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TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 
SUBMISSIONS 
SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT-
ATIVES. 
(a) SUBMISSIONS TO SLOW THE GROWTH IN MANDA-
TORY SPENDING
AND TO ACHIEVE DEFICIT REDUC-
TION.—(1) Not later than September 15, 2012, the House 
committees named in paragraph (2) shall submit their rec-
ommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the 
House of Representatives. After receiving those rec-
ommendations, the Committee on the Budget of the House 
of Representatives shall report to the House a reconcili-
ation bill carrying out all such recommendations without 
any substantive revision. 
(2) INSTRUCTIONS.— 
(A) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Com-
mittee on Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives shall report changes in laws within its jurisdic-
tion sufficient to reduce the level of direct spending 
for that committee by $54,000,000,000 in outlays 
for the period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022. 
(B) COMMITTEE
ON
EDUCATION
AND
THE 
WORKFORCE.—The Committee on Education and 
the Workforce of the House of Representatives shall 
report changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi-
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cient to reduce the level of direct spending for that 
committee by $24,000,000,000 in outlays for fiscal 
year 2013 and by $204,000,000,000 in outlays for 
the period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022. 
(C) 
COMMITTEE
ON
ENERGY
AND
COM-
MERCE.—The Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives shall report changes 
in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 
level of direct spending for that committee by 
$32,000,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2013 and 
by $2,872,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of 
fiscal years 2013 through 2022. 
(D) COMMITTEE
ON
FINANCIAL
SERVICES.— 
The Committee on Financial Services of the House 
of Representatives shall report changes in laws with-
in its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the level of di-
rect spending for that committee by $3,000,000,000 
in 
outlays 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2013 
and 
by 
$45,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal 
years 2013 through 2022. 
(E) COMMITTEE
ON
NATURAL
RESOURCES.— 
The Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives shall report changes in laws with-
in its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the level of di-
rect 
spending 
for 
that 
committee 
by 
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$10,000,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal 
years 2013 through 2022. 
(F) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERN-
MENT REFORM.—The Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives 
shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction 
sufficient to reduce the level of direct spending for 
that committee by $8,000,000,000 in outlays for fis-
cal year 2013 and by $172,000,000,000 in outlays 
for the period of fiscal years 2013 through 2022. 
(b) SUBMISSION PROVIDING FOR CHANGES IN REV-
ENUE TO PREVENT TAX INCREASES AND ENACT H.R. 
3400.—The Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
of Representatives shall report a reconciliation bill not 
later than September 15, 2012, that consists of changes 
in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce revenues 
by not more than $234,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2013 
and by not more than $4,392,000,000,000 for the period 
of fiscal years 2013 through 2022. 
(c) REVISION OF ALLOCATIONS.—(1) Upon the sub-
mission to the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
a recommendation that has complied with its reconcili-
ation instructions solely by virtue of section 310(b) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chairman of that 
committee may file with the House appropriately revised 
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allocations under section 302(a) of such Act and revised 
functional levels and aggregates. 
(2) Upon the submission to the House of a conference 
report recommending a reconciliation bill or resolution in 
which a committee has complied with its reconciliation in-
structions solely by virtue of this section, the chairman 
of the Committee on the Budget of the House may file 
with the House appropriately revised allocations under 
section 302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels 
and aggregates. 
(3) Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant to 
this subsection shall be considered to be allocations and 
aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the 
budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act. 
SEC. 202. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS ON MANDATORY SAV-
INGS. 
In the House, not later than September 15, 2012, 
all House committees shall identify savings amounting to 
one percent of total mandatory spending under its juris-
diction from activities that are determined to be wasteful, 
unnecessary, or lower-priority. For purposes of this sec-
tion, the reports by each committee shall be inserted in 
the Congressional Record by the chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget not later than September 15, 2012. 
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TITLE III—BUDGET 
ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 301. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 
(a) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Spending 
limits for total discretionary Federal spending are as fol-
lows: 
Fiscal year 2013: $931,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2014: $931,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2015: $931,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2016: $931,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2017: $931,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2018: $950,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2019: $969,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2020: $988,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
Fiscal year 2021: $1,008,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
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Fiscal year 2022: $1,028,000,000,000 in new budget 
authority. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT.—In the House, it shall not be 
in order to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amend-
ment thereto or conference report thereon, that causes dis-
cretionary budget authority to exceed any level set forth 
in subsection (a). 
SEC. 302. RESTRICTIONS ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) In the House, except as pro-
vided in subsection (b), an advance appropriation may not 
be reported in a bill or joint resolution making a general 
appropriation or continuing appropriation, and may not 
be in order as an amendment thereto. 
(2) Managers on the part of the House may not agree 
to a Senate amendment that would violate paragraph (1) 
unless specific authority to agree to the amendment first 
is given by the House by a separate vote with respect 
thereto. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—In the House, an advance appro-
priation may be provided for fiscal year 2013 and fiscal 
years 2014 for programs, projects, activities or accounts 
identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers 
accompanying this resolution under the heading ‘‘Ac-
counts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’ in an ag-
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gregate amount not to exceed $23,565,000,000 in new 
budget authority. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance 
appropriation’’ means any discretionary new budget au-
thority in a bill or joint resolution making general appro-
priations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013 
that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2013. 
SEC. 303. EMERGENCY SPENDING. 
(a) DESIGNATIONS.— 
(1) GUIDANCE.—In the House, if a provision of 
legislation is designated as an emergency require-
ment under this section, the committee report and 
any statement of managers accompanying that legis-
lation shall include an explanation of the manner in 
which the provision meets the criteria in paragraph 
(2). If such legislation is to be considered by the 
House without being reported, then the committee 
shall cause the explanation to be published in the 
Congressional Record in advance of floor consider-
ation. 
(2) CRITERIA.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Any such provision is 
an emergency requirement if the underlying sit-
uation poses a threat to life, property, or na-
tional security and is— 
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(i) sudden, quickly coming into being, 
and not building up over time; 
(ii) an urgent, pressing, and compel-
ling need requiring immediate action; 
(iii) subject to subparagraph (B), un-
foreseen, unpredictable, and unanticipated; 
and 
(iv) not permanent, temporary in na-
ture. 
(B) UNFORESEEN.—An emergency that is 
part of an aggregate level of anticipated emer-
gencies, particularly when normally estimated in 
advance, is not unforeseen. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT.—It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives to consider any bill, joint resolu-
tion, amendment or conference report that contains an 
emergency designation unless that designation meets the 
criteria set out in subsection (a)(2). 
(c) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep-
resentatives to consider a rule or order that waives the 
application of subsection (b). 
(d) DISPOSITION
OF POINTS
OF ORDER
IN
THE 
HOUSE.—As disposition of a point of order under sub-
section (b) or subsection (c), the Chair shall put the ques-
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tion of consideration with respect to the proposition that 
is the subject of the point of order. A question of consider-
ation under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes 
by the Member initiating the point of order and for 10 
minutes by an opponent of the point of order, but shall 
otherwise be decided without intervening motion except 
one that the House adjourn or that the Committee of the 
Whole rise, as the case may be. 
SEC. 304. CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS AND AGGREGATES 
RESULTING FROM REALISTIC SCORING OF 
MEASURES AFFECTING REVENUES. 
(a) Whenever the House considers a bill, joint resolu-
tion, amendment, motion or conference report, including 
measures filed in compliance with section 201(b), that pro-
pose to change Federal revenues, the impact of such meas-
ure on Federal revenues shall be calculated by the Joint 
Committee on Taxation in a manner that takes into ac-
count— 
(1) the impact of the proposed revenue changes 
on— 
(A) Gross Domestic Product, including the 
growth rate for the Gross Domestic Product; 
(B) total domestic employment; 
(C) gross private domestic investment; 
(D) general price index; 
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(E) interest rates; and 
(F) other economic variables; and 
(2) the impact on Federal Revenue of the 
changes in economic variables analyzed under para-
graph (1). 
(b) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
may make any necessary changes to allocations and aggre-
gates in order to conform this concurrent resolution with 
the determinations made by the Joint Committee on Tax-
ation pursuant to subsection (a). 
SEC. 305. ALLOCATION OF NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR 
FISCAL YEAR 2013. 
For the purposes of budget enforcement, the alloca-
tion of new budget authority to the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives for fiscal year 
2013 is $931,000,000,000. Such allocation shall be the 
allocation made pursuant to section 302(a)(1)(A) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and shall be enforce-
able under section 302(f)(1) of that Act. 
SEC. 306. PROHIBITION ON USING REVENUE INCREASES TO 
COMPLY WITH BUDGET ALLOCATIONS AND 
AGGREGATES. 
(a) For the purpose of enforcing this concurrent reso-
lution in the House, the chairman of the Committee on 
the Budget shall not take into account the provisions of 
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any piece of legislation which propose to increase revenue 
or offsetting collections if the net effect of the bill is to 
increase the level of revenue or offsetting collections be-
yond the level assumed in this concurrent resolution. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to any provision 
of a piece of legislation that proposes a new or increased 
fee for the receipt of a defined benefit or service (including 
insurance coverage) by the person or entity paying the fee. 
SEC. 307. 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 
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— 
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