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(4) The Congressional Budget and Impound-
ment Control Act of 1974 requires the Office of 
Management and Budget to make funds available to 
agencies for obligation and prohibits the Administra-
tion from withholding or cancelling unobligated 
funds unless approved by an act of Congress. 
(5) Greater congressional oversight is required 
to review and identify potential savings from 
unneeded balances of funds. 
(b) POLICY ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 
CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—Congres-
sional committees shall through their oversight activities 
identify and achieve savings through the cancellation or 
rescission of unobligated balances that neither abrogate 
contractual obligations of the Government nor reduce or 
disrupt Federal commitments under programs such as So-
cial Security, veterans’ affairs, national security, and 
Treasury authority to finance the national debt. 
(c) DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Congress, with the assist-
ance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspec-
tors General, and other appropriate agencies should con-
tinue to make it a high priority to review unobligated bal-
ances and identify savings for deficit reduction.
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SEC. 608. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARD-
SHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) The budget for the House of Representa-
tives is $188 million less than it was when Repub-
licans became the majority in 2011. 
(2) The House of Representatives has achieved 
significant savings by consolidating operations and 
renegotiating contracts. 
(b) POLICY
ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP
OF 
TAXPAYER DOLLARS.—It is the policy of this resolution 
that: 
(1) The House of Representatives must be a 
model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer re-
sources and therefore must identify any savings that 
can be achieved through greater productivity and ef-
ficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of 
House services and resources like printing, con-
ferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, 
grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should 
include a review of policies and procedures for acqui-
sition of goods and services to eliminate any unnec-
essary spending. The Committee on House Adminis-
tration should review the policies pertaining to the 
services provided to Members and committees of the 
House, and should identify ways to reduce any sub-
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sidies paid for the operation of the House gym, bar-
ber shop, salon, and the House dining room. 
(2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase 
first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Mem-
bers of Congress. 
(3) Retirement benefits for Members of Con-
gress should not include free, taxpayer-funded health 
care for life. 
SEC. 609. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION 
THROUGH THE REDUCTION OF UNNECES-
SARY AND WASTEFUL SPENDING. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) The Government Accountability Office 
(‘‘GAO’’) is required by law to identify examples of 
waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, 
and has so identified dozens of such examples. 
(2) In testimony before the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform, the Comptroller Gen-
eral has stated that addressing the identified waste, 
duplication, and overlap in Federal programs ‘‘could 
potentially save tens of billions of dollars.’’ 
(3) In 2011, 2012, and 2013 the Government 
Accountability Office issued reports showing exces-
sive duplication and redundancy in Federal pro-
grams including—
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(A) 209 Science, Technology, Engineering, 
and Mathematics education programs in 13 dif-
ferent Federal agencies at a cost of $3 billion 
annually; 
(B) 200 separate Department of Justice 
crime prevention and victim services grant pro-
grams with an annual cost of $3.9 billion in 
2010; 
(C) 20 different Federal entities admin-
ister 160 housing programs and other forms of 
Federal assistance for housing with a total cost 
of $170 billion in 2010; 
(D) 17 separate Homeland Security pre-
paredness grant programs that spent $37 bil-
lion between fiscal year 2011 and 2012; 
(E) 14 grant and loan programs, and 3 tax 
benefits to reduce diesel emissions; 
(F) 94 different initiatives run by 11 dif-
ferent agencies to encourage ‘‘green building’’ 
in the private sector; and 
(G) 23 agencies implemented approxi-
mately 670 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal 
year 2010 at a cost of nearly $15 billion. 
(4) The Federal Government spends about $80 
billion each year for approximately 800 information
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technology investments. GAO has identified broad 
acquisition failures, waste, and unnecessary duplica-
tion in the Government’s information technology in-
frastructure. Experts have estimated that elimi-
nating these problems could save 25 percent – or 
$20 billion – of the Government’s annual informa-
tion technology budget. 
(5) GAO has identified strategic sourcing as a 
potential source of spending reductions. In 2011 
GAO estimated that saving 10 percent of the total 
or all Federal procurement could generate over $50 
billion in savings annually. 
(6) Federal agencies reported an estimated 
$108 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 
2012. 
(7) Under clause 2 of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, each standing com-
mittee must hold at least one hearing during each 
120 day period following its establishment on waste, 
fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government pro-
grams. 
(8) According to the Congressional Budget Of-
fice, by fiscal year 2015, 32 laws will expire, possibly 
resulting in $693 billion in unauthorized appropria-
tions. Timely reauthorizations of these laws would
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ensure assessments of program justification and ef-
fectiveness. 
(9) The findings resulting from congressional 
oversight of Federal Government programs should 
result in programmatic changes in both authorizing 
statutes and program funding levels. 
(b) POLICY ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 
REDUCTION OF UNNECESSARY AND WASTEFUL SPEND-
ING.—Each authorizing committee annually shall include 
in its Views and Estimates letter required under section 
301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 rec-
ommendations to the Committee on the Budget of pro-
grams within the jurisdiction of such committee whose 
funding should be reduced or eliminated. 
SEC. 610. POLICY STATEMENT ON UNAUTHORIZED SPEND-
ING. 
It is the policy of this resolution that the committees 
of jurisdiction should review all unauthorized programs 
funded through annual appropriations to determine if the 
programs are operating efficiently and effectively. Com-
mittees should reauthorize those programs that in the 
committees’ judgment should continue to receive funding. 
SEC. 611. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY 
POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following:
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(1) Excessive regulation at the Federal level 
has hurt job creation and dampened the economy, 
slowing our recovery from the economic recession. 
(2) In the first two months of 2014 alone, the 
Administration issued 13,166 pages of regulations 
imposing more than $13 billion in compliance costs 
on job creators and adding more than 16 million 
hours of compliance paperwork. 
(3) The Small Business Administration esti-
mates that the total cost of regulations is as high as 
$1.75 trillion per year. Since 2009, the White House 
has generated over $494 billion in regulatory activ-
ity, with an additional $87.6 billion in regulatory 
costs currently pending. 
(4) The Dodd-Frank financial services legisla-
tion (Public Law 111–203) resulted in more than 
$17 billion in compliance costs and saddled job cre-
ators with more than 58 million hours of compliance 
paperwork. 
(5) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act 
to date has added 132.9 million annual hours of 
compliance paperwork, imposing $24.3 billion of 
compliance costs on the private sector and an $8 bil-
lion cost burden on the states.
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(6) The highest regulatory costs come from 
rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA); these regulations are primarily targeted at 
the coal industry. In September 2013, the EPA pro-
posed a rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions 
from new coal-fired power plants. The proposed 
standards are unachievable with current commer-
cially available technology, resulting in a de-facto 
ban on new coal-fired power plants. Additional regu-
lations for existing coal plants are expected in the 
summer of 2014. 
(7) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly 
forty percent of the United States electricity at a 
low cost. Unfairly targeting the coal industry with 
costly and unachievable regulations will increase en-
ergy prices, disproportionately disadvantaging en-
ergy-intensive industries like manufacturing and 
construction, and will make life more difficult for 
millions of low-income and middle class families al-
ready struggling to pay their bills. 
(8) Three hundred and thirty coal units are 
being retired or converted as a result of EPA regula-
tions. Combined with the de-facto prohibition on new 
plants, these retirements and conversions may fur-
ther increase the cost of electricity.
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(9) A recent study by Purdue University esti-
mates that electricity prices in Indiana will rise 32 
percent by 2023, due in part to EPA regulations. 
(10) The Heritage Foundation recently found 
that a phase out of coal would cost 600,000 jobs by 
the end of 2023, resulting in an aggregate gross do-
mestic product decrease of $2.23 trillion over the en-
tire period and reducing the income of a family of 
four by $1200 per year. Of these jobs, 330,000 will 
come from the manufacturing sector, with Cali-
fornia, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, 
New York, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and 
Georgia seeing the highest job losses. 
(b) POLICY ON FEDERAL REGULATION.—It is the 
policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consulta-
tion with the public burdened by excessive regulation, 
enact legislation that— 
(1) seeks to promote economic growth and job 
creation by eliminating unnecessary red tape and 
streamlining and simplifying Federal regulations; 
(2) pursues a cost-effective approach to regula-
tion, without sacrificing environmental, health, safe-
ty benefits or other benefits, rejecting the premise 
that economic growth and environmental protection 
create an either/or proposition;
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(3) ensures that regulations do not dispropor-
tionately 
disadvantage 
low-income 
Americans 
through a more rigorous cost-benefit analysis, which 
also considers who will be most affected by regula-
tions and whether the harm caused is outweighed by 
the potential harm prevented; 
(4) ensures that regulations are subject to an 
open and transparent process, rely on sound and 
publicly available scientific data, and that the data 
relied upon for any particular regulation is provided 
to Congress immediately upon request; 
(5) frees the many commonsense energy and 
water projects currently trapped in complicated bu-
reaucratic approval processes; 
(6) maintains the benefits of landmark environ-
mental, health safety, and other statutes while scal-
ing back this administration’s heavy-handed ap-
proach to regulation, which has added $494 billion 
in mostly ideological regulatory activity since 2009, 
much of which flies in the face of these statutes’ in-
tended purposes; and 
(7) seeks to promote a limited government, 
which will unshackle our economy and create mil-
lions of new jobs, providing our Nation with a strong
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and prosperous future and expanding opportunities 
for the generations to come. 
SEC. 612. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Opening foreign markets to American ex-
ports is vital to the United States economy and ben-
eficial to American workers and consumers. The 
Commerce Department estimates that every $1 bil-
lion of United States exports supports more than 
5,000 jobs here at home. 
(2) A modern and competitive international tax 
system would facilitate global commerce for United 
States multinational companies and would encourage 
foreign business investment and job creation in the 
United States 
(3) The United States currently has an anti-
quated system of international taxation whereby 
United States multinationals operating abroad pay 
both the foreign-country tax and United States cor-
porate taxes. They are essentially taxed twice. This 
puts them at an obvious competitive disadvantage. 
(4) The ability to defer United States taxes on 
their foreign operations, which some erroneously 
refer to as a ‘‘tax loophole,’’ cushions this disadvan-
tage to a certain extent. Eliminating or restricting
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this provision (and others like it) would harm United 
States competitiveness. 
(5) This budget resolution advocates funda-
mental tax reform that would lower the United 
States corporate rate, now the highest in the indus-
trialized world, and switch to a more competitive 
system of international taxation. This would make 
the United States a much more attractive place to 
invest and station business activity and would chip 
away at the incentives for United States companies 
to keep their profits overseas (because the United 
States corporate rate is so high). 
(6) The status quo of the current tax code un-
dermines the competitiveness of United States busi-
nesses and costs the United States economy invest-
ment and jobs. 
(7) Global trade and commerce is not a zero- 
sum game. The idea that global expansion tends to 
‘‘hollow out’’ United States operations is incorrect. 
Foreign-affiliate activity tends to complement, not 
substitute for, key parent activities in the United 
States such as employment, worker compensation, 
and 
capital 
investment. 
When 
United 
States 
headquartered multinationals invest and expand op-
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erations abroad it often leads to more jobs and eco-
nomic growth at home. 
(8) American businesses and workers have 
shown that, on a level playing field, they can excel 
and surpass the international competition. 
(b) POLICY ON TRADE.—It is the policy of this reso-
lution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and 
a modern and competitive United States international tax 
system in order to promote job creation in the United 
States. 
SEC. 613. NO BUDGET, NO PAY. 
It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should 
agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget every year 
pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974. If by April 15, a House of Congress has not 
agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget, the pay-
roll administrator of that House should carry out this pol-
icy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 
113–3, the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, and place 
in an escrow account all compensation otherwise required 
to be made for Members of that House of Congress. With-
held compensation should be released to Members of that 
House of Congress the earlier of the day on which that 
House of Congress agrees to a concurrent resolution on
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the budget, pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, or the last day of that Congress. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 10, 2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 96 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Establishing the budget for the United States Gov-
ernment for fiscal year 2015 and setting forth 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2016 
through 2024.