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to the extent practicable, provide a fair-value estimate of 
such loan or loan guarantee program. 
(b) 
BASELINE
ESTIMATES.—The 
Congressional 
Budget Office shall include estimates of loan and loan 
guarantee programs, on a fair-value and credit reform 
basis, as practicable, in its The Budget and Economic Out-
look. 
(c) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—If the Director of the Congressional Budget Of-
fice provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a), the 
chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives may use such estimate to determine com-
pliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and 
other budget enforcement requirements. 
SEC. 307. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF 
BUDGETARY RESOURCES. 
(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT 
SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House of Representatives, if 
a committee (other than the Committee on Appropria-
tions) reports a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment 
thereto is offered or conference report thereon is sub-
mitted, providing for a decrease in direct spending (budget 
authority and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal 
year and also provides for an authorization of appropria-
tions for the same purpose, upon the enactment of such 
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measure, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may 
decrease the allocation to the applicable authorizing com-
mittee that reports such measure and increase the alloca-
tion of discretionary spending (budget authority and out-
lays flowing therefrom) to the Committee on Appropria-
tions for fiscal year 2019 by an amount equal to the new 
budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) provided 
for in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for 
the same purpose. 
(b) DETERMINATIONS.—In the House of Representa-
tives, for purposes of enforcing this concurrent resolution, 
the allocations and aggregate levels of new budget author-
ity, outlays, direct spending, revenues, deficits, and sur-
pluses for fiscal year 2019 and the total of fiscal years 
2019 through 2028 shall be determined on the basis of 
estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the 
Budget and such chair may adjust the applicable levels 
in this concurrent resolution. 
SEC. 308. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL 
FUND OF THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY 
TRUST FUND. 
In the House of Representatives, for purposes of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the rules 
or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint 
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resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report 
thereon, that transfers funds from the general fund of the 
Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall be counted as 
new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of 
the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer occurs. 
SEC. 309. PROHIBITION ON USE OF GUARANTEE FEES AS 
AN OFFSET. 
In the House of Representatives, any provision of a 
bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or con-
ference report thereon, that increases, or extends the in-
crease of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National 
Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) shall not be 
counted for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budg-
et Act of 1974, this concurrent resolution, or clause 10 
of rule XXI of the rules of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 310. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE 
EXPENSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, 
notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforce-
ment Act of 1990, and section 2009a of title 39, United 
States Code, the report or the joint explanatory statement, 
as applicable, accompanying this concurrent resolution 
shall include in its allocation to the Committee on Appro-
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priations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budg-
et Act of 1974 amounts for the discretionary administra-
tive expenses of the Social Security Administration and 
the United States Postal Service. 
(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the House of Representa-
tives, for purposes of enforcing section 302(f) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the levels of 
total new budget authority and total outlays provided by 
a measure shall include any discretionary amounts de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
SEC. 311. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLO-
CATIONS AND AGGREGATES. 
(a) APPLICATION.—In the House of Representatives, 
any adjustments of the allocations, aggregates, and other 
budgetary levels made pursuant to this concurrent resolu-
tion shall— 
(1) apply while that measure is under consider-
ation; 
(2) take effect upon the enactment of that 
measure; and 
(3) be published in the Congressional Record as 
soon as practicable. 
(b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AG-
GREGATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting 
from these adjustments shall be considered for the pur-
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poses of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as the allo-
cations and aggregates contained in this concurrent reso-
lution. 
(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For 
purposes of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary lev-
els for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be deter-
mined on the basis of estimates made by the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representa-
tives. 
(d) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS
AND
APPLICA-
TION.—In the House of Representatives, for purposes of 
this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement, the 
consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment 
thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair 
of the Committee on the Budget makes adjustments or 
revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other budg-
etary levels of this concurrent resolution shall not be sub-
ject to the points of order set forth in clause 10 of rule 
XXI of the rules of the House of Representatives or sec-
tion 301 of this concurrent resolution. 
(e) OTHER ADJUSTMENTS.—The chair of the Com-
mittee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may 
adjust other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolu-
tion depending on congressional action on pending rec-
onciliation legislation. 
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SEC. 312. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CON-
CEPTS AND DEFINITIONS. 
In the House of Representatives, the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may adjust the appropriate ag-
gregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels in this 
concurrent resolution for any change in budgetary con-
cepts and definitions consistent with section 251(b)(1) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
SEC. 313. ADJUSTMENT FOR CHANGES IN THE BASELINE. 
In the House of Representatives, the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, ag-
gregates, reconciliation targets, and other appropriate 
budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution to reflect 
changes resulting from the Congressional Budget Office’s 
update to its baseline for fiscal years 2019 through 2028. 
SEC. 314. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 
The House of Representatives adopts the provisions 
of this title and title II— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the House of Representatives, and as such they shall 
be considered as part of the rules of the House of 
Representatives, and such rules shall supersede 
other rules only to the extent that they are incon-
sistent with such other rules; and 
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(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of the House of Representatives to change 
those rules at any time, in the same manner, and to 
the same extent as is the case of any other rule of 
the House of Representatives. 
TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS IN 
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES 
SEC. 401. DEFICIT NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INVEST-
MENTS IN NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. 
In the House of Representatives, the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, ag-
gregates, and other appropriate levels in this concurrent 
resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment 
thereto or conference report thereon, that invests in na-
tional infrastructure if such measure would not increase 
the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2019 through 
2028. 
SEC. 402. DEFICIT NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMEND-
MENTS TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE 
OF 1986. 
In the House of Representatives, if the Committee 
on Ways and Means reports a bill or joint resolution that 
amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the chair of 
the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, 
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aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels in this 
concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any such 
bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or con-
ference report thereon, if such measure would not increase 
the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2019 through 
2028. 
SEC. 403. RESERVE FUND FOR EXTENDING PRO-GROWTH 
TAX POLICIES. 
In the House of Representatives, if the Committee 
on Ways and Means reports a bill or joint resolution that 
extends the pro-growth tax policies of Public Law 115– 
97, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust 
the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budg-
etary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary 
effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amendment 
thereto or conference report thereon. 
SEC. 404. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OR REPLACE-
MENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE 
LAWS. 
In the House of Representatives, the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, ag-
gregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels in this 
concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill 
or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that repeals or replaces any provision of 
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the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or title 
I or subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education 
Reconciliation Act of 2010 by the amount of budget au-
thority and outlays flowing therefrom provided by such 
measure for such purpose. 
SEC. 405. DEFICIT NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE 
CLARIFICATION OF PRESUMPTIONS OF SERV-
ICE 
CONNECTION 
FOR 
VETERANS 
WHO 
SERVED OFFSHORE OF THE REPUBLIC OF 
VIETNAM AND KOREA. 
In the House of Representatives, if the Committee 
on Veterans’ Affairs reports a bill or joint resolution that 
clarifies the presumptions of service connection for vet-
erans who served offshore of the Republic of Vietnam or 
Korea, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may ad-
just the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budg-
etary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amend-
ment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure 
would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 
2019 through 2028. 
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TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS 
IN 
THE 
HOUSE 
OF 
REP-
RESENTATIVES 
SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON UNAUTHORIZED APPRO-
PRIATIONS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Article I of the Constitution vests all legisla-
tive power in Congress. 
(2) Central to the legislative powers of Congress 
is the authorization of appropriations necessary to 
execute the laws that establish agencies and pro-
grams and impose obligations. 
(3) Clause 2 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives prohibits the consideration 
of appropriations measures that provide appropria-
tions for unauthorized programs. 
(4) As of January 2018, more than $713 billion 
has been appropriated for unauthorized programs, 
spanning 30 separate laws that include 189 explicit 
authorizations of appropriations set to expire on or 
before the end of fiscal year 2018. 
(5) Agencies such as the Department of State 
have not been authorized for nearly two decades. 
(6) In the 115th Congress, the House adopted 
as part of H. Res. 5 a requirement for each standing 
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committee of the House to adopt an authorization 
and oversight plan that enumerates all unauthorized 
programs and agencies within its jurisdiction that 
received funding in the prior fiscal year, among 
other oversight requirements. 
(b) POLICY ON UNAUTHORIZED APPROPRIATIONS.— 
In the House, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution 
that legislation should be enacted that— 
(1) establishes a schedule for reauthorizing all 
Federal programs on a staggered five-year basis to-
gether with declining spending targets for each year 
a program is not reauthorized according to such 
schedule; 
(2) prohibits the consideration of appropriations 
measures in the House that provide appropriations 
in excess of spending targets specified for such 
measures and ensures that such rule should be 
strictly enforced; and 
(3) limits funding for non-defense or non-secu-
rity-related Federal programs that are not reauthor-
ized according to the schedule described in para-
graph (1). 
SEC. 502. POLICY STATEMENT ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
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(1) The Government Accountability Office de-
fines improper payments as any reported payment 
that should not have been made or was made in an 
incorrect amount. 
(2) Improper payments totaled roughly $1.3 
trillion between fiscal years 2003 and 2017. 
(3) Improper payments increased from $107 
billion in 2012 to $141 billion in 2017. 
(4) The Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicare, 
and Medicaid account for 74 percent of total im-
proper payments. 
(5) Eight agencies did not report payment esti-
mates for 18 programs that the Comptroller General 
deems susceptible to significant improper payments. 
(b) POLICY ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS.—It is the pol-
icy of this concurrent resolution that an independent com-
mission should be established with the goal of finding tan-
gible solutions to reduce total improper payments by 50 
percent within the next 5 years. The commission should 
also develop a more stringent system of agency oversight 
to achieve this goal. 
SEC. 503. POLICY STATEMENT ON EXPENDITURES FROM 
AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
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(1) Many Federal departments and agencies 
have permanent authority to collect and spend fees 
and other offsetting collections. 
(2) The Office of Management and Budget esti-
mates the total amount of offsetting fees and collec-
tions to be $542 billion in fiscal year 2018. 
(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 EXPENDITURES FROM AGENCY FEES 
AND SPENDING.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolu-
tion that the House should reassert its constitutional pre-
rogative to control Federal spending and exercise rigorous 
oversight over Federal agencies. Congress should subject 
all fees paid by the public to Federal agencies to annual 
appropriations or authorizing legislation and a share of 
these proceeds should be reserved for taxpayers in the 
form of deficit reduction. 
SEC. 504. POLICY STATEMENT ON COMBATING THE OPIOID 
EPIDEMIC. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
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(1) According to the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention (CDC), on average, 115 Ameri-
cans die each day from an opioid overdose. 
(2) Forty percent of deaths from an opioid 
overdose are attributable to overdose from prescrip-
tion opioids. 
(3) Opioid overdose deaths involving a prescrip-
tion opioid were five times higher in 2016 than in 
1999. 
(4) Since 1999, the number of prescription 
opioids sold in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled. 
(5) Since 1999, the number of deaths from pre-
scription opioids has more than quadrupled. 
(6) The CDC asserts that improving opioid pre-
scribing practices will reduce exposure to opioids, 
prevent abuse, and stop addiction. 
(7) The CDC has found that individuals in 
rural counties are almost twice as likely to overdose 
on prescription painkillers as those in urban areas. 
(8) According to the CDC, nearly 7,000 people 
are treated in emergency rooms every day for using 
opioids in a non-approved manner. 
(9) The 21st Century Cures Act and the Com-
prehensive Addiction and Recovery Act were signed 
into law in the 114th Congress in an overwhelming 
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display of congressional and executive branch sup-
port in the fight against the opioid epidemic. 
(10) The Committee on Energy and Commerce 
and the Committee on Ways and Means have consid-
ered dozens of opioid epidemic-related bills during 
the 115th Congress. 
(11) Bipartisan efforts to eliminate opioid 
abuse and provide relief from addiction for all Amer-
icans should continue. 
(b) POLICY ON OPIOID ABUSE.—It is the policy of 
this concurrent resolution that— 
(1) combating opioid abuse using available 
budgetary resources remains a high priority; 
(2) the House, in a bipartisan manner, should 
continue to examine the Federal response to the 
opioid abuse epidemic and support essential activi-
ties to reduce and prevent substance abuse; 
(3) the House should continue to support initia-
tives included in the 21st Century Cures Act and the 
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act; 
(4) the House should continue its oversight ef-
forts, particularly ongoing investigations conducted 
by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
to ensure that taxpayer dollars intended to combat 
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opioid abuse are spent appropriately and efficiently; 
and 
(5) the House should collaborate with State, 
local, and tribal entities to develop a comprehensive 
strategy for addressing the opioid addiction crisis. 
SEC. 505. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAL DISCOVERY, 
DEVELOPMENT, 
DELIVERY, 
AND 
INNOVA-
TION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) The Nation’s commitment to the discovery, 
development, and delivery of new treatments and 
cures has made the United States the biomedical in-
novation capital of the world for decades. 
(2) The history of scientific discovery and med-
ical breakthroughs in the United States is extensive, 
including the creation of the polio vaccine, the first 
genetic 
mapping, 
and 
the 
invention 
of 
the 
implantable cardiac pacemaker. 
(3) Reuters ranked the United States Health 
and Human Services Laboratories as first in the 
world for innovation on its 2017 list of the Top 25 
Global Innovators. 
(4) The United States leads the world in the 
production of medical devices, and the United States 
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medical device market accounts for approximately 40 
percent of the global market. 
(5) The United States remains a global leader 
in pharmaceutical research and development invest-
ment, has produced more than half of the world’s 
new molecules in the past decade, and represents the 
world’s largest pharmaceutical market, which is tri-
ple the size of the nearest rival, China. 
(b) POLICY ON MEDICAL INNOVATION.—It is the pol-
icy of this concurrent resolution that— 
(1) the Federal Government should foster in-
vestment in health care innovation and maintain the 
Nation’s world leadership status in medical science 
by encouraging competition; 
(2) the House should continue to support the 
critical work of medical innovators throughout the 
country through continued funding for agencies, in-
cluding the National Institutes of Health and the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to con-
duct life-saving research and development; and 
(3) the Federal Government should unleash the 
power of private-sector medical innovation by remov-
ing regulatory obstacles that impede the adoption of 
new medical technology and pharmaceuticals. 
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