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Subtitle B—Other Provisions 
SEC. 4201. OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE. 
In the Senate, all committees are directed to review programs 
and tax expenditures within their jurisdiction to identify waste, 
fraud, abuse or duplication, and increase the use of performance 
data to inform committee work. Committees are also directed to 
review the matters for congressional consideration identified in 
the Office of Inspector General semiannual reports and the Office 
of Inspector General’s list of unimplemented recommendations and 
on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk list and the 
annual report to reduce program duplication. Based on these over-
sight efforts and performance reviews of programs within their 
jurisdiction, committees are directed to include recommendations 
for improved governmental performance in their annual views and 
estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) to the Committees on the 
Budget. 
SEC. 4202. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—In the Senate, notwithstanding section 
302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
633(a)(1)), section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 
(2 U.S.C. 632 note), and section 2009a of title 39, United States 
Code, the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference 
report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include 
in its allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the Committees on Appropriations 
amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social 
Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 
(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the Senate, for purposes of enforcing 
sections 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
633(f)), estimates of the level of total new budget authority and 
total outlays provided by a measure shall include any discretionary 
amounts described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 4203. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 
AND AGGREGATES. 
(a) APPLICATION.—Any adjustments of allocations and aggre-
gates made pursuant to this resolution shall— 
(1) apply while that measure is under consideration; 
(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 AGGREGATES.— 
Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjust-
ments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) as allocations and aggre-
gates contained in this resolution. 
(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of this 
resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct 
spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and sur-
pluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined 
on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget 
of the Senate.
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SEC. 4204. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 
DEFINITIONS. 
Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing 
for a change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget of the Senate may make adjustments to 
the levels and allocations in this resolution in accordance with 
section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)). 
SEC. 4205. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT LEGISLATION NOT INCLUDED 
IN THE BASELINE. 
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
may make adjustments to the levels and allocations in this resolu-
tion to reflect legislation enacted before the date on which this 
resolution is agreed to by Congress that is not incorporated in 
the baseline underlying the Congressional Budget Office’s June 
2017 update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027. 
SEC. 4206. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 
Congress adopts the provisions of this title— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, 
and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules 
of the Senate and such rules shall supersede other rules only 
to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; 
and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 
Senate to change those rules at any time, in the same manner, 
and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of 
the Senate. 
TITLE V—BUDGET PROCESS IN THE 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement 
SEC. 5101. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING LONG-TERM 
DIRECT SPENDING. 
(a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House 
of Representatives to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amend-
ment thereto or conference report thereon, that would cause a 
net increase in direct spending in excess of $2,500,000,000 in any 
of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods described in subsection 
(b). 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANALYSIS OF PROPOSALS.— 
The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent 
practicable, prepare an estimate of whether a bill or joint resolution 
reported by a committee (other than the Committee on Appropria-
tions), or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, would 
cause, relative to current law, a net increase in direct spending 
in the House of Representatives, in excess of $2,500,000,000 in 
any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods beginning after 
the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution. 
(c) LIMITATION.—In the House of Representatives, the provi-
sions of this section shall not apply to any bills or joint resolutions, 
or amendments thereto or conference reports thereon, for which 
the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made adjustments
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to the allocations, aggregates, or other budgetary levels in this 
concurrent resolution. 
(d) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For purposes of this 
section, the levels of net increases in direct spending shall be 
determined on the basis of estimates provided by the chair of 
the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. 
(e) SUNSET.—This section shall have no force or effect after 
September 30, 2018. 
SEC. 5102. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 
(a) SEPARATE ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPER-
ATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—In the House of Representa-
tives, there shall be a separate allocation of new budget authority 
and outlays provided to the Committee on Appropriations for the 
purposes of Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism, which shall be deemed to be an allocation under section 
302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Section 302(a)(3) 
of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. 
(b) SECTION
302 ALLOCATIONS.—The separate allocation 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be the exclusive allocation for 
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism under 
section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives may 
provide suballocations of such separate allocation under such section 
302(b). 
(c) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the separate alloca-
tion referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, the ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and the ‘‘total 
of fiscal years’’ shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2018. Section 
302(c) of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. 
(d) DESIGNATIONS.—New budget authority or outlays shall only 
be counted toward the allocation referred to in subsection (a) if 
designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
(e) ADJUSTMENTS.—For purposes of subsection (a) for fiscal 
year 2018, no adjustment shall be made under section 314(a) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any adjustment would 
be made under section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 5103. LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN CERTAIN MANDATORY PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘change in mandatory 
programs’’ means a provision that— 
(1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending 
or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to 
September 30, 2002) if the provision were included in legislation 
other than appropriation Acts; and 
(2) results in a net decrease in budget authority in the 
budget year, but does not result in a net decrease in outlays 
over the total of the current year, the budget year, and all 
fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to concur-
rent resolution on the budget. 
(b) POINT OF ORDER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A provision in a bill or joint resolution 
making appropriations for a full fiscal year that proposes a
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change in mandatory programs that, if enacted, would cause 
the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such 
changes in mandatory programs enacted in relation to a full 
fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph 
(3), shall not be in order in the House of Representatives. 
(2) AMENDMENTS AND CONFERENCE REPORTS.—It shall not 
be in order in the House of Representatives to consider an 
amendment to, or a conference report on, a bill or joint resolu-
tion making appropriations for a full fiscal year if such amend-
ment thereto or conference report thereon proposes a change 
in mandatory programs that, if enacted, would cause the 
absolute value of the total budget authority of all such changes 
in mandatory programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal 
year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3). 
(3) AMOUNT.—The amount specified in this paragraph is— 
(A) for fiscal year 2018, $19,100,000,000; 
(B) for fiscal year 2019, $17,000,000,000; and 
(C) for fiscal year 2020, $15,000,000,000. 
(c) DETERMINATION.—For purposes of this section, budgetary 
levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by 
the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Represent-
atives. 
SEC. 5104. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, except as 
provided for in subsection (b), any general appropriation bill or 
bill or joint resolution continuing appropriations, or amendment 
thereto or conference report thereon, may not provide advance 
appropriations. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation may be provided 
for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report 
or the joint explanatory statement of managers, as applicable, 
accompanying this concurrent resolution under the following 
headings: 
(1) GENERAL.—‘‘Accounts Identified for Advance Appropria-
tions’’. 
(2) VETERANS.—‘‘Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance 
Appropriations’’. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.—The aggregate level of advance appropriations 
shall not exceed the following: 
(1) GENERAL.—$28,852,000,000 in new budget authority 
for all programs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(1). 
(2) VETERANS.—$70,699,313,000 in new budget authority 
for programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified 
pursuant to subsection (b)(2). 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance appropria-
tion’’ means any new discretionary budget authority provided in 
a general appropriation bill or joint resolution continuing appropria-
tions for fiscal year 2018, or any amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that first becomes available for the first fiscal year 
following fiscal year 2018. 
SEC. 5105. ESTIMATES OF DEBT SERVICE COSTS. 
In the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee 
on the Budget may direct the Congressional Budget Office to 
include, in any estimate prepared under section 402 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to any bill or joint resolution, 
an estimate of any change in debt service costs resulting from