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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$22,316,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,147,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2012: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$22,737,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,795,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2013: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$22,750,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,492,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2014: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,415,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,629,000,000. 
(18) Net Interest (900): 
Fiscal year 2009: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$288,955,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $288,955,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2010: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$284,085,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $284,085,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2011: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$323,266,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $323,266,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2012: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$387,483,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $387,483,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2013: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$470,452,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $470,452,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2014: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$560,137,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $560,137,000,000. 
(19) Allowances (920): 
Fiscal year 2009: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$14,450,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $1,788,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2010: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$9,422,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,893,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2011: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$8,052,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $5,903,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2012: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$6,518,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,750,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2013: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$5,543,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,122,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2014: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$3,865,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $2,962,000,000. 
(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 
Fiscal year 2009: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$78,206,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$78,206,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2010: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$68,774,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$68,774,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2011: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$71,993,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$71,993,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2012: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$74,970,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$74,970,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2013: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$77,945,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$77,945,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2014: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
–$79,861,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, –$79,861,000,000. 
(21) Overseas Deployments and Other Activi-
ties (970): 
Fiscal year 2009: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$82,648,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $25,129,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2010: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$130,000,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $92,774,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2011: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$50,000,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $76,530,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2012: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$50,000,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $67,694,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2013: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$50,000,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $57,830,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2014: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$50,000,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $52,085,000,000. 
TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 
SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE. 
(a) HEALTH CARE REFORM.— 
(1) Not later than September 29, 2009, the 
House Committee on Energy and Commerce shall 
report changes in laws to reduce the deficit by 
$1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 
through 2014. 
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(2) Not later than September 29, 2009, the 
House Committee on Ways and Means shall report 
changes 
in 
laws 
to 
reduce 
the 
deficit 
by 
$1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 
through 2014. 
(b) INVESTING IN EDUCATION.—Not later than Sep-
tember 30, 2009, the House Committee on Education and 
Labor shall report changes in laws to reduce the deficit 
by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2009 
through 2014. 
(c) SINGLE ENGROSSMENT.—The House may direct 
the Clerk to add at the end of a bill addressed by this 
section the text of another measure addressed by this sec-
tion as passed by the House to form a single engrossed 
reconciliation bill within the meaning of section 310 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 
SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE. 
(Senate reconciliation instructions to be supplied by 
the Senate.) 
TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 
SEC. 301. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH 
CARE REFORM. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
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amendment, or conference report that makes improve-
ments to health care in America, which may include mak-
ing affordable health coverage available for all, improving 
the quality of health care, reducing rising health care 
costs, building on and strengthening existing public and 
private insurance coverage, including employer-sponsored 
coverage, and preserving choice of provider and plan by 
the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 302. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR COLLEGE 
ACCESS, AFFORDABILITY, AND COMPLETION. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report that makes college more 
affordable or accessible or that increases college enroll-
ment and completion through reforms to the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 or other legislation, including increas-
ing the maximum Pell grant award annually by an amount 
equal to one percentage point more than the Consumer 
Price Index, by the amounts provided in such measure if 
such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 
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the surplus for either time period provided in clause 10 
of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 303. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREAS-
ING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report that— 
(1) provides tax incentives for or otherwise en-
courages the production of renewable energy or in-
creased energy efficiency; 
(2) encourages investment in emerging energy 
or vehicle technologies or carbon capture and seques-
tration; 
(3) limits and provides for reductions in green-
house gas emissions; 
(4) assists businesses, industries, States, com-
munities, the environment, workers, or households as 
the United States moves toward reducing and offset-
ting the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions; or 
(5) facilitates the training of workers for these 
industries (‘‘green collar jobs’’); 
by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
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either time period provided in clause 10 of rule XXI of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 304. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMER-
ICA’S VETERANS AND SERVICEMEMBERS. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report that— 
(1) enhances health care for military personnel 
or veterans; 
(2) maintains the affordability of health care 
for military retirees or veterans; 
(3) improves disability benefits or evaluations 
for wounded or disabled military personnel or vet-
erans, including measures to expedite the claims 
process; 
(4) expands eligibility to permit additional dis-
abled military retirees to receive both disability com-
pensation and retired pay (concurrent receipt); or 
(5) eliminates the offset between Survivor Ben-
efit Plan annuities and veterans’ dependency and in-
demnity compensation; and 
does not authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs 
(VA) to bill private insurance companies for treatment of 
health conditions that are related to veterans’ military 
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measure if such measure would not increase the deficit 
or decrease the surplus for either time period provided in 
clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
SEC. 313. RESERVE FUND FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPOR-
TATION REAUTHORIZATION. 
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget may 
revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate 
levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report that reauthorizes surface 
transportation programs or that authorizes other trans-
portation-related spending by providing new contract au-
thority by the amounts provided in such measure if such 
measure establishes or maintains a solvent Highway Trust 
Fund over the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2015. 
‘‘Solvency’’ is defined as a positive cash balance. Such 
measure may include a transfer into the Highway Trust 
Fund from other Federal funds, as long as the transfer 
of Federal funds is fully offset. 
SEC. 314. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MEDI-
CARE IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and 
other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that would 
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increase 
outlays 
by 
an 
amount 
not 
to 
exceed 
$87,290,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and, 
for the purposes of the Rules of the House of Representa-
tives, by an amount not to exceed $284,970,000,000 in 
fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by reforming the Medicare 
payment system for physicians to— 
(1) change incentives to encourage efficiency 
and higher quality care in a way that supports fiscal 
sustainability; 
(2) improve payment accuracy to encourage ef-
ficient use of resources and ensure that primary care 
receives appropriate compensation; 
(3) improve coordination of care among all pro-
viders serving a patient in all appropriate settings; 
or 
(4) hold providers accountable for their utiliza-
tion patterns and quality of care. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 
401(a) of this resolution, the revisions made pursuant to 
this section shall apply only to a measure that includes 
the policies and the amounts described in this section. 
SEC. 315. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR MIDDLE 
CLASS TAX RELIEF. 
(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and 
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other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that would 
decrease revenues (or increase outlays, as appropriate) by 
an amount not to exceed $698,571,000,000 in fiscal years 
2010 through 2014 and, for the purposes of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives, by an amount not to ex-
ceed $1,848,523,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 
2019, by extending certain provisions of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 for middle class tax relief, including 
the— 
(1) 10 percent individual income tax bracket; 
(2) marriage penalty relief; 
(3) 
child 
credit 
at 
$1,000 
and 
partial 
refundability of the credit; 
(4) education incentives; 
(5) other incentives for middle class families 
and children; 
(6) other reductions to individual income tax 
brackets; and 
(7) small business tax relief. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 
401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant 
to this section shall apply only to a measure that includes 
the policies and the amounts described in this section. 
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SEC. 316. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM 
OF THE ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX (AMT). 
(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and 
other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that would 
decrease revenues by an amount not to exceed 
$68,650,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and 
fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by reforming the AMT 
so that tens of millions of working families will not become 
subject to it. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 
401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant 
to this section shall apply only to a measure that includes 
the policies and the amounts described in this section. 
SEC. 317. CURRENT POLICY RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM 
OF THE ESTATE AND GIFT TAX. 
(a) PROCEDURE.—The chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and 
other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that would 
decrease revenues by an amount not to exceed 
$72,033,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 through 2014 and, 
for the purposes of the Rules of the House of Representa-
tives, by an amount not to exceed $256,244,000,000 in 
fiscal years 2010 through 2019 by reforming the Estate 
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and Gift Tax so that only a minute fraction of estates 
owe tax, by extending the law as in effect in 2009 for the 
Estate and Gift Tax. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—For the purposes of section 
401(a) of this resolution, the adjustments made pursuant 
to this section shall apply only to a measure that includes 
the policies and the amounts described in this section. 
TITLE IV—BUDGET 
ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 401. ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIRECT SPENDING AND REV-
ENUES. 
(a) ADJUSTMENTS
TO MAINTAIN CURRENT POL-
ICY.— 
(1) Subject to the condition specified in para-
graph (3), when the chairman of the Committee on 
the Budget evaluates the budgetary effects of a pro-
vision in any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
conference report for the purposes of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, or the 
Rules of the House of Representatives relative to 
baseline estimates that are consistent with section 
257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, he shall exclude from his eval-
uation the budgetary effects of such provision if 
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ment as outlined in paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) by 
a date to be determined by the appropriate commit-
tees; 
(7) the GAO provide a report to the appropriate 
congressional committees by December 31, 2009, on 
the Department of Defense’s progress in imple-
menting its audit recommendations; 
(8) ballistic missile defense technologies that 
are not proven to work through adequate testing and 
that are not operationally viable should not be de-
ployed, and that no funding should be provided for 
the research or development of space-based intercep-
tors; 
(9) cooperative threat reduction and other non-
proliferation programs (securing ‘‘loose nukes’’ and 
other materials used in weapons of mass destruc-
tion), which were highlighted as high priorities by 
the 9/11 Commission, need to be funded at a level 
that is commensurate with the evolving threat; 
(10) readiness of our troops, particularly the 
National Guard and Reserves, is a high priority, and 
that continued emphasis is needed to ensure ade-
quate equipment and training; 
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