IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 174 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Speaker 
should immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to com-
plete work on a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution with the Senate. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 23, 2013 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. HOYER, Mr. 
BECERRA, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. ANDREWS, 
Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. 
MOORE, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. LEE of Cali-
fornia, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. POCAN, Ms. MICHELLE 
LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. 
ESHOO, Mr. TONKO, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. 
GALLEGO, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. JOHNSON of 
Georgia, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. MENG, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. WELCH, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. KIND, Ms. KAP-
TUR, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. NORTON, 
Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. COOPER, 
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. 
DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. ENYART, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. SMITH 
of Washington, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. HONDA, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. WAXMAN, 
Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. LARSON of Con-
necticut, Mr. CUELLAR, and Mr. RUSH) submitted the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Speaker should immediately request a conference and 
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appoint conferees to complete work on a fiscal year 2014 
budget resolution with the Senate. 
Whereas the House of Representatives and the Senate have 
each passed a budget resolution for fiscal year 2014; 
Whereas the Republican majority in the House of Represent-
atives has repeatedly called for transparency and regular 
order in the budgetary process, including a statement by 
the Speaker on March 4, 2013, that ‘‘It’s time for us to 
get back to regular order in the House’’; 
Whereas the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 sets a statu-
tory deadline of April 15 for Congress to complete action 
on adopting a conference agreement on the concurrent 
budget resolution, and the Congress is not in compliance 
with the deadline; 
Whereas the sequester threatens to impose sharp cuts in in-
vestments that are essential to our economic growth, and 
should be addressed in a budget resolution conference 
agreement; 
Whereas a conference agreement on the budget resolution is 
necessary to set a uniform discretionary allocation to fa-
cilitate the process of crafting and enacting 2014 appro-
priations bills in a timely manner; and 
Whereas the unresolved budget issues bring unnecessary un-
certainty to the economy: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the Speaker should follow regular House 
procedure and immediately request a conference and ap-
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point conferees to negotiate a fiscal year 2014 budget res-
olution conference agreement with the Senate. 
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