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(3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding 
and it remains available for obligation indefinitely. 
(4) The Congressional Budget and Impound-
ment Control Act of 1974 requires the Office of 
Management and Budget to make funds available to 
agencies for obligation and prohibits the Administra-
tion from withholding or cancelling unobligated 
funds unless approved by an Act of Congress. 
(5) Greater congressional oversight is required 
to review and identify potential savings from can-
celing unobligated balances of funds that are no 
longer needed. 
(b) POLICY ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 
CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—Congres-
sional committees should through their oversight activities 
identify and achieve savings through the cancellation or 
rescission of unobligated balances that neither abrogate 
contractual obligations of the Government nor reduce or 
disrupt Federal commitments under programs such as So-
cial Security, veterans’ affairs, national security, and 
Treasury authority to finance the national debt. 
(c) DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Congress, with the assist-
ance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspec-
tors General, and other appropriate agencies should con-
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tinue to make it a high priority to review unobligated bal-
ances and identify savings for deficit reduction. 
SEC. 817. POLICY STATEMENT ON AGENCY FEES AND 
SPENDING. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) A number of Federal agencies and organiza-
tions have permanent authority to collect fees and 
other offsetting collections and to spend these col-
lected funds. 
(2) The total amount of offsetting fees and off-
setting collections is estimated by the Office of Man-
agement and Budget to be $525 billion in fiscal year 
2016. 
(3) Agency budget justifications are, in some 
cases, not fully transparent about the amount of 
program activity funded through offsetting collec-
tions or fees. This lack of transparency prevents ef-
fective and accountable government. 
(b) POLICY ON AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING.—It 
is the policy of this resolution that Congress must reassert 
its constitutional prerogative to control spending and con-
duct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact legislation 
requiring programs that are funded through fees, offset-
ting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new 
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budget authority annually. Such allocation may arise 
from— 
(1) legislation originating from the authorizing 
committee of jurisdiction for the agency or program; 
or 
(2) fee and account specific allocations included 
in annual appropriation Acts. 
SEC. 818. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARD-
SHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 
(a) FINDINGS.— The House finds the following: 
(1) The budget for the House of Representa-
tives is $188 million less than it was when Repub-
licans became the majority in 2011. 
(2) The House of Representatives has achieved 
significant savings by consolidating operations and 
renegotiating contracts. 
(b) POLICY
ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP
OF 
TAXPAYER DOLLARS.—It is the policy of this resolution 
that: 
(1) The House of Representatives must be a 
model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer re-
sources and therefore must identify any savings that 
can be achieved through greater productivity and ef-
ficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of 
House services and resources like printing, con-
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ferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, 
grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should 
include a review of policies and procedures for acqui-
sition of goods and services to eliminate any unnec-
essary spending. The Committee on House Adminis-
tration should review the policies pertaining to the 
services provided to Members and committees of the 
House, and should identify ways to reduce any sub-
sidies paid for the operation of the House gym, bar-
ber shop, salon, and the House dining room. 
(2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase 
first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Mem-
bers of Congress. 
(3) Retirement benefits for Members of Con-
gress should not include free, taxpayer-funded health 
care for life. 
SEC. 819. POLICY STATEMENT ON ‘‘NO BUDGET, NO PAY’’. 
It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should 
agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget every year 
pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974. If by April 15, a House of Congress has not 
agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget, the pay-
roll administrator of that House should carry out this pol-
icy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 
113–3, the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, and should 
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place in an escrow account all compensation otherwise re-
quired to be made for Members of that House of Congress. 
Withheld compensation should be released to Members of 
that House of Congress the earlier of the day on which 
that House of Congress agrees to a concurrent resolution 
on the budget, pursuant to section 301 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, or the last day of that Con-
gress. 
SEC. 820. POLICY STATEMENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY 
FUNDING. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Russian aggression, the growing threats of 
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Mid-
dle East, North Korean and Iranian nuclear and 
missile programs, and continued Chinese invest-
ments in high-end military capabilities and cyber 
warfare shape the parameters of an increasingly 
complex and challenging security environment. 
(2) All four current service chiefs testified that 
the National Military Strategy could not be executed 
at sequestration levels. 
(3) The independent and bipartisan National 
Defense Panel conducted risk assessments of force 
structure changes triggered by the Budget Control 
Act of 2011 (BCA) and concluded that in addition 
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to previous cuts to defense dating back to 2009, the 
sequestration of defense discretionary spending has 
‘‘caused significant shortfalls in U.S. military readi-
ness and both present and future capabilities’’. 
(4) The President’s fiscal year 2016 budget ir-
responsibly ignores current law and requests a de-
fense budget $38 billion above the caps for rhetor-
ical gain. By creating an expectation of spending 
without a plan to avoid the BCA’s guaranteed se-
quester upon breaching of its caps, the White 
House’s proposal compounds the fiscal uncertainty 
that has affected the military’s ability to adequately 
plan for future contingencies and make investments 
crucial for the Nation’s defense. 
(5) The President’s budget proposes $1.8 tril-
lion in tax increases, in addition to the $1.7 trillion 
in tax hikes the Administration has already imposed. 
The President’s tax increases would further burden 
economic growth and is not a realistic source for off-
sets to fund defense sequester replacement. 
(b) POLICY ON FISCAL YEAR 2016 NATIONAL DE-
FENSE FUNDING.—In fiscal year 2015, the House-passed 
budget resolution anticipated $566 billion for national de-
fense in the discretionary base budget for fiscal year 2016. 
With no necessary statutory change yet provided by Con-
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gress, the BCA statute would require limiting national de-
fense discretionary base funding to $523 billion in fiscal 
year 2016. However, in total with $90 billion, the House 
Budget estimate for Overseas Contingency Operations 
funding for the Department of Defense, the fiscal year 
2016 budget provides over $613 billion total for defense 
spending that is higher than the President’s budget re-
quest for the fiscal year. This concurrent resolution pro-
vides $22 billion above the President’s Five Year Defense 
Plan and $151 billion above the 10-year totals. This would 
also be $387 billion above the 10-year total for current 
levels. 
(c) DEFENSE
READINESS
AND
MODERNIZATION 
FUND.—(1) The budget resolution recognizes the need to 
ensure robust funding for national defense while maintain-
ing overall fiscal discipline. The budget resolution 
prioritizes our national defense and the needs of the 
warfighter by providing needed dollars through the cre-
ation of the ‘‘Defense Readiness and Modernization 
Fund’’. 
(2) The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund 
provides the mechanism for Congress to responsibly allo-
cate in a deficit-neutral way the resources the military 
needs to secure the safety and liberty of United States 
citizens from threats at home and abroad. The Defense 
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Readiness and Modernization Fund will provide the chair 
of the Committee on the Budget of the House the ability 
to increase allocations to support legislation that would 
provide for the Department of Defense warfighting capa-
bilities, modernization, a temporary increase in end 
strength, training and maintenance associated with com-
bat readiness, activities to reach full auditability of the 
Department of Defense’s financial statements, and imple-
mentation of military and compensation reforms. 
(d) SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT FOR NATIONAL DE-
FENSE.—This concurrent resolution encourages an imme-
diate reevaluation of Federal Government priorities to 
maintain the strength of America’s national security pos-
ture. In identifying policies to restructure and stabilize the 
Government’s major entitlement programs which, along 
with net interest, will consume all Federal revenue in less 
than 20 years. The budget also charts a course that can 
ensure the availability of needed national security re-
sources. 
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Union Calendar No. 30 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 27 
[Report No. 114–47] 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Establishing the budget for the United States Gov-
ernment for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 
through 2025. 
MARCH 20, 2015 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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