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: 117-hres-523
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Emmer, Tom [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2021-07-09
Policy area: Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This resolution requires the House Appropriations Committee to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending. </p> <p>Such data shall </p> <ul> <li>cover a period comprising the 10 fiscal years immediately preceding the budget year, and</li> <li>be kept up-to-date and provided on the public website of the committee.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: IV 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 523 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 9, 2021 Mr. Emmer 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.

1. Purpose The purpose of this resolution is to provide Government spending transparency to the American people. 2. Rules Amendment (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 website 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, 2022.