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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1492 

Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2011. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 30, 2010 

Mr. SPRATT submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 

for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 

for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 

committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2011. 

1 Resolved, 

2 (a) BUDGET ENFORCEMENT.—For the purposes of 

3 budget enforcement: 

4 (1) BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.—The following allo5 cations shall be the allocations made pursuant to 

6 section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

7 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations and shall 

8 be enforceable under section 302(f)(1) of that Act: 

9 (A) FISCAL YEAR 2010.—In addition to 

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1 tion on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. 

2 Res. 13), the allocation for new discretionary 

3 budget authority to the Committee on Appro4 priations shall be increased up to $538,000,000 

5 for program integrity initiatives listed in section 

6 422(a) of S. Con. Res. 13. The outlay allocation 

7 for fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2011 shall 

8 be adjusted accordingly. 

9 (B) FISCAL YEAR 2011.— 

10 (i) New discretionary budget author11 ity, $1,121,000,000,000. 

12 (ii) Discretionary outlays, 

13 $1,314,000,000,000. 

14 (iii) New mandatory budget authority, 

15 $765,584,000,000. 

16 (iv) Mandatory outlays, 

17 $755,502,000,000. 

18 (2) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING ENFORCEMENT

19 PROVISIONS.—The provisions of the concurrent reso20 lution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. 

21 Res. 13) shall remain in force and effect in the 

22 House, except that the references in section 424 

23 (point of order against advance appropriations) to 

24 fiscal years 2010 and 2011 shall be references to fis25 cal years 2011 and 2012, respectively. 


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1 (b) PAY-AS-YOU-GO ALIGNMENT.— 

2 (1) Paragraph (a) of clause 10 of rule XXI of 

3 the Rules of the House of Representatives is amend4 ed to read as follows: 

5 ‘‘(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), 

6 it shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolu7 tion, amendment, or conference report if the provisions of 

8 such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have 

9 the net effect of increasing the on-budget deficit or reduc10 ing the on-budget surplus for either the period com11 prising— 

12 ‘‘(A) the current year, the budget year, and the 

13 four years following that budget year; or 

14 ‘‘(B) the current year, the budget year, and the 

15 nine years following that budget year. 

16 ‘‘(2) The effect of such measure on the deficit or sur17 plus shall be determined on the basis of estimates made 

18 by the Committee on the Budget relative to baseline esti19 mates supplied by the Congressional Budget Office con20 sistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and 

21 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and consistent 

22 with sections 3(4), 3(8), and 4(c) of the Statutory Pay23 As-You-Go Act of 2010. 

24 ‘‘(3) For the purpose of this clause, the terms ‘budget 

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1 ings given those terms in section 250 of the Balanced 

2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, ex3 cept that the term ‘direct spending’ shall include provi4 sions in appropriation Acts that make outyear modifica5 tions to substantive law as described under section 3(4)(C) 

6 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.’’. 

7 (2) ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS.— 

8 For the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act 

9 of 1974 or the concurrent resolution on the budget 

10 for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13)— 

11 (A) section 421 of S. Con. Res. 13 shall no 

12 longer apply to the consideration of bills, joint 

13 resolutions, amendments, or conference reports; 

14 (B) the chairman of the Committee on the 

15 Budget may exclude the effect of any ‘‘current 

16 policy adjustment’’ as provided in section 4(c) 

17 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 

18 from a determination of the budgetary effects 

19 of any provision in a bill, joint resolution, 

20 amendment, or conference report; and 

21 (C) the terms ‘‘budget year’’, ‘‘current 

22 year’’, and ‘‘direct spending’’ have the mean23 ings given those terms in section 250 of the 

24 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con25 trol Act of 1985, except that the term ‘‘direct 


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1 spending’’ shall include provisions in appropria2 tion Acts that make outyear modifications to 

3 substantive law as described under section 

4 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 

5 2010. 

6 (c) SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON DEFICIT REDUC7 TION.— 

8 (1) FINDINGS.—The House finds that— 

9 (A) passage of the Statutory Pay-As-You10 Go Act of 2010, passage of legislation to reform 

11 the defense acquisition system, and passage of 

12 health care reform legislation reducing the def13 icit represented valuable contributions to fiscal 

14 responsibility; 

15 (B) strengthening the economy and cre16 ating jobs are critical to reducing the long-term 

17 deficit; 

18 (C) fiscally responsible investments in edu19 cation, including the retention of high-quality 

20 teachers in the classroom, help to lay the foun21 dation for a stronger economy; 

22 (D) the discretionary levels for 2011 in23 cluded in this resolution represent a reduction 

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1 quest, and further contribute to fiscal discipline; 

2 and 

3 (E) defending our country requires nec4 essary investments and reforms to strengthen 

5 our military—including providing sufficient re6 sources to aggressively pursue implementation 

7 of GAO recommendations to achieve effi8 ciencies, and evaluating defense plans to ensure 

9 weapons systems that were developed to counter 

10 Cold War-era threats are not redundant and 

11 applicable to 21st century threats. 

12 (2) SENSE OF THE HOUSE ON DEFICIT REDUC13 TION.—It is the sense of the House that— 

14 (A) by 2015 the Federal budget should be 

15 in primary balance—meaning that outlays in 

16 the Federal budget shall equal receipts during 

17 a fiscal year, not counting outlays for debt serv18 ice payments; 

19 (B) the debt-to-GDP ratio should be sta20 bilized at an acceptable level once the economy 

21 recovers; 

22 (C) not later than September 15, 2010, the 

23 chairs of committees should submit for printing 

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1 duction by reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and 

2 mismanagement, promoting efficiency and re3 form of government, and controlling spending 

4 within Government programs those committees 

5 may authorize; 

6 (D) prior to the adjournment of the 111th 

7 Congress, any recommendations made by the 

8 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility 

9 and Reform and approved by the Senate should 

10 be brought to a vote in the House of Represent11 atives; and 

12 (E) any deficit reduction achieved by the 

13 enactment of such legislation should be used for 

14 deficit reduction only and should not be avail15 able to offset the costs of future legislation. 

16 (d) RESERVE FUND FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.— 

17 Upon enactment of legislation containing recommenda18 tions in the final report of the National Commission on 

19 Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established by Execu20 tive Order 13531 on February 18, 2010, that decreases 

21 the deficit for either time period provided in clause 10 of 

22 rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 

23 the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall, for 

24 the purposes of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

25 exclude any net deficit reduction from his determination 


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1 of the budgetary effects of such legislation, to ensure that 

2 the deficit reduction achieved by that legislation is used 

3 only for deficit reduction and is not available as an offset 

4 for any subsequent legislation. 

5 (e) HOUSE RULE XXVIII.—Nothing in this resolu6 tion shall be construed to engage rule XXVIII of the Rules 

7 of the House of Representatives. 

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