TO S. CON. RES. 3amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/WALKNC_001_xml11217… · AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO S. CON.RES. 3 OFFERED BY MR.WALKER OF NORTH CAROLINA Strike

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

TO S. CON. RES. 3

OFFERED BY MR. WALKER OF NORTH CAROLINA

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the

following:

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET 1

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017. 2

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and 3

declares that this concurrent resolution establishes the 4

budget for fiscal year 2017 and sets forth appropriate 5

budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026. 6

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 7

this concurrent resolution is as follows: 8

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017.

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts.

Sec. 102. Major functional categories.

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in Senate.

Sec. 202. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives.

TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement in the House of Representatives

Sec. 301. Point of order against increasing long-term direct spending.

Sec. 302. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-

rorism.

Sec. 303. Limitation on changes in certain mandatory programs.

Sec. 304. GAO report.

Sec. 305. Estimates of debt service costs.

Sec. 306. Fair-value credit estimates.

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Sec. 307. Estimates of major direct spending legislation.

Sec. 308. Estimates of macroeconomic effects of major legislation.

Sec. 309. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources.

Sec. 310. Limitation on advance appropriations.

Sec. 311. Scoring rule for Energy Savings Performance Contracts.

Sec. 312. Estimates of land conveyances.

Sec. 313. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the

Highway Trust Fund.

Sec. 314. Prohibition on the use of guarantee fees as an offset.

Sec. 315. Prohibition on use of Federal Reserve surpluses as an offset.

Subtitle B—Other Provisions

Sec. 321. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses.

Sec. 322. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates.

Sec. 323. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.

Sec. 324. Adjustments to reflect updated budgetary estimates.

Sec. 325. Adjustment for certain emergency designations.

Sec. 326. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

TITLE IV—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING

Sec. 401. Direct spending.

TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS

Sec. 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the 2010 health care laws.

Sec. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the replacement of Obamacare.

Sec. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the

2010 health care laws.

Sec. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code.

Sec. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements.

Sec. 506. Reserve fund for revenue measures.

Sec. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation reform.

Sec. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase oppor-

tunity and upward mobility.

Sec. 509. Implementation of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement.

Sec. 510. Deficit-neutral reserve account for reforming SNAP.

Sec. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security Disability Insurance

Reform.

Sec. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform.

Sec. 513. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement.

TITLE VI—POLICY STATEMENTS

Sec. 601. Policy statement on health care law repeal.

Sec. 602. Policy statement on replacing the President’s health care law.

Sec. 603. Policy statement on Medicare.

Sec. 604. Policy statement on Medicaid State flexibility block grants.

Sec. 605. Policy statement on Social Security.

Sec. 606. Policy statement on means-tested welfare programs.

Sec. 607. Policy statement on reform of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

Program.

Sec. 608. Policy statement on work requirements.

Sec. 609. Policy statement on a carbon tax.

Sec. 610. Policy statement on regulation of greenhouse gases by the Environ-

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Sec. 611. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation.

Sec. 612. Policy statement on tax reform.

Sec. 613. Policy statement on trade.

Sec. 614. Policy statement on energy production.

Sec. 615. Policy statement on Federal regulatory budgeting and reform.

Sec. 616. Policy statement on Federal funding of abortion.

Sec. 617. Policy statement on transportation reform.

Sec. 618. Policy statement on the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 619. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthor-

ized spending.

Sec. 620. Policy statement on a balanced budget amendment.

Sec. 621. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of un-

obligated balances.

Sec. 622. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

Sec. 623. Policy statement on creation of a Committee to Eliminate Duplication

and Waste.

Sec. 624. Policy statement on reforming the congressional budget process.

Sec. 625. Policy statement on Federal accounting.

Sec. 626. Policy statement on agency fees and spending.

TITLE VII—PROCESS REFORMS TO IMPLEMENT THE BUDGET

RESOLUTION

Sec. 701. Procedure in the House of Representatives to reduce direct spending.

Sec. 702. Consideration of alternative proposals.

Sec. 703. Expedited procedures in the Senate.

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED 1

LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 2

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 3

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for 4

each of fiscal years 2017 through 2026: 5

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the 6

enforcement of this concurrent resolution: 7

(A) The recommended levels of Federal 8

revenues are as follows: 9

Fiscal year 2017: $2,682,734,000,000. 10

Fiscal year 2018: $2,774,228,000,000. 11

Fiscal year 2019: $2,859,408,000,000. 12

Fiscal year 2020: $2,999,364,000,000. 13



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Fiscal year 2021: $3,125,792,000,000. 1

Fiscal year 2022: $3,259,335,000,000. 2

Fiscal year 2023: $3,400,573,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2024: $3,552,410,000,000. 4

Fiscal year 2025: $3,719,672,000,000. 5

Fiscal year 2026: $3,895,067,000,000. 6

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate 7

levels of Federal revenues should be changed 8

are as follows: 9

Fiscal year 2017: $0. 10










(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes 20

of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the 21

appropriate levels of total new budget authority are 22

as follows: 23

Fiscal year 2017: $2,911,244,040,765. 24

Fiscal year 2018: $2,917,292,316,727. 25



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Fiscal year 2019: $3,023,906,605,409. 1

Fiscal year 2020: $3,115,627,403,977. 2

Fiscal year 2021: $3,160,595,683,958. 3

Fiscal year 2022: $3,217,777,829,896. 4

Fiscal year 2023: $3,305,341,674,701. 5

Fiscal year 2024: $3,391,057,425,179. 6

Fiscal year 2025: $3,505,015,237,101. 7

Fiscal year 2026: $3,567,955,182,487. 8

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the 9

enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the appro-10

priate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: 11

Fiscal year 2017: $2,898,128,816,238. 12

Fiscal year 2018: $2,923,640,130,885. 13

Fiscal year 2019: $3,011,037,691,259. 14

Fiscal year 2020: $3,105,903,765,664. 15

Fiscal year 2021: $3,158,484,354,130. 16

Fiscal year 2022: $3,220,312,861,254. 17

Fiscal year 2023: $3,283,389,111,896. 18

Fiscal year 2024: $3,351,605,583,629. 19

Fiscal year 2025: $3,460,804,278,131. 20

Fiscal year 2026: $3,539,659,741,111. 21

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of 22

the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the 23

amounts of the deficits (on-budget) are as follows: 24

Fiscal year 2017: -$215,394,816,238. 25



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Fiscal year 2018: -$149,412,130,885. 1

Fiscal year 2019: -$151,629,691,259. 2

Fiscal year 2020: -$106,539,765,664. 3

Fiscal year 2021: -$32,692,354,130. 4

Fiscal year 2022: $39,022,138,746. 5

Fiscal year 2023: $117,183,888,104. 6

Fiscal year 2024: $200,804,416,371. 7

Fiscal year 2025: $258,867,721,869. 8

Fiscal year 2026: $355,407,258,889. 9

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate 10

levels of debt subject to limit are as follows: 11

Fiscal year 2017: $19,684,257,816,238. 12

Fiscal year 2018: $20,273,167,130,885. 13

Fiscal year 2019: $20,630,146,691,259. 14

Fiscal year 2020: $20,868,903,765,664. 15

Fiscal year 2021: $21,109,966,354,130. 16

Fiscal year 2022: $21,237,636,861,254. 17

Fiscal year 2023: $21,416,621,111,896. 18

Fiscal year 2024: $21,483,167,583,629. 19

Fiscal year 2025: $21,297,701,278,131. 20

Fiscal year 2026: $21,317,993,741,111. 21

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro-22

priate levels of debt held by the public are as follows: 23

Fiscal year 2017: $14,235,903,816,238. 24

Fiscal year 2018: $14,684,778,130,885. 25



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Fiscal year 2019: $14,958,623,691,259. 1

Fiscal year 2020: $15,154,303,765,664. 2

Fiscal year 2021: $15,384,681,354,130. 3

Fiscal year 2022: $15,516,734,861,254. 4

Fiscal year 2023: $15,713,849,111,896. 5

Fiscal year 2024: $15,818,644,583,629. 6

Fiscal year 2025: $15,736,242,278,131. 7

Fiscal year 2026: $15,865,937,741,111. 8

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 9

The Congress determines and declares that the budg-10

etary levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal 11

years 2017 through 2026 for each major functional cat-12

egory are: 13

(1) National Defense (050): 14

Fiscal year 2017: 15

(A) New budget authority 16

$582,235,426,000. 17

(B) Outlays, $589,738,583,269. 18


(A) New budget authority, 20

$607,339,055,750. 21

(B) Outlays, $587,178,261,911. 22



$619,544,021,803. 25



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(B) Outlays, $604,134,782,258. 1

Fiscal year 2020: 2


$631,756,947,980. 4

(B) Outlays, $616,850,908,635. 5

Fiscal year 2021: 6


$643,990,466,814. 8

(B) Outlays, $628,804,507,003. 9



$656,939,016,207. 12

(B) Outlays, $646,589,207,880. 13



$670,217,134,194. 16

(B) Outlays, $654,442,423,460. 17



$682,917,732,532. 20

(B) Outlays, $661,603,833,684. 21



$697,044,611,968. 24

(B) Outlays, $680,569,511,078. 25



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Fiscal year 2026: 1


$712,282,482,653. 3

(B) Outlays, $695,041,531,474. 4

(2) International Affairs (150): 5

Fiscal year 2017: 6


$39,224,033,281. 8

(B) Outlays, $43,094,177,339. 9



$39,224,251,562. 12

(B) Outlays, $39,699,541,653. 13



$39,222,406,901. 16

(B) Outlays, $38,725,433,950. 17



$38,314,958,430. 20

(B) Outlays, $38,293,262,530. 21



$38,189,381,213. 24

(B) Outlays, $37,871,843,105. 25



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Fiscal year 2022: 1


$39,239,007,074. 3

(B) Outlays, $38,360,212,702. 4

Fiscal year 2023: 5


$40,248,426,800. 7

(B) Outlays, $38,967,144,937. 8

Fiscal year 2024: 9


$41,122,822,540. 11

(B) Outlays, $39,552,631,782. 12



$42,039,305,748. 15

(B) Outlays, $40,178,103,319. 16



$42,999,747,781. 19

(B) Outlays, $40,905,783,551. 20

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology 21

(250): 22



$26,891,306,593. 25



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(B) Outlays, $27,101,346,253. 1

Fiscal year 2018: 2


$27,470,908,310. 4

(B) Outlays, $27,291,953,438. 5

Fiscal year 2019: 6


$28,057,590,095. 8

(B) Outlays, $27,767,216,306. 9



$28,662,453,847. 12

(B) Outlays, $28,268,694,768. 13



$29,294,293,269. 16

(B) Outlays, $28,775,747,125. 17



$29,928,252,448. 20

(B) Outlays, $29,368,629,327. 21



$30,592,244,997. 24

(B) Outlays, $30,014,730,147. 25



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Fiscal year 2024: 1


$31,261,223,830. 3

(B) Outlays, $30,655,075,207. 4

Fiscal year 2025: 5


$31,957,221,346. 7

(B) Outlays, $31,335,818,548. 8

Fiscal year 2026: 9


$32,686,207,579. 11

(B) Outlays, $32,039,759,314. 12

(4) Energy (270): 13



$3,811,445,372. 16

(B) Outlays, -$1,886,103,029. 17



-$3,341,146,019. 20

(B) Outlays, -$2,335,254,463. 21



-$3,149,477,555. 24

(B) Outlays, -$2,329,673,248. 25



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Fiscal year 2020: 1


-$3,534,756,533. 3

(B) Outlays, -$2,425,813,307. 4

Fiscal year 2021: 5


-$3,616,296,505. 7

(B) Outlays, -$2,409,484,334. 8

Fiscal year 2022: 9


-$3,659,230,848. 11

(B) Outlays, -$2,389,784,023. 12



-$3,707,384,977. 15

(B) Outlays, -$2,391,734,588. 16



-$3,806,802,528. 19

(B) Outlays, -$2,415,444,381. 20



-$3,949,869,101. 23

(B) Outlays, -$2,458,691,313. 24




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-$963,111,009. 2

(B) Outlays, -$4,723,830,188. 3

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


$34,493,849,173. 7

(B) Outlays, $36,751,423,888. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


$34,717,182,344. 11

(B) Outlays, $36,421,810,615. 12



$34,980,221,344. 15

(B) Outlays, $35,971,856,017. 16



$34,709,130,660. 19

(B) Outlays, $35,694,461,568. 20



$35,345,558,746. 23

(B) Outlays, $35,726,692,080. 24




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$35,778,861,704. 2

(B) Outlays, $36,023,603,664. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


$35,903,656,269. 6

(B) Outlays, $36,053,540,929. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


$37,053,575,427. 10

(B) Outlays, $36,728,425,531. 11



$37,407,926,006. 14

(B) Outlays, $37,010,865,625. 15



$36,030,468,379. 18

(B) Outlays, $35,239,084,585. 19

(6) Agriculture (350): 20



$23,579,001,452. 23

(B) Outlays, $24,671,346,305. 24




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$23,081,072,022. 2

(B) Outlays, $22,625,264,354. 3

Fiscal year 2019: 4


$20,792,777,128. 6

(B) Outlays, $20,003,190,490. 7

Fiscal year 2020: 8


$19,741,920,684. 10

(B) Outlays, $19,137,193,652. 11



$19,404,282,275. 14

(B) Outlays, $18,835,192,569. 15



$19,327,130,735. 18

(B) Outlays, $18,756,191,516. 19



$19,662,307,796. 22

(B) Outlays, $19,236,195,778. 23




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$19,687,365,729. 2

(B) Outlays, $19,196,192,534. 3

Fiscal year 2025: 4


$20,007,079,854. 6

(B) Outlays, $19,491,194,494. 7

Fiscal year 2026: 8


$20,432,760,370. 10

(B) Outlays, $19,911,194,541. 11

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 12



-$3,117,858,538. 15

(B) Outlays, -$17,902,510,087. 16



-$5,006,187,208. 19

(B) Outlays, -$22,663,131,201. 20



-$7,207,527,587. 23

(B) Outlays, -$21,873,165,611. 24




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-$10,050,651,698. 2

(B) Outlays, -$23,478,684,551. 3

Fiscal year 2021: 4


-$11,270,680,219. 6

(B) Outlays, -$25,592,600,179. 7

Fiscal year 2022: 8


-$11,216,920,854. 10

(B) Outlays, -$26,334,723,544. 11



-$11,181,314,029. 14

(B) Outlays, -$28,431,823,598. 15



-$11,419,282,222. 18

(B) Outlays, -$30,146,864,860. 19



-$10,962,174,519. 22

(B) Outlays, -$30,283,949,523. 23




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-$11,423,608,510. 2

(B) Outlays, -$30,344,996,856. 3

(8) Transportation (400): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


$83,782,156,033. 7

(B) Outlays, $86,403,000,000. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


$84,741,937,545. 11

(B) Outlays, $85,402,000,000. 12



$86,268,019,975. 15

(B) Outlays, $86,636,000,000. 16



$80,591,153,304. 19

(B) Outlays, $87,532,000,000. 20



$61,426,491,203. 23

(B) Outlays, $82,464,000,000. 24




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$61,881,059,775. 2

(B) Outlays, $73,145,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


$62,574,430,674. 6

(B) Outlays, $69,350,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


$63,399,145,192. 10

(B) Outlays, $.68,306,000,000 11



$64,300,801,486. 14

(B) Outlays, $67,705,000,000. 15



$65,233,075,435. 18

(B) Outlays, $67,451,000,000. 19

(9) Community and Regional Development 20

(450): 21



$4,060,091,761. 24

(B) Outlays, $11,111,688,772. 25



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Fiscal year 2018: 1


$3,025,186,831. 3

(B) Outlays, $8,426,527,304. 4

Fiscal year 2019: 5


$2,399,832,457. 7

(B) Outlays, $6,576,572,847. 8

Fiscal year 2020: 9


$2,161,433,912. 11

(B) Outlays, $5,089,840,373. 12



$2,239,962,970. 15

(B) Outlays, $4,404,811,102. 16



$2,519,289,261. 19

(B) Outlays, $3,736,046,140. 20



$2,765,128,809. 23

(B) Outlays, $3,589,358,404. 24




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$2,386,994,767. 2

(B) Outlays, $2,467,358,948. 3

Fiscal year 2025: 4


$3,723,976,109. 6

(B) Outlays, $3,767,209,364. 7

Fiscal year 2026: 8


$3,826,426,079. 10

(B) Outlays, $3,857,498,084. 11

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and 12

Social Services (500): 13



$76,517,561,995. 16

(B) Outlays, $89,337,980,213. 17



$81,664,276,439. 20

(B) Outlays, $83,363,936,106. 21



$82,948,933,634. 24

(B) Outlays, $83,557,574,625. 25



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Fiscal year 2020: 1


$84,302,444,193. 3

(B) Outlays, $84,863,412,312. 4

Fiscal year 2021: 5


$85,483,188,626. 7

(B) Outlays, $86,118,718,904. 8

Fiscal year 2022: 9


$86,150,491,291. 11

(B) Outlays, $87,104,938,401. 12



$90,700,396,959. 15

(B) Outlays, $89,739,937,092. 16



$91,612,053,540. 19

(B) Outlays, $92,347,558,196. 20



$92,616,332,967. 23

(B) Outlays, $93,602,872,104. 24




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$93,126,021,829. 2

(B) Outlays, $94,538,682,177. 3

(11) Health (550): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


$414,914,666,640. 7

(B) Outlays, $409,071,589,532. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


$400,090,776,718. 11

(B) Outlays, $409,837,990,585. 12



$409,134,261,576. 15

(B) Outlays, $409,927,144,574. 16



$411,218,705,099. 19

(B) Outlays, $410,000,371,949. 20



$411,520,598,917. 23

(B) Outlays, $409,258,512,590. 24




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$411,222,882,244. 2

(B) Outlays, $408,609,271,560. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


$411,054,998,948. 6

(B) Outlays, $408,040,041,635. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


$411,305,774,433. 10

(B) Outlays, $408,024,483,858. 11



$.408,054,277,446 14

(B) Outlays, $404,517,981,768. 15



$408,456,672,879. 18

(B) Outlays, $404,749,490,318. 19

(12) Medicare (570): 20



$589,985,996,950. 23

(B) Outlays, $589,968,000,000. 24




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$577,949,403,793. 2

(B) Outlays, $577,890,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2019: 4


$634,769,609,598. 6

(B) Outlays, $634,667,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2020: 8


$669,608,877,532. 10

(B) Outlays, $669,516,000,000. 11



$701,717,599,734. 14

(B) Outlays, $701,637,000,000. 15



$783,233,244,717. 18

(B) Outlays, $783,148,000,000. 19



$793,826,442,695. 22

(B) Outlays, $793,738,000,000. 23




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$804,158,992,999. 2

(B) Outlays, $804,021,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2025: 4


$891,597,598,094. 6

(B) Outlays, $891,464,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2026: 8


$952,040,841,487. 10

(B) Outlays, $951,901,000,000. 11

(13) Income Security (600): 12



$495,215,196,304. 15

(B) Outlays, $489,678,000,763. 16



$467,378,467,048. 19

(B) Outlays, $457,121,503,770. 20



$473,803,666,325. 23

(B) Outlays, $466,519,958,503. 24




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$.480,403,798,298. 2

(B) Outlays, $472,707,038,714. 3

Fiscal year 2021: 4


$462,754,715,850. 6

(B) Outlays, $455,422,494,430. 7

Fiscal year 2022: 8


$470,305,332,160. 10

(B) Outlays, $468,568,679,685. 11



$477,612,475,752. 14

(B) Outlays, $471,553,500,076. 15



$486,124,736,370. 18

(B) Outlays, $474,208,319,164. 19



$495,525,397,267. 22

(B) Outlays, $485,180,862,385. 23




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$505,847,590,322. 2

(B) Outlays, $501,691,364,876. 3

(14) Social Security (650): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


$37,199,000,000. 7

(B) Outlays, $37,227,000,000. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


$40,124,000,000. 11

(B) Outlays, $40,141,000,000. 12



$43,373,000,000. 15

(B) Outlays, $43,373,000,000. 16



$46,627,000,000. 19

(B) Outlays, $46,627,000,000. 20



$50,035,000,000. 23

(B) Outlays, $50,035,000,000. 24




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$53,677,000,000. 2

(B) Outlays, $53,677,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


$57,540,000,000. 6

(B) Outlays, $57,540,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


$61,645,000,000. 10

(B) Outlays, $61,645,000,000. 11



$66,076,000,000. 14

(B) Outlays, $66,076,000,000. 15



$70,376,000,000. 18

(B) Outlays, $70,376,000,000. 19

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 20



$174,958,000,967. 23

(B) Outlays, $182,247,000,000. 24




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$173,240,266,963. 2

(B) Outlays, $173,975,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2019: 4


$187,175,510,507. 6

(B) Outlays, $186,712,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2020: 8


$193,398,711,598. 10

(B) Outlays, $192,607,000,000. 11



$199,658,007,906. 14

(B) Outlays, $198,756,000,000. 15



$215,743,846,001. 18

(B) Outlays, $214,647,000,000. 19



$213,081,119,646. 22

(B) Outlays, $211,905,000,000. 23




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$209,739,687,456. 2

(B) Outlays, $208,597,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2025: 4


$226,943,337,943. 6

(B) Outlays, $225,690,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2026: 8


$234,134,904,001. 10

(B) Outlays, $232,910,000,000. 11

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 12



$64,084,870,256. 15

(B) Outlays, $58,280,826,283. 16



$58,691,625,981. 19

(B) Outlays, $59,341,271,803. 20



$60,236,445,986. 23

(B) Outlays, $61,984,028,181. 24




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$61,775,443,852. 2

(B) Outlays, $64,272,415,003. 3

Fiscal year 2021: 4


$62,838,744,408. 6

(B) Outlays, $64,270,374,933. 7

Fiscal year 2022: 8


$64,438,746,678. 10

(B) Outlays, $64,622,528,137. 11



$66,122,522,342. 14

(B) Outlays, $66,117,555,205. 15



$67,827,217,007. 18

(B) Outlays, $67,612,633,648. 19



$69,899,313,728. 22

(B) Outlays, $69,530,727,157. 23




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$72,968,679,769. 2

(B) Outlays, $72,918,001,554. 3

(17) General Government (800): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


$17,597,202,171. 7

(B) Outlays, $17,131,799,212. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


$16,292,505,877. 11

(B) Outlays, $15,822,578,937. 12



$15,896,824,915. 15

(B) Outlays, $15,485,855,249. 16



$15,497,115,954. 19

(B) Outlays, $15,288,593,367. 20



$15,102,576,054. 23

(B) Outlays, $14,968,611,664. 24




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$16,848,086,774. 2

(B) Outlays, $16,521,512,795. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


$16,852,169,706. 6

(B) Outlays, $16,651,481,574. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


$16,851,058,548. 10

(B) Outlays, $16,670,583,663. 11



$16,837,818,345. 14

(B) Outlays, $16,666,172,690. 15



$16,766,025,287. 18

(B) Outlays, $16,610,078,098. 19

(18) Net Interest (900): 20



$392,019,000,000. 23

(B) Outlays, $392,019,000,000. 24




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$441,055,000,000. 2

(B) Outlays, $441,055,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2019: 4


$491,389,000,000. 6

(B) Outlays, $491,389,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2020: 8


$530,997,000,000. 10

(B) Outlays, $530,997,000,000. 11



$557,310,000,000. 14

(B) Outlays, $557,310,000,000. 15



$578,830,000,000. 18

(B) Outlays, $578,830,000,000. 19



$598,897,000,000. 22

(B) Outlays, $598,897,000,000. 23




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$610,255,000,000. 2

(B) Outlays, $610,255,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2025: 4


$616,280,000,000. 6

(B) Outlays, $616,280,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2026: 8


$618,817,000,000. 10

(B) Outlays, $618,817,000,000. 11

(19) Allowances (920): 12



-$116,443,905,645. 15

(B) Outlays, -$108,060,655,057. 16



-$87,798,267,230. 19

(B) Outlays, -$55,403,123,929. 20



-$141,116,511,693. 23

(B) Outlays, -$122,485,082,881. 24




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-$143,488,283,137. 2

(B) Outlays, -$127,796,929,349. 3

Fiscal year 2021: 4


-$139,652,207,303. 6

(B) Outlays, -$125,929,066,863. 7

Fiscal year 2022: 8


-$202,367,265,470. 10

(B) Outlays, -$190,513,452,985. 11



-$168,219,081,878. 14

(B) Outlays, -$155,662,239,154. 15



-$122,851,870,445. 18

(B) Outlays, -$110,286,203,346. 19



-$146,216,717,586. 22

(B) Outlays, -$137,952,399,563. 23




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-$182,440,001,844. 2

(B) Outlays, -$160,985,900,420. 3

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 4

Fiscal year 2017: 5


-$88,561,000,000. 7

(B) Outlays, -$88,561,000,000. 8

Fiscal year 2018: 9


-$89,314,000,000. 11

(B) Outlays, -$89,314,000,000. 12



-$81,278,000,000. 15

(B) Outlays, -$81,278,000,000. 16



-$83,732,000,000. 19

(B) Outlays, -$83,732,000,000. 20



-$87,842,000,000. 23

(B) Outlays, -$87,842,000,000. 24




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-$91,041,000,000. 2

(B) Outlays, -$91,041,000,000. 3

Fiscal year 2023: 4


-$99,201,000,000. 6

(B) Outlays, -$99,201,000,000. 7

Fiscal year 2024: 8


-$108,213,000,000. 10

(B) Outlays, -$108,213,000,000. 11



-$114,167,000,000. 14

(B) Outlays, -$117,567,000,000. 15



-$123,243,000,000. 18

(B) Outlays, -$123,243,000,000. 19

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global 20

War on Terrorism (970): 21



$58,798,000,000. 24

(B) Outlays, $30,706,322,582. 25



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Fiscal year 2018: 1


$26,666,000,000. 3

(B) Outlays, $27,762,000,000. 4

Fiscal year 2019: 5


$26,666,000,000. 7

(B) Outlays, $25,573,000,000. 8

Fiscal year 2020: 9


$26,666,000,000. 11

(B) Outlays, $25,592,000,000. 12



$26,666,000,000. 15

(B) Outlays, $25,598,000,000. 16


(A) New budget authority, $0. 18

(B) Outlays, $8,884,000,000. 19



(B) Outlays, $3,240,000,000. 22



(B) Outlays, $776,000,000. 25



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Fiscal year 2025: 1


(B) Outlays, $0. 3

Fiscal year 2026: 4


(B) Outlays, $0. 6

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 7

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN SENATE. 8

(a) COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.—The Committee on 9

Finance of the Senate shall report changes in laws within 10

its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than 11

$1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2017 12

through 2026. 13

(b) COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, 14

AND PENSIONS.—The Committee on Health, Education, 15

Labor, and Pensions of the Senate shall report changes 16

in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not 17

less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 18

2017 through 2026. 19

(c) SUBMISSIONS.—In the Senate, not later than 20

January 27, 2017, the Committees named in subsections 21

(a) and (b) shall submit their recommendations to the 22

Committee on the Budget of the Senate. Upon receiving 23

all such recommendations, the Committee on the Budget 24

of the Senate shall report to the Senate a reconciliation 25



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bill carrying out all such recommendations without any 1

substantive revision. 2

SEC. 202. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT-3

ATIVES. 4

(a) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.—The 5

Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 6

Representatives shall submit changes in laws within its ju-7

risdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than 8

$1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2017 9

through 2026. 10

(b) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The Com-11

mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Representa-12

tives shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction 13

to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for 14

the period of fiscal years 2017 through 2026. 15

(c) SUBMISSIONS.—In the House of Representatives, 16

not later than January 27, 2017, the committees named 17

in subsections (a) and (b) shall submit their recommenda-18

tions to the Committee on the Budget of the House of 19

Representatives to carry out this section. 20



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TITLE III—BUDGET 1

ENFORCEMENT 2

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement in 3

the House of Representatives 4

SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING LONG- 5

TERM DIRECT SPENDING. 6

(a) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANALYSIS OF 7

PROPOSALS.—The Director of the Congressional Budget 8

Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare an estimate 9

of whether a measure would cause a net increase in direct 10

spending in the House of Representatives, in excess of 11

$5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year 12

periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 fiscal 13

years after the budget year provided for in the most re-14

cently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget in 15

the House of Representatives, for each bill or joint resolu-16

tion other than an appropriation measure and any amend-17

ment thereto or conference report thereon. 18

(b) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in 19

the House of Representatives to consider any bill or joint 20

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report 21

thereon, that would cause a net increase in direct spending 22

in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 23

10-fiscal year periods described in subsection (a). 24



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(c) LIMITATION.—In the House of Representatives, 1

the provisions of this section shall not apply to any bills 2

or joint resolutions, or amendments thereto or conference 3

reports thereon, for which the chair of the Committee on 4

the Budget has made adjustments to the allocations, lev-5

els, or limits contained in this concurrent resolution pursu-6

ant to section 501. 7

(d) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For 8

purposes of this section, the levels of net increases in di-9

rect spending shall be determined on the basis of estimates 10

provided by the chair of the Committee on the Budget of 11

the House of Representatives. 12

SEC. 302. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OP-13

ERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 14

(a) SEPARATE ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTIN-15

GENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—In 16

the House of Representatives, there shall be a separate 17

allocation of new budget authority and outlays provided 18

to the Committee on Appropriations for the purposes of 19

Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-20

rorism, which shall be deemed to be an allocation under 21

section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 22

Section 302(a)(3) of such Act shall not apply to such sepa-23

rate allocation. 24



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(b) 302 ALLOCATIONS.—The separate allocation re-1

ferred to in subsection (a) shall be the exclusive allocation 2

for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-3

rorism under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 4

Act of 1974. The Committee on Appropriations of the 5

House of Representatives may provide suballocations of 6

such separate allocation under such section 302(b). 7

(c) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the 8

separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under sec-9

tion 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 10

‘‘first fiscal year’’ and the ‘‘total of fiscal years’’ shall be 11

deemed to refer to fiscal year 2017. Section 302(c) of such 12

Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. 13

(d) DESIGNATIONS.—New budget authority or out-14

lays shall only be counted toward the allocation referred 15

to in subsection (a) if designated pursuant to section 16

251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 17

Deficit Control Act of 1985. 18

(e) ADJUSTMENTS.—For purposes of subsection (a) 19

for fiscal year 2017, no adjustment shall be made under 20

section 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 21

if any adjustment would be made under section 22

251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 23

Deficit Control Act of 1985. 24



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(f) ADJUSTMENTS TO FUND OVERSEAS CONTIN-1

GENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—In 2

the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee 3

on the Budget may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and 4

other appropriate budgetary levels related to Overseas 5

Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or the 6

allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional 7

Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations 8

set forth in the report or joint explanatory statement of 9

managers, as applicable, accompanying this concurrent 10

resolution to account for new information. 11

SEC. 303. LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN CERTAIN MANDA-12

TORY PROGRAMS. 13

(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘change 14

in mandatory programs’’ means a provision that— 15

(1) would have been estimated as affecting di-16

rect spending or receipts under section 252 of the 17

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 18

Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 19

2002) if the provision was included in legislation 20

other than appropriation Acts; and 21

(2) results in a net decrease in budget authority 22

in the budget year, but does not result in a net de-23

crease in outlays over the period of the total of the 24

current year, the budget year, and all fiscal years 25



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covered under the most recently agreed to concur-1

rent resolution on the budget. 2

(b) POINT OF ORDER IN THE HOUSE OF REP-3

RESENTATIVES.— 4

(1) IN GENERAL.—A provision in a bill or joint 5

resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal 6

year that proposes a change in mandatory programs 7

that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of 8

the total budget authority of all such change in man-9

datory programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal 10

year to be more than the amount specified in para-11

graph (3), shall not be in order in the House of Rep-12

resentatives. 13

(2) AMENDMENTS AND CONFERENCE RE-14

PORTS.—It shall not be in order in the House of 15

Representatives to consider an amendment to, or a 16

conference report on, a bill or joint resolution mak-17

ing appropriations for a full fiscal year if such 18

amendment thereto or conference report thereon 19

proposes a change in mandatory programs that, if 20

enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total 21

budget authority of all such change in mandatory 22

programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to 23

be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3). 24



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(3) AMOUNT.—The amount specified in this 1

paragraph is— 2

(A) for fiscal year 2017, $19,100,000,000; 3

(B) for fiscal year 2018, $17,000,000,000; 4

and 5

(C) for fiscal year 2019, $15,000,000,000. 6

(c) DETERMINATION.—For purposes of this section, 7

budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of esti-8

mates provided by the chair of the Committee on the 9

Budget. 10

SEC. 304. GAO REPORT. 11

(a) GAO SUBMISSION.—At a date specified by the 12

chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 13

Representatives, the Comptroller General, in consultation 14

with the chair, the Director of the Congressional Budget 15

Office, and the Director of the Office of Management and 16

Budget, shall submit to the chair a comprehensive list of 17

all current direct spending programs of the Government. 18

(b) PUBLICATION.—The chair of the Committee on 19

the Budget shall cause to be printed in the Congressional 20

Record the list submitted under subsection (a). The chair 21

shall publish such list on the Committee’s public Web site. 22

Such publication shall be searchable, sortable, and 23

downloadable. 24



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SEC. 305. ESTIMATES OF DEBT SERVICE COSTS. 1

In the House of Representatives, the chair of the 2

Committee on the Budget may direct the Congressional 3

Budget Office to include in any estimate prepared under 4

section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with 5

respect to any bill or joint resolution, or an estimate of 6

an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, an 7

estimate of any change in debt service costs (if any) result-8

ing from carrying out such bill or resolution. Any estimate 9

of debt servicing costs provided under this section shall 10

be advisory and shall not be used for purposes of enforce-11

ment of such Act, the Rules of the House of Representa-12

tives, or this concurrent resolution. This section shall not 13

apply to authorizations of discretionary programs or to ap-14

propriation measures, but shall apply to changes in the 15

authorization level of appropriated entitlements. 16

SEC. 306. FAIR-VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. 17

(a) ALL CREDIT PROGRAMS.—Whenever the Director 18

of the Congressional Budget Office provides an estimate 19

of any measure that establishes or modifies any program 20

providing loans or loan guarantees, the Director shall, to 21

the extent practicable, provide a supplemental fair-value 22

estimate of any loan or loan guarantee program if re-23

quested by the chair of the Committee on the Budget. 24

(b) STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING 25

PROGRAMS.—The Director of the Congressional Budget 26



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Office shall provide a supplemental fair-value estimate as 1

part of any estimate for any measure establishing or modi-2

fying a program providing loans or loan guarantees for 3

student financial assistance or housing (including residen-4

tial mortgage). 5

(c) BASELINE ESTIMATES.—The Congressional 6

Budget Office shall include estimates, on a fair-value and 7

credit reform basis, of loan and loan guarantee programs 8

for student financial assistance, housing (including resi-9

dential mortgage), and such other major loan and loan 10

guarantee programs, as practicable, in its Budget and Eco-11

nomic Outlook: 2018 to 2027. 12

SEC. 307. ESTIMATES OF MAJOR DIRECT SPENDING LEGIS-13

LATION. 14

The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the 15

extent practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes dur-16

ing the second and third decade of enactment for any di-17

rect spending legislative provision— 18

(1) that proposes a change or changes to law 19

that the Congressional Budget Office determines has 20

an outlay impact in excess of 0.25 percent of the 21

gross domestic product of the United States during 22

the first decade or in the tenth year; or 23



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(2) for which the chair of the Committee on the 1

Budget of the House of Representatives requests 2

such an estimate. 3

SEC. 308. ESTIMATES OF MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF 4

MAJOR LEGISLATION. 5

(a) CBO AND JCT ESTIMATES.—During the 114th 6

and 115th Congresses, any estimate provided by the Con-7

gressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Con-8

gressional Budget Act of 1974 or by the Joint Committee 9

on Taxation to the Congressional Budget Office under sec-10

tion 201(f) of such Act for major legislation considered 11

in the House of Representatives shall, to the extent prac-12

ticable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 13

economic output, employment, capital stock, and other 14

macroeconomic variables resulting from such major legis-15

lation. 16

(b) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in sub-17

section (a) shall, to the extent practicable, include— 18

(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary 19

effects (including macroeconomic variables described 20

in subsection (a)) of major legislation in the 20-fis-21

cal year period beginning after the last fiscal year of 22

the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on 23

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under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act 1

of 1974; and 2

(2) an identification of the critical assumptions 3

and the source of data underlying that estimate. 4

(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 5

(1) MAJOR LEGISLATION.—The term ‘‘major 6

legislation’’ means a bill or joint resolution, or 7

amendment thereto or conference report thereon— 8

(A) for which an estimate is required to be 9

prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Con-10

gressional Budget Act of 1974 and that causes 11

a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating 12

macroeconomic effects and not including timing 13

shifts) in a fiscal year in the period of years of 14

the most recently agreed to concurrent resolu-15

tion on the budget equal to or greater than 16

0.25 percent of the current projected gross do-17

mestic product of the United States for that fis-18

cal year; or 19

(B) designated as such by— 20

(i) the chair of the Committee on the 21

Budget of the House of Representatives 22

for all direct spending and revenue legisla-23

tion; or 24



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(ii) the Member who is Chairman or 1

Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on 2

Taxation for revenue legislation. 3

(2) BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—The term ‘‘budg-4

etary effects’’ means changes in revenues, direct 5

spending outlays, and deficits. 6

(3) TIMING SHIFTS.—The term ‘‘timing shifts’’ 7

means— 8

(A) provisions that cause a delay of the 9

date on which outlays flowing from direct 10

spending would otherwise occur from one fiscal 11

year to the next fiscal year; or 12

(B) provisions that cause an acceleration 13

of the date on which revenues would otherwise 14

occur from one fiscal year to the prior fiscal 15

year. 16

SEC. 309. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF 17

BUDGETARY RESOURCES. 18

(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT 19

SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House of Representatives, if 20

a committee (other than the Committee on Appropria-21

tions) reports a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment 22

thereto is offered or any conference report thereon is sub-23

mitted, providing for a decrease in direct spending (budget 24

authority and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal 25



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year and also provides for an authorization of appropria-1

tions for the same purpose, upon the enactment of such 2

measure, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may 3

decrease the allocation to such committee and increase the 4

allocation of discretionary spending (budget authority and 5

outlays flowing therefrom) to the Committee on Appro-6

priations for fiscal year 2017 by an amount equal to the 7

new budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) pro-8

vided for in a bill or joint resolution making appropria-9

tions for the same purpose. 10

(b) DETERMINATIONS.—In the House of Representa-11

tives, for purposes of enforcing this concurrent resolution, 12

the allocations and aggregate levels of new budget author-13

ity, outlays, direct spending, revenues, deficits, and sur-14

pluses for fiscal year 2017 and the period of fiscal years 15

2017 through 2026 shall be determined on the basis of 16

estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the 17

Budget and such chair may adjust the applicable levels 18

in this concurrent resolution. 19

SEC. 310. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 20

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, 21

except as provided for in subsection (b), any bill or joint 22


thereon, making a general appropriation or continuing ap-24

propriation may not provide advance appropriations. 25



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(b) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation may be 1

provided for programs, projects, activities, or accounts 2

identified in the report or the joint explanatory statement 3

of managers, as applicable, accompanying this concurrent 4

resolution under the heading— 5

(1) GENERAL.—‘‘Accounts Identified for Ad-6

vance Appropriations’’. 7

(2) VETERANS.—‘‘Veterans Accounts Identified 8

for Advance Appropriations’’. 9

(c) LIMITATIONS.—The aggregate level of advance 10

appropriations shall not exceed— 11

(1) GENERAL.—$28,852,000,000 in new budget 12

authority for all programs identified pursuant to 13

subsection (b)(1). 14

(2) VETERANS.—$66,385,032,000 in new budg-15

et authority for programs in the Department of Vet-16

erans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection 17

(b)(2). 18

(d) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘advance appropria-19

tion’’ means any new discretionary budget authority pro-20

vided in a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment there-21

to or conference report thereon, making general appro-22

priations or continuing appropriations, for the fiscal year 23

following fiscal year 2017. 24



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SEC. 311. SCORING RULE FOR ENERGY SAVINGS PERFORM-1

ANCE CONTRACTS. 2

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Congressional 3

Budget Office shall estimate provisions of any bill or joint 4


thereon that affects the use of any covered energy savings 6

contract on a net present value basis. 7

(b) NPV CALCULATIONS.—The net present value of 8

any covered energy savings contract shall be calculated as 9

follows: 10

(1) The discount rate shall reflect market risk. 11

(2) The cash flows shall include, whether classi-12

fied as mandatory or discretionary, payments to con-13

tractors under the terms of their contracts, pay-14

ments to contractors for other services, and direct 15

savings in energy and energy-related costs. 16

(3) The stream of payments shall cover the pe-17

riod covered by the contracts but not to exceed 25 18

years. 19

(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 20

‘‘covered energy savings contract’’ means— 21

(1) an energy savings performance contract au-22

thorized under section 801 of the National Energy 23

Conservation Policy Act; or 24

(2) a utility energy service contract, as de-25

scribed in the Office of Management and Budget 26



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Memorandum on Federal use of energy savings per-1

formance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 (M–98– 2

13), and the Office of Management and Budget 3

Memorandum on the Federal use of energy saving 4

performance contracts and utility energy service con-5

tracts, dated September 28, 2012 (M–12–21), or 6

any successor to either memorandum. 7

(d) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-8

TIVES.—In the House of Representatives, if any present 9

value calculated under subsection (b) results in a net sav-10

ings, then such savings may not be used as an offset for 11

purposes of budget enforcement. 12

(e) CLASSIFICATION OF SPENDING.—For purposes of 13

budget enforcement, the estimated net present value of the 14

budget authority provided by the measure, and outlays 15

flowing therefrom, shall be classified as direct spending. 16

(f) SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 17

It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 18

(1) the Director of the Office of Management 19

and Budget, in consultation with the Director of the 20

Congressional Budget Office, should separately iden-21

tify the cash flows under subsection (b)(2) and in-22

clude such information in the President’s annual 23

budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, 24

United States Code; and 25



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(2) the scoring method used in this section 1

should not be used to score any contracts other than 2

covered energy savings contracts. 3

SEC. 312. ESTIMATES OF LAND CONVEYANCES. 4

In the House of Representatives, the Director of the 5

Congressional Budget Office shall include in any estimate 6

prepared under section 402 of the Congressional Budget 7

Act of 1974 with respect to any measure that conveys 8

Federal land to any non-Federal entity— 9

(1) the methodology used to calculate such esti-10

mate; 11

(2) a detailed justification of its estimate of any 12

change in revenue, offsetting receipts, or offsetting 13

collections resulting from such conveyance; 14

(3) if requested by the chair of the Committee 15

on the Budget, any information provided by the Bu-16

reau of Land Management or other applicable Fed-17

eral agency, including the source and date of such 18

information, that supports the estimate of any 19

change in revenue, offsetting receipts, or offsetting 20

collections; 21

(4) a description of any efforts to independently 22

verify such agency estimate; and 23

(5) a statement of the assumptions underlying 24

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generated by such parcel in CBO’s baseline projec-1

tions as of the most recent publication or update. 2

SEC. 313. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL 3

FUND OF THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY 4

TRUST FUND. 5

In the House of Representatives, for purposes of the 6

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget 7

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the rules 8

or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint 9

resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report 10

thereon, that transfers funds from the general fund of the 11

Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall be counted as 12

new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of 13

the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer occurs. 14

SEC. 314. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF GUARANTEE FEES 15

AS AN OFFSET. 16

In the House of Representatives, any provision of a 17

bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or con-18

ference report thereon, that increases, or extends the in-19

crease of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National 20

Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mort-21

gage Corporation shall not be counted for purposes of en-22

forcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this con-23

current resolution, or clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules 24

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SEC. 315. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL RESERVE 1

SURPLUSES AS AN OFFSET. 2

In the House of Representatives, any provision of a 3


ference report thereon, that transfers any portion of the 5

net surplus of the Federal Reserve System to the general 6

fund of the Treasury shall not be counted for purposes 7

of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this 8

concurrent resolution, or clause 10 of rule XXI of the 9

Rules of the House of Representatives. 10

Subtitle B—Other Provisions 11

SEC. 321. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE 12

EXPENSES. 13

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, 14

notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional 15

Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforce-16

ment Act of 1990, and section 2009a of title 39, United 17

States Code, the report or the joint explanatory statement, 18

as applicable, accompanying this concurrent resolution 19

shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the 20

Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on 21

Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administra-22

tive expenses of the Social Security Administration and 23

the United States Postal Service. 24

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the House of Representa-25

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gressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the level of 1

total new budget authority and total outlays provided by 2

a measure shall include any discretionary amounts de-3

scribed in subsection (a). 4

SEC. 322. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLO-5

CATIONS AND AGGREGATES. 6

(a) APPLICATION.—In the House of Representatives, 7

any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made pur-8

suant to this concurrent resolution shall— 9

(1) apply while that measure is under consider-10

ation; 11

(2) take effect upon the enactment of that 12

measure; and 13

(3) be published in the Congressional Record as 14

soon as practicable. 15

(b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AG-16

GREGATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting 17

from these adjustments shall be considered for the pur-18

poses of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as the allo-19

cations and aggregates contained in this concurrent reso-20

lution. 21

(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For 22

purposes of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary lev-23

els for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be deter-24

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Committee on the Budget of the House of Representa-1

tives. 2

(d) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICA-3

TION.—In the House of Representatives, for purposes of 4

this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement, the 5

consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment 6

thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair 7

of the Committee on the Budget makes adjustments or 8

revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other budg-9

etary levels of this concurrent resolution shall not be sub-10

ject to the points of order set forth in clause 10 of rule 11

XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives or sec-12

tion 301 of this concurrent resolution. 13

SEC. 323. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CON-14

CEPTS AND DEFINITIONS. 15


Committee on the Budget may adjust the appropriate ag-17

gregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels in this 18

concurrent resolution for any change in budgetary con-19

cepts and definitions in accordance with section 251(b)(1) 20

of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 21

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SEC. 324. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT UPDATED BUDG-1

ETARY ESTIMATES. 2


Committee on the Budget may revise the appropriate ag-4

gregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels in this 5

concurrent resolution to reflect any adjustments to the 6

baseline made by the Congressional Budget Office in 7

March 2016. 8

SEC. 325. ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN EMERGENCY DES-9

IGNATIONS. 10


Committee on the Budget may adjust the appropriate ag-12

gregates, allocations, and other budgetary levels for any 13


ference report thereon, that designates an emergency 15

under section 4(g)(2) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act 16

of 2010. 17

SEC. 326. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 18

The House of Representatives adopts the provisions 19

of this title, title II, and title VII— 20

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 21

the House of Representatives, and as such they shall 22

be considered as part of the rules of the House of 23

Representatives, and such rules shall supersede 24

other rules only to the extent that they are incon-25

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(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 1

right of the House of Representatives to change 2

those rules at any time, in the same manner, and to 3

the same extent as is the case of any other rule of 4

the House of Representatives. 5

TITLE IV—ESTIMATES OF 6

DIRECT SPENDING 7

SEC. 401. DIRECT SPENDING. 8

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 9

(1) For means-tested direct spending, the aver-10

age rate of growth in the total level of outlays dur-11

ing the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2017 is 12

7.3 percent. 13

(2) For means-tested direct spending, the esti-14

mated average rate of growth in the total level of 15

outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fis-16

cal year 2017 is 4.3 percent under current law. 17

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this 18

concurrent resolution for means-tested direct spend-19

ing: 20

(A) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a 21

Democratic president reformed welfare by lim-22

iting the duration of benefits, giving States 23

more control over the program, and helping re-24

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passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare case-1

loads fell, and workers’ wages increased. This 2

resolution applies the lessons of welfare reform 3

to other means-tested programs. 4

(B) For Medicaid, this resolution rec-5

ommends the conversion of the Federal share of 6

Medicaid spending into a flexible State allot-7

ment tailored to meet each State’s needs. Such 8

a reform would end the misguided one-size-fits- 9

all approach that has tied the hands of State 10

governments. Instead, each State would have 11

the freedom and flexibility to tailor a Medicaid 12

program that fits the needs of its unique popu-13

lation. Moreover, this resolution assumes the re-14

peal of the Medicaid expansions in the Presi-15

dent’s health care law, relieving State govern-16

ments of its crippling enrollment mandates. 17

This resolution recommends establishing a 18

work-activiation requirement for Medicaid. 19

(C) For the Supplemental Nutrition As-20

sistance Program, recommends conversion from 21

direct spending to a discretionary program sub-22

ject to appropriation. Pending this reform, this 23

resolution assumes the conversion of the pro-24

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meet each State’s needs. Such a reform would 1

provide incentives for States to ensure dollars 2

will go towards those who need them most. Ad-3

ditionally, it requires that more stringent work 4

requirements and time limits apply under the 5

program. 6

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— 7

(1) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the 8

average rate of growth in the total level of outlays 9

during the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2017 10

is 5.1 percent. 11

(2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the 12

estimated average rate of growth in the total level of 13

outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fis-14

cal year 2017 is 5.5 percent under current law. 15

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this 16

concurrent resolution for nonmeans-tested direct 17

spending: 18

(A) For Medicare, this resolution advances 19

policies to put seniors, not the Federal Govern-20

ment, in control of their health care decisions. 21

Retirees would be given a choice of private 22

plans competing alongside the traditional fee- 23

for-service Medicare program. Medicare would 24

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pay for or offset the premium of the plan cho-1

sen by the senior, depending on the plan’s cost. 2

The Medicare premium-support payment would 3

be adjusted so that the sick would receive high-4

er payments if their conditions worsened; lower- 5

income seniors would receive additional assist-6

ance to help cover out-of-pocket costs; and 7

wealthier seniors would assume responsibility 8

for a greater share of their premiums. Putting 9

seniors in charge of how their health care dol-10

lars are spent will force providers to compete 11

against each other on price and quality. This 12

market competition will act as a real check on 13

widespread waste and skyrocketing health care 14

costs. 15

(B) In keeping with a recommendation 16

from the National Commission on Fiscal Re-17

sponsibility and Reform, this resolution calls for 18

Federal employees—including Members of Con-19

gress and congressional staff—to make greater 20

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TITLE V—RESERVE FUNDS 1

SEC. 501. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE 2010 2

HEALTH CARE LAWS. 3

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the 4

Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 5

appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution for the 6

budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amend-7

ment thereto or conference report thereon, that only con-8

sists of a full repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable 9

Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the 10

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 11

SEC. 502. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE RE-12

PLACEMENT OF OBAMACARE. 13





ment thereto or conference report thereon, replaces the 18

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health 19

Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such 20

measure would not increase the deficit for the period of 21

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SEC. 503. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO 1

THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE 2010 2

HEALTH CARE LAWS. 3





ment thereto or conference report thereon, that repeals all 8

or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in 9

the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the 10

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, 11

if such measure would not increase the deficit for the pe-12

riod of fiscal years 2017 through 2026. 13

SEC. 504. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM-14

ING THE TAX CODE. 15

In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means 16

reports a bill or joint resolution that reforms the Internal 17

Revenue Code of 1986, the chair of the Committee on the 18



budgetary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or 21

amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such 22

measure would not increase the deficit for the period of 23

fiscal years 2017 through 2026 when the macroeconomic 24

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SEC. 505. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE 1

AGREEMENTS. 2




budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported 6

by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment 7

thereto or conference report thereon, that such chair de-8

termines are necessary to implement a trade agreement, 9

and the budgetary levels for any companion measure that 10

offsets such trade measure, if the combined cost of each 11

measure would not increase the deficit over the period of 12

fiscal years 2017 through 2026. 13

SEC. 506. RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES. 14




budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported 18

by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment 19

thereto or conference report thereon, that decreases rev-20

enue. 21

SEC. 507. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRANS-22

PORTATION REFORM. 23



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thereon, if such measure reforms the Federal transpor-2

tation funding system, but only if such measure would not 3

increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2017 4

through 2026. 5

SEC. 508. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE 6

POVERTY AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY AND 7

UPWARD MOBILITY. 8



appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill or joint 11


thereon, if such measure reforms policies and programs 13

to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward 14

mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely 15

impact job creation nor increase the deficit over the period 16

of fiscal years 2017 through 2026. 17

SEC. 509. IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEFICIT AND LONG- 18

TERM DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT. 19



appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution to accom-22

modate the enactment of a deficit and long-term debt re-23

duction agreement if it includes permanent spending re-24

ductions and reforms to direct spending programs. 25



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SEC. 510. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE ACCOUNT FOR RE-1

FORMING SNAP. 2





ment thereto or conference report thereon, that reforms 7

the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), 8

but only if such measure would not increase the deficit 9

for the period of fiscal years 2017 through 2026. 10

SEC. 511. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR SOCIAL 11

SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE REFORM. 12





ment thereto or conference report thereon, that reforms 17

the Social Security Disability Insurance program under 18

title II of the Social Security Act, but only if such measure 19

would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 20

2017 through 2026. 21

SEC. 512. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL 22

RETIREMENT REFORM. 23



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or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference 1

report thereon, if such measure reforms, improves and up-2

dates the Federal retirement system, as determined by 3

such chair, but only if such measure would not increase 4

the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2017 through 5

2026. 6

SEC. 513. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE 7

SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT. 8

The chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise 9

the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in 10

this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, 11

or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if 12

such measure supports the following activities: Depart-13

ment of Defense training and maintenance associated with 14

combat readiness, modernization of equipment, 15

auditability of financial statements, or military compensa-16

tion and benefit reforms, by the amount provided for these 17

purposes, but only if such measure would not increase the 18

deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in that 19

measure) over the period of fiscal years 2017 through 20

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TITLE VI—POLICY STATEMENTS 1

SEC. 601. POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE LAW RE-2

PEAL. 3

It is the policy of this resolution that the Patient Pro-4

tection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), 5

and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 6

2010 (Public Law 111–152) should be repealed. 7

SEC. 602. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPLACING THE PRESI-8

DENT’S HEALTH CARE LAW. 9

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 10

(1) The President’s health care law put Wash-11

ington’s priorities before those of patients’. The Af-12

fordable Care Act (ACA) has failed to reduce health 13

care premiums as promised. Instead, the law man-14

dated benefits and coverage levels, denying patients 15

the opportunity to choose the type of coverage that 16

best suits their health needs and driving up health 17

coverage costs. A typical family’s health care pre-18

miums were supposed to decline by $2,500; instead, 19

average premiums have increased by $3,775. A re-20

cent study conducted by the nonpartisan Congres-21

sional Budget Office (CBO) estimates premiums to 22

continue rising over the next decade, projecting an 23

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and 2018, and increasing by nearly 60 percent by 1

2026. 2

(2) The President pledged, ‘‘If you like your 3

health care plan, you can keep your health care 4

plan.’’ Instead, CBO now estimates 7 million Ameri-5

cans will lose employment-based health coverage due 6

to the President’s health care law, further limiting 7

patient choice. 8

(3) Then-Speaker of the House Pelosi stated 9

that the President’s health care law would create 4 10

million jobs over the life of the law and almost 11

400,000 jobs immediately. Instead, CBO estimates 12

that by 2025 Obamacare will reduce the number of 13

hours worked by approximately 2 million full-time 14

equivalent workers, mostly lower wage workers, com-15

pared with what would have occurred in the absence 16

of the law. Additionally, a study by the Mercatus 17

Center at George Mason University estimates that 18

Obamacare will reduce employment by up to 3 per-19

cent, or about 4 million full-time equivalent workers. 20

(4) The President has charged the Independent 21

Payment Advisory Board, a panel of unelected bu-22

reaucrats, with cutting Medicare by an additional 23

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(5) Since the ACA was signed into law, the ad-1

ministration has repeatedly failed to implement it as 2

written. The President’s unilateral actions have re-3

sulted in 43 changes, delays, and exemptions. The 4

President has signed into law another 24 changes 5

made by Congress. The Supreme Court struck down 6

the forced expansion of Medicaid; ruled the indi-7

vidual ‘‘mandate’’ could only be characterized as a 8

tax to remain constitutional; and rejected the re-9

quirement that closely held companies provide health 10

insurance to their employees even if it violates the 11

companies’ religious beliefs. More than 5 years after 12

enactment, the Supreme Court continues to evaluate 13

the legality of how the President’s administration 14

has implemented the law. All of these changes prove 15

the folly of the underlying law; health care in the 16

United States cannot be run from a centralized bu-17

reaucracy. 18

(6) The President’s health care law is 19

unaffordable, intrusive, overreaching, destructive, 20

and unworkable. Its complex structure of subsidies, 21

mandates, and penalties perversely impact individ-22

uals, married couples, and families. Those who pre-23

viously had insurance along with those who did not 24

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viding less access to doctors and treatments. Millions 1

of Americans have been added to a broken Medicaid 2

system that is incapable of providing the care prom-3

ised. Cuts made to Medicare to fund a new entitle-4

ment are undermining the health security of seniors. 5

Taxes and mandates are distorting the insurance 6

market and harming the broader economy, resulting 7

in fewer jobs and less opportunity. By design, the 8

President’s law puts Washington at the center of 9

our health care system, at the expense of patients, 10

families, physicians, and businesses. The ACA 11

should be fully repealed, allowing for real patient- 12

centered health care reform that puts patients first, 13

not Washington, DC. 14

(b) POLICY ON REPLACING THE PRESIDENT’S 15

HEALTH CARE LAW.—It is the policy of this resolution 16

that the President’s health care law must not only be re-17

pealed, but also replaced by enacting the American Health 18

Care Reform Act. 19

SEC. 603. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 20


(1) More than 50 million Americans depend on 22

Medicare for their health security. 23

(2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeat-24

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cial challenges be addressed soon. Each year without 1

reform, the financial condition of Medicare becomes 2

more precarious and the threat to those in or near 3

retirement becomes more pronounced. According to 4

the Medicare Trustees Report— 5

(A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund 6

will be exhausted in 2030 and unable to pay 7

scheduled benefits; 8

(B) Medicare enrollment is expected to in-9

crease by over 50 percent in the next two dec-10

ades, as 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement 11

age each day; 12

(C) enrollees remain in Medicare three 13

times longer than at the outset of the program; 14

(D) current workers’ payroll contributions 15

pay for current beneficiaries; 16

(E) in 2013, the ratio was 3.2 workers per 17

beneficiary, but this falls to 2.3 in 2030 and 18

continues to decrease over time; 19

(F) most Medicare beneficiaries receive 20

about three dollars in Medicare benefits for 21

every one dollar paid into the program; and 22

(G) Medicare is growing faster than the 23

economy at a projected rate of 6 percent per 24

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care spending will reach nearly $1.3 trillion, al-1

most double the 2015 spending level of $634 2

billion. 3

(3) Failing to address this problem will leave 4

millions of American seniors without adequate health 5

security and younger generations burdened with 6

enormous debt to pay for spending levels that cannot 7

be sustained. 8

(b) POLICY ON MEDICARE REFORM.—It is the policy 9

of this resolution to protect those in or near retirement 10

from any disruptions to their Medicare benefits and offer 11

future beneficiaries the same health care options available 12

to Members of Congress. 13

(c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes reform 14

of the Medicare program such that: 15

(1) Medicare is preserved for current and fu-16

ture beneficiaries. 17

(2) Medicare is reformed to provide a premium 18

support payment and a selection of guaranteed 19

health coverage options from which recipients can 20

choose a plan that best suits their needs. 21

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(4) Medicare will provide additional assistance 1

for lower-income beneficiaries and those with greater 2

health risks. 3

(5) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable 4

path and the Medicare program becomes solvent 5

over the long-term. 6

(6) The Medicare eligibility age is gradually in-7

creased to keep pace with increases in longevity. 8

(7) Medicare is simplified by combining parts A 9

and B and reforms to Medigap plans are imple-10

mented. 11

SEC. 604. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAID STATE FLEXI-12

BILITY BLOCK GRANTS. 13

It is the policy of this resolution that Medicaid and 14

the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should 15

be block granted to the States in a manner prescribed by 16

the State Health Flexibility Act. 17

SEC. 605. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 18


(1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals 20

with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Se-21

curity. Since enactment, Social Security has served 22

as a vital leg on the ‘‘three-legged stool’’ of retire-23

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(2) The Social Security Trustees Report has re-1

peatedly recommended that Social Security’s long- 2

term financial challenges be addressed soon. Each 3

year without reform, the financial condition of Social 4

Security becomes more precarious and the threat to 5

seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 6

benefits becomes more pronounced: 7

(A) In 2022, the Disability Insurance 8

Trust Fund will be exhausted and program rev-9

enues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 10

(B) In 2034, the combined Old-Age and 11

Survivors and Disability Trust Funds will be 12

exhausted, and program revenues will be unable 13

to pay scheduled benefits. 14

(C) With the exhaustion of the Trust 15

Funds in 2034, benefits will be cut nearly 25 16

percent across the board, devastating those cur-17

rently in or near retirement and those who rely 18

on Social Security the most. 19

(3) The recession and continued low economic 20

growth have exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis 21

facing Social Security. The most recent CBO projec-22

tions find that Social Security will run cash deficits 23

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(4) Lower-income Americans rely on Social Se-1

curity for a larger proportion of their retirement in-2

come. Therefore, reforms should take into consider-3

ation the need to protect lower-income Americans’ 4

retirement security. 5

(5) The Disability Insurance program provides 6

an essential income safety net for those with disabil-7

ities and their families. According to the Congres-8

sional Budget Office (CBO), between 1970 and 9

2012, the number of people receiving disability bene-10

fits (both disabled workers and their dependent fam-11

ily members) has increased by over 300 percent 12

from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. This increase 13

is not due strictly to population growth or decreases 14

in health. David Autor and Mark Duggan have 15

found that the increase in individuals on disability 16

does not reflect a decrease in self-reported health. 17

CBO attributes program growth to changes in demo-18

graphics, changes in the composition of the labor 19

force and compensation, as well as Federal policies. 20

(6) If this program is not reformed, families 21

who rely on the lifeline that disability benefits pro-22

vide will face benefit cuts of up to 25 percent in 23

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(7) In the past, Social Security has been re-1

formed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the 2

‘‘Greenspan Commission’’ which helped to address 3

Social Security shortfalls for over a generation. 4

(8) Americans deserve action by the President, 5

the House, and the Senate to preserve and strength-6

en Social Security. It is critical that bipartisan ac-7

tion be taken to address the looming insolvency of 8

Social Security. In this spirit, this resolution creates 9

a bipartisan opportunity to find solutions by requir-10

ing policymakers to ensure that Social Security re-11

mains a critical part of the safety net. 12

(b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the policy 13

of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipar-14

tisan basis to make Social Security sustainably solvent. 15

This resolution assumes these reforms will include the fol-16

lowing: 17

(1) Adoption of a more accurate measure for 18

calculating cost of living adjustments. 19

(2) Adoption of adjustments to the full retire-20

ment age to reflect longevity. 21

(3) Makes Social Security benefits more pro-22

gressive over the long term, providing those most in 23

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(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the 1

policy of this resolution that Congress and the President 2

should enact legislation on a bipartisan basis to reform 3

the Disability Insurance program prior to its insolvency 4

in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security retirement 5

system without reforms to the Disability Insurance sys-6

tem. This resolutions assumes that reforms to the Dis-7

ability Insurance program will include— 8

(1) encouraging work; 9

(2) updates of the eligibility rules; 10

(3) reducing fraud and abuse; and 11

(4) enactment of H.R. 918, the Social Security 12

Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits 13

Double Dip Elimination Act, to prohibit individuals 14

from drawing benefits from both programs at the 15

same time. 16

SEC. 606. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEANS-TESTED WEL-17

FARE PROGRAMS. 18

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that: 19

(1) Too many people are trapped at the bottom 20

rungs of the economic ladder, and every citizen 21

should have the opportunity to rise, escape from 22

poverty, and achieve their own potential. 23

(2) In 1996, President Bill Clinton and con-24

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moved families off of Federal programs and enabled 1

them to provide for themselves. 2

(3) According to the most recent projections, 3

over the next 10 years we will spend approximately 4

$9.7 trillion on means-tested welfare programs. 5

(4) Today, there are approximately 92 Federal 6

programs that provide benefits specifically to poor 7

and low-income Americans. 8

(5) Taxpayers deserve clear and transparent in-9

formation on how well these programs are working, 10

and how much the Federal Government is spending 11

on means-tested welfare. 12

(6) It should be the goal of welfare programs 13

to encourage work and put people on a path to self- 14

reliance. 15

(b) POLICY ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PRO-16

GRAMS.—It is the policy of this resolution that— 17

(1) the welfare system should be reformed to 18

give states flexibility to implement and improve safe-19

ty net programs and that to be eligible for benefits, 20

able bodied adults without dependents should be re-21

quired to work or be preparing for work, including 22

enrolling in educational or job training programs, 23

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(2) the President’s budget should disclose, in a 1

clear and transparent manner, the aggregate amount 2

of Federal welfare expenditures, as well as an esti-3

mate of State and local spending for this purpose, 4

over the next ten years. 5

SEC. 607. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORM OF THE SUP-6

PLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PRO-7

GRAM. 8

(a) SNAP.—It is the policy of the resolution that the 9

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be reformed 10

so that: 11

(1) Nutrition assistance funds should be distrib-12

uted to the states as a block grant with funding sub-13

ject to the annual discretionary appropriations proc-14

ess. 15

(2) Funds from the grant must be used by the 16

states to establish and maintain a work activation 17

program for able-bodied adults without dependents. 18

(3) It is the goal of this proposal to move those 19

in need off of the assistance rolls and back into the 20

workforce and towards self-sufficiency. 21

(4) In the House, the chair of the Committee 22

on the Budget is permitted to revise allocations, ag-23

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(b) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes that, 1

pending the enactment of reforms described in (a), the 2

conversion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-3

gram into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet each 4

State’s needs. 5

SEC. 608. POLICY STATEMENT ON WORK REQUIREMENTS. 6

It is the policy of this resolution that all means-tested 7

welfare programs should include work activation require-8

ments for able-bodied adults. 9

SEC. 609. POLICY STATEMENT ON A CARBON TAX. 10

It is the policy of this resolution that a carbon tax 11

would be detrimental to American families and businesses, 12

and is not in the best interest of the United States. 13

SEC. 610. POLICY STATEMENT ON REGULATION OF GREEN-14

HOUSE GASES BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PRO-15

TECTION AGENCY. 16

It is the policy of this resolution that the Environ-17

mental Protection Agency should be prohibited from pro-18

mulgating any regulation concerning, taking action relat-19

ing to, or taking into consideration the emission of a 20

greenhouse gas to address climate change. 21

SEC. 611. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND 22

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(1) Across the Nation, too many Americans are 1

struggling to make ends meet. The slowly falling un-2

employment rate has masked an underlying crisis as 3

millions of Americans have abandoned the work 4

force and wages have stagnated. The labor force 5

participation rate has plummeted to levels not seen 6

since the Carter presidency. 7

(2) Looking ahead, CBO expects the economy 8

to grow by an average of just 2.1 percent over the 9

next 10 years. That level of economic growth is sim-10

ply unacceptable and insufficient to expand opportu-11

nities and the incomes of millions of middle-income 12

Americans. 13

(3) Sluggish economic growth has also contrib-14

uted to the country’s fiscal woes. Subpar growth 15

means that revenue levels are lower than they would 16

otherwise be while government spending (e.g. welfare 17

and income-support programs) is higher. Clearly, 18

there is a dire need for policies that will spark high-19

er rates of economic growth and greater, higher- 20

quality job opportunities 21

(4) Although job gains have been trending up 22

of late, other aspects of the labor market remain 23

weak. The labor force participation rate, for in-24

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the lowest level since 1978. Long-term unemploy-1

ment also remains a problem. Of the almost 8 mil-2

lion people who are currently unemployed, almost 3

2.2 million have been unemployed for more than 6 4

months. Long-term unemployment erodes an individ-5

ual’s job skills and detaches them from job opportu-6

nities. It also undermines the long-term productive 7

capacity of the economy. 8

(5) Perhaps most important, wage gains and in-9

come growth have been subpar for middle-class 10

Americans. Average hourly earnings of private-sector 11

workers have increased by just 2.4 percent over the 12

past year. Prior to the recession, average hourly 13

earnings were tracking close to 4 percent. Likewise, 14

average income levels have remained flat in recent 15

years. Real median household income is $53,657, 16

one of the lowest levels since 1995. 17

(6) The unsustainable fiscal trajectory has cast 18

a shadow on the country’s economic outlook. inves-19

tors and businesses make decisions on a forward- 20

looking basis. they know that today’s large debt lev-21

els are simply tomorrow’s tax hikes, interest rate in-22

creases, or inflation and they act accordingly. This 23

debt overhang, and the uncertainty it generates, can 24

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(7) Nearly all economists, including those at the 1

CBO, conclude that reducing budget deficits (there-2

by bending the curve on debt levels is a net positive 3

for economic growth over time. The logic is that def-4

icit reduction creates long-term economic benefits 5

because it increases the pool of national savings and 6

boosts investment, thereby raising economic growth 7

and job creation. 8

(8) CBO analyzed the House Republican fiscal 9

year 2016 budget resolution and found it would in-10

crease real output per capita (a proxy for a coun-11

try’s standard of living) by about $1,000 in 2025 12

and roughly $5,000 by 2040 relative to the baseline 13

path. That means more income and greater pros-14

perity for all Americans. 15

(9) In contrast, if the Government remains on 16

the current fiscal path, future generations will face 17

ever-higher debt service costs, a decline in national 18

savings, and a ‘‘crowding out’’ of private investment. 19

This dynamic will eventually lead to a decline in eco-20

nomic output and a diminution in our country’s 21

standard of living. 22

(10) The key economic challenge is determining 23

how to expand the economic pie, not how best to di-24

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(11) A stronger economy is vital to lowering 1

deficit levels and eventually balancing the budget. 2

According to CBO, if annual real GDP growth is 3

just 0.1 percentage point higher over the budget 4

window, deficits would be reduced by $327 billion. 5

(12) This budget resolution therefore embraces 6

pro-growth policies, such as fundamental tax reform, 7

that will help foster a stronger economy, greater op-8

portunities and more job creation. 9

(b) POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CRE-10

ATION.—It is the policy of this resolution to promote fast-11

er economic growth and job creation. By putting the budg-12

et on a sustainable path, this resolution ends the debt- 13

fueled uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to 14

the tax code will put American businesses and workers in 15

a better position to compete and thrive in the 21st century 16

global economy. This resolution targets the regulatory red 17

tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special 18

interests. All of the reforms in this resolution serve as 19

means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and 20

expanding opportunity for all Americans. 21

SEC. 612. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 22


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growth. The United States tax code fails on all 3 1

counts: it is complex, unfair, and inefficient. The tax 2

code’s complexity distorts decisions to work, save, 3

and invest, which leads to slower economic growth, 4

lower wages, and less job creation. 5

(2) Standard economic theory holds that high 6

marginal tax rates lessen the incentives to work, 7

save, and invest, which reduces economic output and 8

job creation. Lower economic output, in turn, mutes 9

the intended revenue gain from higher marginal tax 10

rates. 11

(3) Roughly half of United States active busi-12

ness income and half of private sector employment 13

are derived from business entities (such as partner-14

ships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships) that 15

are taxed on a ‘‘pass-through’’ basis, meaning the 16

income is taxed at individual rates rather than cor-17

porate rates. Small businesses, in particular, tend to 18

choose this form for Federal tax purposes, and the 19

highest Federal rate on such small business income 20

can reach nearly 45 percent. For these reasons, 21

sound economic policy requires lowering marginal 22

rates on these pass-through entities. 23

(4) The top United States corporate income tax 24

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slightly more than 39 percent, the highest rate in 1

the industrialized world. Tax rates this high sup-2

press wages, discourage investment and job creation, 3

distort business activity, and put American busi-4

nesses at a competitive disadvantage with foreign 5

competitors. 6

(5) By deterring potential investment, the 7

United States corporate tax restrains economic 8

growth and job creation. The United States tax rate 9

differential fosters a variety of complicated multi-10

national corporate practices intended to avoid the 11

tax, which have the effect of moving the tax base 12

offshore, destroying American jobs, and decreasing 13

corporate revenue. 14

(6) Recent and coming developments in the 15

global arena, specifically the Base Erosion and Prof-16

it Shifting (BEPS) project recommendations, height-17

en the importance of the need to reform and mod-18

ernize our international tax system so that American 19

businesses and workers are not disadvantaged. 20

(7) The ‘‘world-wide’’ structure of United 21

States international taxation essentially taxes earn-22

ings of United States firms twice, putting them at 23

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tors that have more competitive international tax 1

systems. 2

(8) Reforming the tax code would boost the 3

competitiveness of United States companies oper-4

ating abroad and significantly reduce tax avoidance. 5

(9) The tax code imposes costs on American 6

workers through lower wages, consumers in higher 7

prices, and investors in diminished returns. 8

(10) Increasing taxes to raise revenue and meet 9

out-of-control spending would sink the economy and 10

Americans’ ability to save for their children’s edu-11

cation and retirement. 12

(11) Closing tax loopholes to finance higher 13

spending does not constitute fundamental tax re-14

form. 15

(12) Tax reform should curb or eliminate loop-16

holes and use those savings to lower tax rates across 17

the board, not to fund more wasteful Government 18

spending. Washington has a spending problem, not 19

a revenue problem. 20

(13) Many economists believe that fundamental 21

tax reform, including a broader tax base and lower 22

tax rates, would lead to greater labor supply and in-23

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(b) POLICY ON TAX REFORM.—It is the policy of this 1

resolution that Congress should enact legislation that pro-2

vides for a comprehensive reform of the United States tax 3

code to promote economic growth, create American jobs, 4

increase wages, and benefit American consumers, inves-5

tors, and workers through fundamental tax reform that 6

is revenue-neutral on a dynamic basis that provides for 7

the following: 8

(1) Targets revenue neutrality (relative to 9

CBO’s baseline revenue projection) based on a dy-10

namic score that takes into account the macro-11

economic effects of reform. 12

(2) Collapses the current seven brackets for in-13

dividuals into just two, with a top rate of 25 per-14

cent. 15

(3) Simplifies the tax code to ensure that fewer 16

Americans will be required to itemize deductions. 17

(4) Gives equal tax treatment to individual and 18

employer healthcare expenditures modeled on the 19

American Health Care Reform Act. 20

(5) Encourages charitable giving. 21

(6) Repeals the Death Tax. 22

(7) Eliminates marriage penalties. 23

(8) Provides tax-free universal savings accounts 24

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(9) Exempts workers above the normal retire-1

ment age from the employee side payroll taxes. 2

(10) Eliminates marriage penalties and encour-3

ages families. 4

(11) Repeals the alternative minimum tax. 5

(12) Reduces double taxation by lowering the 6

top corporate rate to 25 percent. 7

(13) Sets a maximum rate for capital gains and 8

dividends at 15 percent. 9

(14) Encourages net investment, savings, and 10

entrepreneurial activity, including full expensing. 11

(15) Moves to a competitive territorial system 12

of international taxation. 13

(16) Ends distortionary special interest give-14

aways, such as the Wind Production Tax Credit. 15

SEC. 613. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 16


(1) Opening foreign markets to American ex-18

ports is vital to the United States economy and ben-19

eficial to American workers and consumers. The 20

Commerce Department estimates that every $1 bil-21

lion of United States exports support more than 22

5,000 jobs here at home. 23

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through the elimination of foreign trade barriers to 1

United States goods and services. 2

(3) Trade agreements have saved the average 3

American family of four more than $10,000 per year 4

as a result of lower duties. Trade agreements also 5

lower the cost of manufacturing inputs by removing 6

duties. 7

(4) American businesses and workers have 8

shown that, on a level playing field, they can excel 9

and surpass international competition. 10

(5) When negotiating trade agreements, United 11

States laws on Intellectual Property (IP) protection 12

should be used as a benchmark for establishing glob-13

al IP frameworks. Strong IP protections have sig-14

nificantly contributed to the United States’ status as 15

a world leader in innovation across sectors (includ-16

ing in the development of life-saving biologic medi-17

cines). The data protections afforded to biologics 18

under Federal law, including 12 years of data pro-19

tection, allow continued development of pioneering 20

medicines to benefit patients both in the United 21

States and abroad. To maintain the cycle of innova-22

tion and achieve 21st century trade agreements, it 23

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(b) POLICY ON TRADE.—It is the policy of this con-1

current resolution— 2

(1) to pursue international trade, global com-3

merce, and a modern and competitive tax system to 4

promote domestic job creation; 5

(2) that the United States should continue to 6

seek increased economic opportunities for American 7

workers and businesses through high-standard trade 8

agreements that satisfy negotiating objectives, in-9

cluding— 10

(A) the expansion of trade opportunities; 11

(B) adherence to trade agreements and 12

rules by the United States and its trading part-13

ners, and 14

(C) the elimination of foreign trade bar-15

riers to United States goods and services by 16

opening new markets and enforcing United 17

States rights; and 18

(3) that any trade agreement entered into on 19

behalf of the United States should reflect the negoti-20

ating objectives and adhere to the provisions requir-21

ing improved consultation with Congress. 22

SEC. 614. POLICY STATEMENT ON ENERGY PRODUCTION. 23

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areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) should be 1

open for energy exploration and production. To ensure 2

States’ rights, states are given the option to withdrawal 3

from leasing within certain areas of the OCS. Specifically, 4

a State, through enactment of a State statute, may with-5

drawal from leasing from all or part of any area within 6

75 miles of that State’s coast. 7

SEC. 615. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY 8

BUDGETING AND REFORM. 9


(1) Excessive Federal regulation— 11

(A) has hurt job creation, investment, 12

wages, competition, and economic growth, slow-13

ing the Nation’s recovery from the economic re-14

cession and harming American households; 15

(B) operates as a regressive tax on poor 16

and lower-income households; 17

(C) displaces workers into long-term unem-18

ployment or lower-paying jobs; 19

(D) adversely affects small businesses, the 20

primary source of new jobs; and 21

(E) impedes the economic growth nec-22

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(2) Federal agencies routinely fail to identify 1

and eliminate, minimize, or mitigate excess regu-2

latory costs through post-implementation assess-3

ments of their regulations. 4

(3) The estimated cost of Federal regulations 5

are as high as $1.88 to $2.03 trillion per year. 6

(4) The estimated annual level of Federal regu-7

latory costs— 8

(A) equals roughly $15,000 per United 9

States household, or 30 percent of average 10

household income; 11

(B) exceeds both individual and corporate 12

Federal income rates; and 13

(C) exceeded 11 percent of United States 14

gross domestic product in 2015. 15

(5) If regulatory costs represented an inde-16

pendent economy, the estimated annual level of these 17

costs would qualify as one of the world’s top 10 18

economies, ranking between India and Russia, 19

roughly equaling one-half of Germany’s economy and 20

40 percent of Japan’s economy. 21

(6) Since President Obama’s inauguration in 22

2009, the administration has issued more than 23

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umentation in the Federal Register, including 1

81,910 pages in 2015. 2

(7) Since 2009, the White House has imposed 3

more than $728 billion in additional Federal regu-4

latory costs, with over $100 billion in further costs 5

proposed since the beginning of 2015. 6

(8) The United States Code of Federal Regula-7

tions now contains over 175,000 pages of regula-8

tions in 235 volumes. 9

(9) Notwithstanding the size and growth of 10

Federal regulations, Congress lacks an effective 11

mechanism to manage the level of new Federal regu-12

latory costs imposed each year. Other nations, mean-13

while, have successfully implemented the use of reg-14

ulatory budgeting to control excess regulation and 15

regulatory costs. 16

(10) Federal regulatory agencies routinely fail 17

to analyze both the costs and benefits of new regula-18

tions. 19

(11) While the Obama administration has rou-20

tinely failed to analyze both the costs and benefits 21

of its new regulations, the United States has experi-22

enced zero real wage growth since 2007. 23

(12) While the Obama administration has 24

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produced the weakest recovery from economic reces-1

sion since World War II. 2

(13) If the Obama administration had produced 3

even an average recovery, Americans would have six 4

million more jobs. Instead, labor force participation 5

is near historic lows and over 90 million Americans 6

over the age of 16 are out of the workforce. 7

(14) Dodd-Frank (Public Law 111–203) alone 8

has resulted in more than $39.3 billion in regulatory 9

compliance costs and has imposed as much as 76.6 10

million hours of proposed and final regulatory com-11

pliance paperwork on job creators. 12

(15) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act 13

has resulted in 177.9 million annual hours of regu-14

latory compliance paperwork, $37.1 billion of regu-15

latory compliance costs on the private sector, and 16

$13 billion in regulatory compliance costs on the 17

States. 18

(16) Agencies impose costly regulations without 19

relying on sound science through the use of judicial 20

consent decrees and settlement agreements and the 21

abuse of interim compliance costs imposed on regu-22

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(17) The highest regulatory costs come from 1

rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency 2

(EPA). Among major new and proposed EPA regu-3

lations are those that would vastly expand EPA’s 4

control of land use through Clean Water Act permit-5

ting programs, commonly referred to as the Waters 6

of the United States (WOTUS) rule; limit develop-7

ment in counties in nearly every State under Clean 8

Air Act ozone regulations; and impose a de-facto ban 9

on new United States coal-fired power plants. 10

(18) EPA’s power plant rules exemplify the im-11

pact of excessive regulation. 12

(19) In June 2014, the EPA proposed a rule to 13

cut carbon pollution from the Nation’s power plants. 14

The proposed standards are unachievable with cur-15

rent commercially available technology, resulting in 16

a de-facto ban on new coal-fired power plants. 17

(20) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly 40 18

percent of the United States electricity at a low cost. 19

Unfairly targeting the coal industry with costly and 20

unachievable regulations will increase energy prices, 21

disproportionately disadvantaging energy-intensive 22

industries like manufacturing and construction. This 23

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come and middle class families already struggling to 1

pay their bills. 2

(21) Three hundred thirty coal units are pro-3

posed for retirement or conversion as a result of 4

EPA regulations. Combined with the defacto prohi-5

bition on new plants, these retirements and conver-6

sions may further increase the cost of electricity. 7

(22) A recent study by Energy Ventures Anal-8

ysis Inc., an energy market analysis group, estimates 9

the average energy bill in West Virginia will rise 10

$750 per household by 2020, due in part to EPA 11

regulations. West Virginia receives 95 percent of its 12

electricity from coal. 13

(23) The Heritage Foundation found that a 14

phase out of coal would cost 600,000 jobs by the end 15

of 2023, resulting in an aggregate gross domestic 16

product decrease of $2.23 trillion over the entire pe-17

riod and reducing the income of a family of 4 by 18

$1,200 per year. Of these jobs, 330,000 will come 19

from the manufacturing sector, with California, 20

Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New 21

York, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and 22

Georgia seeing the highest job losses. 23

(b) POLICY ON FEDERAL REGULATORY BUDGETING 24

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tion that the House should, in consultation with the pub-1

lic, consider legislation that— 2

(1) promotes— 3

(A) economic growth, job creation, higher 4

wages, and increased investment by eliminating 5

unnecessary red tape and streamlining, simpli-6

fying and lowering the costs of Federal regula-7

tions; and 8

(B) the adoption of least-cost regulatory 9

alternatives to meet the objectives of Federal 10

regulatory statutes; 11

(2) protects— 12

(A) the poor and lower-income households 13

from the regressive effects of excessive regula-14

tion; and 15

(B) workers against the unnecessary elimi-16

nation of jobs and loss or reduction of wages; 17

(3) requires— 18

(A) an annual, congressional regulatory 19

budget that establishes annual costs of regula-20

tions and allocates these costs amongst Federal 21

regulatory agencies; 22

(B) cost-benefit and regulatory impact 23

analysis for new regulations proposed and pro-24

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(C) advance notice of proposed rulemaking 1

and makes evidentiary hearings available for 2

critical disputed issues in the development of 3

new major regulations; 4

(D) congressional approval of all new 5

major regulations before the regulations can be-6

come effective, ensuring that Congress can bet-7

ter prevent the imposition of unsound costly 8

new regulations; and 9

(E) post-implementation cost-benefit anal-10

ysis of all new major regulations on at least a 11

decennial basis, to ensure that regulations oper-12

ate as intended and impose no more costs than 13

necessary; 14

(4) strengthens— 15

(A) requirements to assure the use and 16

disclosure of sound science, including models, 17

data, and other evidentiary information in the 18

development of new regulations; 19

(B) transparency in regulatory develop-20

ment and improves opportunities for hearings 21

on disputed issues in high-cost major rule-22

making; 23

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major regulations on small businesses, the pri-1

mary source of new jobs; 2

(D) judicial review of legal, scientific, tech-3

nical, and cost-benefit determinations made by 4

Federal regulatory agencies to support the pro-5

mulgation of new regulations; 6

(E) protections against unnecessary or 7

abusive imposition of regulatory compliance 8

costs during litigation challenging the promul-9

gation of new, high-cost major regulation; 10

(F) protections against the abuse of regu-11

latory consent decrees and settlement agree-12

ments to force the unfair imposition of new reg-13

ulations; and 14

(G) protections against the abuse of in-15

terim rulemaking; 16

(5) reduces— 17

(A) regulatory barriers to entry into mar-18

kets and other regulatory impediments to com-19

petition and innovation; and 20

(B) the imposition of new Federal regula-21

tion that duplicates, overlaps or conflicts with 22

State, local, and Tribal regulation or that im-23

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(6) eliminates the abuse of guidance to evade 1

legal requirements applicable to the development and 2

promulgation of new regulations. 3

SEC. 616. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL FUNDING OF 4

ABORTION. 5

It is the policy of this resolution that no taxpayer dol-6

lars shall go to any entity that provides abortion services. 7

SEC. 617. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRANSPORTATION RE-8

FORM. 9

It is the policy of this resolution that State and local 10

officials are in a much better position to understand the 11

needs of local commuters, not bureaucrats in Washington. 12

Federal funding for transportation should be phased down 13

and limited to core Federal duties, including the interstate 14

highway system, transportation infrastructure on Federal 15

land, responding to emergencies, and research. As the level 16

of Federal responsibility for transportation is reduced, 17

Congress should also concurrently reduce the Federal gas 18

tax. 19

SEC. 618. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF 20

VETERANS AFFAIRS. 21


(1) For years, there has been serious concern 23

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bureaucratic mismanagement and continuous failure 1

to provide veterans timely access to health care. 2

(2) In 2015, for the first time, VA health care 3

was added to Government Accountability Office’s 4

(GAO) ‘‘high-risk’’ list, due to mismanagement and 5

oversight failures, which have resulted in untimely 6

and inefficient health care. According to GAO, ‘‘the 7

absence of care and delays in providing care have 8

harmed veterans.’’. 9

(3) The VA’s failure to provide timely and ac-10

cessible health care to our veterans is unacceptable. 11

While Congress has done its part for more than a 12

decade by providing sufficient funding for the VA, 13

the administration has mismanaged these resources, 14

resulting in proven adverse effects on veterans and 15

their families. 16

(b) POLICY ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-17

FAIRS.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution 18

that— 19

(1) the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 20

continue its oversight efforts to ensure the VA reas-21

sesses its core mission, including— 22

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(B) reducing the number of senior and 1

middle managers; 2

(C) streamlining the disciplinary process; 3

(D) improving performance measure 4

metrics; 5

(E) strengthening the administration and 6

oversight of contractors; and 7

(F) supporting opportunities for veterans 8

to pursue other viable options for their health 9

care needs; and 10

(2) the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 11

and the Committee on the Budget should continue 12

to closely monitor the VA’s progress to ensure VA 13

resources are sufficient and efficiently provided to 14

veterans. 15

SEC. 619. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECES-16

SARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED 17

SPENDING. 18


(1) The Government Accountability Office 20

(GAO) is required by law to identify examples of 21

waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, 22

and has so identified dozens of such examples. 23

(2) In its report to Congress on Government 24

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eral has stated that addressing the identified waste, 1

duplication, and overlap in Federal programs could 2

‘‘lead to tens of billions of dollars of additional sav-3

ings.’’ 4

(3) In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 the GAO 5

issued reports showing excessive duplication and re-6

dundancy in Federal programs including— 7

(A) two hundred nine Science, Technology, 8

Engineering, and Mathematics education pro-9

grams in 13 different Federal agencies at a cost 10

of $3 billion annually; 11

(B) two hundred separate Department of 12

Justice crime prevention and victim services 13

grant programs with an annual cost of $3.9 bil-14

lion in 2010; 15

(C) twenty different Federal entities ad-16

minister 160 housing programs and other forms 17

of Federal assistance for housing with a total 18

cost of $170 billion in 2010; 19

(D) seventeen separate Homeland Security 20

preparedness grant programs that spent $37 21

billion between fiscal year 2011 and 2012; 22

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(F) ninety-four different initiatives run by 1

11 different agencies to encourage ‘‘green build-2

ing’’ in the private sector; and 3

(G) twenty-three agencies implemented ap-4

proximately 670 renewable energy initiatives in 5

fiscal year 2010 at a cost of nearly $15 billion. 6

(4) The Federal Government spends more than 7

$80 billion each year for approximately 1,400 infor-8

mation technology investments. GAO has identified 9

broad acquisition failures, waste, and unnecessary 10

duplication in the Government’s information tech-11

nology infrastructure. experts have estimated that 12

eliminating these problems could save 25 percent or 13

$20 billion. 14

(5) GAO has identified strategic sourcing as a 15

potential source of spending reductions. In 2011 16

GAO estimated that saving 10 percent of the total 17

or all Federal procurement could generate more than 18

$50 billion in savings annually. 19

(6) Federal agencies reported an estimated 20

$106 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 21

2013. 22

(7) Under clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of 23

the House of Representatives, each standing com-24

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120 day period following its establishment on waste, 1

fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government pro-2

grams. 3

(8) More than $310 billion has been appro-4

priated for unauthorized programs in fiscal year 5

2016, spanning 256 separate laws. 6

(9) The findings resulting from congressional 7

oversight of Federal Government programs should 8

result in programmatic changes in both authorizing 9

statutes and program funding levels. 10

(b) POLICY ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTE-11

FUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING.— 12

(1) Each authorizing committee annually 13

should include in its Views and Estimates letter re-14

quired under section 301(d) of the Congressional 15

Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the Com-16

mittee on the Budget of programs within the juris-17

diction of such committee whose funding should be 18

reduced or eliminated. 19

(2) Committees of jurisdiction should review all 20

unauthorized programs funded through annual ap-21

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(3) Committees should reauthorize those pro-1

grams that in the committees’ judgment should con-2

tinue to receive funding. 3

(4) For those programs not reauthorized by 4

committees, the House of Representatives should en-5

force the limitations on funding such unauthorized 6

programs in the House rules. If the strictures of the 7

rules are deemed to be too rapid in prohibiting 8

spending on unauthorized programs, then milder 9

measures should be adopted and enforced until a re-10

turn to the full prohibition of clause 2(a)(1) of rule 11

XXI of the Rules of the House. 12

SEC. 620. POLICY STATEMENT ON A BALANCED BUDGET 13

AMENDMENT. 14


(1) The Government will collect approximately 16

$3.4 trillion in taxes, but spend more than $3.9 tril-17

lion to maintain its operations, borrowing 14 cents 18

of every Federal dollar spent. 19

(2) At the end of 2015, the national debt of the 20

United States was more than $18.9 trillion. 21

(3) A majority of States have petitioned the 22

Government to hold a constitutional convention to 23

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(4) Forty nine States have fiscal limitations in 1

their State constitutions, including the requirement 2

to annually balance the budget. 3

(5) Numerous balanced budget amendment pro-4

posals have been introduced on a bipartisan basis in 5

the House. Currently in the 114th Congress, 17 6

joint resolutions proposing a balanced budget 7

amendment have been introduced, including a reso-8

lution offered by Representative Dave Brat of Vir-9

ginia and a resolution offered by Representative 10

Tom McClintock of California. 11

(6) In the 111th Congress, the House consid-12

ered H. J. Res. 2, sponsored by Representative Rob-13

ert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, although it received 14

262 aye votes, it did not receive the two-thirds re-15

quired for passage. 16

(7) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment to 17

the Constitution passed the House with bipartisan 18

support, but failed to pass by one vote in the United 19

States Senate. 20

(8) Four States, including Georgia, Alaska, 21

Mississippi, and North Dakota, have agreed to the 22

Compact for a Balanced Budget, which is seeking to 23

amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget 24

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(b) POLICY ON A BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITU-1

TIONAL AMENDMENT.—It is the policy of this concurrent 2

resolution that Congress should propose a balanced budget 3

constitutional amendment for ratification by the States. 4

SEC. 621. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION 5

THROUGH THE CANCELLATION OF UNOBLI-6

GATED BALANCES. 7


(1) According to the most recent estimate from 9

the Office of Management and Budget, Federal 10

agencies held $896 billion in unobligated balances at 11

the end of fiscal year 2015. 12

(2) These funds comprise both discretionary ap-13

propriations and authorizations of mandatory spend-14

ing that remain available for expenditure. 15

(3) In many cases, agencies are provided appro-16

priations that remain indefinitely available for obli-17

gation. 18

(4) The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 re-19

quires the Office of Management and Budget to 20

make funds available to agencies for obligation and 21

prohibits the administration from withholding or 22

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(b) POLICY ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 1

CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—It is the 2

policy of this concurrent resolution that— 3

(1) greater congressional oversight is required 4

to review and identify potential savings from can-5

celing unobligated balances of funds that are no 6

longer needed; 7

(2) the appropriate committees in the House 8

should identify and review accounts with unobligated 9

balances and rescind such balances that would not 10

impede or disrupt the fulfillment of important Fed-11

eral commitments; 12

(3) the House, with the assistance of the Gov-13

ernment Accountability Office, the Inspectors Gen-14

eral, and appropriate agencies, should continue to 15

review unobligated balances and identify savings for 16

deficit reduction; and 17

(4) unobligated balances in dormant accounts 18

should not be used to finance increases in spending. 19

SEC. 622. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARD-20

SHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 21


(1) The budget for the House of Representa-23

tives is $188 million less than it was when Repub-24

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(2) The House of Representatives has achieved 1

significant savings by consolidating operations and 2

renegotiating contracts. 3

(b) POLICY ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF 4

TAXPAYER DOLLARS.—It is the policy of this resolution 5

that: 6

(1) The House of Representatives must be a 7

model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer re-8

sources and therefore must identify any savings that 9

can be achieved through greater productivity and ef-10

ficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of 11

House services and resources like printing, con-12

ferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, 13

grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should 14

include a review of policies and procedures for acqui-15

sition of goods and services to eliminate any unnec-16

essary spending. The Committee on House Adminis-17

tration should review the policies pertaining to the 18

services provided to Members and committees of the 19

House, and should identify ways to reduce any sub-20

sidies paid for the operation of the House gym, bar-21

ber shop, salon, and the House dining room. 22

(2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase 23

first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Mem-24

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(3) Retirement benefits for Members of Con-1

gress should not include free, taxpayer-funded health 2

care for life. 3

SEC. 623. POLICY STATEMENT ON CREATION OF A COM-4

MITTEE TO ELIMINATE DUPLICATION AND 5

WASTE. 6

It is the policy of this resolution that a new com-7

mittee, styled after the post-World War II ‘‘Byrd Com-8

mittee’’ shall be created to act on GAO’s annual waste 9

and duplication reports as well as Oversight and Govern-10

ment Reform Inspector General reports. 11

SEC. 624. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING THE CON-12

GRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS. 13


(1) Enactment of the Congressional Budget and 15

Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was the first step 16

toward restoring constitutionally endowed legislative 17

responsibility over fundamental budget decision 18

making. 19

(2) The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 spe-20

cifically set forth its purposes in section 2. It was 21

designed to— 22

(A) establish congressional control over the 23

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(B) provide for annual congressional deter-1

mination of a level of taxes and spending; 2

(C) set important national budget prior-3

ities; and 4

(D) find methods to facilitate the access of 5

Members of Congress to the most accurate, ob-6

jective, and high-quality information available 7

to assist them in discharging their duties. 8

(3) However, the congressional budget process 9

has neither constrained spending nor inhibited the 10

expansion of Government. The growth of the Gov-11

ernment, primarily through a multiplicity of manda-12

tory programs and other forms of direct spending, 13

has largely been financed through borrowing and 14

high tax rates. 15

(4) The enforcement of the current budget 16

process, including congressional points of order and 17

statutory spending limits, have been too often 18

waived or circumvented. This contributes to a lack 19

of accountability, which has led to broad agreement 20

that reforming the system is a high necessity. 21

(b) POLICY ON REFORMING THE CONGRESSIONAL 22

BUDGET PROCESS.—It is the policy of this concurrent res-23

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(1) restructure the fundamental procedures of 1

budget decision making; 2

(2) reassert congressional power over spending 3

and revenue, restore the balance of power between 4

Congress and the President as the Congressional 5

Budget Act of 1974 intended, and attain the max-6

imum level of accountability for budget decisions 7

through efficient and rigorous enforcement of budget 8

rules; 9

(3) improve incentives for lawmakers to budget 10

as intended by the Congressional Budget Act of 11

1974, especially by adopting an annual budget reso-12

lution; 13

(4) encourage more effective control over spend-14

ing, especially currently uncontrolled direct spend-15

ing; 16

(5) revise the methodology used in developing 17

the baseline, which is intended to reflect an objective 18

projection of the budgetary effects of current laws 19

and policies for future fiscal years, by removing any 20

tendency toward assuming higher spending levels; 21

(6) promote efficient and timely budget actions 22

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(7) provide access to the best analysis of eco-1

nomic conditions available and increase awareness of 2

how fiscal policy directly impacts economic growth 3

and job creation; 4

(8) eliminate the complexity of the budget proc-5

ess and the biases that favor higher spending; 6

(9) include procedures that treat extensions of 7

current tax laws on a comparable basis to the exten-8

sion of mandatory programs; and 9

(10) require procedures that make the budg-10

etary effects of Government policies on individual 11

taxpayers more apparent, such as requiring the 12

President’s annual budget submission to Congress 13

provide an estimate of the pro rated share of any 14

projected debt for the current fiscal year to any indi-15

vidual who files an income tax return. 16

(c) LEGISLATION.—The Committee on the Budget of 17

the House intends to draft legislation during the 114th 18

Congress that rewrites the Congressional Budget and Im-19

poundment Control Act of 1974 to fulfill the goals of mak-20

ing the congressional budget process more effective in en-21

suring taxpayers’ dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. 22

Such legislation shall— 23

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(A) the complex issues of the domestic and 1

world economy; 2

(B) national security responsibilities; and 3

(C) the appropriate roles of rulemaking 4

and statutory enforcement mechanisms; 5

(2) establish a new structure that assures the 6

congressional role in the budget process is applied 7

consistently without reliance on reactive legislating; 8

(3) improve the elements of the current budget 9

process that have fulfilled the original purposes of 10

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and 11

(4) rebuild the foundation of the budget process 12

to provide a solid basis from which additional re-13

forms may be developed. 14

SEC. 625. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING. 15


(1) Current accounting methods fail to capture 17

and present in a compelling manner the full scope 18

of the Government and its fiscal situation. 19

(2) Most fiscal analyses produced by the Con-20

gressional Budget Office (CBO) are conducted over 21

a 10-year time horizon. The use of generational ac-22

counting or a longer time horizon would provide a 23

more complete picture of the Government’s fiscal sit-24

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(3) The Federal budget currently accounts for 1

most programs on a cash accounting basis, which 2

records revenue and expenses when cash is actually 3

paid or received. However, it accounts for loan and 4

loan guarantee programs on an accrual basis, which 5

records revenue when earned and expenses when in-6

curred. 7

(4) The Government Accountability Office has 8

advised that accrual accounting may provide a more 9

accurate estimate of the Government’s liabilities 10

than cash accounting for some programs, specifically 11

insurance programs. 12

(5) Accrual accounting under the Federal Cred-13

it Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA) understates the risk 14

and thus the true cost of some Federal programs, 15

including loans and loan guarantees. 16

(6) Fair value accounting better reflects the 17

risk associated with Federal loan and loan guarantee 18

programs by using a market based discount rate. 19

CBO, for example, uses fair value accounting to 20

measure the cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 21

(7) In comparing fair value accounting to 22

FCRA, CBO has concluded that ‘‘adopting a fair- 23

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and would permit more level comparisons between 1

those costs and the costs of other forms of Federal 2

assistance’’. 3

(8) The Treasury Department, when reporting 4

the principal financial statements of the United 5

States entitled Balance Sheet and Statement of Oper-6

ations and Changes in Net Position, may omit some 7

of the largest projected Government expenses, in-8

cluding social insurance programs. The projected ex-9

penses of these programs are reported by the Treas-10

ury Department in a statement of Social Insurance 11

and Statement of Changes in Social Insurance 12

Amounts. 13

(9) This concurrent resolution directs CBO to 14

estimate the costs of credit programs on a fair value 15

basis to fully capture the risk associated with Fed-16

eral credit programs. 17

(b) POLICY ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLO-18

GIES.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that 19

the House should, in consultation with CBO and other ap-20

propriate stakeholders, reform government-wide budget 21

and accounting practices so Members and the public can 22

better understand the fiscal situation of the United States 23

and the options best suited to improving it. Such reforms 24

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(1) Providing additional metrics to enhance our 1

current analysis by considering the Nation’s fiscal 2

situation comprehensively, over an extended time ho-3

rizon, and how it affects Americans of various age 4

cohorts. 5

(2) Expanding the use of accrual accounting 6

where appropriate. 7

(3) Accounting for certain Federal credit pro-8

grams using fair value accounting to better capture 9

market risk. 10

SEC. 626. POLICY STATEMENT ON AGENCY FEES AND 11

SPENDING. 12

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 13

(1) A number of Federal agencies and organiza-14

tions have permanent authority to collect fees and 15

other offsetting collections and to spend these col-16

lected funds. 17

(2) The total amount of offsetting fees and off-18

setting collections is estimated by the Office of Man-19

agement and Budget to be $525 billion in fiscal year 20

2016. 21

(3) Agency budget justifications are, in some 22

cases, not fully transparent about the amount of 23

program activity funded through offsetting collec-24



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tions or fees. This lack of transparency prevents ef-1

fective and accountable government. 2

(b) POLICY ON AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING.—It 3

is the policy of this resolution that Congress must reassert 4

its constitutional prerogative to control spending and con-5

duct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact legislation 6

requiring programs that are funded through fees, offset-7

ting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new 8

budget authority annually. Such allocation may arise 9

from— 10

(1) legislation originating from the authorizing 11

committee of jurisdiction for the agency or program; 12

or 13

(2) fee and account specific allocations included 14

in annual appropriation Acts. 15

TITLE VII—PROCESS REFORMS 16

TO IMPLEMENT THE BUDGET 17

RESOLUTION 18

SEC. 701. PROCEDURE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-19

TIVES TO REDUCE DIRECT SPENDING. 20

(a) SPENDING REDUCTION DIRECTIVES.—Not later 21

than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 22

chair of each committee of the House of Representatives 23

listed in paragraphs (1) through (12) shall submit to the 24

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Representatives recommendations with respect to changes 1

in laws within the committee’s jurisdiction to reduce direct 2

spending, over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 3

2025, equal to or greater than the dollar amount applica-4

ble to such committee, as follows: 5

(1) Committee on Agriculture, 6

$237,902,000,000. 7

(2) Committee on Armed Services, 8

$12,796,000,000. 9

(3) Committee on Education and the Work-10

force, $273,605,000,000. 11

(4) Committee on Energy and Commerce, 12

$2,281,392,000,000. 13

(5) Committee on Financial Services, 14

$46,286,000,000. 15

(6) Committee on Homeland Security, 16

$21,020,000,000. 17

(7) Committee on the Judiciary, 18

$62,655,000,000. 19

(8) Committee on Natural Resources, 20

$12,694,000,000. 21

(9) Committee on Oversight and Government 22

Reform, $216,788,000,000. 23

(10) Committee on Transportation and Infra-24

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(11) Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 1

$46,288,000,000. 2

(12) Committee on Ways and Means, 3

$1,647,819,000,000. 4

(b) LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE.— 5

(1) IN GENERAL.—Each committee so directed 6

under subsection (a) shall, not later than 90 days 7

after the date of enactment of this Act, submit the 8

recommendations described in such subsection to the 9

chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House 10

of Representatives, which upon receiving all such 11

recommendations, shall report to the House of Rep-12

resentatives, not later than 30 days thereafter, the 13

bill described in paragraph (2). 14

(2) BILL DESCRIBED.—A bill described in this 15

paragraph is a bill— 16

(A) consisting of legislation carrying out 17

the recommendations described in subsection 18

(a) without any substantive revision; and 19

(B) entitled ‘‘A bill to provide for reduc-20

tions in direct spending to meet the direct 21

spending targets provided for under the Fiscal 22

Year 2017 Concurrent Resolution on the Budg-23

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(3) FAILURE TO SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS.— 1

The Committee on Rules of the House of Represent-2

atives may make in order amendments to carry out 3

the recommendations described in subsection (a) if a 4

committee of the House fails to submit recommenda-5

tions to the Committee on the Budget of the House 6

of Representatives consistent with paragraph (1). 7

(c) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF 8

REPRESENTATIVES.— 9

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than five legisla-10

tive days after the bill described in subsection (b) or 11

section 702(a) is reported or the committees of re-12

ferral have been discharged from further consider-13

ation thereof, it shall be in order to move to proceed 14

to consider the bill in the House. Such a motion 15

shall be in order only at a time designated by the 16

Speaker in the legislative schedule within two legisla-17

tive days after the day on which the proponent an-18

nounces an intention to the House to offer the mo-19

tion provided that such notice is provided after such 20

bill is reported. Such a motion shall not be in order 21

after the House has disposed of a motion to proceed 22

with respect to that bill. The previous question shall 23

be considered as ordered on the motion to its adop-24

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(2) CONSIDERATION.—Except as provided in 1

paragraph (3), if the motion to proceed is agreed to, 2

the House shall immediately proceed to consider the 3

bill referred to in paragraph (1) in the House with-4

out intervening motion. Such bill shall be considered 5

as read. Except as provided in paragraph (3), all 6

points of order against such bill and against its con-7

sideration are waived. The previous question shall be 8

considered as ordered on such bill to its passage 9

without intervening motion except 2 hours of debate 10

equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 11

an opponent and one motion to limit debate on the 12

bill. 13

(3) EXTRANEOUS MATTER.—A provision con-14

taining an extraneous matter may not be reported in 15

a bill considered pursuant to this subsection, and 16

may not be considered as an amendment thereto. 17

When the House is considering a bill pursuant to 18

paragraph (2), upon a point of order being made by 19

any Member against material extraneous to the di-20

rectives to a committee which is contained in any 21

title or provision of the bill or offered as an amend-22

ment to the bill, and the point of order is sustained 23

by the Chair, any part of said title or provision that 24

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shall be deemed stricken from the bill and no provi-1

sion deemed extraneous may be offered as an 2

amendment from the floor. For purposes of the pre-3

ceding sentence, a provision of a bill considered pur-4

suant to paragraph (2) shall be considered extra-5

neous if such provision does not produce a net de-6

crease in outlays or produces a net increase in rev-7

enue. In making a determination as to the extra-8

neous nature of a provision, material, or part, the 9

Chair shall rely on estimates from the Committee on 10

the Budget. 11

(4) SPECIAL RULE.—If the House adopts a spe-12

cial order of business for the consideration of the bill 13

referred to in paragraph (1), including a special 14

order of business which may make amendments to 15

the bill in order, the bill shall be considered under 16

the terms and conditions of that special order of 17

business, except that such special order of business 18

may not provide for debate for a period of time to 19

exceed 10 hours, equally divided and controlled by 20

the proponent and an opponent. 21

(5) TERMINATION OF EXPEDITED PROCE-22

DURES.—After the House has passed a bill or bills 23

that meet the total amount of each spending reduc-24

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the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget, the 1

expedited procedures under this subsection shall no 2

longer apply. 3

SEC. 702. CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS. 4

(a) IN GENERAL.—If the Committee on the Budget 5

fails to report the bill required under section 701(b) prior 6

to the deadline set forth under such section for reporting 7

the bill, any Member of the House of Representatives may 8

introduce a bill to accomplish spending reduction direc-9

tives under section 701(a)(1). 10

(b) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT-11

ATIVES.— 12

(1) REFERRAL AND REPORTING.—Except as 13

provided in paragraph (2), any committee of the 14

House of Representatives to which a bill introduced 15

pursuant to subsection (a) is referred shall report it 16

to the House without amendment not later than the 17

fifth legislative day after the date of its introduction. 18

If a committee fails to report the bill within that pe-19

riod or the House has adopted a concurrent resolu-20

tion providing for adjournment sine die at the end 21

of a Congress, such committee shall be automatically 22

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(2) REQUIRING MINIMUM REDUCTION IN DI-1

RECT SPENDING.—A committee of the House to 2

which a bill is referred under this section is not re-3

quired to report the bill to the House if the bill does 4

not reduce direct spending by at least 5 percent of 5

the directive applicable to the committee under sec-6

tion 701(a), as estimated by the Congressional 7

Budget Office. 8

(3) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.—Any bill re-9

ported or discharged pursuant to paragraph (1) 10

shall be considered under the expedited procedures 11

described under section 701(c). 12

(4) TERMINATION OF EXPEDITED PROCE-13

DURES.—After the House has passed a bill or bills 14

that meet the total amount of each spending reduc-15

tion directive under section 701(a) as estimated by 16

the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget, the 17

expedited procedures under paragraph (3) shall no 18

longer apply. 19

SEC. 703. EXPEDITED PROCEDURES IN THE SENATE. 20

(a) COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION.—In the Senate, 21

upon receipt of a bill passed in the House pursuant to 22

section 701 or 702 shall be jointly referred to the com-23

mittee or committees of jurisdiction, which shall report the 24

bill without any revision and with a favorable rec-25



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ommendation, an unfavorable recommendation, or without 1

recommendation, not later than 5 legislative days after re-2

ceipt in the Senate. If any committee fails to report the 3

bill within that period, that committee shall be automati-4

cally discharged from consideration of the bill, and the bill 5

shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. 6

(b) MOTION TO PROCEED.—Notwithstanding Rule 7

XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is in order, 8

not later than 2 days of session after the date on which 9

a bill under paragraph (1) is reported or discharged from 10

all committees to which it was referred, for the majority 11

leader of the Senate or the majority leader’s designee to 12

move to proceed to the consideration of the bill. It shall 13

also be in order for any Member of the Senate to move 14

to proceed to the consideration of such bill at any time 15

after the conclusion of such 2-day period. A motion to pro-16

ceed is in order even though a previous motion to the same 17

effect has been disagreed to. All points of order against 18

the motion to proceed to the bill are waived. The motion 19

to proceed is not debatable. The motion is not subject to 20

a motion to postpone. If a motion to proceed to the consid-21

eration of the bill is agreed to, the bill shall remain the 22

unfinished business until disposed of. 23

(c) CONSIDERATION.—All points of order against the 24

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sideration of the bill and of all debatable motions and ap-1

peals in connection therewith shall not exceed a total of 2

30 hours which shall be divided equally between the Ma-3

jority and Minority Leaders or their designees. A motion 4

further to limit debate on the bill is in order, shall require 5

an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members duly 6

chosen and sworn, and is not debatable. Any debatable 7

motion or appeal is debatable for not to exceed 1 hour, 8

to be divided equally between those favoring and those op-9

posing the motion or appeal. All time used for consider-10

ation of the bill, including time used for quorum calls and 11

voting, shall be counted against the total 30 hours of con-12

sideration. 13

(d) VOTE ON PASSAGE.—If the Senate has voted to 14

proceed to the bill, the vote on passage of the bill shall 15

occur immediately following the conclusion of the debate 16

on the bill, and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 17

the debate if requested. 18

(e) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCEDURE.—Ap-19

peals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the appli-20

cation of the rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to 21

the procedure relating to the bill shall be decided without 22

debate. 23

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