In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

October 16, 2013. 

Resolved, That the resolution from the Senate (S. Con. 

Res. 8) entitled ‘‘Concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 

year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels 

for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.’’, do pass with the following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert: 

1 SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET 

2 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014. 

3 (a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and de4 clares that this concurrent resolution establishes the budget 

5 for fiscal year 2014 and sets forth appropriate budgetary 

6 levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023. 

7 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

8 this concurrent resolution is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2014. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 
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TITLE III—RECOMMENDED LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2030, 2040, 

AND 2050 

Sec. 301. Long-term budgeting. 

TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 401. Reserve fund for the repeal of the 2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the reform of the 2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the 

2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program. 

Sec. 405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. 

Sec. 406. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. 

Sec. 407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. 

Sec. 408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for rural counties and schools. 

Sec. 409. Implementation of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement. 

TITLE V—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 501. Direct spending. 

TITLE VI—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 601. Limitation on advance appropriations. 

Sec. 602. Concepts and definitions. 

Sec. 603. Adjustments of aggregates, allocations, and appropriate budgetary levels. 

Sec. 604. Limitation on long-term spending. 

Sec. 605. Budgetary treatment of certain transactions. 

Sec. 606. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 607. Congressional Budget Office estimates. 

Sec. 608. Transfers from the general fund of the treasury to the highway trust 

fund that increase public indebtedness. 

Sec. 609. Separate allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on 

terrorism. 

Sec. 610. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

TITLE VII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 701. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. 

Sec. 702. Policy statement on tax reform. 

Sec. 703. Policy statement on Medicare. 

Sec. 704. Policy statement on Social Security. 

Sec. 705. Policy statement on higher education affordability. 

Sec. 706. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. 

Sec. 707. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 

Sec. 708. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending. 

Sec. 709. Policy statement on unauthorized spending. 

TITLE VIII—SENSE OF THE HOUSE PROVISIONS 

Sec. 801. Sense of the House on the importance of child support enforcement. 
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1 TITLE I—RECOMMENDED 

2 LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

3 SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

4 The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each 

5 of fiscal years 2014 through 2023: 

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

7 enforcement of this concurrent resolution: 

8 (A) The recommended levels of Federal reve9 nues are as follows: 

10 Fiscal year 2014: $2,270,932,000,000. 

11 Fiscal year 2015: $2,606,592,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2016: $2,778,891,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2017: $2,903,673,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2018: $3,028,951,000,000. 

15 Fiscal year 2019: $3,149,236,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2020: $3,284,610,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2021: $3,457,009,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2022: $3,650,699,000,000. 

19 Fiscal year 2023: $3,832,145,000,000. 

20 (B) The amounts by which the aggregate 

21 levels of Federal revenues should be changed are 

22 as follows: 

23 Fiscal year 2014: $0. 

24 Fiscal year 2015: $0. 

25 Fiscal year 2016: $0. 
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1 Fiscal year 2017: $0. 

2 Fiscal year 2018: $0. 

3 Fiscal year 2019: $0. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: $0. 

5 Fiscal year 2021: $0. 

6 Fiscal year 2022: $0. 

7 Fiscal year 2023: $0. 

8 (2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of 

9 the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the ap10 propriate levels of total new budget authority are as 

11 follows: 

12 Fiscal year 2014: $2,769,406,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2015: $2,681,581,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2016: $2,857,258,000,000. 

15 Fiscal year 2017: $2,988,083,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2018: $3,104,777,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2019: $3,281,142,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2020: $3,414,838,000,000. 

19 Fiscal year 2021: $3,540,165,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: $3,681,407,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2023: $3,768,151,000,000. 

22 (3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the en23 forcement of this concurrent resolution, the appro24 priate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: 

25 Fiscal year 2014: $2,815,079,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2015: $2,736,849,000,000. 

2 Fiscal year 2016: $2,850,434,000,000. 

3 Fiscal year 2017: $2,958,619,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: $3,079,296,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2019: $3,231,642,000,000. 

6 Fiscal year 2020: $3,374,336,000,000. 

7 Fiscal year 2021: $3,495,489,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2022: $3,667,532,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2023: $3,722,071,000,000. 

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

11 enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the amounts 

12 of the deficits (on-budget) are as follows: 

13 Fiscal year 2014: -$544,147,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2015: -$130,257,000,000. 

15 Fiscal year 2016: -$71,544,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2017: -$54,947,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2018: -$50,345,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2019: -$82,405,000,000. 

19 Fiscal year 2020: -$89,726,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2021: -$38,480,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2022: -$16,833,000,000. 

22 Fiscal year 2023: $110,073,000,000. 

23 (5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate 

24 levels of the public debt are as follows: 

25 Fiscal year 2014: $17,776,278,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2015: $18,086,450,000,000. 

2 Fiscal year 2016: $18,343,824,000,000. 

3 Fiscal year 2017: $18,635,129,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: $18,938,669,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2019: $19,267,212,000,000. 

6 Fiscal year 2020: $19,608,732,000,000. 

7 Fiscal year 2021: $19,900,718,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2022: $20,162,755,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2023: $20,319,503,000,000. 

10 (6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro11 priate levels of debt held by the public are as follows: 

12 Fiscal year 2014: $12,849,621,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2015: $13,069,788,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2016: $13,225,569,000,000. 

15 Fiscal year 2017: $13,362,146,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2018: $13,485,102,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2019: $13,648,470,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2020: $13,836,545,000,000. 

19 Fiscal year 2021; $13,992,649,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: $14,154,363,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2023: $14,210,984,000,000. 

22 SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

23 The Congress determines and declares that the appro24 priate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal 
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1 years 2014 through 2023 for each major functional category 

2 are: 

3 (1) National Defense (050): 

4 Fiscal year 2014: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $560,225,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $579,235,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2015: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $574,359,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $563,976,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2016: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $585,556,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $570,288,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2017: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $598,822,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $575,457,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2018: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $612,125,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $582,678,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2019: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $625,445,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $600,508,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $639,780,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $614,250,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $654,096,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $628,265,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $671,181,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $649,221,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $688,640,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $660,461,000,000. 

20 (2) International Affairs (150): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $41,010,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $42,005,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $39,357,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $40,876,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $40,355,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $40,019,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $41,343,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $39,821,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $42,342,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $39,922,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $43,349,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $40,248,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $44,366,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $41,070,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $44,898,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $41,970,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $46,240,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $43,208,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $47,304,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $44,030,000,000. 

12 (3) General Science, Space, and Technology 

13 (250): 

14 Fiscal year 2014: 

15 (A) New budget authority, 

16 $27,733,000,000. 

17 (B) Outlays, $27,811,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2015: 

19 (A) New budget authority, 

20 $28,318,000,000. 

21 (B) Outlays, $28,193,000,000. 

22 Fiscal year 2016: 

23 (A) New budget authority, 

24 $28,994,000,000. 

25 (B) Outlays, $28,641,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2017: 

2 (A) New budget authority, 

3 $29,677,000,000. 

4 (B) Outlays, $29,251,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2018: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $30,386,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $29,932,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2019: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $31,088,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $30,574,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2020: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $31,798,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $31,275,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2021: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $32,506,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $31,886,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2022: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $33,244,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $32,609,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2023: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $33,991,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $33,344,000,000. 

4 (4) Energy (270): 

5 Fiscal year 2014: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 -$1,218,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $1,366,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2015: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $1,527,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $2,024,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2016: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $1,433,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $984,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2017: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $1,570,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $1,091,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2018: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $1,764,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $1,331,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2019: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $1,932,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $1,612,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $2,121,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $1,864,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $2,200,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $2,039,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $2,105,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $1,989,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 -$12,000,000. 

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

20 (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $38,146,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $41,002,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $37,457,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $40,169,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $36,445,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $39,860,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $37,295,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $39,612,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $38,120,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $39,378,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $38,552,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $39,655,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $39,530,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $40,167,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $39,730,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $40,332,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $40,124,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $40,330,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $39,792,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $39,382,000,000. 

12 (6) Agriculture (350): 

13 Fiscal year 2014: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $21,731,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $20,377,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2015: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $16,737,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $16,452,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2016: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $21,254,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $20,827,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2017: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $19,344,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $18,856,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $18,776,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $18,238,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2019: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $19,087,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $18,461,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2020: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $19,380,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $18,864,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2021: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $19,856,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $19,365,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $19,736,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $19,244,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2023: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $20,335,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $19,859,000,000. 

4 (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

5 Fiscal year 2014: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $2,548,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, -$9,000,000,000.. 

9 Fiscal year 2015: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 -$7,818,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, -$19,413,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2016: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 -$7,398,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, -$21,697,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2017: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 -$6,328,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, -$22,908,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2018: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 -$2,946,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, -$20,314,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2019: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$866,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, -$23,410,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 -$579,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, -$22,954,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 -$295,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, -$17,517,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 -$1,076,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, -$19,406,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 -$1,200,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, -$20,654,000,000. 

20 (8) Transportation (400): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $87,056,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $93,142,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $40,030,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $82,089,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $81,453,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $74,235,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $91,498,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $85,791,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $68,776,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $84,548,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $92,602,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $82,681,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $72,693,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $84,625,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $92,988,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $85,244,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $74,694,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $85,945,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $99,499,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $86,906,000,000. 

12 (9) Community and Regional Development 

13 (450): 

14 Fiscal year 2014: 

15 (A) New budget authority, 

16 $8,533,000,000. 

17 (B) Outlays, $27,669,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2015: 

19 (A) New budget authority, 

20 $8,401,000,000. 

21 (B) Outlays, $22,978,000,000. 

22 Fiscal year 2016: 

23 (A) New budget authority, 

24 $8,341,000,000. 

25 (B) Outlays, $16,911,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2017: 

2 (A) New budget authority, 

3 $8,442,000,000. 

4 (B) Outlays, $13,910,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2018: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $8,556,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $10,925,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2019: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $8,766,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $9,787,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2020: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $8,962,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $9,418,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2021: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $9,172,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $9,283,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2022: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $9,424,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $9,209,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2023: 
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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $9,641,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $9,271,000,000. 

4 (10) Education, Training, Employment, and So5 cial Services (500): 

6 Fiscal year 2014: 

7 (A) New budget authority, 

8 $56,440,000,000. 

9 (B) Outlays, $77,310,000,000. 

10 Fiscal year 2015: 

11 (A) New budget authority, 

12 $73,848,000,000. 

13 (B) Outlays, $77,042,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2016: 

15 (A) New budget authority, 

16 $85,577,000,000. 

17 (B) Outlays, $84,250,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2017: 

19 (A) New budget authority, 

20 $95,462,000,000. 

21 (B) Outlays, $93,615,000,000. 

22 Fiscal year 2018: 

23 (A) New budget authority, 

24 $100,910,000,000. 

25 (B) Outlays, $99,755,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2019: 

2 (A) New budget authority, 

3 $95,734,000,000. 

4 (B) Outlays, $95,741,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2020: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $97,329,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $97,270,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2021: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $98,900,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $98,917,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2022: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $99,965,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $100,219,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2023: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $101,606,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $101,780,000,000. 

21 (11) Health (550): 

22 Fiscal year 2014: 

23 (A) New budget authority, 

24 $363,762,000,000. 

25 (B) Outlays, $378,695,000,000. 
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1 Fiscal year 2015: 

2 (A) New budget authority, 

3 $358,156,000,000. 

4 (B) Outlays, $353,470,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2016: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $359,280,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $362,833,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2017: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $375,308,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $375,956,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2018: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $387,073,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $386,264,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2019: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $393,079,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $392,141,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2020: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $422,229,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $410,876,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2021: 
25 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $420,834,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $419,365,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $441,207,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $439,353,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $456,935,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $455,134,000,000. 

12 (12) Medicare (570): 

13 Fiscal year 2014: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $515,944,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $515,713,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2015: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $534,494,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $534,400,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2016: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $581,788,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $581,834,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2017: 
26 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $597,570,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $597,637,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $621,384,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $621,480,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2019: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $679,457,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $679,661,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2020: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $723,313,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $723,481,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2021: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $770,764,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $771,261,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $845,828,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $843,504,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2023: 
27 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $875,417,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $874,988,000,000. 

4 (13) Income Security (600): 

5 Fiscal year 2014: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $509,418,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $508,082,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2015: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $480,285,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $476,897,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2016: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $487,623,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $487,046,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2017: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $484,222,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $479,516,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2018: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $484,653,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $475,612,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2019: 
28 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $495,065,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $490,660,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $501,101,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $496,983,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $505,927,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $501,832,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $515,637,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $516,362,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $510,654,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $506,354,000,000. 

20 (14) Social Security (650): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $27,506,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $27,616,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
29 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $30,233,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $30,308,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $33,369,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $33,407,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $36,691,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $36,691,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $40,005,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $40,005,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $43,421,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $43,421,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $46,954,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $46,954,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
30 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $50,474,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $50,474,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $54,235,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $54,235,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $58,441,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $58,441,000,000. 

12 (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

13 Fiscal year 2014: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $145,730,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $145,440,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2015: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $149,792,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $149,313,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2016: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $162,051,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $161,441,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2017: 
31 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $160,947,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $160,117,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $159,423,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $158,565,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2019: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $171,032,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $170,144,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2020: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $175,674,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $174,791,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2021: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $179,585,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $178,655,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $191,294,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $190,344,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2023: 
32 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $187,945,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $186,882,000,000. 

4 (16) Administration of Justice (750): 

5 Fiscal year 2014: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $51,933,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $53,376,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2015: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $53,116,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $52,918,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2016: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $56,644,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $55,745,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2017: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $56,712,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $57,949,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2018: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $58,586,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $59,859,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2019: 
33 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $60,495,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $60,666,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $62,400,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $61,878,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $64,507,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $63,950,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $70,150,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $69,561,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $72,809,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $72,195,000,000. 

20 (17) General Government (800): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $23,225,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $24,172,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
34 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $21,922,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $20,749,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $23,263,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $22,559,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $23,814,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $23,435,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $24,573,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $24,158,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $25,454,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $24,803,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $26,293,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $25,645,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
35 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $27,178,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $26,566,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $27,821,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $27,219,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $28,717,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $28,116,000,000. 

12 (18) Net Interest (900): 

13 Fiscal year 2014: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $341,099,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $341,099,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2015: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $367,647,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $367,647,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2016: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 $405,960,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, $405,960,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2017: 
36 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $476,448,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $476,448,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 $555,772,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, $555,772,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2019: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 $613,411,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, $613,411,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2020: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 $661,810,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, $661,810,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2021: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 $694,647,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, $694,647,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 $723,923,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $723,923,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2023: 
37 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 $745,963,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $745,963,000,000. 

4 (19) Allowances (920): 

5 Fiscal year 2014: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 -$59,061,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, -$44,044,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2015: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 -$58,840,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, -$53,255,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2016: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 -$65,587,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, -$59,258,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2017: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 -$71,859,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, -$65,151,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2018: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 -$77,299,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, -$71,278,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2019: 
38 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$82,155,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, -$76,769,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2020: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 -$85,543,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, -$81,785,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2021: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 -$89,377,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, -$85,845,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2022: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 -$88,897,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, -$85,661,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2023: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 -$92,469,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, -$89,323,000,000. 

20 (20) Government-wide savings (930): 

21 Fiscal year 2014: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 -$9,407,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, -$6,660,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2015: 
39 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$21,577,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, -$9,971,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2016: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 -$17,617,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, -$8,873,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2017: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 -$13,371,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, -$6,739,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2018: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 -$11,556,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, -$3,340,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2019: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 -$9,584,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, -$703,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2020: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 -$8,457,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, $1,740,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2021: 
40 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$7,094,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, $3,666,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2022: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 -$21,151,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, -$2,703,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2023: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 -$35,807,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, -$13,555,000,000. 

12 (21) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

13 Fiscal year 2014: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 -$75,946,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, -$75,946,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2015: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 -$80,864,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, -$80,864,000,000. 

21 Fiscal year 2016: 

22 (A) New budget authority, 

23 -$86,525,000,000. 

24 (B) Outlays, -$86,525,000,000. 

25 Fiscal year 2017: 
41 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$90,525,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, -$90,525,000,000. 

4 Fiscal year 2018: 

5 (A) New budget authority, 

6 -$91,645,000,000. 

7 (B) Outlays, -$91,645,000,000. 

8 Fiscal year 2019: 

9 (A) New budget authority, 

10 -$99,220,000,000. 

11 (B) Outlays, -$99,220,000,000. 

12 Fiscal year 2020: 

13 (A) New budget authority, 

14 -$101,316,000,000. 

15 (B) Outlays, -$101,316,000,000. 

16 Fiscal year 2021: 

17 (A) New budget authority, 

18 -$106,332,000,000. 

19 (B) Outlays, -$106,332,000,000. 

20 Fiscal year 2022: 

21 (A) New budget authority, 

22 -$109,276,000,000. 

23 (B) Outlays, -$109,276,000,000. 

24 Fiscal year 2023: 
42 

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1 (A) New budget authority, 

2 -$115,049,000,000. 

3 (B) Outlays, -$115,049,000,000. 

4 (22) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global 

5 War on Terrorism (970): 

6 Fiscal year 2014: 

7 (A) New budget authority, 

8 $93,000,000,000. 

9 (B) Outlays, $46,621,000,000. 

10 Fiscal year 2015: 

11 (A) New budget authority, 

12 $35,000,000,000. 

13 (B) Outlays, $40,851,000,000. 

14 Fiscal year 2016: 

15 (A) New budget authority, 

16 $35,000,000,000. 

17 (B) Outlays, $39,948,000,000. 

18 Fiscal year 2017: 

19 (A) New budget authority, 

20 $35,000,000,000. 

21 (B) Outlays, $38,789,000,000. 

22 Fiscal year 2018: 

23 (A) New budget authority, 

24 $35,000,000,000. 

25 (B) Outlays, $37,451,000,000. 
43 

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1 Fiscal year 2019: 

2 (A) New budget authority, 

3 $35,000,000,000. 

4 (B) Outlays, $37,570,000,000. 

5 Fiscal year 2020: 

6 (A) New budget authority, 

7 $35,000,000,000. 

8 (B) Outlays, $37,431,000,000. 

9 Fiscal year 2021: 

10 (A) New budget authority, 

11 $35,000,000,000. 

12 (B) Outlays, $37,466,000,000. 

13 Fiscal year 2022: 

14 (A) New budget authority, 

15 $35,000,000,000. 

16 (B) Outlays, $38,102,000,000. 

17 Fiscal year 2023: 

18 (A) New budget authority, 

19 $35,000,000,000. 

20 (B) Outlays, $37,694,000,000. 

21 TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

22 SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT23 ATIVES. 

24 (a) SUBMISSIONS OF SPENDING REDUCTION.—The 

25 House committees named in subsection (b) shall submit, not 
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1 later than llllll, 2013, recommendations to the 

2 Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. 

3 After receiving those recommendations, such committee 

4 shall report to the House a reconciliation bill carrying out 

5 all such recommendations without substantive revision. 

6 (b) INSTRUCTIONS.— 

7 (1) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Com8 mittee on Agriculture shall submit changes in laws 

9 within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit 

10 by at least $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

11 years 2013 through 2023. 

12 (2) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORK13 FORCE.—The Committee on Education and the Work14 force shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdic15 tion sufficient to reduce the deficit by at least 

16 $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2013 

17 through 2023. 

18 (3) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.— 

19 The Committee on Energy and Commerce shall sub20 mit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient 

21 to reduce the deficit by at least $1,000,000,000 for the 

22 period of fiscal years 2013 through 2023. 

23 (4) COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES.—The 

24 Committee on Financial Services shall submit 

25 changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to 
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1 reduce the deficit by at least $1,000,000,000 for the 

2 period of fiscal years 2013 through 2023. 

3 (5) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The Com4 mittee on the Judiciary shall submit changes in laws 

5 within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit 

6 by at least $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

7 years 2013 through 2023. 

8 (6) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.—The 

9 Committee on Natural Resources shall submit changes 

10 in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

11 deficit by at least $1,000,000,000 for the period of fis12 cal years 2013 through 2023. 

13 (7) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERN14 MENT REFORM.—The Committee on Oversight and 

15 Government Reform shall submit changes in laws 

16 within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit 

17 by at least $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

18 years 2013 through 2023. 

19 (8) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The 

20 Committee on Ways and Means shall submit changes 

21 in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

22 deficit by at least $1,000,000,000 for the period of fis23 cal years 2013 through 2023. 
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1 TITLE III—RECOMMENDED LEV2 ELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2030, 

3 2040, AND 2050 

4 SEC. 301. LONG-TERM BUDGETING. 

5 The following are the recommended revenue, spending, 

6 and deficit levels for each of fiscal years 2030, 2040, and 

7 2050 as a percent of the gross domestic product of the 

8 United States: 

9 (1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—The appropriate lev10 els of Federal revenues are as follows: 

11 Fiscal year 2030: 19.1 percent. 

12 Fiscal year 2040: 19.1 percent. 

13 Fiscal year 2050: 19.1 percent. 

14 (2) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—The appropriate levels 

15 of total budget outlays are not to exceed: 

16 Fiscal year 2030: 19.1 percent. 

17 Fiscal year 2040: 19.1 percent. 

18 Fiscal year 2050: 19.1 percent. 

19 (3) DEFICITS.—The appropriate levels of deficits 

20 are not to exceed: 

21 Fiscal year 2030: 0 percent. 

22 Fiscal year 2040: 0 percent. 

23 Fiscal year 2050: 0 percent. 
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1 TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS 

2 SEC. 401. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE 2010 

3 HEALTH CARE LAWS. 

4 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

5 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro6 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 

7 effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto 

8 or conference report thereon, that only consists of a full re9 peal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and 

10 the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and 

11 Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 

12 SEC. 402. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE RE13 FORM OF THE 2010 HEALTH CARE LAWS. 

14 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

15 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro16 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 

17 effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto 

18 or conference report thereon, that reforms or replaces the 

19 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health 

20 Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such 

21 measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fis22 cal years 2014 through 2023. 
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1 SEC. 403. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO 

2 THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE 2010 

3 HEALTH CARE LAWS. 

4 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

5 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro6 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 

7 effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto 

8 or conference report thereon, that repeals all or part of the 

9 decreases in Medicare spending included in the Patient Pro10 tection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and 

11 Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such measure 

12 would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 

13 2014 through 2023. 

14 SEC. 404. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE SUS15 TAINABLE GROWTH RATE OF THE MEDICARE 

16 PROGRAM. 

17 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

18 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro19 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 

20 effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto 

21 or conference report thereon, that includes provisions 

22 amending or superseding the system for updating payments 

23 under section 1848 of the Social Security Act, if such meas24 ure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal 

25 years 2014 through 2023. 
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1 SEC. 405. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM2 ING THE TAX CODE. 

3 In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means 

4 reports a bill or joint resolution that reforms the Internal 

5 Revenue Code of 1986, the chair of the Committee on the 

6 Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other ap7 propriate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budg8 etary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amend9 ment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure 

10 would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 

11 2014 through 2023. 

12 SEC. 406. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE 

13 AGREEMENTS. 

14 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

15 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro16 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 

17 effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Com18 mittee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or con19 ference report thereon, that implements a trade agreement, 

20 but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for 

21 the period of fiscal years 2014 through 2023. 

22 SEC. 407. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE 

23 MEASURES. 

24 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

25 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro26 priate levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 
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1 effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Com2 mittee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or con3 ference report thereon, that decreases revenue, but only if 

4 such measure would not increase the deficit for the period 

5 of fiscal years 2014 through 2023. 

6 SEC. 408. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR RURAL 

7 COUNTIES AND SCHOOLS. 

8 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

9 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro10 priate levels and limits in this resolution for the budgetary 

11 effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto 

12 or conference report thereon, that makes changes to or pro13 vides for the reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools 

14 and Community Self Determination Act of 2000 (Public 

15 Law 106–393) by the amounts provided by that legislation 

16 for those purposes, if such legislation requires sustained 

17 yield timber harvests obviating the need for funding under 

18 P.L. 106–393 in the future and would not increase the def19 icit or direct spending for fiscal year 2014, the period of 

20 fiscal years 2014 through 2018, or the period of fiscal years 

21 2014 through 2023. 

22 SEC. 409. IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEFICIT AND LONG-TERM 

23 DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT. 

24 In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

25 may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appro-
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1 priate levels in this concurrent resolution to accommodate 

2 the enactment of a deficit and long-term debt reduction 

3 agreement if it includes permanent spending reductions 

4 and reforms to direct spending programs. 

5 TITLE V—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

6 SPENDING 

7 SEC. 501. DIRECT SPENDING. 

8 (a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

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

10 rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 

11 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2014 is 6.7 per12 cent. 

13 (2) For means-tested direct spending, the esti14 mated average rate of growth in the total level of out15 lays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal 

16 year 2014 is 6.2 percent under current law. 

17 (3) The following reforms are proposed in this 

18 concurrent resolution for means-tested direct spend19 ing: 

20 (A) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a 

21 Democratic president reformed welfare by lim22 iting the duration of benefits, giving States more 

23 control over the program, and helping recipients 

24 find work. In the five years following passage, 

25 child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and 
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1 workers’ wages increased. This budget applies the 

2 lessons of welfare reform to both the Supple3 mental Nutrition Assistance Program and Med4 icaid. 

5 (B) For Medicaid, this budget converts the 

6 Federal share of Medicaid spending into a flexi7 ble State allotment tailored to meet each State’s 

8 needs, indexed for inflation and population 

9 growth. Such a reform would end the misguided 

10 one-size-fits-all approach that has tied the hands 

11 of State governments. Instead, each State would 

12 have the freedom and flexibility to tailor a Med13 icaid program that fits the needs of its unique 

14 population. Moreover, this budget repeals the 

15 Medicaid expansions in the President’s health 

16 care law, relieving State governments of its crip17 pling one-size-fits-all enrollment mandates. 

18 (C) For the Supplemental Nutrition Assist19 ance Program, this budget converts the program 

20 into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet 

21 each State’s needs, increases in the Department 

22 of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and ben23 eficiary growth. Such a reform would provide in24 centives for States to ensure dollars will go to25 wards those who need them most. Additionally, 
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1 it requires that more stringent work require2 ments and time limits apply under the program. 

3 (b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 

4 (1) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the av5 erage rate of growth in the total level of outlays dur6 ing the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2014 is 

7 5.9 percent. 

8 (2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the es9 timated average rate of growth in the total level of 

10 outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fis11 cal year 2014 is 5.3 percent under current law. 

12 (3) The following reforms are proposed in this 

13 concurrent resolution for nonmeans-tested direct 

14 spending: 

15 (A) For Medicare, this budget advances 

16 policies to put seniors, not the Federal Govern17 ment, in control of their health care decisions. 

18 Those in or near retirement will see no changes, 

19 while future retirees would be given a choice of 

20 private plans competing alongside the tradi21 tional fee-for-service Medicare program. Medicare 

22 would provide a premium-support payment ei23 ther to pay for or offset the premium of the plan 

24 chosen by the senior, depending on the plan’s 

25 cost. The Medicare premium-support payment 
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1 would be adjusted so that the sick would receive 

2 higher payments if their conditions worsened; 

3 lower-income seniors would receive additional 

4 assistance to help cover out-of-pocket costs; and 

5 wealthier seniors would assume responsibility for 

6 a greater share of their premiums. Putting sen7 iors in charge of how their health care dollars 

8 are spent will force providers to compete against 

9 each other on price and quality. This market 

10 competition will act as a real check on wide11 spread waste and skyrocketing health care costs. 

12 (B) In keeping with a recommendation 

13 from the National Commission on Fiscal Re14 sponsibility and Reform, this budget calls for 

15 Federal employees—including Members of Con16 gress and congressional staff—to make greater 

17 contributions toward their own retirement. 

18 TITLE VI—BUDGET 

19 ENFORCEMENT 

20 SEC. 601. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

21 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

22 (1) The Veterans Health Care Budget and Re23 form Transparency Act of 2009 provides advance ap24 propriations for the following veteran medical care 
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1 accounts: Medical Services, Medical Support and 

2 Compliance, and Medical Facilities. 

3 (2) The President has yet to submit a budget re4 quest as required under section 1105(a) of title 31, 

5 United States Code, including the request for the De6 partment of Veterans Affairs, for fiscal year 2014, 

7 hence the request for veteran medical care advance 

8 appropriations for fiscal year 2015 is unavailable as 

9 of the writing of this concurrent resolution. 

10 (3) This concurrent resolution reflects the most 

11 up-to-date estimate on veterans’ health care needs in12 cluded in the President’s fiscal year 2013 request for 

13 fiscal year 2015. 

14 (b) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as provided 

15 for in subsection (c), any bill or joint resolution, or amend16 ment thereto or conference report thereon, making a general 

17 appropriation or continuing appropriation may not pro18 vide for advance appropriations. 

19 (c) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation may be 

20 provided for programs, projects, activities, or accounts re21 ferred to in subsection (d)(1) or identified in the report to 

22 accompany this concurrent resolution or the joint explana23 tory statement of managers to accompany this concurrent 

24 resolution under the heading ‘‘Accounts Identified for Ad25 vance Appropriations’’. 
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1 (d) LIMITATIONS.—For fiscal year 2015, the aggregate 

2 level of advance appropriations shall not exceed— 

3 (1) $55,483,000,000 for the following programs 

4 in the Department of Veterans Affairs— 

5 (A) Medical Services; 

6 (B) Medical Support and Compliance; and 

7 (C) Medical Facilities accounts of the Vet8 erans Health Administration; and 

9 (2) $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority for 

10 all programs identified pursuant to subsection (c). 

11 (e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance 

12 appropriation’’ means any new discretionary budget au13 thority provided in a bill or joint resolution, or amendment 

14 thereto or conference report thereon, making general appro15 priations or any new discretionary budget authority pro16 vided in a bill or joint resolution making continuing appro17 priations for fiscal year 2015. 

18 SEC. 602. CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS. 

19 Upon the enactment of any bill or joint resolution pro20 viding for a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, 

21 the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust any 

22 allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

23 concurrent resolution accordingly. 
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1 SEC. 603. ADJUSTMENTS OF AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS, 

2 AND APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS. 

3 (a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT

4 SPENDING LEVELS.—If a committee (other than the Com5 mittee on Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, 

6 or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, pro7 viding for a decrease in direct spending (budget authority 

8 and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year and also 

9 provides for an authorization of appropriations for the 

10 same purpose, upon the enactment of such measure, the 

11 chair of the Committee on the Budget may decrease the allo12 cation to such committee and increase the allocation of dis13 cretionary spending (budget authority and outlays flowing 

14 therefrom) to the Committee on Appropriations for fiscal 

15 year 2014 by an amount equal to the new budget authority 

16 (and outlays flowing therefrom) provided for in a bill or 

17 joint resolution making appropriations for the same pur18 pose. 

19 (b) ADJUSTMENTS TO IMPLEMENT DISCRETIONARY

20 SPENDING CAPS AND TO FUND VETERANS’ PROGRAMS AND

21 OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON

22 TERRORISM.— 

23 (1) FINDINGS.—(A) The President has not sub24 mitted a budget for fiscal year 2014 as required pur25 suant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 

26 Code, by the date set forth in that section. 
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1 (B) In missing the statutory date by which the 

2 budget must be submitted, this will be the fourth time 

3 in five years the President has not complied with that 

4 deadline. 

5 (C) This concurrent resolution reflects the levels 

6 of funding for veterans’ medical programs as set forth 

7 in the President’s fiscal year 2013 budget request. 

8 (2) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSION.—In 

9 order to take into account any new information in10 cluded in the budget submission by the President for 

11 fiscal year 2014, the chair of the Committee on the 

12 Budget may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and 

13 other appropriate budgetary levels for veterans’ pro14 grams, Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War 

15 on Terrorism, or the 302(a) allocation to the Com16 mittee on Appropriations set forth in the report of 

17 this concurrent resolution to conform with section 

18 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 

19 Control Act of 1985 (as adjusted by section 251A of 

20 such Act). 

21 (3) REVISED CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

22 BASELINE.—The chair of the Committee on the Budg23 et may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other 

24 appropriate budgetary levels to reflect changes result25 ing from technical and economic assumptions in the 
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1 most recent baseline published by the Congressional 

2 Budget Office. 

3 (c) DETERMINATIONS.—For the purpose of enforcing 

4 this concurrent resolution on the budget in the House, the 

5 allocations and aggregate levels of new budget authority, 

6 outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, reve7 nues, deficits, and surpluses for fiscal year 2014 and the 

8 period of fiscal years 2014 through fiscal year 2023 shall 

9 be determined on the basis of estimates made by the chair 

10 of the Committee on the Budget and such chair may adjust 

11 such applicable levels of this concurrent resolution. 

12 SEC. 604. LIMITATION ON LONG-TERM SPENDING. 

13 (a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, it shall not be in 

14 order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by a 

15 committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations), 

16 or an amendment thereto or a conference report thereon, 

17 if the provisions of such measure have the net effect of in18 creasing direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 for any 

19 period described in subsection (b). 

20 (b) TIME PERIODS.—The applicable periods for pur21 poses of this section are any of the four consecutive ten fis22 cal-year periods beginning with fiscal year 2024. 
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1 SEC. 605. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TRANS2 ACTIONS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) 

4 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of 

5 the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of 

6 the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the report 

7 accompanying this concurrent resolution on the budget or 

8 the joint explanatory statement accompanying the con9 ference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget 

10 shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the 

11 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Ap12 propriations amounts for the discretionary administrative 

13 expenses of the Social Security Administration and the 

14 United States Postal Service. 

15 (b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of applying sec16 tions 302(f) and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

17 1974, estimates of the level of total new budget authority 

18 and total outlays provided by a measure shall include any 

19 off-budget discretionary amounts. 

20 (c) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chair of the Committee on the 

21 Budget may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other 

22 appropriate levels for legislation reported by the Committee 

23 on Oversight and Government Reform that reforms the Fed24 eral retirement system, if such adjustments do not cause a 

25 net increase in the deficit for fiscal year 2014 and the pe26 riod of fiscal years 2014 through 2023. 
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1 SEC. 606. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLO2 CATIONS AND AGGREGATES. 

3 (a) APPLICATION.—Any adjustments of the allocations, 

4 aggregates, and other appropriate levels made pursuant to 

5 this concurrent resolution shall— 

6 (1) apply while that measure is under consider7 ation; 

8 (2) take effect upon the enactment of that meas9 ure; and 

10 (3) be published in the Congressional Record as 

11 soon as practicable. 

12 (b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AGGRE13 GATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from 

14 these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the 

15 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggre16 gates included in this concurrent resolution. 

17 (c) BUDGET COMPLIANCE.—(1) The consideration of 

18 any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or con19 ference report thereon, for which the chair of the Committee 

20 on the Budget makes adjustments or revisions in the alloca21 tions, aggregates, and other appropriate levels of this con22 current resolution shall not be subject to the points of order 

23 set forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 

24 of Representatives or section 604. 

25 (2) Section 314(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

26 1974 shall not apply in the House of Representatives to any 
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1 bill, joint resolution, or amendment that provides new budg2 et authority for a fiscal year or to any conference report 

3 on any such bill or resolution, if— 

4 (A) the enactment of that bill or resolution; 

5 (B) the adoption and enactment of that amend6 ment; or 

7 (C) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the 

8 form recommended in that conference report; 

9 would not cause the appropriate allocation of new budget 

10 authority made pursuant to section 302(a) of such Act for 

11 that fiscal year to be exceeded or the sum of the limits on 

12 the security and non-security category in section 251A of 

13 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 

14 as reduced pursuant to such section. 

15 SEC. 607. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATES. 

16 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

17 (1) Costs of Federal housing loans and loan 

18 guarantees are treated unequally in the budget. The 

19 Congressional Budget Office uses fair-value account20 ing to measure the costs of Fannie Mae and Freddie 

21 Mac, but determines the cost of other Federal housing 

22 programs on the basis of the Federal Credit Reform 

23 Act of 1990 (‘‘FCRA’’). 

24 (2) The fair-value accounting method uses dis25 count rates which incorporate the risk inherent to the 
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1 type of liability being estimated in addition to Treas2 ury discount rates of the proper maturity length. In 

3 contrast, cash-basis accounting solely uses the dis4 count rates of the Treasury, failing to incorporate 

5 risks such as prepayment and default risk. 

6 (3) The Congressional Budget Office estimates 

7 that the $635 billion of loans and loan guarantees 

8 issued in 2013 alone would generate budgetary sav9 ings of $45 billion over their lifetime using FCRA ac10 counting. However, these same loans and loan guar11 antees would have a lifetime cost of $11 billion under 

12 fair-value methodology. 

13 (4) The majority of loans and guarantees issued 

14 in 2013 would show deficit reduction of $9.1 billion 

15 under FCRA methodology, but would increase the def16 icit by $4.7 billion using fair-value accounting. 

17 (b) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES.—Upon the request of the 

18 chair or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, 

19 any estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional 

20 Budget Office for a measure under the terms of title V of 

21 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ‘‘credit reform’’, as 

22 a supplement to such estimate shall, to the extent prac23 ticable, also provide an estimate of the current actual or 

24 estimated market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of as25 sets and liabilities affected by such measure. 
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1 (c) FAIR VALUE ESTIMATES FOR HOUSING PRO2 GRAMS.—Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budg3 et Office prepares an estimate pursuant to section 402 of 

4 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 of the costs which 

5 would be incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolu6 tion and if the Director determines that such bill or joint 

7 resolution has a cost related to a housing or residential 

8 mortgage program under the FCRA, then the Director shall 

9 also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated 

10 market values representing the ‘‘fair value’’ of assets and 

11 liabilities affected by the provisions of such bill or joint res12 olution that result in such cost. 

13 (d) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Director of the Congres14 sional Budget Office provides an estimate pursuant to sub15 section (b) or (c), the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

16 may use such estimate to determine compliance with the 

17 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budgetary en18 forcement controls. 

19 SEC. 608. TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF THE 

20 TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND 

21 THAT INCREASE PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS. 

22 For purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

23 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 

24 of 1985, or the rules or orders of the House of Representa25 tives, a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto 
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1 or conference report thereon, that transfers funds from the 

2 general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund 

3 shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal 

4 to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer 

5 occurs. 

6 SEC. 609. SEPARATE ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTIN7 GENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TER8 RORISM. 

9 (a) ALLOCATION.—In the House, there shall be a sepa10 rate allocation to the Committee on Appropriations for 

11 overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism. 

12 For purposes of enforcing such separate allocation under 

13 section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 

14 ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and the ‘‘total of fiscal years’’ shall be 

15 deemed to refer to fiscal year 2014. Such separate allocation 

16 shall be the exclusive allocation for overseas contingency op17 erations/global war on terrorism under section 302(a) of 

18 such Act. Section 302(c) of such Act shall not apply to such 

19 separate allocation. The Committee on Appropriations may 

20 provide suballocations of such separate allocation under sec21 tion 302(b) of such Act. Spending that counts toward the 

22 allocation established by this section shall be designated 

23 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 

24 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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1 (b) ADJUSTMENT.—In the House, for purposes of sub2 section (a) for fiscal year 2014, no adjustment shall be made 

3 under section 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

4 1974 if any adjustment would be made under section 

5 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

6 Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

7 SEC. 610. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

8 The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

9 (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the 

10 House of Representatives and as such they shall be 

11 considered as part of the rules of the House of Rep12 resentatives, and these rules shall supersede other 

13 rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with 

14 other such rules; and 

15 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 

16 right of the House of Representatives to change those 

17 rules at any time, in the same manner, and to the 

18 same extent as in the case of any other rule of the 

19 House of Representatives. 

20 TITLE VII—POLICY STATEMENTS 

21 SEC. 701. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND 

22 JOB CREATION. 

23 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

24 (1) Although the U.S. economy technically 

25 emerged from recession roughly four years ago, the re-
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1 covery has felt more like a malaise than a rebound 

2 with the unemployment rate still elevated and real 

3 economic growth essentially flat in the final quarter 

4 of 2012. 

5 (2) The enormous build-up of Government debt 

6 in the past four years has worsened the already 

7 unsustainable course of Federal finances and is an in8 creasing drag on the U.S. economy. 

9 (3) During the recession and early stages of re10 covery, the Government took a variety of measures to 

11 try to boost economic activity. Despite the fact that 

12 these stimulus measures added over $1 trillion to the 

13 debt, the economy continues to perform at a sub-par 

14 trend. 

15 (4) Investors and businesses make decisions on a 

16 forward-looking basis. They know that today’s large 

17 debt levels are simply tomorrow’s tax hikes, interest 

18 rate increases, or inflation – and they act accord19 ingly. It is this debt overhang, and the uncertainty it 

20 generates, that is weighing on U.S. growth, invest21 ment, and job creation. 

22 (5) Economists have found that the key to jump23 starting U.S. economic growth and job creation is 

24 tangible action to rein in the growth of Government 

25 spending with the aim of getting debt under control. 
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1 (6) Stanford economist John Taylor has con2 cluded that reducing Government spending now 

3 would ‘‘reduce the threats of higher taxes, higher in4 terest rates and a fiscal crisis’’, and would therefore 

5 provide an immediate stimulus to the economy. 

6 (7) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has 

7 stated that putting in place a credible plan to reduce 

8 future deficits ‘‘would not only enhance economic per9 formance in the long run, but could also yield near10 term benefits by leading to lower long-term interest 

11 rates and increased consumer and business con12 fidence.’’ 

13 (8) Lowering spending would boost market con14 fidence and lessen uncertainty, leading to a spark in 

15 economic expansion, job creation, and higher wages 

16 and income. 

17 (b) POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CRE18 ATION.—It is the policy of this resolution to promote faster 

19 economic growth and job creation. By putting the budget 

20 on a sustainable path, this resolution ends the debt-fueled 

21 uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to the tax 

22 code put American businesses and workers in a better posi23 tion to compete and thrive in the 21st century global econ24 omy. This resolution targets the regulatory red tape and 

25 cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. 
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1 All of the reforms in this resolution serve as means to the 

2 larger end of growing the economy and expanding oppor3 tunity for all Americans. 

4 SEC. 702. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 

5 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

6 (1) A world-class tax system should be simple, 

7 fair, and promote (rather than impede) economic 

8 growth. The U.S. tax code fails on all three counts – 

9 it is notoriously complex, patently unfair, and highly 

10 inefficient. The tax code’s complexity distorts deci11 sions to work, save, and invest, which leads to slower 

12 economic growth, lower wages, and less job creation. 

13 (2) Since 2001 alone, there have been more than 

14 3,250 changes to the code. Many of the major changes 

15 over the years have involved carving out special pref16 erences, exclusions, or deductions for various activities 

17 or groups. These loopholes add up to more than $1 

18 trillion per year and make the code unfair, ineffi19 cient, and very complex. 

20 (3) These tax preferences are disproportionately 

21 used by upper-income individuals. For instance, the 

22 top 1 percent of taxpayers reap about 3 times as 

23 much benefit from special tax credits and deductions 

24 (excluding refundable credits) than the middle class 
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1 and 13 times as much benefit than the lowest income 

2 quintile. 

3 (4) The large amount of tax preferences that per4 vade the code end up narrowing the tax base by as 

5 much as 50 percent. A narrow tax base, in turn, re6 quires much higher tax rates to raise a given amount 

7 of revenue. 

8 (5) The National Taxpayer Advocate reports that 

9 taxpayers spent 6.1 billion hours in 2012 complying 

10 with tax requirements. 

11 (6) Standard economic theory shows that high 

12 marginal tax rates dampen the incentives to work, 

13 save, and invest, which reduces economic output and 

14 job creation. Lower economic output, in turn, mutes 

15 the intended revenue gain from higher marginal tax 

16 rates. 

17 (7) Roughly half of U.S. active business income 

18 and half of private sector employment are derived 

19 from business entities (such as partnerships, S cor20 porations, and sole proprietorships) that are taxed on 

21 a ‘‘pass-through’’ basis, meaning the income flows 

22 through to the tax returns of the individual owners 

23 and is taxed at the individual rate structure rather 

24 than at the corporate rate. Small businesses in par25 ticular tend to choose this form for Federal tax pur-
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1 poses, and the top Federal rate on such small business 

2 income reaches 44.6 percent. For these reasons, sound 

3 economic policy requires lowering marginal rates on 

4 these pass-through entities. 

5 (8) The U.S. corporate income tax rate (includ6 ing Federal, State, and local taxes) sums to just over 

7 39 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized 

8 world. The total Federal marginal tax rate on cor9 porate income now reaches 55 percent, when includ10 ing the shareholder-level tax on dividends and capital 

11 gains. Tax rates this high suppress wages and dis12 courage investment and job creation, distort business 

13 activity, and put American businesses at a competi14 tive disadvantage with foreign competitors. 

15 (9) By deterring potential investment, the U.S. 

16 corporate tax restrains economic growth and job cre17 ation. The U.S. tax rate differential with other coun18 tries also fosters a variety of complicated multi19 national corporate behaviors intended to avoid the 

20 tax, which have the effect of moving the tax base off21 shore, destroying American jobs, and decreasing cor22 porate revenue. 

23 (10) The ‘‘worldwide’’ structure of U.S. inter24 national taxation essentially taxes earnings of U.S. 

25 firms twice, putting them at a significant competitive 
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1 disadvantage with competitors with more competitive 

2 international tax systems. 

3 (11) Reforming the U.S. tax code to a more com4 petitive international system would boost the competi5 tiveness of U.S. companies operating abroad and it 

6 would also greatly reduce tax avoidance. 

7 (12) The tax code imposes costs on American 

8 workers through lower wages, on consumers in higher 

9 prices, and on investors in diminished returns. 

10 (13) Revenues have averaged 18 percent of the 

11 economy throughout modern American history. Reve12 nues rise above this level under current law to 19.1 

13 percent of the economy, and – if the spending re14 straints in this budget are enacted – this level is suffi15 cient to fund Government operations over time. 

16 (14) Attempting to raise revenue through tax in17 creases to meet out-of-control spending would sink the 

18 economy. 

19 (15) Closing tax loopholes to fund spending does 

20 not constitute fundamental tax reform. 

21 (16) The goal of tax reform should be to curb or 

22 eliminate loopholes and use those savings to lower tax 

23 rates across the board – not to fund more wasteful 

24 Government spending. Tax reform should be revenue- 
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1 neutral and should not be an excuse to raise taxes on 

2 the American people. 

3 (b) POLICY ON TAX REFORM.—It is the policy of this 

4 resolution that Congress should enact legislation during fis5 cal year 2014 that provides for a comprehensive reform of 

6 the U.S. tax code to promote economic growth, create Amer7 ican jobs, increase wages, and benefit American consumers, 

8 investors, and workers through revenue-neutral funda9 mental tax reform, which should be reported by the Com10 mittee on Ways and Means to the House not later than De11 cember 31, 2013, that— 

12 (1) simplifies the tax code to make it fairer to 

13 American families and businesses and reduces the 

14 amount of time and resources necessary to comply 

15 with tax laws; 

16 (2) substantially lowers tax rates for individuals, 

17 with a goal of achieving a top individual rate of 25 

18 percent and consolidating the current seven indi19 vidual income tax brackets into two brackets with a 

20 first bracket of 10 percent; 

21 (3) repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax; 

22 (4) reduces the corporate tax rate to 25 percent; 

23 and 

24 (5) transitions the tax code to a more competi25 tive system of international taxation. 
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1 SEC. 703. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 

2 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

3 (1) More than 50 million Americans depend on 

4 Medicare for their health security. 

5 (2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly 

6 recommended that Medicare’s long-term financial 

7 challenges be addressed soon. Each year without re8 form, the financial condition of Medicare becomes 

9 more precarious and the threat to those in or near re10 tirement becomes more pronounced. According to the 

11 Congressional Budget Office— 

12 (A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will 

13 be exhausted in 2023 and unable to pay sched14 uled benefits; and 

15 (B) Medicare spending is growing faster 

16 than the economy and Medicare outlays are cur17 rently rising at a rate of 6.2 percent per year, 

18 and under the Congressional Budget Office’s al19 ternative fiscal scenario, direct spending on 

20 Medicare is projected to exceed 7 percent of GDP 

21 by 2040 and reach 13 percent of GDP by 2085. 

22 (3) The President’s health care law created a 

23 new Federal agency called the Independent Payment 

24 Advisory Board (‘‘IPAB’’) empowered with unilateral 

25 authority to cut Medicare spending. As a result of 

26 that law— 
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1 (A) IPAB will be tasked with keeping the 

2 Medicare per capita growth below a Medicare 

3 per capita target growth rate. Prior to 2018, the 

4 target growth rate is based on the five-year aver5 age of overall inflation and medical inflation. 

6 Beginning in 2018, the target growth rate will 

7 be the five-year average increase in the nominal 

8 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plus one percent9 age point; 

10 (B) the fifteen unelected, unaccountable bu11 reaucrats of IPAB will make decisions that will 

12 reduce seniors access to care; 

13 (C) the nonpartisan Office of the Medicare 

14 Chief Actuary estimates that the provider cuts 

15 already contained in the Affordable Care Act 

16 will force 15 percent of hospitals, skilled nursing 

17 facilities, and home health agencies to close in 

18 2019; and 

19 (D) additional cuts from the IPAB board 

20 will force even more health care providers to 

21 close their doors, and the Board should be re22 pealed. 

23 (4) Failing to address this problem will leave 

24 millions of American seniors without adequate health 

25 security and younger generations burdened with enor-
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1 mous debt to pay for spending levels that cannot be 

2 sustained. 

3 (b) POLICY ON MEDICARE REFORM.—It is the policy 

4 of this resolution to protect those in or near retirement from 

5 any disruptions to their Medicare benefits and offer future 

6 beneficiaries the same health care options available to Mem7 bers of Congress. 

8 (c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes reform of 

9 the Medicare program such that: 

10 (1) Current Medicare benefits are preserved for 

11 those in or near retirement. 

12 (2) For future generations, when they reach eli13 gibility, Medicare is reformed to provide a premium 

14 support payment and a selection of guaranteed health 

15 coverage options from which recipients can choose a 

16 plan that best suits their needs. 

17 (3) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for18 service as an option. 

19 (4) Medicare will provide additional assistance 

20 for lower-income beneficiaries and those with greater 

21 health risks. 

22 (5) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable 

23 path and the Medicare program becomes solvent over 

24 the long-term. 
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1 SEC. 704. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

2 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

3 (1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals 

4 with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Se5 curity. Since enactment, Social Security has served 

6 as a vital leg on the ‘‘three-legged stool’’ of retirement 

7 security, which includes employer provided pensions 

8 as well as personal savings. 

9 (2) The Social Security Trustees Report has re10 peatedly recommended that Social Security’s long11 term financial challenges be addressed soon. Each 

12 year without reform, the financial condition of Social 

13 Security becomes more precarious and the threat to 

14 seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 

15 benefits becomes more pronounced: 

16 (A) In 2016, the Disability Insurance Trust 

17 Fund will be exhausted and program revenues 

18 will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 

19 (B) In 2033, the combined Old-Age and 

20 Survivors and Disability Trust Funds will be ex21 hausted, and program revenues will be unable to 

22 pay scheduled benefits. 

23 (C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds 

24 in 2033, benefits will be cut 25 percent across the 

25 board, devastating those currently in or near re-
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1 tirement and those who rely on Social Security 

2 the most. 

3 (3) The recession and continued low economic 

4 growth have exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis fac5 ing Social Security. The most recent CBO projections 

6 find that Social Security will run cash deficits of 

7 $1.319 trillion over the next 10 years. 

8 (4) Lower-income Americans rely on Social Se9 curity for a larger proportion of their retirement in10 come. Therefore, reforms should take into consider11 ation the need to protect lower-income Americans’ re12 tirement security. 

13 (5) The Disability Insurance program provides 

14 an essential income safety net for those with disabil15 ities and their families. According to the Congres16 sional Budget Office (CBO), between 1970 and 2012, 

17 the number of people receiving disability benefits 

18 (both disabled workers and their dependent family 

19 members) has increased by over 300 percent from 2.7 

20 million to over 10.9 million. This increase is not due 

21 strictly to population growth or decreases in health. 

22 David Autor and Mark Duggan have found that the 

23 increase in individuals on disability does not reflect 

24 a decrease in self-reported health. CBO attributes pro25 gram growth to changes in demographics, changes in 
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1 the composition of the labor force and compensation, 

2 as well as Federal policies. 

3 (6) If this program is not reformed, families who 

4 rely on the lifeline that disability benefits provide will 

5 face benefit cuts of up to 25 percent in 2016, dev6 astating individuals who need assistance the most. 

7 (7) Americans deserve action by the President, 

8 the House, and the Senate to preserve and strengthen 

9 Social Security. It is critical that bipartisan action 

10 be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social 

11 Security. In this spirit, this resolution creates a bi12 partisan opportunity to find solutions by requiring 

13 policymakers to ensure that Social Security remains 

14 a critical part of the safety net. 

15 (b) POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is 

16 the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on 

17 a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably sol18 vent. This resolution assumes reform of a current law trig19 ger, such that: 

20 (1) If in any year the Board of Trustees of the 

21 Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund 

22 and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund an23 nual Trustees Report determines that the 75-year ac24 tuarial balance of the Social Security Trust Funds is 

25 in deficit, and the annual balance of the Social Secu-
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1 rity Trust Funds in the 75th year is in deficit, the 

2 Board of Trustees shall, no later than September 30 

3 of the same calendar year, submit to the President 

4 recommendations for statutory reforms necessary to 

5 achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a 

6 positive annual balance in the 75th-year. Rec7 ommendations provided to the President must be 

8 agreed upon by both Public Trustees of the Board of 

9 Trustees. 

10 (2) Not later than December 1 of the same cal11 endar year in which the Board of Trustees submit 

12 their recommendations, the President shall promptly 

13 submit implementing legislation to both Houses of 

14 Congress including his recommendations necessary to 

15 achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a 

16 positive annual balance in the 75th year. The Major17 ity Leader of the Senate and the Majority Leader of 

18 the House shall introduce the President’s legislation 

19 upon receipt. 

20 (3) Within 60 days of the President submitting 

21 legislation, the committees of jurisdiction to which the 

22 legislation has been referred shall report the bill which 

23 shall be considered by the full House or Senate under 

24 expedited procedures. 
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1 (4) Legislation submitted by the President 

2 shall— 

3 (A) protect those in or near retirement; 

4 (B) preserve the safety net for those who 

5 count on Social Security the most, including 

6 those with disabilities and survivors; 

7 (C) improve fairness for participants; 

8 (D) reduce the burden on, and provide cer9 tainty for, future generations; and 

10 (E) secure the future of the Disability In11 surance program while addressing the needs of 

12 those with disabilities today and improving the 

13 determination process. 

14 SEC. 705. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AF15 FORDABILITY. 

16 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

17 (1) A well-educated workforce is critical to eco18 nomic, job, and wage growth. 

19 (2) More than 21 million students are enrolled 

20 in American colleges and universities. 

21 (3) Over the last decade, tuition and fees have 

22 been growing at an unsustainable rate. Between the 

23 2001-2002 Academic Year and the 2011-2012 Aca24 demic Year: 
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1 (A) Published tuition and fees for in-State 

2 students at public four-year colleges and univer3 sities increased at an average rate of 5.6 percent 

4 per year beyond the rate of general inflation. 

5 (B) Published tuition and fees for in-State 

6 students at public two-year colleges and univer7 sities increased at an average rate of 3.8 percent 

8 per year beyond the rate of general inflation. 

9 (C) Published tuition and fees for in-State 

10 students at private four-year colleges and univer11 sities increased at an average rate of 2.6 percent 

12 per year beyond the rate of general inflation. 

13 (4) Over that same period, Federal financial aid 

14 has increased 140 percent beyond the rate of general 

15 inflation. 

16 (5) This spending has failed to make college 

17 more affordable. 

18 (6) In his 2012 State of the Union Address, 

19 President Obama noted that, ‘‘We can’t just keep sub20 sidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money.’’ 

21 (7) American students are chasing ever-increas22 ing tuition with ever-increasing debt. According to the 

23 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student debt near24 ly tripled between 2004 and 2012, and now stands at 
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1 nearly $1 trillion. Student debt now has the second 

2 largest balance after mortgage debt. 

3 (8) Students are carrying large debt loads and 

4 too many fail to complete college or end up defaulting 

5 on these loans due to their debt burden and a weak 

6 economy and job market. 

7 (9) Based on estimates from the Congressional 

8 Budget Office, the Pell Grant Program will face a fis9 cal shortfall beginning in fiscal year 2015 and con10 tinuing in each subsequent year in the current budget 

11 window. 

12 (10) Failing to address these problems will jeop13 ardize access and affordability to higher education for 

14 America’s young people. 

15 (b) POLICY ON HIGHER EDUCATION AFFORD16 ABILITY.—It is the policy of this resolution to address the 

17 root drivers of tuition inflation, by— 

18 (1) targeting Federal financial aid to those most 

19 in need; 

20 (2) streamlining programs that provide aid to 

21 make them more effective; 

22 (3) maintaining the maximum Pell grant award 

23 level at $5,645 in each year of the budget window; 

24 and 
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1 (4) removing regulatory barriers in higher edu2 cation that act to restrict flexibility and innovative 

3 teaching, particularly as it relates to non-traditional 

4 models such as online coursework and competency5 based learning. 

6 SEC. 706. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION 

7 THROUGH THE CANCELLATION OF UNOBLI8 GATED BALANCES. 

9 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

10 (1) According to the last available estimate from 

11 the Office of Management and Budget, Federal agen12 cies were expected to hold $698 billion in unobligated 

13 balances at the close of fiscal year 2013. 

14 (2) These funds represent direct and discre15 tionary spending made available by Congress that re16 mains available for expenditure beyond the fiscal year 

17 for which they are provided. 

18 (3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding 

19 and it remains available for obligation indefinitely. 

20 (4) The Congressional Budget and Impoundment 

21 Control Act of 1974 requires the Office of Manage22 ment and Budget to make funds available to agencies 

23 for obligation and prohibits the Administration from 

24 withholding or cancelling unobligated funds unless 

25 approved by an act of Congress. 
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1 (5) Greater congressional oversight is required to 

2 review and identify potential savings from unneeded 

3 balances of funds. 

4 (b) POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION

5 THROUGH THE CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BAL6 ANCES.—Congressional committees shall through their over7 sight activities identify and achieve savings through the 

8 cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances that nei9 ther abrogate contractual obligations of the Government nor 

10 reduce or disrupt Federal commitments under programs 

11 such as Social Security, veterans’ affairs, national security, 

12 and Treasury authority to finance the national debt. 

13 (c) DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Congress, with the assist14 ance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspec15 tors General, and other appropriate agencies should make 

16 it a high priority to review unobligated balances and iden17 tify savings for deficit reduction. 

18 SEC. 707. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARD19 SHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 

20 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

21 (1) The House of Representatives cut budgets for 

22 Members of Congress, House committees, and leader23 ship offices by 5 percent in 2011 and an additional 

24 6.4 percent in 2012. 
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1 (2) The House of Representatives achieved sav2 ings of $36.5 million over three years by consoli3 dating House operations and renegotiating contracts. 

4 (b) POLICY.—It is the policy of this resolution that: 

5 (1) The House of Representatives must be a 

6 model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer re7 sources and therefore must identify any savings that 

8 can be achieved through greater productivity and effi9 ciency gains in the operation and maintenance of 

10 House services and resources like printing, con11 ferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, 

12 grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should 

13 include a review of policies and procedures for acqui14 sition of goods and services to eliminate any unneces15 sary spending. The Committee on House Administra16 tion should review the policies pertaining to the serv17 ices provided to Members and committees of the 

18 House, and should identify ways to reduce any sub19 sidies paid for the operation of the House gym, barber 

20 shop, salon, and the House dining room. 

21 (2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase 

22 first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Mem23 bers of Congress. 
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1 SEC. 708. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION 

2 THROUGH THE REDUCTION OF UNNECES3 SARY AND WASTEFUL SPENDING. 

4 (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

5 (1) The Government Accountability Office 

6 (‘‘GAO’’) is required by law to identify examples of 

7 waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, 

8 and has so identified dozens of such examples. 

9 (2) In testimony before the Committee on Over10 sight and Government Reform, the Comptroller Gen11 eral has stated that addressing the identified waste, 

12 duplication, and overlap in Federal programs ‘‘could 

13 potentially save tens of billions of dollars.’’ 

14 (3) In 2011 and 2012, the Government Account15 ability Office issued reports showing excessive dupli16 cation and redundancy in Federal programs includ17 ing— 

18 (A) 209 ‘‘Science, Technology, Engineering, 

19 and Mathematics’’ (‘‘STEM’’) education pro20 grams in 13 different Federal agencies at a cost 

21 of $3 billion annually; 

22 (B) 200 separate Department of Justice 

23 crime prevention and victim services grant pro24 grams with an annual cost of $3.9 billion in 

25 2010; 
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1 (C) 20 different Federal entities administer 

2 160 housing programs and other forms of Fed3 eral assistance for housing with a total cost of 

4 $170 billion in 2010; 

5 (D) 17 separate Homeland Security pre6 paredness grant programs that spent $37 billion 

7 between fiscal year 2011 and 2012; 

8 (E) 13 programs, 3 tax benefits, and one 

9 loan program to reduce diesel emissions; and 

10 (F) 94 different initiatives run by 11 dif11 ferent agencies to encourage ‘‘green building’’ in 

12 the private sector. 

13 (4) The Federal Government spends about $80 

14 billion each year for information technology. GAO has 

15 identified broad acquisition failures, waste, and un16 necessary duplication in the Government’s informa17 tion technology infrastructure. Experts have estimated 

18 that eliminating these problems could save 25 percent 

19 – or $20 billion – of the Government’s annual infor20 mation technology budget. 

21 (5) Federal agencies reported an estimated $108 

22 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2012. 

23 (6) Under clause 2 of Rule XI of the Rules of the 

24 House of Representatives, each standing committee 

25 must hold at least one hearing during each 120 day 
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1 period following its establishment on waste, fraud, 

2 abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs. 

3 (7) According to the Congressional Budget Office, 

4 by fiscal year 2014, 42 laws will expire, possibly re5 sulting in $685 billion in unauthorized appropria6 tions. Timely reauthorizations of these laws would en7 sure assessments of program justification and effec8 tiveness. 

9 (8) The findings resulting from congressional 

10 oversight of Federal Government programs should re11 sult in programmatic changes in both authorizing 

12 statutes and program funding levels. 

13 (b) POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION

14 THROUGH THE REDUCTION OF UNNECESSARY AND WASTE15 FUL SPENDING.—Each authorizing committee annually 

16 shall include in its Views and Estimates letter required 

17 under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

18 1974 recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of 

19 programs within the jurisdiction of such committee whose 

20 funding should be reduced or eliminated. 

21 SEC. 709. POLICY STATEMENT ON UNAUTHORIZED SPEND22 ING. 

23 It is the policy of this resolution that the committees 

24 of jurisdiction should review all unauthorized programs 

25 funded through annual appropriations to determine if the 
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1 programs are operating efficiently and effectively. Commit2 tees should reauthorize those programs that in the commit3 tees’ judgment should continue to receive funding. 

4 TITLE VIII—SENSE OF THE 

5 HOUSE PROVISIONS 

6 SEC. 801. SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF 

7 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. 

8 It is the sense of the House that— 

9 (1) additional legislative action is needed to en10 sure that States have the necessary resources to collect 

11 all child support that is owed to families and to allow 

12 them to pass 100 percent of support on to families 

13 without financial penalty; and 

14 (2) when 100 percent of child support payments 

15 are passed to the child, rather than administrative ex16 penses, program integrity is improved and child sup17 port participation increases. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. CON. RES. 8 

AMENDMENT