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(f) 
SECTION
314(b)(1) 
ADJUSTMENT.—Section
314(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall
not apply in the House—
(1) for fiscal year 2001; or
(2) for fiscal year 2002 or any subsequent fiscal
year, except for emergencies affecting national secu-
rity.
SEC. 6. STRATEGIC RESERVE FUND.
(a) ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, the chairman of
the Committee on the Budget may, not later than July
25, 2001, increase allocations of new budget authority
(and outlays flowing therefrom) and adjust aggregates
(and adjust any other appropriate levels) for fiscal year
2002 for a bill making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002,
and for any fiscal year for a bill to reauthorize title I of
the Federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 1996 and
other appropriate legislation, reported by July 11, 2001,
and legislation to provide for medicare reform and a pre-
scription drug benefit; and, in the House, the chairman
may also make adjustments for amendments to or con-
ference reports on such bills. The chairman shall consider
the recommendations of the President’s National Defense
Review, any comparable review by the President of na-
tional agricultural policy, and any statement of adminis-
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trative policy or supplemental budget request relating to
any matter referred to in the preceding sentence.
(b) LIMITATIONS.—(1) The adjustments for any bill
referred to in subsection (a) shall be in an amount not
to exceed the amount by which such bill breaches the ap-
plicable allocation or aggregate.
(2) The total adjustments made under subsection (a)
for any fiscal year may not cause the surplus set forth
in this resolution for any fiscal year, as adjusted, covered
by this resolution to be less than the surplus of the Fed-
eral Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year,
as determined consistent with procedures set forth in H.R.
2 (107th Congress), as passed the House.
SEC. 7. SUPPLEMENTAL RESERVE FUND FOR MEDICARE.
In the House, whenever a reconciliation bill is re-
ported, or an amendment thereto is offered or a conference
report thereon is submitted, under section 4, the chairman
of the Committee on the Budget may, for any of fiscal
years 2001 through 2011, increase any allocations and ag-
gregates of new budget authority (and outlays resulting
therefrom) up to the amount provided by that measure
to reform medicare and provide coverage for prescription
drugs that is in excess of the instruction to the Committee
on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways
and Means under section 4(b) (and make all other appro-
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priate adjustments). The total adjustments made under
this section for any fiscal year may not exceed the amount
by which the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of
the President’s prescription drug plan (or, if such a plan
is not submitted in a timely manner, the Congressional
Budget Office’s estimate of a comparable plan submitted
by the chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction at levels
to be determined by the chairman of the Committee on
the Budget) exceeds the levels set forth in section 4(b)(2)
for the period of fiscal years 2001 through 2011.
SEC. 8. RESERVE FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001.
(a) ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, the chairman of
the Committee on the Budget may increase allocations of
new budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) and
adjust aggregates (and adjust any other appropriate lev-
els) for fiscal year 2001 for reported bills, or amendments
thereto or conference reports thereon: (1) by the amount
of new budget authority (and the outlays resulting there-
from) provided by such measure to eliminate shortfalls for
the Department of Defense, for assistance for producers
of program crops and specialty crops, and for other critical
needs; and (2) by the amount of reduction in revenue
caused by such measure providing immediate tax relief.
(b) LIMITATIONS.—(1) The adjustments for any bill
referred to in subsection (a) shall be in an amount not
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to exceed the amount by which such bill breaches the ap-
plicable allocation or aggregate.
(2) The total adjustments made under subsection (a)
for fiscal year 2001 may not cause the surplus set forth
in this resolution for that fiscal year, as adjusted, to be
less than the surplus of the Federal Hospital Insurance
Trust Fund for that fiscal year, as determined consistent
with procedures set forth in H.R. 2 (107th Congress), as
passed the House.
SEC. 9. RESERVE FUND FOR PROMOTION OF FULL FUND-
ING FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION.
In the House, whenever the Committee on Appropria-
tions reports a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment
thereto is offered, or a conference report thereon is sub-
mitted that provides new budget authority for fiscal year
2002 in excess of $6,368,000,000 for programs authorized
under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget
may increase the appropriate allocations of new budget au-
thority and outlays by the amount of that excess, but not
to exceed $1,250,000,000 (and adjust any other appro-
priate levels).
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SEC. 10. RESERVE FUND FOR ADDITIONAL TAX CUTS AND
DEBT REDUCTION.
If the report provided pursuant to section 202(e)(2)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the budget and
economic outlook: update (for fiscal years 2002 through
2011), estimates an on-budget surplus for any of fiscal
years 2001 through 2011 that exceeds the estimated on-
budget surplus set forth in the Congressional Budget Of-
fice’s January 2001 budget and economic outlook for such
fiscal year, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of the House may, in an amount not to exceed the increase
in such surplus for that fiscal year—
(1) reduce the recommended level of Federal
revenues and make other appropriate adjustments
(including the reconciliation instructions) for that
fiscal year;
(2) reduce the appropriate level of the public
debt, increase the amount of the surplus, and make
other appropriate adjustments for that fiscal year;
or
(3) any combination of paragraphs (1) and (2).
SEC. 11. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLO-
CATIONS AND AGGREGATES.
(a) APPLICATION.—Any adjustments of allocations
and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall—
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(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-
poses of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as alloca-
tions and aggregates contained in this resolution.
(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For
purposes 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 Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives; and
(2) such chairman, as applicable, may make
any other necessary adjustments to such levels to
carry out this resolution, and any adjustments per-
mitted under sections 6, 7, and 8 may include
changes in the appropriate reconciliation instruc-
tions.
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SEC. 12. COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 13301 OF THE BUDG-
ET ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1990.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, notwithstanding
section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 and section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act
of 1990, the joint explanatory statement accompanying
the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the
budget shall include in its allocation under section 302(a)
of such Act to the Committee on Appropriations amounts
for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social
Security Administration.
(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the House, for purposes of
applying section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, estimates of the level of total new budget author-
ity and total outlays provided by a measure shall include
any discretionary amounts provided for the Social Security
Administration.
SEC. 13. RESTRICTIONS ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.
For purposes of title III of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, advance appropriations shall be scored as
new budget authority for the fiscal year in which the ap-
propriations are enacted, except that advance appropria-
tions up to the levels specified in the joint explanatory
statement of managers accompanying this resolution for
programs, projects, activities or accounts identified in
such joint statement shall continue to be scored as new
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budget authority in the year in which they first become
available for obligation.
SEC. 14. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PAY.
(a) FINDINGS.—The House of Representatives finds
the following:
(1) Members of the uniformed services and ci-
vilian employees of the United States make signifi-
cant contributions to the general welfare of the Na-
tion.
(2) Increases in the pay of members of the uni-
formed services and of civilian employees of the
United States have not kept pace with increases in
the overall pay levels of workers in the private sec-
tor, so that there now exists—
(A) a 32 percent gap between compensa-
tion levels of Federal civilian employees and
compensation levels of private sector workers;
and
(B) an estimated 10 percent gap between
compensation levels of members of the uni-
formed services and compensation levels of pri-
vate sector workers.
(3) The President’s budget proposal for fiscal
year 2002 includes a 4.6 percent pay raise for mili-
tary personnel.
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(4) The Office of Management and Budget has
requested that Federal agencies plan their fiscal
year 2002 budgets with a 3.6 percent pay raise for
civilian Federal employees.
(5) In almost every year during the past 2 dec-
ades, there have been equal adjustments in the com-
pensation of members of the uniformed services and
the compensation of civilian employees of the United
States.
(b) SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that rates
of compensation for civilian employees of the United
States should be adjusted at the same time, and in the
same proportion, as are rates of compensation for mem-
bers of the uniformed services.
SEC. 15. ASSET BUILDING FOR THE WORKING POOR.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress find the following:
(1) For the vast majority of United States
households, the pathway to the economic main-
stream and financial security is not through spend-
ing and consumption, but through savings, investing,
and the accumulation of assets.
(2) One-third of all Americans have no assets
available for investment and another 20 percent
have only negligible assets. The situation is even
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more serious for minority households; for example,
60 percent of African-American households have no
or negative financial assets.
(3) Nearly 50 percent of all children in America
live in households that have no assets available for
investment, including 40 percent of Caucasian chil-
dren and 73 percent of African-American children.
(4) Up to 20 percent of all United States
households do not deposit their savings in financial
institutions and, thus, do not have access to the
basic financial tools that make asset accumulation
possible.
(5) Public policy can have either a positive or
a negative impact on asset accumulation. Traditional
public assistance programs based on income and
consumption have rarely been successful in sup-
porting the transition to economic self-sufficiency.
Tax policy, through $288,000,000,000 in annual tax
incentives, has helped lay the foundation for the
great middle class.
(6) Lacking an income tax liability, low-income
working families cannot take advantage of asset de-
velopment incentives available through the Federal
tax code.
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(7) Individual Development Accounts have prov-
en to be successful in helping low-income working
families save and accumulate assets. Individual De-
velopment Accounts have been used to purchase
long-term, high-return assets, including homes, post-
secondary education and training, and small busi-
ness.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Federal tax code should support a signifi-
cant expansion of Individual Development Accounts so
that millions of low-income, working families can save,
build assets, and move their lives forward; thus, making
positive contributions to the economic and social well-
being of the United States, as well as to its future.
SEC. 16. FEDERAL FIRE PREVENTION ASSISTANCE.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(1) Increased demands on firefighting and
emergency medical personnel have made it difficult
for local governments to adequately fund necessary
fire safety precautions.
(2) The Government has an obligation to pro-
tect the health and safety of the firefighting per-
sonnel of the United States and to ensure that they
have the financial resources to protect the public.
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(3) The high rates in the United States of
death, injury, and property damage caused by fires
demonstrates a critical need for Federal investment
in support of firefighting personnel.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Government should support the core oper-
ations of the Federal Emergency Management Agency by
providing needed fire grant programs to assist our fire-
fighters and rescue personnel as they respond to more
than 17,000,000 emergency calls annually. To accomplish
this task, Congress supports preservation of the Assist-
ance to Firefighters grant program. Continued support of
the Assistance to Firefighters grant program will enable
local firefighters to adequately protect the lives of count-
less Americans put at risk by insufficient fire protection.
SEC. 17. SALES TAX DEDUCTION.
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that—
(1) in 1986 the ability to deduct State sales
taxes was eliminated from the Federal tax code;
(2) the States of Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming,
Washington, Florida, Nevada, and South Dakota
have no State income tax;
(3) the citizens of those seven States continue
to be treated unfairly by paying significantly more in
taxes to the Government than taxpayers with an