Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending.

Bill: 114-hres-707
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brat, Dave [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2016-04-27
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

Congressional committees

Executive agency funding and structure

Government information and archives

House Committee on Appropriations

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2016-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-04-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending, namely:</p> <ul> <li>allocations, suballocations, and discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, program, or other line item in any appropriation Act; and</li> <li>discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, and program as set forth in budget proposals of the President. </li> </ul> <p>All such data shall:</p> <ul> <li>cover the 10 fiscal years immediately preceding the budget year; and</li> <li>be kept up-to-date and provided on the Committee's public website in a downloadable, searchable, and sortable format.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: IV 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 707 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 27, 2016 Mr. Brat (for himself, Mr. Amash , Mr. Jones , Mr. Brooks of Alabama , Mr. Ribble , Mr. Babin , and Mr. King of Iowa ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending.

That (a) clause 4(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (5) (A) The Committee on Appropriations shall maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending. Such data shall— (i) cover a period comprising the 10 fiscal years immediately preceding the budget year; and (ii) be kept up-to-date and provided on the public Web site of the committee in a downloadable, searchable, and sortable format. (B) As used in this subparagraph, the term category of spending includes— (i) section 302(a) allocations and section 302(b) suballocations and discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, program, or other line item in any appropriation Act; and (ii) discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, and program as set forth in budget proposals of the Presidents submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. . (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect immediately before noon on January 3, 2017.