An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012.

Bill: 110-sconres-21
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Affordable housing
Afghanistan
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alien labor
Alternative energy sources
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Authorization
Border patrols
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
College costs
Commerce
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional conference committees
Congressional voting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Debt limit
Defense budgets
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability evaluation
Disabled
District of Columbia
Drug utilization
Electric power transmission
Electric vehicles
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Employee health benefits
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy security
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to housing
Federal budget process
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health
Health care fraud
Health information systems
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Imports
Income tax
Indian claims
Information technology
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Liability insurance
Logistics
Long-term care
Medical fees
Medical records
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military and naval supplies
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military training
Minorities
Motor vehicles
National forests
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Nutrition
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Poor children
Power marketing administrations
Prescription pricing
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Quality of care
Revenue sharing
Right of privacy
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate Budget
Senate rules and procedure
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security finance
South Asia
Supplemental security income program
Tax administration
Tax refunds
Taxation
Terrorism
Tobacco
Tobacco industry
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
User charges
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care
War casualties
War risk insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: 
Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2007 and FY2009-FY2012.
 
Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY2007-FY2012, with respect to: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) public debt; and (6) debt held by the public. 
 
Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. 
 
Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any: (1) direct spending or revenue legislation increasing the on-budget deficit or causing an on-budget deficit for any one of specified applicable time periods; (2) reconciliation legislation increasing the deficit or reducing a surplus; or (3) legislation increasing long-term deficits.
 
Continues the supermajority enforcement requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as a Senate rule through FY2017.
 
Prohibits Senate legislation that would: (1) require advanced appropriations, with a specified exception; or (2) cause the discretionary spending limits in this resolution to be exceeded.
 
Establishes specified discretionary spending limits in the Senate. 
 
Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax enforcement; (3) health care fraud and abuse control; (4) unemployment insurance improper payments reviews; (5) wildland fire suppression; (6) costs of the global war on terror; and (7) training, equipment, or other matters necessary for the protection of U.S. forces in the global war on terrorism, or activities addressing deficiencies in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military medical system facilities.
 

 
Makes it out of order for the Senate to consider direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year until the President submits to Congress and Congress enacts legislation which would restore 75-year solvency to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds as certified by the SSA actuaries.
 
Provides for certain deficit-neutral reserve funds for legislation concerning: (1) reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); (2) care of wounded service members; (3) tax relief; (4) comparative effectiveness research; (5) higher education; (6) the farm bill; (7) energy legislation; (8) Medicare; (9) small business health insurance; (10) reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000; (11) reauthorization of terrorism risk insurance; (12) affordable housing; (13) receipts from Bonneville Power Administration; (14) Indian claims settlement; (15) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (16) health care enhancement; (17) veterans' benefits enhancement; (18) long-term care improvement; (19) health information technology; (20) child care; (21) comprehensive immigration reform; and (22) mental health parity.

action_date: 2007-03-16
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2007 and FY2009-FY2012.
 

Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts
 - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY2007-FY2012, with respect to: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) public debt; and (6) debt held by the public. 
 
(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. 

T

itle II: Budget Process 
- (Sec. 201) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any direct spending or revenue legislation increasing the on-budget deficit or causing an on-budget deficit for the current fiscal year, the budget year, or the 10 ensuing fiscal years following the current fiscal year. 
Excludes from the meaning of &quot;direct spending legislation&quot; and &quot;revenue legislation&quot; any: (1) concurrent resolution on the budget; or (2) provision of legislation that affects the full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990. 
Requires estimates to: (1) use the baseline surplus or deficit used for the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; and (2) be calculated under the requirements of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) for fiscal years beyond those covered by such budget resolution. 
Declares that, if direct spending or revenue legislation increases or causes an on-budget deficit when taken individually, it must also increase or cause the on-budget deficit when taken together with such legislation enacted since the beginning of the calendar year not accounted for in such baseline. Provides also, however, that direct spending or revenue effects resulting in net deficit reduction enacted in any bill pursuant to a reconciliation instruction since the beginning of that same calendar year shall never be made available on the pay-as-you-go ledger, and shall be dedicated only for deficit reduction. 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
(Sec. 202) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any reconciliation legislation that would cause or increase a deficit or reduce a surplus in the current fiscal year, the budget year, or the 10 ensuing fiscal years following the current fiscal year. 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
(Sec. 203) Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (including amendments and conference reports), except measures within the Committee on Appropriations' jurisdiction, an estimate of whether the measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning in FY2018-FY2057. 
Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would cause such a net increase in deficits in such periods.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 204) Treats as an emergency requirement the amounts of new budget authority, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years resulting from a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or appropriations for discretionary accounts that Congress designates as an emergency requirement in a measure.
 
Declares that such new budget authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision designated as an emergency requirement shall not count for CBA purposes or the pay-as-you-go and discretionary spending limit requirements of this title.
 
Subjects any emergency requirement designation to a point-of-order.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 205) Continues the CBA supermajority enforcement requirements as a Senate rule through FY2017.
 
(Sec. 206) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would provide an advance appropriation other than for: (1) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; or (2) any FY2009-FY2010 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $23.158 billion in new budget authority in each year.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
 
(Sec. 207) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this section to be exceeded.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
Extends Senate discretionary limits for FY2007-FY2008.
 
 
Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax enforcement; (3) health care fraud and abuse control; (4) unemployment insurance improper payments reviews; (5) wildland fire suppression; (6) costs of the global war on terror; and (7) training, equipment, or other matters necessary for the protection of U.S. forces in the global war on terrorism, or activities addressing deficiencies in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military medical system facilities.
 
(Sec. 208) Declares that previous discretionary limits and allocations under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 shall no longer apply in the Senate.
 
(Sec. 209) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year until the President submits to Congress and Congress enacts legislation which would restore 75-year solvency to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds as certified by the Social Security Administration actuaries.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 

Title III: Reserve Funds and Adjustments
 - Creates deficit-neutral reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning: (1) reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); (2) care of wounded service members; (3) tax relief; (4) comparative effectiveness research; (5) higher education; (6) the farm bill; (7) energy legislation; (8) Medicare; (9) small business health insurance; (10) reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000; (11) reauthorization of terrorism risk insurance; (12) affordable housing; (13) receipts from the Bonneville Power Administration; (14) Indian claims settlement; (15) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (16) health care enhancement; (17) veterans' benefits enhancement; (18) long-term care improvement; (19) health information technology; (20) child care; (21) comprehensive immigration reform; and (22) mental health parity.

action_date: 2007-03-23
text: 
Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2007 and FY2009-FY2012.
 

Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts
 - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY2007-FY2012, with respect to: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) public debt; and (6) debt held by the public. 
 
(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. 

T

itle II: Budget Process 
- (Sec. 201) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any direct spending or revenue legislation increasing the on-budget deficit or causing an on-budget deficit for the current fiscal year, the budget year, or the 10 ensuing fiscal years following the current fiscal year. 
Excludes from the meaning of &quot;direct spending legislation&quot; and &quot;revenue legislation&quot; any: (1) concurrent resolution on the budget; or (2) provision of legislation that affects the full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990. 
Requires estimates to: (1) use the baseline surplus or deficit used for the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; and (2) be calculated under the requirements of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) for fiscal years beyond those covered by such budget resolution. 
Declares that, if direct spending or revenue legislation increases or causes an on-budget deficit when taken individually, it must also increase or cause the on-budget deficit when taken together with such legislation enacted since the beginning of the calendar year not accounted for in such baseline. Provides also, however, that direct spending or revenue effects resulting in net deficit reduction enacted in any bill pursuant to a reconciliation instruction since the beginning of that same calendar year shall never be made available on the pay-as-you-go ledger, and shall be dedicated only for deficit reduction. 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
(Sec. 202) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any reconciliation legislation that would cause or increase a deficit or reduce a surplus in the current fiscal year, the budget year, or the 10 ensuing fiscal years following the current fiscal year. 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
(Sec. 203) Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (including amendments and conference reports), except measures within the Committee on Appropriations' jurisdiction, an estimate of whether the measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning in FY2018-FY2057. 
Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would cause such a net increase in deficits in such periods.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 204) Treats as an emergency requirement the amounts of new budget authority, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years resulting from a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or appropriations for discretionary accounts that Congress designates as an emergency requirement in a measure.
 
Declares that such new budget authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision designated as an emergency requirement shall not count for CBA purposes or the pay-as-you-go and discretionary spending limit requirements of this title.
 
Subjects any emergency requirement designation to a point-of-order.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 205) Continues the CBA supermajority enforcement requirements as a Senate rule through FY2017.
 
(Sec. 206) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would provide an advance appropriation other than for: (1) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; or (2) any FY2009-FY2010 programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $23.158 billion in new budget authority in each year.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
 
(Sec. 207) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this section to be exceeded.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
Extends Senate discretionary limits for FY2007-FY2008.
 
 
Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax enforcement; (3) health care fraud and abuse control; (4) unemployment insurance improper payments reviews; (5) wildland fire suppression; (6) costs of the global war on terror; and (7) training, equipment, or other matters necessary for the protection of U.S. forces in the global war on terrorism, or activities addressing deficiencies in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military medical system facilities.
 
(Sec. 208) Declares that previous discretionary limits and allocations under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 shall no longer apply in the Senate.
 
(Sec. 209) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year until the President submits to Congress and Congress enacts legislation which would restore 75-year solvency to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds as certified by the Social Security Administration actuaries.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 210) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider legislation that includes a federal income tax rate increase.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
 
(Sec. 211) Requires the concurrent resolution on the budget, for any year that the CBO projects an on-budget deficit (excluding Social Security) for the budget year or any subsequent fiscal year, to: (1) reduce on-budget deficits relative to the CBO projections and put the budget on a path to achieve on-budget balance within five years; and (2) include provisions to protect Social Security and facilitate deficit reduction, other than reducing Social Security benefits.
 
Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider a budget resolution, or any amendment to it or conference report, that fails to reduce on-budget deficits relative to CBO projections and put the budget on a path to achieve on-budget balance within five years.
 
Suspends such requirements if: (1) the Department of Commerce reports an actual rate of real economic growth of under 1% for each of the most recently reported quarter and the immediately preceding quarter; or (2) a declaration of war is in effect.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 212) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any reconciliation legislation that produces an increase in outlays, if the effect of: (1) all the provisions in any committee's jurisdiction is to create gross new direct spending that exceeds 20% of the total savings instruction to the committee; or (2) the adoption of an amendment would result in such spending.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 213) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any legislation that includes a federal income tax rate increase on incomes generated by small businesses, family farms, or family ranches (regardless of the manner by which such businesses, farms, and ranches are organized). 
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 214) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any appropriations legislation which includes one or more provisions that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, as in effect before September 30, 2002) were they included in non-appropriations legislation, if such provision has a net cost over all the affected fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted budget resolution.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 215) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any direct spending or revenue legislation that is required to contain a CBA statement, unless the statement contains a CBO projection of the cost of debt servicing that would be caused by such legislation for all the affected fiscal years.
 
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 

Title III: Reserve Funds and Adjustments
 - (Sec. 301) Establishes specified Senate priorities and findings, including, but not limited to, making the enactment of legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) a top priority for the remainder of FY2007, during the first session of the 110th Congress.
 
Creates deficit-neutral reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning: (1) reauthorization of SCHIP; (2) care of wounded service members; (3) tax relief; (4) comparative effectiveness research; (5) higher education; (6) the farm bill; (7) energy legislation; (8) Medicare; (9) small business health insurance; (10) reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000; (11) reauthorization of terrorism risk insurance; (12) affordable housing; (13) receipts from the Bonneville Power Administration; (14) Indian claims settlement; (15) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (16) health care enhancement; (17) veterans' benefits enhancement; (18) long-term care improvement; (19) health information technology; (20) child care; (21) comprehensive immigration reform; (22) mental health parity; (23) preschool opportunities; (24) safe importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs; (25) expansion of the above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom supplies; (26) extension of the deduction for state and local sales taxes; (27) extension of certain energy tax incentives; (28) repeal of the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits; (29) elimination of the military retirement and disability offset; (30) asbestos reform; (31) manufacturing initiatives; (32) a delay in the implementation of a proposed rule relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under Medicaid and SCHIP; and (33) health insurance improvement.
 
(Sec. 329) Provides for adjustments to the Smithsonian Institution's salaries and expenses.
 
(Sec. 330) Creates a deficit-reduction reserve fund, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning reduction of improper payments by agencies.
 
(Sec. 333) Creates a reserve fund, subject to specified conditions, for legislation that provides: (1) additional training for physicians and that attracts more physicians in states that face a shortage of physicians in training; (2) health care system improvement; and (3) Medicare hospital payment accuracy improvement.
 
(Sec. 335) Expresses the sense of Congress that the budgetary totals in this resolution assume that $950 million should be made available for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) for FY2008.

action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Revises and replaces the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2007.
 
 Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2009-FY2012.
 

Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts
 - (Sec. 101) Recommends budgetary levels and amounts for FY2007-FY2012 for: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits (on-budget); (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public. 
 
(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. 
 

Title II: Reserve Funds
 - Creates reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning: (1) the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); (2) alternative minimum tax revision; (3) middle-income tax relief and economic equity; (4) agriculture; (5) higher education; (6) Medicare improvements; (7) creation of long-term energy alternatives; (8) affordable housing; (9) equitable benefits for Filipino veterans of World War II; (10) reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act; (11) receipts from the Bonneville Power Administration; and (12) the Transitional Medical Assistance program extension.
 

Title III: Budget Enforcement
 - (Sec. 301) Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations by the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax compliance; (3) the health care fraud and abuse control program; and (4) unemployment insurance improper payments reviews.
 
Requires all House committees to: (1) review programs within their jurisdiction to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports; and (2) recommend, based on these oversight efforts and committee performance reviews, improved governmental performance in annual views and estimates reports to the House Committee on the Budget.
 
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits House legislation that would require advance appropriations, except certain FY2009 or FY2010 programs, projects, activities, or accounts.
 
(Sec. 303) States that new budget authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from adoption of legislation making appropriations for FY2008-FY2009 for overseas deployments and related activities, or emergency appropriations for nondefense discretionary spending, shall not count for certain purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA).
 

Title IV: Policy
 - (Sec. 401) Declares the policy of this resolution on: (1) middle-income tax relief; (2) defense priorities; and (3) college affordability.
 

Title V: Sense of the House
 - (Sec. 501) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on: (1) servicemembers' and veterans' health care and other priorities; (2) the Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1; (3) homeland security; (4) the ongoing need to respond to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; (5) long-term sustainability of entitlements; (6) the need to maintain and build upon efforts to fight hunger; (7) affordable health coverage; (8) extension of the statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rule; (9) long-term budgeting; (10) pay parity; (11) waste, fraud, and abuse; (12) child support enforcement; and (13) state veterans cemeteries.
 

Title VI: Reconciliation
 - (Sec. 601) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committee on Education and Labor.

action_date: 2007-05-16
text: 
Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2007 and FY2009-FY2012.
 

Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts
 - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY2007-FY2012, with respect to: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public.
 
(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. 
 

Title II: Budget Proces
s - (Sec. 201) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any direct spending or revenue legislation increasing or causing an on-budget deficit for the current fiscal year, the budget year, or the four or nine ensuing fiscal years.
 
Excludes from the meaning of &quot;direct spending legislation&quot; and &quot;revenue legislation&quot; any: (1) concurrent resolution on the budget; or (2) provision of legislation that affects the full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990. 
 
Requires estimates to: (1) use the baseline surplus or deficit used for the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; and (2) be calculated under the requirements of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, as in effect before September 30, 2002) for fiscal years beyond those covered by such budget resolution. 
 
Declares that, if direct spending or revenue legislation increases or causes an on-budget deficit when taken individually, it must also increase or cause the on-budget deficit when taken together with such legislation enacted since the beginning of the calendar year not accounted for in such baseline. Provides, however, that direct spending or revenue effects resulting in net deficit reduction enacted in any bill pursuant to a reconciliation instruction since the beginning of that same calendar year shall never be made available on the pay-as-you-go ledger, and shall be dedicated only for deficit reduction. 
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. 
 
(Sec. 202) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any reconciliation legislation causing or increasing a deficit or reducing a surplus in either: (1) the current fiscal year, the budget year, and the four ensuing fiscal years; or (2) the current fiscal year, the budget year, and the nine ensuing fiscal years.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 203) Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (including amendments and conference reports), except measures within the Committee on Appropriations' jurisdiction, an estimate of whether the measure would cause a net increase in deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning in FY2018-FY2057. 
 
Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would cause such a net increase in deficits in such periods.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 204) Treats as an emergency requirement in the Senate the amounts of new budget authority, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years resulting from a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or appropriations for discretionary accounts that Congress designates as an emergency requirement in a measure.
 
Declares that such new budget authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision designated as an emergency requirement shall not count for purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) or the pay-as-you-go, long-term deficits, and discretionary spending limit requirements of this title.
 
Subjects any emergency requirement designation to a point-of-order in the Senate.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
States that in the House the new budget authority and outlays resulting from adoption of legislation making appropriations for discretionary amounts designated to meet emergency needs shall not count for certain CBA purposes.
 
 (Sec. 205) Continues the CBA supermajority enforcement requirements as a Senate rule through FY2017. 
(Sec. 206) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate legislation that would provide an advance appropriation other than for: (1) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; or (2) any FY2009-FY2010 programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $25.158 billion in new budget authority in each year.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
States that in the House legislation making a general or continuing appropriation may not provide advance appropriations, other than for FY2009-FY2010 programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $25.558 billion in new budget authority.
 
(Sec. 207) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this section to be exceeded.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
Extends Senate discretionary limits for FY2007-FY2008.
 
Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations in the Senate and/or House for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax enforcement and compliance; (3) health care fraud and abuse control; (4) in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews; and (5) costs of overseas deployments and related activities.
 
States that in the House the new budget authority, outlays, or receipts (above such amount specified in this Act) resulting from legislation reported making FY2008 for overseas deployments and related activities, shall not count for certain CBA purposes.
 
 
Requires all congressional committees to: (1) review programs within their jurisdictions to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by GAO reports; and (2) include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under the CBA.
 
Requires the chairman of the appropriate Committee on the Budget, if legislation making supplemental appropriations for FY2007 is enacted, to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations, aggregates, discretionary spending limits, and other levels of new budget authority and outlays to reflect the difference between such measure and the corresponding levels assumed in this resolution.
 
(Sec. 208) Declares that previous discretionary limits and allocations under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 shall no longer apply in the Senate.
 
(Sec. 209) Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider any appropriations legislation that includes any provision which changes a mandatory program producing net costs that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act were they included in non-appropriations legislation.
 
Subjects a provision to a point of order if: (1) it increases budget authority in at least one of the nine fiscal years that follow the budget year and over the total of such year and the nine ensuing fiscal years; (2) it increases net outlays over the total of the nine ensuing fiscal years; and (3) the sum total of all changes in mandatory programs in the legislation would increase net outlays as measured over the total of the nine ensuing fiscal years.
 
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
 
Excludes from such point-of-order: (1) legislation making supplemental appropriations for FY2007; and (2) any provision changing a mandatory program in appropriations legislation if such provision has been enacted in each of the three fiscal years before the budget year.
 

Title III: Reserve Funds 
- (Sec. 301) Establishes specified Senate priorities and findings, including, but not limited to, making the enactment of legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) a top priority for the remainder of FY2007, during the first session of the 110th Congress.
 
Creates deficit-neutral reserve funds in the Senate and/or House, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning: (1) reauthorization of SCHIP; (2) care of wounded service members; (3) tax relief; (4) reform of the alternative minimum tax; (5) middle-income tax relief and economic equity; (6) Medicare improvements (prescription drugs, physician payments, the Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program, hospital payments, and addressing physician and other health care provider shortages); (7) health care quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency; (8) higher education; (9) the farm bill; (10) energy legislation; (11) county payment legislation; (12) reauthorization of terrorism risk insurance; (13) affordable housing; (14) receipts from the Bonneville Power Administration; (15) Indian claims settlement; (16) health care enhancement; (17) child care; (18) immigration reform; (19) manufacturing initiatives; (20) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including drug importation; (21) Medicaid; (22) San Joaquin River Restoration and Navajo Nation Water Rights Settlements; and (23) selected tax relief policies.
 
(Sec. 317) Creates a congressional deficit-reduction reserve fund, subject to specified conditions, for legislation: (1) that achieves savings by eliminating or reducing improper payments made by agencies reporting improper payment estimates under the Improper Information Act of 2002 and uses such savings to reduce the deficit; or (2) in the House, that contain offsets so designated for that purpose).
 
Authorizes the Chairman of the appropriate Committee on the Budget to revise the committee allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution upon enactment of legislation: (1) that achieves savings by requiring that agencies increase their use of the recovery audits authorized by the Erroneous Payments Recovery Act of 2001 and uses such savings to reduce the deficit; or (2) in the House, that contain offsets so designated for that purpose).
 
(Sec. 321) Requires the Chairman of the House Committee, for the duration of the 110th Congress, if the House considers legislation decreasing total revenues for the budget year and the following four fiscal years below the CBO baseline for the most recent budget resolution, to increase the revenue aggregates by $179.816 billion for the total over FY2008-FY2012.
 

Title IV: Policy
 - (Sec. 401) Declares the policy of: (1) the House and Senate on middle-income tax relief; and (2) this resolution on defense priorities and college affordability.
 

Title V: Sense of the House and Senate of Congress
- (Sec. 501) Expresses the sense of Congress on: (1) servicemembers' and veterans' health care and other priorities; (2) the Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1; (3) homeland security; (4) the ongoing need to respond to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; (5) long-term sustainability of entitlements; (6) the need to maintain and build upon efforts to fight hunger; (7) affordable health coverage; (8) extension of the statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rule; (9) long-term budgeting; (10) pay parity; (11) waste, fraud, and abuse; (12) child support enforcement; (13) state veterans cemeteries; and (14) the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).
 

Title VI: Reconciliation
 - (Sec. 601) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 40. Record Vote Number: 172.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 40. Record Vote Number: 172.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 214 - 209 (Roll no. 377).
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 214 - 209 (Roll no. 377).
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H5373)
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report S. Con. Res. 21.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Mr. Spratt brought up conference report H. Rept. 110-153 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 409. (consideration: CR H5361-5373)
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Rule H. Res. 409 passed House.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Conference report considered in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6220-6253)
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 409 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to S. Con. Res. 21. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for one hour.
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Conference report H. Rept. 110-153 filed. (text of conference report: CR H5071-5127)
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 110-153 filed.(text of conference report: CR H5071-5127)
action_date: 2007-05-10
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Senate appointed conferees. Conrad; Murray; Wyden; Gregg; Domenici.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Gregg to instruct Senate conferees rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 44 - 51. Record Vote Number: 161.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Conrad to instruct Senate conferees agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 44. Record Vote Number: 160.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Kyl to instruct Senate conferees agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 41. Record Vote Number: 159.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Stabenow to instruct Senate conferees agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Cornyn to instruct Senate conferees agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Cornyn to instruct Senate conferees to insist that the final conference report include the supermajority point of order against consideration of any bill, resolution, amendment, amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report that includes a Federal income tax rate increase made in Senate. (consideration: CR S5855-5858; text: CR S5855)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Stabenow to instruct Senate conferees to insist on including the Deficit-Neutral Reserve Fund for Energy Legislation in Section 307 of S. Con. Res. 21 as it passed the Senate made in Senate. (consideration: CR S5855; text: CR S5855)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Conrad to instruct Senate conferees to insist on the Senate amendment with regard to tax relief, insist on Section 303 of the Senate resolution that provides for tax relief, and insist on the Senate position that any additional revenues to meet these tax policies are achieved made in Senate. (consideration: CR S5846-5855, S5861-5862; text: CR S5846)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Gregg to instruct Senate conferees to reject the House amendment that assumes a $916 billion tax increase made in Senate. (consideration: CR S5842-5846, S5862; text: CR S5842)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Motion by Senator Kyl to instruct Senate conferees to insist that the final conference report include the Senate position to provide for a reduction in revenues, sufficient to accommodate legislation to provide for permanent death tax relief made in Senate. (consideration: CR S5838-5841, S5861; text: CR S5838)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Senate disagreed to House amendment, agreed to request for conference. (consideration: CR S5837-5862)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill and House requests a conference.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Spratt, DeLauro, Edwards, Ryan (WI), and Barrett (SC).
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 364 - 57 (Roll no. 308). (consideration: CR H4608)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4608, H4609)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of the debate on the Ryan of Wisconsin motion to instruct conferees on S.Con.Res. 21, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Ryan demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H4592)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Ryan of Wisconsin motion to instruct conferees on S.Con.Res. 21. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to recede from the revenue levels set forth in the House amendment and insist on the policy statement in section 401.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Mr. Ryan (WI) moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H4584; text: CR H4584)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: On motion that the House insist upon its amendment, and request a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H4584)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Mr. Spratt moved that the House insist upon its amendment, and request a conference.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 212 - 207 (Roll no. 307). (text: CR H4577-4583)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 212 - 207 (Roll no. 307).(text: CR H4577-4583)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: The House struck all after the enacting clause and inserted in lieu thereof the provisions of a similar measure H. Con. Res. 99. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Rule provides for consideration of S. Con. Res. 21. Upon the adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to consider in the House, S. Con. Res. 21. All points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution are waived. The concurrent resolution shall be considered as read. It shall be in order to strike out all after the resolving clause of S. Con. Res. 21 and insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H. Con. Res. 99 as adopted by the House. It shall then be in order for the House to insist on its amendment to S. Con. Res. 21 and to ask for a conference.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 370. (consideration: CR H4568-4592, H4608)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Rule H. Res. 370 passed House.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 370 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of S. Con. Res. 21. Upon the adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to consider in the House, S. Con. Res. 21. All points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution are waived. The concurrent resolution shall be considered as read. It shall be in order to strike out all after the resolving clause of S. Con. Res. 21 and insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H. Con. Res. 99 as adopted by the House. It shall then be in order for the House to insist on its amendment to S. Con. Res. 21 and to ask for a conference.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 114.
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 114.
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S3659-3702)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S3547-3603, S3648-3655)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S3453-3512)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S3308-3340)
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 82. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3276-3282)
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Committee on the Budget. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Conrad under authority of the order of the Senate of 03/15/2007. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Committee on the Budget. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Conrad under authority of the order of the Senate of 03/15/2007. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate