" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

111TH CONGRESS

1st Session 

REPORT

111–60 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

ON THE BUDGET— 

FISCAL YEAR 2010 

R E P O R T 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

TO ACCOMPANY

H. Con. Res. 85 

SETTING FORTH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED 

STATES GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 AND INCLUDING 

THE APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2009 

AND 2011 THROUGH 2014 

together with 

MINORITY VIEWS 

MARCH 27, 2009.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 

the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

111TH CONGRESS

1st Session 

REPORT

2009

111–60 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

ON THE BUDGET— 

FISCAL YEAR 2010 

R E P O R T 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

TO ACCOMPANY

H. Con. Res. 85 

SETTING FORTH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED 

STATES GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 AND INCLUDING 

THE APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2009 

AND 2011 THROUGH 2014 

together with 

MINORITY VIEWS 

MARCH 27, 2009.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 

the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET 

JOHN M. SPRATT, JR., South Carolina, Chairman 

ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania 

MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio 

XAVIER BECERRA, California 

LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas 

EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon 

MARION BERRY, Arkansas 

ALLEN BOYD, Florida 

JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts 

NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts 

BOB ETHERIDGE, North Carolina 

BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota 

CHARLIE MELANCON, Louisiana 

JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky 

ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey 

ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut 

CHET EDWARDS, Texas 

ROBERT C. ‘‘BOBBY’’ SCOTT, Virginia 

JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island 

RICK LARSEN, Washington 

TIMOTHY H. BISHOP, New York 

GWEN MOORE, Wisconsin 

GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia 

KURT SCHRADER, Oregon 

PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin, 

Ranking Minority Member 

JEB HENSARLING, Texas 

SCOTT GARRETT, New Jersey 

MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida 

MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho 

PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina 

CONNIE MACK, Florida 

JOHN CAMPBELL, California 

JIM JORDAN, Ohio 

CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming 

STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio 

ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama 

DEVIN NUNES, California 

GREGG HARPER, Mississippi 

ROBERT E. LATTA, Ohio 


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C O N T E N T S 

Page 

Overview ................................................................................................................... 1 

Economic Assumptions and Revenues ................................................................... 4 

Title I. Recommended Levels and Amounts: 

Explanation of Committee Recommendations by Function: 

050 National Defense ................................................................................ 7 

150 International Relations ...................................................................... 11 

250 General Science, Space, and Technology .......................................... 13 

270 Energy ................................................................................................. 15 

300 Natural Resources and Environment ............................................... 17 

350 Agriculture .......................................................................................... 19 

370 Commerce and Housing Credit ......................................................... 21 

400 Transportation .................................................................................... 23 

450 Community and Regional Development ........................................... 25 

500 Education, Training, Employment and Social Services .................. 27 

550 Health ................................................................................................. 29 

570 Medicare .............................................................................................. 31 

600 Income Security .................................................................................. 33 

650 Social Security .................................................................................... 35 

700 Veterans Benefits and Services ........................................................ 37 

750 Administration of Justice .................................................................. 39 

800 General Government .......................................................................... 41 

900 Net Interest ........................................................................................ 43 

920 Allowances .......................................................................................... 45 

950 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts .................................................... 47 

970 Overseas Deployments and Other Activities ................................... 49 

Title II. Reconciliation ............................................................................................. 51 

Title III. Reserve Funds .......................................................................................... 53 

Title IV. Budget Enforcement ................................................................................. 59 

Title V. Policy ........................................................................................................... 63 

Title VI. Sense of the House ................................................................................... 65 

Allocations to Committees ...................................................................................... 67 

Summary Tables ...................................................................................................... 71 

Votes of the Committee ........................................................................................... 93 

House Rule XXVIII .................................................................................................. 121 

Other Matters To Be Included Under the Rules of the House ............................ 123 

Minority Views ......................................................................................................... 124 

Appendix—The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget ......................................... 145 


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T A B L E S 

Page 

Allocation of Spending Authority to House Committee on Appropriations ........ 68 

Allocations of Spending Authority to House Committees Other Than Appropriations ................................................................................................................ 69 

Summary Table 1.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Total Spending and 

Revenues ............................................................................................................... 71 

Summary Table 2.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Discretionary Spending .......................................................................................................................... 73 

Summary Table 3.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Mandatory Spending .......................................................................................................................... 75 

Summary Table 4.—Tax Expenditure Estimates by Budget Function, Fiscal 

Years 2008–2012 .................................................................................................. 77 

Summary Table 5.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Compared to President’s Budget ........................................................................................................ 87 

Summary Table 6.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Compared to 2009: 

Total Spending and Revenues ............................................................................. 88 

Summary Table 7.—Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Compared to 2009: 

Total Spending and Revenues ............................................................................. 90 


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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET— 

FISCAL YEAR 2010 

SETTING FORTH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 AND INCLUDING THE APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2009 AND 2011 

THROUGH 2014 

MARCH 27, 2009.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State 

of the Union and ordered to be printed 

Mr. SPRATT, from the Committee on the Budget, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

together with 

MINORITY VIEWS 

[To accompany H. Con. Res. 85] 

OVERVIEW 

President Bush has dealt President Obama a hard hand to play: 

an economy in crisis and a budget in deficit—in deficit this year 

alone by $1.752 trillion according to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). President Obama has responded with a budget that 

meets the challenge head-on, and the Committee budget reflects 

his major principles. 

The President has recognized that we have not one but two defi- cits. The first is an economy running at 6.8 percent, or $1 trillion 

below its potential. To move our economy closer to its capacity, the 

President has signed into law a package of stimulus measures, totaling $787 billion. Its impact is a bit early to estimate, but here’s 

what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says in its Analysis 

of the President’s Budget, issued a week ago: ‘‘. . . the adoption of 

the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and very aggressive 

actions by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury will help end the 

recession this fall.’’ (CBO’s Preliminary Analysis of the President’s 

Budget, March 2009, page 19). 


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The President next turned to the budget. He has sent Congress a budget that cuts the deficit by more than half by 2013, from $1.8 

trillion this year to $533 billion in 2013, according to OMB estimates. It’s all but impossible to balance the budget when the economy is in recession, and for that matter, it’s also unadvisable. 

Much of what we do to make the economy better necessarily makes 

the deficit larger, at least for the short run. 

But the stark reality is that the deficit that President Bush left 

behind will constitute a massive 12.3 percent of our Gross Domestic 

Product (GDP). At least two-thirds of that stems from tax and 

spending policies undertaken by the Bush Administration. Almost 

everyone would agree that this is an unsustainable deficit. 

President Obama has responded with a budget that will pare the 

deficit down to 3 percent of GDP in 2013. His budget cuts the deficit by more than half in four years. The Committee budget uses 

CBO numbers and reduces the deficit to $586 billion in 2013, which 

is 3.5 percent of GDP, roughly the rate of growth in the economy 

for that year. 

The President’s budget is not so committed to deficit reduction 

that it overrides other needs. In fact, it takes on topics that earlier 

budgets have found too tough to tackle, like health care for the millions of Americans without insurance. On top of that, it puts defense spending on a more sustainable path, with an increase of 4 

percent, and makes a moderate adjustment to non-defense, discretionary spending. 

In spite of deficits, the President’s budget launches initiatives to 

make our economy more productive and our people more competitive: first, in education and in particular in efforts to make college 

more affordable and accessible; next, in health care for the millions 

uninsured; and finally, in alternative energies to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and the depletion of our environment. The 

Committee budget facilitates these priorities by the creation of deficit-neutral reserve funds. 

This budget extends the middle-income tax cuts adopted in 2001 

and 2003—the 10 percent bracket, the child tax credit, and marital 

penalty relief. It indexes the alternative minimum tax to keep it 

from burdening middle-income taxpayers for whom it was never intended. It also extends estate tax exemptions at the 2009 levels, 

and it indexes the exemptions for future years. 

Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have complained 

about the President’s tax and spending policies. But CBO’s nonpartisan analysis of the President’s budget concludes that ‘‘Proposed changes in tax policy would reduce revenues by an estimated 

$2.1 trillion (or 6.1 percent) over the next ten years.’’ 

The President’s major initiatives—those in health care, energy, 

education, and the environment—are all implemented via reserve 

funds that are deficit-neutral. 

The Committee budget strikes all of these themes, and with a 

few exceptions, embraces the priorities of the President’s budget. 

This is just the beginning, but a bold beginning for the 2010 fiveyear budget process. 

The Committee budget is in the form of a five-year budget, using 

CBO’s scoring and CBO’s estimate of the economy. OMB has projected its budget over ten years, but a five-year budget is not unusual. In fact, it’s the customary time-frame for budgeting. In reVerDate Nov 24 2008 02:59 Mar 29, 2009 Jkt 048256 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\HR060.XXX HR060

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cent years, four deficit-reduction plans been enacted, and all implemented less than 10-year budgets: the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, 

1985–86; the Bush Budget Summit, 1990–91; the Clinton Budget, 

1993; and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. 

The farther forecasts run into the future, the more tenuous they 

become. It is hard enough to project the economy ten months out, 

much less ten years. Five-year forecasts are, therefore, more realistic, and if the projected results do not pan out, more amenable 

to adjustment. 

All projections rest on assumptions about the future, and the underlying assumptions can have a large impact on the bottom-line. 

For example, will our military still be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan ten years from now? When will the economy bounce back? 

Real estate and automotives are key sectors of our economy. When 

will they regain their potency? 

The congressional budget process is an annual process, and 

therefore it’s an iterative process. Since we revisit the budget every 

year, we can continually take steps to correct its course. The Committee will be mindful of the second five years, and as we approach 

2015 and 2016, will be making corrections to see that the deficit 

stays on a downward trajectory. But those corrections can be made 

better when our economy has emerged from recession, and the 

course of the economy is more evident. 

The fiscal situation we face today stands in marked contrast to 

the fiscal situation the Bush Administration faced eight years ago 

when it took office. Under President Clinton, the budget was balanced in 1998 for the first time in nearly thirty years. From 1998 

to 2001, some $400 billion in Treasury debt was paid off. The year 

before President Bush took office, the budget ran a surplus of $236 

billion. But during eight years on his watch, budget deficits roared 

back, government debt all but doubled, and spending grew dramatically. 

Instead of inheriting a surplus, President Obama inherited a record deficit equal to $1.752 trillion this year, according to OMB. 

At least $1.3 trillion is a carryover from the Bush Administration. 

On top of that, the economy is mired in the worst recession since 

the 1930s. When he took office in 2001, President Bush took control 

of a ten-year surplus projected by OMB at $5.6 trillion. Democrats 

warned President Bush that though he was sitting on an island of 

surpluses, he was surrounded by a sea of red ink. We thought 

these surpluses should be used to pay off outstanding government 

debt. This would have increased net national saving, and rendered 

the Treasury more solvent to meet the claims of the baby boomers 

for Social Security and Medicare. President Bush told us we could 

have it all—guns, butter, and tax cuts too, and never mind the deficits. Eight years and $5 trillion dollars of debt later, the country 

is confronted with the worst deficits in our peace-time history. 

The Committee budget builds on the support for education built 

into the Recovery Act and backs the President’s proposals for further investments in education, extending from early childhood 

through post-secondary education and training. This budget accommodates the President’s proposal to expand access to college for 

more people—only about 40 percent of Americans aged 25 to 34 

have a college degree—by continuing to raise the maximum Pell 

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port other assistance that helps more low-income high school graduates afford, attend, and complete college. This budget invests in 

educating our youth by starting with support for the President’s 

initiatives in early childhood education and following through with 

approaches to making sure all children learn and achieve in elementary and secondary school. 

The budget reflects the President’s commitment to bolster America’s energy independence and security. It builds on significant 

funding and tax incentives in the Recovery Act by raising our investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. It also allows 

for legislation that will promote energy independence over the long 

term. 

This budget also supports and facilitates reforms in our health 

care system to bend the cost curve and at the same time make affordable coverage available to the estimated 46 million Americans 

who lack medical insurance. 

The Committee budget puts the budget back on a fiscally sustainable path while advancing key priorities in health care, energy, 

and education, all goals that the American people support. 

Economic Assumptions and Revenues 

The budget resolution adopts the March 2009 economic forecast 

of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), as updated to include 

the forecasted economic effects of the Recovery Act, and takes 

CBO’s March 2009 projections of spending and revenues under current law as the baseline. CBO’s economic assumptions include the 

following (all references are to calendar years, not fiscal years, unless otherwise noted): 

Unemployment: CBO expects the unemployment rate to rise substantially from an estimated 5.8 percent in 2008 to 8.8 percent in 

2009, 9.0 percent in 2010, and 7.7 percent in 2011. The unemployment rate is assumed to average 5.6 percent for years 2012–15 and 

4.8 percent thereafter. 

Interest Rates: Interest rates are projected to be unusually low 

for 2009 and 2010 but rise closer to historical norms over the rest 

of the budget window. Short-term interest rates are projected to 

fall to 0.3 percent in 2009, but begin to rise again to 0.9 percent 

in 2010, 1.8 percent in 2011, averaging 4.0 percent over 2012–15 

and averaging 4.7 percent over the remainder of the budget window. Long-term rates are projected to fall to the 2.9 to 4.0 percent 

range in 2009–11, rising to an average of 5.1 percent over 2012– 

15 and 5.6 percent over 2016–19. 

Real GDP Growth: CBO projects that real GDP growth will drop 

substantially from an estimated 1.1 percent in 2008 to ¥3.0 percent in 2009, with growth recovering to 2.9 percent in 2010 due in 

large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. 

Real GDP would then grow 4.0 percent in 2011, before averaging 

3.6 percent over 2012–15 and falling to 2.3 percent thereafter. 

Inflation: CBO forecasts very low inflation over the budget window. Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 

drops from 3.8 percent in 2008 to ¥0.7 percent in 2009, before rebounding in 2010 to 1.4 percent, and averaging 1.2 percent over 

2011–15, before rising to 1.9 percent over the 2016–2019 period. 

The GDP price index, meanwhile, falls from 2.2 percent in 2008 to 

1.5 percent in 2009, and then remains below 1 percent through 


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2015 until rising to an average of 1.6 percent in the 2016–19 period. 

The President’s budget assumes stronger growth in real GDP 

than CBO projects. This and other differences in assumptions result in the Administration’s forecast showing an extra $2,798 billion in revenue over fiscal years 2010–2019 compared with CBO’s 

March forecast. 

The 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 budget resolution’s extension of the 

elements of the 2001–03 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 budget 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 resolution also accommodates additional AMT relief in a deficit-neutral manner. The 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 resolution does not assume any of the specific revenue offset proposals provided for in the President’s budget. 


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TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

EXPLANATION OF COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS BY 

FUNCTION 

FUNCTION 050: NATIONAL DEFENSE 

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, the national security activities of 

several other agencies such as the Selective Service Agency, and 

portions of the activities of the Coast Guard and the 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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 050: NATIONAL DEFENSE 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 618.1 562.0 570.1 579.1 589.9 603.8 2,905.0 

Outlays .................................... 646.8 606.0 587.9 576.0 584.7 595.5 2,950.2 

Discretionary:1

Budget Authority ..................... 614.4 556.1 564.3 573.6 584.4 598.2 2,876.7 

Outlays .................................... 641.9 600.0 582.1 570.5 579.2 589.9 2,921.7 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 3.6 5.9 5.8 5.5 5.5 5.6 28.3 

Outlays .................................... 4.9 6.0 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.6 28.4 

1 2009 includes $12.7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

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 resolution includes specific defense policy assumptions in 

Title V, section 502. It recognizes that as the country faces its 

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 

GAO has performed numerous audits and has produced numerous recommendations regarding DoD’s programs and processes 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 

resolution continues to highlight the need for DoD to continue to 

make implementation of GAO recommendations a top priority and, 

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vestments 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 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 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 this 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. 


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FUNCTION 150: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 150: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 40.9 45.3 49.1 53.7 59.2 64.4 271.8 

Outlays .................................... 37.8 43.5 48.6 52.1 55.8 59.3 259.3 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 42.7 48.5 52.8 57.1 61.5 65.9 285.7 

Outlays .................................... 41.3 46.3 50.0 53.7 57.6 61.5 269.1 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... ¥1.8 ¥3.1 ¥3.6 ¥3.3 ¥2.3 ¥1.5 ¥14.0 

Outlays .................................... ¥3.5 ¥2.8 ¥1.4 ¥1.6 ¥1.8 ¥2.2 ¥9.8 

1 2009 includes $0.4 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 2009 level of discretionary budget authority 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 said he plans to request for international affairs, which is included under Function 970 (Overseas Deployments 

and Related Activities). 

For 2010, the resolution provides $10.2 billion (26.8 percent) 

more discretionary budget authority 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 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 resolution, funding designated as an emergency or for overseas deployments and 

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This function’s negative mandatory budget authority and outlay 

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 Committee shares the President’s commitment to reduce 

global hunger and poverty. The 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 on February 23, 2009. The House also approved this legislation during the 

110th Congress (H.R. 1595). The bill authorizes compensation to 

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FUNCTION 250: GENERAL SCIENCE, SPACE AND 

TECHNOLOGY 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

The General Science, Space, and Technology function includes 

funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA) except for its aviation programs, the National Science 

Foundation (NSF), as well as programs in the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 250: GENERAL SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 35.4 31.1 31.5 33.4 34.4 35.7 166.1 

Outlays .................................... 31.0 32.5 32.4 32.5 33.6 34.8 165.8 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 35.3 31.0 31.4 33.2 34.3 35.6 165.5 

Outlays .................................... 30.9 32.3 32.3 32.3 33.5 34.7 165.1 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 

Outlays .................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.7 

1 2009 includes $5.9 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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. 


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FUNCTION 270: ENERGY 

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 about 20 percent of 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 the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 270: ENERGY 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 43.9 5.5 5.5 5.7 6.1 6.2 29.1 

Outlays .................................... 3.0 7.3 11.3 13.4 12.1 10.5 54.6 

Discretionary:1

Budget Authority ..................... 45.0 6.7 6.7 6.8 6.8 6.9 33.8 

Outlays .................................... 5.4 10.0 13.7 15.1 13.6 12.1 64.5 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... -1.1 -1.2 -1.2 -1.0 -0.7 -0.6 -4.7 

Outlays .................................... -2.4 -2.8 -2.4 -1.7 -1.5 -1.6 -9.9 

1 2009 includes $31.6 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 2009 level of discretionary budget authority includes $39.4 

billion in supplemental appropriations from the Recovery Act. The 

resolution for 2010 builds on this Recovery Act 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 resolution 

provides $1.0 billion (18.4 percent) more in appropriated funding 

for 2010 than the 2009 level of regular appropriations. The 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 Committee urges the Appropriations Committee to include 

language in its appropriations bill to implement a ‘‘net zero’’ policy 

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FUNCTION 300: NATURAL RESOURCES AND 

ENVIRONMENT 

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 (NOAA) at the Department of 

Commerce, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA). 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 300: NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 56.0 37.4 38.6 39.2 39.3 40.0 194.6 

Outlays .................................... 36.8 40.5 40.2 40.1 39.8 40.0 200.5 

Discretionary:1

Budget Authority ..................... 54.6 35.1 36.5 36.8 37.3 37.9 183.5 

Outlays .................................... 36.3 38.9 38.1 37.6 37.3 37.8 189.7 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 1.4 2.3 2.1 2.4 2.1 2.1 11.1 

Outlays .................................... 0.6 1.6 2.2 2.4 2.4 2.2 10.7 

1 2009 includes $16.8 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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 Fund, the 

EPA’s Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, 

and other EPA programs. The Budget Committee 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 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 resolution includes a deficit-neutral 

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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. 


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FUNCTION 350: AGRICULTURE 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 350: AGRICULTURE 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 25.0 23.7 24.7 21.6 22.5 23.2 115.7 

Outlays .................................... 23.1 24.0 24.0 17.5 22.1 22.2 109.7 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 6.3 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 31.5 

Outlays .................................... 6.1 6.2 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 31.3 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 18.6 17.6 18.5 15.4 16.1 16.7 84.2 

Outlays .................................... 17.0 17.7 17.9 11.3 15.7 15.7 78.4 

1 2009 includes $0.3 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The budget 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 resolution 

matches the levels in the President’s budget. 


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FUNCTION 370: COMMERCE AND HOUSING CREDIT 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 370 includes mortgage credit, the Bureau of the Census, the Postal Service, deposit insurance, the Small Business Administration, and other advancement of commerce programs (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), and the Federal 

Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), among other programs and institutions. Function 370 also includes the Department 

of the Treasury’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 370: COMMERCE AND HOUSING CREDIT 1

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 699.1 64.2 28.2 9.5 17.2 11.2 130.4 

Outlays .................................... 670.1 88.9 40.0 8.6 5.6 ¥2.5 140.6 

Discretionary: 2

Budget Authority ..................... 13.2 13.2 6.4 5.1 4.2 4.0 32.9 

Outlays .................................... 6.3 13.3 9.2 7.2 5.9 4.5 40.2 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 685.9 51.0 21.9 4.4 13.0 7.2 97.5 

Outlays .................................... 663.8 75.6 30.8 1.5 ¥0.4 ¥7.0 100.4 

1 Includes both on- and off-budget amounts. 

2 2009 includes $7.9 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

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 Committee 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. 


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FUNCTION 400: TRANSPORTATION 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 400 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 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA). 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 400: TRANSPORTATION 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 122.5 88.2 89.1 90.0 90.9 91.8 449.9 

Outlays .................................... 87.8 95.7 96.5 95.9 96.2 96.8 481.0 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 79.1 31.4 31.9 32.4 32.9 33.3 162.0 

Outlays .................................... 85.7 93.5 94.2 93.4 93.6 94.1 468.8 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 43.4 56.7 57.1 57.6 57.9 58.5 287.9 

Outlays .................................... 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.7 12.2 

1 2009 includes $49.5 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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 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 resolution retains current scorekeeping practices for contract authority 

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serve 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 

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FUNCTION 450: COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 450 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, the Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, and other disaster mitigation and community developmentrelated programs. It also provides mandatory funding for the federal flood insurance program. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 450: COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 23.8 18.3 21.2 21.3 21.2 21.3 103.3 

Outlays .................................... 30.0 29.3 27.5 25.7 24.2 22.8 129.5 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 23.0 17.9 21.1 21.1 21.2 21.3 102.5 

Outlays .................................... 26.3 26.9 26.6 25.0 23.7 22.8 124.9 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.8 

Outlays .................................... 3.7 2.4 1.0 0.8 0.4 ¥0.1 4.5 

1 2009 includes $8.2 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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 resolution includes initial funding in 2010 

and larger amounts over the 2011–2014 period. 


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FUNCTION 500: EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, 

AND SOCIAL SERVICES 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 500 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 

post-secondary 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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 500: EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, AND SOCIAL SERVICES 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 164.3 93.7 107.9 117.1 115.9 125.8 560.4 

Outlays .................................... 73.2 140.3 141.1 118.4 118.9 121.0 639.6 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 188.5 88.7 97.4 103.1 107.4 111.4 508.0 

Outlays .................................... 94.8 138.6 130.8 106.8 107.8 111.0 594.9 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... ¥24.2 5.0 10.4 14.0 8.5 14.4 52.4 

Outlays .................................... ¥21.6 1.7 10.4 11.6 11.1 10.0 44.8 

1 2009 includes $104.7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 2010 budget 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 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 resolution also accommodates the 

President’s support for strong job training services that will prepare Americans for stable and high-paying jobs. 

The 111th Congress has already made significant new investments in education in the Recovery Act, which provided about $100 

billion that states will use primarily to maintain elementary, secondary, and higher education services. The Recovery Act targeted 

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Start, and special education, where the funding can be used to 

train more teachers to provide needed services in the future. This 

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 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 resolution provides 

discretionary funding to support the President’s Pell grant increase 

for 2010. Going forward, the 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 Hispanic-serving institutions and other 

minority-serving institutions, which continue to make important 

contributions towards increasing the percentage of minority students gaining a college degree. 

The Committee 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 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 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 deficit 

by $1 billion over the 2009–2014 period. 


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FUNCTION 550: HEALTH 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 550: HEALTH 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 380.2 383.9 364.9 369.9 389.7 400.5 1,908.8 

Outlays .................................... 354.4 388.7 367.6 368.6 384.4 400.2 1,909.5 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 75.5 58.2 60.2 61.5 63.2 65.8 308.9 

Outlays .................................... 57.6 64.7 64.1 62.1 61.7 63.4 316.0 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 304.7 325.8 304.7 308.3 326.5 334.6 1,600.0 

Outlays .................................... 296.8 324.1 303.5 306.4 322.7 336.8 1,593.5 

1 2009 includes $17.1 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

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 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 resolution’s 

deficit-neutral reserve funds for health care reform and the 9/11 

health program. 


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FUNCTION 570: MEDICARE 

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 44 million Americans aged 65 and older, as well as younger adults who are disabled 

or suffer from end-stage renal disease. 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 570: MEDICARE 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 427.1 449.7 505.2 513.8 558.2 616.3 2,643.2 

Outlays .................................... 426.7 449.8 505.0 513.6 558.4 616.2 2,642.9 

Discretionary: 

Budget Authority ..................... 5.4 5.6 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 30.2 

Outlays .................................... 5.3 5.6 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 30.1 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 421.7 444.1 499.1 507.7 552.0 610.0 2,613.0 

Outlays .................................... 421.5 444.2 499.0 507.5 552.2 609.9 2,612.8 

The 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 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 

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(Sec. 314) to accommodate legislation for improvements in Medicare’s system for paying physicians. The 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 

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FUNCTION 600: INCOME SECURITY 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 600 consists of a range of income security programs 

that provide cash or near-cash assistance (e.g., housing, nutrition, 

and energy assistance) to low-income persons, and benefits to certain retirees, persons with disabilities, and the unemployed. Housing assistance programs account for the largest share of discretionary funding in this function. Major federal entitlement programs in this function include unemployment insurance, trade adjustment assistance, income support, food stamps, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, foster care, and Supplemental Security 

Income. Federal and other retirement and disability programs comprise approximately one third of the funds in this function. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 600: INCOME SECURITY 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 520.1 536.2 510.6 478.0 483.4 485.4 2,493.6 

Outlays .................................... 503.0 539.9 513.4 478.3 482.7 483.8 2,498.2 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 74.1 62.8 65.5 67.2 68.9 70.7 335.1 

Outlays .................................... 64.1 67.9 70.1 70.1 70.6 70.8 349.4 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 446.1 473.4 445.1 410.8 414.5 414.7 2,158.5 

Outlays .................................... 439.0 472.1 443.3 408.2 412.2 413.0 2,148.7 

1 2009 includes $13.8 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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 Recovery Act, which provided increases in 

mandatory and discretionary funding for child care, child support, 

and assistance to needy families. 

The Committee 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 resolution accommodates continued economically driven increases in participation in 

the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, 

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thorization of child nutrition programs that will improve meal 

quality and access. 

The 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 Committee 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 resolution also accommodates the President’s proposal to 

make the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 

more quickly responsive to rising energy costs, coupled 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 

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FUNCTION 650: SOCIAL SECURITY 

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 nearly 50 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 offbudget and do not appear in the budget resolution totals. A small 

portion of spending in Function 650—the general fund transfer of 

income taxes on Social Security benefits to the trust funds—is considered on-budget and appears in the budget resolution totals. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 650: SOCIAL SECURITY 1

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 686.4 703.4 728.4 757.5 792.5 832.0 3,813.8 

Outlays .................................... 682.8 701.4 726.1 754.8 789.3 828.3 3,799.9 

Discretionary: 2

Budget Authority ..................... 6.4 6.1 6.6 6.9 7.2 7.6 34.4 

Outlays .................................... 5.5 6.1 6.6 7.0 7.3 7.5 34.4 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 680.0 697.3 721.9 750.6 785.3 824.4 3,779.4 

Outlays .................................... 677.4 695.3 719.6 747.8 782.0 820.8 3,765.5 

1 Includes both on- and off-budget amounts. 

2 2009 includes $1.1 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The administrative budget for the SSA includes resources in 

Function 570 (Medicare) and Function 600 (Income Security) as 

well as Function 650. The 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 

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location 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 million 

of the $485 million allocation adjustment to be used for 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. 


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FUNCTION 700: VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 700: VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 97.7 106.4 112.8 108.7 113.8 116.0 557.7 

Outlays .................................... 94.8 105.5 112.4 108.1 113.2 115.5 554.6 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 49.4 53.3 54.4 55.9 57.4 59.0 279.9 

Outlays .................................... 46.8 52.5 54.0 55.5 56.9 58.5 277.4 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 48.3 53.1 58.4 52.8 56.4 57.1 277.8 

Outlays .................................... 48.1 53.0 58.4 52.6 56.2 57.0 277.2 

1 2009 includes $1.4 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 2009 level of discretionary budget authority includes $1.6 

billion in supplemental appropriations from the Recovery Act. For 

2010, the resolution provides $5.5 billion (11.5 percent) more discretionary budget authority than the 2009 level (excluding supplemental funding) and $540 million (1.0 percent) more than the 

President’s 2010 budget. 

The resolution emphasizes the high priority that the House 

places on continuing to provide sufficient and timely funding for 

veterans’ health care. The 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 resolution provides funding above 

the 2009 levels for VA to research and treat mental health, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and traumatic brain injury. In 

particular, the resolution recognizes the importance of ensuring 

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The 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 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. 


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FUNCTION 750: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

The Administration of Justice function consists of federal law enforcement programs, litigation and judicial activities, correction operations, and state and local justice assistance. Examples of the 

agencies within this function include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Attorneys, the federal Judiciary, the 

Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Legal Services Corporation. 

This function includes several components of the Department of 

Homeland Security. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 750: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 55.8 52.9 53.9 53.7 53.6 54.2 268.3 

Outlays .................................... 49.9 51.6 55.5 55.4 54.5 54.1 271.2 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 54.1 48.8 52.4 52.4 52.3 53.0 258.9 

Outlays .................................... 48.0 49.5 52.9 53.1 53.3 52.9 261.7 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 1.7 4.1 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 9.4 

Outlays .................................... 1.8 2.2 2.6 2.3 1.3 1.2 9.5 

1 2009 includes $5.2 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The budget resolution provides significant resources for our federal and local law enforcement programs, matching the level in the 

President’s budget. The 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 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 

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FUNCTION 800: GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 800: GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 30.4 22.0 22.3 22.7 22.8 23.4 113.2 

Outlays .................................... 24.6 22.8 23.1 23.8 23.5 23.6 116.8 

Discretionary: 1

Budget Authority ..................... 24.6 19.4 19.7 20.1 20.7 21.3 101.1 

Outlays .................................... 18.9 20.2 20.6 21.0 21.5 21.5 104.8 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 5.8 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.1 2.2 12.1 

Outlays .................................... 5.8 2.6 2.6 2.8 2.0 2.1 12.0 

1 2009 includes $6.2 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The 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 resolution’s adjustments for this purpose focus solely on amounts in 

IRS’s Enforcement account. The resolution assumes the full level 

for IRS activities proposed by the President. 


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FUNCTION 900: INTEREST 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

Function 900 consists primarily of the interest paid by the federal government to holders of U.S. Treasury securities. This 

amount is slightly offset by interest income received by the federal 

government on loans and cash balances and by earnings of the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 900: NET INTEREST 1

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 169.8 168.3 207.6 269.9 347.8 429.8 1,423.3 

Outlays .................................... 169.8 168.3 207.6 269.9 347.8 429.8 1,423.3 

Discretionary: 

Budget Authority ..................... — — — — — — — 

Outlays .................................... — — — — — — — 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 169.8 168.3 207.6 269.9 347.8 429.8 1,423.3 

Outlays .................................... 169.8 168.3 207.6 269.9 347.8 429.8 1,423.3 

1 Includes both on- and off-budget amounts. 


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FUNCTION 920: ALLOWANCES 

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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 920: ALLOWANCES 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 14.5 9.4 8.1 6.5 5.5 3.9 33.4 

Outlays .................................... 1.8 4.9 5.9 4.8 4.1 3.0 22.6 

Discretionary: 

Budget Authority ..................... 14.5 10.3 9.9 10.2 10.5 10.9 51.9 

Outlays .................................... 1.8 5.4 7.4 8.2 8.8 9.6 39.3 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... — ¥0.9 ¥1.8 ¥3.7 ¥5.0 ¥7.0 ¥18.5 

Outlays .................................... — ¥0.5 ¥1.5 ¥3.4 ¥4.7 ¥6.6 ¥16.7 

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. 


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FUNCTION 950: UNDISTRIBUTED OFFSETTING RECEIPTS 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

The 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. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 950: UNDISTRIBUTED OFFSETTING RECEIPTS 1

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... ¥92.6 ¥83.9 ¥88.0 ¥91.8 ¥95.7 ¥98.6 ¥458.0 

Outlays .................................... ¥92.6 ¥83.9 ¥88.0 ¥91.8 ¥95.7 ¥98.6 ¥458.0 

Discretionary: 

Budget Authority ..................... — — — — — — — 

Outlays .................................... — — — — — — — 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... ¥92.6 ¥83.9 ¥88.0 ¥91.8 ¥95.7 ¥98.6 ¥458.0 

Outlays .................................... ¥92.6 ¥83.9 ¥88.0 ¥91.8 ¥95.7 ¥98.6 ¥458.0 

1 Includes both on- and off-budget amounts. 

The negative spending in Function 950 represents CBO’s baseline estimate of undistributed offsetting receipts and the impact of 

concurrent receipt policy. 


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FUNCTION 970: OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND OTHER 

ACTIVITIES 

FUNCTION SUMMARY

This function includes funding for overseas deployments and 

other activities. 

FUNCTION LEVELS AND PRIORITIES

FUNCTION 970: OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Total Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... 82.6 130.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 330.0 

Outlays .................................... 25.1 92.8 76.5 67.7 57.8 52.1 346.9 

Discretionary: 

Budget Authority ..................... 82.6 130.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 330.0 

Outlays .................................... 25.1 92.8 76.5 67.7 57.8 52.1 346.9 

Mandatory Spending: 

Budget Authority ..................... — — — — — — — 

Outlays .................................... — — — — — — — 

The House resolution includes amounts equal to the President’s 

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TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Title II of the resolution includes reconciliation instructions. The 

instructions direct a committee 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 includes reconciliation instructions to committees for 

health care reform and for education, but not for other policy areas. 

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) 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. 

The House has adopted a rule relating to reconciliation instructions (clause 7 of rule XXI) that requires that any reconciliation instruction must not increase the deficit or reduce the surplus over 

the time periods specified in the House pay-as-you-go rule. The reconciliation instructions provided in title II satisfy the requirement 

of clause 7 of rule XXI. 


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TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 

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 Committee 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 

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ees 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 

not accommodate legislation authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 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. 

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 Recovery 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 

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more parental support for children, consistent with the pay-as-yougo 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 lowincome families, consistent with the pay-as-you-go principle. 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 low-income mothers-to-be and low-income families, consistent with the 

pay-as-you-go principle. The Committee anticipates that the legislation will fund evidence-based programs that have been tested in 

well-designed randomized controlled trials and are likely to 

produce future budget savings by improving child and family 

health and well-being. 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 

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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 to be scored against a baseline that reflects current policy, 

which means a baseline that assumes 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 (SGR) formula. However, like the President’s budget, 

the 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. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory payas-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 this resolution directs the chairman of the 

Budget Committee to make current policy adjustments to the baseline 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. The 2008 Medicare trustees report noted that these 

cuts, if they were to go into effect, could result in substantially reduced beneficiary access to physician services. The trustees report 

noted the possibility of significant effects on other aspects of Medicare as well, such as an increased use of hospital or emergency 

room services; an increase in mortality rates; or an enrollment shift 

to Medicare Advantage plans, which would drive up federal costs 

because Medicare Advantage plans are currently paid an average 

of 14 percent more than the traditional fee-for-service program. 

Neither the Medicare actuaries nor the Congressional Budget Office reflects these secondary effects in their respective baselines, because of substantial uncertainty about the magnitude of the effects. 

Sec. 315. Current policy reserve fund for middle class tax relief 

The reserve fund allows the Chairman of the Budget Committee 

to adjust the resolution aggregates and allocations to reflect current policy for certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 

1986 for middle class tax relief, decreasing revenues (or increasing 

outlays, as appropriate) by up to $698.6 billion over five years and, 

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years. 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 payas-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 this 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, decreasing revenues by an amount not to exceed $68.65 

billion over 5 years and over 10 years. The reserve fund would support immediate AMT relief so that tens of millions of working families will not become subject to it in tax year 2010. Without reform, 

the number of taxpayers subject to the AMT will rise from 4 million in 2010 to 28 million in 2010, according to the Congressional 

Budget Office. The resolution would accommodate further, deficitneutral relief from the AMT. 

After the House has adopted a measure to impose statutory payas-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 this 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 in 2009 for the Estate 

and Gift Tax, decreasing revenues by up to $72.0 billion over 5 

years and, for purposes of House Rules, by up to $256.2 billion over 

10 years. 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 payas-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 this resolution directs the chairman of the 

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line 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 

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TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

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 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 resolution as sections 314, 315, 316, and 

317. 

Subsection (b) allows the chairman of the Budget Committee to 

adjust the 302(a) allocation to the Appropriations Committee if 

changes to the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program (reflected in this 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 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 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 and eligibility assessments and improper payment reviews. In addition, 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 

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eral 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 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 list is included in this 

report so that the Appropriations Committee can prepare appropriations bills for fiscal year 2010 accordingly. The list will also be 

included in the joint explanatory statement of managers to accompany the conference report on this resolution. 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 encourages all committees of the House to conduct 

rigorous oversight hearings to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in 

federal programs, with particular attention to issues raised by the 

Office of the Inspector General or the Government Accountability 

Office. Based on these oversight efforts, such recommendations 

should be included in the views and estimates reports submitted to 


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the Budget Committee under section 301(d) of the Congressional 

Budget Act on 1974. 

Sec. 405. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses 

Section 405 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 details the allocation and aggregate adjustment procedures that are required to accommodate legislation for the reserve funds and program integrity initiatives in this 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 this 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 requires the chairman of the Committee on the 

Budget to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution 

upon enactment of legislation that changes concepts or definitions. 

Sec. 408. Exercise of rulemaking powers 

Section 408 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. 


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TITLE V—POLICY 

Title V of the resolution contains the following policy sections: 

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

Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities 


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TITLE VI—SENSE OF THE HOUSE 

Title VI of the 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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ALLOCATIONS TO COMMITTEES 

As required by Section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974, the discretionary levels established in the budget resolution 

are allocated to the Appropriations Committee and the mandatory 

spending levels are allocated to each of the committees with mandatory spending authority. 

In this report, the Appropriations Committee receives an allocation for 2010 and a revised allocation for 2009. The authorizing 

committees receive allocations for 2010 and the five-year period 

2010 through 2014 as well as a revised allocation for 2009. The authorizing committee allocation is divided into current law amounts, 

reauthorization, and resolution changes. Reauthorization refers to 

amounts for legislation due for reauthorization that are part of the 

CBO baseline levels. ‘‘Resolution changes’’ refers to the budgetary 

impact of legislation enacted after the adoption of this resolution, 

anticipated to reflect a change from baseline levels. 


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ALLOCATION OF SPENDING AUTHORITY TO HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 

[In millions of dollars] 

2009 1 2010 

Discretionary Action: 

BA .................................................................................................................................................... 1,398,771 1,087,320 

OT .................................................................................................................................................... 1,220,843 1,271,140 

Current Law Mandatory: 

BA .................................................................................................................................................... 670,595 725,056 

OT .................................................................................................................................................... 658,123 715,684 

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ALLOCATIONS OF SPENDING AUTHORITY TO HOUSE COMMITTEES OTHER THAN APPROPRIATIONS 

[In millions of dollars] 

2009 1 2010 

Total 

2010–2014 

Committee on Agriculture: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 16,709 16,183 63,406 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 14,831 15,455 64,273 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 1 1 138,284 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 1 1 135,903 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 16,710 16,184 201,690 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 14,832 15,456 200,176 

Committee on Armed Services: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 125,663 135,653 710,343 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 126,514 135,710 710,265 

Resolution Change: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 194 2,095 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 178 2,055 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 125,663 135,847 712,438 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 126,514 135,888 712,320 

Committee on Education and Labor: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ¥20,683 ¥454 25,648 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ¥17,727 ¥3,516 19,608 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 101 3,648 18,664 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 66 2,513 17,190 

Resolution Change: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 1,329 6,080 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 1,179 5,930 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ¥20,582 4,523 50,392 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ¥17,661 176 42,728 

Committee on Energy and Commerce: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 279,426 286,402 1,643,660 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 273,475 285,467 1,637,420 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ ................ 5,720 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ ................ 8,566 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 279,426 286,402 1,649,380 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 273,475 285,467 1,645,986 

Committee on Financial Services: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 684,785 47,983 93,841 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 666,250 75,202 104,154 

Committee on Foreign Affairs: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 23,477 21,299 94,573 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 22,222 22,956 105,029 

Committee on Homeland Security: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 1,535 1,585 8,465 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 1,582 1,591 8,548 

Committee on House Administration: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 69 68 340 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 21 18 344 


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ALLOCATIONS OF SPENDING AUTHORITY TO HOUSE COMMITTEES OTHER THAN APPROPRIATIONS— 

Continued 

[In millions of dollars] 

2009 1 2010 

Total 

2010–2014 

Committee on the Judiciary: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 6,929 9,375 36,556 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 7,021 7,412 36,768 

Committee on Natural Resources: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 5,362 5,899 31,419 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 4,879 5,700 31,479 

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 90,002 92,711 485,602 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 88,170 90,771 472,924 

Committee on Science and Technology: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 126 126 630 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 119 139 658 

Committee on Small Business: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 1,211 ................ ....................

OT ........................................................................................................................... 1,211 ................ ....................

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 53,534 14,192 74,384 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 14,057 14,649 76,644 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 1,950 42,083 210,415 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 173 2,365 

Resolution Change: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 13,085 68,669 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ ................ ....................

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 55,484 69,360 353,468 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 14,057 14,822 79,009 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 952 1,184 5,433 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 1,041 1,284 6,176 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 1,549 11,092 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 1,543 10,908 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 952 2,733 16,525 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 1,041 2,827 17,084 

Committee on Ways and Means: 

Current Law: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 900,451 938,463 4,999,413 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 896,860 940,618 5,008,958 

Reauthorizations: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 25 83,520 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 25 76,818 

Resolution Change: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... ................ 6,830 159,038 

OT ........................................................................................................................... ................ 6,830 159,038 

Total: 

BA ........................................................................................................................... 900,451 945,318 5,241,971 

OT ........................................................................................................................... 896,860 947,473 5,244,814 

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SUMMARY TABLE 1.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION TOTAL SPENDING AND REVENUES 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Budget Resolution 

Total Spending: 

BA ....................................... 4,200.782 3,447.528 3,441.763 3,509.887 3,718.179 3,936.332 18,053.689 

OT ....................................... 3,879.882 3,549.570 3,554.895 3,533.290 3,712.719 3,908.079 18,258.553 

On-Budget: 

BA ....................................... 3,675.133 2,892.061 2,866.329 2,913.316 3,095.704 3,286.135 15,053.545 

OT ....................................... 3,357.255 2,996.234 2,981.872 2,939.612 3,093.577 3,261.525 15,272.820 

Off-Budget: 

BA ....................................... 525.649 555.467 575.434 596.571 622.475 650.197 3,000.144 

OT ....................................... 522.627 553.336 573.023 593.678 619.142 646.554 2,985.733 

Revenues: 

Total ................................... 2,185.688 2,327.733 2,627.690 2,915.833 3,127.173 3,309.681 14,308.110 

On-budget .......................... 1,532.571 1,659.525 1,933.072 2,190.099 2,361.429 2,507.846 10,651.971 

Off-budget .......................... 653.117 668.208 694.618 725.734 765.744 801.835 3,656.139 

Surplus/Deficit (¥): 

Total ................................... ¥1,694.194 ¥1,221.837 ¥927.205 ¥617.457 ¥585.546 ¥598.398 ¥3,950.443 

On-budget .......................... ¥1,824.684 ¥1,336.709 ¥1,048.800 ¥749.513 ¥732.148 ¥753.679 ¥4,620.849 

Off-budget .......................... 130.490 114.872 121.595 132.056 146.602 155.281 670.406 

Debt Subject to Limit (end of 

year) ................................... 12,017 13,223 14,350 15,276 16,162 17,100 na 

Debt Held by the Public (end 

of year) ............................... 7,730 8,768 9,684 10,344 10,934 11,577 na 

By Function 

National Defense (050): 

BA ....................................... 618.057 562.033 570.107 579.135 589.895 603.828 2,904.998 

OT ....................................... 646.810 606.043 587.945 576.023 584.670 595.476 2,950.157 

International Affairs (150): 

BA ....................................... 40.885 45.320 49.146 53.742 59.160 64.388 271.756 

OT ....................................... 37.797 43.461 48.642 52.123 55.773 59.292 259.291 

General Science, Space, and 

Technology (250): 

BA ....................................... 35.389 31.139 31.493 33.373 34.419 35.686 166.110 

OT ....................................... 30.973 32.467 32.407 32.465 33.614 34.835 165.788 

Energy (270): 

BA ....................................... 43.919 5.489 5.539 5.732 6.098 6.227 29.085 

OT ....................................... 2.952 7.267 11.322 13.400 12.133 10.512 54.634 

Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

BA ....................................... 56.009 37.387 38.600 39.249 39.348 40.017 194.601 

OT ....................................... 36.834 40.450 40.237 40.058 39.754 39.957 200.456 

Agriculture (350): 

BA ....................................... 24.974 23.690 24.691 21.644 22.497 23.182 115.704 

OT ....................................... 23.070 23.951 23.998 17.540 22.063 22.150 109.702 

Commerce and Housing Credit 

(370): 

BA ....................................... 699.092 64.195 28.248 9.533 17.224 11.209 130.409 

OT ....................................... 670.090 88.900 40.021 8.617 5.562 ¥2.517 140.583 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 694.439 60.933 26.181 9.561 17.247 11.226 125.148 

OT .................................. 665.437 85.638 37.954 8.645 5.585 ¥2.500 135.322 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 4.653 3.262 2.067 ¥0.028 ¥0.023 ¥0.017 5.261 

OT .................................. 4.653 3.262 2.067 ¥0.028 ¥0.023 ¥0.017 5.261 

Transportation (400): 

BA ....................................... 122.457 88.151 89.071 90.047 90.866 91.809 449.944 

OT ....................................... 87.784 95.695 96.474 95.851 96.150 96.793 480.963 

Community and Regional Development (450): 

BA ....................................... 23.811 18.308 21.232 21.311 21.202 21.270 103.323 

OT ....................................... 29.983 29.303 27.530 25.722 24.155 22.752 129.462 


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SUMMARY TABLE 1.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION TOTAL SPENDING AND 

REVENUES—Continued 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Education, Training, Employment and Social Services 

(500): 

BA ....................................... 164.276 93.689 107.858 117.121 115.931 125.788 560.387 

OT ....................................... 73.219 140.300 141.108 118.391 118.888 120.959 639.646 

Health (550): 

BA ....................................... 380.158 383.911 364.910 369.852 389.719 400.451 1,908.843 

OT ....................................... 354.397 388.746 367.628 368.556 384.359 400.173 1,909.462 

Medicare (570): 

BA ....................................... 427.076 449.653 505.171 513.824 558.235 616.315 2,643.198 

OT ....................................... 426.736 449.784 504.962 513.591 558.381 616.150 2,642.868 

Income Security (600): 

BA ....................................... 520.123 536.169 510.575 478.039 483.386 485.396 2,493.565 

OT ....................................... 503.020 539.918 513.410 478.323 482.745 483.758 2,498.154 

Social Security (650): 

BA ....................................... 686.427 703.408 728.422 757.525 792.485 831.958 3,813.798 

OT ....................................... 682.849 701.400 726.144 754.782 789.302 828.315 3,799.943 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 31.820 20.255 23.380 26.478 29.529 32.728 132.370 

OT .................................. 31.264 20.378 23.513 26.628 29.679 32.728 132.926 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 654.607 683.153 705.042 731.047 762.956 799.230 3,681.428 

OT .................................. 651.585 681.022 702.631 728.154 759.623 795.587 3,667.017 

Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

BA ....................................... 97.705 106.365 112.842 108.702 113.803 116.021 557.733 

OT ....................................... 94.831 105.468 112.386 108.103 113.151 115.480 554.588 

Administration of Justice 

(750): 

BA ....................................... 55.783 52.857 53.892 53.738 53.569 54.247 268.303 

OT ....................................... 49.853 51.630 55.503 55.441 54.526 54.058 271.158 

General Government (800): 

BA ....................................... 30.405 21.979 22.316 22.737 22.750 23.415 113.197 

OT ....................................... 24.629 22.757 23.147 23.795 23.492 23.629 116.820 

Net Interest (900): 

BA ....................................... 169.755 168.285 207.566 269.883 347.752 429.837 1,423.323 

OT ....................................... 169.755 168.285 207.566 269.883 347.752 429.837 1,423.323 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 288.955 284.085 323.266 387.483 470.452 560.137 2,025.423 

OT .................................. 288.955 284.085 323.266 387.483 470.452 560.137 2,025.423 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥119.200 ¥115.800 ¥115.700 ¥117.600 ¥122.700 ¥130.300 ¥602.100 

OT .................................. ¥119.200 ¥115.800 ¥115.700 ¥117.600 ¥122.700 ¥130.300 ¥602.100 

Allowances (920): 

BA ....................................... 14.450 9.422 8.052 6.518 5.543 3.865 33.400 

OT ....................................... 1.788 4.893 5.903 4.750 4.122 2.962 22.630 

Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

BA ....................................... ¥92.617 ¥83.922 ¥87.968 ¥91.818 ¥95.703 ¥98.577 ¥457.988 

OT ....................................... ¥92.617 ¥83.922 ¥87.968 ¥91.818 ¥95.703 ¥98.577 ¥457.988 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥78.206 ¥68.774 ¥71.993 ¥74.970 ¥77.945 ¥79.861 ¥373.543 

OT .................................. ¥78.206 ¥68.774 ¥71.993 ¥74.970 ¥77.945 ¥79.861 ¥373.543 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥14.411 ¥15.148 ¥15.975 ¥16.848 ¥17.758 ¥18.716 ¥84.445 

OT .................................. ¥14.411 ¥15.148 ¥15.975 ¥16.848 ¥17.758 ¥18.716 ¥84.445 

Overseas Deployments and 

Other Activities (970): 

BA ....................................... 82.648 130.000 50.000 50.000 50.000 50.000 330.000 

OT ....................................... 25.129 92.774 76.530 67.694 57.830 52.085 346.913 


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SUMMARY TABLE 2.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Budget Resolution 

Total Spending: 

BA ....................................... 1,488.569 1,229.078 1,179.313 1,205.924 1,232.826 1,265.463 6,112.604 

OT ....................................... 1,247.760 1,370.565 1,341.264 1,298.562 1,302.648 1,317.342 6,630.381 

On-Budget: 

BA ....................................... 1,483.020 1,222.744 1,172.478 1,198.757 1,225.326 1,257.581 6,076.886 

OT ....................................... 1,242.562 1,364.369 1,334.564 1,291.481 1,295.223 1,309.542 6,595.179 

Off-Budget: 

BA ....................................... 5.549 6.334 6.835 7.167 7.500 7.882 35.718 

OT ....................................... 5.198 6.196 6.700 7.081 7.425 7.800 35.202 

By Function 

National Defense (050): 

BA ....................................... 614.426 556.128 564.293 573.612 584.421 598.249 2,876.703 

OT ....................................... 641.927 600.048 582.107 570.461 579.217 589.904 2,921.737 

International Affairs (150): 

BA ....................................... 42.666 48.454 52.777 57.063 61.502 65.931 285.727 

OT ....................................... 41.300 46.280 50.000 53.746 57.597 61.490 269.113 

General Science, Space, and 

Technology (250): 

BA ....................................... 35.264 31.014 31.368 33.248 34.294 35.561 165.485 

OT ....................................... 30.855 32.329 32.280 32.333 33.483 34.710 165.135 

Energy (270): 

BA ....................................... 44.998 6.680 6.717 6.764 6.798 6.862 33.821 

OT ....................................... 5.350 10.031 13.719 15.058 13.611 12.110 64.529 

Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

BA ....................................... 54.596 35.085 36.458 36.825 37.252 37.880 183.500 

OT ....................................... 36.252 38.866 38.082 37.622 37.349 37.800 189.719 

Agriculture (350): 

BA ....................................... 6.349 6.131 6.169 6.279 6.393 6.511 31.483 

OT ....................................... 6.111 6.217 6.147 6.219 6.323 6.435 31.341 

Commerce and Housing Credit 

(370): 

BA ....................................... 13.216 13.211 6.383 5.110 4.240 3.966 32.910 

OT ....................................... 6.253 13.347 9.240 7.155 5.917 4.520 40.179 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 12.963 12.949 6.116 4.838 3.963 3.683 31.549 

OT .................................. 6.000 13.085 8.973 6.883 5.640 4.237 38.818 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 0.253 0.262 0.267 0.272 0.277 0.283 1.361 

OT .................................. 0.253 0.262 0.267 0.272 0.277 0.283 1.361 

Transportation (400): 

BA ....................................... 79.061 31.436 31.925 32.443 32.933 33.295 162.032 

OT ....................................... 85.668 93.462 94.195 93.437 93.614 94.103 468.811 

Community and Regional Development (450): 

BA ....................................... 23.006 17.930 21.059 21.118 21.187 21.255 102.549 

OT ....................................... 26.252 26.904 26.559 24.960 23.711 22.809 124.943 

Education, Training, Employment and Social Services 

(500): 

BA ....................................... 188.508 88.676 97.440 103.135 107.416 111.357 508.024 

OT ....................................... 94.814 138.575 130.750 106.828 107.776 110.965 594.894 

Health (550): 

BA ....................................... 75.483 58.158 60.166 61.527 63.187 65.839 308.877 

OT ....................................... 57.635 64.667 64.106 62.130 61.685 63.386 315.974 

Medicare (570): 

BA ....................................... 5.390 5.595 6.042 6.112 6.197 6.269 30.215 

OT ....................................... 5.255 5.566 5.977 6.083 6.184 6.257 30.067 

Income Security (600): 

BA ....................................... 74.067 62.778 65.488 67.210 68.878 70.734 335.088 

OT ....................................... 64.056 67.860 70.141 70.087 70.576 70.760 349.424 


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SUMMARY TABLE 2.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION DISCRETIONARY SPENDING— 

Continued 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Social Security (650): 

BA ....................................... 6.386 6.072 6.568 6.895 7.223 7.599 34.357 

OT ....................................... 5.479 6.057 6.566 6.959 7.298 7.517 34.397 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 1.090 ...................... ...................... .................. .................. .................. ......................

OT .................................. 0.534 0.123 0.133 0.150 0.150 .................. 0.556 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 5.296 6.072 6.568 6.895 7.223 7.599 34.357 

OT .................................. 4.945 5.934 6.433 6.809 7.148 7.517 33.841 

Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

BA ....................................... 49.394 53.263 54.417 55.855 57.384 58.969 279.888 

OT ....................................... 46.757 52.474 53.967 55.483 56.931 58.519 277.374 

Administration of Justice 

(750): 

BA ....................................... 54.099 48.763 52.426 52.378 52.307 53.022 258.896 

OT ....................................... 48.018 49.470 52.918 53.131 53.276 52.889 261.684 

General Government (800): 

BA ....................................... 24.562 19.365 19.733 20.117 20.677 21.254 101.146 

OT ....................................... 18.861 20.196 20.584 21.025 21.473 21.531 104.809 

Allowances (920): 

BA ....................................... 14.450 10.339 9.884 10.233 10.537 10.910 51.903 

OT ....................................... 1.788 5.442 7.396 8.151 8.797 9.552 39.338 

Overseas Deployments and 

Other Activities (970): 

BA ....................................... 82.648 130.000 50.000 50.000 50.000 50.000 330.000 

OT ....................................... 25.129 92.774 76.530 67.694 57.830 52.085 346.913 


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SUMMARY TABLE 3.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION MANDATORY SPENDING 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Budget Resolution 

Total Spending: 

BA ....................................... 2,712.213 2,218.450 2,262.450 2,303.963 2,485.353 2,670.869 11,941.085 

OT ....................................... 2,632.122 2,179.005 2,213.631 2,234.728 2,410.071 2,590.737 11,628.172 

On-Budget: 

BA .................................. 2,192.113 1,669.317 1,693.851 1,714.559 1,870.378 2,028.554 8,976.659 

OT .................................. 2,114.693 1,631.865 1,647.308 1,648.131 1,798.354 1,951.983 8,677.641 

Off-Budget: 

BA .................................. 520.100 549.133 568.599 589.404 614.975 642.315 2,964.426 

OT .................................. 517.429 547.140 566.323 586.597 611.717 638.754 2,950.531 

By Function 

National Defense (050): 

BA ....................................... 3.631 5.905 5.814 5.523 5.474 5.579 28.295 

OT ....................................... 4.883 5.995 5.838 5.562 5.453 5.572 28.420 

International Affairs (150): 

BA ....................................... ¥1.781 ¥3.134 ¥3.631 ¥3.321 ¥2.342 ¥1.543 ¥13.971 

OT ....................................... ¥3.503 ¥2.819 ¥1.358 ¥1.623 ¥1.824 ¥2.198 ¥9.822 

General Science, Space, and 

Technology (250): 

BA ....................................... 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.625 

OT ....................................... 0.118 0.138 0.127 0.132 0.131 0.125 0.653 

Energy (270): 

BA ....................................... ¥1.079 ¥1.191 ¥1.178 ¥1.032 ¥0.700 ¥0.635 ¥4.736 

OT ....................................... ¥2.398 ¥2.764 ¥2.397 ¥1.658 ¥1.478 ¥1.598 ¥9.895 

Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

BA ....................................... 1.413 2.302 2.142 2.424 2.096 2.137 11.101 

OT ....................................... 0.582 1.584 2.155 2.436 2.405 2.157 10.737 

Agriculture (350): 

BA ....................................... 18.625 17.559 18.522 15.365 16.104 16.671 84.221 

OT ....................................... 16.959 17.734 17.851 11.321 15.740 15.715 78.361 

Commerce and Housing Credit 

(370): 

BA ....................................... 685.876 50.984 21.865 4.423 12.984 7.243 97.499 

OT ....................................... 663.837 75.553 30.781 1.462 ¥0.355 ¥7.037 100.404 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 681.476 47.984 20.065 4.723 13.284 7.543 93.599 

OT .................................. 659.437 72.553 28.981 1.762 ¥0.055 ¥6.737 96.504 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 4.400 3.000 1.800 ¥0.300 ¥0.300 ¥0.300 3.900 

OT .................................. 4.400 3.000 1.800 ¥0.300 ¥0.300 ¥0.300 3.900 

Transportation (400): 

BA ....................................... 43.396 56.715 57.146 57.604 57.933 58.514 287.912 

OT ....................................... 2.116 2.233 2.279 2.414 2.536 2.690 12.152 

Community and Regional Development (450): 

BA ....................................... 0.805 0.378 0.173 0.193 0.015 0.015 0.774 

OT ....................................... 3.731 2.399 0.971 0.762 0.444 ¥0.057 4.519 

Education, Training, Employment and Social Services 

(500): 

BA ....................................... ¥24.232 5.013 10.418 13.986 8.515 14.431 52.363 

OT ....................................... ¥21.595 1.725 10.358 11.563 11.112 9.994 44.752 

Health (550): 

BA ....................................... 304.675 325.753 304.744 308.325 326.532 334.612 1,599.966 

OT ....................................... 296.762 324.079 303.522 306.426 322.674 336.787 1,593.488 

Medicare (570): 

BA ....................................... 421.686 444.058 499.129 507.712 552.038 610.046 2,612.983 

OT ....................................... 421.481 444.218 498.985 507.508 552.197 609.893 2,612.801 

Income Security (600): 

BA ....................................... 446.056 473.391 445.087 410.829 414.508 414.662 2,158.477 

OT ....................................... 438.964 472.058 443.269 408.236 412.169 412.998 2,148.730 


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SUMMARY TABLE 3.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION MANDATORY SPENDING— 

Continued 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Social Security (650): 

BA ....................................... 680.041 697.336 721.854 750.630 785.262 824.359 3,779.441 

OT ....................................... 677.370 695.343 719.578 747.823 782.004 820.798 3,765.546 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 30.730 20.255 23.380 26.478 29.529 32.728 132.370 

OT .................................. 30.730 20.255 23.380 26.478 29.529 32.728 132.370 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. 649.311 677.081 698.474 724.152 755.733 791.631 3,647.071 

OT .................................. 646.640 675.088 696.198 721.345 752.475 788.070 3,633.176 

Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

BA ....................................... 48.311 53.102 58.425 52.847 56.419 57.052 277.845 

OT ....................................... 48.074 52.994 58.419 52.620 56.220 56.961 277.214 

Administration of Justice 

(750): 

BA ....................................... 1.684 4.094 1.466 1.360 1.262 1.225 9.407 

OT ....................................... 1.835 2.160 2.585 2.310 1.250 1.169 9.474 

General Government (800): 

BA ....................................... 5.843 2.614 2.583 2.620 2.073 2.161 12.051 

OT ....................................... 5.768 2.561 2.563 2.770 2.019 2.098 12.011 

Net Interest (900): 

BA ....................................... 169.755 168.285 207.566 269.883 347.752 429.837 1,423.323 

OT ....................................... 169.755 168.285 207.566 269.883 347.752 429.837 1,423.323 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. 288.955 284.085 323.266 387.483 470.452 560.137 2,025.423 

OT .................................. 288.955 284.085 323.266 387.483 470.452 560.137 2,025.423 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥119.200 ¥115.800 ¥115.700 ¥117.600 ¥122.700 ¥130.300 ¥602.100 

OT .................................. ¥119.200 ¥115.800 ¥115.700 ¥117.600 ¥122.700 ¥130.300 ¥602.100 

Allowances (920): 

BA ....................................... ...................... ¥0.917 ¥1.832 ¥3.715 ¥4.994 ¥7.045 ¥18.503 

OT ....................................... ...................... ¥0.549 ¥1.493 ¥3.401 ¥4.675 ¥6.590 ¥16.708 

Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

BA ....................................... ¥92.617 ¥83.922 ¥87.968 ¥91.818 ¥95.703 ¥98.577 ¥457.988 

OT ....................................... ¥92.617 ¥83.922 ¥87.968 ¥91.818 ¥95.703 ¥98.577 ¥457.988 

On-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥78.206 ¥68.774 ¥71.993 ¥74.970 ¥77.945 ¥79.861 ¥373.543 

OT .................................. ¥78.206 ¥68.774 ¥71.993 ¥74.970 ¥77.945 ¥79.861 ¥373.543 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................. ¥14.411 ¥15.148 ¥15.975 ¥16.848 ¥17.758 ¥18.716 ¥84.445 

OT .................................. ¥14.411 ¥15.148 ¥15.975 ¥16.848 ¥17.758 ¥18.716 ¥84.445 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

National Defense 

Exclusion of benefits and allowances to armed forces personnel ................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 3.6 3.9 4.1 4.4 4.5 20.5 Exclusion of military disability benefits ......................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.0 Deduction for overnight-travel expenses of national guard and reserve members ...................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 

Exclusion of combat pay ................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.4 1.3 1.1 0.9 0.9 5.6 

International Affairs 

Exclusion of certain allowances for Federal employees abroad .................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 4.9 Exclusion of foreign earned income 2: 

Housing ...................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.1 4.7 Salary ......................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 4.1 4.3 4.5 4.7 4.9 22.5 

Inventory property sales source rule exception .............................................................................. 6.8 7.0 7.2 7.4 7.6 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 36.0 Deduction for foreign taxes instead of a credit ............................................................................ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1.3 

Interest expense allocation: 

Unavailability of symmetric worldwide method* ....................................................................... ¥2.2 ¥2.5 ¥2.7 ¥2.9 ¥0.5 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ¥10.8 

Separate grouping of affiliated financial companies ............................................................... 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 6.0 

Apportionment of research and development expenses for determination of foreign tax credits 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.6 Special rules for interest-charge domestic international sales corporations ............................... 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.6 Taxation of real property gains of foreign persons* ..................................................................... (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) ¥0.3 

Tonnage tax .................................................................................................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.5 Deferral of active income of controlled foreign corporations4 ...................................................... 9.6 10.5 11.3 12.1 12.9 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 56.4 

Deferral of active financing income of controlled foreign corporations4 ...................................... 2.6 2.9 1.0 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 6.5 

General Science, Space, and Technology 

Credit for increasing research activities ....................................................................................... 4.9 5.6 3.6 2.8 2.2 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) 19.5 

Expensing of research and experimental expenditures ................................................................. 3.1 4.8 5.6 6.7 7.8 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 28.3 

Energy 

Credit for energy efficiency improvements to existing homes ...................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 0.3 1.0 ............ ............ 2.1 Credits for alternative technology vehicles .................................................................................... 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 0.2 0.2 (1) (1) 1.0 Credit for holders of clean renewable energy bonds ..................................................................... (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.5 Exclusion of energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities ...................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 Credit for holder of qualified energy conservation bonds ............................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 Energy related credits: 

Credit for enhanced oil recovery costs ...................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 Credit for producing fuels from a non-conventional source ..................................................... 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.6 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012—Continued 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Credits for alcohol fuels 5 .......................................................................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 

Energy credit (section 48): 

Solar .................................................................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 

Geothermal ........................................................................................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Fuel cells ........................................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Microturbines ..................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 

Credits for electricity production from renewable resources (section 45): 

Wind .................................................................................................................................. 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 4.1 

Closed-loop biomass ......................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) 

Geothermal ........................................................................................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 

Qualified hydropower ......................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 Solar (limited to facilities placed in service before 1/1/06) ........................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 Small irrigation power ...................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 Municipal solid waste ....................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 Open-loop biomass ........................................................................................................... 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1.5 

Credits for investments in clean coal facilities ........................................................................ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 Coal production credits: 

Refined coal ...................................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

Indian coal ........................................................................................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

Credit for the production of energy-efficient appliances .......................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 

Credits for alternative technology vehicles: 

Hybrid vehicles .................................................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 (1) 0.9 

Other alternative fuel vehicles ......................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Credit for clean-fuel vehicle refueling property ........................................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 Residential energy efficient property credit .............................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

New energy efficient home credit .............................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

Energy-related exclusions from income: 

Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for energy production facilities ....................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 

Energy-related deductions: 

Deduction for expenditures on energy-efficient commercial building property ........................ (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Eight-year inclusion from sale of electric transmission assets to independent utilities ........ 0.3 0.2 (1) ¥0.1 ¥0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.3 


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Expensing of exploration and development costs: 

Oil and gas ....................................................................................................................... 2.1 3.0 1.7 0.4 0.4 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 7.2 

Other fuels ........................................................................................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.3 

Excess of percentage over cost depletion: 

Oil and gas ....................................................................................................................... 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 7.1 Other fuels ........................................................................................................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.8 

Amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures associated with oil and gas exploration ..................................................................................................................................... 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.3 

Amortization of air pollution control facilities .......................................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.6 

Depreciation recovery periods for energy specific items: 

Five-year MACRS for certain energy property (solar, wind, etc.) ..................................... 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.5 10-year MACRS for smart electric distribution property .................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 15-year MACRS for certain electric transmission property .............................................. (1) 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.6 

15-year MACRS for natural gas distribution line ............................................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.6 

Election to expense 50 percent of qualified property used to refine liquid fuels ................... 0.4 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.6 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 3.8 

Exceptions for publicly traded partnership with qualified income derived from certain energy-related activities ............................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 2.6 

Natural Resources and Environment 

Special depreciation allowance for certain reuse and recycling property .................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 Expensing of exploration and development costs, nonfuel minerals ............................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.5 

Excess of percentage over cost depletion, nonfuel minerals ........................................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.2 Expensing of timber-growing costs ................................................................................................ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1.1 Special rules for mining reclamation reserves .............................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 Special tax rate for nuclear decommissioning reserve funds ....................................................... 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 4.2 Exclusion of contributions in aid of construction for water and sewer utilities .......................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 

Exclusion of earnings of certain environmental settlement funds ............................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 Amortization and expensing of reforestation expenditures ............................................................ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5 Gain or loss in the case of timber, coal, or domestic iron ore .................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 2.1 Special tax rate for qualified timber gain ..................................................................................... (1) 0.1 (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 Treatment of income from exploration and mining of natural resources as qualifying income 

under the publicly-traded partnership rules ............................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Refund of deemed tax payment to allocatee of qualified forestry conservation bond limitation ............ 0.3 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 

Agriculture 

Expensing of soil and water conservation expenditures ............................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Expensing of the costs of raising dairy and breeding cattle ....................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5 

Exclusion of cost-sharing payments .............................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1.0 

Exclusion of cancellation of indebtedness income of farmers ...................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5 Income averaging for farmers and fishermen ............................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 Five-year carryback period for net operating losses attributable to farming ............................... (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.7 

Expensing by farmers for fertilizer and soil conditioner costs ..................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012—Continued 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Commerce and Housing 

Housing: 

Deduction for mortgage interest on owner-occupied residences .............................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 67.0 80.1 89.4 99.8 107.3 443.6 Deduction for property taxes on real property ........................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 24.6 15.9 13.4 26.6 31.6 112.0 Increased standard deduction for real property taxes .............................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.9 2.5 0.4 ............ ............ 3.7 Exclusion of capital gains on sales of principal residences .................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 16.8 15.8 16.9 19.3 20.9 89.9 Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for 

owner-occupied housing ........................................................................................................ 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 7.1 

Deduction for premiums for qualified mortgage insurance ...................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) 0.1 0.2 0.2 ............ 0.5 

Exclusion of income attributable to the discharge of principal residence acquisition indebtedness .................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 1.1 First-time homebuyer credit 6 .................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 13.6 ¥0.5 ¥1.9 ¥1.7 9.9 

Refundable first-time homebuyer credit .................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 

Depreciation of rental housing in excess of alternative depreciation system7 ........................ 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 3.8 4.1 4.8 4.9 4.8 24.9 

Other business and housing: 

Refundable research tax credits 8 ............................................................................................. (1) 0.5 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.4 

Financial institutions: 

Exemption of credit union income ............................................................................................. 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 7.9 

Insurance companies: 

Exclusion of investment income on life insurance and annuity contracts .............................. 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.9 26.8 27.5 28.2 28.9 29.7 154.8 Small life insurance company taxable income adjustment ...................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 Special treatment of life insurance company reserves ............................................................. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 11.0 Special deduction for Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies ................................................ 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 5.3 Tax-exempt status and election to be taxed only on investment income for certain small 

property and casualty insurance companies ........................................................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 

Interest rate and discounting period assumptions for reserves of property and casualty insurance companies ................................................................................................................ 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 3.2 

15-percent proration for property and casualty insurance companies .................................... 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.7 

Housing: 

Credit for low-income housing .................................................................................................. 4.8 5.1 5.5 5.9 6.3 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 30.9 Credit for rehabilitation of historic structures .......................................................................... 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 2.4 Credit for rehabilitation of structures, other than historic structures ..................................... (1) (1) (1) 1.0 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 2.8 


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Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for 

rental housing ....................................................................................................................... 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 4.5 

Other business and commerce: 

Exclusion of interest on State and local government small-issue qualified private activity 

bonds ..................................................................................................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 2.4 

Carryover basis of capital gains on gifts ................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.5 1.8 14.3 14.6 3.5 36.7 15-year recovery period for: 

Leasehold improvement property ...................................................................................... 0.4 1.0 1.0 0.6 0.5 0.5 1.2 1.2 0.7 0.7 7.7 Restaurant property .......................................................................................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.2 Retail improvements ......................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.4 

Retail motor fuels outlets ................................................................................................. 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 1.5 

Seven-year recovery period for motorsports entertainment complexes ..................................... (1) 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Deferral of gain on non-dealer installment sales ..................................................................... 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 9.5 Deferral of gain on like-kind exchanges ................................................................................... 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 21.2 Expensing under section 179 of depreciable business property .............................................. 1.0 1.0 0.5 ¥0.1 ¥1.4 4.4 4.1 2.0 ¥0.5 ¥5.8 5.2 

Amortization of business startup costs ..................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 4.6 

Reduced rates on first $10,000,000 of corporate taxable income ........................................... 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 16.3 

Exemptions from imputed interest rules ................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 2.6 

Expensing of magazine circulation expenditures ...................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Special rules for magazines, paperback book, and record returns .......................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Completed contract rules ........................................................................................................... 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 3.0 

Cash accounting, other than agriculture .................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 5.0 

Credit for employer-paid FICA taxes on tips ............................................................................. 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 2.6 Deduction for certain film and television production costs ..................................................... 0.2 0.2 (2) (2) (2) (1) (1) (2) (2) (2) 0.1 

Deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities ...................................... 5.5 6.0 7.3 8.6 9.4 1.8 2.0 2.7 3.5 3.9 50.7 Credit for the cost of carrying tax-paid distilled spirits in wholesale inventories .................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

Reduced rates of tax on dividends and long-term capital gains ............................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 150.2 148.1 161.6 107.5 100.6 668.1 Exclusion of capital gains at death .......................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 26.5 28.3 30.4 37.6 45.2 168.0 Expensing of costs to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped 

and elderly ............................................................................................................................. (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 

Reduced tax rate on small business stock gains ..................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 2.4 Distributions in redemption of stock to pay death taxes ......................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.3 0.3 0.3 (1) 0.5 1.3 

Ordinary gain or loss treatment for sale or exchange of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock by certain financial institutions ....................................................................... ............ 2.6 0.4 0.2 0.1 ............ 0.1 (1) (1) (1) 3.4 

Inventory methods and valuation: 

Last in first out ................................................................................................................ 3.5 3.7 3.9 4.1 4.3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 22.2 Lower of cost or market .................................................................................................... 2.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 4.8 Specific identification for homogeneous products ........................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Exclusion of gain or loss on sale or exchange of brownfield property .................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 

60–40 rule for gain or loss from section 1256 contracts ........................................................ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 2.2 2.1 2.4 1.8 1.9 10.8 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012—Continued 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Net alternative minimum tax attributable to depreciation adjustment and net operating 

loss limitation* ...................................................................................................................... ¥0.7 ¥0.7 ¥0.6 ¥0.6 ¥0.6 ¥0.1 ¥0.1 ¥0.1 ¥0.1 ¥0.1 ¥3.6 

Exclusion of interest on State and local qualified private activity bonds for green buildings 

and sustainable design projects ........................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Depreciation of buildings other than rental housing in excess of alternative depreciation system7 ............................................................................................................................................ 0.9 1.7 1.7 1.1 1.1 0.7 1.4 1.4 0.9 0.9 12.1 

Depreciation of equipment in excess of the alternative depreciation system7 ............................ 32.6 20.7 6.3 13.5 18.6 6.9 4.4 1.3 2.9 3.9 111.1 

Transportation 

Exclusion of employer-paid transportation benefits ...................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 4.0 4.1 4.3 4.9 5.2 22.4 Credit for certain expenditures on railroad track maintenance .................................................... 0.1 0.1 (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 

Deferral of tax on capital construction funds of shipping companies ......................................... 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.5 Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for highway projects and rail-truck transfer facilities .......................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Community and Regional Development 

Empowerment zone tax incentives ................................................................................................. 0.4 0.4 0.2 (1) (1) 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 2.2 

Renewal community tax incentives ................................................................................................ 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.8 New markets tax credit .................................................................................................................. 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 4.8 Expensing of environmental remediation costs (‘‘brownfields’’) ................................................... 0.1 0.1 (1) ¥0.1 ¥0.2 0.1 0.1 (1) ¥0.1 ¥0.1 0.2 

District of Columbia tax incentives ............................................................................................... (1) 0.1 (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.8 

Disaster relief: 

Katrina emergency act ...................................................................................................... 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Gulf opportunity zone ........................................................................................................ 0.3 (1) 0.1 (1) (1) 1.3 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 3.3 

Kansas disaster relief ....................................................................................................... ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Midwest disaster relief ..................................................................................................... ............ 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 ............ 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.1 2.2 National disaster relief ..................................................................................................... ............ 0.8 1.1 0.7 0.2 ............ 1.2 0.8 0.5 0.1 5.3 

Accelerated depreciation for business property on Indian reservations ....................................... 0.2 0.2 0.1 ¥0.1 ¥0.2 0.1 0.1 (1) ¥0.1 ¥0.1 0.2 

Credit for Indian reservation employment ..................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) ............ ............ 0.2 

Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for private airports, docks, and mass-commuting facilities .............................................................. 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 5.4 Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for sewage, water, and hazardous waste facilities .............................................................................. 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 3.1 


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Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

Education and training: 

Deduction for interest on student loans ................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.5 0.4 3.7 Deduction for higher education expenses ................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.2 2.5 0.7 ............ ............ 4.5 Exclusion of earnings of Coverdell education savings accounts .............................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.6 Exclusion of interest on educational savings bonds ................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 

Exclusion of scholarship and fellowship income ...................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.2 10.1 Exclusion of income attributable to the discharge of certain student loan debt and NHSC 

educational loan repayments ................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 

Exclusion of employer-provided education assistance benefits ................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 4.3 Exclusion of employer-provided tuition reduction benefits ....................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.0 Parental personal exemption for students aged 19 to 23 ........................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.3 0.4 (1) 0.3 0.4 2.4 

Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for 

student loans ......................................................................................................................... 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 3.0 

Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for 

private nonprofit and qualified public educational facilities .............................................. 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.5 2.6 16.0 

Credit for holders of qualified zone academy bonds ................................................................ 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.0 Deduction for charitable contributions to educational institutions .......................................... 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 6.0 6.3 6.6 7.0 7.7 35.9 Above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom expenses ....................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 (1) ............ ............ ............ 0.2 

Credits for tuition for post-secondary education 2: 

Hope credit ........................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.7 1.8 2.0 2.6 2.7 11.8 Lifetime learning credit .................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.9 1.2 2.0 2.8 2.9 10.8 

Exclusion of tax on earnings of qualified tuition programs 2: 

Prepaid tuition programs .................................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.6 Savings account programs ............................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.5 0.5 0.8 1.1 1.3 4.1 

Employment: 

Exclusion of employee meals and lodging (other than military) .............................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 5.1 Exclusion of benefits provided under cafeteria plans 9 ............................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 33.6 36.8 40.3 44.8 45.9 201.4 

Exclusion of housing allowances for ministers ......................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 3.3 Exclusion of miscellaneous fringe benefits ............................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 6.3 6.4 6.6 7.5 8.0 34.8 Exclusion of employee awards ................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.9 Exclusion of income earned by voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations ....................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 10.7 Special tax provisions for employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). ...................................... 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.2 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 6.9 Deferral of taxation on spread on acquisition of stock under incentive stock option plans 

and employee stock purchase plans 2: 

Deferral of taxation on spread on acquisition of stock under incentive stock option 

plans* ........................................................................................................................... ¥0.9 ¥0.9 ¥0.9 ¥1.0 ¥1.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 ¥3.3 

Deferral of taxation on spread on employee stock purchase plans* .............................. ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ¥0.3 ¥0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 ¥0.6 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012—Continued 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Disallowance of deduction for excess parachute payments (applicable if payments to a 

disqualified individual are contingent on a change of control of a corporation and are equal to or greater than three times the individual’s annualized includible compensation) 10* ................................................................................................................................. ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ¥0.2 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ¥1.0 

One million dollar cap on deductible compensation for covered employees of publicly held 

corporations 10* ..................................................................................................................... ¥0.5 ¥0.5 ¥0.5 ¥0.5 ¥0.5 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ¥2.6 

Social services: 

Nonrefundable tax credit for children under age 17 11,12 ........................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 27.3 27.1 27.2 14.1 9.4 105.1 

Credit for child and dependent care and exclusion of employer-provided child care 13 ......... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 3.1 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.4 13.2 

Credit for employer-provided dependent care ........................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Exclusion of certain foster care payments ................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 3.9 Adoption credit and employee adoption benefits exclusion ...................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.1 (1) 1.3 

Deduction for charitable contributions, other than for education and health 14 ..................... 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.7 34.4 35.9 37.7 40.2 43.9 204.9 

Credit for disabled access expenditures ................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.3 

Refundable tax credit for children under age 17 15 ................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 20.3 18.8 18.0 7.3 3.9 68.3 

Work opportunity tax credit ........................................................................................................ 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 3.1 

Health 

Exclusion of employer contributions for health care, health insurance premiums, and longterm care insurance premiums 16 ............................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 116.8 127.4 136.9 145.0 154.2 680.3 

Exclusion of medical care and TRICARE medical insurance for military dependents, retirees, 

and retiree dependents not enrolled in Medicare ..................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.5 2.6 11.7 

Exclusion of health insurance benefits for military retirees and retiree dependents enrolled in 

Medicare ..................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.7 1.9 7.5 

Deduction for health insurance premiums and long-term care insurance premiums by the 

self-employed ............................................................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 4.4 4.8 5.2 5.8 6.3 26.4 

Deduction for medical expenses and long-term care expenses .................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 9.2 10.6 12.2 16.4 19.4 67.9 Exclusion of workers’ compensation benefits (medical benefits) ................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 8.1 8.8 9.5 10.3 11.2 47.8 Health savings accounts ................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.5 0.7 0.9 1.2 1.6 4.9 Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for private nonprofit hospital facilities ............................................................................................... 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.9 2.0 12.1 Deduction for charitable contributions to health organizations .................................................... 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 3.9 4.0 4.3 4.6 5.0 23.2 Credit for purchase of health insurance by certain displaced persons 6 ..................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.7 

Refundable credit for purchase of health insurance by certain displaced workers ..................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 


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Credit for orphan drug research .................................................................................................... 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1.7 

Medicare 

Exclusion of Medicare benefits: 

Hospital insurance (Part A) ....................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 21.9 23.7 25.7 30.1 33.1 134.4 Supplementary medical insurance (Part B) .............................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 14.6 16.0 17.7 21.1 23.5 92.9 Prescription drug insurance (Part D) ........................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 4.5 5.3 5.9 6.9 6.8 29.3 Exclusion of certain subsidies to employers who maintain prescription drug plans for Medicare enrollees ........................................................................................................................ 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 5.4 

Income Security 

Exclusion of workers’ compensation benefits (disability and survivors payments) ...................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.7 2.7 2.7 3.0 3.1 14.2 Exclusion of damages on account of personal physical injuries or physical sickness ................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.6 7.7 Exclusion of special benefits for disabled coal miners ................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 

Exclusion of cash public assistance benefits ............................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.4 4.4 16.9 Net exclusion of pension contributions and earnings: 

Plans covering partners and sole proprietors (sometimes referred to as ‘‘Keogh plans’’) ..... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 9.7 9.8 13.9 18.1 19.9 71.4 Defined benefit plans ................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 42.4 42.8 42.7 42.6 42.4 212.9 Defined contribution plans ........................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 51.2 55.2 68.1 77.8 89.1 341.4 

Individual retirement arrangements 2: 

Traditional IRAs .......................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 13.8 15.6 17.0 15.5 16.2 78.0 Roth IRAs ................................................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.5 3.1 3.8 4.9 6.0 20.3 Credit for certain individuals for elective deferrals and IRA contributions ............................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 4.1 

Exclusion of other employee benefits: 

Premiums on group term life insurance ................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 13.4 Premiums on accident and disability insurance ....................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.5 15.8 

Additional standard deduction for the blind and the elderly ....................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 2.0 1.9 1.8 2.2 2.6 10.5 Deduction for casualty and theft losses ........................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 1.2 Nonrefundable earned income credit 11 ......................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 6.2 6.3 6.4 7.9 8.7 35.4 

Recovery rebate 7 ............................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 95.0 20.4 ............ ............ ............ 115.4 

Phase out of the personal exemption and disallowance of the personal exemption and the 

standard deduction against the alternative minimum tax* ..................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ¥11.1 ¥35.7 ¥64.5 ¥54.8 ¥44.2 ¥210.2 

Exclusion of survivor annuities paid to families of public safety officers killed in the line of 

duty ............................................................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 

Exclusion of disaster mitigation payments .................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.2 Refundable earned income credit 14 .............................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 42.4 44.3 45.3 41.7 41.0 214.7 

Refundable recovery rebate ............................................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 

Social Security and Railroad Retirement 

Exclusion of untaxed social security and railroad retirement benefits ......................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 24.2 25.7 27.8 34.1 35.3 147.1 

Veterans’ Benefits and Service 

Exclusion of veterans’ diability compensation ............................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 3.6 3.7 3.8 4.1 4.2 19.4 Exclusion of veterans’ pensions ..................................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 


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SUMMARY TABLE 4.—TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES BY BUDGET FUNCTION, FISCAL YEARS 2008–2012—Continued 

[Billions of dollars] 

Function 

Corporations Individuals Total 

2008–12 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Exclusion of veterans’ readjustment benefits ................................................................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 0.4 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.2 3.9 Exclusion of interest on State and local government qualified private activity bonds for veterans’ housing ........................................................................................................................... (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 

General Purpose Fiscal Assistance 

Exclusion of interest on public purpose State and local government bonds ............................... 7.4 7.7 8.0 8.4 8.8 19.0 19.7 20.4 23.2 24.0 146.6 Deduction of nonbusiness State and local government income taxes, sale taxes, and personal 

property taxes ............................................................................................................................. ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 48.0 37.0 33.8 57.0 66.4 242.1 

Interest 

Deferral of interest on savings bonds ........................................................................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3 6.2 

1 Positive tax expenditure of less than $50 million. 2 In prior tables, this provision was presented on a consolidated basis. 3 Negative tax expenditure of less than $50 million. 4 These calculations are provided for historical comparison. The deferral calculations use full inclusion of the income of controlled foreign corporations as the standard. 5 In addition, the credit from excise tax for alcohol fuels results in a reduction in excise tax receipts, net of income tax effect, of $13.6 billion over the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 6 Includes both refundable and nonrefundable amounts. 7 These calculations are provided for historical comparison. The depreciation calculations use straignt-line depreciation as the standard. 8 Transfer is limited to research credits that would otherwise expire. 9 Estimate includes amounts of employer-provided health insurance purchased through cafeteria plans and employer-provided child care purchased through dependent care flexible spending accounts. These amounts are also included in 

other line items in this table. 

10 Estimate does not include effects of changes made by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. 11 Tax expenditure estimate includes amounts used to offset income taxes and amounts used to offset other taxes. 12 Refundable amounts. 13 Estimate includes employer-provided child care purchased through dependent care flexible spending accounts. 14 In addition to the general charitable deduction, the tax expenditure accounts for the higher percentage limitation for public charities, the fair market value deduction for related-used tangible personal property, the enhanced deduction for 

inventory, the fair market value deduction for publicly traded stock and exceptions to the partial interest rules. 

15 Nonrefundable amounts. 16 Estimate includes employer-provided insurance purchased through cafeteria plans. 

Note.—Details may not add to totals due to rounding. An ‘‘*’’ indicates a negative tax expenditure for the 2008–12 period. Source: Joint Committee on Taxation. 


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SUMMARY TABLE 5.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION COMPARED TO PRESIDENT’S 

BUDGET 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Budget Resolution 

Total Spending: 

BA ........................... 4,200.782 3,447.528 3,441.763 3,509.887 3,718.179 3,936.332 18,053.689 

OT ........................... 3,879.882 3,549.570 3,554.895 3,533.290 3,712.719 3,908.079 18,258.553 

On-Budget: 

BA ........................... 3,675.133 2,892.061 2,866.329 2,913.316 3,095.704 3,286.135 15,053.545 

OT ........................... 3,357.255 2,996.234 2,981.872 2,939.612 3,093.577 3,261.525 15,272.820 

Revenues: 

Total ....................... 2,185.688 2,327.733 2,627.690 2,915.833 3,127.173 3,309.681 14,308.110 

On-budget .............. 1,532.571 1,659.525 1,933.072 2,190.099 2,361.429 2,507.846 10,651.971 

Surplus/Deficit (¥): 

Total ....................... ¥1,694.194 ¥1,221.837 ¥927.205 ¥617.457 ¥585.546 ¥598.398 ¥3,950.443 

On-budget .............. ¥1,824.684 ¥1,336.709 ¥1,048.800 ¥749.513 ¥732.148 ¥753.679 ¥4,620.849 

President’s Budget (CBO Reestimate) 

Total Spending: 

BA ........................... 4,278.151 3,511.338 3,394.602 3,509.996 3,733.519 3,959.645 18,109.100 

OT ........................... 4,004.031 3,668.520 3,556.318 3,575.363 3,766.981 3,979.202 18,546.384 

On-Budget: 

BA ........................... 3,752.502 2,955.880 2,819.218 2,913.579 3,111.525 3,310.312 15,110.514 

OT ........................... 3,481.404 3,115.189 2,983.337 2,981.825 3,148.301 3,333.492 15,562.144 

Revenues: 

Total ....................... 2,159.331 2,289.131 2,585.853 2,917.376 3,094.667 3,230.563 14,117.590 

On-budget .............. 1,506.214 1,620.923 1,891.235 2,191.642 2,328.923 2,428.728 10,461.451 

Surplus/Deficit (¥): 

Total ....................... ¥1,844.700 ¥1,379.389 ¥970.465 ¥657.987 ¥672.314 ¥748.639 ¥4,428.794 

On-budget .............. ¥1,975.190 ¥1,494.266 ¥1,092.102 ¥790.183 ¥819.378 ¥904.764 ¥5,100.693 

Difference 

Total Spending: 

BA ........................... ¥77.369 ¥63.810 47.161 ¥0.109 ¥15.340 ¥23.313 ¥55.411 

OT ........................... ¥124.149 ¥118.950 ¥1.423 ¥42.073 ¥54.262 ¥71.123 ¥287.831 

On-Budget: 

BA ........................... ¥77.369 ¥63.819 47.111 ¥0.263 ¥15.821 ¥24.177 ¥56.969 

OT ........................... ¥124.149 ¥118.955 ¥1.465 ¥42.213 ¥54.724 ¥71.967 ¥289.324 

Revenues: 

Total ....................... 26.357 38.602 41.837 ¥1.543 32.506 79.118 190.520 

On-budget .............. 26.357 38.602 41.837 ¥1.543 32.506 79.118 190.520 

Surplus/Deficit (¥): 

Total ....................... 150.506 157.552 43.260 40.530 86.768 150.241 478.351 

On-budget .............. 150.506 157.557 43.302 40.670 87.230 151.085 479.844 


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SPENDING AND REVENUES 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

Summary 

Total Spending: 

BA ...................................................................... ¥753.254 ¥759.019 ¥690.895 ¥482.603 ¥264.450 ¥2,950.221 

OT ....................................................................... ¥330.312 ¥324.987 ¥346.592 ¥167.163 28.197 ¥1,140.857 

On-Budget: 

BA ...................................................................... ¥783.072 ¥808.804 ¥761.817 ¥579.429 ¥388.998 ¥3,322.120 

OT ....................................................................... ¥361.021 ¥375.383 ¥417.643 ¥263.678 ¥95.730 ¥1,513.455 

Off-Budget: 

BA ...................................................................... 29.818 49.785 70.922 96.826 124.548 371.899 

OT ....................................................................... 30.709 50.396 71.051 96.515 123.927 372.598 

Revenues: 

Total ................................................................... 142.045 442.002 730.145 941.485 1,123.993 3,379.670 

On-budget .......................................................... 126.954 400.501 657.528 828.858 975.275 2,989.116 

Off-budget ......................................................... 15.091 41.501 72.617 112.627 148.718 390.554 

Surplus/Deficit (¥) 

Total ................................................................... 472.357 766.989 1,076.737 1,108.648 1,095.796 4,520.527

On-budget .......................................................... 487.975 775.884 1,075.171 1,092.536 1,071.005 4,502.571 

Off-budget ......................................................... ¥15.618 ¥8.895 1.566 16.112 24.791 17.956 

By Function 

National Defense (050): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥56.024 ¥47.950 ¥38.922 ¥28.162 ¥14.229 ¥185.287 

OT ....................................................................... ¥40.767 ¥58.865 ¥70.787 ¥62.140 ¥51.334 ¥283.893 

International Affairs (150): 

BA ...................................................................... 4.435 8.261 12.857 18.275 23.503 67.331 

OT ....................................................................... 5.664 10.845 14.326 17.976 21.495 70.306 

General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥4.250 ¥3.896 ¥2.016 ¥0.970 0.297 ¥10.835 

OT ....................................................................... 1.494 1.434 1.492 2.641 3.862 10.923 

Energy (270): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥38.430 ¥38.380 ¥38.187 ¥37.821 ¥37.692 ¥190.510 

OT ....................................................................... 4.315 8.370 10.448 9.181 7.560 39.874 

Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥18.622 ¥17.409 ¥16.760 ¥16.661 ¥15.992 ¥85.444 

OT ....................................................................... 3.616 3.403 3.224 2.920 3.123 16.286 

Agriculture (350): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥1.284 ¥0.283 ¥3.330 ¥2.477 ¥1.792 ¥9.166 

OT ....................................................................... 0.881 0.928 ¥5.530 ¥1.007 ¥0.920 ¥5.648 

Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥634.897 ¥670.844 ¥689.559 ¥681.868 ¥687.883 ¥3,365.051 

OT ....................................................................... ¥581.190 ¥630.069 ¥661.473 ¥664.528 ¥672.607 ¥3,209.867 

On-budget: 

BA .................................................................. ¥633.506 ¥668.258 ¥684.878 ¥677.192 ¥683.213 ¥3,347.047 

OT .................................................................. ¥579.799 ¥627.483 ¥656.792 ¥659.852 ¥667.937 ¥3,191.863 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................................................. ¥1.391 ¥2.586 ¥4.681 ¥4.676 ¥4.670 ¥18.004 

OT .................................................................. ¥1.391 ¥2.586 ¥4.681 ¥4.676 ¥4.670 ¥18.004 

Transportation (400): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥34.306 ¥33.386 ¥32.410 ¥31.591 ¥30.648 ¥162.341 

OT ....................................................................... 7.911 8.690 8.067 8.366 9.009 42.043 

Community and Regional Development (450): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥5.503 ¥2.579 ¥2.500 ¥2.609 ¥2.541 ¥15.732 

OT ....................................................................... ¥0.680 ¥2.453 ¥4.261 ¥5.828 ¥7.231 ¥20.453 

Education, Training, Employment and Social 

Services (500): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥70.587 ¥56.418 ¥47.155 ¥48.345 ¥38.488 ¥260.993 

OT ....................................................................... 67.081 67.889 45.172 45.669 47.740 273.551 

Health (550): 

BA ...................................................................... 3.753 ¥15.248 ¥10.306 9.561 20.293 8.053 

OT ....................................................................... 34.349 13.231 14.159 29.962 45.776 137.477 

Medicare (570): 

BA ...................................................................... 22.577 78.095 86.748 131.159 189.239 507.818 


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SPENDING AND REVENUES—Continued 

[In billions of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–2014 

OT ....................................................................... 23.048 78.226 86.855 131.645 189.414 509.188 

Income Security (600): 

BA ...................................................................... 16.046 ¥9.548 ¥42.084 ¥36.737 ¥34.727 ¥107.050 

OT ....................................................................... 36.898 10.390 ¥24.697 ¥20.275 ¥19.262 ¥16.946 

Social Security (650): 

BA ...................................................................... 16.981 41.995 71.098 106.058 145.531 381.663 

OT ....................................................................... 18.551 43.295 71.933 106.453 145.466 385.698 

On-budget: 

BA .................................................................. ¥11.565 ¥8.440 ¥5.342 ¥2.291 0.908 ¥26.730 

OT .................................................................. ¥10.886 ¥7.751 ¥4.636 ¥1.585 1.464 ¥23.394 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................................................. 28.546 50.435 76.440 108.349 144.623 408.393 

OT .................................................................. 29.437 51.046 76.569 108.038 144.002 409.092 

Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

BA ...................................................................... 8.660 15.137 10.997 16.098 18.316 69.208 

OT ....................................................................... 10.637 17.555 13.272 18.320 20.649 80.433 

Administration of Justice (750): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥2.926 ¥1.891 ¥2.045 ¥2.214 ¥1.536 ¥10.612 

OT ....................................................................... 1.777 5.650 5.588 4.673 4.205 21.893 

General Government (800): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥8.426 ¥8.089 ¥7.668 ¥7.655 ¥6.990 ¥38.828 

OT ....................................................................... ¥1.872 ¥1.482 ¥0.834 ¥1.137 ¥1.000 ¥6.325 

Net Interest (900): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥1.470 37.811 100.128 177.997 260.082 574.548 

OT ....................................................................... ¥1.470 37.811 100.128 177.997 260.082 574.548 

On-budget: 

BA .................................................................. ¥4.870 34.311 98.528 181.497 271.182 580.648 

OT .................................................................. ¥4.870 34.311 98.528 181.497 271.182 580.648 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................................................. 3.400 3.500 1.600 ¥3.500 ¥11.100 ¥6.100 

OT .................................................................. 3.400 3.500 1.600 ¥3.500 ¥11.100 ¥6.100 

Allowances (920): 

BA ...................................................................... ¥5.028 ¥6.398 ¥7.932 ¥8.907 ¥10.585 ¥38.850 

OT ....................................................................... 3.105 4.115 2.962 2.334 1.174 13.690 

Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

BA ...................................................................... 8.695 4.649 0.799 ¥3.086 ¥5.960 5.097 

OT ....................................................................... 8.695 4.649 0.799 ¥3.086 ¥5.960 5.097 

On-budget: 

BA .................................................................. 9.432 6.213 3.236 0.261 ¥1.655 17.487 

OT .................................................................. 9.432 6.213 3.236 0.261 ¥1.655 17.487 

Off-budget: 

BA .................................................................. ¥0.737 ¥1.564 ¥2.437 ¥3.347 ¥4.305 ¥12.390 

OT .................................................................. ¥0.737 ¥1.564 ¥2.437 ¥3.347 ¥4.305 ¥12.390 

Overseas Deployments and Other Activities (970): 

BA ...................................................................... 47.352 ¥32.648 ¥32.648 ¥32.648 ¥32.648 ¥83.240 

OT ....................................................................... 67.645 51.401 42.565 32.701 26.956 221.268 


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SUMMARY TABLE 7.—FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET RESOLUTION COMPARED TO 2009: TOTAL 

SPENDING AND REVENUES 

[Percentage change] 

Fiscal year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 

Summary 

Total Spending: 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥17 .9 ¥18 .1 ¥16 .4 ¥11 .5 ¥6 .3 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥8 .5 ¥8 .4 ¥8 .9 ¥4 .3 0 .7 

On-Budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥21 .3 ¥22 .0 ¥20 .7 ¥15 .8 ¥10 .6 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥10 .8 ¥11 .2 ¥12 .4 ¥7 .9 ¥2 .9 

Off-Budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... 5 .7 9 .5 13 .5 18 .4 23 .7 

OT .................................................................................................... 5 .9 9 .6 13 .6 18 .5 23 .7 

Revenues: 

Total .................................................................................................... 6 .5 20 .2 33 .4 43 .1 51 .4 

On-budget ........................................................................................... 8 .3 26 .1 42 .9 54 .1 63 .6 

Off-budget ........................................................................................... 2 .3 6 .4 11 .1 17 .2 22 .8 

Surplus/Deficit (¥) 

Total .................................................................................................... ¥27 .9 ¥45 .3 ¥63 .6 ¥65 .4 ¥64 .7 

On-budget ........................................................................................... ¥26 .7 ¥42 .5 ¥58 .9 ¥59 .9 ¥58 .7 

Off-budget ........................................................................................... ¥12 .0 ¥6 .8 1 .2 12 .3 19 .0 

By Function 

National Defense (050): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥9 .1 ¥7 .8 ¥6 .3 ¥4 .6 ¥2 .3 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥6 .3 ¥9 .1 ¥10 .9 ¥9 .6 ¥7 .9 

International Affairs (150): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 10 .8 20 .2 31 .4 44 .7 57 .5 

OT ........................................................................................................ 15 .0 28 .7 37 .9 47 .6 56 .9 

General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥12 .0 ¥11 .0 ¥5 .7 ¥2 .7 0 .8 

OT ........................................................................................................ 4 .8 4 .6 4 .8 8 .5 12 .5 

Energy (270): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥87 .5 ¥87 .4 ¥86 .9 ¥86 .1 ¥85 .8 

OT ........................................................................................................ 146 .2 283 .5 353 .9 311 .0 256 .1 

Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥33 .2 ¥31 .1 ¥29 .9 ¥29 .7 ¥28 .6 

OT ........................................................................................................ 9 .8 9 .2 8 .8 7 .9 8 .5 

Agriculture (350): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥5 .1 ¥1 .1 ¥13 .3 ¥9 .9 ¥7 .2 

OT ........................................................................................................ 3 .8 4 .0 ¥24 .0 ¥4 .4 ¥4 .0 

Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥90 .8 ¥96 .0 ¥98 .6 ¥97 .5 ¥98 .4 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥86 .7 ¥94 .0 ¥98 .7 ¥99 .2 ¥100 .4 

On-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥91 .2 ¥96 .2 ¥98 .6 ¥97 .5 ¥98 .4 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥87 .1 ¥94 .3 ¥98 .7 ¥99 .2 ¥100 .4 

Off-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥29 .9 ¥55 .6 ¥100 .6 ¥100 .5 ¥100 .4 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥29 .9 ¥55 .6 ¥100 .6 ¥100 .5 ¥100 .4 

Transportation (400): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥28 .0 ¥27 .3 ¥26 .5 ¥25 .8 ¥25 .0 

OT ........................................................................................................ 9 .0 9 .9 9 .2 9 .5 10 .3 

Community and Regional Development (450): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥23 .1 ¥10 .8 ¥10 .5 ¥11 .0 ¥10 .7 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥2 .3 ¥8 .2 ¥14 .2 ¥19 .4 ¥24 .1 

Education, Training, Employment and Social Services (500): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥43 .0 ¥34 .3 ¥28 .7 ¥29 .4 ¥23 .4 

OT ........................................................................................................ 91 .6 92 .7 61 .7 62 .4 65 .2 

Health (550): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 1 .0 ¥4 .0 ¥2 .7 2 .5 5 .3 

OT ........................................................................................................ 9 .7 3 .7 4 .0 8 .5 12 .9 

Medicare (570): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 5 .3 18 .3 20 .3 30 .7 44 .3 

OT ........................................................................................................ 5 .4 18 .3 20 .4 30 .8 44 .4 


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SPENDING AND REVENUES—Continued 

[Percentage change] 

Fiscal year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 

Income Security (600): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 3 .1 ¥1 .8 ¥8 .1 ¥7 .1 ¥6 .7 

OT ........................................................................................................ 7 .3 2 .1 ¥4 .9 ¥4 .0 ¥3 .8 

Social Security (650): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 2 .5 6 .1 10 .4 15 .5 21 .2 

OT ........................................................................................................ 2 .7 6 .3 10 .5 15 .6 21 .3 

On-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥36 .3 ¥26 .5 ¥16 .8 ¥7 .2 2 .9 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥34 .8 ¥24 .8 ¥14 .8 ¥5 .1 4 .7 

Off-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... 4 .4 7 .7 11 .7 16 .6 22 .1 

OT .................................................................................................... 4 .5 7 .8 11 .8 16 .6 22 .1 

Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 8 .9 15 .5 11 .3 16 .5 18 .7 

OT ........................................................................................................ 11 .2 18 .5 14 .0 19 .3 21 .8 

Administration of Justice (750): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥5 .2 ¥3 .4 ¥3 .7 ¥4 .0 ¥2 .8 

OT ........................................................................................................ 3 .6 11 .3 11 .2 9 .4 8 .4 

General Government (800): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥27 .7 ¥26 .6 ¥25 .2 ¥25 .2 ¥23 .0 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥7 .6 ¥6 .0 ¥3 .4 ¥4 .6 ¥4 .1 

Net Interest (900): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥0 .9 22 .3 59 .0 104 .9 153 .2 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥0 .9 22 .3 59 .0 104 .9 153 .2 

On-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥1 .7 11 .9 34 .1 62 .8 93 .8 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥1 .7 11 .9 34 .1 62 .8 93 .8 

Off-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥2 .9 ¥2 .9 ¥1 .3 2 .9 9 .3 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥2 .9 ¥2 .9 ¥1 .3 2 .9 9 .3 

Allowances (920): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥34 .8 ¥44 .3 ¥54 .9 ¥61 .6 ¥73 .3 

OT ........................................................................................................ 173 .7 230 .1 165 .7 130 .5 65 .7 

Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

BA ........................................................................................................ ¥9 .4 ¥5 .0 ¥0 .9 3 .3 6 .4 

OT ........................................................................................................ ¥9 .4 ¥5 .0 ¥0 .9 3 .3 6 .4 

On-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... ¥12 .1 ¥7 .9 ¥4 .1 ¥0 .3 2 .1 

OT .................................................................................................... ¥12 .1 ¥7 .9 ¥4 .1 ¥0 .3 2 .1 

Off-budget: 

BA ................................................................................................... 5 .1 10 .9 16 .9 23 .2 29 .9 

OT .................................................................................................... 5 .1 10 .9 16 .9 23 .2 29 .9 

Overseas Deployments and Other Activities (970): 

BA ........................................................................................................ 57 .3 ¥39 .5 ¥39 .5 ¥39 .5 ¥39 .5 

OT ........................................................................................................ 269 .2 204 .5 169 .4 130 .1 107 .3 


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VOTES OF THE COMMITTEE 

House rule XIII, clause 3(b), requires that each committee report 

include the total number of votes cast for and against, and the 

names of members voting for and against, each recorded vote on a 

motion to report a measure or matter of a public nature and any 

amendment offered to the measure or matter. 

Described below are the roll call votes from the Committee on 

the Budget on the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal 

Year 2010. 

On March 25, 2009, the Committee met in open session. A 

quorum was present. 

After calling the Committee to order, Chairman Spratt reminded 

all members that pursuant to unanimous consent agreed to at the 

Committee’s organizational meeting held January 22, 2009, and 

consistent with House rule XVI, clause 4, he was authorized to declare a recess at any time. 

Chairman Spratt asked unanimous consent that the reading of 

the budget aggregates, function levels, and other appropriate matters be dispensed with; that the aggregates, function levels, and 

other matter be opened to amendment; that the reading of each 

amendment be by title, and that the reading of each amendment 

be dispensed with. There were no objections. 

The Committee adopted and ordered reported the Concurrent 

Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010. The following votes 

were taken by the Committee: 

1. An amendment was offered by Representative Hensarling to cut budget authority in Function 920 (Allowances) by $1.1 billion 

below the level in the Chairman’s mark for fiscal years 2010 

through 2014 by rescinding all Recovery Act funding not spent in 

2009 and cutting non-defense, non-veterans discretionary spending 

to the level in the 2009 continuing resolution. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

to 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 1 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 


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VOTE NO. 1—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

2. An amendment was offered by Representative Jordan to increase spending in Function 500 (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services) by $140 million in 2010 for the private 

school scholarship program in the District of Columbia. The increase would be offset by cutting an equal amount from funds in 

Function 370 (Commerce and Housing Credit) provided for Digital 

Television Convert Box coupons. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 2 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 


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VOTE NO. 2—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

3. An amendment was offered by Representatives Harper and 

Austria to decrease Function 150 (International Affairs) funding for 

aid to the Gaza Strip by $400 million for fiscal year 2010 and increase Function 050 (National Defense) by the same amount for 

military pay. The amendment would also create a separate allocation to the Appropriations Committee for Function 050 to eliminate 

its flexibility to move resources from Function 050 to other functions. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 13 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 3 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 


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VOTE NO. 3—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

4. An amendment was offered by Representative Diaz-Balart to 

reduce revenues in the Chairman’s mark by $490 billion over fiscal 

years 2010 through 2014 and create a reserve fund for revenues. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 4 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 


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VOTE NO. 4—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

5. An amendment was offered by Representative Ryan that 

would place a restriction on the health reform reserve fund to prevent legislation that would add private-sector mandates or taxes on 

small businesses, reduce private insurance coverage, reduce private 

sector jobs, expand entitlements, or use comparative effectiveness 

data to ‘‘limit patient choice and restrict medical professionals from 

providing and/or prescribing the care they believe to be medically 

necessary.’’ 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 5 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 


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VOTE NO. 5—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

6. An amendment was offered by Representative Jordan to freeze 

non-defense, non-veterans discretionary funding at the enacted fiscal year 2008 level, for a five-year cut of $1.5 trillion below the 

level in the Chairman’s mark. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 6 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 


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VOTE NO. 6—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

7. An amendment was offered by Representative Nunes to assume oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and dedicate receipts from bonus bids, royalties, and rental 

payments to a clean energy trust fund, the Highway Trust Fund, 

and deficit reduction. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 7 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 


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VOTE NO. 7—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

8. An amendment was offered by Representative Lummis to add 

a provision to the deficit-neutral energy independence reserve fund 

(Section 303) that would prevent the Chairman from making the 

necessary aggregate or allocation adjustments of the concurrent 

resolution if legislation falling under the reserve fund were to include a cap-and-trade program. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 8 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 


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VOTE NO. 8—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

9. An amendment was offered by Representatives McHenry and 

Hensarling to reduce discretionary funding for Function 500 (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services) in the Chairman’s mark by $50 million for 2010. It also would increase discretionary funding for Function 700 (Veterans Benefits and Services) 

by $50 million above the Chairman’s mark. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 22 nays. 

VOTE NO. 9 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 


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VOTE NO. 9—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

10. An amendment was offered by Representative Ryan to strike 

the reconciliation instructions to the Committees on Ways and 

Means and Energy and Commerce for health reform, and to the 

Committee on Education and Labor for investing in education. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 22 nays. 

VOTE NO. 10 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 


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VOTE NO. 10—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) 

TSONGAS (MA) LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

11. An amendment was offered by Representative Aderholt to require a separate vote on increasing the debt limit unless a certification were made that foreign-held debt was below 21.6 percent of 

gross domestic product. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 11 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 


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VOTE NO. 11—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

12. An amendment was offered by Representative Lummis to create a budget point of order against legislation that makes changes 

to the Federal Family Education Loan program unless certain conditions are met. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 12 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 


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VOTE NO. 12—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

13. An amendment was offered by Representatives Latta, Garrett, and Mack to eliminate the estate and gift tax at an approximate cost of $240 billion relative to the Chairman’s mark and offset 

this cost by a corresponding reduction in Function 920 (Allowances). 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 13 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 13 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 


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VOTE NO. 13—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) 

14. An amendment was offered by Representative Harper to provide that the Medicare improvement reserve fund be used for legislation that would increase premiums for the Medicare prescription 

drug benefit to those with incomes above $85,000 (individual) or 

$170,000 (family), which would conform to current law governing 

Part B premiums. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 12 ayes 

and 22 nays. 

VOTE NO. 14 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) 


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VOTE NO. 14—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

15. An amendment was offered by Representative Jordan to add 

multiyear discretionary spending caps, with separate caps for defense and non-defense spending. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 15 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 


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VOTE NO. 15—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

16. An amendment was offered by Representatives Diaz-Balart 

and McHenry to add a new section to the Chairman’s mark that 

would establish a point of order in the House with respect to considering legislation that would set a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 16 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 


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VOTE NO. 16—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

17. An amendment was offered by Representative Hensarling to 

apply pay-as-you-go to discretionary spending, allowing a point of 

order to stop consideration of an appropriations bill if it provided 

an increase above the CBO baseline in either the current year or 

budget year. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 17 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 


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VOTE NO. 17—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

18. An amendment was offered by Representative Campbell to 

require: the inclusion of Congressional Budget Office estimates in 

conference reports; roll call votes on legislation authorizing or providing over $50 million; the public availability of lists of earmarks 

on the internet 48 hours before consideration; written justifications 

for earmarks in appropriations bills reports; and restrictions on 

same-day rules. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 18 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 


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VOTE NO. 18—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

19. An amendment was offered by Representative Nunes to create a point of order against earmarks that would expire at the end 

of the first session of the 111th Congress and to establish new 

House rules for earmarks after the moratorium. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 12 ayes 

and 25 nays. 

VOTE NO. 19 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 


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VOTE NO. 19—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

20. An amendment was offered by Representative Ryan to prohibit agricultural payments to farmers who make over $250,000 in 

adjusted gross income. It would also place a hard cap of $250,000 

in total agricultural payments per person. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 11 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 20 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 


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VOTE NO. 20—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

21. An amendment was offered by Representatives Simpson and 

Harper to require the inclusion of medical liability reform as part 

of the health care reserve fund. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a voice vote. 

22. An amendment was offered by Representative Jordan to 

allow savings from amendments to appropriations bill or continuing resolutions to be designated for deficit reduction. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 12 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 22 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 


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VOTE NO. 22—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

An amendment was offered by Representative Lummis to add to 

the resolution a section expressing the sense of the House that 

every state should have at least one Job Corps center. 

The amendment was withdrawn. 

23. An amendment was offered by Representatives Ryan and 

Hensarling to create a point of order against legislation that would 

increase the unfunded liability of the Medicare Hospital Insurance 

Trust Fund or would cause a net increase in the long-term unfunded liability of the government. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 24 nays. 

VOTE NO. 23 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 


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VOTE NO. 23—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

24. An amendment was offered by Representative Lummis to add 

to the resolution a policy statement in support of freezing the administrative expenses at the Department of Education and devoting all savings to the Impact Aid program. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 24 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) GARRETT (NJ) 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 


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VOTE NO. 24—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

25. An amendment was offered by Representatives Hensarling 

and Jordan to deny emergency designations for additional activities 

of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 14 ayes 

and 25 nays. 

VOTE NO. 25 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 


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VOTE NO. 25—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

26. An amendment was offered by Representatives Hensarling 

and McHenry to add to the resolution a policy statement on requirements for receiving government-insured mortgages. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 26 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 


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VOTE NO. 26—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

27. An amendment was offered by Representative Nunes to establish a point of order against considering legislation in the House 

that would ‘‘have the effect of raising taxes on energy producers or 

the domestic production of oil and natural gas energy.’’ The amendment also would reduce Function 950 (Undistributed Offsetting Receipts) by $12.4 billion over five years and reduce spending by a 

similar amount. 

The amendment was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 15 ayes 

and 23 nays. 

VOTE NO. 27 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 


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VOTE NO. 27—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

An amendment was offered by Representative Simpson to provide funding for the Yucca Mountain repository project. 

The amendment was withdrawn. 

28. A sense of House section was offered by Representatives 

Ryan and Moore stating that additional legislative action is needed 

to ensure that states have the necessary resources to collect all 

child support that is owed to families and that 100 percent of the 

support should pass on to families without financial penalty. 

The sense of House amendment was agreed to by a voice vote. 

29. Ms. Schwartz moved that the Committee adopt the aggregates, functional totals, and other matters of the Chairman’s mark, 

as amended. The motion was agreed to by a voice vote. 

30. Ms. Schwartz moved that the Committee order the Chairman’s mark of the concurrent resolution as amended to be reported 

to the House of Representatives with the recommendation that the 

concurrent resolution do pass. The motion was agreed to by a roll 

call vote of 24 ayes and 15 nays. 

VOTE NO. 30 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

SPRATT (SC) (Chairman) X RYAN (WI) (Ranking) X 

SCHWARTZ (PA) X HENSARLING (TX) X 

KAPTUR (OH) X GARRETT (NJ) X 

BECERRA (CA) X DIAZ–BALART (FL) X 

DOGGETT (TX) X SIMPSON (ID) X 

BLUMENAUER (OR) X McHENRY (NC) X 


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VOTE NO. 30—Continued 

Name & State Aye No Answer 

Present Name & State Aye No Answer Present 

BERRY (AR) X MACK (FL) X 

BOYD (FL) X CAMPBELL (CA) X 

McGOVERN (MA) X JORDAN (OH) X 

TSONGAS (MA) X LUMMIS (WY) X 

ETHERIDGE (NC) X AUSTRIA (OH) X 

McCOLLUM (MN) X ADERHOLT (AL) X 

MELANCON (LA) X NUNES (CA) X 

YARMUTH (KY) X HARPER (MS) X 

ANDREWS (NJ) X LATTA (OH) X 

DeLAURO (CT) X 

EDWARDS (TX) X 

SCOTT (VA) X 

LANGEVIN (RI) X 

LARSEN (WA) X 

BISHOP (NY) X 

MOORE (WI) X 

CONNOLLY (VA) X 

SCHRADER (OR) X 

31. Ms. Schwartz, pursuant to House rule XXII, clause 1 moved 

that the Chairman be authorized to offer such motions in the 

House of Representatives as may be necessary to go to conference; 

and that the staff be authorized to make technical and conforming 

corrections in the concurrent resolution and committee amendments, and to calculate the remaining elements required on the 

resolution, prior to the filing of the concurrent resolution. The motions were agreed to by voice votes. 

Mr. Ryan stated the intention of the minority to file minority 

views for inclusion in the report on the Concurrent Resolution on 

the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010. 

Chairman Spratt adjourned the Committee. 


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HOUSE RULE XXVIII 

The adoption of a conference agreement by the two houses on a 

concurrent resolution on the budget would result in the engrossment of a House Joint Resolution changing the statutory limit on 

the public debt pursuant to House Rule XXVIII, clause 3. 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. 


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OTHER MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED UNDER THE RULES 

OF THE HOUSE 

COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Clause 3(c)(1) of rule XIII of the House requires that each committee report include oversight findings and recommendations pursuant to clause 2(b)(1) of rule X. The Committee on the Budget 

makes no such findings at this time. 

NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY, ENTITLEMENT AUTHORITY, AND TAX

EXPENDITURES

Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the House provides that committee 

reports shall include the statement required by section 308(a)(1) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 concerning new budget authority, entitlement authority, and tax expenditures. As a concurrent resolution that sets forth a blueprint for the Congressional 

budget, the budget resolution does not provide new budget authority or new entitlement authority or change revenues. Therefore, 

this report does not include such a statement. 

GENERAL PERFORMANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the House requires that each committee report include a statement of general performance goals and 

objectives, including outcome-related goals and objectives, for which 

the measure authorizes funding. Because the concurrent resolution 

on the budget does not authorize funding, the Committee cannot 

report any such goals and objectives to report. 


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MINORITY VIEWS 

INTRODUCTION

The Democratic fiscal strategy has been clear from the outset: to 

increase government spending at every opportunity, for any excuse, 

and push the reckoning down the road. Seizing on troubled economic times, they are pursuing a vast expansion of government intended not to right the ship, but to steer it toward a radically different course—straight into a tidal wave of spending and debt that 

is already building. Their budget—which is simply a sweeping expansion of government—spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much; it will sink under its own weight, and pull the U.S. 

economy down with it. 

The Majority’s entire fiscal outlook resorts to the tired and predictable notion that the central government is the first and best answer to the Nation’s problems. It relies on the outdated belief that 

more spending, and larger and more intrusive government, can 

lead to greater prosperity. Worse, the elements of the budget will 

likely weaken the U.S. economy, and sap its prospects for sustained 

growth. The higher borrowing and taxes needed to finance the 

Democrats’ plans will dampen incentives and crowd out opportunities for investment and growth. 

The Majority promises to provide for everyone’s health care; look 

after everyone’s child; send everyone to college; pick which industries will thrive in this economy; and cut taxes for everyone but the 

‘‘wealthy.’’ All these things sound desirable, and the budget pretends they can be had for free. They cannot. They will require huge 

tax increases, which will still be overwhelmed by the relentless torrent of spending; and hence they will force ever more borrowing as 

well, further draining the domestic resources needed for innovation 

and growth, and making America more vulnerable to the whims of 

foreign investors who today hold roughly 50 percent of U.S. debt. 

But this mounting debt, devastating as it will be, is simply the 

fiscal expression of the moral failing in the Majority’s approach. 

Their borrow-and-spend philosophy further decays an ethical principle that once guided fiscal policy. As Nobel Laureate James M. 

Buchanan once put it: 

Before the Keynesian inspired shift in thinking about 

fiscal matters, it was universally considered immoral to 

spend without taxing, except in periods of emergency (wars 

or major depressions). We have lost the moral sense of fisVerDate Nov 24 2008 23:38 Mar 28, 2009 Jkt 048256 PO 00000 Frm 00132 Fmt 6604 Sfmt 6604 E:\HR\OC\HR060.XXX HR060

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1 Buchanan, in a prepared statement to the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, concerning a proposed balanced budget amendment, 27 April 1992. 2President Johnson’s balanced budget in fiscal year 1969 often is credited to a 10-percent surtax enacted that year, and the creation of the ‘‘unified budget,’’ which combined Social Security 

spending and revenue with the rest of the budget. It is noteworthy, however, that the 1969 

budget also reduced spending measured in constant dollars. Without this spending reduction, 

the budget would not have been balanced. 

cal responsibility that served to make formal constitutional 

constraints unnecessary.1

Even Democratic Presidents who favored large expansions of government domestic programs—Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson— 

adhered to the principle of a government that lived within its 

means, though they could not always fulfill it.2 The conviction 

slipped away in the 1970s, as Washington increasingly tried to 

manage the economy by manipulating fiscal policy. But it never 

fully vanished: a large majority of Americans still believed in such 

fiscal discipline; and by the late 1990s—with a Republican Congress and a Democratic President—the goal was achieved. 

After the recession of 2001—and especially after the terrorist attacks of 9/11—budget deficits returned; but by 2004, President 

Bush and the Congress were striving to reduce them—and they 

were succeeding. That progress ended in 2008, with a severe economic slowdown and financial rescue package to thaw credit markets. By January this year, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] 

projected a record deficit of $1.2 trillion. 

Handed an admittedly daunting challenge, the new President 

and new Congress made their intentions clear: shovel on more 

spending and more borrowing. They promptly enacted a trilliondollar ‘‘stimulus’’ bill, followed by a $407.6-billion omnibus appropriation with nearly 9,000 earmarks. They drove this year’s deficit 

to nearly $2 trillion, exceeding 13 percent of gross domestic product—more than double the largest budget deficit since World War 

II. 

But they did not stop there. The President had an opportunity 

to present a fiscally disciplined budget—to get spending, deficits, 

and the debt under control. Instead he went the other direction; 

and the House Democratic Majority followed. The smallest deficit 

in the 5-year window of the committee-reported budget resolution— 

$586 billion—is still larger in nominal terms than any other postwar gap between spending and revenue ($459 billion)—and if they 

continue to follow the President’s plan, deficits will grow again 

after that. By the end of the President’s 4-year term, deficits begin 

rising again, growing faster than inflation and faster than the U.S. 

economy. 

Still, the Democrats’ willingness to heap more debt on future 

generations is only one of the moral failings in their fiscal strategy. 

Even worse is the effect of their big-government designs on the 

character of individual Americans. 

What has always made America great is the character of individual Americans, in all their wide diversity. The government’s 

rightful mission has been to secure the natural rights of individuals: to protect each person’s life, liberty, and freedom to pursue 

his or her own happiness. A government that presumes to reach 

beyond this mission is not ‘‘progressive.’’ It goes backward—finding 

excuses to privilege some at the expense of others. It suffocates 


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3Steyn, ‘‘Prime Minister Obama: Will European Statism Supplant the American Way?,’’ National Review, 23 March 2009. 4The most remarkable assertion is that the New Deal itself was too small, and only World 

War II spending had sufficient magnitude to prove Keynes’s point. One expression of this view 

appeared in a Time magazine article, on 29 March 1999, by former Labor Secretary Robert B. 

Reich. He says President Roosevelt, by 1938, had run out of options and finally turned to the 

Keynesian approach. Secretary Reich adds: ‘‘Yet not until the U.S. entered World War II did 

FDR try Keynes’ idea on a scale necessary to pull the Nation out of the doldrums. . . .’’ This 

ignores other key factors during the period: most of America’s working age population was either 

personal initiative and transforms self-reliance into a vice, and 

makes it virtuous to be dependent on government. It creates an 

aversion to risk, sapping the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for 

growth, innovation, and prosperity. 

If this sounds alarmist, consider what has happened in Europe, 

where such ‘‘progressive’’ government policies have long been entrenched. As recently described by author and political commentator Mark Steyn: 

The short version of late 20th-century history is that 

Continental Europe entirely missed out on the Eighties 

boom and its Nineties echo. A couple of weeks back, the 

evening news shows breathlessly announced that U.S. unemployment had risen to 7 percent, the highest in a decade and a half. Yet the worst American unemployment 

rate is still better than the best French unemployment 

rate for the same period. Indeed, for much of the 1990s the 

EU [European Union] as a whole averaged an unemployment rate twice that of the U.S. and got used to doubledigit unemployment as a routine and semi-permanent feature of life.3

For all these reasons, this budget debate has truly profound consequences. The Majority is pursuing the third major installment of 

the Federal Government’s 20th century expansion. Time magazine 

captured this sense last November, with a picture of then-President-elect Obama as the new Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a cover 

headline that read: ‘‘The New New Deal.’’ But that may actually 

understate the Democrats’ ambitions, which point toward the paternalistic, and economically enervating, European model. The 

cover of Newsweek announced on 16 February 2009: ‘‘We Are All 

Socialists Now.’’ 

To clarify this point, it is necessary to review not only the budget 

resolution as reported, but also the major fiscal and policy decisions 

already adopted by the Majority so far this year. The discussion 

below begins by reflecting on that context. 

‘‘STIMULUS’’ 

Advocates of ‘‘priming the economic pump’’ by spending more borrowed money have never suffered a lack of faith in their concept— 

despite the absence of any consistent evidence that the practice 

works. Even President Roosevelt, whose New Deal often is considered the largest and most consistent exercise of the Keynesian theory, rejected the notion. Yet like an alchemist explaining his failure 

to conjure up gold, if one ‘‘stimulus’’ doesn’t succeed, its proponents 

will declare: ‘‘Congress didn’t do it right,’’ or ‘‘it wasn’t big 

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serving in the military or employed in war production; most commodities, including gasoline, 

were rationed; and wages and prices were controlled by the government. 5The folly of rushing the measure through has only become more clear since its enactment. 

Still, sometimes cracks in this confidence do appear. No sooner 

had Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

than the House Speaker, as if anticipating its failure, was suggesting a second ‘‘stimulus’’ would be needed—though she soon disavowed the idea. In any case, the President got to sign his first big 

spending bill within the first month of his tenure.5

The supposedly ‘‘targeted’’ measure spent money on an estimated 150 government programs. It included $43.6 billion for 15 programs the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] has rated as 

‘‘ineffective’’ or ‘‘results not demonstrated.’’ Because it is funded on 

borrowed money, its cost will surely exceed the advertized $787 billion—reaching $1.1 trillion with interest payments. It helped push 

an already large budget current-year deficit above 13 percent of 

gross domestic product, according to the most recent estimates by 

the CBO. Worst of all, because of the additional debt it creates, the 

measure will actually weaken, not stimulate, the economy in the 

long run, according to CBO’s estimates. The only additional demand it will create is a demand for even more government. 

In addition to its purely financial aspects, the measure took several large steps toward nationalizing U.S. health care. 

It increased, by about 8.2 million, the number of those dependent 

on the Federal Government for health care, according to CBO estimates. Of these, 7 million will take advantage of the measure’s expanded COBRA coverage (COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus 

Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986), and 1.2 million will enroll in 

Medicaid under the $90-billion expansion of the Federal Medical 

Assistance Percentage [FMAP] formula for Medicaid. 

With the latter, the legislation threw this money at a flawed program. In early February, the Government Accountability Office 

published a report showing $32.7 billion worth of improper Medicaid payments in a single year (2007)—more than 10 percent of 

total Medicaid spending. But instead of reforming the program, the 

‘‘stimulus’’ bill increased payments using a methodology based on 

the current payment formula—widely acknowledged as seriously 

deficient because it rewards States for driving up their health care 

costs. 

It also shifted control of health care decisions toward the Federal 

Government with provisions that, as is often the case, sound eminently reasonable. 

One is health information technology [IT]. The ‘‘stimulus’’ bill 

spent $20 billion on a government-run IT program for medical providers, punishing those who already have adopted technology measures, and refusing to acknowledge the lack of consensus on interoperability standards, the nucleus of any health information technology program. The bill also ignored the widespread lack of confidence in the security of individuals’ personal medical information 

when managed by a Federal Government that frequently has mishandled electronic records. 

A second measure is known as ‘‘comparative effectiveness.’’ The ‘‘stimulus’’ bill set aside $1.1 billion for a new ‘‘Comparative Effectiveness Research’’ program. The purpose of this ‘‘research’’ is to 


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6 H. Rept. 111–004. 

allow the Federal Government even more leverage in deciding 

which medical treatments are worth paying for and which are not. 

This will inevitably impose government control over physicians’ 

medical decisions, and cause private-sector insurers to limit coverage in line with the government’s choices—all of which will turn 

American health care into a nationalized health maintenance organization [HMO]. As demonstrated in the United Kingdom and Canada, it is a mistake to let the government dictate health care decisions. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that the median wait time to see a general practitioner in Canada is 17.3 

weeks, with one man being told, at age 57, that he was too old to 

see the benefits of hip surgery. In the UK, a comparative effectiveness board has denied drugs for those suffering from breast cancer, 

Alzheimer’s Disease, and multiple sclerosis. 

While it is hard to imagine the United States would make such 

choices, Democrats on the Appropriations Committee—the committee responsible for funding agencies that oversee this program— 

have already indicated this practice as the goal of comparative effectiveness research. The committee’s report on the ‘‘stimulus’’ 

says: ‘‘Those items, procedures, and interventions . . . that are 

found to be less effective and in some cases, more expensive, will 

no longer be prescribed.’’ 6

THE OMNIBUS 

The Majority followed its trillion dollars of ‘‘stimulus’’ with another trillion-dollar spending measure: the omnibus appropriations 

bill, more than half of which was appropriated mandatory spending. Its $407.6 billion in nonemergency discretionary spending, as 

estimated by CBO, represented an increase of $29 billion, or 7.7 

percent, from fiscal year 2008 enacted levels. That increase alone 

was several times greater than inflation (0.03 percent at the time) 

just as the U.S. economy was shrinking. But when combined with 

the three appropriations bills previously enacted under the regular 

order, the Majority had increased discretionary spending by $80 

billion, or 8.6 percent, over the 2008 level. When added to the few 

appropriations bills enacted under the regular order, total fiscal 

year 2009 discretionary spending exceeded $1 trillion (see Table 2). 

TABLE 1: FISCAL YEAR 2009 OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL (H.R. 1105) 

[Budget Authority, in Billions of Dollars Annualized] 

FY 2008 

Enacted FY 2009 Dollar Increase 

Percent 

Increase 

Agriculture: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 18 .093 20 .456 2 .363 13 .1 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 19 .528 21 .530 2 .002 10 .3 

Commerce, Justice, Science: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 51 .803 57 .652 5 .849 11 .3 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 53 .441 57 .372 3 .931 7 .4 

Energy and Water: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 30 .888 33 .261 2 .373 7 .7 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 32 .340 32 .270 ¥0 .07 ¥ .02 

Financial Services: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 20 .599 22 .697 2 .098 10 .2 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 20 .903 22 .890 1 .987 9 .5 


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TABLE 1: FISCAL YEAR 2009 OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL (H.R. 1105)—Continued 

[Budget Authority, in Billions of Dollars Annualized] 

FY 2008 

Enacted FY 2009 Dollar Increase 

Percent 

Increase 

Interior and Environment: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 26 .555 27 .579 1 .024 3 .9 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 28 .052 28 .659 .607 2 .2 

Labor, HHS, Education: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 144 .841 149 .935 5 .094 3 .5 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 146 .292 150 .134 3 .842 2 .6 

Legislative Branch: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 3 .970 4 .402 .432 10 .9 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 4 .008 4 .330 .322 8 .0 

State, Foreign Operations: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 32 .800 36 .620 3 .820 11 .6 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 32 .841 36 .219 3 .378 10 .3 

Transportation, HUD: 

Budget Authority ........................................................................... 48 .821 55 .000 6 .179 12 .7 

Outlays .......................................................................................... 114 .270 114 .663 .393 0 .3 

Subtotal: Omnibus Appropriations Bill 

Budget Authority .................................................................. 378 .370 407 .602 29 .232 7 .7 

Outlays ................................................................................. 451 .675 468 .067 16 .392 3 .6 

Source: Congressional Budget Office (2008 scored levels at time of enactment). 

Even these figures understated the Majority’s spending spree, 

however, because many programs receiving increases in this measure already were boosted in the ‘‘stimulus’’; and with this ‘‘double 

dipping,’’ spending in programs covered by the omnibus nearly doubled compared with 2008. 

The bill also contained nearly 9,000 Member-sponsored earmarks totaling roughly $11 billion. These included $15 million for California Emission Reduction Grants; $1.8 million for swine odor and 

manure management; $200,000 for tattoo removal; $1.9 million for 

a water taxi service in Connecticut; and $2.2 million for grape genetics (see Table 3). There were also 85 earmarks for the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration, which had received $1 billion in the ‘‘stimulus’’ bill. 

With the President having pledged to halt earmarks, the administration scrambled for an excuse to let them slide in this case, and 

resorted to declaring this was ‘‘last year’s business’’—notwithstanding that it was this year’s Congress that passed the measure, 

and this year’s President who signed it. 

TABLE 2: TOTAL FISCAL YEAR 2009 APPROPRIATIONS 

[Budget Authority, in Billions of Dollars Annualized] 

FY 2008 

Enacted FY 2009 Dollar Increase Percent Increase 

Omnibus Appropriations Bill (from Table 1) 

Budget Authority ................................................................... 378 .370 407 .602 29 .232 7 .7 

Outlays .................................................................................. 451 .675 468 .067 16 .392 3 .6 

Previously Enacted Appropriations (Public Law 110–329) 

Defense 

Budget Authority ................................................................... 459 .332 487 .737 28 .405 6 .2 

Outlays .................................................................................. 475 .164 525 .250 50 .116 10 .5 

Homeland Security: 

Budget Authority ................................................................... 34 .852 42 .164 7 .312 21 .0 

Outlays .................................................................................. 38 .028 42 .625 4 .597 12 .1 

Military Construction, VA: 

Budget Authority ................................................................... 60 .213 72 .863 12 .650 21 .0 


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TABLE 2: TOTAL FISCAL YEAR 2009 APPROPRIATIONS—Continued 

[Budget Authority, in Billions of Dollars Annualized] 

FY 2008 

Enacted FY 2009 Dollar Increase Percent Increase 

Outlays .................................................................................. 52 .232 66 .881 14 .649 28 .0 

Labor, HHS Education 1

Budget Authority ................................................................... — 2 .320 2 .320 100 .0 

Outlays .................................................................................. — 1 .624 1 .624 100 .0 

Subtotal: Previously Enacted Appropriations 

Budget Authority .......................................................... 554 .397 605 .084 50 .687 9 .1 

Outlays ......................................................................... 565 .424 636 .410 70 .986 12 .6 

Total: Fiscal Year 2009 Appropriations 

Budget Authority .......................................................... 932 .767 1,012 .686 79 .919 8 .6 

Outlays ......................................................................... 1,017 .099 2 1,104 .500 2 87 .401 8 .6 

Source: Congressional Budget Office (2008 scored levels at time of enactment). 

1 Appropriations for these activities were increased in the continuing resolution. 

2 Fiscal Year 2009 includes $23 million in outlays from Public Law 110–252. 

TABLE 3: SELECTED EARMARKS IN OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL 

Earmark Amount 

California Emission Reduction Grants ................................................................................................................. $15,000,000 

Illinois Pedestrian and Bicycling Road and Trail Improvements ........................................................................ 2,850,000 

Center for Grape Genetics .................................................................................................................................... 2,192,000 

Center for Advanced Viticulture and Tree Crop Research ................................................................................... 2,192,000 

Promotion of Astronomy in Hawaii ....................................................................................................................... 2,000,000 

Pleasure Beach Water Taxi Service, Connecticut ................................................................................................ 1,900,000 

Honey Bee Lab ...................................................................................................................................................... 1,762,000 

Swine Odor and Manure Management ................................................................................................................. 1,791,000 

Sustainable Las Vegas ......................................................................................................................................... 951,500 

Study Alternative Uses for Tobacco ..................................................................................................................... 280,000 

Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach .................................................................................................... 200,000 

Digitization of New York Historical Society Collection ......................................................................................... 190,000 

The gimmicks in the bill included $28.8 billion in ‘‘advance ap- propriations’’—spending loaded up for 2010; $100 million in ‘‘emergency’’ spending (after the Majority already spent $787 billion for 

the emergency ‘‘stimulus’’ bill); and $3.2 billion in rescissions of 

highway contract authority that will produce no expenditure savings. 

THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET 

In his late-February address to Congress, the President said the 

answers to America’s troubles ‘‘exist in our laboratories and our 

universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of 

our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on 

Earth.’’ But the budget he submitted 2 days later contradicts the 

rhetoric. Like the entire Democratic fiscal and policy strategy, it 

views government—and especially the central government in 

Washington—as the fountain of wisdom and creativity. 

The House budget resolution is the President’s fiscal plan—indeed, news accounts leading to the markup consistently spoke of 

Congress voting on the President’s budget. While the numbers in 

the committee-reported resolution may differ from the President’s, 

through various maneuvers, such as reserve funds, it will result in 

the President’s budget. Therefore a review of the administration 

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7 Congressional Budget Office, A Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget and an Update of CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook, March 2009. 

SPENDS TOO MUCH

As reestimated by the CBO,7 the President’s budget increases 

total spending to more than $4 trillion in 2009—28.5 percent of 

GDP—the highest Federal spending has been as a share of the 

economy since World War II. After 10 years, spending as a percentage of GDP will still be 24.5 percent of GDP, nearly a full 2 percentage points higher than any year during the Bush administration, despite the full costs of 9/11, the war, and Hurricane Katrina. 

Through the entire 10–year budget window, spending remains at 

or above roughly 23 percent of GDP, the longest sustained post-war 

period for that level of spending. 

For discretionary spending, the budget proposes $1.3 trillion in 

budget authority [BA] for fiscal year 2010, according to the administration’s own figures—an increase of 6.7 percent from its estimate 

of the fiscal year 2009 nonemergency level. The 2010 total includes 

$533.7 billion for the Department of Defense, a 4-percent increase, 

and $599.1 billion for nondefense programs, a 9.3-percent increase 

over the preceding fiscal year (excluding emergencies). For the outyears, the budget unrealistically assumes that after 2 years of runaway spending, Congress will dramatically slow the growth of nondefense discretionary budget authority to about the rate of inflation. 

TABLE 4: BASE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING IN THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET 

[Dollars in billions] 

2009 2010 $ Increase % Increase 

Defense .......................................................................................... 513.3 533.7 20.3 4.0 

Nondefense ..................................................................................... 548.2 599.1 50.8 9.3 

Total Base ............................................................................. 1,061.6 1,132.8 71.2 6.7 

Source: Office of Management and Budget. Figures may not add due to rounding. 

The President also requested $83 billion in fiscal year 2009 funding for the Global War on Terrorism, as well as $130 billion for war 

costs in fiscal year 2010. In the outyears, the budget contains a 

$50-billion ‘‘placeholder’’ in every year. Finally, the budget takes 

the peak year of Iraq war funding (fiscal year 2008), inflates this 

level, and adds $1.6 trillion in BA to the baseline for the Iraq war 

over the next 10 years. The administration then takes credit for the 

difference, claiming $1.5 trillion in outlay ‘‘savings’’ between this 

baseline and its actual war requests for fiscal year 2009 and beyond. 

Notable discretionary spending increases requested by the President include the following: 

• A 35-percent increase in fiscal year 2010 budget authority 

for the Environmental Protection Agency, following a 92-percent increase in 2009 in the ‘‘stimulus’’ bill. 

• A 41-percent increase in 2010 for the State Department 

and other international agencies. 

• An 18-percent boost for housing. 

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• A 9-percent increase for agriculture. 

Despite the President’s talk of the need to reform entitlements 

and become ‘‘fiscally responsible,’’ his budget increases net entitlement spending over 10 years by $1 trillion. The total consists of refundable tax credits ($326.2 billion); a Medicare physician payment 

increase ($329.6 billion); and $317.8 billion in tax increases toward 

a health care reserve fund that will finance entitlement spending 

increases. 

The $634-billion health care reserve fund—described in further 

detail below—is said to be only a ‘‘down payment’’ on health care 

reform. The administration notes in the President’s budget that 

that amount will ‘‘not be sufficient for comprehensive reform’’ and 

lists these additional entitlement expenditures as ‘‘TBD’’—to be determined. Half of the $634-billion ‘‘health reserve fund’’ is offset 

with $317.8 billion in tax increases. The other half is offset with 

$316 billion in reductions to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. 

Of this $316 billion, more than half the savings come from adding 

a ‘‘competitive bidding’’ requirement for Medicare Advantage plans. 

As this proposal reduces payments to Medicare Advantage plans by 

approximately the same amount of money ($176.6 billion) as past 

proposals for the program (such as reducing Medicare Advantage 

payments to 100 percent of fee-for-service Medicare payments), it 

can be expected to reduce coverage by approximately the same 

number of individuals as CBO has previously estimated—6 million 

seniors. 

In addition to the Medicare Advantage reductions, additional 

savings are achieved from a variety of proposals, such as reductions in home health payments, changes to the Medicaid drug rebate program, bundling of Medicare hospital and post-acute care 

payments, and Food and Drug Administration approval of generic 

biologic drugs. Another provision calls for requiring the wealthiest 

seniors to pay more for their Medicare drug benefits. (This is a concept many Republicans have supported in the past, and it has been 

included in the Republican budget substitute the past 2 years. But 

the House Democratic Majority left it out of their budget resolution, and in markup rejected an amendment to include it.) 

TABLE 5: THE PRESIDENT’S ENTITLEMENT SPENDING INCREASES 

[Deficit impact in billions of dollars] 

2010–19 

Total Mandatory Initiatives and Savings (2010–19) ................................................................................................... 37 .9 

Outlay Effect of Tax Credits ......................................................................................................................................... 326 .2 

Health Care Tax Spending ........................................................................................................................................... 317 .8 

Medicare Physician Payments ...................................................................................................................................... 329 .6 

Total ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1,011 .5 

Source: Office of Management and Budget 

The budget extends a physician payment increase that adds $285 

billion to Medicare outlays over 10 years and increases Medicare’s 

existing $36 trillion in unfunded obligations by $2 trillion. Because 

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ing. While the details of this payment increase are not provided, 

an increase of about 1 percent each year can be expected, given the 

cost and past estimates of this proposal. (The Majority’s budget resolution also exempts from the House pay-as-you-go rule the Sustainable Growth Rate formula used for setting Medicare’s physician 

payment rates; and the Majority rejected an amendment establishing a point of order against any legislation in the House that 

would increase the government’s more than $56 trillion in unfunded liabilities.) 

When the President signed into law the Democratic Majority’s reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program 

[SCHIP], it included a funding cliff in new spending—meaning children would be put on the program initially only to be forced off or 

onto Medicaid when the new funding runs out after 5 years. As 

this is politically impossible, CBO estimated the true cost of the 

SCHIP expansion to be $38 billion more over 10 years than OMB 

reported, for a total of $153 billion. 

The President’s budget also calls for several other entitlement expansions: • Pell Grants. The budget permanently extends the ‘‘stimulus’’ 

bill’s so-called ‘‘temporary’’ increase to the Pell Grant benefit, and 

indexes the benefit so that it automatically rises 1 percent ahead 

of the consumer price index [CPI] going forward. The budget also 

converts Pell Grants into an entitlement program by placing it in 

the mandatory spending category. This will cost taxpayers an additional $116.8 billion over 10 years. • Three More New Entitlement Programs. The budget further expands government entitlements with the creation of three new 

mandatory programs. First, a new College Access and Completion 

Fund is created and funded for 5 years at a cost of $2.5 billion, 

after which time the program is ostensibly zeroed out. This is another misleading spending ‘‘cliff’’: it is highly unlikely that this program will end, and even if it does, it will not end abruptly. • Second, the budget spends $8.6 billion to establish a new nursing home visitation program. Once this new entitlement starts, the 

budget estimates it will cost taxpayers $1.8 billion per year. Finally, an additional $4.3 billion is added to the entitlement spending category for an automatic increase in the Low Income Home 

Energy Assistance Program. The increase is intended to correspond 

with rising energy costs. 

• Student Loans. The budget effectively eliminates the Federal 

Family Education Loan Program, a student loan program that 

leverages private sector capitol, and is the largest source of student 

financial aid. In its place, the budget finances the entire Federal 

student loan program with U.S. treasury borrowing. 

• Troubled Assets Relief Program [TARP]. Also included in the 

President’s mandatory spending proposals is a ‘‘placeholder for additional financial stabilization effort[s]’’ that could be used to purchase up to $750 billion in troubled assets from the banking sector. 

The budgeted amount of $250 billion actually represents the ‘‘subsidy,’’ or net cost to the Federal Government after recoupment, although the up-front investment would be about three times that 

amount. The funding will be made available in addition to the $700 

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• Agriculture Programs. The budget shifts Department of Agriculture funding away from farm subsidies and directs them toward 

food welfare programs. The most significant changes in farm subsidies include a reduction of direct payments to farmers making 

more than $500,000; a reduction in crop insurance premium assistance; and the elimination of payments for cotton storage. (The Majority excluded this provision from the budget resolution, and a bipartisan amendment to add a similar provision was rejected.) • Nutrition Programs. The budget includes $9.8 billion to fund 

the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition and Women and Infant 

Children Programs, which provide assistance to low-income children. This comes on top of the $20 billion provided for nutrition 

programs in the ‘‘stimulus’’ bill. The budget also mentions the creation of a pilot program to increase the participation of low-income 

seniors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps), but does not provide a cost estimate 

for this provision. • Hope for Homeowners Program. The Hope for Homeowners 

program began in 2008. The Department of Housing and Urban 

Development said: ‘‘400,000 borrowers in danger of losing their 

homes will be able to refinance into more affordable governmentinsured mortgages.’’ Yet as of 3 February 2009, only 25 loans have 

been guaranteed under the Hope for Homeowners program. The 

President’s budget proposes to increase funding for the program by 

$2.3 billion over 10 years. 

Taxes Too Much 

Overall, the President’s budget increases taxes by $1.5 trillion 

over 10 years, mainly through tax hikes on those earning more 

than $250,000 a year (which will include many small businesses), 

and a cap-and-trade tax on carbon emissions that will add to U.S. 

families’ costs for natural gas, electricity, home heating, and gasoline. 

Still, in contrast to the congressional Majority, the President’s 

budget recognizes that keeping tax rates the same does not constitute to a new tax ‘‘cut.’’ Specifically, his revenue baseline assumes the continuation of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief laws beyond 

their scheduled expiration in 2011. The administration baseline 

also assumes indexing the alternative minimum tax [AMT] for inflation. House Democrats adopted a pay-as- you-go rule that treated both of these extensions as new tax ‘‘cuts’’ requiring offsetting 

tax increases. 

Some of the significant tax increases in the President’s budget 

are the following: 

• Tax Hikes on ‘‘Upper-Income Individuals.’’ This provision 

raises $636.7 billion over 10 years. More than half that revenue 

($339 billion) comes from reinstating the 36 percent and 39.6 percent tax brackets for taxpayers earning more than $250,000 (married) and $200,000 (single). The overwhelming majority of small 

businesses pay taxes at the top two individual rates, so this represents a de facto tax hike on the engine of job creation in the U.S. 

economy. 

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holds paying taxes at the top two income brackets (currently 33 

percent and 35 percent) would only be able to take this deduction 

at the 28-percent rate instead, thereby lowering its tax value. It is 

a curious step at a time when the government also is trying to support a troubled housing market. The tax deduction for charitable 

giving would also be capped in a similar way for top-tier filers. • Exemptions and Deductions. The budget reinstates the Personal Exemption Phaseout [PEP] and limitation on itemized deductions for those earning more than $250,000 (married) and $200,000 

(single). This increases taxes by $179.8 billion over 10 years. • The Death Tax. The estate tax, scheduled to be repealed next 

year, is resurrected in the President’s budget, which maintains the 

provision at its 2009 parameters (i.e. top rate of 45 percent, estate 

exemption amount is $3.5 million). This onerous tax punishes families for building up savings to pass on to their heirs; and it imposes 

an especially heavy burden on small businesses and family farms. • Capital Gains. The President increases the capital gains tax 

rate from 15 percent to 20 percent for upper income taxpayers, 

raising taxes by $118.1 billion over 10 years. • Cap and Trade. The President’s budget proposes to begin capping carbon emissions beginning in 2012. This new policy would 

impose an $80-billion annual cost to the economy—or $646 billion 

over 10 years—by making carbon-based energy more expensive. 

The household impact of the proposal is expected to be anywhere 

from $1,600 to $4,500 per year. The administration claims the burden of increased energy prices would be eased by returning most 

of the new revenue to taxpayers through the Make Work Pay tax 

credit. But the credit is not available to seniors and those who do 

not work. A conservative estimate also shows this proposal could 

lead to as many as 1.5 million job losses by 2015. 

It is important to note that Treasury routinely assumes excise 

taxes reduce incomes in the affected industry and for others 

throughout the economy, and offsets the revenue gain by 25 percent. Consequently, the $646 billion actually understates the impact of the cap-and-trade policy. The actual burden on consumers 

may be more than $800 billion. 

• Energy Taxes. The budget signals a greater emphasis on alternative and renewable energy at the expense of the oil and natural 

gas industries. The budget repeals numerous different tax provisions for oil and gas producers, including the manufacturing deduction and expensing of drilling costs, which would effectively raise 

taxes on the industry by $31 billion to $80 billion. 

In addition, the budget requests implementation of last summer’s 

controversial ‘‘use it or lose it’’ leasing policy, which would add yet 

another $1 billion to domestic energy producers’ costs. Altogether, 

the budget’s energy policies could cost 167,000 jobs, studies show. 

The budget also contains a range of ‘‘loophole closers,’’ recommended by the President, that raise taxes by a total of $353 billion over 10 years. 

• Enforcement. The largest item is ‘‘international enforcement, 

reform deferral, and other tax reform,’’ which raises $210 billion. 

The lion’s share of this revenue likely comes from an elimination 

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dermine U.S. competitiveness by moving further toward a worldwide system of international taxation (most countries have territorial systems) and would likely lead to a rise in foreign takeovers 

of U.S.-based companies. 

The U.S. has experimented with this provision in the past. In the 

mid-1980s, tax deferral was eliminated for U.S.-based shipping 

companies. Several large U.S. shipping companies were subsequently taken over by foreign competitors to bypass the harmful effects of the new law and reap the tax benefits of being foreignowned. These takeovers led to a loss of U.S.-headquartered jobs at 

these shipping companies and affected domestic jobs in industries 

tied to the shipping industry. • Carried Interest. The budget would tax carried interest at private equity funds at the ordinary income rate instead of the capital 

gains rate (i.e. tax rate rises from current 15 percent to as much 

as 39.6 percent). This provision hampers the flow of private venture capital at precisely the time when we should be encouraging 

it. 

TABLE 6: THE PRESIDENT’S NET TAX INCREASE 

[Deficit impact in billions of dollars] a

2010–19 

Obama Net Tax Provisions (2010–19) ....................................................................................................................... ¥50 .0 

Replace Aviation Excise Tax with an Equivalent Fee ................................................................................................ ¥77 .1 

Include Climate Tax ................................................................................................................................................... ¥645 .7 

Include Health Reform Tax ......................................................................................................................................... ¥317 .8 

Include Receipt Effect from Mandatory Proposals .................................................................................................... ¥14 .1 

Include Outlay Effect of Tax Credits .......................................................................................................................... ¥326 .2 

Total Tax Increase ............................................................................................................................................. ¥1,430 .8 

a Negative numbers indicate an increase in taxes. 

Source: Office of Management and Budget. 

BORROWS TOO MUCH

As noted, the deficit stood at $1.2 trillion in January. But the 

President and the Democratic Congress have already widened this 

fiscal gap to $1.8 trillion, according to CBO—a deficit increase 

greater than the total deficit in any year in the United States’ history. 

The hemorrhage of red ink results from the economic ‘‘stimulus,’’ 

expanded funding for the Troubled Assets Relief Program, doubling 

the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and an omnibus appropriations bill that will drive this year’s total discretionary 

spending above $1 trillion. The total deficit is 13.1 percent of GDP, 

more than twice the highest deficit level as a share of the economy 

since World War II. According to CBO, the President’s deficits total 

$1.379 trillion (9.6 percent of GDP) in 2010, and $970 billion (6.4 

percent of GDP) in 2011. They jump to $749 billion in 2014, the 

target year for the cut-the-deficit-in-half goal. Deficits continue to 

grow, reaching $1.189 trillion by the end of the decade. 

This practice of financing big promises with borrowed money is, 

of course, precisely what got the U.S. economy into its current troubles—and this budget makes it permanent government policy. Further, like the budget’s tax increases, its heavy borrowing soaks up 


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8 CBO, A Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget and an Update of CBO’s Budget and 

Economic Outlook, March 2009. 

the very economic resources needed for private-sector investment to 

sustained growth in the U.S. economy. 

It also adds to an already growing debt that threatens to overwhelm future generations. Under the President’s budget, debt held 

by the public—effectively the amount Treasury needs to borrow in 

private markets—will double by 2014, to $12.6 trillion, and will 

more than triple before the end of the decade, to $17.3 trillion in 

2019, CBO estimates. Measured as a share of the economy, debt 

held by the public rises to 82.4 percent of GDP by 2019.8

According to Treasury, foreigners currently hold more than 50 

percent of U.S. debt; but it cannot be taken for granted that they 

will continue to hold this current debt, much less the huge increases the Obama administration will need to borrow. 

OBAMA REDUX: 

THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC BUDGET 

INTRODUCTION

After first protesting that their budget was different from the 

President’s—with less spending, smaller deficits, and lower debt— 

Majority Members conceded during markup that the two budgets 

were really the same. Some of their comments: 

• ‘‘This budget resolution shares the President’s priorities.’’ 

• ‘‘[This is a] key step to making the President’s plan a reality.’’ 

• ‘‘The President has proposed, and under this budget we support his plans.’’ 

• The Chairman’s Mark ‘‘embraces’’ and ‘‘supports’’ the President’s budget. 

These remarks only admitted the obvious. The Chairman’s Mark, 

and the budget as reported, could have been described as different 

from the President’s budget only if one believed the following: 

• That the 5-year budget window, as opposed to the President’s 

10-year plan, was not designed to hide the explosion of costs after 

2014 for the President’s ambitious, big-government agenda. 

• That the AMT would be fixed in a ‘‘deficit-neutral’’ fashion— 

that is, by raising other taxes—though the Democrats themselves 

have rejected this approach for the past 2 years. 

• That the ‘‘Making Work Pay’’ tax credit—a key tax provision 

in the President’s budget—would not be extended unless offset (it 

was created as an ‘‘emergency’’ measure). 

• That the Troubled Assets Relief Program [TARP] was over and 

the Treasury Secretary’s financial stabilization plans will get no 

more funding. 

• That the budget’s numerous ‘‘reserve funds’’ (AKA tax and 

spend) would not be used to increase spending and taxes in the 

President’s plan for a sweeping expansion of government. 

• That the House would give up its plans to jam through the 

U.S. Senate a government takeover of health care and student 

loans, and possibly a carbon ‘‘cap-and-trade’’ system by using the 

fast-track ‘‘reconciliation’’ process. 


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9The Majority will defend this assumption by claiming they merely applied the Congressional 

Budget Office [CBO] baseline. CBO projects tax revenue based on ‘‘current law’’—meaning tax 

provisions that are scheduled to lapse under existing law are assumed to lapse, however unrealistic that assumption might be. It is true that CBO exists to serve the Congress, and Congress 

relies on the agency’s economic and budgetary estimates. But the baseline assumptions in the 

congressional budget are the prerogative of the House and Senate Budget Committees. 

If one does not believe these things, the resolution as reported 

truly is the President’s budget; and as such it ushers in the third 

and final wave of government expansion, building on the New Deal 

and the Great Society. For that reason, much of this discussion focuses on peculiar aspects of the budget relating to congressional 

rules and practices. 

TABLE 7: BUDGET COMPARISONS 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 

CBO March Baseline: 

Revenue ....................................................... 2,186 2,334 2,783 3,086 3,281 3,436 

Outlays ......................................................... 3,853 3,473 3,476 3,417 3,581 3,746 

Deficits ........................................................ ¥1,667 ¥1,139 ¥693 ¥331 ¥300 ¥310 

Debt (Public) ............................................... 7,703 8,658 9,340 9,712 10,016 10,372 

President’s Budget: 

Revenue ....................................................... 2,159 2,289 2,586 2,917 3,095 3,231 

Outlays ......................................................... 4,004 3,669 3,556 3,575 3,767 3,979 

Deficits ........................................................ ¥1,845 ¥1,379 ¥970 ¥658 ¥672 ¥749 

Debt (Public) ............................................... 7,987 9,319 10,292 11,055 11,770 12,628 

Committee-Reported Budget: 

Revenue ....................................................... 2,186 2,328 2,628 2,916 3,127 3,310 

Outlays ......................................................... 3,880 3,550 3,555 3,533 3,713 3,908 

Deficits ........................................................ ¥1,694 ¥1,222 ¥927 ¥617 ¥586 ¥598 

Debt (Public) ............................................... 7,730 8,768 9,684 10,344 10,934 11,577 

Source: Committee on the Budget, Republican staff. Figures may not add due to rounding. 

OVERVIEW

As noted, it is a 5-year budget, plus fiscal year 2009. It assumes a peak deficit of $1.694 trillion in fiscal year 2009. The deficit path 

is below the President’s as scored by the CBO, falling to $585 billion in 2013 and then starting to rise. Deficits total approximately 

$628 billion less than the President’s for the fiscal year 2009–14 

period. 

One reason for these differences and others is that the committee’s reported budget carries many spending initiatives in the form 

of ‘‘reserve funds’’; the costs of these items are not reflected in the 

budget figures. The House budget also assumes, in its revenue 

base, a large tax increase resulting from the scheduled expiration 

of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief provisions, and also assumes more 

than 20 million new taxpayers would be ensnared by the AMT.9

These two premises yield a tax hike of roughly $1.2 trillion over 

5 years, and $3.3 trillion over 10 years, and includes increases in 

marginal rates for all tax brackets, elimination of the 10-percent 

bracket, higher taxes on investments and children, among others. 

The resolution then retains some of the 2001/2003 tax provisions, 

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policies in place today. The budget still raises taxes by more than 

$1 trillion over 10 years, as explained below. 

It should be noted, however, the deficits in the committee-reported budget do not take into account a number of policies likely 

to be enacted—such as an AMT patch, the Making Work Pay tax 

credit, and TARP funding. The effects of adding these policies are 

reflected in Table 2 below. 

Under the committee budget, debt held by the public would be 

67 percent of gross domestic product [GDP]. CBO put the President’s debt at 73 percent in 2014. 

TABLE 8: REALISTIC DEFICITS UNDER THE COMMITTEE-REPORTED BUDGET 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–14 

AMT .................................................. ................ ................ ¥69.0 ¥30.6 ¥33.9 ¥37.3 ¥170.8 

Making Work Pay Credit .................. ................ ................ ¥29 ¥42 ¥43 ¥43 ¥156.3 

TARP ................................................. ¥125 ¥125 0 0 0 0 ¥125 

Debt Service ..................................... — ¥2 ¥6 ¥10 ¥17 ¥24 ¥59 

Total ........................................ ¥125 ¥127 ¥103 ¥83 ¥93 ¥104 ¥511 

More Realistic Deficits, 

Reported Budget ....... ¥1,819 ¥1,349 ¥1,031 ¥700 ¥679 ¥703 ¥4,462 

Source: Committee on the Budget, Republican staff. Figures may not add due to rounding. 

RECONCILIATION

As a means of leveraging the passage of major legislative initiatives, and minimizing resistance, the budget employs the fast-track 

reconciliation process. 

The budget instructs the Ways and Means Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee, and the Education and Labor 

Committee to report legislation by the end of September reducing 

the deficit by $1 billion each over 6 years. But the committees are 

bound by nothing other than the deficit reduction amount. So this 

provision allows them to report any legislation they choose; and it 

could then move swiftly through the Senate, because reconciliation 

is not subject to a filibuster. Thus this provision allows Congress 

to lock out the minority and pass sweeping changes proposed by 

the President on entirely partisan votes. These could include: • Health Care Reform. This provision has the potential to redefine the relationship between the patients and their doctors, placing a government bureaucrat between them. With so much at 

stake, using reconciliation instructions to jam through monumental 

changes in health care—which constitutes 17 percent of the Nation’s economy—cheats the American people out of the debate they 

deserve. • Cap and Trade. The President’s budget proposes to begin capping carbon emissions beginning in 2012. This new policy would 

impose a $79 billion annual cost to the economy—or $629 billion 

over 10 years—by making carbon-based energy more expensive. 

The increase in energy prices could force households to spend an 

extra $1,100 per year, on average. • Student Loans. The President’s budget also would effectively 

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lege costs, resulting in a complete government takeover of student 

loans. 

This is a clear abuse of reconciliation, which was always intended to provide for deficit reduction. As Senator Byrd has stated, 

using the reconciliation process ‘‘to enact substantive policy 

changes is an undemocratic disservice to our people and to the Senate’s institutional role.’’ 

Other senior Senators who have criticized the approach in the 

House budget include the following: • Senator Conrad, Budget Committee Chairman, at a committee 

hearing on 12 February 2009: ‘‘[Reconciliation] was never intended 

for the purposes to which it’s been put . . . However meritorious, 

whether it’s health care reform, whether it’s global climate change 

legislation, I think we need as a body to think very, very carefully 

about do we want reconciliation to be used in a way to override the 

normal process and to allow without ability to filibuster a simple 

majority to pass sweeping legislation. . . . [T]here is no most single 

element of rules that goes more against minority rights than the 

reconciliation that I know of.’’ • Senator Gregg, Budget Committee Ranking Member, quoted in 

the Associated Press on 23 March 2009: ‘‘[Reconciliation] would be 

the Chicago approach to governing: strong-arm it through. You’re 

talking about the exact opposite of bipartisan. You’re talking about 

running over the minority, putting them in cement, and throwing 

them in the Chicago River.’’ 

• Senator Baucus, Finance Committee Chairman, quoted in Congressional Quarterly on 5 March 2009: ‘‘Easy is not always best. It 

becomes partisan, and if it becomes partisan, even if you get a partisan solution, it tends not to be lasting. You can jam something 

down somebody’s throat . . . but the point is, it’s by far better to 

be inclusive than exclusive.’’ 

RESERVE FUNDS

Instead of funding promised initiatives, the budget contains 17 

‘‘deficit-neutral’’ reserve funds that pledge extra money for pet initiatives if offsets are included. Reserve funds provide a free pass 

for legislation that chases higher spending with higher taxes. They 

allow spending or tax provisions to be adopted if they are offset by 

spending reductions or—as is far more likely—tax increases. In 

most cases, the amount of additional spending and taxes anticipated is unspecified. 

Twelve of these reserve funds would allow unlimited additional 

taxes and spending. One provides for a tax cut bill that does not 

cut taxes. Another provides $285 billion in deficit spending. Three 

proclaim to extend ‘‘current’’ tax policy but in fact enshrine a huge 

tax increase on millions of families, on small businesses, and on 

family farms. The reserve funds—most of which are deficit-neutral 

over 5 years and 10 years, unless indicated otherwise—are the following: 

• Health Care Reform. The provision calls for ‘‘improvements to 

health care in America,’’ deficit-neutral over 5 years and 10 years. 

No spending amount is identified. 

• College Access, Affordability, and Completion. The fund, to be 

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maximum Pell Grant by the consumer price index plus 1 percent. 

No spending amount is identified. • Increasing Energy Independence. The language explicitly talks 

about ‘‘reductions in greenhouse gas emissions’’ and associated 

spending programs. It is deficit-neutral over 5 years and 10 years; 

no spending amount is identified. • Veterans and Servicemembers. Among other things, this fund 

calls for expanding concurrent receipt, but rules out the President’s 

proposal for billing third-party insurers. No spending amount is 

identified. • Tax Relief. The fund calls for deficit-neutral ‘‘tax relief’’ for 

working families, businesses, States, or communities. No other details or amounts are specified. • A 9/11 Health Program. No spending amount is identified. • Child Nutrition. No spending amount is identified. • Unemployment Insurance Reforms. No spending amount is 

identified. • Child Support. No spending amount is identified. • The Affordable Housing Trust Fund. No spending amount is 

identified. • Home Visiting. The fund calls for a program for home visits to 

low-income families and mothers-to-be. No spending amount is 

identified. 

• Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program [LIHEAP]. This 

provision calls for an unspecified increase in LIHEAP. 

• Surface Transportation. The fund is intended to maintain solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, and requires any transfers into 

the trust fund to be fully offset. 

• Medicare. This is a ‘‘current policy’’ reserve fund allowing an 

$87.29 billion spending increase over 5 years, and $284.97 billion 

over 10 years, for Medicare ‘‘improvements.’’ No offsets are required. • Middle Class Tax Relief. This is another ‘‘current policy’’ re- serve fund for ‘‘middle class tax relief,’’ totaling $698.571 billion 

over 5 years, and $1,848.523 billion over 10 years. The language 

identifies the 10-percent individual income tax bracket, marriage 

penalty relief, the $1,000 child credit, among others. No offsets are 

required. • AMT. This also is a ‘‘current policy’’ reserve fund for one year of AMT relief, with a budget impact of $68.65 billion over 5 years 

and 10 years. No offsets are required. • Estate and Gift Tax. This section of the budget calls for a ‘‘current policy’’ reserve fund for the death tax, with a budget impact 

of $72.033 billion over 5 years, and $256.244 billion over 10 years. 

No offsets are required. 

DISCRETIONARY SPENDING

The pattern of nonemergency discretionary follows the President’s 2010 budget: large increase in the budget year, followed by 

sharp outyear declines in spending growth. 

The base discretionary topline appears to be $1.099 trillion in 

budget authority [BA], an increase of $86 billion (8.5 percent) over 

the 2009 scored level. The Appropriators’ 302(a) allocation can be 

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lion), or increased $1.9 billion in 2010 for LIHEAP. The additional 

spending is not otherwise accounted for in the resolution per usual. 

The fiscal year 2010 nondefense discretionary dollar increase over the 2009 scored level is $57 billion, approximately a 12-percent increase without cap adjustments. 

The budget assumes the President’s base discretionary defense 

request in all years. It also assumes the President’s overseas contingency funding, including $83 billion in fiscal year 2009; $130 billion in fiscal year 2010; and $50-billion placeholders for 2011–14. 

War spending is not treated as an ‘‘emergency,’’ but it nevertheless 

‘‘shall not count for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act 

of 1974 or this resolution.’’ The advance appropriations cap is the 

same as last year, $28.9 billion. An advance for the Corporation for 

Public Broadcasting is on top and uncapped. 

The budget includes ‘‘policy’’ statements on taxes and defense; 

and Sense of the House language on VA/military healthcare, homeland security, ‘‘competitiveness,’’ pay parity, and the Great Lakes. 

TABLE 9: DISCRETIONARY SPENDING IN THE COMMITTEE-REPORTED BUDGET 

[In billions of dollars] 

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–14 

Defense ............................................ 535.8 556.1 564.3 573.6 584.4 598.2 2,876.7 

International .................................... 38.2 48.5 52.7 57.1 61.5 65.9 285.7 

Other Nondefense Disc .................... 448.1 494.5 512.2 525.2 536.9 551.3 2,620.2 

Base Discretionary ........................... 1,022.1 1,099.1 1,129.3 1,155.9 1,182.8 1,215.5 5,782.6 

2010 Cap Adjustments .................... — 3.308 

Total Discretionary Base a ............... 1,036.6 1,102.4 1,129.3 1,155.9 1,182.8 1,215.5 5,785.9 

War ................................................... 82.6 130.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 

Enacted ............................................ 369.4 — — — — — — 

Topline ............................................. 1,488.6 1,232.4 1,179.3 1,205.9 1,232.8 1,265.5 6,115.9 

a Includes allowances in Function 920. 

Source: Committee on the Budget, Republican staff. Figures may not add due to rounding. 

TAX INCREASES

The budget repeats the President’s folly of raising taxes in the 

midst of a recession. The tax hikes total $574 billion over 5 years 

and $1.154 trillion over 10 years (see Table 10 below). The total is 

close to the President’s tax increase of $1.5 trillion over 10 years, 

as reestimated by CBO. But the figures reflected in the budget do 

not include the all-but-unlimited tax hikes that could come through 

the budget’s reserve funds. 

TABLE 10: TAX INCREASE IN THE COMMITTEE-REPORTED BUDGET 

[Revenue in billions of dollars] 

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2010–14 2010–19 

CBO Current-Law Baseline 1 ........... 2,334 2,783 3,086 3,281 3,436 14,920 34,548 

Committee Baseline 2 ...................... 2,328 2,628 2,916 3,127 3,310 14,308 4 32,443 

Current Tax Policy Baseline 3 .......... 2,324 2,580 2,794 2,952 3,085 13,734 31,289 

Tax Hike in Committee Budget 5 ..... 4 48 122 176 225 574 1,154 

1 Assumes 2001/03 tax relief provisions expire after 2010, and no alternative minimum tax [AMT] relief. 

2 Assumes only some 2001/03 provisions are extended, and a 1-year AMT patch. 

3 Assumes no new tax increases; extension of all 2001/03 tax provisions; and AMT patched for 10 years. 

4 Extrapolated 10-year revenues based on current policy reserve funds in Chairman’s Mark. 

5 Does not capture tax increases that could be imposed under reconciliation or ‘‘deficit-neutral’’ reserve funds. 

Source: Committee on the Budget, Republican staff. 


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10 Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville, Author’s Preface to the Twelfth Edition, Democracy in America, 1848. 11 ‘‘It has been the fault of those of us who stand for free enterprise that for too long we have 

accepted without protest the terminology of our opponents. We even use it ourselves. In Parliament we find ourselves talking about the ‘private’ sector of industry. We should insist on saying the ‘free’ sector.’’ Thatcher, ‘‘Competitive enterprise or State bureaucracy,’’ in The Guardian, 

1 July 1975. 

PAY-AS-YOU-GO

A new pay-as-you-go [pay-go] rule exempts the higher spending 

and lower revenues relative to the Budget Enforcement Act baseline in the ‘‘current policy’’ reserve funds, provided that the House 

passes a statutory pay-go bill. No Senate or Presidential action is 

required. 

CONCLUSION 

In his preface to the twelfth edition of Democracy in America, 

Tocqueville urged his own countrymen to look to America as the 

model of a thriving democratic republic. His conclusion deserves to 

be quoted at length. It reads: 

. . . The republic there [in America] has not been the 

assailant, but the guardian, of all vested rights; the property of individuals has had better guarantees there than in 

any other country in the world; anarchy has there been as 

unknown as despotism. 

Where else could we find greater causes of hope, or more 

instructive lessons? Let us look to America, not in order to 

make a servile copy of the institutions that she has established, but to gain a clearer view of the polity that will be 

the best for us; let us look there less to find examples than 

instruction; let us borrow from her the principles, rather 

than the details, of her laws. The laws of the French republic may be, and ought to be in many cases, different 

from those which govern the United States; but the principles on which the American constitutions rest, those 

principles of order, of the balance of powers, of true liberty, 

of deep and sincere respect for right, are indispensable to 

all republics; they ought to be common to all; and it may 

be said beforehand that wherever they are not found, the 

republic will soon have ceased to exist.10

Tocqueville’s observations were prescient. In the 19th and 20th 

centuries, America came into a league of its own in terms of rapid 

economic achievement, rising living standards, and international 

competitiveness. By the mid-20th century, America had become the 

powerhouse of the world’s economies, the arsenal of democracy, and 

the Nation whose strength and sacrifice helped save western Europe, first from fascism and then from communism. Several factors 

contributed to America’s pre-eminence—principally a reliance on 

the individual and private markets (or what former British Prime 

Minister Thatcher insisted should be called ‘‘the free sector’’ 11)— 

which generated innovation and growth and laid the groundwork 

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12From President Reagan’s First Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981. 

How ironic it would be if America now abandoned its leadership 

in the world just to imitate the European model, and follow the 

Continent’s discouraging economic decline. 

An alternative path is available. It is informed by a fundamentally different vision—one that flows from a confidence in Americans themselves. It recognizes that responsibility is not a slogan 

but a way of life, the twin of freedom. It promotes ownership and 

private property because America depends on—has always depended on—the strength and character of responsible individuals 

who value self-sufficiency, personal accomplishment, and loyalty to 

their families and communities. This approach acknowledges the 

need for a sturdy safety net for those facing chronic or temporary 

problems; but it understands that the reliability of this safety net 

depends on a vibrant free enterprise sector to generate the resources for the government to use. 

House Republicans will present such a budget for consideration 

in the House. It builds on the initiative of individual Americans, 

exercised responsibly in a free economy and a democratic political 

system. Strengthening the role of the individual is the key to invigorating the society, and the economy, at large. The Republican 

budget also will keep alive the American legacy of leaving the next 

generation better off. 

At the same time, it upholds Americans’ compassion toward 

those who are less well off. It will strengthen the safety net by 

making it sustainable for the long term—which cannot be done 

under current policies or the Obama/Democratic budget. 

In short, the Republican budget will keep faith with an essential 

point made by President Reagan in his first inaugural address: ‘‘We 

are a Nation that has a government—not the other way around.’’ 12

PAUL RYAN. 

JEB HENSARLING. 

DEVIN NUNES. 

ROBERT LATTA. 

MIKE SIMPSON. 

MARIO DIAZ-BALART. 

JIM JORDAN. 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 

PATRICK MCHENRY. 

CONNIE MACK. 

CYNTHIA LUMMIS. 

ROBERT ADERHOLT. 

STEVE AUSTRIA. 


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APPENDIX—THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE 

BUDGET 

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

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 

year 2009 and for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 

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. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House. 

Sec. 202. Reconciliation in the Senate. 

TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 301. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform. 

Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for college access, affordability, and completion. 

Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy independence. 

Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and servicemembers. 

Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for certain tax relief. 

Sec. 306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 9/11 health program. 

Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child nutrition. 

Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for structural unemployment insurance reforms. 

Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child support. 

Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. 

Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for home visiting. 

Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program trigger. 

Sec. 313. Reserve fund for the Surface Transportation Reauthorization. 

Sec. 314. Current policy reserve fund for Medicare improvements. 

Sec. 315. Current policy reserve fund for middle class tax relief. 

Sec. 316. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the alternative minimum tax 

(AMT). 

Sec. 317. Current policy reserve fund for reform of the Estate and Gift Tax. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 401. Adjustments for direct spending and revenues. 

Sec. 402. Adjustments to discretionary spending limits. 

Sec. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

Sec. 404. Oversight of Government performance. 

Sec. 405. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 406. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 407. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 

Sec. 408. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 


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TITLE V—POLICY 

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

Sec. 502. Policy on defense priorities. 

TITLE VI—SENSE OF THE HOUSE 

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. 

Sec. 607. Sense of the House 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: $1,659,525,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $1,933,072,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,190,099,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $2,361,429,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $2,507,846,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2009: $0. 

Fiscal year 2010: -$6,461,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: -$155,559,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: -$170,294,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: -$153,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: -$125,832,000,000. 

(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: $3,675,133,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $2,892,061,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $2,866,329,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,913,316,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $3,095,704,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $3,286,135,000,000. 

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

this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $3,357,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $2,996,234,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $2,981,872,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $2,939,612,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $3,093,577,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $3,261,525,000,000. 


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

of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) are 

as follows: 

Fiscal year 2009: $1,824,684,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $1,336,709,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $1,048,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $749,513,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $732,148,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $753,679,000,000. 

(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: $12,017,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $13,223,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $14,350,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $15,276,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $16,162,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $17,100,000,000,000. 

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

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2009: $7,730,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: $8,768,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: $9,684,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: $10,344,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: $10,934,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: $11,577,000,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 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. 

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(A) New budget authority, $45,320,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,461,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $49,146,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,642,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $53,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,123,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $59,160,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,773,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $64,388,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,292,000,000. 

(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, $31,493,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,407,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $33,373,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,465,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $34,419,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $35,686,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,835,000,000. 

(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, $5,489,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,267,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,539,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $11,322,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,732,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,400,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,098,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,133,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,227,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $10,512,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

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(A) New budget authority, $56,009,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $37,387,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,450,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $38,600,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,237,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $39,249,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $39,348,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,754,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $40,017,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,957,000,000. 

(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: (A) New budget authority, $24,691,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,998,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $21,644,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,540,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $22,497,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,063,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,182,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,150,000,000. 

(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, $60,933,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,638,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,181,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,954,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $9,561,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,645,000,000. 

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. 


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(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. 

(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, $21,311,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,722,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,202,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,155,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,752,000,000. 

(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, $93,689,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $140,300,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $107,858,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $141,108,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $117,121,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $118,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 


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(A) New budget authority, $115,931,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $118,888,000,000. 

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, $383,911,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $388,746,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $364,910,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $367,628,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $369,852,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $368,556,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $389,719,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $384,359,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $400,451,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $400,173,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $427,076,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $449,653,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $449,784,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $505,171,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $504,962,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $513,824,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $513,591,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $558,235,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $558,381,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $616,315,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $616,150,000,000. 

(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, $536,169,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $539,918,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $510,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $513,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 


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(A) New budget authority, $478,039,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $478,323,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $483,386,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $482,745,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $485,396,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $483,758,000,000. 

(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): 

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

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

Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $106,365,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $105,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $112,842,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $112,386,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $108,702,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $108,103,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $113,803,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $113,151,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $116,021,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $115,480,000,000. 

(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, $52,857,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,630,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 


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(A) New budget authority, $53,892,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,503,000,000. 

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

(B) Outlays, $55,441,000,000. 

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

(B) Outlays, $54,526,000,000. 

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, $22,316,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $22,737,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,795,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $22,750,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,492,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: (A) New budget authority, $23,415,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,629,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $288,955,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $288,955,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

(A) New budget authority, $284,085,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $284,085,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $323,266,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $323,266,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $387,483,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $387,483,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $470,452,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $470,452,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $560,137,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $560,137,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2009: 

(A) New budget authority, $14,450,000,000. 

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

Fiscal year 2010: 


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(A) New budget authority, $9,422,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,893,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,052,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,903,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,518,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,750,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,543,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,122,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,865,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,962,000,000. 

(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. 

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, $82,648,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,129,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2010: 

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

(B) Outlays, $92,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2011: 

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

(B) Outlays, $76,530,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2012: 

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

(B) Outlays, $67,694,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2013: 

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

(B) Outlays, $57,830,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2014: 

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

(B) Outlays, $52,085,000,000. 


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TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE. 

(a) HEALTH CARE REFORM.— 

(1) Not later than September 29, 2009, 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) Not later than September 29, 2009, 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. 

(b) INVESTING IN EDUCATION.—Not later than September 30, 

2009, 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) SINGLE ENGROSSMENT.—The House may direct the Clerk to 

add at the end of a bill addressed by this section the text of another measure addressed by this section as passed by the House to 

form a single engrossed reconciliation bill within the meaning of 

section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE. 

(Senate reconciliation instructions to be supplied by the Senate.) 

TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 301. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM. 

The chairman of the 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. 302. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COLLEGE ACCESS, 

AFFORDABILITY, AND COMPLETION. 

The chairman of the 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, 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. 


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SEC. 303. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE. 

The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that— 

(1) provides tax incentives for or otherwise encourages the 

production of renewable energy or increased energy efficiency; 

(2) encourages investment in emerging 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. 304. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA’S VETERANS AND SERVICEMEMBERS. 

The chairman of the 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) enhances health care for military personnel or veterans; 

(2) maintains the affordability of health care for military retirees or veterans; 

(3) improves disability benefits or evaluations for wounded or 

disabled military personnel or veterans, including measures to 

expedite the claims process; 

(4) expands eligibility to permit additional disabled military 

retirees to receive both disability compensation and retired pay 

(concurrent receipt); or 

(5) eliminates the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and veterans’ dependency and indemnity compensation; 

and 

does not authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to bill 

private insurance companies for treatment of health conditions that 

are related to veterans’ military service, 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. 305. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CERTAIN TAX RELIEF. 

The chairman of the 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, businesses, States, or communities, by the amounts provided in such 

measure if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 


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

of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 306. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A 9/11 HEALTH PROGRAM. 

The chairman of the 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. 307. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD NUTRITION. 

The chairman of the 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. 308. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REFORMS. 

The chairman of the 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. 309. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR CHILD SUPPORT. 

The chairman of the 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 noncustodial 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. 310. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE AFFORDABLE 

HOUSING TRUST FUND. 

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


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SEC. 311. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HOME VISITING. 

The chairman of the 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 or programs of home 

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

will produce sizeable, sustained improvements in the health and 

well-being of children and 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. 312. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR LOW-INCOME HOME 

ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TRIGGER. 

The chairman of the 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. 313. RESERVE FUND FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION. 

The chairman of the 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. 

SEC. 314. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MEDICARE IMPROVEMENTS. 

(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the 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 increase outlays by an amount not to exceed $87,290,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and, for the 

purposes of the Rules of the House of Representatives, by an 

amount not to exceed $284,970,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 

through 2019 by reforming the Medicare payment system for physicians to— 

(1) change incentives to encourage efficiency and higher 

quality care in a way that supports fiscal sustainability; 

(2) improve payment accuracy to encourage efficient use of 

resources and ensure that primary care receives appropriate 

compensation; 

(3) improve coordination of care among all providers serving 

a patient in all appropriate settings; or 

(4) hold providers accountable for their utilization patterns 

and quality of care. 


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(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 401(a) of this resolution, the revisions made pursuant to this section shall apply 

only to a measure that includes the policies and the amounts described in this section. 

SEC. 315. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MIDDLE CLASS TAX 

RELIEF. 

(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the 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 decrease revenues (or increase outlays, as 

appropriate) by an amount not to exceed $698,571,000,000 in fiscal 

years 2010 through 2014 and, for the purposes of the Rules of the 

House of Representatives, by an amount not to exceed 

$1,848,523,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2019, by extending 

certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for middle 

class tax relief, including the— 

(1) 10 percent individual income tax bracket; 

(2) marriage penalty relief; 

(3) child credit at $1,000 and partial refundability of the 

credit; 

(4) education incentives; 

(5) other incentives for middle class families and children; 

(6) other reductions to individual income tax brackets; and 

(7) small business tax relief. 

(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this section shall apply 

only to a measure that includes the policies and the amounts described in this section. 

SEC. 316. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM OF THE ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX (AMT). 

(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the 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 decrease revenues by an amount not to 

exceed $68,650,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and fiscal 

years 2010 through 2019 by reforming the AMT so that tens of millions of working families will not become subject to it. 

(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this section shall apply 

only to a measure that includes the policies and the amounts described in this section. 

SEC. 317. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM OF THE ESTATE AND GIFT TAX. 

(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the 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 decrease revenues by an amount not to 

exceed $72,033,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and, for 

the purposes of the Rules of the House of Representatives, by an 

amount not to exceed $256,244,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 

through 2019 by reforming the Estate and Gift Tax so that only a 

minute fraction of estates owe tax, by extending the law as in effect 

in 2009 for the Estate and Gift Tax. 


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(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant to this section shall apply 

only to a measure that includes the policies and the amounts described in this section. 

TITLE IV—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 401. ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIRECT SPENDING AND REVENUES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS TO MAINTAIN CURRENT POLICY.— 

(1) Subject to the condition specified in paragraph (3), when 

the chairman of the Committee on the Budget evaluates the 

budgetary effects of a provision in any 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 relative to baseline estimates 

that are consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, he shall exclude 

from his evaluation the budgetary effects of such provision if 

such effects would have been reflected in a baseline adjusted 

to maintain current policy. 

(2) Paragraph (1) applies only to a provision with respect to 

which the chairman of the Committee on the Budget has exercised his authority to make budgetary adjustments under sections 314, 315, 316, and 317 of this resolution. 

(3) Paragraph (1) shall apply only if the House of Representatives has previously passed a bill to impose statutory pay-asyou-go requirements, or the measure containing the provision 

being evaluated by the chairman of the Committee on the 

Budget imposes such requirements, and only if such bill is designated as providing statutory pay-as-you-go-requirements 

under this subsection. 

(b) LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

(LIHEAP).—Prior to consideration of a 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, then the 

chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the budgetary treatment of such additional amounts and allocate such additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority to the Committee on Appropriations. 

(c) DEPOSIT INSURANCE.—When the chairman of the Budget 

Committee 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. 402. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 

(a) PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES.— 

(1) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM INTEGRITY

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(A) IN GENERAL.—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 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.—Prior to 

consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2010 that 

appropriates $5,117,000,000 to the Internal Revenue Service 

for Enforcement and provides an additional appropriation of up 

to $387,000,000 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 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.— 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 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 ACTIVITIES.—Prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 

fiscal year 2010 that appropriates $10,000,000 for in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of 

Labor and provides an additional appropriation of up to 

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the allocation to the 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) PARTNERSHIP FUND FOR PROGRAM INTEGRITY INNOVA- TION.—Prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report that provides discretionary 

budget authority for a Partnership Fund for Program Integrity 

Innovation in the Office of Management and Budget in an 

amount not to exceed $175,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and 

that designates the amount for the Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation in the Office of Management and 

Budget, the allocation to the 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. 

(6) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—Prior to consideration of 

any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report, the 

chairman of the 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) COSTS OF OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND EMERGENCY NEEDS.— (1) OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.—If any 

bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report makes 

appropriations for fiscal year 2009 or fiscal year 2010 for overseas deployments and related activities and such amounts are 

so designated pursuant to this subparagraph, 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. 

(2) 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, 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. 403. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—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.—An advance appropriation may be provided for 

fiscal year 2011 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report to accompany this resolution or 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. 

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

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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. 404. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE. 

All committees are encouraged 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 encouraged to make recommendations to reduce wasteful Federal spending to promote deficit reduction and long-term fiscal responsibility. Such recommendations should be submitted to the 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. 405. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the 

budget shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the 

Social Security Administration and 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. 406. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 

AND AGGREGATES. 

(a) APPLICATION.—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 Committee on the Budget. 

(d) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in this 

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Senate, but has yet to be presented to or signed by the President 

at the time of final consideration of this resolution. 

SEC. 407. 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 

Committee on the Budget shall adjust any appropriate levels and 

allocations in this resolution accordingly. 

SEC. 408. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House, and these rules shall supersede other 

rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other 

such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE V—POLICY 

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 by reforming and substantially increasing the unified 

tax credit. 

In total, this resolution supports the extension of 

$1,700,000,000,000 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, 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 

Ways and Means Committee, which is the tax-writing committee. 

SEC. 502. POLICY ON DEFENSE PRIORITIES. 

It is the policy of this resolution that— 

(1) there is no higher priority than the defense of our Nation, 

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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 

investigate the national security benefits of energy independence, including those that may be associated with alternative 

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(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 HOUSE 

SEC. 601. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON VETERANS’ AND 

SERVICEMEMBERS’ HEALTH CARE. 

It is the sense of the House that— 

(1) the House 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; therefore, this resolution provides $540,000,000 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 HOUSE ON HOMELAND SECURITY. 

It is the sense of the House 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— 

(1) safeguarding the Nation’s transportation systems, including rail, mass transit, ports, and airports; 

(2) continuing with efforts to identify and to screen for 

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(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 HOUSE ON PROMOTING AMERICAN INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. 

It is the sense of the House that— 

(1) the House 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 House 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 HOUSE REGARDING PAY PARITY. 

It is the sense of the House 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 HOUSE ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY. 

It is the sense of the House that nothing in this 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. 

SEC. 606. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON GREAT LAKES RESTORATION. 

It is the sense of the House that this resolution recognizes the 

importance of funding for an interagency initiative to address regional environmental issues that affect the Great Lakes, and that 

coordinated planning and implementation among the Federal, 

State, and local government and nongovernmental stakeholders is 

essential to more effectively addressing the most significant problems within the Great Lakes basin. 

SEC. 607. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF 

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. 

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(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. 

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