safety net for those with disabilities and their families. 

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), between 

1970 and 2012, the number of people receiving disability benefits (both disabled workers and their dependent family members) has increased by over 300 percent from 2.7 million to 

over 10.9 million. This increase is not due strictly to population 

growth or decreases in health. David Autor and Mark Duggan 

have found that the increase in individuals on disability does 

not reflect a decrease in self-reported health. CBO attributes 

program growth to changes in demographics, changes in the 

composition of the labor force and compensation, as well as 

Federal policies. 

(6) If this program is not reformed, families who rely on the 

lifeline that disability benefits provide will face benefit cuts of 

up to 25 percent in 2016, devastating individuals who need assistance the most. 

(7) In the past, Social Security has been reformed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the ‘‘Greenspan Commission’’ 

which helped to address Social Security shortfalls for over a 

generation. 

(8) Americans deserve action by the President, the House, 

and the Senate to preserve and strengthen Social Security. It 

is critical that bipartisan action be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social Security. In this spirit, this resolution 

creates a bipartisan opportunity to find solutions by requiring 

policymakers to ensure that Social Security remains a critical 

part of the safety net. 

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cial Security sustainably solvent. This resolution assumes these reforms will include the following: 

(1) Adoption of a more accurate measure for calculating cost 

of living adjustments. 

(2) Adoption of adjustments to the full retirement age to reflect longevity. 

(3) Makes Social Security benefits more progressive over the 

long term, providing those most in need with a safety net in 

retirement. 

(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress and the President should enact legislation on 

a bipartisan basis to reform the Disability Insurance program prior 

to its insolvency in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security 

retirement system without reforms to the Disability Insurance system. This resolutions assumes that reforms to the Disability Insurance program will include— 

(1) encouraging work; 

(2) updates of the eligibility rules; 

(3) reducing fraud and abuse; and 

(4) enactment of H.R. 918, the Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination 

Act, to prohibit individuals from drawing benefits from both 

programs at the same time. 

SEC. 606. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that: 

(1) Too many people are trapped at the bottom rungs of the 

economic ladder, and every citizen should have the opportunity 

to rise, escape from poverty, and achieve their own potential. 

(2) In 1996, President Bill Clinton and congressional Republicans enacted reforms that have moved families off of Federal 

programs and enabled them to provide for themselves. 

(3) According to the most recent projections, over the next 10 years we will spend approximately $9.7 trillion on means-tested welfare programs. 

(4) Today, there are approximately 92 Federal programs that 

provide benefits specifically to poor and low-income Americans. 

(5) Taxpayers deserve clear and transparent information on 

how well these programs are working, and how much the Federal Government is spending on means-tested welfare. 

(6) It should be the goal of welfare programs to encourage 

work and put people on a path to self-reliance. 

(b) POLICY ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS.—It is the policy of this resolution that— 

(1) the welfare system should be reformed to give states 

flexibility to implement and improve safety net programs and 

that to be eligible for benefits, able bodied adults without dependents should be required to work or be preparing for work, 

including enrolling in educational or job training programs, 

contributing community service, or participating in a supervised job search; and 

(2) the President’s budget should disclose, in a clear and 

transparent manner, the aggregate amount of Federal welfare 

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SEC. 607. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORM OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL 

NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 

(a) SNAP.—It is the policy of the resolution that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be reformed so that: 

(1) Nutrition assistance funds should be distributed to the 

states as a block grant with funding subject to the annual discretionary appropriations process. 

(2) Funds from the grant must be used by the states to establish and maintain a work activation program for able-bodied adults without dependents. 

(3) It is the goal of this proposal to move those in need off 

of the assistance rolls and back into the workforce and towards 

self-sufficiency. 

(4) In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

is permitted to revise allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels, including discretionary limits, accordingly. 

(b) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes that, pending the enactment of reforms described in (a), the conversion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet each State’s needs. 

SEC. 608. POLICY STATEMENT ON WORK REQUIREMENTS. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the work requirements in 

the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program 

should be preserved as called for in H.R. 890, 113th Congress. 

SEC. 609. POLICY STATEMENT ON A CARBON TAX. 

It is the policy of this resolution that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses, and is not in the best 

interest of the United States. 

SEC. 610. POLICY STATEMENT ON REGULATION OF GREENHOUSE 

GASES BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the Environmental Protection Agency should be prohibited from promulgating any regulation 

concerning, taking action relating to, or taking into consideration 

the emission of a greenhouse gas to address climate change. 

SEC. 611. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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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 

earnings of private-sector workers have increased by just 1.6 

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 

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(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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job 

creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this 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 resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the 

reforms in this resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 

SEC. 612. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 more than 

4,400 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) 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. 

(4) It is estimated that American taxpayers end up spending 

$160 billion and roughly 6 billion hours a year complying with 

the tax code – a waste of time and resources that could be used 

in more productive activities. 

(5) 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. 

(6) 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 

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(7) The United States corporate income tax rate (including 

Federal, State, and local taxes) sums to just over 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. 

(8) 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. 

(9) 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. 

(10) 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. 

(11) The tax code imposes costs on American workers 

through lower wages, on consumers in higher prices, and on investors in diminished returns. 

(12) Revenues have averaged about 17.5 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. 

(13) Attempting to raise revenue through tax increases to 

meet out-of-control spending would damage the economy. 

(14) This 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. 

(15) Closing tax loopholes to fund spending does not constitute fundamental tax reform. 

(16) 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. Tax 

reform should be revenue-neutral and should not be an excuse 

to raise taxes on the American people. Washington has a 

spending problem, not a revenue problem. 

(b) POLICY ON TAX REFORM.—It is the policy of this resolution 

that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the 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 is revenue-neutral on a dynamic basis that provides for the following: 

(1) Targets revenue neutrality (relative to CBO’s baseline 

revenue projection) based on a dynamic score that takes into 

account the macroeconomic effects of reform. 

(2) Collapses the current seven brackets for individuals into 

just two, with a top rate of 25 percent. 


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(3) Simplifies the tax code to ensure that fewer Americans 

will be required to itemize deductions. 

(4) Gives equal tax treatment to individual and employer 

healthcare expenditures modeled on the American Health Care 

Reform Act. 

(5) Encourages charitable giving. 

(6) Repeals the Death Tax. 

(7) Eliminates marriage penalties and encourages families. 

(8) Repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. 

(9) Reforms the current Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) 

that is given in a yearly lump-sum payment and replaces it 

with a program that would allow workers to exempt a portion 

of their payroll taxes every month. 

(10) Reduces double taxation by lowering the top corporate 

rate to 25 percent and setting a maximum long-term capital 

gains tax rate at 15 percent. 

(11) Sets a maximum dividend tax rate at 15 percent. 

(12) Encourages net investment, savings, and entrepreneurial activity. 

(13) Moves to a competitive international system of taxation. 

(14) Ends distortionary special interest giveaways, such as 

the Wind Production Tax Credit. 

SEC. 613. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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) 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 

(3) 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. 

(4) 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. 

(5) 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). 

(6) The status quo of the current tax code undermines the 

competitiveness of United States businesses and costs the 

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(7) 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. 

(8) American businesses and workers have shown that, on a 

level playing field, they can excel and surpass the international 

competition. 

(b) POLICY ON TRADE.—It is the policy of this resolution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a modern and competitive United States international tax system in order to promote 

job creation in the United States. 

SEC. 614. POLICY STATEMENT ON ENERGY PRODUCTION. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the Arctic National Wildlife 

Refuge (ANWR) and currently unavailable areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) should be open for energy exploration and production. To ensure States’ rights, states are given the option to 

withdrawal from leasing within certain areas of the OCS. Specifically, a State, through enactment of a State statute, may withdrawal from leasing from all or part of any area within 75 miles 

of that State’s coast. 

SEC. 615. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY POLICY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Excessive regulation at the Federal level has hurt job creation and dampened the economy, slowing our recovery from 

the economic recession. 

(2) In the first two months of 2014 alone, the Administration 

issued 13,166 pages of regulations imposing more than $13 billion in compliance costs on job creators and adding more than 

16 million hours of compliance paperwork. 

(3) The Small Business Administration estimates that the 

total cost of regulations is as high as $1.75 trillion per year. 

Since 2009, the White House has generated over $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) resulted in more than $17 billion in compliance costs 

and saddled job creators with more than 58 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 September 2013, 

the EPA proposed a rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions 

from new coal-fired power plants. The proposed standards are 

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ditional regulations for existing coal plants are expected in the 

summer of 2014. 

(7) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly forty 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 Purdue University estimates that electricity prices in Indiana will rise 32 percent by 2023, due in 

part to EPA regulations. 

(10) The Heritage Foundation recently 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 REGULATION.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with the public burdened by excessive regulation, enact legislation that— 

(1) seeks to promote economic growth and job creation by 

eliminating unnecessary red tape and streamlining and simplifying Federal regulations; 

(2) pursues a cost-effective approach to regulation, without 

sacrificing environmental, health, safety benefits or other benefits, rejecting the premise that economic growth and environmental protection create an either/or proposition; 

(3) ensures that regulations do not disproportionately disadvantage low-income Americans through a more rigorous costbenefit analysis, which also considers who will be most affected 

by regulations and whether the harm caused is outweighed by 

the potential harm prevented; 

(4) ensures that regulations are subject to an open and 

transparent process, rely on sound and publicly available scientific data, and that the data relied upon for any particular 

regulation is provided to Congress immediately upon request; 

(5) frees the many commonsense energy and water projects 

currently trapped in complicated bureaucratic approval processes; 

(6) maintains the benefits of landmark environmental, 

health safety, and other statutes while scaling back this administration’s heavy-handed approach to regulation, which has 

added $494 billion in mostly ideological regulatory activity 

since 2009, much of which flies in the face of these statutes’ 

intended purposes; and 

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viding our Nation with a strong and prosperous future and expanding opportunities for the generations to come. 

(8) Requires congressional approval of all new major regulations (those with an impact of $50 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. 

SEC. 616. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. 

(a) FINDINGS ON HIGHER EDUCATION.—The House 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 of 2.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; and 

(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 

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(b) POLICY ON HIGHER EDUCATION AFFORDABILITY.—It is the policy of this 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 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.—It is the policy of 

this resolution to address the failings in the current workforce development system, by— 

(1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job training programs; and 

(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. 617. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION. 

It is the policy of this resolution that no taxpayer dollars shall 

go to any entity that provides abortion services. 

SEC. 618. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRANSPORTATION REFORM. 

It is the policy of this resolution that State and local officials are 

in a much better position to understand the needs of local commuters, not bureaucrats in Washington. Federal funding for transportation should be phased down and limited to core Federal duties, including the interstate highway system, transportation infrastructure on Federal land, responding to emergencies, and research. As the level of Federal responsibility for transportation is 

reduced, Congress should also concurrently reduce the Federal gas 

tax. 

SEC. 619. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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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 House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 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 Budget Committee 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. 620. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required 

by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap 

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 year 

2011 and 2012; 

(E) fourteen grant and loan programs, and three tax 

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(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 

changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. 

(b) POLICY ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAU- THORIZED SPENDING.— (1) Each authorizing committee 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 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. 621. POLICY STATEMENT ON BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 


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(1) The Federal Government collects approximately $3 tril- lion annually in taxes, but spends more than $3.5 trillion to 

maintain the operations of government. The Federal Government must borrow 14 cents of every Federal dollar spent. 

(2) At the end of the year 2014, the national debt of the United States was more than $18.1 trillion. 

(3) A majority of States have petitioned the Federal Government to hold a Constitutional Convention for the consideration 

of adopting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United 

States Constitution. 

(4) Forty-nine States have fiscal limitations in their State 

Constitutions, including the requirement to annually balance 

the budget. 

(5) H.J. Res. 2, sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (RVA), was considered by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2011, though it received 262 aye votes, it did not 

receive the two-thirds required for passage. 

(6) Numerous balanced budget amendment proposals have 

been introduced on a bipartisan basis in the House. Twelve 

were introduced in the 113th Congress alone, including H.J. 

Res. 4 by Democratic Representative John J. Barrow of Georgia, and H.J. Res. 38 by Republican Representative Jackie 

Walorski of Indiana. 

(7) The joint resolution providing for a balanced budget 

amendment to the U.S. Constitution referred to in paragraph 

(5) prohibited outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that 

fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. 

(8) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed the House with bipartisan support, but failed 

of passage by one vote in the United States Senate. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of this resolution that 

Congress should pass a joint resolution incorporating the provisions 

set forth in subsection (b), and send such joint resolution to the 

States for their approval, to amend the Constitution of the United 

States to require an annual balanced budget. 

SEC. 622. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 

CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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.—Congressional 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.—Congress, 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. 

SEC. 623. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF 

TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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.—It is the policy of this 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, 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. 624. POLICY STATEMENT ON CREATION OF A COMMITTEE TO 

ELIMINATE DUPLICATION AND WASTE. 

It is the policy of this resolution that a new committee, styled 

after the post-World War II ‘‘Byrd Committee’’ shall be created to 

act on GAO’s annual waste and duplication reports as well as 

Oversight and Government Reform Inspector General reports. 

SEC. 625. POLICY STATEMENT ON BUDGET PROCESS AND BASELINE 

REFORM. 

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(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. 

(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. 

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(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, 

(9) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the 

procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane 

and opaque. 

(10) Remove existing biases that favor higher spending. 

(11) 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; and, 

(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 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. 626. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

provide an analysis of how the Federal Government’s fiscal 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 

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(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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with 

the Congressional Budget Office and the public affected by Federal 

budgetary choices, adopt Governmentwide 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. 627. POLICY STATEMENT ON SCOREKEEPING FOR OUTYEAR 

BUDGETARY EFFECTS IN APPROPRIATION ACTS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 directs the Committee on the Budget to provide an allocation of 

budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations for 

the budget year covered by a concurrent resolution on the 

budget. 

(2) The allocation of budgetary resources provided by the 

Committee on the Budget to the Committee on Appropriations 

covers a period of one fiscal year only, which is effective for the 

budget year. 

(3) An appropriation Act, joint resolution, amendment thereto or conference report thereon may contain changes to programs that result in direct budgetary effects that occur beyond 

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of budgetary resources provided by the Committee on the 

Budget is effective. 

(4) The allocation of budgetary resources provided to the 

Committee on Appropriations does not currently anticipate or 

capture direct outyear budgetary effects to programs. 

(5) Budget enforcement could be improved by capturing the 

direct outyear budgetary effects caused by appropriation Acts 

and using this information to determine the appropriate allocations of budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations when considering future concurrent resolutions on the 

budget. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of the House of Representatives to more effectively allocate budgetary resources and 

accurately enforce budget targets by agreeing to a procedure by 

which the Committee on the Budget should consider the direct outyear budgetary effects of changes to mandatory programs enacted 

in appropriations bills, joint resolutions, amendments thereto or 

conference reports thereon when setting the allocation of budgetary 

resources for the Committee on Appropriations in a concurrent resolution on the budget. The relevant committees of jurisdiction are 

directed to consult on a procedure during fiscal year 2016 and include recommendations for implementing such procedure in the fiscal year 2017 concurrent resolution on the budget. 

SEC. 628. 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.—It is the policy of 

this 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. 629. NO BUDGET, NO PAY. 

It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to 

a concurrent resolution on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, 

a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on 

the budget, the payroll administrator of that House should carry 

out this policy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 

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account all compensation otherwise required to be made for Members of that House of Congress. Withheld compensation should be 

released to Members of that House of Congress the earlier of the 

day on which that House of Congress 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. 

4. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE VAN HOLLEN OF MARYLAND OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—Congress declares that this resolution is the 

concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that 

this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

year 2015 and for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 

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

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 201. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for job creation through investments and incentives. 

Sec. 202. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform the tax system to work for hard 

working Americans. 

Sec. 203. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the extension of expired or expiring tax 

provisions. 

Sec. 204. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Medicare improvement. 

Sec. 205. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Medicaid and children’s health improvement. 

Sec. 206. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for initiatives that benefit children. 

Sec. 207. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college affordability and completion. 

Sec. 208. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a competitive workforce. 

Sec. 209. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and service members. 

Sec. 210. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for modernizing unemployment compensation. 

Sec. 211. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy independence and security. 

Sec. 212. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 

Sec. 213. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for rural counties and schools. 

Sec. 214. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for additional funding for the Affordable 

Housing Trust Fund. 

Sec. 215. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the health care workforce. 

Sec. 216. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving the availability of long-term 

care services and supports. 

TITLE III—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 301. Direct spending. 

TITLE IV—ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS 

Sec. 401. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

Sec. 402. Adjustments to discretionary spending limits. 

Sec. 403. Costs of emergency needs, Overseas Contingency Operations and disaster 

relief. 

Sec. 404. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 405. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 


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Sec. 406. Reinstatement of pay-as-you-go. 

Sec. 407. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 501. Policy of the House on job creation. 

Sec. 502. Policy of the House on surface transportation. 

Sec. 503. Policy of the House on tax reform that works for hardworking families. 

Sec. 504. Policy of the House on building ladders of opportunity to help hardworking families join the middle class. 

Sec. 505. Policy of the House on women’s economic empowerment, and health and 

safety improvement. 

Sec. 506. Policy of the House on the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 507. Policy of the House on the Federal workforce. 

Sec. 508. Policy of the House on a national strategy to eradicate poverty and increase opportunity. 

Sec. 509. Policy of the House on rejecting the sequester. 

Sec. 510. Policy of the House on Social Security. 

Sec. 511. Policy of the House on protecting the Medicare guarantee for seniors. 

Sec. 512. Policy of the House on affordable health care coverage for working families. 

Sec. 513. Policy of the House on Medicaid. 

Sec. 514. Policy of the House on investments that help children succeed. 

Sec. 515. Policy of the House on immigration reform. 

Sec. 516. Policy of the House on national security. 

Sec. 517. Policy of the House on climate change science. 

Sec. 518. Policy of the House on financial consumer protection. 

Sec. 519. Policy of the House on the use of taxpayer funds. 

Sec. 520. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2015 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 2015: $2,439,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $2,775,502,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,882,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,989,720,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,114,729,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,251,847,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,398,020,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,561,491,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,783,024,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,010,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,426,906,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2015: $11,000,000,000 

Fiscal year 2016: $99,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $106,700,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $120,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $132,600,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $144,900,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $150,800,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2022: $168,700,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $228,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $286,900,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $341,000,000,000. 

(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 2015: $2,961,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,211,302,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,292,123,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,468,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,650,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,828,418,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,993,651,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,162,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,357,628,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,550,966,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,725,021,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2015: $2,941,778,000,000 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,165,536,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $3,288,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,422,685,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,603,529,000,000 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,776,636,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,947,247,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,138,897,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,318,454,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,497,245,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,685,225,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: -$502,501,000,000 

Fiscal year 2016: -$390,034,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$406,643,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$432,965,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$488,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$524,789,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$549,227,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$577,406,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$535,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$486,566,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$438,319,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate levels of the 

public debt are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2015: $18,468,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: $19,032,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $19,667,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $20,347,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,074,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $21,836,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $22,625,000,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2022: $23,426,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $24,206,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $24,963,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $25,659,000,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels of 

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2015: $13,360,000,000,000 

Fiscal year 2016: $13,815,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $14,302,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $14,828,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $15,433,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $16,099,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $16,818,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $17,597,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $18,373,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $19,143,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $19,915,000,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2015 

through 2025 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $596,720,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $590,195,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $570,380,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $582,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,126,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $573,904,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $593,364,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $575,837,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $601,639,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $588,174,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $607,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $597,134,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $620,245,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $606,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $632,525,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $622,398,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $645,784,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $630,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $659,080,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $638,461,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $672,414,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $655,940,000,000. 


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(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $56,611,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,492,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $47,443,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,338,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $48,862,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,904,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $50,103,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,923,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $50,779,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $51,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $52,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,904,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,555,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,595,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $54,647,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,347,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $55,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,232,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $56,872,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,166,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,805,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,612,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,059,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,489,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,672,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,226,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,302,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,881,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,948,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,619,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,606,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $33,030,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $34,279,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $34,962,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,293,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $35,658,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,969,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $36,372,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,667,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $5,557,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,830,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $5,210,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,933,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $5,587,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,811,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $5,559,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,867,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $5,491,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $5,512,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,673,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $5,641,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,714,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,091,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,846,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,927,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,966,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,484,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,102,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,652,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,453,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,173,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,870,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,239,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 


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(A) New budget authority, $40,024,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,523,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $41,212,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,593,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $41,685,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,721,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $42,638,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $42,839,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,935,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $43,463,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,510,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $44,133,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,298,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $44,898,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,394,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $45,821,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,222,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $20,856,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,038,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $21,384,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,024,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,162,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,954,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,879,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,073,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,801,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,247,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,223,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,692,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,075,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,525,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,692,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,145,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 


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(A) New budget authority, $22,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,168,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $23,003,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,483,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, -$17,323,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$29,458,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $15,582,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $13,976,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$730,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $14,606,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,487,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $14,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,383,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,656,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $13,902,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$406,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $14,460,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,066,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $14,422,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $14,755,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $15,425,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,736,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,569,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $89,236,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $107,892,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $95,061,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $108,674,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $98,765,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $109,913,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $100,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $111,250,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $102,623,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $112,563,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $103,958,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $114,274,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $105,377,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $95,359,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $106,192,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $97,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $106,234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $99,091,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $106,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $101,012,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $106,517,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $17,915,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,346,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $28,976,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,511,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $13,127,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,794,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $13,677,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,694,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $13,865,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,894,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,754,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,758,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,687,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,858,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,708,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $15,573,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,790,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $14,659,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $13,922,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $14,979,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2015: 


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(A) New budget authority, $102,248,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $107,566,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $107,660,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $101,847,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $121,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $114,742,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $127,556,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $122,435,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $134,976,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $130,666,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $139,874,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $136,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $142,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $140,745,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $147,965,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $144,868,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $151,609,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $148,664,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $153,238,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $152,731,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $154,178,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $155,116,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $487,040,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $481,126,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $515,793,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $529,317,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $565,428,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $567,738,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $590,501,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $592,459,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $616,322,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $617,964,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $647,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $638,478,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $667,158,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $667,120,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 


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(A) New budget authority, $701,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $700,370,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $734,468,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $734,075,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $770,027,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $769,587,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $806,404,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $806,360,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $539,669,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $539,342,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $583,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $581,608,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $584,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $584,052,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $588,208,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $588,124,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $656,892,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $656,696,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $704,939,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $704,788,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $756,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $756,741,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $854,870,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $854,597,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $877,624,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $876,521,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $890,991,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $889,628,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $986,230,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $990,740,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $516,580,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $512,007,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $539,209,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $533,999,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $548,714,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $542,073,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $553,915,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $543,191,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $573,984,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $567,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $587,465,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,673,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $601,432,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $594,862,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $621,724,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $620,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $632,671,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $626,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $644,428,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $632,304,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $667,486,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $659,847,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $31,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,621,000,000. 

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. 


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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 2015: (A) New budget authority, $153,079,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $155,672,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $168,175,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $172,347,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $169,070,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $172,607,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $166,734,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $166,775,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $177,946,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $177,528,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $182,113,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $181,595,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $185,682,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $185,175,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $197,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $196,926,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $193,729,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $193,080,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $190,068,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $189,340,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $203,439,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $202,706,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $56,043,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,048,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $58,250,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,956,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,731,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,350,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $60,804,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,253,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,227,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,498,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,656,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $61,823,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $62,787,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,291,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $64,489,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,767,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $65,525,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,639,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $66,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $71,547,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $71,336,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, $23,920,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,806,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $26,876,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,938,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $27,007,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $27,819,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,295,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $28,541,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,044,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $29,258,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,763,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,842,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,312,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,971,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,428,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,788,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,883,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,299,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $325,962,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $325,962,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 


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(A) New budget authority, $368,173,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $368,173,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $420,786,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $420,786,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $493,610,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $493,610,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $559,871,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $559,871,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $622,059,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $622,059,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $672,197,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $672,197,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $723,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $723,968,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $773,014,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $773,014,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $815,026,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $815,026,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $847,334,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $847,334,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, -$21,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$11,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, -$36,770,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$36,776,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$23,340,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$11,059,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,661,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,139,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$6,925,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$6,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$10,998,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$8,030,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$665,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,028,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$52,729,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$53,206,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 


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(A) New budget authority, $4,572,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $78,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $77,680,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $24,833,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,813,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2015: (A) New budget authority, -$106,825,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$106,825,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, -$78,012,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$78,012,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$88,445,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$93,810,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,810,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$90,497,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,497,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$89,327,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$89,327,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$92,978,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,978,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$95,188,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$95,188,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$97,408,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$97,408,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$102,090,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$102,090,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$105,007,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$105,007,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2015: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $18,085,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 


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(B) Outlays, $7,357,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $3,675,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $1,312,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $69,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $47,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $40,000,000. 

TITLE II—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 201. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR JOB CREATION 

THROUGH INVESTMENTS AND INCENTIVES. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for robust Federal investments in America’s infrastructure, incentives for businesses, and support for communities or other measures that create jobs for Americans and boost 

the economy. The revisions may be made for measures that— 

(1) provide for additional investments in rail, aviation, harbors (including harbor maintenance dredging), seaports, inland 

waterway systems, public housing, broadband, energy, water, 

and other infrastructure; 

(2) provide for additional investments in other areas that 

would help businesses and other employers create new jobs; 

and 

(3) provide additional incentives, including tax incentives, to 

help small businesses, nonprofits, States, and communities expand investment, train, hire, and retain private-sector workers 

and public service employees; 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure does not 

increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal 

year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 202. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REFORM THE TAX 

SYSTEM TO WORK FOR HARD WORKING AMERICANS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that reforms the tax system to reward American workers, 


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incentivize higher pay, and increase the after-tax take home income of working families, such as paycheck tax credits for American workers; incentives for workers to save a portion of their income; incentives for corporations to raise employee pay and/or provide employees with ownership and profit-sharing opportunities; incentives for investments in apprenticeships and other training programs that result in higher skills and better pay; provide tax relief 

to offset the additional and unique costs faced by two-earner families; a modernized and expanded Child and Dependent Care Tax 

Credit; or other reforms to the tax system to make it work for the 

middle class and those working to join the middle class, by the 

amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 

2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 203. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE EXTENSION OF 

EXPIRED OR EXPIRING TAX PROVISIONS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that extends provisions of the tax code that have expired or 

will expire in the future, including tax incentives for research and 

development, renewable energy investments, charitable giving, economic and community development, and tax relief for working families and small businesses, by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the 

following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal 

year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 204. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MEDICARE IMPROVEMENT. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that makes improvements to Medicare, such as— 

(1) new incentives to encourage efficiency and higher quality 

care in a manner consistent with the goals of fiscal sustainability; 

(2) payment accuracy improvements to encourage efficient 

use of resources; 

(3) innovative programs to improve coordination of care 

among all providers serving a patient in all appropriate settings; 

(4) policies to hold providers accountable for their utilization 

patterns and quality of care; 

(5) improvements to Medicare’s benefit design to make care 

more affordable and accessible for people with Medicare, including improvements to programs that provide assistance 

with premiums and cost-sharing to beneficiaries with limited 

incomes; and 

(6) extension of expiring provisions; 

excluding any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that makes any changes that reduce benefits available to seniors and individuals with disabilities in Medicare; by the amounts 

provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the 

deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to 

fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 


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SEC. 205. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MEDICAID AND 

CHILDREN’S HEALTH IMPROVEMENT. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that improves Medicaid or other children’s health programs, 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2025. Such improvements may include— 

(1) restoring the enhanced Medicaid reimbursement rates for 

certain primary care services to Medicare levels using Federal 

funds, and expanding the enhanced rates to rates to additional 

health care providers; 

(2) providing States with tools to streamline enrollment into 

Medicaid and CHIP and ensure continuity of care, and may include permanently extending the Express Lane Eligibility option for children or creating an option to provide 12-month continuous eligibility for adults in Medicaid; and 

(3) providing more options for States to expand access to 

home and community based long-term care services for seniors 

and persons with disabilities, and to improve benefits. 

SEC. 206. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INITIATIVES THAT 

BENEFIT CHILDREN. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that improves the lives of children by the amounts provided 

in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for 

either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. Improvements may include any of the following: 

(1) Changes to foster care to expand the number of at-risk 

children for whom effective supportive, prevention, and postpermanency services are provided to promote safety, wellbeing, and permanency for vulnerable children. 

(2) Changes to encourage increased parental support for children, including legislation that results in a greater share of 

collected child support reaching the child and policies to encourages States to provide access and visitation services to improve fathers’ relationships with their children. Such changes 

could reflect efforts to ensure that States have the necessary 

resources to collect all child support that is owed to families 

and to allow them to pass 100 percent of support on to families 

without financial penalty. 

(3) Regular increases in funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to put the Federal Government 

on a 10-year path to fulfill its commitment to America’s children and schools by providing 40 percent of the average per 

pupil expenditure for special education. 

(4) Funding for research designed to improve program effectiveness in creating positive outcomes for low-income children 

and families. 


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SEC. 207. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY AND COMPLETION. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that makes college more affordable and increases college completion, including efforts to: encourage States and higher education 

institutions to improve educational outcomes and access for lowand moderate-income students; ensure continued full funding for 

Pell grants; or help borrowers lower and manage their student loan 

debt through refinancing and expanded repayment options, by the 

amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 

2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 208. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPETITIVE 

WORKFORCE. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that helps ensure that all Americans have access to good-paying jobs, including: fully reauthorizing the Trade Adjustment Assistance program; funding proven effective job training and employment programs, such as year-round and summer jobs for youth; or 

new initiatives such as apprenticeships involving collaborations between employers, educators, and providers and job training services, by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 

would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal 

year 2025. 

SEC. 209. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA’S VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that— 

(1) improves access and enhances the delivery of timely 

health care to the Nation’s veterans and service members; 

(2) improves the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder 

and other mental illnesses, and increasing the capacity to address health care needs unique to women veterans; 

(3) makes improvements to the Post 9/11 GI Bill to ensure 

that veterans receive the educational benefits they need to 

maximize their employment opportunities; 

(4) improves disability benefits or evaluations for wounded or 

disabled military personnel or veterans, including measures to 

expedite the claims process; 

(5) expands eligibility to permit additional disabled military 

retirees to receive both disability compensation and retired pay 

(concurrent receipt); or 

(6) eliminates the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and veterans’ dependency and indemnity compensation; 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2025. 


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SEC. 210. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MODERNIZING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that modernizes unemployment compensation, including providing additional learning opportunities and training for unemployed workers, expanding program eligibility to more workers, or 

making the program more responsive to economic downturns, by 

the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not 

increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal 

year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 211. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that— 

(1) provides tax incentives for or otherwise encourages the 

production of renewable energy or increased energy efficiency; 

(2) encourages investment in emerging clean energy or vehicle technologies or carbon capture and sequestration; 

(3) provides additional resources for oversight and expanded 

enforcement activities to crack down on speculation in and manipulation of oil and gas markets, including derivatives markets; 

(4) limits and provides for reductions in greenhouse gas 

emissions; 

(5) assists businesses, industries, States, communities, the 

environment, workers, or households as the United States 

moves toward reducing and offsetting the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions; or 

(6) facilitates the training of workers for these industries 

(‘‘clean energy jobs’’); 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2025. 

SEC. 212. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FULL FUNDING OF 

THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time 

periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2015 to 

fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 213. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR RURAL COUNTIES 

AND SCHOOLS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that makes changes to or provides for the reauthorization of 

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of 2000 (Public Law 106–393) by the amounts provided by that legislation for those purposes, if such legislation requires sustained 

yield timber harvests obviating the need for funding under Public 

Law 106–393 in the future and would not increase the deficit for 

either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 214. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides additional funding for the Affordable Housing 

Trust Fund beyond the base levels provided by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan 

Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) by the amounts provided in 

such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 

2020 or fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 215. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE HEALTH CARE 

WORKFORCE. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that improves the contemporary health care workforce’s ability 

to meet emerging demands, by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the 

following time periods: fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal 

year 2015 to fiscal year 2025. 

SEC. 216. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR IMPROVING THE 

AVAILABILITY OF LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise 

the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that improves the availability of long-term care services and 

supports for senior citizens and individuals with disabilities, by the 

amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 

2016 to fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2025. 

Such improvements may include creation of a comprehensive longterm care insurance program; pilot programs or studies to determine the best options for improving access to long-term care services; or other improvements to Medicare, Medicaid, or other programs to provide increased access to long-term care. 

TITLE III—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 301. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) For means-tested direct spending, the average rate of 

growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period 

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(2) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average 

rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11-year 

period beginning with fiscal year 2015 is 5.1 percent under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for means-tested direct spending: The resolution rejects cuts to the social safety net that lifts millions of people 

out of poverty. It assumes extension of the tax credits from the 

American Taxpayer Relief Act due to expire at the end of 2017. 

These credits include an increase in refundability of the child 

tax credit, relief for married earned income tax credit filers, 

and a larger earned income tax credit for larger families. It 

also assumes expansion of the earned income tax credit for 

childless workers, a group that has seen limited support from 

safety net programs, and other impacts of a middle class and 

pro-work tax reform. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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. 

(2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11- 

year period beginning with fiscal year 2015 is 5.5 percent 

under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: For Medicare, 

this budget rejects proposals to end the Medicare guarantee 

and shift rising health care costs onto seniors by replacing 

Medicare with vouchers or premium support for the purchase 

of private insurance. Such proposals will expose seniors and 

persons with disabilities on fixed incomes to unacceptable financial risks, and they will weaken the traditional Medicare 

program. Instead, this budget builds on the success of the Affordable Care Act, which made significant strides in health 

care cost containment and put into place a framework for continuous innovation. This budget supports comprehensive reforms to give physicians and other care providers incentives to 

provide high-quality, coordinated, efficient care, in a manner 

consistent with the goals of fiscal sustainability. It makes no 

changes that reduce benefits available to seniors and individuals with disabilities in Medicare. In other areas, the resolution assumes additional funding for child care, early education, 

and children’s health; extension and expansion of the American 

Opportunity Tax Credit, which assists with higher education 

expenses; and funding certain tribal support costs that have 

been previously annually appropriated. It also would create a 

National Infrastructure Bank, an Apprenticeship Training 

Fund, and a Paid Leave Partnership Initiative, which would 

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TITLE IV—ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS 

SEC. 401. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as provided in subsection 

(b), any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may 

not provide for advance appropriations. 

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Advance appropriations may be provided— 

(1) for fiscal year 2017 for programs, projects, activities, or 

accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers to accompany this resolution under the heading ‘‘Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’ in an aggregate 

amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority, 

and for 2018, accounts separately identified under the same 

heading; and 

(2) for all discretionary programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a 

bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or any new 

discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution 

making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2016. 

SEC. 402. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 

(a) PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES UNDER THE BUDGET

CONTROL ACT.— (1) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM INTEGRITY

INITIATIVES.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, 

joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that appropriates amounts as 

provided under section 251(b)(2)(B) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the allocation to 

the House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by 

the amount of additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority for fiscal year 2016. 

(2) HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL PROGRAM.—In 

the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 

fiscal year 2016 that appropriates amounts as provided under 

section 251(b)(2)(C) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

Deficit Control Act of 1985, the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount of 

additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that 

budget authority for fiscal year 2016. 

(b) ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES.— 

(1) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TAX COMPLIANCE.—In the 

House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 

fiscal year 2016 that appropriates $9,572,000,000 for the Internal Revenue Service for enhanced enforcement to address the 

Federal tax gap (taxes owed but not paid) and provides an additional appropriation of up to $667,000,000, to the Internal 

Revenue Service and the amount is designated for enhanced 

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House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the 

amount of additional budget authority and outlays resulting 

from that budget authority for fiscal year 2016. 

(2) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM INTEGRITY ACTIVI- TIES.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that appropriates $151,000,000 for inperson reemployment and eligibility assessments, reemployment services and training referrals, and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of Labor 

and provides an additional appropriation of up to $30,000,000, 

and the amount is designated for in-person reemployment and 

eligibility assessments, reemployment services and training referrals, and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of Labor, the allocation to the House 

Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount 

of additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that 

budget authority for fiscal year 2016. 

(c) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 

report, the chairman of the House Committee on the Budget shall 

make the adjustments set forth in this subsection for the incremental new budget authority in that measure and the outlays resulting from that budget authority if that measure meets the requirements set forth in this section. 

SEC. 403. COSTS OF EMERGENCY NEEDS, OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY 

OPERATIONS AND DISASTER RELIEF. 

(a) EMERGENCY NEEDS.—If any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 

or conference report makes appropriations for discretionary 

amounts and such amounts are designated as necessary to meet 

emergency needs pursuant to this subsection, then new budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority shall not 

count for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or 

this resolution. 

(b) OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—If any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 

conference report makes appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 

Overseas Contingency Operations and such amounts are so 

designated pursuant to this paragraph, then the Chairman of 

the House Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocation 

to the House Committee on Appropriations by the amounts 

provided in such legislation for that purpose up to, but not to 

exceed, the total amount of budget authority specified in section 102(21). 

(2) LIMITATION.—Adjustments made pursuant to paragraph 

(1) shall only include funding appropriated to the Overseas 

Contingency Operations title of an appropriations bill for war 

activities and related diplomatic and development operations, 

or for activities related to countering urgent national security 

threats, and shall not include funding for regular, base budget 

activities. 

(c) DISASTER RELIEF.—In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report makes appropriations for discretionary amounts and such amounts are designated for disaster relief pursuant to this subsection, then the allocation to the ComVerDate Sep 11 2014 05:39 Mar 24, 2015 Jkt 049008 PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\HR049.XXX HR049

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mittee on Appropriations, and as necessary, the aggregates in this 

resolution, shall be adjusted by the amount of new budget authority and outlays up to the amounts provided under section 

251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

Act of 1985, as adjusted by subsection (d). 

(d) WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS.— (1) CAP ADJUSTMENT.—In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations 

for wildfire suppression operations for fiscal year 2016 that appropriates a base amount equal to 70 percent of the average 

cost of wildfire suppression operations over the previous 10 

years and provides an additional appropriation of up to but not 

to exceed $1.5 billion for wildfire suppression operations and 

such amounts are so designated pursuant to this paragraph, 

then the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations 

may be adjusted by the additional amount of budget authority 

above the base amount and the outlays resulting from that additional budget authority. 

(2) DEFICIT-NEUTRAL ADJUSTMENT.—The total allowable discretionary adjustment for disaster relief pursuant to section 

251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 

Control Act of 1985 shall be reduced by an amount equivalent 

to the sum of allocation increases made pursuant to paragraph 

(1) in the previous year. 

(e) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 

report, the chairman of the House Committee on the Budget shall 

make the adjustments set forth in subsections (b), (c), and (d) for 

the incremental new budget authority in that measure and the outlays resulting from that budget authority if that measure meets the 

requirements set forth in this section. 

SEC. 404. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, notwithstanding section 

302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of 

the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, 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 House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of applying section 302(f) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the level of total 

new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure 

shall include any off-budget discretionary amounts. 

SEC. 405. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 

AND AGGREGATES. 

(a) APPLICATION.—In the House, any adjustments of allocations 

and aggregates made pursuant to this 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. 


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(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 as allocations and aggregates included in this resolution. 

(c) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chairman of the House Committee on the 

Budget may adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in 

this resolution for legislation which has received final congressional 

approval in the same form by the House of Representatives and the 

Senate, but has yet to be presented to or signed by the President 

at the time of final consideration of this resolution. 

SEC. 406. REINSTATEMENT OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO. 

In the House, and pursuant to section 301(b)(8) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, for the remainder of the 114th Congress, 

the following shall apply in lieu of ‘‘CUTGO’’ rules and principles: 

(1)(A) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), it shall 

not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report if the provisions of such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have the net effect of increasing the on-budget deficit or reducing the on-budget surplus for the period comprising either— 

(i) the current year, the budget year, and the four 

years following that budget year; or 

(ii) the current year, the budget year, and the nine 

years following that budget year. 

(B) The effect of such measure on the deficit or surplus 

shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the 

Committee on the Budget. 

(C) For the purpose of this section, the terms ‘‘budget 

year’’, ‘‘current year’’, and ‘‘direct spending’’ have the 

meanings specified in section 250 of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that the 

term ‘‘direct spending’’ shall also include provisions in appropriation Acts that make outyear modifications to substantive law as described in section 3(4) (C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 

(2) If a bill, joint resolution, or amendment is considered pursuant to a special order of the House directing the Clerk to add 

as a new matter at the end of such measure the provisions of 

a separate measure as passed by the House, the provisions of 

such separate measure as passed by the House shall be included in the evaluation under paragraph (1) of the bill, joint 

resolution, or amendment. 

(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the evaluation under paragraph (1) shall exclude a provision expressly 

designated as an emergency for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles in the case of a point of order under this clause against 

consideration of— 

(i) a bill or joint resolution; 

(ii) an amendment made in order as original text by 

a special order of business; 

(iii) a conference report; or 

(iv) an amendment between the Houses. 

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evaluation under paragraph (1) shall give no cognizance to 

any designation of emergency. 

(C) If a bill, a joint resolution, an amendment made in 

order as original text by a special order of business, a conference report, or an amendment between the Houses includes a provision expressly designated as an emergency 

for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles, the Chair shall 

put the question of consideration with respect thereto. 

SEC. 407. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House, and these rules shall supersede other 

rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other 

such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 501. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON JOB CREATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) the economy entered a deep recession in December 2007 

that was worsened by a financial crisis in 2008—by January 

2009, the private sector was shedding nearly 800,000 jobs per 

month; 

(2) actions by the President, Congress, and the Federal Reserve helped stem the crisis, and job creation resumed in 2010, 

with the economy creating 12 million private jobs over the past 

60 consecutive months; 

(3) United States manufacturing has shared in this recovery 

with manufacturing employment having grown over the last 

five years, the first such extended period of growth since the 

1990s; 

(4) despite the job gains already made, job growth needs to 

accelerate and continue for an extended period for the economy 

to fully recover from the recession; 

(5) millions of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, in danger of seeing a middle-class lifestyle slip away 

or remain out of reach, and this issue is especially acute in the 

African-American and Latino communities, making it imperative that we push for extended job creation which is broadlyshared; and 

(6) further job creation is vital to ensure that the economy 

continues to recover and that the benefits of the recovery are 

more broadly shared. 

(b) POLICY.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should make it a priority to enact legislation to help create jobs in the United States, remove incentives to out-source 

jobs overseas and instead support incentives that bring jobs 

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(2) JOBS.—This resolution— 

(A) supports funding for President Obama’s six-year, $478 billion surface transportation reauthorization proposal; 

(B) supports efforts for additional job creation measures, 

including further infrastructure improvements, such as a 

National Infrastructure Bank that can be used for a wide 

range of infrastructure investments, including investments 

in expanding clean energy production and energy efficiency, and support for biomedical and other research that 

both creates jobs and advances scientific knowledge and 

health, or other spending or revenue proposals; 

(C) protects jobs in the United States by eliminating unjustified corporate tax breaks that encourage firms to ship 

jobs and capital overseas and shelter their profits in foreign tax havens, including provisions that permit U.S. 

companies to ‘‘invert’’ and pretend to move overseas purely 

to reduce taxes—revenues raised by the elimination or reduction of such tax breaks can then be invested in infrastructure improvements and other job creation efforts; and 

(D) supports a ‘‘Make it in America’’ agenda that seeks 

to expand on the recent recovery in manufacturing jobs 

and help encourage a resurgence of manufacturing in the 

United States through job creation measures, including the 

development of new domestic manufacturing institutes to 

conduct research into innovative products and materials, 

the establishment of a new investment fund of up to $10 

billion to help American-made advanced manufacturing 

technologies reach commercial scale production, and passage of other legislation to support manufacturing in the 

United States. 

SEC. 502. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: (1) Supporting the President’s six-year, $478 billion surface 

transportation reauthorization investment will sharpen America’s global competitive edge in the 21st century by allowing infrastructure expansion and modernization. 

(2) Many of our roads, bridges, and transit systems are in 

disrepair, and fail to move as many goods and people as the 

economy demands. The American Society of Engineers gives 

the United States infrastructure an overall grade of D+. 

(3) Deep cuts to our transportation funding over the next 10 

years will hurt families and businesses at a time when we 

have major infrastructure needs and workers ready to do the 

job. 

(4) Increasing transportation investments improves our quality of life by building new ladders of opportunity—improving 

our competitive edge, facilitating American exports, creating 

new jobs and increasing access to existing ones, and fostering 

economic growth, while also providing critical safety improvements and reduced commute times. 

(5) The highway trust fund provides critical funding for repairing, expanding, and modernizing roads, bridges, and transit systems, and according to recent CBO projections, it is expected to become insolvent this summer. This could force a halt 


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to construction projects, which would put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. 

(a) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House to provide funding in 

support of the President’s proposed six-year, $478 billion surface 

transportation reauthorization that prevents the imminent insolvency of the highway trust fund and increases investment in our 

highway and transit programs. Such an investment sharpens our 

competitive edge, increases access to jobs, reduces commute times, 

makes our highways and transit systems safer, facilitates American exports, creates jobs, and fosters economic growth. 

SEC. 503. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON TAX REFORM THAT WORKS FOR 

HARDWORKING FAMILIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Americans today are working harder than ever, but their 

paychecks are flat. 

(2) American families lost economic ground during the 2000s 

and the Great Recession. U.S. Census data shows that median 

household income fell 8.6 percent in real terms between 2000 

and 2013, and is still no higher than it was in 1989. 

(3) Studies by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation 

and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund 

(IMF), and Standard and Poor’s, among others, have concluded 

that increased income inequality is a threat to economic 

growth. 

(4) American workers are getting a smaller share of the 

growing economic pie. For the period 1948-1973, labor productivity increased 97 percent, and real hourly compensation for 

workers increased at a similar rate: 91 percent. But from 1973- 

2013, productivity rose by 146 percent and workers’ compensation rose by only 18 percent. 

(5) Since the 1970s, economic gains have gone overwhelmingly to the highest-income Americans, while the middle class 

and most other hard working Americans have been left behind. 

According to the Congressional Budget Office, between 1979 

and 2011, after-tax incomes rose five times as fast for the top 

one percent of households, whose annual incomes average more 

than $1 million, than they did for the middle 60 percent of 

Americans. 

(6) The tax code treats income from wealth more favorably 

than income from work by giving preferential tax rates on unearned income, and contains numerous, wasteful tax breaks for 

special interests. 

(7) The top one percent of households receives a disproportionate share—17 percent—of the benefit of major tax expenditures, according to the Congressional Budget Office. These 

preferences have exacerbated income and wealth inequality. 

(8) Past Republican tax plans have made reducing taxes for 

the wealthiest Americans the top priority. Republicans also 

would repeal Affordable Care Act tax credits which help millions of families buy affordable health insurance, abandon important expansions to the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child 

Tax Credit, and cut higher education benefits by allowing the 

American Opportunity Tax Credit to expire. The result has 

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proportionate share of any tax cuts to the wealthy. Such a tax 

increase would— 

(A) make it even harder for working families to make 

ends meet; 

(B) cost the economy millions of jobs over the coming 

years by reducing consumer spending, which will greatly 

weaken economic growth; and 

(C) further widen the income gap between the wealthiest 

households and the middle class by making the tax code 

more regressive. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of this resolution to reform the tax 

code to work for hard working Americans, to cut special interest 

tax breaks for the top one percent, and to close unproductive special interest corporate tax breaks and loopholes, without increasing 

the tax burden on middle-class taxpayers. 

SEC. 504. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON BUILDING LADDERS OF OPPORTUNITY TO HELP HARDWORKING FAMILIES JOIN THE 

MIDDLE CLASS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Even as the economy grows, wage stagnation and income 

inequality persist, requiring additional ladders of opportunity 

to help hard-working families join the middle class. 

(2) Young adults with a college degree are much more likely 

to be employed than those with just a high school diploma. In 

2013, the unemployment rate for young college graduates was 

7 percent versus 17 percent for those with only a high school 

degree, but the difference was even bigger during the economic 

downturn. 

(3) More than 8 million low-income students each year rely 

on Federal Pell grants to help pay for college. Pell grants are 

well-targeted; more than 73 percent of Pell grant recipients 

have family incomes of less than $30,000 per year. More than 

10 million college students also rely on the American Opportunity Tax Credit to help defray the cost of college, but that 

tax credit expires at the end of 2017. 

(4) As college costs have continued to rise, total student loan debt has quadrupled over the past ten years to more than $1.3 

trillion. More than 80 percent of that debt is from Federal student loans. In 2013, more than two thirds of those graduating 

from college had student loan debt, and the average debt had 

grown to $28,400. 

(5) The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax 

Credit (CTC) encourage work and are some of our most effective anti-poverty programs, and they have generally enjoyed 

strong, bipartisan support from Members of Congress and 

Presidents of each party. 

(6) Enhancements to the EITC and CTC enacted in 2009 lifted 1.6 million people out of poverty, including nearly one million children. Many military families are among the beneficiaries of these vital policies. 

(7) Wage inequality still exists in this country. Women make 

only 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, and the pay gap 

for African American women and Latinas is even larger. 

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able to take a paid sick day when they are ill. Millions more 

lack paid sick time to care for a sick child. 

(9) Nearly one-quarter of adults in the United States report 

that they have lost a job or have been threatened with job loss 

for taking time off due to illness or to care for a sick child or 

relative, and 87 percent of the United States workforce does 

not have paid family leave through their employer. 

(10) The real value of the Federal minimum wage today is 

at historically low levels, and has not been increased since 

2009. 

(11) Increasing the minimum wage would give a raise to millions of workers, lift many Americans out of poverty, and put 

more money in the pockets of individuals who are likely to 

spend additional income. This would help expand the economy 

and create jobs. 

(12) A higher minimum wage will reduce Government spending on Medicaid, public housing, nutrition assistance and other 

income-support programs that provide assistance to minimum 

wage workers. A higher minimum wage will also benefit businesses by increasing productivity, reducing absenteeism, and 

reducing turnover. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of this resolution to accomplish the 

following: 

(1) That the House should broaden access to college, including through new initiatives to make college more affordable, increase college completion rates, and lower student debt. This 

includes, but is not limited to, helping millions of families afford the cost of college by: permanently extending and improving the American Opportunity Tax Credit; maintaining Pell 

grants as the primary source of Federal grant aid; and accommodating legislation to help borrowers lower and manage their 

student loan debt through refinancing and expanded repayment options. 

(2) That the House should preserve key work and family supports by permanently extending enhanced refundability of the 

Child Tax Credit, permanently extending the increased Earned 

Income Tax Credit benefits for married couples and families 

with 3 or more children, and expanding the Earned Income 

Tax Credit for childless workers and non-custodial parents. 

(3) That the House should make a positive difference in the 

lives of women, enacting measures to address economic equality and support work and family balance through earned paid 

sick leave, and earned paid and expanded family and medical 

leave. The resolution provides funding to help States establish 

paid leave programs. 

(4) That women receive equal pay for equal work. 

(5) That the House should pass an increase in the minimum 

wage. A higher minimum wage will benefit both workers and 

the economy as a whole. 

SEC. 505. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, AND HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Wage inequality still exists in this country. Women make 

only 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, and the pay gap 

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(2) Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, 

and the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation over the 

last 45 years. 

(3) More than 40 million private sector workers in this country—including more than 13 million working women—are not 

able to take a paid sick day when they are ill. Millions more 

lack paid sick time to care for a sick child. 

(4) Nearly one-quarter of adults in the U.S. report that they 

have lost a job or have been threatened with job loss for taking 

time off due to illness or to care for a sick child or relative. 

(5) Fully 87 percent of the U.S. workforce does not have paid 

family leave through their employers, and more than 60 percent of the workforce does not have paid personal medical 

leave through an employer-provided temporary disability program, which some new mothers use. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress should 

make a positive difference in the lives of women, enacting measures to address economic equality and women’s health and safety. 

Those measures include the following: 

(1) To address economic fairness, Congress should enact the 

Paycheck Fairness Act, increase the minimum wage, support 

women entrepreneurs and small businesses, and support work 

and family balance through earned paid sick leave, and earned 

paid and expanded Family and Medical leave. 

(2) To address health and safety concerns, Congress should 

increase funding for the prevention and treatment of women’s 

health issues such as breast cancer and heart disease, support 

access to family planning, and enact measures to prevent and 

protect women from domestic violence. 

SEC. 506. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Over the years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 

has faced funding shortfalls and was unprepared to meet the 

demands of a new generation of returning veterans. 

(2) Access to quality health care and veterans’ benefits has 

been an ongoing challenge for the VA, highlighted most recently in the ongoing claims backlog and veterans waiting 

months for health care appointments. 

(3) Providing health care where veterans live and ensuring 

a sufficient number of health care professionals, especially in 

the area of mental health treatment, have also been challenges. 

(4) The Government shutdown in the fall of 2013 led to furloughs at the VA that slowed the processing of benefit claims. 

(5) The President’s budget includes an 8 percent increase 

over current year funding, which provides the resources to improve the timely delivery and the quality of health care services, and to address other urgent issues, such as ending veterans’ homelessness. 

(6) The VA currently has advance appropriations for 85 percent of its discretionary budget. The residual 15 percent, which 

includes funding for the day-to-day operations at the Veterans 

Benefits Administration, remains vulnerable to a Government 

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(7) Congress provided the authority to expand advance appropriations for VA’s three largest mandatory programs in the 

FY 2015 Omnibus; Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act (Public Law 113–235). 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) the President’s requested level for veterans’ discretionary 

programs be fully supported so that the VA has the resources 

it needs to ensure veterans get the benefits they earned in a 

timely fashion; 

(2) advance appropriations be expanded to cover all of VA’s 

discretionary budget to prevent delays in veterans’ benefits 

and services during a Government shutdown; 

(3) the VA submit along with its annual budget a ‘‘FutureYears Veterans Program’’ that projects its needs over five years 

to help facilitate the appropriations and oversight processes; 

and 

(4) sufficient resources are provided for the VA’s Office of the 

Inspector General to guarantee veterans are properly served 

and that resources are spent efficiently. 

SEC. 507. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Federal workforce provides vital services to our nation on a daily basis. It includes those who patrol and secure 

our borders, take care of our veterans, help run our airports, 

counter cyber-attacks, find cures to deadly diseases, and keep 

our food supply safe. 

(2) Last year alone, Federal employees addressed a wide 

range of national priorities, from responding to the Ebola outbreak to helping reduce veterans’ homelessness to helping millions obtain affordable health care. 

(3) Veterans make up 30 percent of the Federal workforce. 

(4) Many Federal workers are paid at a rate that is far below 

their private sector counterparts. 

(5) The Federal workforce is older than in past decades and 

older than the private sector workforce. It is estimated that 

twenty-five percent of the Federal workforce intends to retire 

over the next five years. 

(6) Over the last five years, the Federal workforce has con- tributed more than $150 billion toward reducing the country’s 

deficits in the form of pay freezes, pay raises insufficient to 

keep pace with inflation, and increased retirement contributions. 

(7) The Federal workforce endured furloughs from sequestration and the 16-day Government shutdown. 

(8) Since 1975, the security and non-security parts of the 

Federal workforce have declined 33 and 38 percent, respectively, relative to the population. 

(9) Nearly all of the increase in the Federal civilian workforce from 2001 and 2014 is due to increases at security-related 

agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of 

Homeland Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the 

Department of Justice. 

(10) Proposals to reduce the size of the workforce at non-security agencies by 10 percent have excluded an assessment of 

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(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Federal employees 

should not be targeted to achieve further reductions in the deficit 

as they have already contributed more than their fair share, that 

Federal workers should be compensated with pay and benefits at 

a level that enables the Government to attract high quality people—which is especially important during this period when more 

workers will be retiring—and that no proposal to reduce the size 

of the workforce should be considered without an assessment of its 

impact on Government services. 

SEC. 508. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON A NATIONAL STRATEGY TO 

ERADICATE POVERTY AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Access to opportunity should be the right of every American. 

(2) Poverty has declined by more than one-third since 1967. 

Federal programs and tax policies that strengthen economic security and increase opportunity have played an important role 

in this decline. Continued Federal support is essential to build 

on these gains. 

(3) Social Security has played a major role in reducing poverty. Without it, the poverty rate in 2013 would have been 8.6 

percentage points higher. Its positive impact on older Americans is even starker, lowering the poverty rate among this 

group by nearly 40 percentage points. 

(4) The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program alone 

lifts nearly 5 million people out of poverty, including over 2 

million children. School breakfast and lunch programs help 

keep children ready to learn, allowing them to reach their full 

potential. 

(5) Medicaid improves health, access to health care, and financial security. Medicaid coverage lowers infant, child, and 

adult mortality rates. Medicaid coverage virtually eliminates 

catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditures, providing 

much needed financial security and peace of mind. 

(6) The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax 

Credit (CTC) together lift over 9 million people, including 5 

million children, out of poverty. President Ronald Reagan proposed the major EITC expansion in the 1986 Tax Reform Act, 

which he referred to as ‘‘the best antipoverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress’’. 

Studies indicate that children in families that receive the type 

of income supports EITC and CTC offer do better at school and 

have higher incomes as adults. 

(7) Antipoverty programs have increasingly been focused on 

encouraging and rewarding work for those who are able. The 

programs can empower their beneficiaries to rise to the middle 

class through job training, educational assistance, adequate 

nutrition, housing and health care. 

(8) Despite our progress, there is still work to be done. Nearly 50 million Americans still live below the poverty line. Parental income still has a major impact on children’s income after 

they become adults. 

(9) There remain significant disparities across racial and ethnic lines. At the end of 2013, the unemployment rate for whites 

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percent for African Americans. The poverty rate among African 

Americans and Hispanics is nearly double that for whites. Disparities in wealth are even starker, with white households having nearly 13 times the median wealth of African American 

households and 11 times the median wealth of Hispanic households. 

(10) The minimum wage has not changed since 2007 and is 

worth less today than it was in real terms at the beginning of 

1950. Raising the minimum could lift millions out of poverty. 

(11) Some areas of the country have been left behind. They 

face persistent high levels of poverty and joblessness. Residents of these areas often lack access to quality schools, affordable health care, and adequate job opportunities. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the sense of the House to support a goal of developing a national strategy to eliminate poverty, with the initial 

goal of cutting poverty in half in ten years, and to extend equitable 

access to economic opportunity to all Americans. The strategy must 

include a multi-pronged approach that would: 

(1) Ensure a livable wage for workers, including raising the 

minimum wage so that a full time worker earns enough to be 

above the poverty line. 

(2) Provide education and job training to make sure workers 

have the skills to succeed. 

(3) Provide supports for struggling families in difficult economic times and while developing skills. 

(4) Remove barriers and obstacles that prevent individuals 

from taking advantage of economic and educational opportunities. 

(5) Provide supports for the most vulnerable who are not 

able to work: seniors, the severely disabled, and children. 

As the strategy is developed and implemented, Congress must work 

to protect low-income and middle-class Americans from the negative impacts of budget cuts on the critical domestic programs that 

help millions of struggling American families. The strategy should 

maximize the impact of antipoverty programs across Federal, state, 

and local governments. Improving the effective coordination and 

oversight across agencies and implementing a true unity of programs under a ‘‘whole of government’’ approach to shared goals and 

client-based outcomes will help to streamline access, improve service delivery, and strengthen and extend the reach of every Federal 

dollar to fight poverty. The plan should consider additional targeting of spending toward persistent poverty areas to revitalize 

these areas of pervasive historical poverty, unemployment, and 

general distress. For example, the idea of targeting ten percent of 

certain Federal funding to areas where twenty percent or more of 

the population has been living below the poverty line for at least 

thirty years should be explored. 

SEC. 509. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON REJECTING THE SEQUESTER. 

(b) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Reductions to discretionary programs necessitated by the 

Budget Control Act of 2011 caps will harm national security 

and important domestic investments. 

(2) The caps took effect when Congress could not reach 

agreement on the deficit reduction goal established in that Act. 

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were designed to be a sword of Damocles, so austere and infeasible that they would motivate compromise on spending reductions and revenue increases. 

(3) An important feature of the Act was its equal treatment 

for the defense and non-defense portions of the budget, which 

was to serve as an incentive to reach agreement for Members 

with varying priorities. 

(4) The Act provided special procedures for certain program 

integrity efforts to encourage full funding. These efforts pay for 

themselves by making sure benefits go only to those who are 

eligible and taxes are paid as required by law. These procedures should be expanded where there is well documented evidence of effective efforts. 

(4) Providing relief from unrealistically low spending caps by 

circumventing existing law is neither responsible nor transparent. Emergency and overseas contingency operations adjustments, which are not controlled by the caps, should not be used 

to fund base spending. 

(5) The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 took an important 

first step in correcting the overly restrictive caps, providing relief in 2014 and 2015 in a fiscally responsible way. This budget 

continues that effort. 

(a) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) the Budget Control Act should be amended to increase its 

overly austere spending limits to the levels included in this 

resolution; 

(2) increases in both defense and non-defense will make 

room for a range of domestic and security investments that will 

accelerate growth and expand opportunity; and 

(3) additional special procedures should be established to improve tax code enforcement and to reduce improper payments 

in the unemployment insurance program as permitted in this 

resolution. 

SEC. 510. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 59 million Americans currently receive earned 

Social Security benefits and, for most, Social Security’s modest 

benefits provide the majority of their income. 

(2) Social Security benefits are becoming more critical to providing retirement income as fewer and fewer workers have access to traditional defined benefit retirement plans and many 

workers are unable to save adequate resources in retirement 

savings accounts. 

(3) More than half of disabled workers receiving Social Security insurance payments would have fallen into poverty if they 

had not earned Social Security to protect them when they became severely disabled or terminally ill. 

(4) The Social Security trust funds have a combined balance 

of $2.8 trillion, built by contributions from American workers, 

enough to pay 100 percent of earned benefits until 2033. 

(5) Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) and Old Age 

and Survivors Insurance (OASI) systems are intertwined both 

in their benefit structure and in their revenues—DI recipients 

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ficiaries in each category have helped finance the other category even if they will never receive those benefits. 

(6) In the short-term, the projected shortfall in the DI trust 

fund should be addressed through changes that permit Social 

Security to use its existing overall resources to fund DI benefits. 

(a) POLICY.—This resolution assumes action by the House of Representatives to enact legislation that uses Social Security’s existing 

reserves to prevent cuts in Social Security’s earned benefits, and 

makes no changes to Social Security that involve reductions in 

earned Social Security benefits. 

SEC. 511. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON PROTECTING THE MEDICARE 

GUARANTEE FOR SENIORS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) senior citizens and persons with disabilities highly value 

the Medicare program and rely on Medicare to guarantee their 

health and financial security; 

(2) in 2015, 55,300,000 people will rely on Medicare for coverage of hospital stays, physician visits, prescription drugs, 

and other necessary medical goods and services; 

(3) the Medicare program has lower administrative costs 

than private insurance, and Medicare program costs per enrollee have grown at a slower rate than private insurance for 

a given level of benefits; 

(4) people with Medicare already have the ability to choose 

a private insurance plan within Medicare through the Medicare Advantage option, yet more than 70 percent of Medicare 

beneficiaries chose the traditional fee-for-service program instead of a private plan in 2014; 

(5) rising health care costs are not unique to Medicare or 

other Federal health programs, they are endemic to the entire 

health care system; 

(6) converting Medicare into a voucher for the purchase of 

health insurance will merely force seniors and individuals with 

disabilities to pay much higher premiums if they want to use 

their voucher to purchase traditional Medicare coverage; 

(7) a voucher system in which the voucher payment fails to 

keep pace with growth in health costs would expose seniors 

and persons with disabilities on fixed incomes to unacceptable 

financial risks; 

(8) shifting more health care costs onto Medicare beneficiaries would not reduce overall health care costs, instead it 

would mean beneficiaries would face higher premiums, eroding 

coverage, or both; and 

(9) versions of voucher policies that do not immediately end 

the traditional Medicare program will merely set it up for a 

death spiral as private plans siphon off healthier and less expensive beneficiaries, leaving the sickest beneficiaries in a program that will wither away. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the Medicare guarantee for seniors and persons with disabilities should be preserved 

and strengthened, and that any legislation to end the Medicare 

guarantee, financially penalize people for choosing traditional 

Medicare, or shift rising health care costs onto seniors by replacing 


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Medicare with vouchers or premium support for the purchase of 

health insurance, should be rejected. 

SEC. 512. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE 

COVERAGE FOR WORKING FAMILIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) making health care coverage affordable and accessible for 

all American families will improve families’ health and economic security, which will make the economy stronger; 

(2) 16,400,000 uninsured individuals have gained health coverage so far as a result of the Affordable Care Act, and the uninsured rate for working-age adults has dropped from 20.3 percent to 13.2 percent since October 2013, when the ACA marketplaces opened for business; 

(3) the Affordable Care Act will expand affordable coverage 

for up to 25,000,000 people by the end of the decade who would 

otherwise be uninsured; 

(4) the Affordable Care Act ensures the right to equal treatment for people who have preexisting health conditions and for 

women; 

(5) the Affordable Care Act ensures that health insurance 

coverage will always include basic necessary services such as 

prescription drugs, mental health care, and maternity care and 

that insurance companies cannot impose lifetime or annual 

limits on these benefits; 

(6) the Affordable Care Act increases transparency in health 

care, helping to reduce health care cost growth by requiring 

transparency around hospital charges, insurer cost-sharing, 

and kick-back payments from pharmaceutical companies to 

physicians; 

(7) the Affordable Care Act reforms Federal health entitlements by using nearly every health cost-containment provision 

experts recommend, including new incentives to reward quality 

and coordination of care rather than simply quantity of services provided, new tools to crack down on fraud, and the elimination of excessive taxpayer subsidies to private insurance 

plans, and since 2011, national health expenditures have 

grown at the slowest rate on record; 

(8) health care spending per capita in the United States grew 

in 2011, 2012, and 2013 at the lowest rates on record, and the 

Congressional Budget Office now projects that the Affordable 

Care Act’s coverage provisions will cost a full 33 percent less 

in 2019 than the agency originally estimated when the Act became law in 2010; and 

(7) the Affordable Care Act will reduce the Federal deficit by 

more than $1,000,000,000,000 over the next 20 years. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the law of the land 

should support making affordable health care coverage available to 

every American family, and therefore the Affordable Care Act 

should not be repealed. 

SEC. 513. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON MEDICAID. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) Medicaid is a central component of the Nation’s health 

care safety net, and will provide health coverage to 69,000,000 

Americans in 2015, including 1 in 3 children; 


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(2) Medicaid improves health outcomes, access to health 

services, and financial security; 

(3) seniors, people with disabilities, and children account for 

about three-fourths of Medicaid program spending and would 

be at risk of losing access to health care under any policy to 

sever the link between Medicaid funding and the actual costs 

of providing services to the currently eligible Medicaid population; 

(4) Medicaid is the primary payer for long-term care in the 

United States, providing financial assistance to seniors and 

people with disabilities facing significant out-of-pocket costs for 

in-home and nursing home services; and 

(5) an estimated 7 in 10 Americans aged 65 or older will 

need long-term services and supports at some point in their 

lives. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the important 

health care safety net for children, senior citizens, people with disabilities, and vulnerable Americans provided by Medicaid should be 

preserved and should not be dismantled by converting Medicaid 

into a block grant, per capita cap, or other financing arrangement 

that would limit Federal contributions and render the program incapable of responding to increased need that may result from 

trends in demographics or health care costs or from economic conditions. 

SEC. 514. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON INVESTMENTS THAT HELP CHILDREN SUCCEED. 

(b) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Investments in early childhood benefit the economy as a whole, generating at least $7 in return for every $1 invested 

by lowering the need for spending on other services—such as 

remedial education, grade repetition, and special education— 

and increasing productivity and earnings for those children as 

adults. 

(2) High-quality, affordable child care helps two generations 

to succeed, increasing employment and earnings for parents 

while promoting a healthy growing and learning environment 

for children. 

(3) Unfortunately, only one out of every six eligible children 

is able to access care through the child care and development 

block grant, and only three out of every ten 4-year-olds are enrolled in high-quality early childhood education programs in 

the United States. 

(4) In particular, children from low-income families are less 

likely to have access to high-quality, affordable preschool programs that will prepare them for kindergarten. By third grade, 

children from low-income families who are not reading at grade 

level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than 

students who are proficient. 

(5) Voluntary home visits to families with young children in 

at-risk communities have been shown to improve maternal and 

child health, promote child development and school readiness, 

and help prevent child abuse and neglect. Home visiting programs have created savings, reducing Medicaid costs by lowering the number of preterm births and use of hospital emergency rooms, reducing the need for public benefits and child 


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protective services, and increasing tax revenues through higher 

parental earnings. 

(6) The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is an 

important source of health care coverage for more than 8 million children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but who struggle to meet everyday expenses. Due in large 

part to CHIP, the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. fell 

from 13.9 percent to 7.1 percent between 1997 and 2012. 

(a) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that this resolution supports funding for, and assumes enactment of, the following: 

(1) A 10-year child care initiative that would ensure that all 

low- and moderate-income working families with children aged 

three and below would have access to affordable, quality child 

care. 

(2) A 10-year investment to provide access to high-quality 

early education for all 4-year-olds. Early education programs 

must meet quality benchmarks that are linked to better outcomes for children, including a rigorous curriculum tied to 

State-level standards, qualified teachers, small class sizes, and 

effective evaluation and review of programs. 

(3) Extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program 

(CHIP) and extension and expansion of the existing highly effective voluntary home-visiting program for at-risk children. 

SEC. 515. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON IMMIGRATION REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Fixing the country’s broken immigration system will 

mean a stronger economy and lower budget deficits. 

(2) The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 

enacting the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, as introduced by House Democrats in the 113th Congress, will reduce the deficit by $900 billion over the next two decades, boost the economy by 5.4 percent, and increase productivity by 1.0 percent. 

(3) The Social Security Actuary estimates that immigration 

reform will reduce the Social Security shortfall by 8 percent 

and will extend the life of the Social Security Trust Fund by 

two years. 

(4) The passage of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act recognizes that the 

primary tenets of its success depend on securing the sovereignty of the United States of America and establishing a coherent and just system for integrating those who seek to join 

American society. 

(5) We have a right, and duty, to maintain and secure our 

borders, and to keep our country safe and prosperous. As a Nation founded, built and sustained by immigrants we also have 

a responsibility to harness the power of that tradition in a balanced way that secures a more prosperous future for America. 

(6) We have always welcomed newcomers to the United 

States and will continue to do so. But in order to qualify for 

the honor and privilege of eventual citizenship, our laws must 

be followed. The world depends on America to be strong—economically, militarily and ethically. The establishment of a stable, just, and efficient immigration system only supports those 

goals. As a Nation, we have the right and responsibility to 


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make our borders safe, to establish clear and just rules for 

seeking citizenship, to control the flow of legal immigration, 

and to eliminate illegal immigration, which in some cases has 

become a threat to our national security. 

(7) All parts of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, 

and Immigration Modernization Act are premised on the right 

and need of the United States to achieve these goals, and to 

protect its borders and maintain its sovereignty. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the full House vote 

on comprehensive immigration reform—such as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act— 

to boost our economy, lower deficits, establish clear and just rules 

for citizenship, and secure our borders. 

SEC. 516. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON NATIONAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) we must continue to support a strong military that is second to none and the size and the structure of our military have 

to be driven by a strategy; 

(2) those who serve in uniform are our most important security resource and the Administration and Congress shall continue to provide the support they need to successfully carry out 

the missions the country gives them; 

(3) in testimony before the House Armed Service Committee 

on March 18, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated 

that the Defense Department needs funding it requests for regular, ‘‘base budget’’ activities appropriated in the base budget 

because it provides stability in planning for the future; 

(4) in testimony before the House Armed Service Committee 

on March 18, 2015, Under Secretary of Defense Michael 

McCord said the Pentagon does not need $36 billion or $38 billion extra in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) 

budget; 

(5) OCO designation has been used as a backdoor loophole 

to fund regular base budget activities. This gimmick avoids 

confronting the problem of sequestration and does not address 

the country’s priorities in a comprehensive and transparent 

manner. In addition to undermining the integrity of the budget 

process, it perpetuates funding uncertainty for all Government 

agencies, including the Department of Defense; 

(6) a growing economy is the foundation of our security and 

enables the country to provide the resources for a strong military, sound homeland security agencies, and effective diplomacy and international development; 

(7) the Nation’s projected long-term debt could have serious 

consequences for our economy and security, and that more efficient military spending has to be part of an overall plan that 

effectively deals with this problem; 

(8) reining in wasteful spending at the Nation’s security 

agencies, including the Department of Defense—the last department still unable to pass an audit—such as the elimination 

of duplicative programs that have been identified by the Government Accountability Office needs to continue as a priority; 

(9) according to GAO, 42 percent of the Department of Defense’s major weapons system acquisition programs had unit 

cost growth of 25 percent or more and effective implementation 


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of weapons acquisition reforms at the Department of Defense 

can help control excessive cost growth in the development of 

new weapons systems and help ensure that weapons systems 

are delivered on time and in adequate quantities to equip our 

servicemen and servicewomen; 

(10) the Department of Defense should continue to review 

defense plans and requirements to ensure that weapons developed to counter Cold War-era threats are not redundant and 

are applicable to 21st century threats, which should include, 

with the participation of the National Nuclear Security Administration, examination of requirements for the nuclear weapons 

stockpile, nuclear weapons delivery systems, and nuclear 

weapons and infrastructure modernization; 

(11) weapons technologies should be proven to work through 

adequate testing before advancing them to the production 

phase of the acquisition process; 

(12) the Pentagon’s operation and maintenance budget has 

grown for decades between 2.5 percent and 3.0 percent above 

inflation each year on a per service member basis, and it is imperative that unsustainable cost growth be controlled in this 

area; 

(13) nearly all of the increase in the Federal civilian workforce from 2001 to 2014 is due to increases at security-related 

agencies—Department of Defense, Department of Homeland 

Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of 

Justice—and the increase, in part, represents a transition to 

ensure civil servants, as opposed to private contractors, are 

performing inherently governmental work and an increase to a 

long-depleted acquisition and auditing workforce at the Pentagon to ensure effective management of weapons systems programs, to eliminate the use of contractors to oversee other contractors, and to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse; 

(14) proposals to implement an indiscriminate 10 percent 

across-the-board cut to the Federal civilian workforce would 

adversely affect security agencies, leaving them unable to manage their total workforce, which includes contractors, and their 

operations in a cost-effective manner; and 

(15) cooperative threat reduction and other nonproliferation 

programs (securing ‘‘loose nukes’’ and other materials used in 

weapons of mass destruction), which were highlighted as high 

priorities by the 9/11 Commission, need to be funded at a level 

that is commensurate with the evolving threat. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) the sequester required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 

for fiscal years 2016 through 2021 should be rescinded and replaced by a deficit reduction plan that is balanced, that makes 

smart spending cuts, that requires everyone to pay their fair 

share, and that takes into account a comprehensive national 

security strategy that includes careful consideration of international, defense, homeland security, and law enforcement programs; and 

(2) efficiencies can be achieved in the national defense budget without compromising our security through greater emphasis on eliminating duplicative and wasteful programs, reforming the acquisition process, identifying and constraining 


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unsustainable operating costs, and through careful analysis of 

our national security needs. 

SEC. 517. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The United States Government Accountability Office described climate change as, ‘‘a complex, crosscutting issue that 

poses risks to many environmental and economic systems—including agriculture, infrastructure, ecosystems, and human 

health—and presents a significant financial risk to the Federal 

Government’’. 

(2) The Department of Defense’s Climate Change Adaptation 

Roadmap warns, ‘‘Climate change will affect the Department of 

Defense’s ability to defend the Nation and poses immediate 

risks to U.S. national security’’. 

(3) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 

National Climatic Data Center reported 14 of the 15 warmest 

years on record occurred in the first 15 years of this century. 

Furthermore, 2014 was the warmest year on record across 

global land and ocean surfaces. 

(4) The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change concluded the effects of climate change are occurring 

worldwide, ‘‘The impacts of climate change have already been 

felt in recent decades on all continents and across the oceans’’. 

(5) The United States National Research Council’s National 

Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee 

found climate change affects, ‘‘human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many 

other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on 

the American economy and quality of life’’. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that climate change 

presents a significant financial risk to the Federal Government. 

Climate change science provides critical information for protecting 

human health, defending the United States, and preserving economic and environmental systems throughout the world. 

SEC. 518. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON FINANCIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

(1) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) 

created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act of 2010 is an important component of the country’s response to the financial crisis and recession; 

(2) the Bureau is playing a critical role in protecting student 

loan borrowers, older Americans, service members, and other 

consumers, especially in minority and low-income communities. 

It has implemented new rules for mortgage markets and prepaid cards, and also successfully recovered $5.3 billion on behalf of more than 15 million consumers and service members; 

(3) the Bureau’s funding from the Federal Reserve’s operations help give it important independence from efforts to 

interfere with its vital mission and activities, independence on 

par with every other banking regulator; and 

(4) the Bureau has already faced and overcome efforts to obstruct its operations. 


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(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House Congress will continue 

to support the vital work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and retain its current financing structure to fund its resource 

needs. 

SEC. 519. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON THE USE OF TAXPAYER FUNDS. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the House should lead by 

example and 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 shall 

review the policies pertaining to the services provided to Members 

of Congress and House Committees, and shall identify ways to reduce any subsidies paid for the operation of the House gym, Barbershop, Salon, and the House dining room. Further, it is the policy 

of this resolution that no taxpayer funds may be used to purchase 

first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Members of Congress. 

SEC. 520. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 

REDUCTION OF UNNECESSARY AND WASTEFUL SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (‘‘GAO’’) is required by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and 

overlap in Federal programs, and has so identified dozens of 

such examples. 

(2) 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, 

with significant opportunities for improved efficiencies, cost 

savings, or revenue enhancements’’. (3) The Federal Government spends about $80 billion each 

year for information technology. GAO has identified opportunities for savings and improved efficiencies in the Government’s 

information technology infrastructure. (4) Federal agencies reported an estimated $125 billion in 

improper payments in fiscal year 2014. 

(5) 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. 

(6) According to the Congressional Budget Office, by fiscal 

year 2016, 35 laws will expire. Timely reauthorizations of 

these laws would ensure assessments of program justification 

and effectiveness. 

(7) The findings resulting from congressional oversight of 

Federal Government programs may result in programmatic 

changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. 

(b) POLICY.—Each authorizing committee annually shall include 

in its Views and Estimates letter required under section 301(d) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the 


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Committee on the Budget of programs within the jurisdiction of 

such committee whose funding should be changed. 

5. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PRICE OF

GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and declares that 

this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 

2016 and sets forth 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 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 

Sec. 202. Reconciliation procedures. 

Sec. 203. Additional guidance for reconciliation. 

TITLE III—SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND 

ABUSE 

Sec. 301. Submissions of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 401. Cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. 

Sec. 402. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency. 

Sec. 403. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. 

Sec. 404. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 

Highway Trust Fund. 

Sec. 405. Limitation on advance appropriations. 

Sec. 406. Fair value credit estimates. 

Sec. 407. Limitation on long-term spending. 

Sec. 408. Allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism. 

Sec. 409. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 

Sec. 410. Concepts, aggregates, allocations and application. 

Sec. 411. Rulemaking powers. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President’s health care law. 

Sec. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform. 

Sec. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the 

President’s health care law. 

Sec. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program. 

Sec. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. 

Sec. 506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. 

Sec. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. 

Sec. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. 

Sec. 509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity 

and upward mobility. 

Sec. 510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation. 

Sec. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. 

Sec. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement. 

Sec. 513. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for overseas contingency operations/global 

war on terrorism. 


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TITLE VI—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 601. Direct spending. 

TITLE VII—RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM LEVELS 

Sec. 701. Long-term budgeting. 

TITLE VIII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 801. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. 

Sec. 802. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. 

Sec. 803. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. 

Sec. 804. Policy statement on tax reform. 

Sec. 805. Policy statement on trade. 

Sec. 806. Policy statement on Social Security. 

Sec. 807. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform. 

Sec. 808. Policy statement on Medicare. 

Sec. 809. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation. 

Sec. 810. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform. 

Sec. 811. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. 

Sec. 812. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 813. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. 

Sec. 814. Policy statement on scorekeeping for outyear budgetary effects in appropriation Acts. 

Sec. 815. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized 

spending. 

Sec. 816. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. 

Sec. 817. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. 

Sec. 818. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 

Sec. 819. Policy statement on ‘‘No Budget, No Pay’’. 

Sec. 820. Policy statement on national security funding. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. 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: $2,666,755,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. 

(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. 


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Fiscal year 2020: $0. 

Fiscal year 2021: $0. 

Fiscal year 2022: $0. 

Fiscal year 2023: $0. 

Fiscal year 2024: $0. 

Fiscal year 2025: $0. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total 

new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,934,975,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,873,969,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,944,013,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,091,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,248,109,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,327,968,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,462,962,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,529,073,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,586,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,715,272,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget 

outlays are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $3,009,033,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,893,883,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,927,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,062,131,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,205,489,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,298,907,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,452,463,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,497,911,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,538,398,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,685,320,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: -$342,278,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$130,555,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$68,909,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$87,984,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$106,079,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$56,944,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$63,775,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $52,477,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $183,746,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $220,418,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The budgetary levels of the 

public debt are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $19,047,763,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $19,393,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $19,641,396,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $19,947,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $20,261,172,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $20,505,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $20,906,471,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $21,075,678,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2024: $20,916,009,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $20,904,522,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The budgetary levels of debt 

held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,838,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $14,040,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $14,145,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $14,338,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $14,560,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $14,742,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $15,128,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $15,300,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $15,162,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $15,235,000,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary 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 $531,334,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $564,027,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,506,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $572,025,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $607,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $586,422,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $620,019,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $604,238,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $632,310,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $617,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $644,627,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $630,610,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $657,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $648,269,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $670,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $656,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $683,771,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $663,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $698,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $683,350,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $38,342,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,923,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $39,623,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $40,821,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $40,539,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $41,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,214,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $42,390,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,564,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $42,861,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,108,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $44,081,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,868,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $45,070,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,633,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $46,098,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,470,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $47,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,349,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $28,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,003,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $28,932,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,924,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $29,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,357,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,227,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,798,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,584,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,957,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,637,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,003,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,338,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,059,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,488,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $33,795,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$3,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $654,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $1,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $649,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $1,189,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $1,196,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $307,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $1,259,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $472,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $1,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $728,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $1,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $863,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $1,375,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $1,332,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,037,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$964,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,215,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $35,350,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,113,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,047,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,268,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,385,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,674,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $37,206,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,747,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,171,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,304,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,367,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,685,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,221,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,361,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 


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(A) New budget authority, $40,108,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,319,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $40,962,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,486,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $39,095,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,471,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $20,109,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,164,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $23,064,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,194,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $21,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,396,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,907,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,835,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,386,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $19,296,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,849,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $19,245,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,830,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $19,821,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,020,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,851,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$3,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$16,617,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$12,373,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,620,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$10,252,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,998,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$8,801,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,587,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$6,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$27,479,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$6,522,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$21,769,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$5,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,819,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$4,965,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,306,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$3,991,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$3,370,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,845,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $36,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $79,181,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $69,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,500,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $70,298,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $73,623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $76,397,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,051,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $77,763,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,767,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $79,149,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,369,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,613,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $79,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $82,128,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,336,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $83,709,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $82,724,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $83,983,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $7,082,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,928,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,688,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,753,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,089,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $15,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $8,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,789,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $8,409,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,567,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $8,305,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,095,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $8,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $10,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $8,359,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,345,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $8,447,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,890,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $8,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,930,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $80,620,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $84,746,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,513,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $87,029,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,366,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,290,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $87,901,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $88,908,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $89,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $91,237,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $91,646,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $92,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $93,101,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $94,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $94,734,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 


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Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $416,475,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $426,860,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $360,678,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $364,823,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $358,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $360,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $367,103,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $367,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $387,076,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $377,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $388,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $389,025,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $398,136,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $398,233,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $408,454,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $408,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $425,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $425,477,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $433,945,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $434,143,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $577,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $577,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $580,837,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,777,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $580,782,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,741,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $639,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $639,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $680,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $680,481,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $726,644,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $726,548,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $808,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $808,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $825,577,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $825,379,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $834,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $834,037,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $927,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $927,292,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $512,364,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $513,709,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $479,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $475,234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $481,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $471,951,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $483,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $477,470,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $516,193,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $510,603,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $502,001,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $496,856,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $518,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $518,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $525,230,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $519,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $532,515,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $521,105,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $550,057,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $543,361,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $33,878,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. 

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. 


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(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 $166,677,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $170,121,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,843,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $164,387,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $163,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $162,385,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,862,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $174,048,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,735,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $178,778,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $183,969,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $183,019,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $196,283,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $195,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $192,866,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $191,834,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $189,668,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $188,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $203,517,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $202,383,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $52,156,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,006,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $55,450,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,547,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $55,169,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,659,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 


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(A) New budget authority, $56,854,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,572,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $58,585,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $58,392,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $60,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,992,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $63,032,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,485,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $64,917,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,355,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $66,844,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,264,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $68,632,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,051,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $23,593,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,576,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $22,761,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $22,817,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,279,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $23,252,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,947,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,602,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,114,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,695,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,840,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,010,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,825,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $366,527,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $366,527,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $414,768,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $414,768,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $477,731,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $477,731,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $531,032,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $531,032,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $578,654,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $578,654,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $612,121,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $612,121,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $642,388,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $642,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $667,089,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $667,089,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $684,301,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $684,301,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $695,929,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $695,929,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$33,462,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$17,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$29,863,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$32,175,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,249,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$34,261,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$31,078,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$39,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$35,136,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$42,221,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$38,438,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$46,013,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$42,205,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$49,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$45,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$50,652,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$47,736,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$48,913,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$48,058,000,000. 

(20) Government-wide savings (930): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $27,465,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,416,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$15,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,005,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$32,429,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$20,148,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$41,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$32,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$50,240,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$42,168,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$55,831,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$50,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$63,954,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$57,849,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$71,850,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$65,124,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$78,889,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$71,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$113,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,929,000,000. 

(21) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$73,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$73,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$83,832,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$83,832,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,115,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,115,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,594,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,193,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$96,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$96,623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$99,437,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, -$99,437,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$104,343,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$104,343,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$111,213,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$111,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$117,896,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$117,896,000,000. 

(22) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $94,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,304,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,716,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,758,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,117,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,862,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,776,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $9,956,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $2,869,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $278,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

(23) Across-the-Board Adjustment (990): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$21,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$17,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$22,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$20,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$21,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$25,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$27,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,000,000. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

(a) SUBMISSION PROVIDING FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Not later 

than July 15, 2015, the committees named in subsection (b) shall 

submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of 

the House of Representatives to carry out this section. 

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.— 

(1) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Committee on Agriculture shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of 

fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(2) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Armed Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(3) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.—The 

Committee on Education and the Workforce shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 

through 2025. 

(4) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.—The Committee 

on Energy and Commerce shall submit changes in laws within 

its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 

for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(5) COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Financial Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(6) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.—The Committee on 

Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $15,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(7) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The Committee on the 

Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction 


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sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period 

of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(8) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.—The Committee on 

Natural Resources shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(9) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.— The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall 

submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 

2016 through 2025. 

(10) COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY.—The 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $15,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 

through 2025. 

(11) COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUC- TURE.—The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient 

to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

years 2016 through 2025. 

(12) COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS.—The Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(13) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The Committee on 

Ways and Means shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION PROCEDURES. 

(a) ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS.— (1) ASSUMPTIONS.—In the House, for purposes of titles III 

and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair of 

the Committee on the Budget shall use the baseline underlying 

the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when making estimates of 

any bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon. If adjustments to the baseline are made 

subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent resolution, then 

such chair shall determine whether to use any of these adjustments when making such estimates. 

(2) INTENT.—The authority set forth in paragraph (1) should 

only be exercised if the estimates used to determine the compliance of such measures with the budgetary requirements included in the 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 after 

the adoption of this 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. 

(3) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES.—Upon the 

request of the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 


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House for any measure, the Congressional Budget Office shall 

prepare an estimate based on the baseline determination made 

by such chair pursuant to paragraph (1). 

(b) REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW THROUGH

RECONCILIATION.—In preparing their submissions under section 

201(a) to the Committee on the Budget, the committees named in 

section 201(b) shall— 

(1) note the policies described in the report accompanying 

this concurrent resolution on the budget that repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the 

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and 

(2) determine the most effective methods by which the health 

care laws referred to in paragraph (1) shall be repealed in their 

entirety. 

(c) REVISION OF BUDGETARY LEVELS.— 

(1) SUBMISSION.—Upon the submission to the Committee on 

the Budget of the House of a recommendation that has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget may file with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of such Act 

and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(2) CONFERENCE REPORT.—Upon the submission to the House 

of a conference report recommending a reconciliation bill or 

resolution in which a committee has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of this section, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House may file 

with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 

302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(3) REVISION.—Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant 

to this subsection shall be considered to be allocations and aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act. 

SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FOR RECONCILIATION. 

(a) GUIDANCE.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on the 

Budget may develop additional guidelines providing further information, budgetary levels and amounts, and other explanatory material to supplement the instructions included in this concurrent 

resolution pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974 and set forth in section 201. 

(b) PUBLICATION.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may cause the material prepared pursuant to subsection (a) to be printed in the Congressional Record on the appropriate date, but not later than the date set forth in this title on 

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TITLE III—SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 

ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND 

ABUSE 

SEC. 301. SUBMISSIONS OF FINDINGS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF 

WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE. 

(a) SUBMISSIONS PROVIDING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, 

FRAUD, AND ABUSE.—In the House, not later than October 1, 2015, 

the committees named in subsection (d) shall submit to the Committee on the Budget findings that identify changes in law within 

their jurisdictions that would achieve the specified level of savings 

through the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. 

(b) RECOMMENDATIONS SUBMITTED.—After receiving those recommendations — 

(1) the Committee on the Budget may use them in the development of future concurrent resolutions on the budget; and 

(2) the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House 

shall make such recommendations publicly available in electronic form and cause them to be placed in the Congressional 

Record not later than 30 days after receipt. 

(c) SPECIFIED LEVELS OF SAVINGS.—For purposes of this section, 

a specified level of savings for each committee may be inserted in 

the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on the 

Budget. 

(d) HOUSE COMMITTEES.—The following committees shall submit 

findings to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives pursuant to subsection (a): the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on the Judiciary, 

the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Science, Space, 

and Technology, the Committee on Small Business, the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Veterans’ 

Affairs, and the Committee on Ways and Means. 

(e) REPORT BY THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.—By 

August 1, 2015, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives a comprehensive report identifying instances in which the committees referred 

to in subsection (d) may make legislative changes to improve the 

economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of programs within their jurisdiction. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 401. COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR LEGISLATION TO INCORPORATE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS. 

(a) CBO ESTIMATES.—For purposes of the enforcement of this 

concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 

2016, an estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office 

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major legislation considered in the House or the Senate during fiscal year 2016 shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital 

stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(b) JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION ESTIMATES.—For purposes of 

the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, any estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 

economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(c) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in this section shall, to 

the extent practicable, include— 

(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (a) and 

(b)) of such legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning 

after the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution sets forth 

budgetary levels required by section 301 of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974; and 

(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the 

source of data underlying that estimate. 

(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 

(1) the term ‘‘major legislation’’ means any bill or joint resolution— 

(A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974 and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects) in any fiscal year over 

the 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 

(B) designated as such by the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget for all direct spending legislation other than 

revenue legislation or the Member who is chair or vice 

chair, as applicable, of the Joint Committee on Taxation 

for revenue legislation; and 

(2) the term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ means changes in revenues, 

budget authority, outlays, and deficits. 

SEC. 402. LIMITATION ON MEASURES AFFECTING SOCIAL SECURITY 

SOLVENCY. 

(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 or the Senate a 

bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least .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 

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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. 403. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, 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 amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the 

Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) and 

311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 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. 404. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF 

THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND. 

For purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or 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 shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the 

transfer occurs. 

SEC. 405. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, 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’’; and 

(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); and 

(2) VETERANS.—$63,271,000,000 in new budget authority for 

programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2). 

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lution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

making general appropriations or continuing appropriations, for 

the fiscal year following fiscal year 2016. 

SEC. 406. FAIR VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. 

(a) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES.—Upon the request of the chair or 

ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, any estimate of 

the budgetary effects of a measure prepared by the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ‘‘credit reform’’ shall, as a supplement to such estimate, and to the extent practicable, also provide 

an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by such 

measure. 

(b) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES FOR HOUSING AND STUDENT LOAN

PROGRAMS.—Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office prepares an estimate pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 of the budgetary effects which would be 

incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and if the Director determines that such bill or joint resolution has a budgetary 

effect related to a housing, residential mortgage or student loan 

program under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

then the Director shall also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of such bill or joint 

resolution that result in such effect. 

(c) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and 

other budgetary enforcement controls. 

SEC. 407. LIMITATION ON LONG-TERM SPENDING. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, it shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than 

the Committee on Appropriations), or an amendment thereto or a 

conference report thereon, if the provisions of such measure have 

the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of 

$5,000,000,000 for any period described in subsection (b). 

(b) TIME PERIODS.—The applicable periods for purposes of this 

section are any of the four consecutive ten fiscal-year periods beginning in the fiscal year following the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 408. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 

GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 

(a) SEPARATE OCO/GWOT ALLOCATION.—In the House, 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. 

(b) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 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 shall not apply to such separate allocation. 

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ignated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(d) 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. 

SEC. 409. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF BUDGETARY 

RESOURCES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House, if a committee (other than the Committee on 

Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or offers any 

amendment thereto or submits a conference report thereon, 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 chair of the Committee on the Budget 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, 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 chair of the Committee on the Budget and such chair may adjust applicable levels 

of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 410. CONCEPTS, AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION. 

(a) CONCEPTS, ALLOCATIONS, AND APPLICATION.—In the House— 

(1) upon a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust any allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent 

resolution accordingly; 

(2) any adjustments of the allocations, aggregates, and other 

budgetary levels made pursuant to this concurrent resolution 

shall— 

(A) apply while that measure is under consideration; 

(B) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and 

(C) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 

practicable; 

(3) section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) shall have 

no force or effect for any reconciliation bill reported pursuant 

to instructions set forth in this concurrent resolution; 

(4) the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels 

to reflect changes resulting from the most recently published 

or adjusted baseline of the Congressional Budget Office; and 

(5) the term ‘‘budget year’’ means the most recent fiscal year 

for which a concurrent resolution on the budget has been 

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(b) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION.—In the House, 

for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement— 

(1) the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget 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 407 of this concurrent resolution; and 

(2) revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these 

adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 411. RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House of Representatives, and these rules 

shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 501. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S 

HEALTH CARE LAW. 

In the House, the chair 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 or measures that make modifications to such law. 

SEC. 502. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROMOTING REAL 

HEALTH CARE REFORM. 

In the House, the chair 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. 503. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE 

LAW. 

In the House, the chair 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 

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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. 504. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM. 

In the House, the chair 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. 505. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure would 

not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 

2025. 

SEC. 506. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS. 

In the House, the chair 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. 507. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORMING THE 

TAX CODE. 

In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill 

or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 

the chair 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. 508. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES. 

In the House, the chair 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. 


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SEC. 509. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE POVERTY 

AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY AND UPWARD MOBILITY. 

In the House, the chair 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 policies and programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and 

upward mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely 

impact job creation nor increase the deficit over the period of fiscal 

years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 510. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRANSPORTATION. 

In the House, the chair 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. 511. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 512. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT. 

The chair 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 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. 

SEC. 513. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 

The chair 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 is related to the support 

of Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism by 

the amounts provided in such legislation in excess of $73.5 billion 

but not to exceed $94 billion, 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. 


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TITLE VI—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 601. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution 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 five years following 

passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and 

workers’ wages increased. This budget applies the lessons 

of welfare reform to both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid. 

(B) For Medicaid, this budget assumes the conversion of 

the Federal share of Medicaid spending into flexible State 

allotments, which States will be able to tailor to meet their 

unique needs. Such a reform would end the misguided onesize-fits-all approach that ties the hands of State governments and would provide States with the freedom and 

flexibility they have long requested in the Medicaid program. Moreover, this budget assumes the repeal of the 

Medicaid expansions in the President’s health care law, relieving State governments of the crippling one-size-fits-all 

enrollment mandates, as well as the overwhelming pressure the law’s Medicaid expansion puts on an alreadystrained system. 

(C) For the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 

this budget assumes the conversion of the program into a 

flexible State allotment tailored to meet each State’s 

needs. The allotment would increase based on the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. Such a reform would provide incentives for 

States to ensure dollars will go towards those who need 

them most. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

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(A) For Medicare, this budget advances policies to put 

seniors, not the Federal Government, in control of their 

health care decisions. Future retirees would be able to 

choose from a range of guaranteed coverage options, with 

private plans competing alongside the traditional fee-forservice Medicare program. Medicare would provide a premium-support payment either to pay for or offset the premium of the plan chosen by the senior, depending on the 

plan’s cost. The Medicare premium-support payment would 

be adjusted so that the sick would receive higher payments 

if their conditions worsened; lower-income seniors would 

receive additional assistance to help cover out-of-pocket 

costs; and wealthier seniors would assume responsibility 

for a greater share of their premiums. Putting seniors in 

charge of how their health care dollars are spent will force 

providers to compete against each other on price and quality. This market competition will act as a real check on 

widespread waste and skyrocketing health care costs. As 

with previous budgets, this program will begin in 2024 and 

makes no changes to those in or near retirement. 

(B) In keeping with a recommendation from the National 

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, this 

budget calls for Federal employees—including Members of 

Congress and congressional staff—to make greater contributions toward their own retirement. 

TITLE VII—RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM 

LEVELS 

SEC. 701. LONG-TERM BUDGETING. 

The following are the recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels for each of fiscal years 2030, 2035, and 2040 as a percent 

of the gross domestic product of the United States: 

(1) REVENUES.—The budgetary levels of Federal revenues 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2030: 18.7 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 19.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 19.0 percent. 

(2) OUTLAYS.—The budgetary levels of total budget outlays 

are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: 18.4 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 17.8 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 16.9 percent. 

(3) DEFICITS.—The budgetary levels of deficits are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: -0.3 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: -1.2 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: -2.1 percent. 

(4) DEBT.—The budgetary levels of debt held by the public 

are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: 44.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 32.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 18.0 percent. 


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TITLE VIII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 801. POLICY STATEMENT ON BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Federal Government collects approximately $3 trillion annually in taxes, but spends more than $3.5 trillion to 

maintain the operations of government. The Federal Government must borrow 14 cents of every Federal dollar spent. 

(2) At the end of the year 2014, the national debt of the 

United States was more than $18.1 trillion. 

(3) A majority of States have petitioned the Federal Government to hold a Constitutional Convention for the consideration 

of adopting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United 

States Constitution. 

(4) Forty-nine States have fiscal limitations in their State 

Constitutions, including the requirement to annually balance 

the budget. 

(5) H.J. Res. 2, sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (RVA), was considered by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2011, though it received 262 aye votes, it did not 

receive the two-thirds required for passage. 

(6) Numerous balanced budget amendment proposals have 

been introduced on a bipartisan basis in the House. Twelve 

were introduced in the 113th Congress alone, including H.J. 

Res. 4 by Democratic Representative John J. Barrow of Georgia, and H.J. Res. 38 by Republican Representative Jackie 

Walorski of Indiana. 

(7) The joint resolution providing for a balanced budget 

amendment to the U.S. Constitution referred to in paragraph 

(5) prohibited outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that 

fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. 

(8) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed the House with bipartisan support, but failed 

of passage by one vote in the United States Senate. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of this resolution that 

Congress should pass a joint resolution incorporating the provisions 

set forth in subsection (b), and send such joint resolution to the 

States for their approval, to amend the Constitution of the United 

States to require an annual balanced budget. 

SEC. 802. 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. 

(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 

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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, 

(9) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the 

procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane 

and opaque. 

(10) Remove existing biases that favor higher spending. 

(11) Include procedures by which current tax laws may be 

extended and treated on a basis that is not different from the 

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(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; and, 

(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 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. 803. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

earnings of private-sector workers have increased by just 1.6 

percent over the past year. Prior to the recession, average 

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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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job 

creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this 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 resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the 

reforms in this resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 

SEC. 804. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) A world-class tax system should be simple, fair, and promote (rather than impede) economic growth. The United States 

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ently 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. corporate tax 

restrains economic growth and job creation. The U.S. 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. 

(10) The ‘‘worldwide’’ structure of U.S. 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 

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(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 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 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.—It is the policy of this resolution 

that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the 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; 

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(4) reduces the corporate tax rate; and 

(5) transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of 

international taxation in a manner that does not discriminate 

against any particular type of income or industry. 

SEC. 805. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 fam- ily 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 innovation and 

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 


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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.—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. 806. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Security. Since enactment, Social Security has served as a vital leg on the ‘‘threelegged stool’’ of retirement security, which includes employer 

provided pensions as well as personal savings. 

(2) The Social Security Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Social Security’s long-term financial challenges 

be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial 

condition of Social Security becomes more precarious and the 

threat to seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 

benefits becomes more pronounced: 

(A) In 2016, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be 

exhausted and program revenues will be unable to pay 

scheduled benefits. 

(B) In 2033, the combined Old-Age and Survivors and 

Disability Trust Funds will be exhausted, and program 

revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 

(C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds in 2033, 

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devastating those currently in or near retirement and 

those who rely on Social Security the most. 

(3) The recession and continued low economic growth have 

exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis facing Social Security. The 

most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections find 

that Social Security will run cash deficits of more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years. 

(4) Lower income Americans rely on Social Security for a 

larger proportion of their retirement income. Therefore, reforms should take into consideration the need to protect lower 

income Americans’ retirement security. 

(5) The Disability Insurance program provides an essential 

income safety net for those with disabilities and their families. 

According to the CBO, between 1970 and 2012, the number of 

people receiving disability benefits (both disabled workers and 

their dependent family members) has increased by more than 

300 percent from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. This increase 

is not due strictly to population growth or decreases in health. 

David Autor and Mark Duggan have found that the increase 

in individuals on disability does not reflect a decrease in selfreported health. CBO attributes program growth to changes in 

demographics, changes in the composition of the labor force 

and compensation, as well as Federal policies. 

(6) If this program is not reformed, families who rely on the 

lifeline that disability benefits provide will face benefit cuts of 

up to 20 percent in 2016, devastating individuals who need assistance the most. 

(7) In the past, Social Security has been reformed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the ‘‘Greenspan Commission’’ 

which helped to address Social Security shortfalls for more 

than a generation. 

(8) Americans deserve action by the President, the House, 

and the Senate to preserve and strengthen Social Security. It 

is critical that bipartisan action be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social Security. In this spirit, this resolution 

creates a bipartisan opportunity to find solutions by requiring 

policymakers to ensure that Social Security remains a critical 

part of the safety net. 

(b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably solvent. This resolution assumes reform of 

a current law trigger, such that: 

(1) If in any year the Board of Trustees of the Federal OldAge and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund annual Trustees Report determines that the 75-year actuarial balance of the Social Security 

Trust Funds is in deficit, and the annual balance of the Social 

Security Trust Funds in the 75th year is in deficit, the Board 

of Trustees should, no later than September 30 of the same 

calendar year, submit to the President recommendations for 

statutory reforms necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a positive annual balance in the 75th-year. 

Recommendations provided to the President must be agreed 

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(2) Not later than 1 December of the same calendar year in 

which the Board of Trustees submit their recommendations, 

the President should promptly submit implementing legislation 

to both Houses of Congress including his recommendations 

necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and 

a positive annual balance in the 75th year. The Majority Leader of the Senate and the Majority Leader of the House should 

introduce the President’s legislation upon receipt. 

(3) Within 60 days of the President submitting legislation, 

the committees of jurisdiction to which the legislation has been 

referred should report a bill, which should be considered by the 

full House or Senate under expedited procedures. 

(4) Legislation submitted by the President should— 

(A) protect those in or near retirement; 

(B) preserve the safety net for those who count on Social 

Security the most, including those with disabilities and 

survivors; 

(C) improve fairness for participants; 

(D) reduce the burden on, and provide certainty for, future generations; and 

(E) secure the future of the Disability Insurance program while addressing the needs of those with disabilities 

today and improving the determination process. 

(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress and the President should enact legislation on 

a bipartisan basis to reform the Disability Insurance program prior 

to its insolvency in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security 

retirement system without reforms to the Disability Insurance system. This resolution assumes reform that— 

(1) ensure benefits continue to be paid to individuals with 

disabilities and their family members who rely on them; 

(2) prevents a 20 percent across-the-board benefit cut; 

(3) makes the Disability Insurance program work better; and 

(4) promotes opportunity for those trying to return to work. 

(d) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.—Any legislation that 

Congress considers to improve the solvency of the Disability Insurance trust fund also must improve the long-term solvency of the 

combined Old Age and Survivors Disability Insurance (OASDI) 

trust fund. 

SEC. 807. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPEALING THE PRESIDENT’S 

HEALTH CARE LAW AND PROMOTING REAL HEALTH CARE 

REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 Employer 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, 

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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. 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.—It is 

the policy of this 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 affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and 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 

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(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. Not only does the current Medicaid program drive 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 


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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. 808. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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.—It is the policy of this resolution to preserve the program for those in or near retirement and 

strengthen Medicare for future beneficiaries. 

(c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes reform of the Medicare program such that— 

(1) current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in or 

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(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. 809. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND INNOVATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 Development and Cooperation 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 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 and 

around the world. 

(b) POLICY ON MEDICAL INNOVATION.— 

(1) It is the policy of this resolution to support the important 

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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. 810. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.— The House 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 defacto 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 energyintensive 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 

its electricity from coal. 

(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 

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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.—It is the policy of 

this 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. 811. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. 

(a) FINDINGS ON HIGHER EDUCATION.—The House 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 of 2.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; and 

(C) published tuition and fees at private nonprofit 4-year 

colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 

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(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.—It is the policy of this 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 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.—It is the policy of 

this resolution to address the failings in the current workforce development system, by— 

(1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job training programs; and 

(2) empowering states with the flexibility to tailor funding 

and programs to the specific needs of their workforce, including 

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SEC. 812. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 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 Budget Committee 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. 813. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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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(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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with 

the Congressional Budget Office and the public affected by Federal 

budgetary choices, adopt Governmentwide 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. 814. POLICY STATEMENT ON SCOREKEEPING FOR OUTYEAR 

BUDGETARY EFFECTS IN APPROPRIATION ACTS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 directs the Committee on the Budget to provide an allocation of 

budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations for 

the budget year covered by a concurrent resolution on the 

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(2) The allocation of budgetary resources provided by the 

Committee on the Budget to the Committee on Appropriations 

covers a period of one fiscal year only, which is effective for the 

budget year. 

(3) An appropriation Act, joint resolution, amendment thereto or conference report thereon may contain changes to programs that result in direct budgetary effects that occur beyond 

the budget year and beyond the period for which the allocation 

of budgetary resources provided by the Committee on the 

Budget is effective. 

(4) The allocation of budgetary resources provided to the 

Committee on Appropriations does not currently anticipate or 

capture direct outyear budgetary effects to programs. 

(5) Budget enforcement could be improved by capturing the 

direct outyear budgetary effects caused by appropriation Acts 

and using this information to determine the appropriate allocations of budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations when considering future concurrent resolutions on the 

budget. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of the House of Representatives to more effectively allocate budgetary resources and 

accurately enforce budget targets by agreeing to a procedure by 

which the Committee on the Budget should consider the direct outyear budgetary effects of changes to mandatory programs enacted 

in appropriations bills, joint resolutions, amendments thereto or 

conference reports thereon when setting the allocation of budgetary 

resources for the Committee on Appropriations in a concurrent resolution on the budget. The relevant committees of jurisdiction are 

directed to consult on a procedure during fiscal year 2016 and include recommendations for implementing such procedure in the fiscal year 2017 concurrent resolution on the budget. 

SEC. 815. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required 

by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap 

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 

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(D) seventeen separate Homeland Security preparedness grant programs that spent $37 billion between fiscal year 

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 

changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. 

(b) POLICY ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAU- THORIZED SPENDING.— 

(1) Each authorizing committee 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 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 

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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. 816. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 

CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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.—Congressional 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.—Congress, 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. 

SEC. 817. 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.—It is the policy of 

this 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 

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cated 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. 818. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF 

TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 

(a) FINDINGS.— The House 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.—It is the policy of this 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, 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. 819. POLICY STATEMENT ON ‘‘NO BUDGET, NO PAY’’. 

It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to 

a concurrent resolution on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, 

a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on 

the budget, the payroll administrator of that House 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 that House of Congress. Withheld compensation should 

be released to Members of that House of Congress the earlier of the 

day on which that House of Congress 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. 820. POLICY STATEMENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY FUNDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Russian aggression, the growing threats of the Islamic 

State of Iraq and the Levant in the Middle East, North Korean 

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nese 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 ig- nores 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 in- creases, 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 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. This concurrent resolution provides $22 billion above the President’s Five Year Defense Plan and 

$151 billion above the 10-year totals. This would also be $387 billion above the 10-year total for current levels. 

(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 the ability to 

increase allocations to support legislation that would provide for 

the Department of Defense warfighting capabilities, modernization, 

a temporary increase in end strength, training and maintenance 

associated with combat readiness, activities to reach full 


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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. 

6. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PRICE OF

GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2016. 

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and declares that 

this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 

2016 and sets forth 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 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 

Sec. 202. Reconciliation procedures. 

Sec. 203. Additional guidance for reconciliation. 

TITLE III—SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND 

ABUSE 

Sec. 301. Submissions of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 401. Cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. 

Sec. 402. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency. 

Sec. 403. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. 

Sec. 404. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 

Highway Trust Fund. 

Sec. 405. Limitation on advance appropriations. 

Sec. 406. Fair value credit estimates. 

Sec. 407. Limitation on long-term spending. 

Sec. 408. Allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism. 

Sec. 409. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 

Sec. 410. Concepts, aggregates, allocations and application. 

Sec. 411. Rulemaking powers. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President’s health care law. 

Sec. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform. 

Sec. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the 

President’s health care law. 

Sec. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program. 

Sec. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. 

Sec. 506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. 


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Sec. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. 

Sec. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. 

Sec. 509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity 

and upward mobility. 

Sec. 510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation. 

Sec. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. 

Sec. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement. 

TITLE VI—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 601. Direct spending. 

TITLE VII—RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM LEVELS 

Sec. 701. Long-term budgeting. 

TITLE VIII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 801. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. 

Sec. 802. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. 

Sec. 803. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. 

Sec. 804. Policy statement on tax reform. 

Sec. 805. Policy statement on trade. 

Sec. 806. Policy statement on Social Security. 

Sec. 807. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform. 

Sec. 808. Policy statement on Medicare. 

Sec. 809. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation. 

Sec. 810. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform. 

Sec. 811. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. 

Sec. 812. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 813. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. 

Sec. 814. Policy statement on scorekeeping for outyear budgetary effects in appropriation Acts. 

Sec. 815. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized 

spending. 

Sec. 816. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. 

Sec. 817. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. 

Sec. 818. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 

Sec. 819. Policy statement on ‘‘No Budget, No Pay’’. 

Sec. 820. Policy statement on national security funding. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. 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: $2,666,755,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. 


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(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. 

Fiscal year 2025: $0. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total 

new budget authority are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2016: $2,936,989,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,874,003,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,944,067,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,091,104,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,248,181,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,328,045,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,463,044,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,529,161,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,586,560,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,715,369,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget 

outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,010,185,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,894,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,927,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,062,270,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,205,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,298,984,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,452,546,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,497,999,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,538,491,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,685,327,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: -$343,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: -$131,111,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$69,145,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$88,123,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$106,204,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$57,021,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$63,858,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $52,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $183,653,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $220,321,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The budgetary levels of the 

public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,048,915,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $19,395,251,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2018: $19,643,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $19,949,858,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $20,263,382,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $20,507,829,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $20,908,840,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $21,078,135,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $20,918,559,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $20,907,169,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The budgetary levels of debt 

held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,839,152,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: $14,041,709,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $14,146,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $14,340,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $14,562,210,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $14,744,287,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $15,130,369,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $15,302,457,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $15,164,550,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $15,237,647,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary 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 $531,334,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $564,027,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,506,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $572,025,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $607,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $586,422,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $620,019,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $604,238,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $632,310,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $617,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $644,627,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $630,610,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $657,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $648,269,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $670,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $656,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $683,771,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $663,936,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $698,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $683,350,000,000. 


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(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $38,342,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,923,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $39,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,821,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $40,539,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $41,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,214,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $42,390,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,564,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $42,861,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,108,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $44,081,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,868,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $45,070,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,633,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $46,098,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,470,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $47,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,349,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $28,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,003,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,932,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,924,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,357,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,227,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,798,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,584,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,957,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,637,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,003,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $32,338,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $33,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,059,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $34,488,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,795,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$3,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $654,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $1,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $649,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $1,189,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $1,196,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $307,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $1,259,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $472,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $1,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $728,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $1,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $863,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $1,375,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $1,332,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,037,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$964,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,215,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $35,350,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,113,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,047,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,268,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,385,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,674,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $37,206,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,747,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,171,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,304,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 


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(A) New budget authority, $38,367,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,685,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $39,221,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,361,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $40,108,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,319,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $40,962,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,486,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $39,095,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,471,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $20,109,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,164,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $23,064,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,194,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $21,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,396,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,907,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,835,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,386,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $19,296,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,849,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,245,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,830,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,821,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,020,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,851,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$3,269,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$16,617,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$12,373,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,620,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$10,252,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,998,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$8,801,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,587,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$6,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$27,479,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$6,522,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$21,769,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$5,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,819,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$4,965,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,306,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$3,991,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$3,370,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,845,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $36,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $79,181,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $69,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,500,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $70,298,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $73,623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $76,397,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,051,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $77,763,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,767,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $79,149,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,369,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,613,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $79,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $82,128,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,336,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $83,709,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $82,724,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $83,983,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $7,082,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $19,928,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $7,688,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,753,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $8,089,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $15,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $8,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,789,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $8,409,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,567,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $8,305,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,095,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $8,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $10,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $8,359,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,345,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $8,447,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,890,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $8,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,930,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $80,620,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,389,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $84,746,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,513,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $87,029,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,366,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $85,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,290,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $87,901,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $88,908,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $89,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $91,237,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $91,646,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 


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(A) New budget authority, $92,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $93,101,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $94,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $94,734,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $416,475,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $426,860,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $360,678,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $364,823,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $358,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $360,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $367,103,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $367,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $387,076,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $377,341,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $388,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $389,025,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $398,136,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $398,233,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $408,454,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $408,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $425,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $425,477,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $433,945,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $434,143,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $577,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $577,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $580,837,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,777,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $580,782,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,741,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $639,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $639,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $680,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $680,481,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $726,644,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $726,548,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $808,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $808,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $825,577,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $825,379,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $834,148,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $834,037,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $927,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $927,292,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $512,364,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $513,709,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $479,836,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $475,234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $481,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $471,951,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $483,293,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $477,470,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $516,193,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $510,603,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $502,001,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $496,856,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $518,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $518,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $525,230,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $519,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $532,515,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $521,105,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $550,057,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $543,361,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $33,878,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000. 


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(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 $166,677,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $170,121,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,843,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $164,387,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $163,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $162,385,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,862,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $174,048,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,735,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $178,778,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $183,969,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $183,019,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $196,283,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $195,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $192,866,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $191,834,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $189,668,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $188,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $203,517,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $202,383,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority $52,156,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,006,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 


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(A) New budget authority, $55,450,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,547,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $55,169,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,659,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $56,854,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,572,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $58,585,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $58,392,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $60,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,992,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $63,032,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,485,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $64,917,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,355,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $66,844,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,264,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $68,632,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,051,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $23,593,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,576,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $22,761,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,817,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,279,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,252,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,947,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,602,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,309,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,114,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,695,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,840,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,010,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 


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(A) New budget authority, $26,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,825,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $366,542,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $366,542,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $414,802,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $414,802,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $477,785,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $477,785,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $531,097,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $531,097,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $578,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $578,726,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $612,198,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $612,198,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $642,470,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $642,470,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $667,176,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $667,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $684,394,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $684,394,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $696,025,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $696,025,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$33,462,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$17,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$29,863,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$32,175,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,249,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$34,261,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$31,078,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$39,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$35,136,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$42,221,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$38,438,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$46,013,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$42,205,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$49,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$45,430,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$50,652,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$47,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$48,913,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$48,058,000,000. 

(20) Government-wide savings (930): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $27,465,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,416,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$15,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$3,005,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$32,429,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$20,148,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$41,554,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$32,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$50,240,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$42,168,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$55,831,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$50,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$63,954,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$57,849,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$71,850,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$65,124,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$78,889,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$71,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$113,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,929,000,000. 

(21) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$73,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$73,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$83,832,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$83,832,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,115,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,115,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,594,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,193,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, -$92,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$96,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$96,623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$99,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$99,437,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$104,343,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$104,343,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$111,213,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$111,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$117,896,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$117,896,000,000. 

(22) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $96,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,442,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,238,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,940,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,191,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,776,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $9,956,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $2,869,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $278,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

(23) Across-the-Board Adjustment (990): 

Fiscal year 2016: 

(A) New budget authority -$21,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$17,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$22,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$20,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$21,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$25,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$24,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$27,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,000,000. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

(a) SUBMISSION PROVIDING FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Not later 

than July 15, 2015, the committees named in subsection (b) shall 

submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of 

the House of Representatives to carry out this section. 

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.— 

(1) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Committee on Agriculture shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of 

fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(2) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Armed Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(3) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.—The 

Committee on Education and the Workforce shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 

through 2025. 

(4) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.—The Committee 

on Energy and Commerce shall submit changes in laws within 

its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 

for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(5) COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Financial Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 


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(6) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.—The Committee on 

Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $15,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(7) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The Committee on the 

Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction 

sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period 

of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(8) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.—The Committee on 

Natural Resources shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(9) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.— The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall 

submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 

2016 through 2025. 

(10) COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY.—The 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $15,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 

through 2025. 

(11) COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUC- TURE.—The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient 

to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

years 2016 through 2025. 

(12) COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS.—The Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

(13) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The Committee on 

Ways and Means shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION PROCEDURES. 

(a) ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS.— (1) ASSUMPTIONS.—In the House, for purposes of titles III 

and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair of 

the Committee on the Budget shall use the baseline underlying 

the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when making estimates of 

any bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon. If adjustments to the baseline are made 

subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent resolution, then 

such chair shall determine whether to use any of these adjustments when making such estimates. 

(2) INTENT.—The authority set forth in paragraph (1) should 

only be exercised if the estimates used to determine the compliance of such measures with the budgetary requirements included in the 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 after 

the adoption of this concurrent resolution may include selected 


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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. 

(3) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES.—Upon the 

request of the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 

House for any measure, the Congressional Budget Office shall 

prepare an estimate based on the baseline determination made 

by such chair pursuant to paragraph (1). 

(b) REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW THROUGH

RECONCILIATION.—In preparing their submissions under section 

201(a) to the Committee on the Budget, the committees named in 

section 201(b) shall— 

(1) note the policies described in the report accompanying 

this concurrent resolution on the budget that repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the 

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and 

(2) determine the most effective methods by which the health 

care laws referred to in paragraph (1) shall be repealed in their 

entirety. 

(c) REVISION OF BUDGETARY LEVELS.— 

(1) SUBMISSION.—Upon the submission to the Committee on 

the Budget of the House of a recommendation that has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget may file with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of such Act 

and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(2) CONFERENCE REPORT.—Upon the submission to the House 

of a conference report recommending a reconciliation bill or 

resolution in which a committee has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of this section, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House may file 

with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 

302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates. 

(3) REVISION.—Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant 

to this subsection shall be considered to be allocations and aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act. 

SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FOR RECONCILIATION. 

(a) GUIDANCE.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on the 

Budget may develop additional guidelines providing further information, budgetary levels and amounts, and other explanatory material to supplement the instructions included in this concurrent 

resolution pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974 and set forth in section 201. 

(b) PUBLICATION.—In the House, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may cause the material prepared pursuant to subsection (a) to be printed in the Congressional Record on the appropriate date, but not later than the date set forth in this title on 

which committees must submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget in order to comply with the reconciliation instructions set forth in section 201. 


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TITLE III—SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 

ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND 

ABUSE 

SEC. 301. SUBMISSIONS OF FINDINGS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF 

WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE. 

(a) SUBMISSIONS PROVIDING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, 

FRAUD, AND ABUSE.—In the House, not later than October 1, 2015, 

the committees named in subsection (d) shall submit to the Committee on the Budget findings that identify changes in law within 

their jurisdictions that would achieve the specified level of savings 

through the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. 

(b) RECOMMENDATIONS SUBMITTED.—After receiving those recommendations — 

(1) the Committee on the Budget may use them in the development of future concurrent resolutions on the budget; and 

(2) the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House 

shall make such recommendations publicly available in electronic form and cause them to be placed in the Congressional 

Record not later than 30 days after receipt. 

(c) SPECIFIED LEVELS OF SAVINGS.—For purposes of this section, 

a specified level of savings for each committee may be inserted in 

the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on the 

Budget. 

(d) HOUSE COMMITTEES.—The following committees shall submit 

findings to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives pursuant to subsection (a): the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on the Judiciary, 

the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Science, Space, 

and Technology, the Committee on Small Business, the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Veterans’ 

Affairs, and the Committee on Ways and Means. 

(e) REPORT BY THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.—By 

August 1, 2015, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives a comprehensive report identifying instances in which the committees referred 

to in subsection (d) may make legislative changes to improve the 

economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of programs within their jurisdiction. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 401. COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR LEGISLATION TO INCORPORATE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS. 

(a) CBO ESTIMATES.—For purposes of the enforcement of this 

concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 

2016, an estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office 

under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any 


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major legislation considered in the House or the Senate during fiscal year 2016 shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital 

stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(b) JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION ESTIMATES.—For purposes of 

the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, any estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 

economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. 

(c) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in this section shall, to 

the extent practicable, include— 

(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (a) and 

(b)) of such legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning 

after the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution sets forth 

budgetary levels required by section 301 of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974; and 

(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the 

source of data underlying that estimate. 

(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 

(1) the term ‘‘major legislation’’ means any bill or joint resolution— 

(A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974 and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects) in any fiscal year over 

the 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 

(B) designated as such by the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget for all direct spending legislation other than 

revenue legislation or the Member who is chair or vice 

chair, as applicable, of the Joint Committee on Taxation 

for revenue legislation; and 

(2) the term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ means changes in revenues, 

budget authority, outlays, and deficits. 

SEC. 402. LIMITATION ON MEASURES AFFECTING SOCIAL SECURITY 

SOLVENCY. 

(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 or the Senate a 

bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least .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 

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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. 403. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, 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 amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the 

Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) and 

311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 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. 404. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF 

THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND. 

For purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or 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 shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the 

transfer occurs. 

SEC. 405. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, 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’’; and 

(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); and 

(2) VETERANS.—$63,271,000,000 in new budget authority for 

programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2). 

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lution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

making general appropriations or continuing appropriations, for 

the fiscal year following fiscal year 2016. 

SEC. 406. FAIR VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. 

(a) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES.—Upon the request of the chair or 

ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, any estimate of 

the budgetary effects of a measure prepared by the Director of the 

Congressional Budget Office under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ‘‘credit reform’’ shall, as a supplement to such estimate, and to the extent practicable, also provide 

an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by such 

measure. 

(b) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES FOR HOUSING AND STUDENT LOAN

PROGRAMS.—Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office prepares an estimate pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 of the budgetary effects which would be 

incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and if the Director determines that such bill or joint resolution has a budgetary 

effect related to a housing, residential mortgage or student loan 

program under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

then the Director shall also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of such bill or joint 

resolution that result in such effect. 

(c) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Director of the Congressional Budget 

Office provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and 

other budgetary enforcement controls. 

SEC. 407. LIMITATION ON LONG-TERM SPENDING. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, it shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than 

the Committee on Appropriations), or an amendment thereto or a 

conference report thereon, if the provisions of such measure have 

the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of 

$5,000,000,000 for any period described in subsection (b). 

(b) TIME PERIODS.—The applicable periods for purposes of this 

section are any of the four consecutive ten fiscal-year periods beginning in the fiscal year following the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 408. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 

GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 

(a) SEPARATE OCO/GWOT ALLOCATION.—In the House, 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. 

(b) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and the ‘‘total 

of fiscal years’’ shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2016. Section 

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ignated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(d) 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. 

SEC. 409. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF BUDGETARY 

RESOURCES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House, if a committee (other than the Committee on 

Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or offers any 

amendment thereto or submits a conference report thereon, 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 chair of the Committee on the Budget 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, 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 chair of the Committee on the Budget and such chair may adjust applicable levels 

of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 410. CONCEPTS, AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION. 

(a) CONCEPTS, ALLOCATIONS, AND APPLICATION.—In the House— 

(1) upon a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust any allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent 

resolution accordingly; 

(2) any adjustments of the allocations, aggregates, and other 

budgetary levels made pursuant to this concurrent resolution 

shall— 

(A) apply while that measure is under consideration; 

(B) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and 

(C) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 

practicable; 

(3) section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) shall have 

no force or effect for any reconciliation bill reported pursuant 

to instructions set forth in this concurrent resolution; 

(4) the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels 

to reflect changes resulting from the most recently published 

or adjusted baseline of the Congressional Budget Office; and 

(5) the term ‘‘budget year’’ means the most recent fiscal year 

for which a concurrent resolution on the budget has been 

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(b) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION.—In the House, 

for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement— 

(1) the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget 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 407 of this concurrent resolution; and 

(2) revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these 

adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 411. RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House of Representatives, and these rules 

shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 501. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S 

HEALTH CARE LAW. 

In the House, the chair 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 or measures that make modifications to such law. 

SEC. 502. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROMOTING REAL 

HEALTH CARE REFORM. 

In the House, the chair 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. 503. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CARE 

LAW. 

In the House, the chair 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 

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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. 504. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM. 

In the House, the chair 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. 505. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure would 

not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 

2025. 

SEC. 506. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS. 

In the House, the chair 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. 507. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORMING THE 

TAX CODE. 

In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill 

or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 

the chair 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. 508. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES. 

In the House, the chair 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 

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SEC. 509. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE POVERTY 

AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY AND UPWARD MOBILITY. 

In the House, the chair 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 policies and programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and 

upward mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely 

impact job creation nor increase the deficit over the period of fiscal 

years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 510. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRANSPORTATION. 

In the House, the chair 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. 511. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM. 

In the House, the chair 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 chair, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 

SEC. 512. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT. 

The chair 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 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 VI—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 601. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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. 

(2) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average 

rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year 

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(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution 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 five years following 

passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and 

workers’ wages increased. This budget applies the lessons 

of welfare reform to both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid. 

(B) For Medicaid, this budget assumes the conversion of 

the Federal share of Medicaid spending into flexible State 

allotments, which States will be able to tailor to meet their 

unique needs. Such a reform would end the misguided onesize-fits-all approach that ties the hands of State governments and would provide States with the freedom and 

flexibility they have long requested in the Medicaid program. Moreover, this budget assumes the repeal of the 

Medicaid expansions in the President’s health care law, relieving State governments of the crippling one-size-fits-all 

enrollment mandates, as well as the overwhelming pressure the law’s Medicaid expansion puts on an alreadystrained system. 

(C) For the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 

this budget assumes the conversion of the program into a 

flexible State allotment tailored to meet each State’s 

needs. The allotment would increase based on the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. Such a reform would provide incentives for 

States to ensure dollars will go towards those who need 

them most. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

(1) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: 

(A) For Medicare, this budget advances policies to put 

seniors, not the Federal Government, in control of their 

health care decisions. Future retirees would be able to 

choose from a range of guaranteed coverage options, with 

private plans competing alongside the traditional fee-forservice Medicare program. Medicare would provide a premium-support payment either to pay for or offset the premium of the plan chosen by the senior, depending on the 

plan’s cost. The Medicare premium-support payment would 

be adjusted so that the sick would receive higher payments 

if their conditions worsened; lower-income seniors would 

receive additional assistance to help cover out-of-pocket 

costs; and wealthier seniors would assume responsibility 

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charge of how their health care dollars are spent will force 

providers to compete against each other on price and quality. This market competition will act as a real check on 

widespread waste and skyrocketing health care costs. As 

with previous budgets, this program will begin in 2024 and 

makes no changes to those in or near retirement. 

(B) In keeping with a recommendation from the National 

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, this 

budget calls for Federal employees—including Members of 

Congress and congressional staff—to make greater contributions toward their own retirement. 

TITLE VII—RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM 

LEVELS 

SEC. 701. LONG-TERM BUDGETING. 

The following are the recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels for each of fiscal years 2030, 2035, and 2040 as a percent 

of the gross domestic product of the United States: 

(1) REVENUES.—The budgetary levels of Federal revenues 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2030: 18.7 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 19.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 19.0 percent. 

(2) OUTLAYS.—The budgetary levels of total budget outlays 

are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: 18.4 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 17.8 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 16.9 percent. 

(3) DEFICITS.—The budgetary levels of deficits are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: -0.3 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: -1.2 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: -2.1 percent. 

(4) DEBT.—The budgetary levels of debt held by the public 

are not to exceed: 

Fiscal year 2030: 44.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2035: 32.0 percent. 

Fiscal year 2040: 18.0 percent. 

TITLE VIII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 801. POLICY STATEMENT ON BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Federal Government collects approximately $3 trillion annually in taxes, but spends more than $3.5 trillion to 

maintain the operations of government. The Federal Government must borrow 14 cents of every Federal dollar spent. 

(2) At the end of the year 2014, the national debt of the 

United States was more than $18.1 trillion. 

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of adopting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United 

States Constitution. 

(4) Forty-nine States have fiscal limitations in their State 

Constitutions, including the requirement to annually balance 

the budget. 

(5) H.J. Res. 2, sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (RVA), was considered by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2011, though it received 262 aye votes, it did not 

receive the two-thirds required for passage. 

(6) Numerous balanced budget amendment proposals have 

been introduced on a bipartisan basis in the House. Twelve 

were introduced in the 113th Congress alone, including H.J. 

Res. 4 by Democratic Representative John J. Barrow of Georgia, and H.J. Res. 38 by Republican Representative Jackie 

Walorski of Indiana. 

(7) The joint resolution providing for a balanced budget 

amendment to the U.S. Constitution referred to in paragraph 

(5) prohibited outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that 

fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. 

(8) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed the House with bipartisan support, but failed 

of passage by one vote in the United States Senate. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of this resolution that 

Congress should pass a joint resolution incorporating the provisions 

set forth in subsection (b), and send such joint resolution to the 

States for their approval, to amend the Constitution of the United 

States to require an annual balanced budget. 

SEC. 802. 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. 

(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 

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(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, 

(9) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the 

procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane 

and opaque. 

(10) Remove existing biases that favor higher spending. 

(11) 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; and, 

(3) Tax-reform legislation should not include tax increases 

just to offset the extension of current tax laws. 

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gressional 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. 803. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

earnings of private-sector workers have increased by just 1.6 

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 

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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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job 

creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this 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 resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the 

reforms in this resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 

SEC. 804. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. corporate tax 

restrains economic growth and job creation. The U.S. 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. 

(10) The ‘‘worldwide’’ structure of U.S. 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 

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(15) This 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 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.—It is the policy of this resolution 

that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the 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 in a manner that does not discriminate 

against any particular type of income or industry. 

SEC. 805. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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 fam- ily 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 innovation and 

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 

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(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.—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. 806. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Security. Since enactment, Social Security has served as a vital leg on the ‘‘threelegged stool’’ of retirement security, which includes employer 

provided pensions as well as personal savings. 

(2) The Social Security Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Social Security’s long-term financial challenges 

be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial 

condition of Social Security becomes more precarious and the 

threat to seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 

benefits becomes more pronounced: 

(A) In 2016, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be 

exhausted and program revenues will be unable to pay 

scheduled benefits. 

(B) In 2033, the combined Old-Age and Survivors and 

Disability Trust Funds will be exhausted, and program 

revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 

(C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds in 2033, 

benefits will be cut nearly 23 percent across the board, 

devastating those currently in or near retirement and 

those who rely on Social Security the most. 

(3) The recession and continued low economic growth have 

exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis facing Social Security. The 

most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections find 

that Social Security will run cash deficits of more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years. 

(4) Lower income Americans rely on Social Security for a 

larger proportion of their retirement income. Therefore, reforms should take into consideration the need to protect lower 

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(5) The Disability Insurance program provides an essential 

income safety net for those with disabilities and their families. 

According to the CBO, between 1970 and 2012, the number of 

people receiving disability benefits (both disabled workers and 

their dependent family members) has increased by more than 

300 percent from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. This increase 

is not due strictly to population growth or decreases in health. 

David Autor and Mark Duggan have found that the increase 

in individuals on disability does not reflect a decrease in selfreported health. CBO attributes program growth to changes in 

demographics, changes in the composition of the labor force 

and compensation, as well as Federal policies. 

(6) If this program is not reformed, families who rely on the 

lifeline that disability benefits provide will face benefit cuts of 

up to 20 percent in 2016, devastating individuals who need assistance the most. 

(7) In the past, Social Security has been reformed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the ‘‘Greenspan Commission’’ 

which helped to address Social Security shortfalls for more 

than a generation. 

(8) Americans deserve action by the President, the House, 

and the Senate to preserve and strengthen Social Security. It 

is critical that bipartisan action be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social Security. In this spirit, this resolution 

creates a bipartisan opportunity to find solutions by requiring 

policymakers to ensure that Social Security remains a critical 

part of the safety net. 

(b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably solvent. This resolution assumes reform of 

a current law trigger, such that: 

(1) If in any year the Board of Trustees of the Federal OldAge and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund annual Trustees Report determines that the 75-year actuarial balance of the Social Security 

Trust Funds is in deficit, and the annual balance of the Social 

Security Trust Funds in the 75th year is in deficit, the Board 

of Trustees should, no later than September 30 of the same 

calendar year, submit to the President recommendations for 

statutory reforms necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a positive annual balance in the 75th-year. 

Recommendations provided to the President must be agreed 

upon by both Public Trustees of the Board of Trustees. 

(2) Not later than 1 December of the same calendar year in 

which the Board of Trustees submit their recommendations, 

the President should promptly submit implementing legislation 

to both Houses of Congress including his recommendations 

necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and 

a positive annual balance in the 75th year. The Majority Leader of the Senate and the Majority Leader of the House should 

introduce the President’s legislation upon receipt. 

(3) Within 60 days of the President submitting legislation, 

the committees of jurisdiction to which the legislation has been 

referred should report a bill, which should be considered by the 

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(4) Legislation submitted by the President should— 

(A) protect those in or near retirement; 

(B) preserve the safety net for those who count on Social 

Security the most, including those with disabilities and 

survivors; 

(C) improve fairness for participants; 

(D) reduce the burden on, and provide certainty for, future generations; and 

(E) secure the future of the Disability Insurance program while addressing the needs of those with disabilities 

today and improving the determination process. 

(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress and the President should enact legislation on 

a bipartisan basis to reform the Disability Insurance program prior 

to its insolvency in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security 

retirement system without reforms to the Disability Insurance system. This resolution assumes reform that— 

(1) ensure benefits continue to be paid to individuals with 

disabilities and their family members who rely on them; 

(2) prevents a 20 percent across-the-board benefit cut; 

(3) makes the Disability Insurance program work better; and 

(4) promotes opportunity for those trying to return to work. 

(d) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.—Any legislation that 

Congress considers to improve the solvency of the Disability Insurance trust fund also must improve the long-term solvency of the 

combined Old Age and Survivors Disability Insurance (OASDI) 

trust fund. 

SEC. 807. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPEALING THE PRESIDENT’S 

HEALTH CARE LAW AND PROMOTING REAL HEALTH CARE 

REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 Employer 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 

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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. 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.—It is 

the policy of this 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 affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and 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 

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(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. Not only does the current Medicaid program drive 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. 


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SEC. 808. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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.—It is the policy of this resolution to preserve the program for those in or near retirement and 

strengthen Medicare for future beneficiaries. 

(c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This 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; 

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(6) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the 

Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term. 

SEC. 809. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND INNOVATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 Development and Cooperation 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 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 and 

around the world. 

(b) POLICY ON MEDICAL INNOVATION.— 

(1) It is the policy of this 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. 810. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY REFORM. 

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(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 defacto 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 energyintensive 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 

its electricity from coal. 

(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.—It is the policy of 

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(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. 811. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. 

(a) FINDINGS ON HIGHER EDUCATION.—The House 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 of 2.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; and 

(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. 

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(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.—It is the policy of this 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 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.—It is the policy of 

this resolution to address the failings in the current workforce development system, by— 

(1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job training programs; and 

(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. 812. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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 House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 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 Budget Committee 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. 813. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

provide an analysis of how the Federal Government’s fiscal 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 

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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.—It is the 

policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with 

the Congressional Budget Office and the public affected by Federal 

budgetary choices, adopt Governmentwide 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. 814. POLICY STATEMENT ON SCOREKEEPING FOR OUTYEAR 

BUDGETARY EFFECTS IN APPROPRIATION ACTS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 directs the Committee on the Budget to provide an allocation of 

budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations for 

the budget year covered by a concurrent resolution on the 

budget. 

(2) The allocation of budgetary resources provided by the 

Committee on the Budget to the Committee on Appropriations 

covers a period of one fiscal year only, which is effective for the 

budget year. 

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the budget year and beyond the period for which the allocation 

of budgetary resources provided by the Committee on the 

Budget is effective. 

(4) The allocation of budgetary resources provided to the 

Committee on Appropriations does not currently anticipate or 

capture direct outyear budgetary effects to programs. 

(5) Budget enforcement could be improved by capturing the 

direct outyear budgetary effects caused by appropriation Acts 

and using this information to determine the appropriate allocations of budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations when considering future concurrent resolutions on the 

budget. 

(b) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of the House of Representatives to more effectively allocate budgetary resources and 

accurately enforce budget targets by agreeing to a procedure by 

which the Committee on the Budget should consider the direct outyear budgetary effects of changes to mandatory programs enacted 

in appropriations bills, joint resolutions, amendments thereto or 

conference reports thereon when setting the allocation of budgetary 

resources for the Committee on Appropriations in a concurrent resolution on the budget. The relevant committees of jurisdiction are 

directed to consult on a procedure during fiscal year 2016 and include recommendations for implementing such procedure in the fiscal year 2017 concurrent resolution on the budget. 

SEC. 815. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required 

by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap 

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 year 

2011 and 2012; 

(E) fourteen grant and loan programs, and three tax 

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(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 

changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. 

(b) POLICY ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING.— 

(1) Each authorizing committee 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 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 

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SEC. 816. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 

CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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.—Congressional 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.—Congress, 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. 

SEC. 817. 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.—It is the policy of 

this 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 

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(2) fee and account specific allocations included in annual appropriation Acts. 

SEC. 818. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF 

TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 

(a) FINDINGS.— The House 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.—It is the policy of this 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, 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. 819. POLICY STATEMENT ON ‘‘NO BUDGET, NO PAY’’. 

It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to 

a concurrent resolution on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, 

a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on 

the budget, the payroll administrator of that House 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 that House of Congress. Withheld compensation should 

be released to Members of that House of Congress the earlier of the 

day on which that House of Congress 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. 820. POLICY STATEMENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY FUNDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House 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 

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(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 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. This concurrent resolution provides $22 billion above the President’s Five Year Defense Plan and 

$151 billion above the 10-year totals. This would also be $387 billion above the 10-year total for current levels. 

(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 the ability to 

increase allocations to support legislation that would provide for 

the Department of Defense warfighting capabilities, modernization, 

a temporary increase in end strength, training and maintenance 

associated with combat readiness, activities to reach full 

auditability of the Department of Defense’s financial statements, 

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(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. 

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