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" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

111TH CONGRESS

1st Session 

REPORT

2009

111–89 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE 

BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 

CONFERENCE REPORT 

TO ACCOMPANY

S. CON. RES. 13 

APRIL 27, 2009.—Ordered to be printed 


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111TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 111–89 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2010 

APRIL 27, 2009.—Ordered to be printed 

Mr. SPRATT, from the committee of conference, 

submitted the following 

CONFERENCE REPORT 

[To accompany S. Con. Res. 13] 

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 

two Houses on the amendment of the House to the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 13), setting forth the congressional budget for 

the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth 

the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 

2014, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: 

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House and agree to the same with an amendment as 

follows: 

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House 

amendment, insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2010. 

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

concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 and that 

this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

years 2009 and 2011 through 2014. 

(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 2010. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Social Security. 

Sec. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 104. Major functional categories. 


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TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the Senate. 

Sec. 202. Reconciliation in the House. 

TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 

Subtitle A—Senate Reserve Funds 

Sec. 301. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to transform and modernize America’s health 

care system. 

Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in clean energy and preserve the environment. 

Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for higher education. 

Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition and WIC. 

Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in America’s infrastructure. 

Sec. 306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote economic stabilization and growth. 

Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and wounded 

servicemembers. 

Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for judicial pay and judgeships, postal retiree 

assistance, and certain pension obligations. 

Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense acquisition and Federal contracting reform. 

Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in our Nation’s counties and 

schools. 

Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Food and Drug Administration. 

Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a comprehensive investigation into the current financial crisis. 

Sec. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increased transparency at the Federal Reserve. 

Sec. 314. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for 21st century community learning centers. 

Sec. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for provision of critical resources to firefighters 

and fire departments. 

Sec. 316. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote tax equity for States without personal income taxes, and other selected tax relief policies. 

Sec. 317. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote individual savings and financial 

security. 

Sec. 318. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase FDIC and NCUA borrowing authority. 

Sec. 319. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving the well-being of children. 

Sec. 320. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program. 

Subtitle B—House Reserve Funds 

Sec. 321. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform. 

Sec. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college access, affordability, and completion. 

Sec. 323. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy independence. 

Sec. 324. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and wounded 

servicemembers. 

Sec. 325. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for certain tax relief. 

Sec. 326. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program. 

Sec. 327. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition. 

Sec. 328. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for structural unemployment insurance reforms. 

Sec. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child support. 

Sec. 330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. 

Sec. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visiting. 

Sec. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for low-income home energy assistance program trigger. 

Sec. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for county payments legislation. 

Sec. 334. Reserve fund for the surface transportation reauthorization. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET PROCESS 

Subtitle A—Senate Provisions 

PART I—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Sec. 401. Discretionary spending limits, program integrity initiatives, and other adjustments. 

Sec. 402. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

Sec. 403. Emergency legislation. 


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Sec. 404. Point of order against legislation increasing short-term deficit. 

Sec. 405. Point of order against certain legislation related to surface transportation 

funding. 

PART II—OTHER PROVISIONS

Sec. 411. Oversight of Government performance. 

Sec. 412. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 413. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 414. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 

Sec. 415. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

Subtitle B—House Enforcement Provisions 

Sec. 421. Adjustments for direct spending and revenues. 

Sec. 422. Adjustments to discretionary spending limits. 

Sec. 423. Costs of overseas deployments and emergency needs. 

Sec. 424. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

Sec. 425. Oversight of government performance. 

Sec. 426. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 427. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 428. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 

Sec. 429. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

TITLE V—POLICY 

Sec. 501. Policy on middle-class tax relief and revenues. 

Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities. 

TITLE VI—SENSE OF THE CONGRESS 

Sec. 601. Sense of the Congress on veterans’ and servicemembers’ health care. 

Sec. 602. Sense of the Congress on homeland security. 

Sec. 603. Sense of the Congress on promoting American innovation and economic 

competitiveness. 

Sec. 604. Sense of the Congress regarding pay parity. 

Sec. 605. Sense of the Congress on college affordability and student loan reform. 

Sec. 606. Sense of the Congress on Great Lakes restoration. 

Sec. 607. Sense of the Congress regarding the importance of child support enforcement. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2014: 

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this resolution: 

(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 

follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $1,532,571,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $1,653,682,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $1,929,625,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,129,601,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $2,291,120,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $2,495,781,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $0. 

Fiscal year 2010: ¥$12,304,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: ¥$159,006,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: ¥$230,792,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: ¥$224,217,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: ¥$137,877,000,000. 


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(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $3,675,927,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $2,888,691,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $2,844,910,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,848,117,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $3,012,193,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $3,188,847,000,000. 

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

this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are 

as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $3,356,270,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $3,001,311,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $2,967,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,881,842,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $3,019,375,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $3,174,814,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $1,823,699,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $1,347,629,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $1,038,283,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $752,241,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $728,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $679,033,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) 

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels 

of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $12,016,335,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $13,233,246,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $14,349,372,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $15,277,119,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $16,159,829,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $17,022,631,000,000. 

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

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $7,728,718,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $8,778,081,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $9,683,425,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $10,345,343,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $10,930,977,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $11,499,230,000,000. 

SEC. 102. SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) SOCIAL SECURITY REVENUES.—For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Federal Old-Age and 

Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $653,117,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $668,208,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $694,864,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $726,045,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $766,065,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2014: $802,166,000,000. 

(b) SOCIAL SECURITY OUTLAYS.—For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 

Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $513,029,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $544,140,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $564,523,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $586,897,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $612,017,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $639,054,000,000. 

(c) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the 

Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for administrative expenses 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $5,296,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,072,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,934,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,568,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,433,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,809,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,223,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,148,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,599,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,517,000,000. 

SEC. 103. POSTAL SERVICE DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget 

outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary administrative expenses are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $253,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $253,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $262,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $262,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

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

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

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $272,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $277,000,000. 

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


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Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $283,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $283,000,000. 

SEC. 104. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of 

new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2009 through 

2014 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $618,057,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $646,810,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $562,033,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $606,043,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $570,107,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $587,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $579,135,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $576,023,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $589,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $584,670,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $603,828,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $595,476,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $40,885,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,797,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $47,866,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,668,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $51,505,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,423,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $52,205,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,078,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $53,553,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,899,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $54,928,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,777,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $35,389,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,973,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $31,139,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $33,993,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,532,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $34,246,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,532,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $34,473,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,823,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $34,841,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,141,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $43,919,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $4,989,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $5,037,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,089,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $4,995,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $11,760,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $5,272,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $11,758,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $5,280,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $11,121,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $56,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,834,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $37,587,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,557,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $37,859,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,889,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,535,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,718,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,191,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,338,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,322,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,974,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,070,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,951,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 


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(A) New budget authority, $24,726,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,025,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $21,640,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,545,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $22,449,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,026,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $23,116,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,090,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $694,439,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $665,437,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $61,113,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,750,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $26,181,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $9,561,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,649,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $17,247,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,585,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $11,226,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$2,500,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $122,457,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,784,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $88,151,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $95,695,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $89,071,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $96,474,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,047,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $95,851,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,866,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $96,150,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $91,809,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $96,793,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,811,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,983,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,308,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $29,303,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $21,232,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,530,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $16,311,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,767,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $16,202,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $16,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,147,000,000. 

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

(500): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $164,276,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $73,219,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $94,430,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $140,624,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $107,858,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $141,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $117,121,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $118,480,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $115,931,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $118,911,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $125,788,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $120,959,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $380,158,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $354,397,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $384,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $388,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $363,778,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $367,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $367,840,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $367,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $386,483,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $382,172,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $395,248,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $396,541,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $427,076,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $426,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $449,668,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $449,798,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $504,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $504,721,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $505,686,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $505,436,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $540,017,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $540,146,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $593,421,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $593,233,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $520,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $503,020,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $536,740,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $540,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $509,101,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $512,335,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $451,472,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $452,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $455,310,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $455,184,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $455,984,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $454,858,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,820,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,264,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,255,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,380,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,513,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,478,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,628,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,529,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,728,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,728,000,000. 

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 


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Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $97,705,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $94,831,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $106,498,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $105,578,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $112,977,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $112,520,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $108,839,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $108,242,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $113,942,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $113,293,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $116,163,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $115,624,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $55,783,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,853,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $53,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,043,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $53,892,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,589,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $53,738,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $53,569,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,537,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $54,247,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,058,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,405,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,629,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,979,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,757,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,264,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,099,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,620,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,396,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,196,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,898,000,000. 


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(B) Outlays, $23,167,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $288,952,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $288,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $284,153,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $284,153,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $323,325,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $323,325,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $387,488,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $387,488,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $470,412,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $470,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $558,265,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $558,265,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $7,150,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,788,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $1,157,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,548,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$14,278,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$8,066,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$14,914,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$13,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$16,126,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$14,979,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$16,670,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$15,235,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$78,206,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$78,206,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$68,774,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$68,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$71,993,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$71,993,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$74,970,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$74,970,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$77,945,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$77,945,000,000. 


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Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, ¥$79,861,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, ¥$79,861,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Deployments and Other Activities (970): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,745,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $130,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $98,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,118,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,221,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,722,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,110,000,000. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE. 

(a) COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.—The Senate Committee on Finance shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce 

the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014. 

(b) COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, AND PENSIONS.—The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 

Pensions shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014. 

(c) SUBMISSIONS.—In the Senate, not later than October 15, 

2009, the Senate committees named in subsections (a) and (b) shall 

submit their recommendations to the Senate Committee on the 

Budget. Upon receiving all such recommendations, the Senate Committee on the Budget shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill 

carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. 

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE. 

(a) HEALTH CARE REFORM.— 

(1) The House Committee on Energy and Commerce shall 

report changes in laws to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 

for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 

(2) The House Committee on Ways and Means shall report 

changes in laws to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the 

period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 

(3) The House Committee on Education and Labor shall report changes in laws to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 


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(b) INVESTING IN EDUCATION.—The House Committee on Education and Labor shall report changes in laws to reduce the deficit 

by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 

(c) SUBMISSIONS.—In the House, not later than October 15, 

2009, the House committees named in subsections (a) and (b) shall 

submit their recommendations to the House Committee on the Budget. Upon receiving all such recommendations, the House Committee 

on the Budget shall report to the House a reconciliation bill carrying out all such changes without any substantive revision. 

TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 

Subtitle A—Senate Reserve Funds 

SEC. 301. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO TRANSFORM AND 

MODERNIZE AMERICA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. 

(a) TRANSFORM AND MODERNIZE AMERICA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 

revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and 

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution, and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger that are deficit-neutral over 11 

years, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, 

or conference reports that are deficit-neutral, reduce excess cost 

growth in health care spending and are fiscally sustainable over the 

long term, and— 

(1) protect families’ financial health including restraining 

the growth of health premiums and other health-related costs; 

(2) make health coverage affordable to businesses (in particular to small business and individuals who are self-employed), households, and governments, including by reducing 

wasteful and inefficient spending in the health care system with 

periodic reports on savings achieved through these efforts, and 

by moving forward with improvements to the health care delivery system, including Medicare; 

(3) aim for quality, affordable health care for all Americans; 

(4) provide portability of coverage and assurance of coverage with appropriate consumer protections; 

(5) guarantee choice of health plans and health care providers to Americans; 

(6) invest in prevention and wellness and address issues of 

health disparities; 

(7) improve patient safety and quality care, including the 

appropriate use of health information technology and health 

data, and promote transparency in cost and quality information 

to Americans; or 

(8) maintain long-term fiscal sustainability and pays for 

itself by reducing health care cost growth, improving productivity, or dedicating additional sources of revenue; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the 

period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

(b) OTHER REVISIONS.—The chairman of the Senate Committee 

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olution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that— 

(1) increase the reimbursement rate for physician services 

under section 1848(d) of the Social Security Act and that include financial incentives for physicians to improve the quality 

and efficiency of items and services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries through the use of consensus-based quality measures; 

(2) include measures to encourage physicians to train in 

primary care residencies and ensure an adequate supply of residents and physicians; 

(3) improve the Medicare program for beneficiaries and 

protect access to outpatient therapy services (including physical 

therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology 

services) through measures such as repealing the current outpatient therapy caps while protecting beneficiaries from associated premium increases; or 

(4) promote payment policies that address the systemic inequities of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement that lead to 

access problems in rural areas, including access to primary care 

and outpatient services, hospitals, and an adequate supply of 

providers in the workforce or that reward quality and efficient 

care and address geographic variations in spending in the 

Medicare program; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 302. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INVEST IN CLEAN ENERGY AND PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT. 

(a) INVESTING IN CLEAN ENERGY AND PRESERVING THE ENVI- RONMENT.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget 

may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, 

and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or 

more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would— 

(1) reduce our Nation’s dependence on imported energy; 

(2) produce green jobs; 

(3) promote renewable energy development (including expediting research on the viability of using higher ethanol blends 

at the service station pump); 

(4) authorize long-term contracts for procurement of alternative fuels from domestic sources, provided that such procurement is consistent with section 526 of the Energy Independence 

and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140); 

(5) accelerate the research, development, demonstration, 

and deployment of advanced technologies to capture and store 

carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and 

other industrial emission sources and to use coal in an environmentally acceptable manner; 

(6) strengthen and retool manufacturing supply chains; 

(7) create a clean energy investment fund; 

(8) improve electricity transmission; 

(9) encourage conservation and efficiency; 

(10) make improvements to the Low-Income Home Energy 

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(11) set aside additional funding from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for Arctic oil spill research; 

(12) implement water settlements; 

(13) provide additional resources for wildland fire management activities (including the removal of the requirement for 

State matching funds); or 

(14) preserve or protect public lands, oceans or coastal 

areas; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. The legislation 

may include tax provisions. 

(b) CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 

limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 

amendments, motions, or conference reports that would— 

(1) invest in clean energy technology initiatives; 

(2) decrease greenhouse gas emissions; 

(3) create new jobs in a clean technology economy; 

(4) strengthen the manufacturing competitiveness of the 

United States; 

(5) diversify the domestic clean energy supply to increase 

the energy security of the United States; 

(6) protect consumers (including policies that address regional differences); 

(7) provide incentives for cost-savings achieved through energy efficiencies; 

(8) provide voluntary opportunities for agriculture and forestry communities to contribute to reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere; and 

(9) help families, workers, communities, and businesses 

make the transition to a clean energy economy; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 303. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

that make higher education more accessible and affordable while 

maintaining a competitive private sector role in the student loan 

program, which may include legislation to expand and strengthen 

student aid, such as Pell Grants, or increase college enrollment and 

completion rates for low-income students, by the amounts provided 

in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2019. The legislation may include tax provisions. 


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SEC. 304. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD NUTRITION 

AND WIC. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

that would reauthorize child nutrition programs or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the 

WIC program), by the amounts provided in such legislation for 

those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 

the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2019. 

SEC. 305. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INVESTMENTS IN 

AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE. 

(a) INFRASTRUCTURE.—The chairman of the Senate Committee 

on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide for a robust Federal investment in America’s infrastructure, which may include projects for 

public housing, energy, water, transportation, freight and passenger 

rail, or other infrastructure projects, by the amounts provided in 

that legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2019. 

(b) SURFACE TRANSPORTATION.—The chairman of the Senate 

Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee 

or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits 

in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide new contract authority paid out of the Highway Trust Fund for surface transportation programs to the extent such new contract authority is offset 

by an increase in receipts to the Highway Trust Fund (excluding 

transfers from the general fund of the Treasury into the Highway 

Trust Fund not offset by a similar increase in receipts), provided 

further that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the 

period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

(c) MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.—The chairman 

of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations 

of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would authorize multimodal transportation projects that— 

(1) provide a set of performance measures; 

(2) require a cost-benefit analysis be conducted to ensure 

accountability and overall project goals are met; and 

(3) provide flexibility for States, cities, and localities to create strategies that meet the needs of their communities; 

by the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

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(d) FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS AND INSURANCE REFORM.—The 

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

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide for levee modernization, maintenance, repair, and improvement, or provide for flood insurance reform and modernization, by 

the amounts provided in that legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 306. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC 

STABILIZATION AND GROWTH. 

(a) MANUFACTURING.—The chairman of the Senate Committee 

on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports, including tax legislation, that would revitalize and strengthen the United States domestic manufacturing 

sector by increasing Federal research and development, by expanding the scope and effectiveness of manufacturing programs across 

the Federal Government, by increasing efforts to train and retrain 

manufacturing workers, by enhancing workers’ technical skills in 

the use of the new advanced manufacturing technologies to produce 

competitive energy efficient products, by increasing support for sector workforce training, by increasing support for the redevelopment 

of closed manufacturing plants, by increasing support for development of alternative fuels and leap-ahead automotive and energy 

technologies such as advanced batteries, or by establishing tax incentives to encourage the continued production in the United States 

of advanced technologies and the infrastructure to support such 

technologies, by the amounts provided in that legislation for those 

purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

(b) TAX RELIEF.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the 

Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution by the 

amounts provided by one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would provide tax relief, 

including but not limited to extensions of expiring and expired tax 

relief, or refundable tax relief, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 

increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

(c) TAX REFORM.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on 

the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 

aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or 

more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would reform the Internal Revenue Code to ensure a sustainable revenue base that would lead to a fairer and more efficient 

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crease the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

(d) TRADE.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the 

Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or 

more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports related to trade by the amounts provided in such legislation 

for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 

the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2019. 

(e) HOUSING ASSISTANCE.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 

committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in 

this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 

motions, or conference reports related to housing assistance, which 

may include low income rental assistance, or assistance provided 

through the Housing Trust Fund created under section 1131 of the 

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the 

total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 

fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

(f) UNEMPLOYMENT MITIGATION.—The chairman of the Senate 

Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee 

or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, 

or conference reports that reduce the unemployment rate or provide 

assistance to the unemployed, particularly in the states and localities with the highest rates of unemployment, or improve the implementation of the unemployment compensation program, by the 

amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 

that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 

period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period 

of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 307. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA’S VETERANS AND WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS. 

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

other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that 

would— 

(1) expand the number of disabled military retirees who receive both disability compensation and retired pay; 

(2) accelerate the phase-in of concurrent receipt; 

(3) reduce or eliminate the offset between Survivor Benefit 

Plan annuities and Veterans’ Dependency and Indemnity Compensation; 

(4) enhance or maintain the affordability of health care for 

military personnel, military retirees, or veterans; 

(5) improve disability benefits or evaluations for wounded 

or disabled military personnel or veterans (including measures 

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(6) enhance servicemember education benefits for members 

of the National Guard and Reserve by ensuring those benefits 

keep pace with the national average cost of tuition; or 

(7) expand veterans’ benefits (including for veterans living 

in rural areas); 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 308. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR JUDICIAL PAY AND 

JUDGESHIPS, POSTAL RETIREE ASSISTANCE, AND CERTAIN PENSION OBLIGATIONS. 

(a) JUDICIAL PAY AND JUDGESHIPS.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and 

limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 

amendments, motions, or conference reports that would authorize 

salary adjustments for justices and judges of the United States, or 

increase the number of Federal judgeships, by the amounts provided 

in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2019. 

(b) POSTAL RETIREES.—The chairman of the Senate Committee 

on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for 

one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports relating to adjustments to funding for postal retiree 

health coverage, by the amounts provided in such legislation for 

those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 

the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2019. 

(c) PENSION OBLIGATIONS.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 

committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, 

or conference reports that would authorize funding to cover the full 

cost of pension obligations for current and past employees of laboratories and environmental cleanup sites under the jurisdiction of the 

Department of Energy (including benefits paid to security personnel) 

in a manner that does not impact the missions of those laboratories 

and environmental cleanup sites, by the amounts provided in such 

legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would 

not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 309. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION AND FEDERAL CONTRACTING REFORM. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

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(1) provide funding to the Department of Defense for additional activities to reduce waste, fraud, abuse and overpayments 

in defense contracting; 

(2) enhance the capability of the Federal acquisition or contracting workforce to achieve better value for taxpayers; 

(3) reduce the use of no-bid and cost-plus contracts; 

(4) reform Department of Defense processes for acquiring 

weapons systems or services in order to reduce costs, improve 

cost and schedule estimation, enhance developmental testing of 

weapons, enhance oversight, or increase the rigor of reviews of 

programs that experience critical cost growth; 

(5) reduce the award of contracts to contractors with seriously delinquent tax debts; 

(6) reduce the use of non-competitive contracts and the continuation of task orders for logistics support; 

(7) reduce the use of contracts for acquisition, oversight, 

and management support services; 

(8) enhance the capability of auditors and inspectors general to oversee Federal acquisition and procurement; 

(9) reform the processes for payment of bonuses to contractors and government executives responsible for over-budget 

projects and programs that fail to meet basic performance requirements; or 

(10) achieve savings by requiring that Federal departments 

and agencies eliminate improper payments and increase the use 

of recovery audits; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 310. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INVESTMENTS IN 

OUR NATION’S COUNTIES AND SCHOOLS. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

that provide for the reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and 

Community Self Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–393) 

or make changes to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–565), or both, by the amounts provided by that legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

SEC. 311. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE FOOD AND 

DRUG ADMINISTRATION. 

(a) REGULATION.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on 

the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 

aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or 

more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that authorize the Food and Drug Administration to regulate 

products and assess user fees on manufacturers and importers of 

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crease the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

(b) DRUG IMPORTATION.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or 

committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, 

or conference reports that permit the safe importation of prescription 

drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from a specified list of countries, by the amounts provided in such legislation for 

those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 

the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2019. 

(c) FOOD SAFETY.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on 

the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 

aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, 

or conference reports that would improve the safety of the food supply in the United States, by the amounts provided in such legislation for these purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

SEC. 312. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPREHENSIVE 

INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

that provide resources for a comprehensive investigation to determine the cause of the current financial crisis, hold those responsible 

accountable, and provide recommendations to prevent another financial crisis of this magnitude from occurring again by the 

amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 

that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 

period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period 

of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 313. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASED TRANSPARENCY AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE. 

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

other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more 

bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports 

that increase transparency at the Federal Reserve System, including 

audits of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and 

the Federal reserve banks, to include— 

(1) an evaluation of the appropriate number and the associated costs of Federal reserve banks; 

(2) publication on its website, with respect to all lending 

and financial assistance facilities created by the Board to address the financial crisis, of— 

(A) the nature and amounts of the collateral that the 

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in the various lending programs, on no less than a monthly 

basis; 

(B) the extent to which changes in valuation of credit 

extensions to various special purpose vehicles, such as 

Maiden Lane I, Maiden Lane II, and Maiden Lane III, are 

a result of losses on collateral which will not be recovered; 

(C) the number of borrowers that participate in each of 

the lending programs and details of the credit extended, including the extent to which the credit is concentrated in one 

or more institutions; and 

(D) information on the extent to which the central bank 

is contracting for services of private sector firms for the design, pricing, management, and accounting for the various 

lending programs and the terms and nature of such contracts and bidding processes; and 

(3) including the identity of each entity to which the Board 

has provided all loans and other financial assistance since 

March 24, 2008, the value or amount of that financial assistance, and what that entity is doing with such financial assistance; 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 314. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS. 

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

other levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 

increase funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers 

program by the amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 

over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 

or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 315. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR PROVISION OF CRITICAL RESOURCES TO FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. 

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

other levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 

provide firefighters and fire departments with critical resources 

under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant and the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Grant of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, by the amounts provided in 

such legislation for such purpose, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 

years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 316. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE TAX EQUITY 

FOR STATES WITHOUT PERSONAL INCOME TAXES, AND 

OTHER SELECTED TAX RELIEF POLICIES. 

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other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 

extend permanently the deduction for State and local sales taxes, extend incentives for enhanced charitable giving from individual retirement accounts, including life-income gifts, or enhance the employer-provided child care credit and the dependent care tax credit, 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either 

the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 317. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL 

SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL SECURITY. 

The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 

may revise the aggregates, allocations, and other appropriate levels 

in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that promote financial security 

through financial literacy, retirement planning, and savings incentives, including individual development accounts and child savings 

accounts, provided that such legislation does not increase the deficit 

over either the period of the total fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or 

the period of the total fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 318. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO INCREASE FDIC AND 

NCUA BORROWING AUTHORITY. 

The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 

may revise the aggregates, allocations, and other appropriate levels 

in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports to increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration, provided that such legislation 

does not increase the deficit over either the period of the total fiscal 

years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total fiscal years 2009 

through 2019. 

SEC. 319. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR IMPROVING THE 

WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN. 

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

other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that— 

(1) make improvements to child welfare programs, including strengthening the recruitment and retention of foster families, or make improvements to the child support enforcement 

program; 

(2) improve the Federal foster care payment system to better 

support children, improve family support, family preservation, 

family reunification services, address the needs of children 

prior to removal, during removal, and post placement or address the needs of children who have been abused or neglected; 

or 

(3) provide funds to states for a program of home visits to 

low-income mothers-to-be and low-income families that will 

produce sizeable, sustained improvements in the health, wellbeing, or school readiness of children or their parents; 

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the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

SEC. 320. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A 9/11 HEALTH PROGRAM. 

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

other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 

resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would 

establish a program, including medical monitoring and treatment, 

addressing the adverse health impacts linked to the September 11, 

2001 attacks, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 

purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 

2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. 

Subtitle B—House Reserve Funds 

SEC. 321. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM. 

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 health care in America, which 

may include making affordable health coverage available for all, 

improving the quality of health care, reducing rising health care 

costs, building on and strengthening existing public and private insurance coverage, including employer-sponsored coverage, and preserving choice of provider and plan by the amounts provided in 

such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of 

rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 322. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COLLEGE ACCESS, 

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 or accessible or that increases college enrollment and completion through reforms to the 

Higher Education Act of 1965 or other legislation, including increasing the maximum Pell grant award annually by an amount 

equal to one percentage point more than the Consumer Price Index, 

or student loan reform, by the amounts provided in such measure 

if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the 

Rules of the House of Representatives, and minimize disruption to 

schools, students, and the employees of the student loan originating 

and servicing industry. 

SEC. 323. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASING ENERGY 

INDEPENDENCE. 

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; 


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(2) encourages investment in emerging energy or vehicle 

technologies or carbon capture and sequestration; 

(3) limits and provides for reductions in greenhouse gas 

emissions; 

(4) 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 

(5) facilitates the training of workers for these industries 

(‘‘green collar jobs’’); 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period 

provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 324. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA’S VETERANS AND WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS. 

The chairman of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and 

other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that would: 

(1) expand the number of disabled military retirees who receive both disability compensation and retired pay (concurrent 

receipt); 

(2) accelerate the phase-in of concurrent receipt; 

(3) reduce or eliminate the offset between Survivor Benefit 

Plan annuities and Veterans’ Dependency and Indemnity Compensation; 

(4) enhance or maintain the affordability of health care for 

military personnel, military retirees or veterans; 

(5) improve disability benefits or evaluations for wounded 

or disabled military personnel or veterans (including measures 

to expedite the claims process); 

(6) enhance servicemember education benefits for members 

of the National Guard and Reserve by ensuring those benefits 

keep pace with the national average cost of tuition; or 

(7) expand veterans’ benefits (including for veterans living 

in rural areas); 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit or decrease 

the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 325. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CERTAIN TAX RELIEF. 

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 tax relief that supports working families 

(such as expanding the refundable child credit), businesses, States, 

or communities, by the amounts provided in such measure if such 

measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 

either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 

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SEC. 326. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A 9/11 HEALTH PROGRAM. 

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 would establish a program, including medical monitoring and treatment, addressing the adverse health impacts linked 

to the September 11, 2001, attacks by the amounts provided in such 

measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 

the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 327. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD NUTRITION. 

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 reauthorizes, expands, or improves child nutrition programs by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 

would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time 

period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 

of Representatives. 

SEC. 328. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REFORMS. 

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 structural reforms to make the unemployment insurance system respond better to serious economic downturns by the 

amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 329. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD SUPPORT. 

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 increases parental support for children, particularly 

from non-custodial parents, including legislation that results in a 

greater share of collected child support reaching the child, by the 

amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 330. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND 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 capitalizes the existing Affordable Housing Trust Fund 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period 

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SEC. 331. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HOME VISITING. 

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 funds to states for a program of home visits to 

low-income mothers-to-be and low-income families which will 

produce sizeable, sustained improvements in the health, well-being, 

or school readiness of children or their parents, by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 

10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 332. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR LOW-INCOME HOME 

ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TRIGGER. 

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 the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program more responsive to energy price increases by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in clause 

10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 333. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COUNTY PAYMENTS 

LEGISLATION. 

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 the reauthorization of the Secure Rural 

Schools and Community Self Determination Act of 2000 (Public 

Law 106–393) or makes changes to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes 

Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–565) by the amounts provided in such 

measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 

the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 334. RESERVE FUND FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION. 

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 reauthorizes surface transportation programs or that authorizes other transportation-related spending by providing new 

contract authority by the amounts provided in such measure if such 

measure establishes or maintains a solvent Highway Trust Fund 

over the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2015. ‘‘Solvency’’ is defined as a positive cash balance. Such measure may include a transfer into the Highway Trust Fund from other Federal funds, as long 

as the transfer of Federal funds is fully offset. 


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TITLE IV—BUDGET PROCESS 

Subtitle A—Senate Provisions 

PART I—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 401. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS, PROGRAM INTEGRITY 

INITIATIVES, AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS. 

(a) SENATE POINT OF ORDER.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise provided in this section, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill 

or joint resolution (or amendment, motion, or conference report 

on that bill or joint resolution) that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this section to be exceeded. 

(2) SUPERMAJORITY WAIVER AND APPEALS.— (A) WAIVER.—This subsection may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of threefifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

(B) APPEALS.—Appeals in the Senate from the decisions 

of the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection 

shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 

and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the 

bill or joint resolution. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of 

the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall 

be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair 

on a point of order raised under this subsection. 

(b) SENATE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—In the Senate 

and as used in this section, the term ‘‘discretionary spending limit’’ 

means— 

(1) for fiscal year 2009, $1,391,471,000,000 in new budget 

authority and $1,220,843,000,000 in outlays; and 

(2) for fiscal year 2010, $1,082,250,000,000 in new budget 

authority and $1,269,471,000,000 in outlays; 

as adjusted in conformance with the adjustment procedures in subsection (c). 

(c) ADJUSTMENTS IN THE SENATE.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—After the reporting of a bill or joint resolution relating to any matter described in paragraph (2), or the 

offering of an amendment thereto or the submission of a conference report thereon— 

(A) the chairman of the Senate Committee on the 

Budget may adjust the discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations pursuant to section 302(a) 

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, by the amount of 

new budget authority in that measure for that purpose and 

the outlays flowing therefrom; and 

(B) following any adjustment under subparagraph (A), 

the Senate Committee on Appropriations may report appropriately revised suballocations pursuant to section 302(b) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to carry out this subsection. 

(2) MATTERS DESCRIBED.—Matters referred to in paragraph 

(1) are as follows: 

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(i) IN GENERAL.—If a bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that 

appropriates $273,000,000 for continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the Social Security Administration, and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

$485,000,000 for continuing disability reviews and 

Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the 

Social Security Administration, then the discretionary 

spending limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on 

Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted by the 

amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, 

but not to exceed $485,000,000 in budget authority and 

outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010. 

(ii) ASSET VERIFICATION.—The additional appro- priation of $485,000,000 may also provide that a portion of that amount, not to exceed $34,000,000, instead 

may be used for asset verification for Supplemental Security Income recipients, but only if and to the extent 

that the Office of the Chief Actuary estimates that the 

initiative would be at least as cost effective as the redeterminations of eligibility described in subparagraph 

(i). 

(B) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TAX ENFORCEMENT.— If a bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $7,100,000,000 

for the Internal Revenue Service for enhanced tax enforcement to address the Federal tax gap (taxes owed but not 

paid) and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

$890,000,000 for the Internal Revenue Service for enhanced 

tax enforcement to address the Federal tax gap, then the 

discretionary spending limits, allocation to the Senate 

Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted by the amounts provided in such legislation for that 

purpose, but not to exceed $890,000,000 in budget authority 

and outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010. 

(C) HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL.—If a 

bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations 

for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates up to $311,000,000 to 

the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control program at the 

Department of Health and Human Services, then the discretionary spending limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted 

by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, but not to exceed $311,000,000 in budget authority 

and outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010. 

(D) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IMPROPER PAYMENT

REVIEWS.—If a bill or joint resolution is reported making 

appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates 

$10,000,000 for in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment 

reviews, and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

$50,000,000 for in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment 

reviews, then the discretionary spending limits, allocation 


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to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates 

may be adjusted by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, but not to exceed $50,000,000 in 

budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal 

year 2010. 

(3) LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

(LIHEAP).—If a bill or joint resolution is reported making appro- priations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $3,200,000,000 

in funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

$1,900,000,000 for that program, then the discretionary spending limits, allocation to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates may be adjusted by the amounts provided 

in such legislation for that purpose, but not to exceed 

$1,900,000,000 in budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom for fiscal year 2010. 

(4) ADJUSTMENTS TO SUPPORT ONGOING OVERSEAS DEPLOY- MENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.—The chairman of the Senate 

Committee on the Budget may adjust the discretionary spending limits, allocations to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and aggregates for one or more— 

(A) bills reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations or passed by the House of Representatives; 

(B) joint resolutions or amendments reported by the 

Senate Committee on Appropriations; 

(C) amendments between the Houses received from the 

House of Representatives or Senate amendments offered by 

the authority of the Senate Committee on Appropriations; 

or 

(D) conference reports; 

making appropriations for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 for overseas deployments and other activities by the amounts provided 

in such legislation for those purposes (and so designated pursuant to this paragraph), up to the amounts of budget authority 

specified in section 104(21) for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and 

the new outlays flowing therefrom. 

(5) REVISED APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010.— (A) IN GENERAL.—If after adoption of this resolution by 

the Congress, the President submits his budget pursuant to 

section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and the 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) re-estimates the budget, 

the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 

adjust the discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations pursuant to section 302(a) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by the aggregate difference for discretionary appropriations and related outlays 

between the CBO re-estimate and the President’s Budget. 

(B) SUBALLOCATIONS.—Following any adjustment 

under subparagraph (A), the Senate Committee on Appropriations may report appropriately revised suballocations 

pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974 to carry out this paragraph. 

(d) INAPPLICABILITY.—In the Senate, subsections (a), (b), (c), 

and (d) of section 312 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress) shall no 

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SEC. 402. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.— 

(1) POINT OF ORDER.—Except as provided in subsection (b), 

it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint 

resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report that would 

provide an advance appropriation. 

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

joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that 

first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2010, or any 

new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, that first becomes available for any fiscal year 

after 2011. 

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

(1) for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 for programs, projects, 

activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying 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 in each year; 

(2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and 

(3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical 

Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration. 

(c) SUPERMAJORITY WAIVER AND APPEAL.— 

(1) WAIVER.—In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived 

or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 

Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

(2) APPEAL.—An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to 

sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order 

raised under subsection (a). 

(d) FORM OF POINT OF ORDER.—A point of order under subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) 

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

(e) CONFERENCE REPORTS.—When the Senate is considering a 

conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such 

material contained in such conference report shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether 

the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further 

amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall 

consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the 

Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order 

is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), 

no further amendment shall be in order. 

(f) INAPPLICABILITY.—In the Senate, section 313 of S. Con. Res. 

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SEC. 403. EMERGENCY LEGISLATION. 

(a) AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE.—In the Senate, with respect to 

a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or appropriations for discretionary accounts that Congress designates as an 

emergency requirement in such measure, the amounts of new budget 

authority, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years resulting from 

that provision shall be treated as an emergency requirement for the 

purpose of this section. 

(b) EXEMPTION OF EMERGENCY PROVISIONS.—Any new budget 

authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision designated as an emergency requirement, pursuant to this section, in 

any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report shall not 

count for purposes of sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974, section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) 

(relating to pay-as-you-go), section 311 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th 

Congress) (relating to long-term deficits), and sections 401 and 404 

of this resolution (relating to discretionary spending and short-term 

deficits). Designated emergency provisions shall not count for the 

purpose of revising allocations, aggregates, or other levels pursuant 

to procedures established under section 301(b)(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for deficit-neutral reserve funds and revising discretionary spending limits set pursuant to section 301 of 

this resolution. 

(c) DESIGNATIONS.—If a provision of legislation is designated as 

an emergency requirement under this section, the committee report 

and any statement of managers accompanying that legislation shall 

include an explanation of the manner in which the provision meets 

the criteria in subsection (f). 

(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘direct spending’’, 

‘‘receipts’’, and ‘‘appropriations for discretionary accounts’’ mean 

any provision of a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that affects direct spending, receipts, or appropriations as those terms have been defined and interpreted for purposes 

of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(e) POINT OF ORDER.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—When the Senate is considering a bill, 

resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report, if a point 

of order is made by a Senator against an emergency designation in that measure, that provision making such a designation 

shall be stricken from the measure and may not be offered as 

an amendment from the floor. 

(2) SUPERMAJORITY WAIVER AND APPEALS.— 

(A) WAIVER.—Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of threefifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

(B) APPEALS.—Appeals in the Senate from the decisions 

of the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection 

shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 

and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the 

bill or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative 

vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 

the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this 

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(3) DEFINITION OF AN EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—For purposes of paragraph (1), a provision shall be considered an emergency designation if it designates any item as an emergency requirement pursuant to this subsection. 

(4) FORM OF THE POINT OF ORDER.—A point of order under 

paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

(5) CONFERENCE REPORTS.—When the Senate is considering 

a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 

relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report shall 

be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the 

question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment 

and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House 

amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, 

which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of 

the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, 

not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained 

against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from 

such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 

(f) CRITERIA.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this section, any provision is an emergency requirement if the situation addressed by 

such provision is— 

(A) necessary, essential, or vital (not merely useful or 

beneficial); 

(B) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building up over time; 

(C) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring 

immediate action; 

(D) subject to paragraph (2), unforeseen, unpredictable, 

and unanticipated; and 

(E) not permanent, temporary in nature. 

(2) UNFORESEEN.—An emergency that is part of an aggregate level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally estimated in advance, is not unforeseen. 

(g) INAPPLICABILITY.—In the Senate, section 204(a) of S. Con. 

Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget 

for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply. 

SEC. 404. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION INCREASING 

SHORT-TERM DEFICIT. 

(a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the Senate to 

consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 

report (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on 

Appropriations) that would cause a net increase in the deficit in excess of $10,000,000,000 in any fiscal year provided for in the most 

recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget unless it is 

fully offset over the period of all fiscal years provided for in the 

most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. 

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(1) WAIVER.—This section may be waived or suspended only 

by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

(2) APPEAL.—An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an 

appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised 

under this section. 

(c) LIMITATION.—The provisions of this section shall not apply 

to any bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference 

reports for which the chairman of the Senate Committee on the 

Budget has made adjustments to the allocations, levels or limits 

contained in this resolution pursuant to Section 301(a) of this resolution. 

(d) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For purposes of this 

section, the levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Senate Committee on the Budget. 

(e) SUNSET.—This section shall expire on September 30, 2018. 

(f) INAPPLICABILITY.—In the Senate, section 315 of S. Con. Res. 

70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution in the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 

SEC. 405. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST CERTAIN LEGISLATION RELATED 

TO SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING. 

(a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the Senate to 

consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 

report that extends the authority or reauthorizes surface transportation programs that appropriates budget authority from sources 

other than the Highway Trust Fund, including the Mass Transit 

Account of such fund. 

(b) SUPERMAJORITY WAIVER AND APPEALS IN THE SENATE.— 

(1) WAIVER.—This section may be waived or suspended only 

by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

(2) APPEALS.—An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 

Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 

point of order raised under this section. 

(c) SUNSET.—This section shall expire on September 30, 2018. 

PART II—OTHER PROVISIONS 

SEC. 411. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE. 

In the Senate, all committees are directed to review programs 

within their jurisdiction to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by Government Accountability Office reports. Based on these oversight efforts and committee performance reviews of programs within their 

jurisdiction, committees are directed to include recommendations for 

improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974 to the Senate Committee on the Budget. 

SEC. 412. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

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Act of 1990, and section 2009a of title 39, United States Code, the 

joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on 

any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 

to the Senate Committee on Appropriation amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 

SEC. 413. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 

AND AGGREGATES. 

(a) APPLICATION.—In the Senate, 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. 

(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 contained in this resolution. 

(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of 

this resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct 

spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined 

on the basis of estimates made by the Senate Committee on the 

Budget. 

(d) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chairman of the Senate Committee on 

the Budget may adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels 

and limits 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. 414. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 

DEFINITIONS. 

Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing for 

a change in concepts or definitions, the chairman of the Senate 

Committee on the Budget may make adjustments to the levels and 

allocations in this resolution in accordance with section 251(b) of 

the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as 

in effect prior to September 30, 2002). 

SEC. 415. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The Senate adopts the provisions of this subtitle— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, 

and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of the 

Senate and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

Senate to change those rules at any time, in the same manner, 

and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of the 

Senate. 

Subtitle B—House Enforcement Provisions 

SEC. 421. ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIRECT SPENDING AND REVENUES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS FOR CURRENT POLICY.— 


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(1) IN GENERAL.—For the policies set forth in and not to exceed the amounts in paragraph (2), and subject to the condition 

specified in paragraph (3), when the chairman of the House 

Committee on the Budget evaluates the budgetary effects of any 

provision in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 

report for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

this concurrent resolution, or the Rules of the House of Representatives relative to baseline estimates consistent with section 

257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 

of 1985, he may exclude from his evaluation the budgetary effects of such provisions if such effects would have been reflected 

in a baseline adjusted for current policy. 

(2) POLICIES AND AMOUNTS.—Paragraph (1) shall apply 

only to the following provisions: 

(A) MEDICARE IMPROVEMENTS.—An increase in the deficit of not to exceed $38,000,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 

through 2014 and of not to exceed $38,000,000,000 in fiscal 

years 2010 through 2019 by reforming the Medicare payment system for physicians to— 

(i) change incentives to encourage efficiency and 

higher quality care in a way that supports fiscal sustainability; 

(ii) improve payment accuracy to encourage efficient use of resources and ensure that primary care receives appropriate compensation; 

(iii) improve coordination of care among all providers serving a patient in all appropriate settings; or 

(iv) hold providers accountable for their utilization 

patterns and quality of care. 

(B) MIDDLE CLASS TAX RELIEF.—A decrease in revenues 

(or increase in outlays, as appropriate) of an amount not to 

exceed $512,165,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 

and of an amount not to exceed $1,294,476,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019, resulting from extending certain provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief 

Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax 

Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 for middle class tax relief, 

including— 

(i) the 10 percent individual income tax bracket; 

(ii) marriage penalty relief; 

(iii) the child credit at $1,000 and partial 

refundability of the credit; 

(iv) education incentives; 

(v) other incentives for middle class families and 

children; 

(vi) other reductions to individual income tax 

brackets; and 

(vii) small business tax relief. 

(C) REFORM OF THE ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX.—A decrease in revenues of an amount not to exceed 

$214,433,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and 

fiscal years 2010 through 2019 resulting from reform of the 

AMT so that tens of millions of working families will not 

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(D) REFORM OF THE ESTATE AND GIFT TAX.—A decrease 

in revenues of an amount not to exceed $72,033,000,000 in 

fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and of an amount not to exceed $256,244,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019 resulting from reform of the Estate and Gift Tax so that only 

a minute fraction of estates owe tax, by extending the law 

as in effect for 2009 for the Estate and Gift Tax. 

(3) CONDITION.—Subsection (a) shall apply only if the 

House of Representatives has previously passed a bill to impose 

statutory pay-as-you-go requirements or the measure containing 

the provision being evaluated by the chairman of the House 

Committee on the Budget imposes such requirements and such 

bill is designated as providing statutory pay-as-you-go-requirements under this subsection. 

(4) REVISIONS.—The chairman of the House Committee on 

the Budget may revise or adjust the allocations, aggregates, and 

other appropriate levels in this resolution to reflect current policy adjustments made pursuant to this section. 

(b) DEPOSIT INSURANCE.—When the chairman of the House 

Committee on the Budget evaluates the budgetary effects of a provision of a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report for 

the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, or the Rules of the House of Representatives, the chairman 

shall exclude the budgetary effects of any provision that affects the 

full funding of the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the date of enactment of Public Law 110–343, the Emergency 

Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. 

SEC. 422. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 

(a) PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES.— (1) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM INTEGRITY

INITIATIVES.— (A) IN GENERAL.—In the House, prior to consideration 

of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $273,000,000 for continuing disability reviews and 

Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the Social Security Administration and (except as provided in 

subparagraph (B)) provides an additional appropriation of 

up to $485,000,000, and that amount is designated for continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income redeterminations for the Social Security Administration, the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount of the additional 

budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget 

authority for fiscal year 2010. 

(B) ASSET VERIFICATION.—The additional appropriation of $485,000,000 may also provide that a portion of that 

amount, not to exceed $34,000,000, instead may be used for 

asset verification for Supplemental Security Income recipients, but only if and to the extent that the Office of the 

Chief Actuary estimates that the initiative would be at least 

as cost effective as the redeterminations of eligibility described in subparagraph (A). 

(2) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TAX COMPLIANCE.—In the 

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amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $4,904,000,000 to the Internal 

Revenue Service for Enforcement and provides an additional 

appropriation of up to $600,000,000 for Enforcement to address 

the Federal tax gap, and provides that such sums as may be 

necessary shall be available from the Operations Support account in the Internal Revenue Service to fully support these Enforcement activities, the allocation to the House Committee on 

Appropriations shall be increased by the amount of the additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget 

authority for fiscal year 2010. 

(3) 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 2010 that appropriates up to $311,000,000, and the 

amount is designated to the health care fraud and abuse control program at the Department of Health and Human Services, 

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 

2010. 

(4) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM INTEGRITY AC- TIVITIES.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint 

resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $10,000,000 for inperson reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department 

of Labor and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

$50,000,000, and the amount is designated for in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments 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 

2010. 

(5) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—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 subsection. 

(b) LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

(LIHEAP).—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint 

resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations 

for fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $3,200,000,000 in funding for 

the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and provides additional appropriations of up to $1,900,000,000 for that program, if 

a mandatory trigger for LIHEAP is not enacted, the chairman of the 

House Committee on the Budget may allocate such additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority to the 

House Committee on Appropriations. 

(c) REVISED APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—If after adoption of this resolution by the 

Congress, the President submits his budget pursuant to section 


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1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and the Congressional 

Budget Office (CBO) re-estimates the budget, the chairman of 

the House Committee on the Budget may adjust the discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations by the aggregate 

difference for discretionary appropriations and related outlays 

between the CBO re-estimate and the President’s Budget. 

(2) SUBALLOCATIONS.—Following any adjustment under 

subparagraph (A), the House Committee on Appropriations may 

report appropriately revised suballocations pursuant to section 

302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to carry out this 

paragraph. 

SEC. 423. COSTS OF OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND EMERGENCY 

NEEDS. 

(a) OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.— 

(1) In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 

or conference report makes appropriations for fiscal year 2009 

or fiscal year 2010 for overseas deployments and other activities 

and such amounts are so designated pursuant to this paragraph, then the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations may be adjusted by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose up to the amounts of budget authority 

specified in section 104(21) for fiscal year 2009 or fiscal year 

2010 and the new outlays resulting therefrom. 

(2) In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 

or conference report makes appropriations for fiscal year 2009 

or fiscal year 2010 for overseas deployments and other activities 

above the amounts of budget authority and new outlays specified in paragraph (1) and such amounts are so designated pursuant to this paragraph, then new budget authority, outlays, or 

receipts resulting therefrom shall not count for the purposes of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or this resolution. 

(b) 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 therefrom shall not count for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or this resolution. 

SEC. 424. 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 2011 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 

2012, accounts separately identified under the same heading; 

and 

(2) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical 

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(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 2010 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2010. 

SEC. 425. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE. 

In the House, all committees are directed to conduct rigorous 

oversight hearings to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in all aspects 

of Federal spending and Government operations, giving particular 

scrutiny to issues raised by the Federal Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller General of the United States. Based upon 

these oversight efforts, the committees are directed to make recommendations to reduce wasteful Federal spending to promote deficit reduction and long-term fiscal responsibility. Such recommendations should be submitted to the House Committee on the 

Budget in the views and estimates reports prepared by committees 

as required under 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

SEC. 426. 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. 427. 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. 

(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) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of 

this resolution, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct 

spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined 

on the basis of estimates made by the House Committee on the 

Budget. 

(d) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chairman of the House Committee on 

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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. 428. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 

DEFINITIONS. 

Upon the enactment of any bill or joint resolution providing for 

a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, the chairman of the 

House Committee on the Budget shall adjust any appropriate levels 

and allocations in this resolution accordingly. 

SEC. 429. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this subtitle— 

(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 

SEC. 501. POLICY ON MIDDLE-CLASS TAX RELIEF AND REVENUES. 

It is the policy of this resolution to minimize fiscal burdens on 

working families and their children and grandchildren. It is the 

policy of this resolution to extend the following tax relief consistent 

with current policy— 

(1) relief for the tens of millions of middle-income households who would otherwise be subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) under current law; 

(2) middle-class tax relief; and 

(3) elimination of estate taxes on all but a minute fraction 

of estates. 

In total, this resolution supports the extension of over 

$1,750,000,000,000 in tax relief to individuals and families relative 

to current law. This resolution supports additional, deficit-neutral 

tax relief, including the extension of AMT relief, expanding the eligibility for the refundable child credit, the research and experimentation tax credit, the deduction for State and local sales taxes, the 

enactment of a tax credit for school construction bonds, and other 

tax relief for working families. The cost of enacting such policies 

may be offset by reforms within the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 

that produce higher rates of tax compliance to close the ‘‘tax gap’’ 

and reduce taxpayer burdens through tax simplification. The President’s budget proposes a variety of other revenue offsets. Unless expressly provided, this resolution does not assume any of the specific 

revenue offset proposals provided for in the President’s budget. Decisions about specific revenue offsets are made by the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, 

which are the tax-writing committees. 

SEC. 502. POLICY ON DEFENSE PRIORITIES. 

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(1) there is no higher priority than the defense of our Nation, and therefore the Administration and Congress will make 

the necessary investments and reforms to strengthen our military so that it can successfully meet the threats of the 21st century; 

(2) acquisition reform is needed at the Department of Defense to end excessive cost growth in the development of new 

weapons systems and to ensure that weapons systems are delivered on time and in adequate quantities to equip our servicemen and servicewomen; 

(3) the Department of Defense should review defense plans 

to ensure that weapons developed to counter Cold War-era 

threats are not redundant and are applicable to 21st century 

threats; 

(4) sufficient resources should be provided for the Department of Defense to aggressively address the 758 unimplemented 

recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) since 2001 to improve practices at the Department 

of Defense, which could save billions of dollars that could be 

applied to priorities identified in this section; 

(5) the Department of Defense should review the role that 

contractors play in its operations, including the degree to which 

contractors are performing inherently governmental functions, 

to ensure it has the most effective mix of government and contracted personnel; 

(6) the Department of Defense report to Congress on its assessment of Cold War-era weaponry, its progress on implementing GAO recommendations, and its review of contractors at 

the Department as outlined in paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) by 

a date to be determined by the appropriate committees; 

(7) the GAO provide a report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 31, 2009, on the Department of 

Defense’s progress in implementing its audit recommendations; 

(8) ballistic missile defense technologies that are not proven 

to work through adequate testing and that are not operationally 

viable should not be deployed, and that no funding should be 

provided for the research or development of space-based interceptors; 

(9) 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; 

(10) readiness of our troops, particularly the National 

Guard and Reserves, is a high priority, and that continued emphasis is needed to ensure adequate equipment and training; 

(11) improving military health care services and ensuring 

quality health care for returning combat veterans is a high priority; 

(12) military pay and benefits should be enhanced to improve the quality of life for military personnel and their families; 

(13) the Department of Defense should make every effort to 

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ence, including those that may be associated with alternative 

energy sources and energy efficiency conversions; 

(14) the Administration’s budget requests should continue 

to comply with section 1008, Public Law 109–364, the John 

Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2007, and that to the extent practicable overseas military operations should no longer be funded through emergency supplemental appropriations; and 

(15) when assessing security threats and reviewing the programs and funding needed to counter these threats, the Administration should do so in a comprehensive manner that includes 

all agencies involved in our national security. 

TITLE VI—SENSE OF THE CONGRESS 

SEC. 601. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON VETERANS’ AND 

SERVICEMEMBERS’ HEALTH CARE. 

It is the sense of the Congress that— 

(1) the Congress supports excellent health care for current 

and former members of the United States Armed Services—they 

have served well and honorably and have made significant sacrifices for this Nation; 

(2) the President’s budget will improve health care for veterans by increasing appropriations for VA by 10 percent more 

than the 2009 level, increasing VA’s appropriated resources for 

every year after 2010, and restoring health care eligibility to additional nondisabled veterans with modest incomes; 

(3) VA is not and should not be authorized to bill private 

insurance companies for treatment of health conditions that are 

related to veterans’ military service; 

(4) VA may find it difficult to realize the level of increase 

in medical care collections estimated in the President’s budget 

for 2010 using existing authorities, and increases to veterans 

beneficiary travel reimbursement are important; therefore, this 

resolution provides $673,000,000 more for Function 700 (Veterans Benefits and Services) than the President’s budget to safeguard the provision of health care to veterans; 

(5) it is important to continue providing sufficient and 

timely funding for veterans’ and servicemembers’ health care; 

and 

(6) this resolution provides additional funding above the 

2009 levels for VA to research and treat mental health, posttraumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury. 

SEC. 602. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON HOMELAND SECURITY. 

It is the sense of the Congress that because making the country 

safer and more secure is such a critical priority, the resolution 

therefore provides robust resources in the four budget functions— 

Function 400 (Transportation), Function 450 (Community and Regional Development), Function 550 (Health), and Function 750 (Administration of Justice)—that fund most nondefense homeland security activities that can be used to address our key security priorities, 

including— 

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(2) continuing with efforts to identify and to screen for 

threats bound for the United States; 

(3) strengthening border security; 

(4) enhancing emergency preparedness and training and 

equipping first responders; 

(5) helping to make critical infrastructure more secure and 

resilient against the threat of terrorism and natural disasters; 

(6) making the Nation’s cyber infrastructure resistive to attack; and 

(7) increasing the preparedness of the public health system. 

SEC. 603. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON PROMOTING AMERICAN INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. 

It is the sense of the Congress that— 

(1) the Congress should provide sufficient investments to 

enable our Nation to continue to be the world leader in education, innovation, and economic growth as envisioned in the 

goals of the America COMPETES Act; 

(2) this resolution builds on significant funding provided in 

the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for scientific research and education in Function 250 (General Science, Space 

and Technology), Function 270 (Energy), Function 300 (Natural 

Resources and Environment), Function 500 (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services), and Function 550 

(Health); 

(3) the Congress also should pursue policies designed to ensure that American students, teachers, businesses, and workers 

are prepared to continue leading the world in innovation, research, and technology well into the future; and 

(4) this resolution recognizes the importance of the extension of investments and tax policies that promote research and 

development and encourage innovation and future technologies 

that will ensure American economic competitiveness. 

SEC. 604. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING PAY PARITY. 

It is the sense of the Congress that rates of compensation for civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at the 

same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of compensation 

for members of the uniformed services. 

SEC. 605. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY AND 

STUDENT LOAN REFORM. 

It is the Sense of the Congress that— 

(1) nothing in the resolution should be construed to reduce 

any assistance that makes college more affordable and accessible for students, including but not limited to student aid programs and services provided by nonprofit State agencies and 

private lenders; 

(2) private and non-profit lenders, originators, and loan 

servicers help students plan for, apply to, and pay for post-secondary education and training; 

(3) any reform of the federal student loan programs to ensure that students have reliable and efficient access to federal 

loans should include some future role for the currently involved 

private and non-profit entities, including state non-profits with 

100% FFEL lending in the State, and capitalize on the current 

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order both to provide employment to many Americans during 

this time of economic distress and to maintain valuable services 

that make post-secondary education more accessible and attainable for many Americans; and 

(4) therefore, pursuant to any changes to the student loan 

programs, loan processing, administration, and servicing 

should continue to be performed, as needed, by for-profit and 

non-profit entities. 

SEC. 606. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON GREAT LAKES RESTORATION. 

It is the sense of the Congress that this resolution recognizes the 

need to address significant and long-standing problems affecting 

the major large scale aquatic, estuarine, and coastal ecosystems nationwide. This resolution includes funding for a new interagency 

initiative to address such regional ecosystems. It also includes funding to work with Great Lakes States, tribes, local communities, and 

organizations to more effectively address issues prioritized in the 

Great Lakes Regional Collaborative. This initiative could address 

issues such as invasive species, habitat restoration and conservation, non-point source pollution, and contaminated sediment. The 

resolution also supports the President’s proposal to use outcome-oriented performance goals and measures to target the most significant 

problems and track progress in addressing these ecosystems. 

SEC. 607. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF 

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. 

It is the sense of the Congress that— 

(1) additional legislative action is needed 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; and 

(2) when 100 percent of child support payments are passed 

to the child, rather than administrative expenses, program integrity is improved and child support participation increases. 

And the House agree to the same. 

JOHN M. SPRATT, Jr., 

ROSA L. DELAURO, 

ALLEN BOYD, 

Managers on the Part of the House. 

KENT CONRAD, 

PATTY MURRAY, 

Managers on the Part of the Senate. 

JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF 

CONFERENCE 

The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the 

conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 

amendment of the House to the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 

13), setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 

Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate 

budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014, submit the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in explanation 

of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report: 


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The House amendment struck all of the Senate concurrent resolution after the resolving clause and inserted the House-passed 

concurrent resolution on the budget (H. Con. Res. 85) as a substitute text. 

The Senate recedes from its disagreement to the amendment 

of the House with an amendment that is a substitute for the Senate concurrent resolution and the House amendment. The differences between the Senate concurrent resolution, the House 

amendment, and the substitute agreed to in conference are noted 

below, except for clerical corrections, conforming changes made necessary by agreements reached by the conferees, and minor drafting 

and clarifying changes. 

DISPLAYS AND AMOUNTS 

The required contents of concurrent budget resolutions are set 

forth in section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

The years in this document are fiscal years unless otherwise noted. 

The treatment of budget function levels in the House-passed 

and Senate-passed budget resolutions and the conference report is 

as follows: 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate concurrent resolution includes all of the items required under section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution includes all of the items required as part 

of a concurrent budget resolution under section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act other than the spending and revenue levels 

for Social Security (which are not required for the House, but are 

used to enforce a point of order applicable only in the Senate). 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes all of the items required by 

section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act. 

AGGREGATE AND FUNCTION LEVELS 

Pursuant to section 301(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act, 

the budget resolution must set appropriate levels for each major 

functional category based on the 302(a) allocations and the budgetary totals. 

The respective levels of the Senate concurrent resolution, the 

House concurrent resolution, and conference agreement for each 

major budget function, as well as revenue totals, are discussed in 

the section after the numerical tables. A summary of the overall 

budget policy is as follows: 

Total spending is $3.444 trillion in budget authority (BA) and 

$3.555 trillion in outlays in 2010, and $17.783 trillion in BA and 

$18.031 trillion in outlays over 2010–2014. 

Discretionary spending totals $1.226 trillion in BA and $1.376 

trillion in outlays in 2010, and $5.958 trillion in BA and $6.521 

trillion in outlays over 2010–2014. Excluding funding for overseas 

deployments and other activities, and for disasters accounted for in 

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in BA and $1.273 trillion in outlays. These aggregate amounts 

(minus cap adjustments for program integrity initiatives and the 

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program) are allocated to the 

Appropriations Committees to be suballocated among their respective appropriations subcommittees. Mandatory spending totals $2.218 trillion in BA and $2.178 trillion in outlays in 2010, and $11.825 trillion in BA and $11.510 

trillion in outlays over 2010–2014. This includes $2 billion in reconciled savings over 2009–2014. These savings are reflected in 

Function 920 and will be determined by the committees of jurisdiction. (The resolution assumes the instructions will be used for 

health care reform and investing in education.) Revenue totals $2.322 trillion in 2010, and $14.157 trillion over 

five years. Specific policies will be determined by the Committee on 

Finance in the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means in 

the House. 

The conference agreement uses the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) March 2009 baseline. 

The conference agreement reduces the budget deficit from $1.233 trillion in 2010 to $523 billion in 2014. 

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REVENUES 

Summary 

The revenue component of the budget resolution reflects all of 

the federal government’s tax receipts that are classified as ‘‘onbudget.’’ This includes individual income taxes; corporate income 

taxes; excise taxes, such as the gasoline tax; and other taxes, such 

as estate and gift taxes. Taxes collected for the Social Security system—the Old Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) 

payroll tax—are ‘‘off-budget.’’ The Hospital Insurance payroll tax 

portion of Medicare, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act payroll 

tax, railroad retirement and other retirement systems are all ‘‘onbudget.’’ Customs duties, tariffs, and other miscellaneous receipts 

are also included in the revenue component. Pursuant to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Budget Enforcement Act of 

1990, Social Security payroll taxes are not included in the budget 

resolution. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate budget resolution includes $1.6 trillion in on-budg- et revenues for 2010, and $10.4 trillion over 2010–2014. (The corresponding revenue figures on a unified basis are $2.3 trillion for 

2010 and $14.1 trillion over five years.) The revenue level in the Senate resolution is $825.0 billion 

below the levels in the CBO baseline over 2010–2014. 

The Senate resolution provides substantial tax relief for the 

middle class. Consistent with the President’s budget, the Senate 

resolution assumes: the 10 percent bracket, child tax credit, marriage penalty relief are made permanent, as well as the related expansions of the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit 

included in the economic recovery package are extended; the American Opportunity Tax Credit providing a $2,500 credit for higher 

education is made permanent; an expansion of the existing ‘‘savers 

credit’’ and a new policy to require employers that do not offer 

401(k)s to offer automatic enrollment in IRAs. The Senate resolution also follows the President’s proposals to extend other 2001 and 

2003 tax changes for couples with incomes under $250,000 and singles with incomes under $200,000, including the 25 percent and 28 

percent brackets and the preferential rates for capital gains and 

dividend income. 

The Senate resolution assumes three years of alternative minimum tax relief, through 2012, without offsets. It calls for permanent reform of the estate tax, reflecting continuation of the 2009 

estate tax parameters, with an exemption of $3.5 million ($7 million for a couple) indexed to inflation and a top rate of 45 percent. 

The Senate resolution would extend through 2011 those tax provisions that are slated to expire in 2009 or 2010, but that have been 

routinely extended in the past. These provisions (referred to as ‘‘extenders’’) include, among others, the research and experimentation 

tax credit, the deduction for state and local sales taxes, the deduction for teacher classroom expenses, and the exception for active financing income. 

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to eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses, going beyond 

the current 75 percent exclusion. It also calls for expanding the net 

operating loss carryback rules. 

The Senate resolution includes several reserve funds that provide for tax relief, including refundable tax relief and the extension 

of expired and expiring tax relief, as long as the costs of these provisions are offset. One reserve fund would provide for comprehensive tax reform that would ensure a sustainable revenue base in a 

tax system that promotes simplicity, fairness, and competitiveness. 

Additional reserve funds address specific tax issues, such as extending the deduction for state and local sales taxes and the incentives for promoting charitable donations from individual retirement 

account funds, enhancing the employer-provided child care credit 

and the dependent care tax credit, among other things. 

Finally, the Senate resolution assumes enactment of loophole 

closers and other revenue-raising provisions consistent with levels 

in the President’s budget. The resolution assumes that the Finance 

Committee will work closely with the Administration to develop the 

proposals to achieve the revenue levels assumed in the resolution. 

To help close the tax gap and bolster Internal Revenue Service 

(IRS) enforcement, the resolution provides additional resources 

available through a discretionary cap adjustment that directs $890 

million to IRS enforcement activities. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House budget resolution calls for reducing the revenues provided under CBO’s baseline forecast by $613.2 billion over the 

2009–2014 period and by $1,480.2 billion over the 2010–19 period. 

This reduction in revenues reflects the House budget resolution’s 

extension of the elements of the 2001–2003 tax cuts benefitting 

middle class families (including, but not limited to the child tax 

credit, marriage penalty relief, the 10 percent bracket, education 

incentives, other benefits for families with children, reductions in 

other individual income tax brackets, and small business tax relief). The House resolution also extends the estate tax at 2009 levels—eliminating estate taxes on all but a minute fraction of estates 

by reforming and substantially increasing the unified tax credit. It 

also includes a one-year patch of the Alternative Minimum Tax 

(AMT). The House resolution also accommodates additional AMT 

relief in a deficit-neutral manner. The House resolution further accommodates deficit-neutral extension of other expiring tax provisions and other proposals that support working families, businesses, states, or communities. It also accommodates other high 

priority deficit-neutral revenue adjustments, such as tax incentives 

for energy efficiency and renewable energy, the deduction for State 

and local taxes, and a tax credit for construction of public schools. 

Decisions about specific revenue offsets are made by the Ways and 

Means Committee, which has a significant range of offsets that it 

can consider. However, unless expressly indicated otherwise, the 

House resolution does not assume any of the specific revenue offset 

proposals provided for in the President’s budget. 

Conference Agreement 

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responding revenue figures on a unified basis are $2.322 trillion for 

2010 and $14.157 trillion over five years.) The conference agreement provides for three additional years of AMT relief, without offset, a two-year extension of expired and expiring tax provisions, 

and a new incentive for retirement savings. The agreement supports the permanent extension of tax relief first enacted in 2001 

and 2003 to benefit middle-income individuals and families—including extension of the child tax credit, the 10-percent bracket, 

and marriage penalty relief—and provides for estate tax reform. In 

addition, the agreement assumes the extension of other 2001 and 

2003 tax changes for middle-income taxpayers, including the 25 

percent and 28 percent brackets and the preferential rates for investment income. Further, the agreement includes several deficitneutral reserve funds that accommodate a range of additional tax 

reform and tax relief proposals, such as expanding eligibility for 

the refundable child credit, among the most effective tax relief vehicles for working families with children. 

The revenue level in the conference agreement is $764 billion 

below the levels under current law over 2009–2014. Revenue legislation is subject to House and Senate pay-as-you-go rules. In the 

House, section 421 of the conference agreement allows the chairman of the Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments 

before evaluating the costs of tax legislation for compliance with 

House budget rules and procedures, assuming the condition stated 

in that section is met. 

NATIONAL DEFENSE: FUNCTION 050 

Function Summary 

The National Defense function includes the military activities 

of the Department of Defense (DoD), the nuclear weapons-related 

activities of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the national security activities 

of several other agencies such as the Selective Service, Coast 

Guard, and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The programs in this 

function include: the pay and benefits of active, Guard, and reserve 

military personnel; DoD operations including training, maintenance of equipment, and facilities; health care for military personnel and dependents; procurement of weapons; research and development; construction of military facilities, including housing; research on nuclear weapons; and the cleanup of nuclear weapons 

production facilities. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution fully funds the President’s core defense 

budget request over the five-year budget window. Total national 

defense discretionary funding in the Senate resolution is $556.1 billion. This includes $533.7 billion in 2010 for the Department of Defense, $20.3 billion more than the 2009 enacted level exclusive of 

war funding and defense spending in the economic recovery package. 

The Senate resolution reflects the President’s request for additional 2009 overseas contingency operations funding of $75.5 billion 

for the Defense Department. If enacted, this will bring total war 

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cost of the wars reached $864 billion. The Senate resolution also 

provides for the 2010 war request of $130 billion. Including requested war funds and mandatory spending, the Senate resolution 

provides $691.7 billion in BA for defense in 2010. 

The Obama Administration has demonstrated its commitment 

to budgetary transparency when it comes to funding for overseas 

contingency operations. The Bush Administration failed to honor 

its commitment to include war costs in its budget request and obscured the fiscal situation by seeking war funding as an emergency 

even after five years of war in Iraq. The Obama Administration, on 

the other hand, has provided a good faith estimate of war costs for 

2010 and an annual allowance of $50 billion for potential future 

costs of overseas contingency operations from 2011 onward. These 

amounts are reflected in the Senate resolution. 

In keeping with how the past two budget resolutions have han- dled war costs, the Senate resolution includes a $130 billion cap 

adjustment provision for 2010 that allows the Chairman to revise 

the discretionary spending cap for non-emergency appropriations 

related to overseas contingency operations such as the wars in Iraq 

and Afghanistan. The Senate resolution assumes the use of this 

cap adjustment and allocates the amounts to the National Defense 

function. However, the cap adjustment would not prevent further 

war funding on an emergency basis if war costs exceed the allotted 

level. 

The Senate resolution includes a reserve fund to facilitate enactment of the President’s proposal to expand ‘‘concurrent receipt’’ 

of military retired pay and veterans disability compensation to retirees who were medically retired from active service. While full 

programmatic details will be provided later, the administration has 

indicated that the budget funds the expansion of the Army and Marine Corps in order to enhance military readiness and reduce the 

strain of multiple, extended deployments on current servicemembers. Additionally, the President’s request includes funding to 

modernize military barracks and dormitories, and to improve medical care and housing for wounded servicemembers. The Senate resolution supports these objectives. 

The Senate resolution also recognizes the serious inequity in 

how the military death benefits system treats widows and orphans 

whom our servicemembers and veterans leave behind. The Senate 

resolution provides a deficit-neutral reserve fund to facilitate the 

repeal of the law that requires a dollar-for-dollar reduction in Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity benefit 

payments by benefits received under the Department of Veterans 

Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) program. 

Repeal of the offset would allow the widows and orphans whom our 

servicemembers and veterans leave behind to receive the full SBP 

amount due to them. Congress recognized the injustice of the SBP– 

DIC offset in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2008 when it authorized a special payment to SBP–DIC-affected survivors, but this payment is far below the full amount that 

is offset. 

The ability of the United States military to project power 

worldwide depends on the aerial refueling tanker fleet. The backbone of this fleet is the KC–135, which is rapidly approaching its 

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italization program will have an adverse effect on our ability to 

achieve the requirements of the National Military Strategy. Accordingly, the Senate resolution assumes that the Air Force will receive 

not less than $2.37 billion in 2010, and not less than $13 billion 

across the Future Years Defense Plan to fund the development and 

procurement of a next generation aerial refueling tanker. 

The National Guard has a long history of outstanding service 

to our nation, and our nation’s reliance on the Guard has only increased since September 11, 2001. The Senate resolution encourages the Appropriations Committee to identify additional resources 

within the defense budget to address needs for National Guard 

equipment. 

The Senate resolution also assumes no less than $5.55 billion 

in funding for the Defense Environmental Cleanup account. The 

environmental management program is charged with efficiently 

cleaning up the environmental damage resulting from 50 years of 

nuclear weapons production. The Senate resolution provides for increased funding at several major sites addressed under this program including Hanford, Idaho Falls, Oak Ridge, and Savannah 

River. This increase brings total environmental management funding for nuclear site cleanup (including amounts in other budget 

functions) to $6.5 billion. 

Defense funding remains at record levels, even after adjusting 

for inflation. The Department of Defense has had serious trouble 

with cost growth in its weapons acquisition programs. The Government Accountability Office has found that the total acquisition cost 

of the Pentagon’s 2007 portfolio of major programs has exceeded 

initial estimates by nearly $300 billion. 

The Obama Administration has announced that it will make 

reform of the acquisition process a top priority in order to get the 

best possible value for defense spending. The Senate resolution 

supports that reform effort by including a reserve fund for defense 

contracting reform. Additionally, the Senate resolution assumes not 

less than $500 million for the Acquisition Workforce Development 

Fund, which is already showing great promise as a mechanism for 

enhancing the capability of the Department of Defense to oversee 

acquisition programs and get better value for our defense dollar. 

While the Senate resolution does not project savings from acquisition reform or the contracting reform initiatives announced by the 

President, successful implementation of those initiatives could result in significant savings in future years that should be reserved 

for deficit reduction. 

The Senate resolution also includes a program integrity cap 

adjustment dedicated to reducing waste in defense contracting. The 

cap adjustment allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to 

increase the discretionary spending cap by up to $100 million to accommodate legislation appropriating funding for the Department of 

Defense for additional activities to reduce waste, fraud, abuse and 

overpayments in defense contracting or to enhance the capability 

of the defense acquisition or contracting workforce to save taxpayer 

resources. When billions of dollars are wasted due to poor contracting practices, ordering of unneeded spare parts, or other 

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House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution reflects a total of $562.0 billion in BA 

and $606.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and $2.9 trillion in BA and 

$3.0 trillion in outlays over five years. 

There is no higher priority than the defense of our nation, and 

therefore this resolution makes the necessary investments and 

calls for the necessary reforms to ensure the country is able to 

meet the security challenges of the 21st century. 

The House resolution includes specific defense policy assumptions in Title V, section 502. It recognizes that as the country faces 

its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, DoD needs to 

get the most out of every dollar it spends by making tough but necessary tradeoffs to ensure resources are applied to the most effective and operationally viable programs, and by assessing national 

security needs in a comprehensive manner that includes all agencies involved in our national security. 

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the 

United States (commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commission) identified terrorists with weapons of mass destruction as our number 

one threat. Consequently, it is the policy of the House resolution 

that non-proliferation programs, such as the Cooperative Threat 

Reduction program and the nonproliferation programs at the Department of Energy, be funded at a level that is commensurate 

with the evolving threat. 

The House resolution recognizes that our most important security resource is our men and women who serve in uniform. To 

honor their service, it is the policy of the House resolution to not 

only ensure that they are properly equipped and trained to perform 

their mission, but that they also have the proper support in terms 

of health care, pay, and support for their families. The House resolution also includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for an expansion 

of eligibility to permit additional disabled military retirees to receive both disability compensation and retired pay. 

In recent years, cost overruns on major weapons programs 

have worsened. According to the Government Accountability Office 

(GAO), the cost of major weapon systems on DoD’s books as of 2007 

increased nearly $300 billion above initial estimates. As a result, 

our military is not able to purchase equipment in adequate quantities to equip our servicemen and servicewomen. To put our defense plans on a sustainable path and to meet our military’s equipment requirements, the House resolution affirms the Administration’s calls to make acquisition reform a top priority. 

According to GAO, government-wide spending on contractor 

services has more than doubled over the last ten years. DoD has 

expanded the use of contractors in its acquisition process to aid in 

program management functions and has relied heavily on contractors to carry out operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This trend 

has implications for DoD in terms of accountability, operational effectiveness, and cost. Consequently, it is the policy of the House 

resolution that DoD review the role that contractors play in its operations, including the degree to which contractors are performing 

inherently governmental functions, to ensure it has the most effective mix of government and contracted personnel. 

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that have produced billions of dollars of savings. According to a 

GAO report released in December 2008, DoD implemented 1,682 

recommendations made by GAO from 2001 to 2007 that have resulted in financial benefits exceeding $89 billion. There are still 

758 recommendations made over that period that DoD has not yet 

implemented that could yield billions of dollars in further savings. 

The House resolution continues to highlight the need for DoD to 

continue to make implementation of GAO recommendations a top 

priority and, to the extent possible, encourages DoD to use savings 

resulting from implemented GAO recommendations toward any upfront investments needed to implement the remaining 758 recommendations. 

The House resolution encourages the committees with jurisdiction over defense to continue to conduct vigorous oversight with the 

objective of ferreting out wasteful practices, fraud, and abuse. It 

encourages the committees to require DoD to report to Congress on 

its progress in implementing GAO recommendations, the role contractors play in its operations, its assessment of the applicability 

of Cold War-era weapons to meet 21st century threats, and how 

well DoD’s comprehensive Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) plan is moving the Department toward achieving a 

clean audit. 

DoD spends billions of dollars on fuel and electricity for its 

planes, ships, vehicles and facilities each year and increasing world 

demand for energy could therefore have significant consequences 

for our military in the future. As a result, the House resolution 

calls on DoD to investigate the benefit of alternative energy sources 

and energy efficiency conversions. The Department should pursue 

those technologies that could reduce its energy needs, enhance expeditionary operations, achieve savings, and reduce dependence on 

unreliable energy sources. 

The House resolution continues to recognize the need for the 

DoD to develop a shipbuilding plan that is viable in terms of providing an adequate number of ships for the Navy to perform its 

mission and that is viable in terms of sustaining the industrial 

base. 

Our national security is not solely dependent on our military, 

and other agencies and programs are important to effectively address the threats of today and mitigate the possibility of future 

threats. Therefore, it is the policy of the House resolution that coordination is needed to ensure that all of our agencies involved in 

our national security work in a complementary way, and that when 

assessing security threats and the funding needed to counter them, 

the Administration should do so in a comprehensive manner that 

includes all agencies involved in our national security. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement for Function 050 includes a total of 

$562.0 billion in BA and $606.0 billion in outlays in 2010, and $2.9 

trillion in BA and $3.0 trillion in outlays over five years. Consistent 

with both the House- and Senate-passed resolutions, the conference 

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For mandatory programs, the conference agreement provides 

$5.9 billion in BA and $6.0 billion in outlays in 2010, and $28.3 billion in BA and $28.4 billion in outlays over five years. 

The conference agreement reflects the cost of overseas deployments and other activities in Function 970, as in the House-passed 

resolution. Consistent with the Senate resolution, the conference 

agreement allows the discretionary spending caps to be adjusted to 

accommodate appropriations for such costs. 

The conference agreement includes deficit-neutral reserve 

funds addressing defense-related matters. Both chambers have deficit neutral reserve funds to accommodate initiatives related to 

meeting our commitments to the nation’s military personnel, veterans, and survivors. The Department of Defense and congressional 

committees of jurisdiction are encouraged to reverse the decision to 

eliminate credit toward DOD retirement pay for service in the 

Alaska Territorial Guard during World War II. 

The conference agreement also includes a Senate deficit-neutral reserve fund providing for legislation that would reform defense contracting and acquisition policy in order to achieve better 

value for taxpayer resources. The reserve fund would accommodate 

legislation that provided for additional activities to reduce waste, 

fraud, abuse, and overpayments in defense contracting or to enhance the capability of the defense acquisition or contracting workforce, among other purposes. 

The conference agreement includes a statement of policy on defense issues (section 502) that outlines key priorities to be funded 

within the defense allocation and the need for the Department of 

Defense to reform its acquisition process and to do a better job of 

reining in wasteful spending, particularly with regard to contracting practices and continuing funding of Cold War-era weapons 

systems that may not be as effective against today’s threats. It also 

highlights the need for DoD to place greater emphasis on implementing GAO recommendations, which could yield billions of dollars in savings. 

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: FUNCTION 150 

Function Summary 

Function 150 covers funding for U.S. international activities, 

including: operating and securing U.S. embassies and consulates 

throughout the world; providing military assistance to allies; assisting refugees; aiding developing nations; dispensing economic assistance to fledgling democracies; promoting U.S. exports abroad; making U.S. payments to international organizations; and contributing 

to international peacekeeping efforts. The major agencies in this 

function include the Departments of State, Agriculture, and the 

Treasury; the U.S. Agency for International Development; and the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The President’s request for international affairs activities, as 

re-estimated by CBO, is $53.8 billion. This represents an increase 

of $15.6 billion above the non-emergency 2009 level. However, the 

size of the year-over-year increase requested by the President’s 

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transfer international affairs funding in support of overseas contingency operations and programs with predictable and recurring 

funding requirements that have previously been funded in 

supplementals to the base budget. This more transparent budgeting is commendable. 

Typically, the baseline used for year-over-year comparisons in 

the Congressional budget resolution excludes all supplementals and 

emergency funding. Therefore, the President’s decision to reduce or 

eliminate emergency requests for international affairs in 2010 artificially inflates the year-over-year increase. A more realistic comparison, including enacted bridge funding in the 2009 level, shows 

a year-over-year increase of $11.5 billion for the President’s request. The Senate resolution calls for $53.8 billion for the international affairs function and assumes that the top priorities in allocating the increase for international affairs will be related to core 

national security concerns such as counter-proliferation and antiterrorism, as well as enhancing the capacity of the State Department and USAID to assume responsibilities that have been taken 

on by the military. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $45.3 billion in BA and 

$43.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $271.8 billion in BA and 

$259.3 billion in outlays over five years. The total BA level for 2010 

reflects discretionary BA of $48.5 billion and mandatory BA of 

¥$3.1 billion. This function has negative mandatory BA and outlay 

levels. These levels reflect receipts of the foreign military sales 

trust fund, the repayment of loans and credits by foreign nations, 

and the liquidation of economic assistance loans, foreign military financing loans, Export-Import Bank loans, and housing and other 

credit guaranty programs. The 2009 level of discretionary BA includes $4.5 billion in enacted supplemental appropriations. It does not include an additional $7.1 billion in supplemental appropriations for 2009 that the 

President has requested for international affairs, which is included 

under Function 970 (Overseas Deployments and Other Activities). 

For 2010, the House resolution provides $10.2 billion (26.8 percent) more discretionary BA than the 2009 level, excluding supplemental funding, and $5.8 billion (13.6 percent) more funding than 

total enacted funding for 2009 so far. The House resolution provides $5.4 billion (9.9 percent) less than the President’s 2010 budget, which includes his proposal to provide in the regular budget request funding that has in recent years been requested and appropriated as supplemental funding. Pursuant to the House resolution, 

funding designated as an emergency or for overseas deployments 

and other activities does not count against the House Appropriations Committee’s allocation provided in this resolution. 

The House shares the President’s commitment to reduce global 

hunger and poverty. The House resolution provides funding in this 

function to help achieve the goal of cutting it in half by no later 

than 2015. 

The House notes the strong support for H.R. 44, the Guam 

World War II Loyalty Recognition Act, which the House approved 

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during the 110th Congress (H.R. 1595). The bill authorizes compensation to the Guamanian victims of the Imperial Japanese military occupation during World War II. 

Conference Agreement 

International Affairs discretionary spending under the conference agreement totals $51.0 billion in BA and $47.5 billion in 

outlays for 2010. This represents an increase of $12.8 billion in BA 

above the non-emergency 2009 level and $8.7 billion above the 

2009 level adjusted to include enacted supplemental funding (other 

than American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding). 

Including negative mandatory spending, the conference agreement provides an overall total of $47.9 billion in BA and $44.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and $260 billion in BA and $253 billion 

in outlays over five years. 

GENERAL SCIENCE, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY: 

FUNCTION 250 

Function Summary 

The General Science, Space, and Technology function includes 

funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA), except aviation programs, the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as programs in the Department of Energy 

(DOE) Office of Science. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution provides an increase above the President’s requested level over the five-year window by providing $31.1 

billion in BA and $32.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and $171.9 billion in BA and $170.3 billion in outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution funds the National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA) at $18.7 billion for 2010. This level 

of funding recognizes the importance of our nation’s space program 

and endorses the agency’s balanced goals of exploration, science, 

and aeronautics. This level of funding also reflects the vital role 

our space program plays in driving scientific and technological advancements critical to our economy. 

NASA currently intends to retire its Space Shuttles at the end 

of 2010. The criteria for Shuttle retirement, however, remains the 

completion of scheduled flights, and a fixed retirement date could 

create dangerous scheduling pressures. Consequently, the Senate 

resolution recognizes the possibility that currently planned Shuttle 

missions may continue beyond the end of 2010, and provides $2.5 

billion above the President’s request for 2011 with additional resources for NASA in the outyears. 

Currently, NASA projects a five-year gap in U.S. human space 

flight capability. During that gap the United States will need to 

purchase space flight services from Russia, costing in excess of 

$500 million. The Senate resolution recognizes the strategic importance of uninterrupted access to space and supports efforts to reduce or eliminate this five-year gap in U.S. human space flight. 


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House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $31.1 billion in BA and 

$32.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $166.1 billion in BA and 

$165.8 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution total for this function equals the 

level requested by the President for FY 2010, and for all five years 

in the budget window. Funding for scientific research and education is also included in Function 270 (Energy), Function 300 (Environment and Natural Resources), Function 350 (Agriculture), 

Function 370 (Commerce and Housing Credit), Function 400 

(Transportation), Function 500 (Education, Training, Employment, 

and Social Services), and Function 550 (Health). This funding will 

support the science and technology goals of the House Leadership’s 

Innovation Agenda and the America COMPETES Act: to put NSF 

funding on a path toward doubling, to train more qualified science 

and math teachers, and to invest in basic research on energy technologies. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes $31.1 billion in BA and 

$32.5 billion in outlays in 2010, and $168.7 billion in BA and 

$168.5 billion in outlays over five years. 

The conference agreement provides additional resources 

throughout the five year budget window, as requested by the President, for COMPETES Act and other Innovation programs in Function 250 as well as in other functions. 

The conference agreement recognizes the scientific and technological contributions of our nation’s manned and unmanned space 

program and the strategic importance of uninterrupted human access to space, and supports efforts to reduce the impending gap in 

U.S. human spaceflight. The conference agreement matches the 

President’s request for NASA in 2010 (while acknowledging that an 

additional $400 million was appropriated for NASA exploration in 

the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) and provides 

$2.5 billion above the President’s request in 2011. The additional 

funding is provided in 2011 in anticipation that the funding is 

needed for the remaining eight space shuttle missions to safely fly 

and to complete the construction and equipping of the international 

space station. 

ENERGY: FUNCTION 270 

Function Summary 

Function 270 covers energy-related programs including research and development, environmental clean-up, and rural utility 

loans. Most of these programs are within the Department of Energy (DOE). This function covers a portion of the appropriated 

funding for DOE but does not include DOE’s national security activities, which are in Function 050 (National Defense), or its basic 

research and science activities, which are in Function 250 (General 

Science, Space and Technology). This function also includes the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service, the Tennessee 

Valley Authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and 

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Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $4.5 billion in BA and 

$6.2 billion in outlays for 2010, and $22.5 billion in BA and $31.6 

billion in outlays over five years. 

Our nation’s economic and national security are directly linked 

to our energy policy. We must confront the challenges of global climate change and our nation’s addiction to foreign oil. By doing so, 

we can also create the green jobs that will drive our nation’s economic recovery. To meet these challenges, President Obama and 

the Congress have responded with a historic investment of resources in a strategy to reduce our dependence on imported energy. The economic recovery package included $38.7 billion to fund 

important energy priorities such as modernizing the electric grid, 

renewable energy and transmission loan guarantees, local government energy efficiency and conservation grants, weatherization assistance, carbon capture and sequestration technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development, and advanced battery development. When the emergency funding provided in the stimulus and other bills is included, overall funding 

for the Department of Energy climbed from approximately $24 billion in 2008 to $73 billion in 2009. This $73 billion 2009 funding 

level represents the largest budget in the history of the Department of Energy. 

The Senate resolution builds on the investments in the economic recovery package by fully funding the President’s request for 

2010 energy discretionary funding. The energy funding level in the 

Senate resolution will provide increases for the Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy program. These increases will accommodate 

investments in important priorities such as wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and biorefinery R&D, hydrogen, vehicle/building 

technologies and the weatherization assistance program. The Senate resolution supports increased funding for the Energy Efficiency 

and Conservation Block Grant Program. The resolution also includes increases to invest in the development of low carbon coal 

technologies such as carbon capture and sequestration. The resolution supports continued funding increases for the Department of 

Energy’s loan guarantee program. 

The Senate resolution would increase funding for electricity delivery and energy reliability. The funding increase could be used to 

modernize the electric grid, enhance security and reliability of energy infrastructure, and facilitate recovery from disruptions to energy supply. 

The Senate resolution supports the reclassification of receipts 

for the annual operating expenses of Southeastern, Southwestern, 

and Western Area Power Administrations (PMAs). By reclassifying 

the receipts from mandatory to discretionary, power rates will become more closely linked to the annual appropriations they fund. 

This direct link will promote long-term planning and improve the 

overall efficiency and reliability of the Federal power program. 

The Senate resolution includes an energy reserve fund to accommodate legislation that advances important priorities such as 

reducing our Nation’s dependence on imported energy, producing 

green jobs, promoting renewable energy development, improving 

electricity transmission, creating a clean energy investment fund, 

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also include energy tax proposals. This reserve fund could be used 

for legislation such as a proposal to extend the permissible term of 

power purchase agreements used by federal agencies to acquire renewable energy. It could also be used for a proposal to expand the 

economic recovery package’s investments in transmission infrastructure and smart grid technology. Additionally, the reserve fund 

could accommodate a proposal to create a Clean Energy Investment 

Fund. That type of proposal could aid in the transition to a lowcarbon economy by using financing tools such as direct loans and 

loan guarantees to invest in clean energy technologies. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $5.5 billion in BA and 

$7.3 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $29.1 billion in BA and 

$54.6 billion in outlays over five years. The total BA level for 2010 

reflects discretionary BA of $6.7 billion and mandatory BA of 

¥$1.2 billion. 

The 2009 level of discretionary BA includes $39.4 billion in 

emergency appropriations from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other legislation. The House resolution for 2010 

builds on this funding for renewable energy, energy efficiency, 

emerging energy and vehicle technologies, and other important investments to increase the United States’ energy independence and 

create new jobs. The House resolution provides $1.0 billion (18.4 

percent) more in appropriated funding for 2010 than the 2009 level 

of regular appropriations. The House resolution recognizes the importance of continuing adequate funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program, which helps lower-income families to reduce 

their energy bills and increase the comfort and safety of their 

homes. 

The House urges the Appropriations Committee to include language in its appropriations bill to implement a ‘‘net zero’’ policy for 

the annual expenses of the Power Marketing Administrations 

(PMAs). The President’s budget also supports this proposal. Reclassifying these receipts would more closely link the PMAs’ annual appropriations with payments from their customers. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement provides a total of $5.0 billion in BA 

and $6.3 billion in outlays for 2010, and $25.6 billion in BA and 

$50.0 billion in outlays over five years. The conference agreement 

provides $6.2 billion in 2010 for discretionary programs in this 

function. This is $500 million more than the President’s proposed 

discretionary funding level for 2010. (The total BA and outlay levels are lower than the discretionary BA and outlay levels because 

this function has negative mandatory BA and outlay levels, reflecting the fact that the U.S. government collects more money than it 

spends marketing federally produced power and collects fees from 

commercial nuclear reactors.) 

The conference agreement includes a significant commitment 

of resources to invest in emerging energy technologies, promote renewable energy and energy efficiency, and reduce our nation’s dependence on imported energy. The conference agreement includes 

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ference agreement supports reclassifying the receipts of the Power 

Marketing Administrations (PMAs) to more closely link the PMAs’ 

annual appropriations with payments from their customers. 

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT: FUNCTION 300 

Function Summary 

The Natural Resources and Environment function consists of 

funding for water resources, conservation, land management, pollution control and abatement, and recreational resources. Major departments and agencies in this function are the Department of the 

Interior (including the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land 

Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service, and the Minerals Management Service), conservation-oriented and land management agencies within the Department of 

Agriculture (including the Forest Service), the National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration at the Department of Commerce, 

the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $37.7 billion in BA 

and $40.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and $190.8 billion in BA and 

$197.7 billion in outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution recognizes that we have an obligation to 

current and future generations to take meaningful action to reduce 

greenhouse gas emissions. The resolution includes a reserve fund 

to accommodate legislation that would invest in clean energy technology initiatives, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, or help families, workers, communities, and businesses make the transition to 

a clean energy economy. The resolution includes no specific assumptions regarding the policy details of such a proposal. The details of the proposal will be left to the committees of jurisdiction 

and the legislative process. 

If climate change legislation brings new revenues into the 

Treasury, the Senate resolution would support the President’s proposal to invest $15 billion per year in a variety of clean energy 

technology initiatives. These initiatives would accelerate the widespread deployment of energy efficient technologies, increase our reliance on clean and renewable energy sources, and move America 

forward on the path to energy security. 

The Senate resolution fully funds the President’s request for 

the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The resolution includes $3.9 billion for EPA’s Clean Water and Drinking Water 

State Revolving Funds. The overall EPA funding level could accommodate significant increases for Superfund, the brownfields program and a variety of other EPA programs. The resolution would 

accommodate increases for water infrastructure priorities at the 

Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. 

The Senate resolution recognizes the importance of the Bureau 

of Reclamation rural water program to support ongoing Municipal, 

Rural, and Industrial (MR&I) systems for the Great Plains Region. 

The Bureau of Reclamation supplies drinking water to 2.6 million 

people in the Great Plains region and is encouraged to prioritize 

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son Diversion Unit, Mni Wiconi, Lewis and Clark, Perkins County, 

Fort Peck Reservation/Dry Prairie, and Rocky Boys/North Central 

rural water system projects. The Senate resolution supports funding these vital rural water development projects at a level that is 

as close to $292 million as possible. 

The Senate resolution includes increases for the Army Corps of 

Engineers and the Department of Interior which are sufficient to 

fully fund ongoing Everglades Restoration activities, including construction of authorized projects contained in the Comprehensive 

Everglades Restoration Plan and the Everglades National Park Expansion Act. 

The funding levels in the Senate resolution allow for increases 

for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

In addition, the resolution includes a reserve fund which would accommodate legislation to preserve or protect oceans or coastal 

areas. 

The Senate resolution assumes increases for the Department of 

the Interior and the Forest Service. The resolution also includes 

the President’s proposal to increase funding for land acquisition 

programs. The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund 

which could be used for legislation that preserves or protects public 

lands. This could include, but is not limited to, legislation that protects national parks, national monuments, wilderness areas, wild 

and scenic rivers, and national recreation areas. 

The Senate resolution fully funds wildfire suppression activities at the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. The 

resolution commends the President for taking steps to budget for 

growing annual fire suppression costs. It provides the 10-year average for fire suppression costs and assumes that an additional $357 

million will be provided if appropriated funds are exhausted and 

the severity of the fire season requires additional funding. The Senate resolution also included increases in funding for hazardous fuel 

reduction. 

The Senate resolution recognizes the need to address significant and long-standing problems affecting the major large scale 

aquatic, estuarine, and coastal ecosystems nationwide. The Senate 

resolution includes funding for a new interagency initiative to address such regional ecosystems. It assumes the President’s request 

of $475 million to work with Great Lakes states, tribes, and local 

communities and organizations to address issues prioritized in the 

Great Lakes Regional Collaborative. This initiative could address 

issues such as invasive species, non-point source pollution, habitat 

restoration and contaminated sediment. The resolution also supports the President’s proposal to use outcome-oriented performance 

goals and measures to target the most significant problems and 

track progress in addressing these ecosystems. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $37.4 billion in BA and 

$40.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $194.6 billion in BA and 

$200.5 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution matches the President’s total discretionary funding request for this function, and provides increased 

resources for programs such as the Land and Water Conservation 

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Funds, and other EPA programs. The House recognizes the need 

for maintaining and upgrading water infrastructure in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and other U.S. territories, and encourages relevant federal agencies to work with territory governments on this issue. The House resolution also allows 

for additional funding for other programs at NOAA, the Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service. 

For mandatory spending, the House resolution assumes levels 

provided by current law. 

The House resolution includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund 

that accommodates legislation to increase investments in renewable energy and energy independence, encourage new technological 

development, take steps to provide for reductions in greenhouse gas 

emissions, and help families, businesses, the environment and industries adapt to the new energy economy. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes a total of $37.6 billion in 

BA and $40.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and $192.1 billion in BA 

and $198.5 billion in outlays over five years. The conference agreement provides $35.3 billion in 2010 for discretionary programs in 

this function. This is $200 million more than the President’s proposed discretionary funding level for 2010. 

The conference agreement includes significant increases for 

natural resources and environment programs, including a variety 

of programs at the Environmental Protection Agency. The agreement provides additional resources for agencies such as the Army 

Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation to invest in national water infrastructure priorities. It also increases funding for 

a number of other programs throughout the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The funding levels in the conference agreement include the President’s proposal to provide additional funding 

for wildland fire suppression activities at the Forest Service and 

the Department of the Interior. The conference agreement could 

also accommodate increases in funding for hazardous fuel reduction 

activities. The conference agreement includes deficit-neutral reserve funds which could be used for legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

AGRICULTURE: FUNCTION 350 

Function Summary 

The Agriculture function includes farm income stabilization, 

agricultural research, and other services administered by the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture. The discretionary programs include research and education programs, economics and statistics services, 

administration of the farm support programs, farm loan programs, 

meat and poultry inspection, and a portion of the Public Law 480 

international food aid program. The mandatory programs include 

commodity programs, crop insurance, and certain farm loans. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution reflects a total of $23.6 billion in BA and 

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$109.0 billion in outlays over five years. During Committee consideration, an amendment was adopted assuming $70 million in savings per year in crop insurance over the next five years. The 

amendment dedicated $175 million for child nutrition and $175 

million for deficit reduction. Besides these changes, the Senate resolution leaves all other nutrition, conservation, renewable energy, 

and farm safety net improvements included in the 2008 Farm Bill 

unchanged. 

Given our current fiscal situation, the Senate resolution recognizes that all areas of the federal budget need to be examined for 

savings. Even though the 2008 Farm Bill received over 80 votes in 

the Senate and was fully paid for, the Senate resolution would support targeted savings in agriculture, including some savings in the 

Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the federal crop insurance program. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $23.7 billion in BA and 

$24.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $115.7 billion in BA and 

$109.7 billion in outlays over five years. The House resolution provides resources for commodity support, agricultural research, and 

the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, including activities to support eradication of the Asian Longhorn Beetle. 

For mandatory spending, the House resolution assumes levels 

provided by current law. For discretionary programs, the House 

resolution matches the levels in the President’s budget. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement calls for a total of $23.7 billion in 

BA and $24.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $115.6 billion in 

BA and $109.6 billion in outlays over five years. For discretionary 

spending, the conference agreement assumes $6.1 billion in BA and 

$6.2 billion in outlays for 2010. For mandatory spending, the agreement matches CBO’s baseline estimate for March 2009 (assuming 

levels provided by current law), leaving all of the nutrition, conservation, renewable energy, and farm safety net improvements 

made in the 2008 Farm Bill unchanged. 

COMMERCE AND HOUSING CREDIT: FUNCTION 370 

Function Summary 

The Commerce and Housing Credit function includes mortgage 

credit, the Postal Service, deposit insurance, and other advancement of commerce (the majority of the discretionary and mandatory 

spending in this function). The mortgage credit component of this 

function includes housing assistance through the Federal Housing 

Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie 

Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), 

the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), and 

rural housing programs of the Department of Agriculture. The 

function also includes net Postal Service spending and spending for 

deposit insurance activities of banks, thrifts, and credit unions. 

Most of the Commerce Department is provided for in this function, 

including the International Trade Administration, the Bureau of 

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Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Bureau of the 

Census. Finally, the function also includes funding for independent 

agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 

Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the majority of the Small Business Administration. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $64.4 billion in unified 

BA and $89.1 billion in unified outlays for 2010, and $129.6 billion 

in unified BA and $139.8 billion in unified outlays over five years. 

(The corresponding on-budget figures are $61.1 billion in BA and 

$85.8 billion in outlays for 2010, and $124.3 billion in BA over five 

years and $134.6 billion in outlays over five years.) The Senate resolution includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund that would allow for 

additional investments in housing assistance, including low-income 

rental assistance and assistance provided through the Affordable 

Housing Trust Fund. The Senate resolution provides $880 million 

for the Small Business Administration and adopts the Administration’s budget level for the Manufacturing Extension Program 

(MEP), which is authorized in the America COMPETES Act. 

House-passed Resolution 

For the unified budget, the House resolution calls for a total of $64.2 billion in BA and $88.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and for 

$130.4 billion in BA and $140.6 billion in outlays over five years. 

(The budget resolution provides only the on-budget amounts, which 

are $60.9 billion in BA and $85.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and 

$125.1 billion in BA and $135.3 billion in outlays over five years.) 

The discretionary function total for 2010 includes significantly 

increased funding to ensure that the Bureau of the Census has the 

necessary resources to hire workers and to complete the 2010 Census. The 2010 total also fully accounts for funding to support Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and other mortgage credit programs in order to respond to the current housing crisis. 

The House notes that the goal of the Treasury’s Troubled Assets Relief Program is to help stabilize credit and housing markets, 

not to use eventual returns to support additional, non-related 

spending. Proceeds from the sale of troubled assets, repayments of 

loans, or other resulting revenues to the Treasury from Federal assistance provided under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 

of 2008, Public Law 110–343, should be available to reduce the 

Federal deficit and the public debt. 

Conference Agreement 

For the unified budget, the conference agreement calls for a 

total of $64.4 billion in BA and $89.0 billion in outlays for 2010, 

and for $130.6 billion in BA and $140.8 billion in outlays over five 

years. (The conference agreement provides only the on-budget 

amounts, which are $61.1 billion in BA and $85.8 billion in outlays 

for 2010, and $125.3 billion in BA and $135.5 billion in outlays 

over five years.) The discretionary function total includes significantly increased funding for the Bureau of the Census, reflecting 

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Business Administration and the Manufacturing Extension Program. The 2010 total also fully accounts for funding to support 

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and other mortgage credit 

programs in order to respond to the current housing crisis. 

The conference agreement supports efforts to provide additional investment in and oversight of housing assistance. Both the 

Senate and the House include reserve funds that allow for investments in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The Senate economic 

stabilization reserve fund also allows for additional investments in 

low-income rental assistance. The conference agreement also supports efforts to increase the capacity of HUD’s Inspector General to 

investigate cases of FHA loan fraud. The HUD Inspector General’s 

office has not expanded even as the number of FHA-approved lenders has doubled over the past two years. 

The conference agreement notes that the goal of the Treasury’s 

Troubled Assets Relief Program is to help stabilize credit and housing markets, not to use eventual returns to support additional, nonrelated spending. Proceeds from the sale of troubled assets, repayments of loans, or other resulting revenues to the Treasury from 

Federal assistance provided under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Public Law 110–343, should be available to 

reduce the Federal deficit and the public debt. 

TRANSPORTATION: FUNCTION 400 

Function Summary 

The Transportation function consists mostly of the programs 

administered by the Department of Transportation, including programs for highways, mass transit, aviation, and maritime activities. This function also includes two components of the Department 

of Homeland Security: the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration. In addition, this function includes several 

small transportation-related agencies and the research program for 

civilian aviation at NASA. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $75.2 billion in BA 

and $95.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and $377.8 billion in BA and 

$477.0 billion in outlays over five years. The Senate resolution includes an infrastructure reserve fund that would be available for 

surface transportation programs and multimodal transportation 

projects. The reserve fund anticipates that future surface transportation investments will be paid for and the solvency of the Highway 

Trust Fund will be maintained for the length of the surface transportation authorization. The Senate resolution understands that 

the surface transportation reauthorization will augment current investments, and provides funding levels for highways, transit, and 

safety programs which will be adjusted when a reauthorization bill 

is reported. The Senate resolution does not adopt the administration’s proposed change to scoring of contract authority. The Senate 

resolution continues the unprecedented commitment to high speed 

rail made in the economic recovery package by providing $1 billion 

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House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $88.2 billion in BA and 

$95.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $449.9 billion in BA and 

$481.0 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution recognizes that transportation 

programs are charged with helping to pull the economy out of the 

recession. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act made significant investments in highway construction, mass transit, passenger rail, and aviation. In addition, as the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users 

(SAFETEA–LU) expires, the House will craft a new highway and 

transit bill for the 2010–2015 period. 

The House’s task of reauthorizing highway construction programs is made more difficult by a large set of current law rescissions to contract authority, a form of mandatory budget authority. 

Beginning in 2010, the House resolution restores the mandatory 

baseline for the federal-aid highway program so that its funding 

authority is in line with current projections of obligation limitations. The House resolution retains current scorekeeping practices 

for contract authority programs. 

In order to address the highway and transit programs during 

reauthorization, the House resolution includes a surface transportation reserve fund that provides further increases to highway and 

transit contract authority if the future legislation maintains a solvent Highway Trust Fund. 

Finally, as a part of the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, the House resolution accommodates increases 

to the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). 

Conference Agreement 

The Conference agreement calls for a total of $88.2 billion in 

BA and $95.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and $449.9 billion in BA 

and $481.0 billion in outlays over five years. The conference agreement recognizes that this year’s economic recovery package made 

significant investments in highway construction, mass transit, passenger rail, and aviation that will create badly needed jobs to help 

sustain the recovery. The conference agreement recognizes that 

continued investment in infrastructure programs is important and 

includes House and Senate infrastructure reserve funds to accommodate legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs 

and ensure the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund for the length 

of the surface transportation authorization. 

The task of reauthorizing highway construction programs is 

made more difficult by a large set of current law rescissions to contract authority, a form of mandatory budget authority. Beginning 

in 2010, the conference agreement restores the mandatory baseline 

for the federal-aid highway program so that its funding authority 

is in line with current projections of obligation limitations. In the 

Senate, it will not be in order for legislation that extends or reauthorizes surface transportation bills to appropriate budget authority for those programs outside of the Highway Trust Fund. The 

conference agreement also does not adopt the administration’s proposed change to scoring of contract authority and does not assume 

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The Senate infrastructure reserve fund would also accommodate legislation that makes additional investments in multimodal 

transportation projects, passenger and freight rail and could also 

accommodate legislation regarding the Denali Commission, an 

independent federal agency focusing on rural Alaskan communities. 

The conference agreement continues the unprecedented commitment to high speed rail made in the economic recovery package 

by providing $1 billion for high speed rail in 2010. Finally, as a 

part of the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, 

the conference agreement accommodates increases to the Airport 

Improvement Program (AIP). 

COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: FUNCTION 

450 

Function Summary 

The Community and Regional Development function includes 

federal programs to improve community economic conditions, promote rural development, and assist in federal preparations for and 

response to disasters. This function provides appropriated funding 

for the Community Development Block Grant, Department of Agriculture rural development programs, the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (including homeland security grants), and other disaster mitigation 

and community development-related programs. It also provides 

mandatory funding for the federal flood insurance program. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $16.3 billion in BA 

and $28.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and $80.8 billion in BA and 

$114.3 billion in outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution recognizes the importance of providing 

investments in our communities and protecting the homeland. The 

Senate resolution includes increased funding for the Community 

Development Block Grant (CDBG), the largest source of federal 

grant assistance in support of state and local government housing 

and community development efforts, and for grants to local governments to revitalize closed manufacturing plants. The Senate resolution also supports funding for Department of Homeland Security 

grant programs and BIA programs. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $18.3 billion in BA and 

$29.3 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $103.3 billion in BA and 

$129.5 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution provides increased funding to accommodate urgent community development and homeland security 

needs, which could include full funding for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), similar to the President’s budget. 

Function 450 also accommodates funding for a new National Infrastructure Bank, capitalized with federal funds, to direct public and 

private dollars towards infrastructure investments of national or 

regional significance. However, because a National Infrastructure 

Bank is not yet authorized, the House resolution includes initial 

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Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes a total of $18.3 billion in BA and $29.3 billion in outlays for 2010, and $88.3 billion in BA 

and $122.7 billion in outlays over five years. 

The conference agreement provides increased funding levels 

that will provide needed investments in our communities and 

homeland security. The agreement provides increased funding, 

which could include full funding for the Community Development 

Block Grant (CDBG), and for grants to local governments to revitalize closed manufacturing plants. The conference agreement also 

includes $2.0 billion in 2010 and $5.0 billion in 2011 for a National 

Infrastructure Bank, if authorized, with an understanding that at 

least one quarter of the funding would be targeted to rural areas. 

The conference agreement also supports funding for Department of 

Homeland Security grant programs and BIA programs. 

EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, AND SOCIAL 

SERVICES: FUNCTION 500 

Function Summary 

The Education, Training, Employment and Social Services 

function includes funding for the Department of Education, as well 

as programs in the Department of Health and Human Services 

(HHS) and the Department of Labor. This function provides funding for elementary and secondary, career and technical, and postsecondary educational programs; job training and employment 

services; children and family services; and statistical analysis and 

research related to these areas. It also contains funding for the Library of Congress and independent research and arts agencies. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $94.4 billion in BA 

and $140.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and $561.1 billion in BA and 

$640.4 billion in outlays over five years. 

Building on the investments in education and training provided in the economic recovery package, the Senate resolution fully 

funds the President’s request for education and training programs 

over the five-year budget window. Investments in education and 

training programs have sound economic benefits and the Senatepassed resolution provides Americans a complete and competitive 

education from cradle to career. 

There is increasing evidence that investing in high quality 

early childhood education programs, such as Head Start, is a solid 

investment, yielding $10 in reduced social costs for every dollar invested. Despite these benefits, many preschool students do not 

have access to quality early education programs. The Senatepassed resolution provides expanded resources to invest in the 

long-term returns of early education. 

Moreover, decreased federal funding for education has implications at the state and local level. When the federal government reduces its share of funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, state and local governments have to cut programs to 

cover the decreasing share of special education. 

The Senate resolution calls for a significant investment to 

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students, such as Title I, and for innovative and effective strategies 

to reduce achievement gaps and improve student learning in grade 

schools, middle schools, and high schools. The competitive educational advantage we used to enjoy, relative to other nations, has 

eroded significantly in recent years. 

The Senate resolution proposes to reduce barriers to higher 

education by including provisions that could accommodate the 

President’s student aid proposals, such as expanding Pell grants. 

The President has challenged our students to commit to at least 

one year of post-secondary study. However, many low- and moderate-income high school graduates who are fully prepared to go to 

college do not because of financial barriers. Employers indicate that 

we are not producing enough trained workers with the skills for 

the modern workplace, particularly in high-growth sectors such as 

health care and green energy technologies. Increasingly, these sectors require some form of post-secondary education or job re-training. 

The Senate resolution recognizes that effective education and 

training programs are necessary to restart U.S. economic growth 

and allow our citizens to compete in the global economy. It makes 

this effort a high priority. The Senate resolution also provides the 

President’s requested level for the Corporation for National and 

Community Service to encourage Americans to serve their community and country. 

The Senate resolution provides a deficit-neutral reserve fund 

for higher education to facilitate enactment of legislation to make 

college more accessible and affordable. 

The Senate resolution adopted three amendments to the Higher Education reserve fund which would maintain a competitive student loan program; facilitate expanded funding for programs that 

provide need-based grants and community work-study programs; 

and facilitate expanded funding for programs that provide outreach 

to low-income students to prepare for college. The Senate also 

adopted an amendment to the Economic Stabilization and Growth 

reserve fund to provide specialized training for workers in emerging industries. In addition the Senate adopted an amendment to 

provide a reserve fund for after-school programs. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $93.7 billion in BA and 

$140.3 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $560.4 billion in BA and 

$639.6 billion in outlays over five years. 

The 2010 House resolution supports the President’s investments in education from early childhood through post-secondary 

education and training and shares the President’s goal of improving American education and creating a workforce that is prepared 

to compete and succeed in the global economy. The House resolution supports the President’s plan to make a new investment in 

early childhood education, improve student achievement in elementary and secondary education through both proven strategies and 

innovative approaches, and increase the number of high school 

graduates that attend and complete higher education by making 

college more affordable and accessible. The House resolution also 

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The 111th Congress has already made significant new investments in education in the American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act, which provided about $100 billion that states will use primarily to maintain elementary, secondary, and higher education 

services. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targeted 

significant funds to Title I (Education for the Disadvantaged), Head 

Start, and special education, where the funding can be used to 

train more teachers to provide needed services in the future. The 

House budget resolution builds upon that start by providing the 

level of funding in the President’s request for education, job training, and social services for 2010. 

The House resolution’s funding could support services that will 

help students meet high standards and will provide effective teachers and principals, including investments in key programs such as 

Head Start and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It 

also could support the No Child Left Behind Act programs that 

work to close the achievement gap and ensure that all children 

learn, including Impact Aid and after-school services. The funding 

could be used as a down payment on a comprehensive literacy initiative for the nation that encompasses early childhood, elementary, and secondary education. 

This year Congress increased the maximum Pell Grant award 

by $619—the largest annual increase for a program that helps 

more than seven million students pay for college. The House resolution provides discretionary funding to support the President’s 

Pell grant increase for 2010. Going forward, the House resolution 

could accommodate the President’s proposals to provide additional 

assistance to help more low-income high school graduates attend 

and complete college, provided they are enacted in a fiscally responsible way. Further assistance could include expanding access 

to Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as Hispanicserving institutions and other minority-serving institutions, which 

continue to make important contributions towards increasing the 

percentage of minority students gaining a college degree. 

The House urges the Committee on Education and Labor to review options for the student loan program that will maintain a role 

for FFELP lenders in the student loan program, and to look to 

ways to achieve savings that capitalize on current infrastructure 

and minimize the disruption to students and the employees of 

FFELP lenders who currently serve 75 percent of loans at American colleges, universities, and community colleges. 

The House resolution continues to support two-year advance 

funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and recognizes 

that public television and radio stations are experiencing financial 

distress as a result of the recession. 

The House resolution contains a reserve fund to accommodate 

legislation that makes college more affordable, consistent with the 

House pay-as-you-go rule. It also contains fiscally responsible reconciliation instructions directing the Committee on Education and 

Labor to report a bill that invests in education while reducing the 

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Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement calls for a total of $94.4 billion in BA and $140.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $561.1 billion in 

BA and $640.4 billion in outlays over five years. 

The conference agreement recognizes the importance of investing in education and training programs to build a highly skilled 

workforce that can compete in the global marketplace and provides 

the President’s requested level for education, training and social 

service programs in every year over the five-year budget window. 

The increased funding will assist Americans from cradle to career 

with job training programs, access to higher education through Pell 

grants and state programs targeted to low-income students, elementary and secondary education programs such as Title I and 

IDEA, and expanded resources for Head Start and other early education programs. 

The conference agreement contains deficit-neutral reserve 

funds for higher education legislation in both the House and Senate. It also includes a Senate reserve fund for 21st Century Learning Centers. 

The conference agreement includes a Sense of Congress provision on college affordability and student loan reform that reaffirms 

the importance of the student aid services provided by both nonprofit and for-profit entities in the student loan program, as well 

as the employment they provide across the country. 

HEALTH: FUNCTION 550 

Function Summary 

The Health function includes most direct health care service 

programs as well as funding for anti-bioterrorism activities, national biomedical research, protecting the health of the general 

population and workers in their places of employment, providing 

health services for under-served populations, and promoting training for the health care workforce. The major programs in this function include Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), health benefits for federal workers and retirees, the 

National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Health Resources and Services Administration 

(HRSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $385.4 billion in BA 

and $389.2 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $1.9 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution includes increased funding above the 

2010 baseline level consistent with the President’s health priorities 

for NIH, HRSA, CDC, IHS, and FDA. Significant increases for 

Community Health Centers, health professions, and the National 

Health Service Corps within HRSA are also included. Increases 

above the President’s request are also included for the Maternal 

and Child Health Block Grant, the organ transplantation program, 

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In addition, the Senate resolution contains several health care 

related deficit-neutral reserve funds, including reserve funds for 

health care reform legislation and for improvements at the FDA. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $383.9 billion in BA 

and $388.7 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $1.9 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The discretionary resources for Function 550 for 2010 match 

the President’s 2010 request and increase funding over the 2010 

baseline level, enabling support of the President’s priorities for cancer research, food safety, and other important programs. The House 

resolution provides critical resources for public health, which includes programs focused on addressing health promotion and disease prevention. Preventative health care measures and disease 

management have the potential to lead to more efficient use of 

health care spending, and reduced illness, as well as an improvement in the health of the public. 

Programs in Function 550 are also addressed in the House resolution’s deficit-neutral reserve funds for health care reform and 

the 9/11 health program. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes a total of $384.3 billion in 

BA and $388.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and $1.9 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

Discretionary funding levels for Function 550 include increased 

funding above the 2010 baseline level consistent with the President’s health priorities for NIH, HRSA, CDC, IHS, and FDA. In addition, the conference agreement assumes significant increases for 

Community Health Centers, health professions, and the National 

Health Service Corps within HRSA as well as food safety efforts at 

FDA. Increases are also included for the Maternal and Child 

Health Block Grant and the organ transplantation program as well 

as additional funding for IHS to help meet the needs of American 

Indians and Alaska Natives. 

The conference agreement provides critical resources for public 

health, which includes programs focused on addressing health promotion and disease prevention. Preventative health care measures 

and disease management have the potential to lead to more efficient use of health care spending, and reduced illness, as well as 

an improvement in the health of the public. 

In addition, programs in Function 550 are also addressed in 

several health care related deficit-neutral reserve funds, including 

a reserve fund for health care reform legislation. 

MEDICARE: FUNCTION 570 

Function Summary 

The Medicare function includes funding to administer and to 

provide benefits under the Medicare program. Medicare is a federal 

health insurance program that currently covers 45 million Americans aged 65 and older, as well as younger adults who are disabled 

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Congress provides an annual appropriation for the costs of administering Medicare, including resources to conduct program integrity activities to guard against improper payments, fraud, and 

abuse. The remainder of spending in this function is mandatory 

and reflects payments to health care providers and private insurance plans, as well as beneficiary premiums and other receipts and 

payments to the Medicare trust funds, under the Part A Hospital 

Insurance (HI) program, the Part B Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) program, the Part C Medicare Advantage program, and 

the Part D Prescription Drug program. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $442.8 billion in BA 

and $443.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and $2.6 trillion in BA and 

$2.6 trillion in outlays over five years. The mandatory spending 

levels in the Senate resolution are at the CBO baseline level in all 

years covered by the resolution. In addition, the Senate resolution 

includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund in Sec. 201(b) for legislation 

that increases the reimbursement rate for Medicare physician services (and overrides a large payment rate cut that would otherwise 

go into effect on January 1, 2010) and addresses other Medicare 

benefit and payment issues. In addition, the Senate resolution also 

contemplates Medicare physician payment reform as a component 

of comprehensive health reform and subject to the flexibility of the 

reserve fund in Sec. 201(a). 

The discretionary spending levels in the Senate resolution assume $25 million over the period 2010 to 2012 to begin addressing 

the administrative costs associated with legislation that would reduce the potential for identity theft by requiring the Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services to remove Social Security numbers 

from Medicare cards. 

For 2010, the discretionary funding levels in this function include a discretionary cap adjustment of up to $311 million for program integrity activities of the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC program) to address improper payments, fraud, and 

abuse in the Medicare program. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $449.7 billion in BA 

and $449.8 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $2.6 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution function level for Medicare assumes that the payment rates in effect for physicians for 2009 will 

stay in effect through 2019. This assumption is consistent with the 

President’s budget and is based on Congressional actions in recent 

years to prevent cuts in physician payments that would otherwise 

be required by the Sustainable Growth Rate formula. However, like 

the President’s budget, the House budget resolution does not intend 

this assumption as a reflection of future policy. Instead, the assumption represents a realistic and meaningful benchmark against 

which to measure the fiscal effects of legislation reforming the 

Medicare physician payment system. The House resolution includes 

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The House resolution provides a discretionary cap adjustment 

of $311 million for additional activities aimed at detecting and preventing Medicare fraud and other improper payments. The Health 

Care Fraud and Abuse Control program is a joint effort of the Department of Health and Human Services, the HHS Office of the Inspector General, and the Department of Justice. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement reflects a total of $449.7 billion in 

BA and $449.8 billion in outlays in 2010, and $2.6 trillion in BA 

and $2.6 trillion in outlays over five years. 

For 2010, the discretionary spending levels in this function are 

$5 million above the President’s request. Over five years, the discretionary funding in this function assumes $25 million to begin 

addressing the administrative costs associated with legislation that 

would reduce the potential for identity theft by requiring the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to remove Social Security 

numbers from Medicare cards. 

The mandatory spending levels in this function assume $38 

billion above the CBO baseline level, which reflects Medicare payment rates in effect for physicians for 2009 staying in effect 

through 2010, 2011, and at least part of 2012. However, the conference agreement does not intend this assumption as a reflection 

of future policy. In the Senate, legislation that would freeze physician payments at current levels, provide a positive update for physician payments, or reform the Medicare physician payment system, whether on a temporary or permanent basis, must be compliant with Sec. 301(a) or Sec. 301(b) in this conference agreement. 

In the House, Sec. 421 of the conference agreement allows the 

chairman of the Budget Committee to treat the additional $38 billion as a current policy adjustment before evaluating the costs of 

legislation affecting Medicare physician payments for compliance 

with House budget rules and procedures, assuming the condition 

stated in that section is met. 

The conference agreement includes a Senate reserve fund (Sec. 

301) and a House reserve fund (Sec. 321) to accommodate comprehensive health reform legislation and related provisions, including legislation for improvements in Medicare’s system for paying 

physicians. 

INCOME SECURITY: FUNCTION 600 

Function Summary 

The Income Security function contains a range of income security programs including: (1) major cash and in-kind means-tested 

entitlements; (2) general retirement, disability, and pension programs excluding Social Security and veterans’ compensation programs; (3) federal and military retirement programs; (4) unemployment compensation; (5) low-income housing programs; and (6) 

other low-income support programs. Major federal entitlement programs in this function include unemployment insurance, food 

stamps, child nutrition, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families 

(TANF), foster care, child support enforcement, child care, Supplemental Security Income, and spending for the refundable portion of 

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Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $536.6 billion in BA 

and $539.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $2.4 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The resolution provides increased funding for the Low-Income 

Home Energy Assistance Program. These funds for LIHEAP will 

help to continue providing heating and cooling assistance to over 

five million low-income households, including the working poor, disabled persons, elderly, and families with young children. The Senate resolution continues to support funding for the Public Housing 

Capital Fund, Hope VI Distressed Housing Program, Housing for 

the Disabled, Housing for the Elderly, and the Section 8 tenantbased Housing Choice Voucher program and the project-based Section 8 program. The resolution includes increases for the Special 

Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children 

(WIC). 

In addition, the Senate resolution includes deficit-neutral reserve funds for improvements to child welfare, child support enforcement, foster care financing, and LIHEAP, as well as for the reauthorization of the child nutrition and WIC programs, and for establishing or expanding early childhood home visitation programs. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $536.2 billion in BA 

and $539.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $2.5 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution matches the President’s increase 

in discretionary funding for Function 600 in order to invest in children and meet urgent needs of low-income families and elderly and 

disabled people in difficult economic times. These resources will 

build upon the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided increases in mandatory and discretionary 

funding for child care, child support, and assistance to needy families. 

The House shares the President’s commitment to ending childhood hunger in the United States by 2015, and funding to move toward that goal is provided here. The House resolution accommodates continued economically-driven increases in participation in 

the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, 

and Children (WIC), which is currently projected to have 9.8 million participants in 2010. The House resolution also includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund and additional funding to accommodate a 

reauthorization of child nutrition programs that will improve meal 

quality and access. 

The House resolution provides the necessary funding to continue rental housing assistance to families, elderly, and disabled 

people who rely on assistance from the Department of Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD). The House also recognizes the unmet 

need for affordable housing, both by including a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and by providing additional discretionary resources for affordable housing 

preservation. 

The House resolution also accommodates the President’s proposal to make the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program 

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with an increase in regular discretionary funding to allow the program to reach families in need. 

In addition to the policies mentioned above, mandatory programs in Function 600 are also addressed in deficit-neutral reserve 

funds for home visiting, structural reform of extended unemployment benefits, and child support. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes a total of $536.7 billion in 

BA and $540.2 billion in outlays for 2010, and $2.4 trillion in BA 

and outlays over five years. 

The conference agreement provides discretionary funding increases consistent with the President’s budget request for Function 

600 in order to invest in children and meet urgent needs of lowincome families and elderly and disabled people. The conference 

agreement supports the President’s request of $3.2 billion for 

LIHEAP in 2010. However, the agreement also includes a discretionary cap adjustment for an additional $1.9 billion, for a total 

LIHEAP funding level of $5.1 billion if the President’s funding 

level of $3.2 billion is included in an appropriations measure. These 

funds for LIHEAP will help to continue providing heating and cooling assistance to over five million low-income households, including 

the working poor, disabled persons, elderly, and families with 

young children. 

The conference agreement accommodates funding for increases 

in participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for 

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which is currently projected 

to have 9.8 million participants in 2010. The conference agreement 

also continues to support funding for important housing assistance 

programs for low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled. 

In addition, the conference agreement includes deficit-neutral 

reserve funds for improvements to child welfare, child support enforcement, foster care financing, and LIHEAP, as well as for the reauthorization of the child nutrition and WIC programs to help meet 

the President’s goal of ending childhood hunger in the United 

States, and for establishing or expanding home visitation programs. 

SOCIAL SECURITY: FUNCTION 650 

Function Summary 

The Social Security function includes funding for the Old-Age, 

Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs, which provide earned Social Security benefits to over 52 million eligible retired workers, disabled persons, and their spouses and survivors. In 

addition, this function provides funding to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) 

to administer the Social Security program and ensure program integrity. 

Under provisions of the Congressional Budget Act and the 

Budget Enforcement Act, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 

(OASI) trust fund and the Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund are 

off-budget and do not appear in the budget resolution totals. A 

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and outlays resulting from funding authorized in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is considered on-budget and 

appears in the budget resolution totals. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for $20.3 billion in on-budget BA and $20.4 billion in on-budget outlays for 2010, and $132.4 billion 

in on-budget BA and $132.9 billion in on-budget outlays over five 

years. (The corresponding figures on a unified basis are $703.4 billion in BA and $701.4 billion in outlays for 2010 and $3.8 trillion 

in BA and outlays over five years.) This spending reflects the general fund transfer of income taxes on Social Security benefits to the 

trust funds and the outlay effect of funding for the Social Security 

Administration (SSA) that was authorized in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For 2010, the Senate resolution provides $6.1 billion in BA and $5.9 billion in off-budget discretionary outlays for SSA administrative expenses, as outlined in section 102(c) of the resolution, which 

matches the President’s budget request. When combined with funding resources in Function 570 (Medicare) and Function 600 (Income 

Security), the total administrative budget for SSA assumed in the 

Senate resolution is $11.6 billion. This substantial increase over 

the FY09 level is intended to help address the serious and unacceptable backlog of Social Security disability claims and hearings, 

as well as other backlog workloads for which additional resources 

are needed. 

The discretionary funding levels in the Senate resolution as- sume a discretionary cap adjustment of $485 million to fund additional continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income redeterminations, if appropriators provide a base funding 

level for these program integrity initiatives of $273 million. 

House-passed Resolution 

For the unified budget, the House resolution calls for a total 

of $703.4 billion in BA and $701.4 billion in outlays for 2010, and 

for $3.8 trillion in BA and outlays over five years. (The budget resolution provides only the on-budget amounts, which are $20.3 billion in BA and $20.4 billion in outlays for 2010, and $132.4 billion 

in BA and $132.9 billion in outlays over five years.) 

The administrative budget for the SSA includes resources in 

Function 570 (Medicare) and Function 600 (Income Security) as 

well as Function 650. The House resolution assumes an $11.6 billion funding level for the administrative expenses at the SSA, the 

same as the President’s budget level. The increased resources will 

enable SSA to address the rising number of disability and retirement claims, as well as address the serious backlog of disability 

claims and hearings and provide for improved service to the American public. 

Included in the total funding level above are resources to accommodate $485 million through an adjustment of the discretionary allocation for program integrity initiatives. The adjustment 

allows the SSA to conduct an increasing number of Continuing Disability Reviews (CDRs) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) 

redeterminations. The language also allows funding of up to $34 

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asset verification for SSI recipients, but only if it has a return on 

investment at least as high as a low-priority SSI redetermination 

of eligibility, at a 4:1 return. 

Conference Agreement 

For the unified budget, the conference agreement calls for 

$703.4 billion in BA and $701.4 billion in outlays for 2010, and $3.8 

trillion in BA and outlays over five years. (The conference agreement provides only the on-budget amounts, which are $20.3 billion 

in BA and $20.4 billion in outlays for 2010, and $132.4 billion in 

BA and $132.9 billion in outlays over five years.) 

For 2010, the conference agreement provides total net discretionary resources for the administrative expenses of SSA (across all 

relevant functions) of $11.6 billion, meeting the President’s requested level. The total SSA funding level in the conference agreement assumes the President’s full request for a cap adjustment for 

program integrity efforts (including CDRs, SSI redeterminations 

and SSI asset verification). It also reflects the President’s full request for more resources to address the serious backlog of disability 

claims and hearings, as well as other backlog workloads for which 

additional resources are needed. 

VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES: FUNCTION 700 

Function Summary 

Function 700 covers the programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including veterans’ medical care, compensation 

and pensions, education and rehabilitation benefits, and housing 

programs. It also includes the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, the United States Court of Appeals 

for Veterans Claims, and the American Battle Monuments Commission. More than 99 percent of appropriated veterans’ funding 

goes to VA, and more than 85 percent of this funding is for VA 

medical care and hospital services. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $106.5 billion in BA 

and $105.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and $557.6 billion in BA and 

$554.5 billion in outlays over five years. The Senate resolution provides a $5.6 billion increase for the VA in 2010, and continues that 

commitment by increasing funding for the VA by $27 billion over 

the next five years. The Senate resolution also provides additional 

resources to the VA so that veterans’ insurance need not be billed 

for service-connected VA care and for increased beneficiary travel 

reimbursement. Once again, the Senate resolution recognizes the 

deep debt our nation owes to those who have served in defending 

our country and continues to provide critical resources to ensure 

that they get the quality health care they deserve. 

In addition, the Senate resolution understands that there is an 

urgent need for funding of grants for State Veterans Cemeteries 

with the aging of the WWII generation. Unfortunately, funding levels have not kept up with need. Therefore, the Senate resolution 

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House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $106.4 billion in BA 

and $105.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $557.7 billion in BA 

and $554.6 billion in outlays over five years. The total BA level for 

2010 includes discretionary BA of $53.3 billion. The 2009 level of discretionary BA includes $1.6 billion in 

emergency appropriations from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other legislation. For 2010, the House resolution 

provides $5.5 billion (11.5 percent) more discretionary BA than the 

2009 level (excluding emergency funding) and $540 million (1.0 

percent) more than the President’s 2010 budget. 

The House resolution emphasizes the high priority that the 

House places on continuing to provide sufficient and timely funding 

for veterans’ health care. The House resolution provides full funding to support excellent health care for veterans. It includes funding to restore health care eligibility to additional non-disabled veterans with modest incomes (Priority Group 8), consistent with the 

President’s budget. In addition, the House resolution provides funding above the 2009 levels for VA to research and treat mental 

health, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and traumatic brain 

injury. In particular, the House resolution recognizes the importance of ensuring adequate funding for neuropsychiatric-PTSD staff 

and research. 

The House resolution affirms that VA is not and should not be 

authorized to bill private insurance companies for treatment of 

health conditions that are related to veterans’ military service. VA 

already is authorized to bill such companies for treatment of conditions that are not service-connected. The House resolution adds 

$540 million to the President’s strong budget for veterans to safeguard the provision of health care if, using existing authorities, VA 

does not realize the level of increase in these medical care collections that is estimated in the President’s budget. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement calls for a total of $106.5 billion in BA and $105.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and $558.4 billion in BA 

and $555.3 billion in outlays over five years. The conference agreement provides an 11.7 percent increase for discretionary BA for 

veterans’ health care and other services (excluding emergency 

funding), and continues that commitment by increasing discretionary funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and 

related agencies by more than $27 billion over the next five years. 

The decrease in mandatory BA and outlays between 2011 and 2012 

reflects the timing of monthly benefit payments—primarily, disability compensation and pensions—in any given fiscal year. It is 

not the result of any reduction in benefits. As a result, 2011 includes 13 benefit payment dates, while 2012 contains only 11 benefit payment dates. 

The conference agreement includes funding to restore health 

care eligibility to additional non-disabled veterans with modest incomes (Priority Group 8), consistent with the President’s budget. In 

addition, the agreement provides funding above the 2009 levels for 

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erans Health Administration (VHA) to meet the needs of the expanding number of veterans and to fill vacant healthcare professional positions at VHA. The conference agreement supports enhanced incentives for healthcare professionals of the VHA who 

serve in rural areas and increases to veterans beneficiary travel reimbursement. The conference agreement also provides additional 

resources to the VA so that veterans’ private insurance need not 

be billed for service-connected VA care, and the agreement affirms 

that VA is not and should not be authorized to bill private insurance companies for treatment of health conditions that are related 

to veterans’ military service. 

In addition, the conference agreement recognizes that there is 

an urgent need to open new national and State Veterans Cemeteries with the aging of the WWII generation. Unfortunately, funding levels for grants for State Veterans Cemeteries have not kept 

up with the need. Therefore, the conference agreement supports 

adequate funding that can address the costs of constructing new 

cemeteries as well as the needs of existing State Veterans Cemeteries. 

Sections 402 and 424 of the conference agreement include language exempting the following VA accounts from a point of order 

against advance appropriations: Medical Services, Medical Support 

and Compliance, and Medical Facilities. 

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: FUNCTION 750 

Function Summary 

The Administration of Justice function includes funding for 

federal law enforcement activities at the Department of Justice 

(DOJ) including criminal investigations by the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The 

function also includes funding for border enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Additionally, the function 

includes funding for civil rights enforcement and prosecution; federal block, categorical, and formula law enforcement grant programs to state and local governments; prison construction and operation; the United States Attorneys; and the federal judiciary. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $53.5 billion in BA 

and $52.1 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $260.6 billion in BA 

and $264.4 billion in outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution recognizes the important role the partnership between federal, state, and local law enforcement entities 

plays in maintaining safe communities. For example, the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) grant program provides 

funding that is critical in many urban and rural areas in maintaining police presence, carrying out criminal investigations, combating 

methamphetamine, and in training and equipping law enforcement 

officers. This and other support for local law enforcement remain 

a priority. 

The Senate resolution includes funding to protect children by 

funding Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act programs. 

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cartels and for addressing potential spillover violence along the 

Southern border. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $52.9 billion in BA and 

$51.6 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $268.3 billion in BA and 

$271.2 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution provides significant resources for 

our federal and local law enforcement programs, matching the level 

in the President’s budget. The House resolution provides increased 

funding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as it meets 

the country’s domestic crime fighting, financial fraud investigation, 

and national security needs. In addition, the House resolution supports the Department of Justice’s programs and initiatives that 

hire and equip police officers, combat drugs, protect juveniles, and 

that provide other important services to our communities. For example, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program 

includes hiring grants for new police officers, the Edward Byrne 

Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne JAG) provides flexible 

resources to our communities to meet a variety of their criminal 

justice needs, and the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program 

(SCAAP) reimburses states and localities for their incarceration 

costs—and the House resolution recognizes the importance of these 

and other programs. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement calls for a total of $53.4 billion in BA and $52.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $268.8 billion BA 

and $271.7 billion in outlays over five years. The conference agreement provides significant resources for federal and local law enforcement programs. The conference agreement provides increased 

funding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as it meets 

the country’s domestic crime fighting, financial fraud investigation, 

and national security needs. 

The conference agreement supports the Department of Justice’s programs and initiatives that hire and equip police officers 

and that provide other important services to our communities. For 

example, the conference agreement supports drug control efforts in 

urban and rural areas by including funding for High Intensity 

Drug Areas (HIDTA) programs and drug interdiction efforts carried 

out by both the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. In 

addition, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program includes hiring grants and grants to combat methamphetamine, the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 

(Byrne JAG) provides flexible resources to our communities to meet 

a variety of their criminal justice needs, the State Criminal Alien 

Assistance Program (SCAAP) reimburses states and localities for 

their incarceration costs, and Adam Walsh Child Protection and 

Safety Act programs prevents crimes against children. 

The conference agreement includes funding for Violence 

Against Women Act (VAWA) and Family Violence Prevention and 

Services Act. These funds supplement support for violence prevention and services activities. In particular, the conference agreement 

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ice providers, housing providers, and developers to leverage existing resources and create housing solutions that meet victims’ need 

for long-term housing. Helping victims remain safe and stable over 

time is critical since victims of domestic violence often return to 

their abusers because they cannot find long-term housing. 

Finally, the conference agreement provides additional funding 

to support the President’s initiative to combat violence along the 

U.S.-Mexico border. 

GENERAL GOVERNMENT: FUNCTION 800 

Function Summary 

The General Government function consists of the activities of 

the Legislative Branch, the Executive Office of the President, general tax collection and fiscal operations of the Department of the 

Treasury (including the IRS), the Office of Personnel Management, 

the property and personnel costs of the General Services Administration, and general purpose fiscal assistance to states, localities, 

the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of $22.3 billion in BA 

and $23.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and $112.8 billion in BA and 

$116.5 billion in outlays over five years. 

The Senate resolution supports enhanced Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS) tax enforcement to address the tax gap. The resolution fully funds the President’s budget request for the IRS and includes the President’s request for additional resources for IRS enforcement. By including a discretionary cap adjustment of $890 

million, the budget resolution would direct approximately $8 billion 

to IRS enforcement activities. A similar cap adjustment was included in the 2009 budget resolution. 

The Senate resolution assumes that rates of compensation for 

civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at the 

same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of compensation for members of the uniformed services. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $22.0 billion in BA and 

$22.8 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $113.2 billion in BA and 

$116.8 billion in outlays over five years. 

The House budget resolution includes a program integrity initiative to increase IRS tax compliance efforts to collect unpaid 

taxes. In a change from previous years, the amounts included within the House resolution’s adjustments for this purpose focus solely 

on amounts in IRS’s Enforcement account. The House resolution 

assumes the full level for IRS activities proposed by the President. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes $22.0 billion in BA and 

$22.8 billion in outlays for 2010, and $112.2 billion in BA and 

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ment, which would require approximately $8 billion for IRS enforcement related activities. The House reflects an equivalent 

amount for enforcement activities using a cap adjustment for the 

Enforcement account and additional funding from related accounts. 

NET INTEREST: FUNCTION 900 

Function Summary 

The Net Interest function is entirely mandatory with no discretionary components. It consists primarily of the interest paid by the 

federal government to private and foreign government holders of 

U.S. Treasury securities. It includes the interest on the public debt 

after deducting the interest income received by the federal government from trust fund investments, loans and cash balances, and 

earnings of the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

For the unified budget, the Senate resolution calls for BA and 

outlays of $168.8 billion for 2010 and $1.4 trillion over five years. 

(The budget resolution provides only the on-budget amounts, which 

total $284.6 billion in BA and outlays for 2010 and $2.0 trillion in 

BA and outlays over five years.) 

House-passed Resolution 

For the unified budget, the House resolution calls for a total 

of $168.3 billion in BA and outlays for 2010, and for $1.4 trillion 

in BA and outlays over five years. (The budget resolution provides 

only the on-budget amounts, which are $284.1 billion in BA and 

outlays for 2010, and $2.0 trillion in BA and outlays over five 

years.) 

Conference Agreement 

For the unified budget, the conference agreement calls for BA 

and outlays of $168.4 billion for 2010 and $1.4 trillion over five 

years. (The on-budget amounts are $284.2 billion in BA and outlays 

for 2010 and $2.0 trillion in BA and outlays over five years.) 

ALLOWANCES: FUNCTION 920 

Function Summary 

The Allowances function is used for planning purposes to address the budgetary effects of proposals or assumptions that cross 

several budget functions. Once such changes are enacted, the budgetary effects are distributed to the appropriate budget function. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for a total of ¥$16.0 billion in BA 

and ¥$7.0 billion in outlays for 2010, and ¥$89.4 billion in BA 

and ¥$78.8 billion in outlays over five years. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution calls for a total of $9.4 billion in BA and 

$4.9 billion in outlays for 2010, and for $33.4 billion in BA and 

$22.6 billion in outlays over five years. 


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Function 920 includes a placeholder to recognize the potential 

costs of disasters over the resolution period. It also includes a variety of savings, including savings related to program integrity initiatives, savings pursuant to reconciliation instructions, and savings 

to offset program initiatives in other budget functions. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement calls for a total of $1.2 billion in BA 

and $2.5 billion in outlays for 2010, and ¥$60.8 billion in BA and 

¥$48.9 billion in outlays over five years. These funding levels include a placeholder for 2009 and 2010 to recognize the potential 

costs of disasters. Offsetting these amounts are other non-security 

discretionary adjustments, savings pursuant to reconciliation instructions, and offsets for policy in other budget functions. 

UNDISTRIBUTED OFFSETTING RECEIPTS: FUNCTION 950 

Function Summary 

The Undistributed Offsetting Receipts function includes major 

offsetting receipt items that would distort the funding levels of 

other functional categories if they were distributed to them. Examples of such items include the employer share of federal employee 

retirement benefits, outer continental shelf rents and royalties, and 

the sale of major assets. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution calls for unified undistributed offsetting 

receipts of ¥$83.6 billion in BA and outlays for 2010 and ¥$456.2 

billion in BA and outlays over five years. (The on-budget totals for 

BA and outlays are ¥$68.4 billion for 2010 and ¥$371.8 billion 

over five years.) The Senate resolution matches the CBO’s baseline 

estimate of undistributed offsetting receipts. 

House-passed Resolution 

For the unified budget, the House resolution calls for a total 

of ¥$83.9 billion in BA and outlays for 2010, and for ¥$458.0 billion in BA and outlays over five years. (The budget resolution provides only the on-budget amounts, which are ¥$68.8 billion in BA 

and outlays for 2010, and ¥$373.5 billion in BA and outlays over 

five years.) 

The negative spending in Function 950 represents CBO’s baseline estimate of undistributed offsetting receipts and the impact of 

concurrent receipt policy. 

Conference Agreement 

For the unified budget, the conference agreement includes undistributed offsetting receipts of ¥$83.9 billion in BA and outlays 

for 2010 and ¥$458.0 billion in BA and outlays over five years. 

(The on-budget amounts are ¥$68.8 billion in BA and outlays for 

2010 and ¥$373.5 billion in BA and outlays over five years.) 


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OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES: 

FUNCTION 970 

Function Summary 

This function includes funding for overseas deployments and 

other activities. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution did not include Function 970. 

House-passed Resolution 

The House resolution includes amounts equal to the President’s budget to account for any future House consideration of appropriations for overseas deployments and other activities. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes Function 970 to account for 

the President’s pending supplemental request, other Presidential 

requests, and an estimate of potential future costs of overseas deployments. 

RECONCILIATION 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution did not include any reconciliation instructions. 

House-passed Resolution 

Title II of the House resolution includes reconciliation instructions. The instructions direct committees to make changes in laws 

under its jurisdiction that affect revenues or direct spending to 

achieve a specified budgetary result. The legislation used to implement those instructions is reported as a reconciliation bill. 

Section 201 of the House resolution includes reconciliation instructions to committees assumed to be used for health care reform 

and for education, but not for other policies. In section 201(a), entitled Health Care Reform, the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

and the Committee on Ways and Means each are instructed to report changes in laws by September 29, 2009, to reduce the deficit 

by $1 billion for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. In 

section 201(b), entitled Investments in Education, the Committee 

on Education and Labor is instructed to report changes in laws by 

September 30, 2009, to reduce the deficit by $1 billion for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. Reconciliation instructions 

do not preclude the consideration of legislation in these policy areas 

under regular order. 

Procedural language included in section 201(c) of the House 

resolution permits but does not require the Clerk of the House to 

join two separate reconciliation measures that meet the above descriptions, once one such measure has passed the House, for the 

purpose of forming a single engrossed reconciliation bill within the 

meaning of section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

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the time periods specified in the House pay-as-you-go rule. The reconciliation instructions provided in title II of the House resolution 

satisfy the requirement of clause 7 of rule XXI of the House of Representatives. 

Conference Agreement 

The conference agreement includes reconciliation instructions. 

For the Senate, Sec. 201 of the conference agreement provides 

reconciliation instructions to the Committee on Finance and Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to report 

changes in laws within their jurisdiction that reduce the deficit by 

$1,000,000,000 each for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 

2014. The deadline for these committees to report legislation complying with their instructions is October 15, 2009. 

For the House, Sec. 202 of the conference agreement provides 

two sets of reconciliation instructions, one intended for health reform and one intended for education. The deadline for affected committees to report legislation complying with each set of instructions 

is October 15, 2009. The committees shall report reconciliation legislation directly to the House Committee on the Budget. 

Sec. 202(a), for health reform, instructs the Committee on 

Ways and Means, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 

the Committee on Education and Labor to report changes in laws 

to reduce the deficit by $1.0 billion for the period of fiscal years 

2009 through 2014. Because of overlapping committee jurisdictions 

in the House with respect to health programs and related policies, 

the House Committee on the Budget assumes that legislation reported pursuant to Sec. 201(a) by the three named committees will, 

in combination, result in total net deficit reduction of at least $1.0 

billion for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 

Sec. 202(b), for education, instructs the Committee on Education and Labor to report changes in laws to reduce the deficit by 

$1.0 billion for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014. 

It is assumed that reconciliation will not be used for changes 

in legislation related to global climate change. 

RESERVE FUNDS 

The Senate and House use reserve funds in connection with 

consideration of legislation that complies with each chamber’s 

rules. The conference agreement therefore contains reserve funds 

for the House and for the Senate to address the rules and procedures that apply in each chamber. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

Sec. 201. Transform and modernize America’s health care 

system 

(a) Transform and Modernize America’s Health Care System: 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget 

Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or more 

pieces of health reform legislation that expand affordable coverage, 

improve health care quality and health outcomes, and constrain 

costs, provided that such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total 

of 2009–2019, reduces excess cost growth in health care spending, 

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flects the eight principles for health reform outlined in the President’s budget and provides maximum flexibility to the authorizing 

Committees to determine the appropriate level of spending and the 

offsets that may be required to pay for these investments. 

(b) Other Revisions: The Senate-passed resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation in the following areas, 

provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009– 

2019: 

(1) Physician Payments—legislation that increases the reimbursement rate for physician services under Medicare Part B. 

(2) Physician Training—legislation to encourage physicians to 

train in primary care residencies and ensure an adequate supply 

of residents and physicians. 

(3) Medicare Outpatient Therapy—legislation to improve the 

Medicare program for beneficiaries and protect access to outpatient 

therapy services (including physical therapy, occupational therapy, 

and speech-language pathology services) while protecting beneficiaries from associated premium increases. 

(4) Geographic Variation—legislation to promote Medicare payment policies that reward quality and efficient care and address geographic variation in spending. 

(5) Medicare Advantage Enrollees—legislation to protect Medicare Advantage enrollees from premium increases and benefit reductions in their Medicare Advantage plans that would result from 

estimates in the 2010 Medicare Advantage Call Letter. 

Sec. 202. Investing in clean energy and preserving the environment 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a deficit-neutral reserve 

fund allowing the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the 

levels in the resolution for legislation in the following areas, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period of 

the total of 2009 through 2019. 

(a) Investing in Clean Energy and Preserving the Environment: Legislation that would reduce our Nation’s dependence on 

imported energy including through expanded offshore oil and gas 

production in the Outer Continental Shelf, produce green jobs, promote renewable energy development, strengthen and retool manufacturing supply chains, create a clean energy investment fund, improve electricity transmission, encourage conservation and efficiency (including through industrial energy efficiency programs), 

make improvements to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance 

Program, set aside additional funding from the Oil Spill Liability 

Trust Fund for Arctic oil spill research conducted by the Oil Spill 

Recovery Institute, implement water settlements, or preserve or 

protect public lands, oceans or coastal areas, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the cost of producing energy from domestic sources, including oil and gas from the Outer Continental 

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tries; and would not enhance foreign competitiveness against U.S. 

businesses. The legislation may include tax provisions. 

(b) Climate Change Legislation: Legislation that would invest 

in clean energy technology initiatives, decrease greenhouse gas 

emissions (without regulating carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water 

vapor, or methane emissions from biological processes associated 

with livestock production), create new jobs in a clean technology 

economy, strengthen the manufacturing competitiveness of the 

United States, diversify the domestic clean energy supply to increase the energy security of the United States, protect consumers 

(including policies that address regional differences), provide incentives for cost-savings achieved through energy efficiencies, provide 

voluntary opportunities for agriculture and forestry communities to 

contribute to reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and help families, workers, communities, and businesses 

make the transition to a clean energy economy, without increasing 

electricity or gasoline prices or increasing the overall burden on 

consumers, through the use of revenues and policies provided in 

such legislation. 

(c) Allocations: The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 

Budget shall not revise the allocations in this resolution if the legislation provided for in subsections (a) or (b) is reported from any 

committee pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974. 

Sec. 203. Higher education 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would make higher education more accessible and more affordable while maintaining a 

competitive student loan program that provides students and institutions of higher education with a comprehensive choice of loan 

products and services which may include legislation to expand and 

strengthen student aid, such as Pell grants, or increase college enrollment and completion rates for low income students such as by 

investing in programs that provide need-based grants and community work study programs or provide outreach to low-income students to prepare for college, provided it is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. This may include tax legislation. 

Sec. 204. Child nutrition and WIC 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would reauthorize child nutrition 

programs and/or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for 

Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC program), provided it is 

deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 205. Investments in America’s infrastructure 

(a) Infrastructure: The Senate-passed resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits 

in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that would 

provide a sustained robust federal investment in infrastructure, 

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including freight and passenger rail, or other infrastructure 

projects, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 

and 2009–2019. 

The Senate-passed resolution also allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the allocations to allow funding for the 

Denali Commission for each applicable fiscal year at a level equal 

to not less than the level of funding made available for the Denali 

Commission during 2006. 

(b) Surface Transportation: The Senate resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits 

in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that would 

provide new budget authority for surface transportation programs 

to the extent such new budget authority is offset by an increase in 

receipts to the Highway Trust Fund (excluding transfers from the 

general fund of the Treasury into the Highway Trust Fund not offset by a similar increase in receipts), provided it is deficit-neutral 

over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(c) Multimodal Transportation Projects: The Senate resolution 

allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels 

and limits in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation 

that would authorize multimodal transportation projects that— 

(1) provide a set of performance measures; 

(2) require a cost-benefit analysis be conducted to ensure accountability and overall project goals are met; and 

(3) provide flexibility for States, cities, and localities to create strategies that meet the needs of their communities 

—provided the legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009– 

2014 and 2009–2019. 

(d) Flood Control Projects: The Senate resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits 

in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that provide 

for levee modernization, maintenance, repair, and improvement, 

provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009– 

2019. 

(e) Allowing Amtrak Passengers to Securely Transport Firearms on Passenger Trains: The Senate resolution states that none 

of amounts made available in the reserve fund authorized under 

this section may be used to provide financial assistance for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) unless Amtrak 

passengers are allowed to securely transport firearms in their 

checked baggage. 

Sec. 206. Promote economic stabilization and growth 

(a) Manufacturing: The Senate-passed resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits 

in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that would 

revitalize and strengthen the United States domestic manufacturing sector by increasing Federal research and development, by 

expanding the scope and effectiveness of manufacturing programs 

across the Federal Government, by increasing efforts to train and 

retrain manufacturing workers, by enhancing workers’ technical 

skills in the use of the new advanced manufacturing technologies 

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for development of alternative fuels and leap-ahead automotive and 

energy technologies such as advanced batteries, or by establishing 

tax incentives to encourage the continued production in the United 

States of advanced technologies and the infrastructure to support 

such technologies, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 

2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(b) Tax Relief: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of 

the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would provide tax relief including, but not limited to, 

extensions of expiring and expired tax relief provisions, provided it 

is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(c) Tax Reform: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of 

the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would reform the Internal Revenue Code to ensure a 

sustainable revenue base that would lead to a fairer and more efficient tax system and to a more competitive business environment 

for United States enterprises, provided it is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(d) Flood Insurance Reform: The Senate resolution allows the 

Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that would provide for 

flood insurance reform and modernization, provided it is deficitneutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(e) Trade: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation related to trade, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(f) Housing Assistance: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the 

resolution for one or more pieces of legislation related to housing 

assistance, which may include low income rental assistance and assistance provided through the Housing Trust Fund created under 

section 1131 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, 

and legislation that allows for a temporary suspension of the 10 

percent tax penalty on early withdrawal from qualified retirement 

accounts, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 

and 2009–2019. 

(g) Unemployment Mitigation: The Senate resolution allows 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that would reduce 

the unemployment rate or provide assistance to the unemployed, 

particularly in the states and localities with the highest rates of 

unemployment, or improve the implementation of the unemployment compensation program, provided it is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 207. America’s veterans and wounded servicemembers 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would expand the number of disabled 

military retirees who receive both disability compensation and retired pay, accelerate the phase-in of concurrent receipt, eliminate 

the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and Veterans’ 

Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, enhance servicemember 

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by ensuring those benefits keep pace with the national average cost 

of tuition, provide for the payment of retired pay for members of 

the Alaska Territorial Guard who served in the Alaska Territorial 

Guard during and after World War II, or expand veterans’ benefits 

(including for veterans living in rural areas), provided such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2008–2013 and 2008–2018. 

Sec. 208. Judicial pay and judgeships and postal retiree assistance 

(a) Judicial Pay and Judgeships: The Senate-passed resolution 

allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels 

in the resolution for one or more pieces of legislation that authorize 

salary adjustments for justices and judges of the United States or 

increases the number of federal judgeships, provided it is deficitneutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(b) Postal Retirees: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman 

of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for 

one or more pieces of legislation relating to funding adjustments for 

United States Postal Service retiree health coverage, provided it is 

deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 209. Defense acquisition and contracting reform 

The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget 

Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or more 

pieces of legislation that would— 

(1) enhance the capability of the Federal acquisition or contracting workforce to achieve better value for taxpayers; 

(2) reduce the use of no-bid and cost-plus contracts; 

(3) reform Department of Defense processes for acquiring 

weapons systems in order to reduce costs, improve cost and 

schedule estimation, enhance developmental testing of weapons, or increase the rigor of reviews of programs that experience critical cost growth; 

(4) reduce the award of contracts to contractors with seriously delinquent tax debts; 

(5) reduce the use of contracts, including the continuation of 

task orders, awarded under the Logistics Civil Augmentation 

Program (LOGCAP) III; 

(6) reform Department of Defense processes for acquiring 

services in order to reduce costs, improve costs and schedule 

estimation, enhance oversight, or increase the rigor of reviews 

of programs that experience critical cost growth; 

(7) reduce the use of contracts for acquisition, oversight, and 

management support services; or 

(8) enhance the capability of auditors and inspectors general 

to oversee Federal acquisition and procurement; 

—provided the legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009– 

2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 210. Investments in our nation’s counties and schools 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would reauthorize the Secure Rural 

Schools and Community Self Determination Act of 2000 (Public 

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of 1976 (Public Law 94–565), or both, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 211. The Food and Drug Administration 

(a) Regulation: The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would authorize the Food 

and Drug Administration to regulate products and assess user fees 

on manufacturers and importers of those products to cover the cost 

of the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory activities, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009– 

2019. 

(b) Drug Importation: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would permit the safe importation of prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from a specified list of countries, provided it is deficitneutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

(c) Food Safety: The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of 

the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one 

or more pieces of legislation that would improve the safety of the 

food supply in the United States, provided it is deficit-neutral over 

the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 212. Bipartisan Congressional Sunset Commission 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that— 

(1) provide for a bipartisan congressional sunset commission that will review Federal programs, focusing on unauthorized and nonperforming programs; 

(2) provide for a process that will help abolish obsolete and 

duplicative Federal programs; 

(3) provide for improved government accountability and 

greater openness in government decision-making; and 

(4) provide for a process that ensures that Congress will 

consider the commission’s reports and recommendations 

—provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 

either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period 

of the total of 2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 213. Improving domestic fuels security 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would achieve domestic fuels security by authorizing the Department of Defense to procure alternative fuels from domestic sources under contracts for up to 20 

years, provided that procurement is consistent with section 526 of 

the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 

110–140), and provided that such legislation would not increase the 

deficit over either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or 

the period of the total of 2009 through 2019. 


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Sec. 214. Comprehensive investigation into the current financial crisis 

The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget 

Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution for one 

or more pieces of legislation that provide resources for a comprehensive investigation to determine the cause of the current financial crisis, hold those responsible accountable, and provide recommendations to prevent another financial crisis of this magnitude 

from occurring again, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 

2009–2014 and 2009-2019. 

Sec. 215. Increased transparency at the federal reserve 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that increase transparency at 

the Federal Reserve System, including audits of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve 

banks, to include— 

(1) an evaluation of the appropriate number and the associated costs of Federal reserve banks; 

(2) publication on its website, with respect to all lending 

and financial assistance facilities created by the Board to address the financial crisis, of— 

(a) the nature and amounts of the collateral that the 

central bank is accepting on behalf of American taxpayers 

in the various lending programs, on no less than a monthly basis; 

(b) the extent to which changes in valuation of credit 

extensions to various special purpose vehicles, such as 

Maiden Lane I, Maiden Lane II, and Maiden Lane III, are 

a result of losses on collateral which will not be recovered; 

(c) the number of borrowers that participate in each of 

the lending programs and details of the credit extended, 

including the extent to which the credit is concentrated in 

one or more institutions; and 

(d) information on the extent to which the central 

bank is contracting for services of private sector firms for 

the design, pricing, management, and accounting for the 

various lending programs and the terms and nature of 

such contracts and bidding processes; and 

(3) including the identity of each entity to which the Board 

has provided all loans and other financial assistance since 

March 24, 2008, the value or amount of that financial assistance, and what that entity is doing with such financial assistance 

—provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 

2009–2019. 

Sec. 216. Improving child welfare 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

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port enforcement program, provided it is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 217. Long-term stability/housing for victims 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would fully fund the LongTerm Stability/Housing for Victims Program under the Violence 

Against Women Act, by the amounts provided in that legislation for 

those purposes, provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009– 

2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 218. Providing a tax credit for the purchase of a principal residence 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would provide a non-refundable tax 

credit in the amount of the lesser of $15,000 or 10 percent of the 

purchase price for the purchase of a principal residence for the period of one year, provided such legislation is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 219. Monitoring of FHA-insured lending 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would increase the capacity of the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and 

Urban Development to investigate cases of mortgage fraud of Federal Housing Administration loans, provided it is deficit-neutral 

over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 220. Address the systemic inequities of Medicare and 

Medicaid reimbursement that lead to access problems in 

rural areas 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that address the systemic inequities of 

Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement that lead to access problems in rural areas, including access to primary care and outpatient services, hospitals, and an adequate supply of providers in 

the workforce, provided that it is deficit-neutral over the total of 

2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 221. Carbon capture and storage and advanced clean 

coal power generation research, development, demonstration, and deployment 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would accelerate the research, development, demonstration, and deployment of advanced technologies 

to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power 

plants and other industrial emission sources and to use coal in an 

environmentally acceptable manner, provided that such legislation 

would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 

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Sec. 222. Expenditure of remaining TARP funds 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that reaffirm that the remaining Troubled Asset Relief Program funds shall be used to save 

homes, save small businesses, help the municipal bond market, 

make credit more widely available, and provide additional resources for the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset 

Relief Program, the Congressional Oversight Panel, and the Government Accountability Office for vigorous audit and evaluation of 

all expenditures and commitments made under the Troubled Asset 

Relief Program, by the amounts provided it is deficit-neutral over 

the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 223. Prohibiting undeserved contracting performance bonuses 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would prohibit federally 

funded bonuses awarded to contractors and government executives 

responsible for over budget projects and programs that fail to meet 

basic performance requirements, provided it is deficit-neutral over 

the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 224. Eliminating wasteful programs 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would achieve savings by eliminating 

wasteful, inefficient, and duplicative programs, provided that such 

legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009– 

2019. 

Sec. 225. Violence Against Women Act and the Family Violence Prevention and Service Act 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would provide resources for programs 

administered through the Violence Against Women Act and the 

Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, and other related 

programs, provided that such legislation is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 226. Ending abusive no-bid contracts 

The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget 

Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or more 

pieces of legislation that would end abusive no-bid contracts by requiring all Federal contracts over $25,000 to be competitively bid 

provided the legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009– 

2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 227. Home visitation programs 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

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tion that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, 

provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009– 

2019. 

Sec. 228. 21st Century learning centers 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would increase funding for 

the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, provided 

that such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 

and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 229. Extending top tax brackets for individuals with majority small business income 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would extend the top tax brackets of 

33 percent and 35 percent for individuals receiving more than 50 

percent of income from small business, provided such legislation is 

deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 230. Pension coverage for employees of Department of 

Energy laboratories and environmental cleanup sites 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a deficit-neutral reserve 

fund allowing the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the 

levels in the resolution for legislation that would authorize funding 

to cover the full cost of pension obligations for current and past employees of laboratories and environmental cleanup sites under the 

jurisdiction of the Department of Energy (including benefits paid to 

security personnel) in a manner that does not impact the missions 

of those laboratories and environmental cleanup sites. 

Sec. 231. Resources for firefighters and fire departments 

The Senate resolution allows the Chairman of the Budget 

Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution for one 

or more pieces of legislation that provide firefighters and fire departments with critical resources under FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Grant programs, provided it is deficit-neutral 

over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 232. Increased use of recovery audits 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would achieve savings by requiring 

agencies to increase their use of recovery audits and use those savings to reduce the deficit. 

Sec. 233. Repealing 1993 income tax on Social Security benefits 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

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income tax on social security benefits, provided such legislation is 

deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 234. Increasing the amount of capital losses allowed to 

individuals 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would increase the amount of capital 

losses allowed to individuals, provided such legislation is deficitneutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 235. Foster care financing reform 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would— 

(1) change the Federal foster care payment system; 

(2) promote and improve family support, family preservation 

and time-limited family unification services; 

(3) provide for subsidies and support programs that are 

available to support the needs of the children prior to removal, 

during removal, and post placement; 

(4) promote innovation and best practice at the State level; 

and 

(5) guarantee that public funds are used to effectively meet 

the needs of children who have been abused or neglected 

—provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 

2009–2019. 

Sec. 236. Healthcare professionals for the Veterans Health 

Administration 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels and limits in the resolution 

for one or more pieces of legislation that would— 

(1) increase the number of healthcare professionals in the 

Veterans Health Administration to meet the needs of the expanding number of veterans and to fill healthcare professional 

positions in the Veterans Health Administration that are currently vacant; and 

(2) provide enhanced incentives for healthcare professionals 

of the Veterans Health Administration who serve in rural 

areas 

—provided it is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 and 

2009–2019. 

Sec. 237. Repealing deductions from mineral revenue payments to states 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would repeal the requirement to deduct certain amounts 

from mineral revenues payable to States, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the 

total of 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 2009 

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Sec. 238. Promoting tax equity for states without personal income taxes 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would provide for the permanent extension of the deduction for state and local sales taxes in order to 

promote tax equity for states without personal income taxes, provided such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 

and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 239. Setting performance standards to identify failing 

government programs 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would set performance standards to 

identify failing government programs, provided that such legislation is deficit neutral over the total 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 240. Expediting research on viability of using higher ethanol blends at service stations 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would expedite research at the Department of Energy and 

the Environmental Protection Agency on the viability of the use of 

higher ethanol blends at the service station pump, provided that 

such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 

2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 241. Enhanced drug-control efforts 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would increase the number of counties designated as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to provide 

coordination, equipment, technology, and additional resources to 

combat drug trafficking or legislation that increases drug interdiction funding at the Department of Homeland Security, provided 

that such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009–2014 

and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 242. Promoting individual savings and financial security 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would promote financial security 

through financial literacy, retirement planning, and savings incentives, provided such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 

2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 243. National Health Services Corps 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would provide the National Health 

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Sec. 244. Improving the animal health and disease program 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would fully fund the animal health 

and disease program, provided that such legislation is deficit neutral over the total 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 245. Increase in the end strength for active duty personnel of the Army 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would reduce the strain on the 

United States Armed Forces by authorizing an increase in the end 

strength for active duty personnel of the Army to a level not less 

than 577,400 persons provided the legislation is deficit-neutral over 

the total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 246. Wildland fire management activities 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would— 

(1) allow wildland fire management funds for hazardous 

fuels reduction and hazard mitigation activities in areas at 

high risk of catastrophic wildfire to be distributed to areas 

demonstrating highest priority needs, as determined by the 

Chief of the Forest Service, and 

(2) provide that no State matching funds are required for the 

activities described in paragraph (1) 

—provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 

either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period 

of the total of 2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 247. Increasing the estate tax exemption and lowering 

the maximum estate tax rate 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a reserve fund allowing 

the Chairman of the Budget Committee to revise the levels in the 

resolution for legislation that would establish the estate tax exemption at $5 million, indexed for inflation, set the maximum estate 

tax rate at 35 percent, and provide for reunification of the estate 

and gift credits and the portability of exemption between spouses, 

provided such legislation is deficit-neutral over the total of 2009– 

2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 248. Point of order against legislation that provides additional relief for the estate tax beyond the levels assumed in the budget resolution unless an equal amount 

of additional tax relief is provided to middle class taxpayers 

The Senate-passed resolution included a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would provide additional relief for 

the estate tax beyond the levels assumed in the budget resolution 

of $7 million per married couple and a graduated rate ending at 

a rate less than 45 percent unless an equal amount of tax relief is 

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such relief is in addition to the amounts assumed in the budget 

resolution. The point of order could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 249. Increase FDIC and NCUA borrowing authority 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration, provided it is deficit-neutral 

over the total of 2009–2019. 

Sec. 250. Innovative Loan Guarantee Program at the Department of Energy 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would authorize an additional $50,000,000,000 for use to 

provide loan guarantees for eligible projects under title XVII of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16511 et seq.), provided that 

such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 

2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 251. Nuclear research and development 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would authorize nuclear research and development activities, including the Generation IV program, the Advanced Fuel 

Cycle Initiative, and the Light Water Reactor Sustainability program, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 

over either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of 2009 through 2019. 

Sec. 252. 2012 completion of Food and Drug Administration 

facilities 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for one or 

more pieces of legislation that would provide sufficient funding for 

the General Services Administration to complete construction of 

the Food and Drug Administration White Oak Campus in Silver 

Spring, Maryland by 2012, provided it is deficit-neutral over the 

total of 2009–2014 and 2009–2019. 

Sec. 253. Energy Star for Small Business Program 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the 

Budget Committee to revise the levels in the resolution for legislation that would set aside, from amounts made available for the Energy Star Program of the Environmental Protection Agency, at 

least 2 percent for the Energy Star for Small Business Program, 

provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 

either the period of the total of 2009 through 2014 or the period 

of the total of 2009 through 2019. 

Throughout this subtitle, the use of the word ‘‘limits’’ refers to 

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House-passed Resolution 

Sec. 301. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform 

The reserve fund supports the President’s goal of fiscally responsible health reform legislation. The reserve fund accommodates 

legislation that addresses the common goals of making affordable 

health coverage available to all, improving the quality of health 

care, and reducing rising health care costs, while building on and 

strengthening existing public and private insurance coverage and 

preserving choice of provider and plan, consistent with the pay-asyou-go principle. 

As part of health care reform, the House supports measures to 

ensure that payments to providers are appropriate and equitable 

and are designed to encourage efficiency, higher quality care, coordination of care, and accountability. 

Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college access, affordability, and completion 

The reserve fund accommodates changes in laws that will increase assistance or benefits to college students, consistent with the 

pay-as-you-go principle. This reserve fund will provide committees 

maximum flexibility in finding offsets for legislation to help more 

students afford and complete college. 

Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy 

independence 

The reserve fund accommodates legislation to increase U.S. energy independence, consistent with the pay-as-you-go principle. 

This reserve fund covers legislation that provides tax incentives for 

or otherwise encourages the production of renewable energy or increased energy efficiency; encourages investment in emerging energy or vehicle technologies or carbon capture and sequestration; 

limits and provides for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; 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 facilitates the training of workers for these industries (‘‘green collar 

jobs’’). 

Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans 

and servicemembers 

The reserve fund accommodates legislation to change health 

care and benefits for veterans, servicemembers, or their families, 

consistent with the pay-as-you-go principle. This reserve fund covers legislation that enhances health care for military personnel or 

veterans; maintains the affordability of health care for military retirees or veterans; improves disability benefits or evaluations for 

wounded or disabled military personnel or veterans (including 

measures to expedite the claims process); expands eligibility to permit additional disabled military retirees to receive both disability 

compensation and retired pay (concurrent receipt); or eliminates 

the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and veterans’ 

dependency and indemnity compensation. The reserve fund shall 

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ment of health conditions that are related to veterans’ military 

service. VA already is authorized to bill such companies for treatment of conditions that are not service-connected. 

Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for certain tax relief 

The reserve fund for tax relief accommodates legislation to reduce tax burdens on working families, businesses, States, or communities if it complies with the pay-as-you-go principle. This reserve fund could therefore accommodate individual tax relief supporting working families, higher education, and raising participation in retirement saving vehicles, among other purposes. It could 

also accommodate tax relief and investment incentives for businesses, States, or communities. 

Sec. 306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 

9/11 health program 

The reserve fund accommodates legislation that would establish a program, including medical monitoring and treatment, addressing the adverse health impacts linked to the attacks of September 11, 2001, consistent with the pay-as-you-go principle. Last 

year, the House and Senate included this deficit neutral reserve 

fund as part of the Conference Agreement. 

Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition 

This reserve fund accommodates legislation to reauthorize, expand, or improve the child nutrition programs, including, but not 

limited to, the school lunch and school breakfast programs, afterschool and summer food programs, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the 

child and adult care food program, consistent with the pay-as-yougo principle. 

Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for structural unemployment insurance reforms 

This reserve fund accommodates legislation consistent with the 

pay-as-you-go principle that builds on the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and continues modernizing 

the unemployment system to better meet the challenges of the 21st 

century workforce, in particular by improving its response to economic downturns. 

Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child support 

This reserve fund accommodates legislation to increase parental support for children, including efforts to ensure that children 

receive 100 percent of the child support that they are owed and 

that is paid by non-custodial parents, as well as other efforts to 

provide more parental support for children, consistent with the 

pay-as-you-go principle. 

Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund 

The reserve fund accommodates funding for the existing Affordable Housing Trust Fund that provides grants to states, communities, and other entities to provide or rehabilitate housing for 

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The reserve fund provides committees with flexibility to find offsets 

for legislation that capitalizes the trust fund, which is already authorized. 

Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visiting 

This reserve fund accommodates legislation to provide mandatory funding for a home visiting program or programs serving lowincome mothers-to-be and low-income families, consistent with the 

pay-as-you-go principle. The House anticipates that the legislation 

will fund evidence-based programs that have been tested in welldesigned randomized controlled trials and are likely to produce future budget savings by improving child and family health and wellbeing. Research studies on providing nurse home visiting services 

to low-income families, for example, have documented between 

three and six dollars in savings for every dollar invested in the 

home visits. 

Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Low-income Home 

Energy Assistance Program trigger 

This reserve fund accommodates legislation to ensure that the 

Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) responds 

more quickly and efficiently to energy price increases, so long as 

the legislation is consistent with the pay-as-you-go principle. 

Sec. 313. Reserve fund for the surface transportation reauthorization 

The reserve fund accommodates additional contract authority 

for the reauthorization of highway construction, highway safety 

and mass transit programs or other transportation-related legislation on the condition that the Highway Trust Fund continues to 

fully meet its obligations. While the eventual funding needs for the 

upcoming highway and transit bill are not yet known, the reserve 

fund will provide flexibility to adjust the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s allocation provided that the solvency of the 

Highway Trust Fund is maintained. 

Sec. 314. Current policy reserve fund for Medicare improvements 

The reserve fund accommodates additional mandatory spending to reform the Medicare physician payment system. The reserve 

fund supports legislation to change incentives to encourage efficiency and higher quality care in a way that supports fiscal sustainability, to improve payment accuracy to encourage efficient use 

of resources and ensure that primary care receives appropriate 

compensation, to improve coordination of care among all providers 

serving a patient in all appropriate settings, or to hold providers 

accountable for their utilization patterns and quality of care. 

The reserve fund allows Medicare physician payment reform 

legislation’s costs to be measured against current policy, that is assuming the payment rates in effect for physicians for 2009 will stay 

in effect through 2019. This assumption is consistent with the 

President’s budget and is based on Congressional actions in recent 

years to prevent cuts in physician payments that would otherwise 

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tend this assumption as a reflection of future policy. Instead, the 

assumption represents a realistic and meaningful benchmark 

against which to measure the fiscal effects of legislation reforming 

the Medicare physician payment system. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory 

pay-as-you-go requirements, or when a bill utilizing this reserve 

fund includes provisions to impose statutory pay-as-you-go requirements, Section 401(a) of the House resolution directs the chairman 

of the Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments before evaluating the costs of the Medicare bill for compliance with 

House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may be made 

only for the purposes and in the amounts provided in this reserve 

fund. 

The SGR formula limits how much total physician compensation can grow every year. The SGR formula has required payment 

rate cuts every year since 2002. Since 2003, Congress has enacted 

legislation to prevent these rate cuts from taking effect, one or two 

years at a time. Consequently, history has shown that the current 

statutory baseline as it relates to Medicare physician payments is 

unrealistic. Under current law, physicians face a 21 percent cut in 

their Medicare payment rate in 2010, and further cuts for several 

years after that. Cuts of this magnitude could destabilize the Medicare program and present serious access problems for Medicare 

beneficiaries. 

Sec. 315. Current policy reserve fund for middle class tax relief 

The reserve fund allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to adjust the House resolution aggregates and allocations to 

reflect current policy for certain provisions of the Internal Revenue 

Code of 1986 for middle class tax relief. The reserve fund supports 

the extension of middle class tax relief such as the 10 percent individual income tax bracket, marriage penalty relief, the child credit 

at $1,000 and partial refundability of the credit, education incentives, other incentives for middle class families and children, and 

other reductions or adjustments to individual income tax brackets, 

as well as small business tax relief. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory 

pay-as-you-go requirements, or when a bill utilizing this reserve 

fund includes provisions to impose statutory pay-as-you-go requirements, Section 401(a) of the House resolution directs the chairman 

of the Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments to the 

baseline before evaluating the costs of the tax bill for compliance 

with House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may be 

made only for the purposes and in the amounts provided in this reserve fund. 

Sec. 316. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) 

The reserve fund allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to adjust the resolution aggregates and allocations to reflect 

current policy for the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for one additional year. The reserve fund would support immediate AMT relief 

so that tens of millions of working families will not become subject 

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subject to the AMT will rise from 4 million in 2010 to 28 million 

in 2010, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The House 

resolution would accommodate further, deficit-neutral relief from 

the AMT. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory 

pay-as-you-go requirements, or when a bill utilizing this reserve 

fund includes provisions to impose statutory pay-as-you-go requirements, Section 401(a) of the House resolution directs the chairman 

of the Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments to the 

baseline before evaluating the costs of the tax bill for compliance 

with House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may be 

made only for the purposes and in the amounts provided in this reserve fund. 

Sec. 317. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the Estate 

and Gift Tax 

The reserve fund allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to adjust the resolution aggregates and allocations to reflect 

current policy by extending the law as in effect for 2009 for the Estate and Gift Tax. The reserve fund supports continuation of 2009 

policy so that only a minute fraction of estates will owe tax. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory 

pay-as-you-go requirements, or when a bill utilizing this reserve 

fund includes provisions to impose statutory pay-as-you-go requirements, Section 401(a) of the House resolution directs the chairman 

of the Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments to the 

baseline before evaluating the costs of the tax bill for compliance 

with House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may be 

made only for the purposes and in the amounts provided in this reserve fund. 

Conference Agreement 

Title III of the conference agreement contains reserve funds. 

Subtitle A: Senate reserve funds 

Subtitle A of the conference agreement contains the following 

reserve funds that apply only in the Senate: 

Sec. 301. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to transform and 

modernize America’s health care system (Secs. 201 and 220 of 

the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in clean energy and preserve the environment (Secs. 202, 213, 221, 240 

and 246 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for higher education 

(Sec. 203 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition 

and WIC (Sec. 204 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in 

America’s infrastructure (Secs. 205 and 206(d) of the Senatepassed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote economic 

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Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and wounded servicemembers (Sec. 207 of the Senatepassed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for judicial pay and 

judgeships, postal retiree assistance, and certain pension obligations (Secs. 208 and 230 of the Senate-passed resolution, as 

modified) 

Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense acquisition and Federal contracting reform (Secs. 209, 223, 232 and 

301(c)(2)(E) of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for investments in 

our Nation’s counties and schools (Sec. 210 of the Senatepassed resolution) 

Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Food and 

Drug Administration (Sec. 211 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a comprehensive 

investigation into the current financial crisis (Sec. 214 of the 

Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increased transparency at the Federal Reserve (Sec. 215 of the Senate-passed 

resolution) 

Sec. 314. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for 21st Century 

community learning centers (Sec. 228 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for provision of critical resources to firefighters and fire departments (Sec. 231 of 

the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 316. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote tax equity for States without personal income taxes, and other selected tax relief policies (combines Sec. 238 and provisions from 

Sec. 206 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 317. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote individual savings and financial security (Sec. 242 of the Senatepassed resolution) 

Sec. 318. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase FDIC 

and NCUA borrowing authority (Sec. 249 of the Senate-passed 

resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 319. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving the 

well-being of children (Secs. 216, 227 and 235 of the Senatepassed resolution, as modified, and Sec. 311 of the Housepassed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 320. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program (Sec. 306 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Subtitle B: House reserve funds 

Subtitle B of the conference agreement contains the following 

reserve funds that apply only in the House: 

Sec. 321. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform (Sec. 301 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college access, affordability, and completion (Sec. 302 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 323. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy 

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Sec. 324. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and wounded servicemembers (Sec. 304 of the Housepassed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 325. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for certain tax relief 

(Sec. 305 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 326. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program (Sec. 306 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 327. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition 

(Sec. 307 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 328. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for structural unemployment insurance reforms (Sec. 308 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child support 

(Sec. 309 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable 

Housing Trust Fund (Sec. 310 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visiting 

(Sec. 311 of the House-passed resolution, as modified, and Sec. 

227 of the Senate resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for low-income home 

energy assistance program trigger (Sec. 312 of the Housepassed resolution) 

Sec. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for county payments 

legislation (Sec. 210 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 334. Reserve fund for the surface transportation reauthorization (Sec. 313 of the House-passed resolution) 

Each House reserve fund references the time periods in clause 

10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. This 

citation references the House pay-as-you-go rule, as opposed to specific years. As long as the legislation described in the reserve fund 

complies with the House pay-as-you-go rule, the chairman may 

make the applicable adjustment. 

The House-passed budget resolution included current policy 

adjustments in Sections 314, 315, 316, and 317. The adjustments 

provided for in those reserve funds are addressed in the conference 

agreement in the budget process title under Section 421 (Adjustments for Direct Spending and Revenues). 

BUDGET PROCESS 

The Senate and the House use enforcement provisions to ensure that legislation is consistent with the budget plan set forth in 

the budget resolution. The conference agreement contains enforcement provisions for the Senate and House to accommodate the procedures that apply to consideration of legislation in each chamber. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The FY2008 and FY2009 budget resolutions included many important enforcement provisions which remain in effect in the Senate. These include: 

2008 Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 21) 

• The Senate pay-as-you-go point of order (Sec. 201); 

• The 60-vote point of order against reconciliation increasing the deficit (Sec 202); and 


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• Continued 60-vote enforcement of budgetary points of 

order in the Senate (Sec. 205). 

2009 Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 70) 

• The 60-vote point of order against legislation increasing 

long-term deficits (Sec. 311); and 

• The 60-vote point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs (Sec. 314). 

The Senate-passed resolution for 2010, S. Con. Res. 13, continues the strong budget enforcement practices of the last two 

budget resolutions with the following modifications. 

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement 

Sec. 301. Discretionary spending caps 

The Senate-passed resolution would strengthen fiscal responsibility by establishing discretionary spending limits for 2009 and 

2010, and enforcing them with a point of order in the Senate that 

could only be waived with 60 votes. For 2009, it provides a cap of 

$1,391.5 billion in budget authority and $1,220.8 billion in outlays. 

For 2010, it sets a cap of $1,079.1 billion in budget authority and 

$1,268.1 billion in outlays. As in past years, the Senate-passed resolution permits adjustments to the discretionary spending limits in 

2010 for program integrity initiatives, such as Social Security Administration continuing disability reviews (CDRs) and Supplemental Security Income redeterminations, enhanced Internal Revenue Service tax enforcement to address the tax gap, appropriations for Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program 

at the Department of Health and Human Services, and unemployment insurance improper payments reviews at the Department of 

Labor. It also provides for adjustments in 2010 for expenses related 

to overseas contingency operations. 

The Senate-passed resolution also includes a program integrity 

cap adjustment dedicated to reducing waste in defense contracting 

by recovering overpayments to defense contractors, reducing wasteful spending that undermines our ability to purchase equipment 

needed for U.S. troops and combating fraud. It allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee to increase the discretionary spending cap by up to $100 million to accommodate legislation appropriating funding for the Department of Defense for additional activities to reduce waste, fraud, abuse and overpayments in defense 

contracting or to enhance the capability of the defense acquisition 

or contracting workforce to save taxpayer resources. 

The Senate-passed resolution permits the Chairman to adjust 

the discretionary spending limits, budget aggregates, and allocations, if the CBO re-estimates the President’s 2010 request for discretionary spending at an aggregate level different from the CBO 

preliminary estimate dated March 20, 2009. 

Sec. 302. Advance appropriations 

As in past years, the Senate-passed resolution provides a 

supermajority point of order in the Senate against appropriations 

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come effective in any year after 2011. It does not apply against appropriations for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical Services, Medical Administration, Medical Facilities, and Medical and Prosthetic Research 

accounts of the Veterans Health Administration, nor does it apply 

against changes in mandatory programs or deferrals of mandatory 

budget authority from one year to the next. There is an exemption 

for each of 2010 and 2011 of up to $28.852 billion (the same level 

as provided for in the 2009 Budget Resolution) for the following: 

ACCOUNTS IDENTIFIED FOR ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE SENATE

Labor, HHS: 

Employment and Training Administration 

Job Corps 

Education for the Disadvantaged 

School Improvement 

Children and Family Services (Head Start) 

Special Education 

Career, Technical, and Adult Education 

Financial Services and General Government: Payment to Postal Service 

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development: Tenantbased Rental Assistance Project-based Rental Assistance 

Sec. 303. Emergency legislation 

The Senate-passed resolution makes technical changes in the 

emergency legislation designation to provide consistent treatment 

for emergency legislation with respect to enforcement of various 

points of order and revisions pursuant to deficit-neutral reserve 

funds. 

Sec. 304. Point of order against legislation increasing shortterm deficit 

The Senate-passed resolution updates the expiration date in 

the point of order against legislation that increases the short-term 

deficit. 

Sec. 305. Point of order against appropriations legislation 

that includes provisions affecting the crime victims fund 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a new 60-vote point of 

order that applies to appropriations legislation containing one or 

more provisions that constitute a change in a mandatory program 

that affects the Crime Victims Fund, section 1402 of the Victims 

of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601). 

Sec. 306. Point of order against increasing revenues beyond 

the levels set in the budget resolution through a widespread tax increase on taxpayers with incomes below 

$200,000 or married couples with incomes below 

$250,000 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would cause revenues to exceed the 

levels set in the budget resolution and include a tax increase that 

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below $200,000 or married couples with incomes below $250,000. 

The point of order could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 307. Point of order against increasing certain federal income tax rates 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would increase certain federal tax 

rates. The point of order could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 308. Point of order against legislation increasing energy 

taxes on middle-income taxpayers 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would increase energy taxes on middle-income taxpayers. The point of order could be waived with 60 

votes. 

Sec. 309. Point of order against legislation imposing a marriage tax penalty 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would result in a greater Federal 

income tax liability for taxpayers filing a joint return than if such 

taxpayers were unmarried and had filed individual tax returns. 

The point of order could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 310. Point of order against legislation causing revenues 

to increase above the levels set in the budget resolution 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would cause revenues to be more 

than the level of revenues established in the budget resolution. The 

point of order could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 311. Point of order against increasing taxes while unemployment rate is above 5.8 percent 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against considering legislation that would increase taxes if 

the unemployment rate exceeds 5.8 percent. The point of order 

could be waived with 60 votes. 

Sec. 312. Point of order against legislation that causes significant job loss 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would cause revenues to be more 

than the level of revenues set forth for the applicable years in the 

resolution or would cause significant job loss in manufacturing or 

coal dependent regions of the United States. 

Sec. 313. Point of order against legislation that would permit 

the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recover from a private 

health insurer of a disabled veteran amounts paid for 

treatment of such disability 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would permit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recover from a private health insurer of a disabled 

veteran amounts paid for treatment of such disability. 


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Sec. 314. Point of order against legislation weakening terrorism laws 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that would weaken or eliminate anti-terrorism tools or investigative methods. 

Sec. 315. Restrictions on unfunded mandates on state and 

local governments 

This section of the Senate-passed resolution increases from a 

simple majority to three-fifths of all members duly sworn and chosen the number of Senators necessary to waive a point of order 

under section 424(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act. 

Sec. 316. Point of order on legislation that eliminates the 

ability of Americans to keep their health plan or their 

choice of doctor 

The Senate-passed resolution includes a point of order in the 

Senate against legislation that eliminates the ability of Americans 

to keep their health plan or their choice of doctor as determined by 

the Congressional Budget Office. The point of order could be 

waived with 60 votes. 

Subtitle B—Other Provisions 

Sec. 321. Oversight of government performance 

The Senate-passed resolution continues the provision instructing Committees of the Senate to review programs within their jurisdiction to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, 

giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by Government Accountability Office reports, and include recommendations for improved 

governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974 to the Senate Committee on the Budget. 

Sec. 322. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses 

The Senate-passed resolution continues the provision requiring 

that all budget resolutions include the Administrative Expenses of 

the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service in the 

302(a) allocations of the Appropriations Committee. 

Sec. 323. Application and effect of changes in allocations and 

aggregates 

The Senate-passed resolution details the adjustment procedures required to accommodate legislation provided for in this resolution, and requires adjustments made to be printed in the Congressional Record. For purposes of enforcement, the levels resulting 

from adjustments made pursuant to this resolution will have the 

same effect as if adopted in the levels of Title I of this resolution. 

The Committee on the Budget determines the budgetary levels and 

estimates required to enforce budgetary points of order, including 

those pursuant to this resolution and the Congressional Budget Act 

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Sec. 324. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions 

The Senate-passed resolution allows the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to adjust levels in this resolution upon the 

enactment of legislation that changes concepts or definitions. 

Secs. 325 and 326. Debt disclosure 

These sections reflect an amendment adopted in the Committee on the Budget regarding the levels of debt assumed in the 

budget resolution and to require budget resolutions to contain a 

debt disclosure section. 

Sec. 327. Exercise of rulemaking powers 

This section of the Senate-passed resolution recognizes that the 

provisions of this resolution are adopted pursuant to the rulemaking power of the Senate, and also recognizes the Constitutional 

right of the Senate to change those rules as they apply to the Senate. 

House-passed Resolution 

Sec. 401. Adjustments for Direct Spending and Revenues 

After the House has acted upon a measure to impose statutory 

pay-as-you-go requirements, or when a bill listed in a current policy reserve fund includes provisions to impose statutory pay-as-yougo requirements, subsection (a) of this section of the House resolution directs the chairman of the Budget Committee to make current 

policy adjustments to the baseline before evaluating the costs of 

certain measures for compliance with House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may be made only for the purposes and 

in the amounts provided in a current policy reserve fund. Four current policy reserve funds appear in title III of the House resolution 

as sections 314, 315, 316, and 317. 

Subsection (b) allows the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the 302(a) allocation to the Appropriations Committee if changes to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (reflected in the House resolution’s mandatory spending totals) are not funded in an authorization bill and are included instead in an appropriations measure. 

Subsection (c) updates and reinstates a provision of the Budget 

Enforcement Act of 1990. The chairman of the House Budget Committee is directed to exempt from the calculation of the cost of any 

measure any budgetary effects of legislative provisions that affect 

the full funding of the federal deposit insurance guarantee. 

Sec. 402. Adjustments to Discretionary Spending Limits 

Section 402 of the House resolution provides for specific allocation adjustments for the Committee on Appropriations when the 

Committee reports legislation that includes increased appropriations for the following program integrity initiatives: (1) program integrity initiatives at the Social Security Administration; (2) Internal Revenue Service tax compliance; (3) the health care fraud and 

abuse control program at the Department of Health and Human 

Services; and (4) unemployment insurance in-person reemployment 

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tion, a new program integrity adjustment has been added this year 

to create the Partnership Fund for Program Integrity at the Office 

of Management and Budget for program integrity pilot initiatives 

across federal agencies. This adjustment is intended to develop new 

ideas to promote administrative efficiency gains and reductions in 

erroneous payments. 

The adjustments under this section are primarily intended to 

provide additional administrative funding for current program integrity activities to eliminate errors or fraud in the operation of a 

number of federal programs and to promote compliance with federal tax laws. For example, the adjustment for unemployment compensation programs is provided to increase limited administrative 

funding for current program integrity activities, and not to finance 

other proposals that would adversely affect workers who have received unemployment benefits. The section outlines procedures for 

these allocation adjustments. 

This section also incorporates a procedure whereby provisions 

or measures reported by the Committee on Appropriations will be 

exempt in certain circumstances from compliance with titles III 

and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the budget resolution. Such an exemption applies if: (1) the Committee on Appropriations determines and designates that amounts appropriated are 

necessary for overseas deployments and related activities; or (2) the 

Committee on Appropriations provides discretionary appropriations 

and designates those amounts as necessary to meet emergency 

needs. 

Sec. 403. Advance Appropriations 

Section 403 of the House resolution limits the amount and type 

of advance appropriations for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. Under 

this section, advance appropriations for fiscal year 2011 are restricted to $28.852 billion for the programs, projects, activities, or 

accounts listed below. Advances for 2012 are listed separately. The 

section defines advance appropriations as any new discretionary 

budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making general or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2010. 

Advance Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011: 

Employment and Training Administration 

Office of Job Corps 

Education for the Disadvantaged 

School Improvement Programs 

Special Education 

Career, Technical and Adult Education 

Payment to Postal Service 

Tenant-based Rental Assistance 

Project-based Rental Assistance 

Advance Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012: 

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting 

Sec. 404. Oversight of Government Performance 

Section 404 of the House resolution encourages all committees 

of the House to conduct rigorous oversight hearings to root out 

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Government Accountability Office. Based on these oversight efforts, 

such recommendations should be included in the views and estimates reports submitted to the Budget Committee under section 

301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

Sec. 405. Budgetary Treatment of Certain Discretionary Administrative Expenses 

Section 405 of the House resolution provides that administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service shall be part of the annual appropriations process by including those expenses in the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302 of the Congressional Budget 

Act. 

Sec. 406. Application and Effect of Changes in Allocations 

and Aggregates 

Section 406 of the House resolution details the allocation and 

aggregate adjustment procedures that are required to accommodate 

legislation for the reserve funds and program integrity initiatives 

in the House resolution. This section provides that the adjustments 

shall apply while the legislation is under consideration and take effect upon enactment of the legislation. In addition, the section requires the adjustments to be printed in the Congressional Record. 

The section also notes that, for purposes of enforcement, aggregate and allocation levels resulting from adjustments made pursuant to the House resolution will have the same effect as if adopted 

in the original levels of Title I of this budget resolution. This section also provides that the Committee on the Budget shall determine the budgetary levels and estimates which are required to enforce points of order under the Congressional Budget Act. 

Sec. 407. Adjustments to Reflect Changes in Concepts and 

Definitions 

Section 407 of the House resolution requires the chairman of 

the Committee on the Budget to adjust levels and allocations in the 

budget resolution upon enactment of legislation that changes concepts or definitions. 

Sec. 408. Exercise of Rulemaking Powers 

Section 408 of the House resolution provides that, once adopted, the provisions of the budget resolution are incorporated into the 

rules of the House of Representatives and shall supersede inconsistent rules. The section recognizes the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time. 

Conference Agreement 

Title IV contains the following budget process and enforcement 

provisions: 

Subtitle A—Senate Provisions 

The FY2008 and FY2009 budget resolutions included many important enforcement provisions which remain in effect in the Senate. These include: 

2008 Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 21) 

• The Senate pay-as-you-go point of order (Sec. 201); 


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• The 60-vote point of order against reconciliation increasing the deficit (Sec 202); and 

• Continued 60-vote enforcement of budgetary points of 

order in the Senate (Sec. 205). 

2009 Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 70) 

• The 60-vote point of order against legislation increasing long-term deficits (Sec. 311); and 

• The 60-vote point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs (Sec. 314). 

Part I—Budget Enforcement 

Sec. 401. Discretionary spending limits, program integrity 

initiatives, and other adjustments (Sec. 301 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 402. Point of order against advance appropriations (Sec. 

302 of the Senate-passed resolution, as modified) 

ACCOUNTS IDENTIFIED FOR ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE SENATE

Labor, HHS: 

Employment and Training Administration 

Job Corps 

Education for the Disadvantaged 

School Improvement 

Children and Family Services (Head Start) 

Special Education 

Career, Technical, and Adult Education 

Financial Services and General Government: Payment to Postal Service 

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development: Tenantbased Rental Assistance, Project-based Rental Assistance 

Sec. 403. Emergency legislation (Sec. 303 of the Senatepassed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 404. Point of order against legislation increasing shortterm deficit (Sec. 304 of the Senate-passed resolution, as 

modified) 

Sec. 405. Point of order against certain legislation related to 

surface transportation funding 

Part II—Other Provisions 

Sec. 411. Oversight of Government performance (Sec. 321 of 

the Senate-passed resolution) 

To support the President’s commitment to eliminate ineffective 

or duplicative federal programs, the Senate adopted amendments 

to set standards to identify failing federal programs and to review 

inefficient programs. This section retains the requirement of the 

Senate-passed resolution requiring that committees of the Senate 

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Sec. 412. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses (Sec. 322 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 413. Application and effect of changes in allocations and 

aggregates (Sec. 323 of the Senate-passed resolution, as 

modified) 

Sec. 414. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions (Sec. 324 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Sec. 415. Exercise of rulemaking powers (Sec. 302 of the Senate-passed resolution) 

Subtitle B—House Enforcement Provisions 

Sec. 421. Adjustments for direct spending and revenues— 

Sec. 421(a).—Adjustments for current policy 

This subsection provides that after the House has adopted a 

measure to impose statutory paygo requirements (or if such measure is included as part of the legislation under consideration), the 

Chairman of the House Budget Committee may make current policy adjustments to the baseline before evaluating the costs of certain measures for compliance with House budget rules and procedures. The adjustments may only be made for the purposes and in 

the amounts provided in paragraph (a)(2). This subsection, as revised, replaces sections 314, 315, 316 and 317 of the House-passed 

resolution. Subsection (a)(4) allows the chairman of the House 

Budget Committee to adjust the 302(a) allocations and aggregates 

as may be necessary to reflect the current policy adjustments. 

Sec. 421(b).—Deposit insurance (Sec. 401(c) of the Housepassed resolution) 

Sec. 422. Adjustments to discretionary spending (Sec. 402 of 

the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 423. Costs of overseas deployments and emergency needs 

(Sec. 402(b) of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 424. Point of order against advance appropriations (Sec. 

403 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Accounts identified for advance appropriations in the House: 

Sec. 424(b)(1) Advance Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011: 

Employment and Training Administration 

Office of Job Corps 

Education for the Disadvantaged 

School Improvement Programs 

Special Education 

Career, Technical and Adult Education 

Payment to Postal Service 

Tenant-based Rental Assistance 

Project-based Rental Assistance 

Sec. 424(b)(1) Advance Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012: 

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting 

Sec. 424(b)(2) Advance Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011: 

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VA—Medical Support and Compliance 

VA—Medical Facilities 

Sec. 425. Oversight of Government Performance (Sec. 404 of 

the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 426. Budgetary Treatment of Certain Discretionary Administrative Expenses (Sec. 405 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 427. Application and Effects of Changes in Allocations 

and Aggregates (Sec. 406 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 428. Adjustments to Reflect Changes In Concepts and 

Definitions (Sec. 407 of the House-passed resolution) 

Sec. 429. Exercise of Rulemaking Powers (Sec. 408 of the 

House-passed resolution) 

POLICY 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate-passed resolution did not contain a policy statement title. 

House-passed Resolution 

Title V of the House-passed resolution contains the following 

policy sections: 

Sec. 501. Policy on middle-class tax relief and revenues 

Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities 

Conference Agreement 

Title V of the conference agreement contains the following policy sections, which apply to both Houses: 

Sec. 501. Policy on middle-class tax relief and revenues 

(Sec. 501 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities (Sec. 502 of the 

House-passed resolution, as modified) 

SENSE OF THE SENATE, HOUSE AND CONGRESS 

Senate-passed Resolution 

The Senate resolution did not contain a sense of the Senate 

title. 

House-passed Resolution 

Title VI of the House-passed resolution contains the following 

Sense of the House sections: 

Sec. 601. Sense of the House on veterans’ and 

servicemembers’ health care 

Sec. 602. Sense of the House on homeland security 

Sec. 603. Sense of the House on promoting American innovation and economic competitiveness 

Sec. 604. Sense of the House regarding pay parity 

Sec. 605. Sense of the House on college affordability 

Sec. 606. Sense of the House on Great Lakes restoration 


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Sec. 607. Sense of the House regarding the importance of 

child support enforcement 

Conference Agreement 

Title VI of the conference agreement contains the following 

Sense of Congress provisions: 

Sec. 601. Sense of the Congress on veterans’ and 

servicemembers’ health care (Sec. 601 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 602. Sense of the Congress on homeland security 

(Sec. 602 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 603. Sense of the Congress on promoting American 

innovation and economic competitiveness (Sec. 603 of the 

House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 604. Sense of the Congress regarding pay parity 

(Sec. 604 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 605. Sense of the Congress on college affordability 

and student loan reform (Sec. 605 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 606. Sense of the Congress on Great Lakes restoration (Sec. 606 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

Sec. 607. Sense of the Congress regarding the importance 

of child support enforcement (Sec. 607 of the House-passed resolution, as modified) 

ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS 

Section 301(g)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act requires that 

the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report 

on a budget resolution set forth the common economic assumptions 

upon which the joint statement and conference report are based. 

The conference agreement is built upon the economic forecasts developed by the Congressional Budget Office, as updated in March 

2009 to include the forecasted economic effects of the fiscal stimulus package. 

Senate-passed Resolution 

CBO’s economic assumptions were used. 

House-passed Resolution 

CBO’s economic assumptions were used. 

Conference Agreement 

CBO’s economic assumptions were used. 

ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS OF THE BUDGET RESOLUTION 

[Calendar Years] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 

Real GDP, Percent Change, Year Over Year ............................................ ¥3.0 2.9 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.5 

GDP Price Index, Percent Change, Year Over Year .................................. 1.5 0.8 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.9 

Consumer Prices, Percent Change, Year Over Year ................................ ¥0.7 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.2 

Unemployment Rate, Percent, Yearly Average ......................................... 8.8 9.0 7.7 6.6 5.7 5.1 

3-Month Treasury Bill Rate, Percent, Yearly Average .............................. 0.3 0.9 1.8 3.0 3.9 4.4 

10-Year Treasury Bond Rate, Percent, Yearly Average ............................ 2.9 3.4 4.0 4.6 5.0 5.3 


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ALLOCATIONS 

As required in section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act, the 

joint statement of managers includes an allocation, based on the 

conference agreement, of total budget authority and total budget 

outlays among each of the appropriate committees. The allocations 

are as follows: 


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PAY-AS-YOU-GO SCORECARD FOR THE SENATE 

REFLECTING LEVELS FOR THE CONFERENCE AGREEMENT 

Period of the current fiscal year, the budget year, and the four 

fiscal years following the budget year: $0. 

Period of the current fiscal year, the budget year, and the nine 

fiscal years following the budget year: $0. 

RULE XXVIII OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF 

REPRESENTATIVES 

The adoption of this conference agreement by the two houses 

would result in the engrossment of a House joint resolution changing the statutory limit on the public debt pursuant to clause 3 of 

rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives. The rule 

requires a joint resolution in the following form: 

Resolved, by the Senate and the House of Representatives of 

the United States in Congress assembled, that subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking 

out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting 

in lieu thereof $13,029,000,000,000. 

Legislative jurisdiction over the public debt remains with the 

Finance Committee in the Senate and the Committee on Ways and 

Means in the House. 

JOHN M. SPRATT, Jr., 

ROSA L. DELAURO, 

ALLEN BOYD, 

Managers on the Part of the House. 

KENT CONRAD, 

PATTY MURRAY, 

Managers on the Part of the Senate. 

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