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(ii) the allocations made pursuant to
the appropriate concurrent resolution on the
budget pursuant to section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
(iii) the budgetary aggregates as set
forth in the appropriate concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget.
(2) AMOUNTS
OF
ADJUSTMENTS.—The adjust-
ment referred to in paragraph (1) shall be an amount
provided for the fiscal year 2006 pursuant to sub-
section (b).
(3) REPORTING
REVISED
SUBALLOCATIONS.—
Following any adjustment made under paragraph
(1), the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate
shall report appropriately revised suballocations
under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974 to carry out this subsection.
SEC. 405. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLO-
CATIONS AND AGGREGATES.
(a) APPLICATION.—Any adjustments of allocations
and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall—
(1) apply while that measure is under consider-
ation;
(2) take effect upon the enactment of that meas-
ure; and
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(3) be published in the Congressional Record as
soon as practicable.
(b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AGGRE-
GATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from
these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggre-
gates contained in this resolution.
(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For pur-
poses of this resolution—
(1) the levels of new budget authority, outlays,
direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues,
deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of
fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of esti-
mates made by the appropriate Committee on the
Budget; and
(2) such chairman may make any other nec-
essary adjustments to such levels to carry out this res-
olution.
SEC. 406. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CON-
CEPTS AND DEFINITIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the Senate, upon the enactment
of a bill or joint resolution providing for a change in con-
cepts or definitions, the appropriate chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget shall make adjustments to the levels
and allocations in this resolution in accordance with section
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251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002).
(b) PELL GRANTS.—
(1) BUDGET AUTHORITY.—In the Senate, if ap-
propriations of discretionary new budget authority
enacted for the Federal Pell Grant Program are insuf-
ficient to cover the full cost of Pell Grants in the up-
coming award year, adjusted for any cumulative
funding surplus or shortfall from prior years, the
budget authority counted against the bill for the Pell
Grant Program shall be equal to the adjusted full cost.
(2) APPLICATION.—This subsection shall apply
only to new Pell Grant awards approved in legisla-
tion for award year 2006–2007 and subsequent award
years and shall not apply to the cumulative shortfall
through award year 2005–2006.
(3) ESTIMATES.—The estimate of the budget au-
thority associated with the full cost of Pell Grants
shall be based on the maximum award and any
changes in eligibility requirements, using current eco-
nomic and technical assumptions and as determined
pursuant to scorekeeping guidelines, if any.
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SEC. 407. LIMITATION ON LONG-TERM SPENDING PRO-
POSALS.
(a) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANALYSIS OF
PROPOSALS.—The Congressional Budget Office shall, to the
extent practicable, prepare an estimate of the costs in each
of the four 10-year periods beginning in fiscal year 2015
through fiscal year 2055, for each bill or resolution of a
public character, except measures within the jurisdiction of
the Committee on Appropriations, causing a net increase
in direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of
the four 10-year periods, and shall submit to the committee
the estimate of the costs of the legislation.
(b) IN THE SENATE.—It shall not be in order to con-
sider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or con-
ference report that would cause a net increase in direct
spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the four 10-
year periods beginning in 2015 through 2055, as measured
against current law out-year estimates prepared by the
Congressional Budget Office.
(c) WAIVER.—This section may be waived or sus-
pended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(d) APPEALS.—An affirmative vote of three-fifths of
the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to
sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point
of order raised under this section.
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(e) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For pur-
poses of this section, the levels of net direct spending shall
be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the
Committee on the Budget of the Senate.
(f) SUNSET.—This section shall expire on September
30, 2010.
SEC. 408. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.
Congress adopts the provisions of this title—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the
Senate and the House, respectively, and as such they
shall be considered as part of the rules of each House,
or of that House to which they specifically apply, and
such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex-
tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional
right of either House to change those rules (so far as
they relate to that house) at any time, in the same
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any
other rule of that House.
TITLE V—SENSE OF THE SENATE
SEC. 501. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING UNAUTHOR-
IZED APPROPRIATIONS.
It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should—
(1) preclude consideration of any bill, joint reso-
lution, motion, amendment, or conference report that
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would provide an appropriation, in whole or in part,
for programs not specifically authorized by law or
Treaty stipulation, or the amount of which exceeds
the amount specifically authorized by law or Treaty
stipulation, or that would provide a limited tax ben-
efit as defined by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996
(Public Law 104–130), and
(2) determine a method for effectively containing
the extraordinary growth in unauthorized earmarks.
SEC. 502. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING A COMMIS-
SION TO REVIEW THE PERFORMANCE OF PRO-
GRAMS.
It is the sense of the Senate that a commission should
be established to review Federal agencies, and programs
within such agencies, with the express purpose of providing
Congress with recommendations, and legislation to imple-
ment those recommendations, to realign or eliminate Gov-
ernment agencies and programs that are wasteful, duplica-
tive, inefficient, outdated, irrelevant, or have failed to ac-
complish their intended purpose.
SEC. 503. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING TRICARE.
It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should pro-
vide sufficient funding to the Department of Defense to offer
members of the Reserve Component continuous access to