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                     COMPILATION OF LAWS AND RULES
                     RELATING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
                             BUDGET PROCESS



                   AS AMENDED THROUGH MARCH 23, 2000

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                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


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                     COMPILATION OF LAWS AND RULES
                     RELATING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
                             BUDGET PROCESS



                   AS AMENDED THROUGH MARCH 23, 2000

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                        COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET
                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


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                        COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET

                     JOHN R. KASICH, Ohio, Chairman

SAXBY CHAMBLISS, Georgia, Speaker's  JOHN M. SPRATT, Jr., South Carolina,
  Designee                             Ranking
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut       JIM McDERMOTT, Washington
WALLY HERGER, California             LYNN RIVERS, Michigan
BOB FRANKS, New Jersey               BENNIE G. THOMPSON, Mississippi
NICK SMITH, Michigan                 DAVID MINGE, Minnesota
JIM NUSSLE, Iowa                     KEN BENTSEN, Texas
PETER HOEKSTRA, MI                   JIM DAVIS, Florida
GEORGE RADANOVICH, California        ROBERT A. WEYGAND, Rhode Island
CHARLES BASS, New Hampshire          EVA M. CLAYTON, North Carolina
GIL GUTKNECHT, Minnesota             DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
VAN HILLEARY, Tennessee              EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts
JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire        GERALD D. KLECZKA, Wisconsin
JOSEPH R. PITTS, Pennsylvania        BOB CLEMENT, Tennessee
JOE KNOLLENBERG, Mchigan             JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
MAC THORNBERRY, Texas                DARLENE HOOLEY, Oregon
JIM RYUN, Kansas                     KEN LUCAS, Kentucky
MAC COLLINS, Georgia                 RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey
ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                 JOSEPH M. HOEFFEL, Pennsylvania
MARK GREEN, Wisconsin                TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin
ERNIE FLETCHER, Kentucky
GARY G. MILLER, California
PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin
PATRICK J. TOOMEY, Pennsylvania

                     Wayne Struble, Staff Director
                   Tom Kahn, Minority Chief of Staff

                              Prepared by
                 Amy Roland, House Budget Committee and
         Robert F. Weinhagen, Office of the Legislative Counsel


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                              INTRODUCTION

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    This publication contains a compilation of laws that 
significantly affect the congressional budget process, as 
amended through July 16, 1999. Included are:
            Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
        1974.
            Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
        of 1985.
            Freestanding provisions of Budget Enforcement Act 
        of 1990.
            Selected provisions of chapter 11 of title 31, 
        United States Code, governing submission of President's 
        budget.
            Certain sections of H. Res. 6 (104th Congress) and 
        H. Res. 5 (106th Congress).
            Certain sections of H. Con. Res. 68 (106th 
        Congress).
    The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 (Public Law 93-344; 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is the primary 
law governing the congressional budget process. It establishes 
the procedures by which Congress first determines and then 
enforces the levels of budgetary resources within which 
legislative policies will be carried out. The most significant 
amendments to that Act were made by the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the Budget Enforcement 
Act of 1990, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, and the 
Line Item Veto Act.
    The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 (BBEDCA), popularly known as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, was 
enacted as part C of title II of Public Law 99-177 (2 U.S.C. 
900 et seq.). It established sequestration procedures to 
automatically reduce budgetary resources available to Federal 
programs if projected spending exceeds a determined amount. The 
most significant amendments to BBEDCA were made by the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 
and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990.
    The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 was enacted as title 
XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Public 
Law 101-508). Subtitle A, part II, and subtitle B amended the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by, among other things, 
requiring budget resolutions to cover five fiscal years and 
establishing discretionary spending limits (or caps). Subtitle 
A, part I, amended the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 to establish pay-as-you-go requirements for 
legislation affecting direct spending programs or revenues and 
limits on discretionary spending. Both the pay-as-you-go 
requirements and the discretionary spending limits are 
separately enforced by sequestration. Subtitle C contains 
provisions concerning social security.
    Title X of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 implemented the 
budget process provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Agreement. 
In addition to extending the pay-as-you-go requirements and the 
discretionary spending limits of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 for four fiscal years, it 
made numerous technical and conforming changes to that Act and 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    Title 31 of the United States Code (Money and Finance) was 
enacted into positive law on September 13, 1982. Chapter 11 of 
that title sets forth the submission requirements for the 
President's budget.



                            C O N T E N T S

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Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
    Sec. 1. Short titles; table of contents......................     3
    Sec. 2. Declaration of purposes..............................     5
    Sec. 3. Definitions..........................................     5
    Title II--Congressional Budget Office........................     7
    Title III--Congressional Budget Process......................    13
    Title IV--Additional Provisions to Improve Fiscal Procedures.    38
        Part A--General Provisions...............................    38
        Part B--Federal Mandates.................................    40
    Title V--Credit Reform.......................................    51
    Title VII--Program Review and Evaluation.....................    58
    Title IX--Miscellaneous Provisions; Effective Dates..........    59
    Title X--Impoundment Control.................................    60
        Part A--General Provisions...............................    60
        Part B--Congressional Consideration of Proposed 
          Rescissions, Reservations, and Deferrals of Budget 
          Authority..............................................    60
        Part C--Line Item Veto...................................    67
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-
  Rudman-Hollings)
    Sec. 250. Table of contents; budget enforcement statement; 
      definitions................................................    83
    Sec. 251. Enforcing discretionary spending limits............    86
    Sec. 252. Enforcing pay-as-you-go............................    93
    Sec. 253. Enforcing deficit targets..........................    95
    Sec. 254. Reports and orders.................................    98
    Sec. 255. Exempt programs and activities.....................   101
    Sec. 256. General and special sequestration rules............   107
    Sec. 257. The baseline.......................................   113
    Sec. 258. Suspension in the event of war or low growth.......   115
    Sec. 258A. Modification of Presidential order................   117
    Sec. 258B. Flexibility among defense programs, projects, and 
      activities.................................................   119
    Sec. 258C. Special reconciliation process....................   122
    Sec. 274. Judicial review....................................   124
    Sec. 275. Effective date.....................................   126
Freestanding Provisions of Subtitles C and E of the Budget 
  Enforcement Act of 1990
    Sec. 13301. Off-budget status of OASDI trust funds...........   129
    Sec. 13302. Protection of OASDI trust funds in the House of 
      Representatives............................................   129
    Sec. 13305. Exercise of rulemaking power.....................   131
    Sec. 13306. Effective date...................................   131
    Sec. 13501. Financial safety and soundness of government-
      sponsored enterprises......................................   131
Selected Provisions of Chapter 11 of Title 31, United States Code
    Sec. 1105. Budget contents and submission to Congress........   135
    Sec. 1106. Supplemental budget estimates and changes.........   140
    Sec. 1109. Current programs and activities estimates.........   141
Selected Budgetary Procedures Set Forth in H. Con. Res. 68 (106th 
  Congress)
    Sec. 207. Pay-as-you-go point of order in the Senate.........   145
Selected Budgetary Procedures Set Forth in H. Con. Res. 290 
  (106th Congress)
    Sec. 201. Lock-box for social security surpluses.............   149
    Sec. 205. Emergency designation point of order in the Senate.   150
Selected Provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
    Sec. 103. Cost of regulations................................   155
    Sec. 105. Consideration for Federal funding..................   155
    Sec. 106. Impact on local governments........................   155
    Sec. 107. Enforcement in the House of Representatives........   156
    Sec. 201. Regulatory process.................................   157
    Sec. 202. Statements to accompany significant regulatory 
      actions....................................................   157
    Sec. 203. Small government agency plan.......................   158
    Sec. 204. State, local, and tribal government input..........   158
    Sec. 205. Least burdensome option or explanation required....   159
    Sec. 206. Assistance to the Congressional Budget Office......   159
    Sec. 207. Pilot program on small government flexibility......   159
    Sec. 208. Annual statements to Congress on agency compliance.   160
    Sec. 209. Effective date.....................................   160
    Sec. 304. Annual report to Congress regarding Federal court 
      rulings....................................................   160
    Sec. 305. Definition.........................................   160
    Sec. 401. Judicial review....................................   160
House Rules Relating to Budgetary Requirements
    Rule X:
        Clause 2(d)(1). Budget Act responsibilities of each 
          standing 
          committee..............................................   165
        Clause 4(f). Views and estimates of each standing 
          committee for the concurrent resolution................   165
        Clause 11(c)(3). Views and estimates of Permanent Select 
          Committee on Intelligence..............................   166
    Rule XIII:
        Clause 3(c)(2) and (3). Budget requirements in committee 
          reports................................................   166
        Clause 3(d). Committee cost estimates and budgetary 
          comparisons............................................   167
        Clause 3(h)(2) and (3). Dynamic estimates for revenue 
          bills..................................................   167
    Rule XVIII:
        Clause 10. Amendments to the concurrent resolution on the 
          budget.................................................   168
    Rule XXI:
        Clause 2(e). Nonemergency provisions may not be 
          designated 
          emergency..............................................   168
    Rule XXIII: Statutory limit on the public debt...............   168
Jurisdictions of the House and Senate Budget Committees
    Jurisdiction of House Budget Committee.......................   173
    Jurisdiction of Senate Budget Committee......................   175


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        CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974

             Public Law 93-344, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 297

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Major Amendments:

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; 
        Public Law 99-177, Title II, Part A; December 12, 1985; 
        99 Stat. 1037, 1039.

An Act increasing the statutory limit on the public debt; 
        Public Law 100-119, Title II; September 29, 1987; 101 
        Stat. 754, 784.

Budget Enforcement Act of 1990; Public Law 101-508, Title XIII, 
        Subtitle A, Part II, and Subtitle B; November 5, 1990; 
        104 Stat. 1388-573, 1388-602, 1388-609.

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993; Public Law 103-66, 
        Title XIV; August 10, 1993; 107 Stat. 312, 683.

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; Public 
        Law 103-322, Title XXXI; September 13, 1994; 108 Stat. 
        1796, 2102.

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995; Public Law 104-4, Title 
        I; March 22, 1995; 109 Stat. 50.

Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996; Public Law 104-
        121, 110 Stat. 847.

Line Item Veto Act; Public Law 104-130; April 9, 1996; 110 
        Stat. 1200.
Balanced Budget Act of 1997; Public Law 105-33; August 5, 1997; 
        111 Stat. 251.
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century; Public Law 105-
        178; June 9, 1998; 112 Stat. 488.
TEA 21 Restortation Act; Public Law 105-206; July 22, 1998; 115 
        Stat. 865.
 AN ACT To establish a new congressional budget process; to establish 
 Committees on the Budget in each House; to establish a Congressional 
Budget Office; to establish a procedure providing congressional control 
 over the impoundment of funds by the executive branch; and for other 
                               purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
                    short titles; table of contents
    Section 1. [2 U.S.C. 621 note] (a) Short Titles.--This Act 
may be cited as the ``Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974''. Titles I through IX may be cited as the 
``Congressional Budget Act of 1974''. Parts A and B of title X 
may be cited as the ``Impoundment Control Act of 1974''. Part C 
of title X may be cited as the ``Line Item Veto Act of 1996''. 
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    (b) Table of Contents.--

Sec. 1. Short titles; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Declaration of purposes.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
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                  TITLE II--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

Sec. 201. Establishment of Office.
Sec. 202. Duties and functions.
Sec. 203. Public access to budget data.

                 TITLE III--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS

Sec. 300. Timetable.
Sec. 301. Annual adoption of concurrent resolution on the budget.
Sec. 302. Committee allocations.
Sec. 303. Concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before 
          budget-related legislation is considered.
Sec. 304. Permissible revisions of concurrent resolutions on the budget.
Sec. 305. Prvisions relating to consideration of concurrent resolutions 
          on the 
          budget.
Sec. 306. Legislation dealing with congressional budget must be handled 
          by budget committees.
Sec. 307. House committee action on all appropriation bills to be 
          completed by June 10.
Sec. 308. Reports, summaries, and projections of congressional budget 
          actions.
Sec. 309. House approval of regular appropriation bills.
Sec. 310. Reconciliation.
Sec. 311. Budget-related legislation must be within appropriate levels.
Sec. 312. Determinations and points of order.
Sec. 313. Extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation.
Sec. 314. Adjustments.
Sec. 315. Effect of adoption of a special order of business in the House 
          of Representatives.

      TITLE IV--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE FISCAL PROCEDURES

                       Part A--General Provisions

Sec. 401. Budget-related legislation not subject to appropriations.
Sec. 402. Analyses by Congressional Budget Office.
     * * * * * * *
Sec. 404. Study by the General Accounting Office of forms of Federal 
          financial commitment that are not reviewed annually by 
          Congress.
Sec. 405. Off-budget agencies, programs, and activities.
Sec. 406. Member user group.

                        Part B--Federal Mandates

Sec. 421. Definitions.
Sec. 422. Exclusions.
Sec. 423. Duties of congressional committees.
Sec. 424. Duties of the Director; statements on bills and joint 
          resolutions other than appropriations bills and joint 
          resolutions.
Sec. 425. Legislation subject to point of order.
Sec. 426. Provisions relating to the House of Representatives.
Sec. 427. Requests to the Congressional Budget Office from Senators.
Sec. 428. Clarification of application.

                         TITLE V--CREDIT REFORM

Sec. 500. Short title.
Sec. 501. Purposes.
Sec. 502. Definitions.
Sec. 503. OMB and CBO analysis, coordination, and review.
Sec. 504. Budgetary treatment.
Sec. 505. Authorizations.
Sec. 506. Treatment of deposit insurance and agencies and other 
          insurance programs.
Sec. 507. Effect on other laws.

                          [TITLE VI--REPEALED]

                TITLE VII--PROGRAM REVIEW AND EVALUATION

     * * * * * * *
Sec. 703. Continuing study of additional budget reform proposals.
     * * * * * * *

           TITLE IX--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS; EFFECTIVE DATES

     * * * * * * *
Sec. 904. Exercise of rulemaking powers.
     * * * * * * *

                      TITLE X--IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL

                       Part A--General Provisions

Sec. 1001. Disclaimer.
     * * * * * * *

      Part B--Congressional Consideration of Proposed Rescissions, 
             Reservations, and Deferrals of Budget Authority

Sec. 1011. Definitions.
Sec. 1012. Rescission of budget authority.
Sec. 1013. Proposed deferrals of budget authority.
Sec. 1014. Transmission of messages; publication.
Sec. 1015. Reports by Comptroller General.
Sec. 1016. Suits by Comptroller General.
Sec. 1017. Procedure in House and Senate.

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Sec. 1021. Line item veto authority.
Sec. 1022. Special messages.
Sec. 1023. Cancellation effective unless disapproved.
Sec. 1024. Deficit reduction.
Sec. 1025. Expedited congressional consideration of disapproval bills.
Sec. 1026. Definitions.
Sec. 1027. Identification of limited tax benefits.
                        declaration of purposes
    Sec. 2. [2 U.S.C. 621] The Congress declares that it is 
essential--
            (1) to assure effective congressional control over 
        the budgetary process;
            (2) to provide for the congressional determination 
        each year of the appropriate level of Federal revenues 
        and expenditures;
            (3) to provide a system of impoundment control;
            (4) to establish national budget priorities; and
            (5) to provide for the furnishing of information by 
        the executive branch in a manner that will assist the 
        Congress in discharging its duties.
                              definitions
    Sec. 3. [2 U.S.C. 622] In General.--For purposes of this 
Act--
            (1) The terms ``budget outlays'' and ``outlays'' 
        mean, with respect to any fiscal year, expenditures and 
        net lending of funds under budget authority during such 
        year.
            (2)  Budget authority and new budget authority.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``budget 
                authority'' means the authority provided by 
                Federal law to incur financial obligations, as 
                follows:
                            (i) provisions of law that make 
                        funds available for obligation and 
                        expenditure (other than borrowing 
                        authority), including the authority to 
                        obligate and expend the proceeds of 
                        offsetting receipts and collections;
                            (ii) borrowing authority, which 
                        means authority granted to a Federal 
                        entity to borrow and obligate and 
                        expend the borrowed funds, including 
                        through the issuance of promissory 
                        notes or other monetary credits;
                            (iii) contract authority, which 
                        means the making of funds available for 
                        obligation but not for expenditure; and
                            (iv) offsetting receipts and 
                        collections as negative budget 
                        authority, and the reduction thereof as 
                        positive budget authority.
                    (B) Limitations on budget authority.--With 
                respect to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
                Fund, the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust 
                Fund, the Unemployment Trust Fund, and the 
                railroad retirement account, any amount that is 
                precluded from obligation in a fiscal year by a 
                provision of law (such as a limitation or a 
                benefit formula) shall not be budget authority 
                in that year.
                    (C) New budget authority.--The term ``new 
                budget authority'' means, with respect to a 
                fiscal year--
                            (i) budget authority that first 
                        becomes available for obligation in 
                        that year, including budget authority 
                        that becomes available in that year as 
                        a result of a reappropriation; or
                            (ii) a change in any account in the 
                        availability of unobligated balances of 
                        budget authority carried over from a 
                        prior year, resulting from a provision 
                        of law first effective in that year;
                and includes a change in the estimated level of 
                new budget authority provided in indefinite 
                amounts by existing law.
            (3) The term ``tax expenditures'' means those 
        revenue losses attributable to provisions of the 
        Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, 
        exemption, or deduction from gross income or which 
        provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, 
        or a deferral of tax liability, and the term ``tax 
        expenditures budget'' means an enumeration of such tax 
        expenditures.
            (4) The term ``concurrent resolution on the 
        budget'' means--
                    (A) a concurrent resolution setting forth 
                the congressional budget for the United States 
                Government for a fiscal year as provided in 
                section 301; and
                    (B) any other concurrent resolution 
                revising the congressional budget for the 
                United States Government for a fiscal year as 
                described in section 304.
            (5) The term ``appropriation Act'' means an Act 
        referred to in section 105 of title 1, United States 
        Code.
            (6) The term ``deficit'' means, with respect to a 
        fiscal year, the amount by which outlays exceeds 
        receipts during that year.
            (7) The term ``surplus'' means, with respect to a 
        fiscal year, the amount by which receipts exceeds 
        outlays during that year.
    (8) The term ``government-sponsored enterprise'' means a 
corporate entity created by a law of the United States that--
            (A)(i) has a Federal charter authorized by law;
            (ii) is privately owned, as evidenced by capital 
        stock owned by private entities or individuals;
            (iii) is under the direction of a board of 
        directors, a majority of which is elected by private 
        owners;
            (iv) is a financial institution with power to--
                    (I) make loans or loan guarantees for 
                limited purposes such as to provide credit for 
                specific borrowers or one sector; and
                    (II) raise funds by borrowing (which does 
                not carry the full faith and credit of the 
                Federal Government) or to guarantee the debt of 
                others in unlimited amounts; and
            (B)(i) does not exercise powers that are reserved 
        to the Government as sovereign (such as the power to 
        tax or to regulate interstate commerce);
            (ii) does not have the power to commit the 
        Government financially (but it may be a recipient of a 
        loan guarantee commitment made by the Government); and
            (iii) has employees whose salaries and expenses are 
        paid by the enterprise and are not Federal employees 
        subject to title 5 of the United States Code.
            (9) The term ``entitlement authority'' means--
                    (A) the authority to make payments 
                (including loans and grants), the budget 
                authority for which is not provided for in 
                advance by appropriation Acts, to any person or 
                government if, under the provisions of the law 
                containing that authority, the United States is 
                obligated to make such payments to persons or 
                governments who meet the requirements 
                established by that law; and
                    (B) the food stamp program.
            (10) The term ``credit authority'' means authority 
        to incur direct loan obligations or to incur primary 
        loan guarantee commitments.
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                 TITLE II--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

                        establishment of office
    Sec. 201. [2 U.S.C. 601] (a) In General.--
            (1) There is established an office of the Congress 
        to be known as the Congressional Budget Office 
        (hereinafter in this title referred to as the 
        ``Office''). The Office shall be headed by a Director; 
        and there shall be a Deputy Director who shall perform 
        such duties as may be assigned to him by the Director 
        and, during the absence or incapacity of the Director 
        or during a vacancy in that office, shall act as 
        Director.
            (2) The Director shall be appointed by the Speaker 
        of the House of Representatives and the President pro 
        tempore of the Senate after considering recommendations 
        received from the Committees on the Budget of the House 
        and the Senate, without regard to political affiliation 
        and solely on the basis of his fitness to perform his 
        duties. The Deputy Director shall be appointed by the 
        Director.
            (3) The term of office of the Director shall be 4 
        years and shall expire on January 3 of the year 
        preceding each Presidential election. Any individual 
        appointed as Director to fill a vacancy prior to the 
        expiration of a term shall serve only for the unexpired 
        portion of that term. An individual serving as Director 
        at the expiration of a term may continue to serve until 
        his successor is appointed. Any Deputy Director shall 
        serve until the expiration of the term of office of the 
        Director who appointed him (and until his successor is 
        appointed), unless sooner removed by the Director.
            (4) The Director may be removed by either House by 
        resolution.
            (5)(A) The Director shall receive compensation at 
        an annual rate of pay that is equal to the lower of--
                    (i) the highest annual rate of compensation 
                of any officer of the Senate; or
                    (ii) the highest annual rate of 
                compensation of any officer of the House of 
                Representatives.
            (B) The Deputy Director shall receive compensation 
        at an annual rate of pay that is $1,000 less than the 
        annual rate of pay received by the Director, as 
        determined under subparagraph (A).
    (b) Personnel.--The Director shall appoint and fix the 
compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out 
the duties and functions of the Office. All personnel of the 
Office shall be appointed without regard to political 
affiliation and solely on the basis of their fitness to perform 
their duties. The Director may prescribe the duties and 
responsibilities of the personnel of the Office, and delegate 
to them authority to perform any of the duties, powers, and 
functions imposed on the Office or on the Director. For 
purposes of pay (other than pay of the Director and Deputy 
Director) and employment benefits, rights, and privileges, all 
personnel of the Office shall be treated as if they were 
employees of the House of Representatives.
    (c) Experts and Consultants.--In carrying out the duties 
and functions of the Office, the Director may procure the 
temporary (not to exceed one year) or intermittent services of 
experts or consultants or organizations thereof by contract as 
independent contractors, or, in the case of individual experts 
or consultants, by employment at rates of pay not in excess of 
the daily equivalent of the highest rate of basic pay payable 
under the General Schedule of section 5332 of title 5, United 
States Code.
    (d) Relationship to Executive Branch.--The Director is 
authorized to secure information, data, estimates, and 
statistics directly from the various departments, agencies, and 
establishments of the executive branch of Government and the 
regulatory agencies and commissions of the Government. All such 
departments, agencies, establishments, and regulatory agencies 
and commissions shall furnish the Director any available 
material which he determines to be necessary in the performance 
of his duties and functions (other than material the disclosure 
of which would be a violation of law). The Director is also 
authorized, upon agreement with the head of any such 
department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or 
commission, to utilize its services, facilities, and personnel 
with or without reimbursement; and the head of each such 
department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or 
commission is authorized to provide the Office such services, 
facilities, and personnel.
    (e) Relationship to Other Agencies of Congress.--In 
carrying out the duties and functions of the Office, and for 
the purpose of coordinating the operations of the Office with 
those of other congressional agencies with a view to utilizing 
most effectively the information, services, and capabilities of 
all such agencies in carrying out the various responsibilities 
assigned to each, the Director is authorized to obtain 
information, data, estimates, and statistics developed by the 
General Accounting Office, and the Library of Congress, and 
(upon agreement with them) to utilize their services, 
facilities, and personnel with or without reimbursement. The 
Comptroller General, and the Librarian of Congress are 
authorized to provide the Office with the information, data, 
estimates, and statistics, and the services, facilities, and 
personnel, referred to in the preceding sentence.
    (f) Revenue Estimates.--For the purposes of revenue 
legislation which is income, estate and gift, excise, and 
payroll taxes (i.e., Social Security), considered or enacted in 
any session of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office shall 
use exclusively during that session of Congress revenue 
estimates provided to it by the Joint Committee on Taxation. 
During that session of Congress such revenue estimates shall be 
transmitted by the Congressional Budget Office to any committee 
of the House of Representatives or the Senate requesting such 
estimates, and shall be used by such Committees in determining 
such estimates. The Budget Committees of the Senate and House 
shall determine all estimates with respect to scoring points of 
order and with respect to the execution of the purposes of this 
Act.
    (g) Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Office for each fiscal year such sums as 
may be necessary to enable it to carry out its duties and 
functions. Until sums are first appropriated pursuant to the 
preceding sentence, but for a period not exceeding 12 months 
following the effective date of this subsection, the expenses 
of the Office shall be paid from the contingent fund of the 
Senate, in accordance with the paragraph relating to the 
contingent fund of the Senate under the heading ``UNDER 
LEGISLATIVE'' in the Act of October 1, 1888 (28 Stat. 546; 2 
U.S.C. 68), and upon vouchers approved by the Director.
                          duties and functions
    Sec. 202. [2 U.S.C. 602] (a) Assistance to Budget 
Committees.--It shall be the primary duty and function of the 
Office to provide to the Committees on the Budget of both 
Houses information which will assist such committees in the 
discharge of all matters within their jurisdictions, including 
(1) information with respect to the budget, appropriation 
bills, and other bills authorizing or providing new budget 
authority or tax expenditures, (2) information with respect to 
revenues, receipts, estimated future revenues and receipts, and 
changing revenue conditions, and (3) such related information 
as such Committees may request.
    (b) Assistance to Committees on Appropriations, Ways and 
Means, and Finance.--At the request of the Committee on 
Appropriations of either House, the Committee on Ways and Means 
of the House of Representatives, or the Committee on Finance of 
the Senate, the Office shall provide to such Committee any 
information which will assist it in the discharge of matters 
within its jurisdiction, including information described in 
clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a) and such related 
information as the Committee may request.
    (c) Assistance to Other Committees and Members.--
            (1) At the request of any other committee of the 
        House of Representatives or the Senate or any joint 
        committee of the Congress, the Office shall provide to 
        such committee or joint committee any information 
        compiled in carrying out clauses (1) and (2) of 
        subsection (a), and, to the extent practicable, such 
        additional information related to the foregoing as may 
        be requested.
            (2) At the request of any committee of the Senate 
        or the House of Representatives, the Office shall, to 
        the extent practicable, consult with and assist such 
        committee in analyzing the budgetary or financial 
        impact of any proposed legislation that may have--
                    (A) a significant budgetary impact on 
                State, local, or tribal governments;
                    (B) a significant financial impact on the 
                private sector; or
                    (C) a significant employment impact on the 
                private sector.
            (3) At the request of any Member of the House or 
        Senate, the Office shall provide to such member any 
        information compiled in carrying out clauses (1) and 
        (2) of subsection (a), and, to the extent available, 
        such additional information related to the foregoing as 
        may be requested.
    (d) Assignment of Office Personnel to Committees and Joint 
Committees.--At the request of the Committee on the Budget of 
either House, personnel of the Office shall be assigned, on a 
temporary basis, to assist such committee. At the request of 
any other committee of either House or any joint committee of 
the Congress, personnel of the Office may be assigned, on a 
temporary basis, to assist such committee or joint committee 
with respect to matters directly related to the applicable 
provisions of subsection (b) or (c).
    (e) Reports to Budget Committees.--
            (1) On or before February 15 of each year, the 
        Director shall submit to the Committees on the Budget 
        of the House of Representatives and the Senate, a 
        report for the fiscal year commencing on October 1 of 
        that year, with respect to fiscal policy, including (A) 
        alternative levels of total revenues, total new budget 
        authority, and total outlays (including related 
        surpluses and deficits), (B) the levels of tax 
        expenditures under existing law, taking into account 
        projected economic factors and any changes in such 
        levels based on proposals in the budget submitted by 
        the President for such fiscal year, and (C) a statement 
        of the levels of budget authority and outlays for each 
        program assumed to be extended in the baseline, as 
        provided in section 257(b)(2)(A) and for excise taxes 
        assumed to be extended under section 257(b)(2)(C) of 
        the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
        of 1985. Such report shall also include a discussion of 
        national budget priorities, including alternative ways 
        of allocating new budget authority and budget outlays 
        for such fiscal year among major programs or functional 
        categories, taking into account how such alternative 
        allocations will meet major national needs and affect 
        balanced growth and development of the United States.
            (2) The Director shall from time to time submit to 
        the Committees on the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate such further reports 
        (including reports revising the report required by 
        paragraph (1)) as may be necessary or appropriate to 
        provide such Committees with information, data, and 
        analyses for the performance of their duties and 
        functions.
            (3) On or before January 15 of each year, the 
        Director, after consultation with the appropriate 
        committees of the House of Representatives and Senate, 
        shall submit to the Congress a report listing (A) all 
        programs and activities funded during the fiscal year 
        ending September 30 of that calendar year for which 
        authorizations for appropriations have not been enacted 
        for that fiscal year, and (B) all programs and 
        activities for which authorizations for appropriations 
        have been enacted for the fiscal year ending September 
        30 of that calendar year, but for which no 
        authorizations for appropriations have been enacted for 
        the fiscal year beginning October 1 of that calendar 
        year.
    (f) Use of Computers and Other Techniques.--The Director 
may equip the Office with up-to-date computer capability (upon 
approval of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration 
of the Senate), obtain the services of experts and consultants 
in computer technology, and develop techniques for the 
evaluation of budgetary requirements.
    (g) Studies.--
            (1) Continuing studies.--The Director of the 
        Congressional Budget Office shall conduct continuing 
        studies to enhance comparisons of budget outlays, 
        credit authority, and tax expenditures.
            (2) Federal mandate studies.--
                    (A) At the request of any Chairman or 
                ranking member of the minority of a Committee 
                of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
                the Director shall, to the extent practicable, 
                conduct a study of a legislative proposal 
                containing a Federal mandate.
                    (B) In conducting a study on 
                intergovernmental mandates under subparagraph 
                (A), the Director shall--
                            (i) solicit and consider 
                        information or comments from elected 
                        officials (including their designated 
                        representatives) of State, local, or 
                        tribal governments as may provide 
                        helpful information or comments;
                            (ii) consider establishing advisory 
                        panels of elected officials or their 
                        designated representatives, of State, 
                        local, or tribal governments if the 
                        Director determines that such advisory 
                        panels would be helpful in performing 
                        responsibilities of the Director under 
                        this section; and
                            (iii) if, and to the extent that 
                        the Director determines that accurate 
                        estimates are reasonably feasible, 
                        include estimates of--
                                    (I) the future direct cost 
                                of the Federal mandate to the 
                                extent that such costs 
                                significantly differ from or 
                                extend beyond the 5-year period 
                                after the mandate is first 
                                effective; and
                                    (II) any disproportionate 
                                budgetary effects of Federal 
                                mandates upon particular 
                                industries or sectors of the 
                                economy, States, regions, and 
                                urban or rural or other types 
                                of communities, as appropriate.
                    (C) In conducting a study on private sector 
                mandates under subparagraph (A), the Director 
                shall provide estimates, if and to the extent 
                that the Director determines that such 
                estimates are reasonably feasible, of--
                            (i) future costs of Federal private 
                        sector mandates to the extent that such 
                        mandates differ significantly from or 
                        extend beyond the 5-year time period 
                        referred to in subparagraph 
                        (B)(iii)(I);
                            (ii) any disproportionate financial 
                        effects of Federal private sector 
                        mandates and of any Federal financial 
                        assistance in the bill or joint 
                        resolution upon any particular 
                        industries or sectors of the economy, 
                        States, regions, and urban or rural or 
                        other types of communities; and
                            (iii) the effect of Federal private 
                        sector mandates in the bill or joint 
                        resolution on the national economy, 
                        including the effect on productivity, 
                        economic growth, full employment, 
                        creation of productive jobs, and 
                        international competitiveness of United 
                        States goods and services.
                      public access to budget data
    Sec. 203. [2 U.S.C. 603] (a) Right To Copy.--Except as 
provided in subsections (c) and (d), the Director shall make 
all information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under 
sections 201(d) and 201(e) available for public copying during 
normal business hours, subject to reasonable rules and 
regulations, and shall to the extent practicable, at the 
request of any person, furnish a copy of any such information, 
data, estimates, or statistics upon payment by such person of 
the cost of making and furnishing such copy.
    (b) Index.--The Director shall develop and maintain filing, 
coding, and indexing systems that identify the information, 
data, estimates, and statistics to which subsection (a) applies 
and shall make such systems available for public use during 
normal business hours.
    (c) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
information, data, estimates, and statistics--
            (1) which are specifically exempted from disclosure 
        by law; or
            (2) which the Director determines will disclose--
                    (A) matters necessary to be kept secret in 
                the interests of national defense or the 
                confidential conduct of the foreign relations 
                of the United States;
                    (B) information relating to trade secrets 
                or financial or commercial information 
                pertaining specifically to a given person if 
                the information has been obtained by the 
                Government on a confidential basis, other than 
                through an application by such person for a 
                specific financial or other benefit, and is 
                required to be kept secret in order to prevent 
                undue injury to the competitive position of 
                such person; or
                    (C) personnel or medical data or similar 
                data the disclosure of which would constitute a 
                clearly unwarranted invasion of personal 
                privacy;
        unless the portions containing such matters, 
        information, or data have been excised.
    (d) Information Obtained for Committees and Members.--
Subsection (a) shall apply to any information, data, estimates, 
and statistics obtained at the request of any committee, joint 
committee, or Member unless such committee, joint committee, or 
Member has instructed the Director not to make such 
information, data, estimates, or statistics available for 
public copying.

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                               timetable
    Sec. 300. [2 U.S.C. 631] The timetable with respect to the 
congressional budget process for any fiscal year is as follows:

On or before:       Action to be completed:
  First Monday in FePresident submits his budget........................
  February 15.......Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget 
                    Committees.
  Not later than 6 wCommittees submit views and estimates to Budget ....
                    Committees.
  April 1...........Senate Budget Committee reports concurrent .........
                    resolution on the budget.
  April 15..........Congress completes action on concurrent resolution .
                    on the budget.
  May 15............Annual appropriation bills may be considered in the 
                    House.
  June 10...........House Appropriations Committee reports last annual .
                    appropriation bill.
  June 15...........Congress completes action on reconciliation ........
                    legislation.
  June 30...........House completes action on annual appropriation .....
                    bills.
  October 1.........Fiscal year begins..................................
         annual adoption of concurrent resolution on the budget
    Sec. 301. [2 U.S.C. 632] (a) \2\ Content of Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget.--On or before April 15 of each year, 
the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution 
on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of 
such year. The concurrent resolution shall set forth 
appropriate levels for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 
of such year and for at least each of the 4 ensuing fiscal 
years for the following--
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            (1) totals of new budget authority and outlays;
            (2) total Federal revenues and the amount, if any, 
        by which the aggregate level of Federal revenues should 
        be increased or decreased by bills and resolutions to 
        be reported by the appropriate committees;
            (3) the surplus or deficit in the budget;
            (4) new budget authority and outlays for each major 
        functional category, based on allocations of the total 
        levels set forth pursuant to paragraph (1);
            (5) the public debt;
            (6) For \1\ purposes of Senate enforcement under 
        this title, outlays of the old-age, survivors, and 
        disability insurance program established under title II 
        of the Social Security Act for the fiscal year of the 
        resolution and for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal 
        years; and
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            (7) For \1\ purposes of Senate enforcement under 
        this title, revenues of the old-age, survivors, and 
        disability insurance program established under title II 
        of the Social Security Act (and the related provisions 
        of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) for the fiscal 
        year of the resolution and for each of the 4 succeeding 
        fiscal years.
The concurrent resolution shall not include the outlays and 
revenue totals of the old age, \2\ survivors, and disability 
insurance program established under title II of the Social 
Security Act or the related provisions of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 in the surplus or deficit totals required by this 
subsection or in any other surplus or deficit totals required 
by this title.
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    (b) Additional Matters in Concurrent Resolution.--The 
concurrent resolution on the budget may--
            (1) set forth, if required by subsection (f), the 
        calendar year in which, in the opinion of the Congress, 
        the goals for reducing unemployment set forth in 
        section 4(b) of the Employment Act of 1946 should be 
        achieved;
            (2) include reconciliation directives described in 
        section 310;
            (3) require a procedure under which all or certain 
        bills or resolutions providing new budget authority or 
        new entitlement authority for such fiscal year shall 
        not be enrolled until the Congress has completed action 
        on any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution 
        or both required by such concurrent resolution to be 
        reported in accordance with section 310(b);
            (4) set forth such other matters, and require such 
        other procedures, relating to the budget, as may be 
        appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act;
            (5) include a heading entitled ``Debt Increase as 
        Measure of Deficit'' in which the concurrent resolution 
        shall set forth the amounts by which the debt subject 
        to limit (in section 3101 of title 31 of the United 
        States Code) has increased or would increase in each of 
        the relevant fiscal years;
            (6) include a heading entitled ``Display of Federal 
        Retirement Trust Fund Balances'' in which the 
        concurrent resolution shall set forth the balances of 
        the Federal retirement trust funds;
            (7) set forth procedures in the Senate whereby 
        committee allocations, aggregates, and other levels can 
        be revised for legislation if that legislation would 
        not increase the deficit, or would not increase the 
        deficit when taken with other legislation enacted after 
        the adoption of the resolution, for the first fiscal 
        year or the total period of fiscal years covered by the 
        resolution;
            (8) set forth procedures to effectuate pay-as-you-
        go in the House of Representatives; and
            (9) set forth direct loan obligation and primary 
        loan guarantee commitment levels.
    (c) Consideration of Procedures or Matters Which Have the 
Effect of Changing any Rule of the House of Representatives.--
If the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives 
reports any concurrent resolution on the budget which includes 
any procedure or matter which has the effect of changing any 
rule of the House of Representatives, such concurrent 
resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on Rules 
with instructions to report it within five calendar days (not 
counting any day on which the House is not in session). The 
Committee on Rules shall have jurisdiction to report any 
concurrent resolution referred to it under this paragraph with 
an amendment or amendments changing or striking out any such 
procedure or matter.
    (d) \1\ Views and Estimates of Other Committees.--Within 6 
weeks after the President submits a budget under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or at such time as may 
be requested by the Committee on the Budget, each committee of 
the House of Representatives having legislative jurisdiction 
shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the House and 
each committee of the Senate having legislative jurisdiction 
shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate its 
views and estimates (as determined by the committee making such 
submission) with respect to all matters set forth in 
subsections (a) and (b) which relate to matters within the 
jurisdiction or functions of such committee. The Joint Economic 
Committee shall submit to the Committees on the Budget of both 
Houses its recommendations as to the fiscal policy appropriate 
to the goals of the Employment Act of 1946. Any other committee 
of the House of Representatives or the Senate may submit to the 
Committee on the Budget of its House, and any joint committee 
of the Congress may submit to the Committees on the Budget of 
both Houses, its views and estimates with respect to all 
matters set forth in subsections (a) and (b) which relate to 
matters within its jurisdiction or functions. Any Committee of 
the House of Representatives or the Senate that anticipates 
that the committee will consider any proposed legislation 
establishing, amending, or reauthorizing any Federal program 
likely to have a significant budgetary impact on any State, 
local, or tribal government, or likely to have a significant 
financial impact on the private sector, including any 
legislative proposal submitted by the executive branch likely 
to have such a budgetary or financial impact, shall include its 
views and estimates on that proposal to the Committee on the 
Budget of the applicable House.
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    (e) Hearings and Report.--
            (1) In general.--In developing the concurrent 
        resolution on the budget referred to in subsection (a) 
        for each fiscal year, the Committee on the Budget of 
        each House shall hold hearings and shall receive 
        testimony from Members of Congress and such appropriate 
        representatives of Federal departments and agencies, 
        the general public, and national organizations as the 
        committee deems desirable. Each of the recommendations 
        as to short-term and medium-term goal set forth in the 
        report submitted by the members of the Joint Economic 
        Committee under subsection (d) may be considered by the 
        Committee on the Budget of each House as part of its 
        consideration of such concurrent resolution, and its 
        report may reflect its views thereon, including its 
        views on how the estimates of revenues and levels of 
        budget authority and outlays set forth in such 
        concurrent resolution are designed to achieve any goals 
        it is recommending.
            (2) Required contents of report.--The report 
        accompanying the resolution shall include--
                    (A) a comparison of the levels of total new 
                budget authority, total outlays, total 
                revenues, and the surplus or deficit for each 
                fiscal year set forth in the resolution with 
                those requested in the budget submitted by the 
                President;
                    (B) with respect to each major functional 
                category, an estimate of total new budget 
                authority and total outlays, with the estimates 
                divided between discretionary and mandatory 
                amounts;
                    (C) the economic assumptions that underlie 
                each of the matters set forth in the resolution 
                and any alternative economic assumptions and 
                objectives the committee considered;
                    (D) information, data, and comparisons 
                indicating the manner in which, and the basis 
                on which, the committee determined each of the 
                matters set forth in the resolution;
                    (E) the estimated levels of tax 
                expenditures (the tax expenditures budget) by 
                major items and functional categories for the 
                President's budget and in the resolution; and
                    (F) allocations described in section 
                302(a).
            (3) Additional contents of report.--The report 
        accompanying the resolution may include--
                    (A) a statement of any significant changes 
                in the proposed levels of Federal assistance to 
                State and local governments;
                    (B) an allocation of the level of Federal 
                revenues recommended in the resolution among 
                the major sources of such revenues;
                    (C) information, data, and comparisons on 
                the share of total Federal budget outlays and 
                of gross domestic product devoted to investment 
                in the budget submitted by the President and in 
                the resolution;
                    (D) the assumed levels of budget authority 
                and outlays for public buildings, with a 
                division between amounts for construction and 
                repair and for rental payments; and
                    (E) other matters, relating to the budget 
                and to fiscal policy, that the committee deems 
                appropriate.
    (f) Achievement of Goals for Reducing Unemployment.--
            (1) If, pursuant to section 4(c) of the Employment 
        Act of 1946, the President recommends in the Economic 
        Report that the goals for reducing unemployment set 
        forth in section 4(b) of such Act be achieved in a year 
        after the close of the five-year period prescribed by 
        such subsection, the concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for the fiscal year beginning after the date on 
        which such Economic Report is received by the Congress 
        may set forth the year in which, in the opinion of the 
        Congress, such goals can be achieved.
            (2) After the Congress has expressed its opinion 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) as to the year in which the 
        goals for reducing unemployment set forth in section 
        4(b) of the Employment Act of 1946 can be achieved, if, 
        pursuant to section 4(e) of such Act, the President 
        recommends in the Economic Report that such goals be 
        achieved in a year which is different from the year in 
        which the Congress has expressed its opinion that such 
        goals should be achieved, either in its action pursuant 
        to paragraph (1) or in its most recent action pursuant 
        to this paragraph, the concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for the fiscal year beginning after the date on 
        which such Economic Report is received by the Congress 
        may set forth the year in which, in the opinion of the 
        Congress, such goals can be achieved.
            (3) It shall be in order to amend the provision of 
        such resolution setting forth such year only if the 
        amendment thereto also proposes to alter the estimates, 
        amounts, and levels (as described in subsection (a)) 
        set forth in such resolution in germane fashion in 
        order to be consistent with the economic goals (as 
        described in sections 3(a)(2) and (4)(b) of the 
        Employment Act of 1946) which such amendment proposes 
        can be achieved by the year specified in such 
        amendment.
    (g) Economic Assumptions.--
            (1) It shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for a 
        fiscal year, or any amendment thereto, or any 
        conference report thereon, that sets forth amounts and 
        levels that are determined on the basis of more than 
        one set of economic and technical assumptions.
            (2) The joint explanatory statement accompanying a 
        conference report on a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget shall set forth the common economic assumptions 
        upon which such joint statement and conference report 
        are based, or upon which any amendment contained in the 
        joint explanatory statement to be proposed by the 
        conferees in the case of technical disagreement, is 
        based.
            (3) Subject to periodic reestimation based on 
        changed economic conditions or technical estimates, 
        determinations under titles III and IV of the 
        Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall be based upon 
        such common economic and technical assumptions.
    (h) Budget Committees Consultation With Committees.--The 
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall 
consult with the committees of its House having legislative 
jurisdiction during the preparation, consideration, and 
enforcement of the concurrent resolution on the budget with 
respect to all matters which relate to the jurisdiction or 
functions of such committees.
    (i) Social Security Point of Order.--It shall not be in 
order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on 
the budget (or amendment, motion, or conference report on the 
resolution) that would decrease the excess of social security 
revenues over social security outlays in any of the fiscal 
years covered by the concurrent resolution. No change in 
chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be treated 
as affecting the amount of social security revenues unless such 
provision changes the income tax treatment of social security 
benefits.
                         committee allocations
    Sec. 302. [2 U.S.C. 633] (a) Committee Spending 
Allocations.--
            (1) Allocation among committees.--The joint 
        explanatory statement accompanying a conference report 
        on a concurrent resolution on the budget shall include 
        an allocation, consistent with the resolution 
        recommended in the conference report, of the levels for 
        the first fiscal year of the resolution, for at least 
        each of the ensuing 4 fiscal years, and a total for 
        that period of fiscal years (except in the case of the 
        Committee on Appropriations only for the fiscal year of 
        that resolution) of--
                    (A) total new budget authority; and
                    (B) total outlays;
        among each committee of the House of Representatives or 
        the Senate that has jurisdiction over legislation 
        providing or creating such amounts.
            (2) No double counting.--In the House of 
        Representatives, any item allocated to one committee 
        may not be allocated to another committee.
            (3) Further division of amounts.--
                    (A) In the senate.--In the Senate, the 
                amount allocated to the Committee on 
                Appropriations shall be further divided among 
                the categories specified in section 250(c)(4) 
                of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
                Control Act of 1985 and shall not exceed the 
                limits for each category set forth in section 
                251(c) of that Act.
                    (B) In the house.--In the House of 
                Representatives, the amounts allocated to each 
                committee for each fiscal year, other than the 
                Committee on Appropriations, shall be further 
                divided between amounts provided or required by 
                law on the date of filing of that conference 
                report and amounts not so provided or required. 
                The amounts allocated to the Committee on 
                Appropriations shall be further divided--
                            (i) between discretionary and 
                        mandatory amounts or programs, as 
                        appropriate; and
                            (ii) consistent with the categories 
                        specified in section 250(c)(4) of the 
                        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
                        Control Act of 1985.
            (4) Amounts not allocated.--In the House of 
        Representatives or the Senate, if a committee receives 
        no allocation of new budget authority or outlays, that 
        committee shall be deemed to have received an 
        allocation equal to zero for new budget authority or 
        outlays.
            (5) Adjusting allocation of discretionary spending 
        in the house of representatives.--(A) If a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget is not adopted by April 15, 
        the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
        House of Representatives shall submit to the House, as 
        soon as practicable, an allocation under paragraph (1) 
        to the Committee on Appropriations consistent with the 
        discretionary spending levels in the most recently 
        agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for the 
        appropriate fiscal year covered by that resolution.
            (B) As soon as practicable after an allocation 
        under paragraph (1) is submitted under this section, 
        the Committee on Appropriations shall make 
        suballocations and report those suballocations to the 
        House of Representatives.
    (b) Suballocations by Appropriations Committees.--As soon 
as practicable after a concurrent resolution on the budget is 
agreed to, the Committee on Appropriations of each House (after 
consulting with the Committee on Appropriations of the other 
House) shall suballocate each amount allocated to it for the 
budget year under subsection (a) among its subcommittees. Each 
Committee on Appropriations shall promptly report to its House 
suballocations made or revised under this subsection. The 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
shall further divide among its subcommittees the divisions made 
under subsection (a)(3)(B) and promptly report those divisions 
to the House.
    (c) Point of Order.--After the Committee on Appropriations 
has received an allocation pursuant to subsection (a) for a 
fiscal year, it shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report within the 
jurisdiction of that committee providing new budget authority 
for that fiscal year, until that committee makes the 
suballocations required by subsection (b).
    (d) Subsequent Concurrent Resolutions.--In the case of a 
concurrent resolution on the budget referred to in section 304, 
the allocations under subsection (a) and the subdivisions under 
subsection (b) shall be required only to the extent necessary 
to take into account revisions made in the most recently agreed 
to concurrent resolution on the budget.
    (e) Alteration of Allocations.--At any time after a 
committee reports the allocations required to be made under 
subsection (b), such committee may report to its House an 
alteration of such allocations. Any alteration of such 
allocations must be consistent with any actions already taken 
by its House on legislation within the committee's 
jurisdiction.
    (f) Legislation Subject to Point of Order.--
            (1) In the house of representatives.--After the 
        Congress has completed action on a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, it shall 
        not be in order in the House of Representatives to 
        consider any bill, joint resolution, or amendment 
        providing new budget authority for any fiscal year, or 
        any conference report on any such bill or joint 
        resolution, if--
                    (A) the enactment of such bill or 
                resolution as reported;
                    (B) the adoption and enactment of such 
                amendment; or
                    (C) the enactment of such bill or 
                resolution in the form recommended in such 
                conference report,
        would cause the applicable allocation of new budget 
        authority made under subsection (a) or (b) for the 
        first fiscal year or the total of fiscal years to be 
        exceeded.
            (2) In the senate.--After a concurrent resolution 
        on the budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in 
        the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, 
        amendment, motion, or conference report that would 
        cause--
                    (A) in the case of any committee except the 
                Committee on Appropriations, the applicable 
                allocation of new budget authority or outlays 
                under subsection (a) for the first fiscal year 
                or the total of fiscal years to be exceeded; or
                    (B) in the case of the Committee on 
                Appropriations, the applicable suballocation of 
                new budget authority or outlays under 
                subsection (b) to be exceeded.
    (g) Pay-as-You-Go Exception in the House.--
            (1) In general.--(A) Subsection (f)(1) and, after 
        April 15, section 303(a) shall not apply to any bill or 
        joint resolution, as reported, amendment thereto, or 
        conference report thereon if, for each fiscal year 
        covered by the most recently agreed to concurrent 
        resolution on the budget--
                    (i) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution as reported;
                    (ii) the adoption and enactment of that 
                amendment; or
                    (iii) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution in the form recommended in that 
                conference report,
        would not increase the deficit, and, if the sum of any 
        revenue increases provided in legislation already 
        enacted during the current session (when added to 
        revenue increases, if any, in excess of any outlay 
        increase provided by the legislation proposed for 
        consideration) is at least as great as the sum of the 
        amount, if any, by which the aggregate level of Federal 
        revenues should be increased as set forth in that 
        concurrent resolution and the amount, if any, by which 
        revenues are to be increased pursuant to pay-as-you-go 
        procedures under section 301(b)(8), if included in that 
        concurrent resolution.
            (B) Section 311(a), as that section applies to 
        revenues, shall not apply to any bill, joint 
        resolution, amendment thereto, or conference report 
        thereon if, for each fiscal year covered by the most 
        recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the 
        budget--
                    (i) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution as reported;
                    (ii) the adoption and enactment of that 
                amendment; or
                    (iii) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution in the form recommended in that 
                conference report,
        would not increase the deficit, and, if the sum of any 
        outlay reductions provided in legislation already 
        enacted during the current session (when added to 
        outlay reductions, if any, in excess of any revenue 
        reduction provided by the legislation proposed for 
        consideration) is at least as great as the sum of the 
        amount, if any, by which the aggregate level of Federal 
        outlays should be reduced as required by that 
        concurrent resolution and the amount, if any, by which 
        outlays are to be reduced pursuant to pay-as-you-go 
        procedures under section 301(b)(8), if included in that 
        concurrent resolution.
            (2) Revised allocations.--(A) As soon as 
        practicable after Congress agrees to a bill or joint 
        resolution that would have been subject to a point of 
        order under subsection (f)(1) but for the exception 
        provided in paragraph (1)(A) or would have been subject 
        to a point of order under section 311(a) but for the 
        exception provided in paragraph (1)(B), the chairman of 
        the committee \1\ on the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives shall file with the House appropriately 
        revised allocations under section 302(a) and revised 
        functional levels and budget aggregates to reflect that 
        bill.
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            (B) Such revised allocations, functional levels, 
        and budget aggregates shall be considered for the 
        purposes of this Act as allocations, functional levels, 
        and budget aggregates contained in the most recently 
        agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget.
   concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before budget-
                   related legislation is considered
    Sec. 303. \2\ [2 U.S.C. 634] (a) In General.--Until the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year has been 
agreed to, it shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives, with respect to the first fiscal year covered 
by that resolution, or the Senate, with respect to any fiscal 
year covered by that resolution, to consider any bill or joint 
resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or conference report 
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the 106th Congress by section 2(a)(3) of H. Res. 5 (106th Congress) on 
January 6, 1999, to clarify that, in the case of a reported bill or 
joint resolution considered pursuant to a special order, determinations 
under section 303 are for the text made in order as an original bill or 
joint resolution for the purpose of amendment or to the text on which 
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            (1) first provides new budget authority for that 
        fiscal year;
            (2) first provides an increase or decrease in 
        revenues during that fiscal year;
            (3) provides an increase or decrease in the public 
        debt limit to become effective during that fiscal year;
            (4) in the Senate only, first provides new 
        entitlement authority for that fiscal year; or
            (5) in the Senate only, first provides for an 
        increase or decrease in outlays for that fiscal year.
    (b) Exceptions in the House.-- In the House of 
Representatives, subsection (a) does not apply--
            (1)(A) to any bill or joint resolution, as 
        reported, providing advance discretionary new budget 
        authority that first becomes available for the first or 
        second fiscal year after the budget year; or
            (B) to any bill or joint resolution, as reported, 
        first increasing or decreasing revenues in a fiscal 
        year following the fiscal year to which the concurrent 
        resolution applies;
            (2) after May 15, to any general appropriation bill 
        or amendment thereto; or
            (3) to any bill or joint resolution unless it is 
        reported by a committee.
    (c) Application to Appropriation Measures in the Senate.--
            (1) In general.--Until the concurrent resolution on 
        the budget for a fiscal year has been agreed to and an 
        allocation has been made to the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate under section 302(a) for 
        that year, it shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any appropriation bill or joint resolution, 
        amendment or motion thereto, or conference report 
        thereon for that year or any subsequent year.
            (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) does not apply to 
        appropriations legislation making advance 
        appropriations for the first or second fiscal year 
        after the year the allocation referred to in that 
        paragraph is made.
     permissible revisions of concurrent resolutions on the budget
    Sec. 304. \1\ [2 U.S.C. 635] At any time after the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year has been 
agreed to pursuant to section 301, and before the end of such 
fiscal year, the two Houses may adopt a concurrent resolution 
on the budget which revises or reaffirms the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for such fiscal year most recently 
agreed to.
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                               the budget
    Sec. 305. [2 U.S.C. 636] (a) \2\ Procedure in House of 
Representatives After Report of Committee; Debate.--
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            (1) When a concurrent resolution on the budget has 
        been reported by the Committee on the Budget of the 
        House of Representatives and has been referred to the 
        appropriate calendar of the House, it shall be in order 
        on any day thereafter, subject to clause 2(l)(6) of 
        rule XI \3\ of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives, to move to proceed to the 
        consideration of the concurrent resolution. The motion 
        is highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment 
        to the motion is not in order and it is not in order to 
        move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is 
        agreed to or disagreed to.
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            (2) General debate on any concurrent resolution on 
        the budget in the House of Representatives shall be 
        limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be 
        divided equally between the majority and minority 
        parties, plus such additional hours of debate as are 
        consumed pursuant to paragraph (3). A motion further to 
        limit debate is not debatable. A motion to recommit the 
        concurrent resolution is not in order, and it is not in 
        order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
        concurrent resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
            (3) Following the presentation of opening 
        statements on the concurrent resolution on the budget 
        for a fiscal year by the chairman and ranking minority 
        member of the Committee on the Budget of the House, 
        there shall be a period of up to four hours for debate 
        on economic goals and policies.
            (4) Only if a concurrent resolution on the budget 
        reported by the Committee on the Budget of the House 
        sets forth the economic goals (as described in sections 
        3(a)(2) and (4)(b) of the Full Employment Act of 1946) 
        which the estimates, amounts, and levels (as described 
        in section 301(a)) set forth in such resolution are 
        designed to achieve, shall it be in order to offer to 
        such resolution an amendment relating to such goals, 
        and such amendment shall be in order only if it also 
        proposes to alter such estimates, amounts, and levels 
        in germane fashion in order to be consistent with the 
        goals proposed in such amendment.
            (5) \1\ Consideration of any concurrent resolution 
        on the budget by the House of Representatives shall be 
        in the Committee of the Whole, and the resolution shall 
        be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule 
        in accordance with the applicable provisions of rule 
        XXIII \2\ of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
        After the Committee rises and reports the resolution 
        back to the House, the previous question shall be 
        considered as ordered on the resolution and any 
        amendments thereto to final passage without intervening 
        motion; except that it shall be in order at any time 
        prior to final passage (notwithstanding any other rule 
        or provision of law) to adopt an amendment (or a series 
        of amendments) changing any figure or figures in the 
        resolution as so reported to the extent necessary to 
        achieve mathematical consistency.
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            (6) Debate in the House of Representatives on the 
        conference report on any concurrent resolution on the 
        budget shall be limited to not more than 5 hours, which 
        shall be divided equally between the majority and 
        minority parties. A motion further to limit debate is 
        not debatable. A motion to recommit the conference 
        report is not in order, and it is not in order to move 
        to reconsider the vote by which the conference report 
        is agreed to or disagreed to.
            (7) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to 
        the application of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives to the procedure relating to any 
        concurrent resolution on the budget shall be decided 
        without debate.
    (b) Procedure in Senate After Report of Committee; Debate; 
Amendments.--
            (1) Debate in the Senate on any concurrent 
        resolution on the budget, and all amendments thereto 
        and debatable motions and appeals in connection 
        therewith, shall be limited to not more than 50 hours, 
        except that with respect to any concurrent resolution 
        referred to in section 304(a) \3\ all such debate shall 
        be limited to not more than 15 hours. The time shall be 
        equally divided between, and controlled by, the 
        majority leader and the minority leader or their 
        designees.
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            (2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a 
        concurrent resolution on the budget shall be limited to 
        2 hours, to be equally divided between, and controlled 
        by, the mover and the manager of the concurrent 
        resolution, and debate on any amendment to an 
        amendment, debatable motion, or appeal shall be limited 
        to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
        concurrent resolution, except that in the event the 
        manager of the concurrent resolution is in favor of any 
        such amendment, motion, or appeal, the time in 
        opposition thereto shall be controlled by the minority 
        leader or his designee. No amendment that is not 
        germane to the provisions of such concurrent resolution 
        shall be received. Such leaders, or either of them, 
        may, from the time under their control on the passage 
        of the concurrent resolution, allot additional time to 
        any Senator during the consideration of any amendment, 
        debatable motion, or appeal.
            (3) Following the presentation of opening 
        statements on the concurrent resolution on the budget 
        for a fiscal year by the chairman and ranking minority 
        member of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate, 
        there shall be a period of up to four hours for debate 
        on economic goals and policies.
            (4) Subject to the other limitations of this Act, 
        only if a concurrent resolution on the budget reported 
        by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate sets forth 
        the economic goals (as described in sections 3(a)(2) 
        and 4(b) of the Employment Act of 1946) which the 
        estimates, amounts, and levels (as described in section 
        301(a)) set forth in such resolution are designed to 
        achieve, shall it be in order to offer to such 
        resolution an amendment relating to such goals, and 
        such amendment shall be in order only if it also 
        proposes to alter such estimates, amounts, and levels 
        in germane fashion in order to be consistent with the 
        goals proposed in such amendment.
            (5) A motion to further limit debate is not 
        debatable. A motion to recommit (except a motion to 
        recommit with instructions to report back within a 
        specified number of days, not to exceed 3, not counting 
        any day on which the Senate is not in session) is not 
        in order. Debate on any such motion to recommit shall 
        be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
        and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
        concurrent resolution.
            (6) Notwithstanding any other rule, an amendment or 
        series of amendments to a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget proposed in the Senate shall always be in order 
        if such amendment or series of amendments proposes to 
        change any figure or figures then contained in such 
        concurrent resolution so as to make such concurrent 
        resolution mathematically consistent or so as to 
        maintain such consistency.
    (c) Action on Conference Reports in the Senate.--
            (1) A motion to proceed to the consideration of the 
        conference report on any concurrent resolution on the 
        budget (or a reconciliation bill or resolution) may be 
        made even though a previous motion to the same effect 
        has been disagreed to.
            (2) During the consideration in the Senate of the 
        conference report (or a message between Houses) on any 
        concurrent resolution on the budget, and all amendments 
        in disagreement, and all amendments thereto, and 
        debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, 
        debate shall be limited to 10 hours, to be equally 
        divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader 
        and minority leader or their designees. Debate on any 
        debatable motion or appeal related to the conference 
        report (or a message between Houses) shall be limited 
        to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
        conference report (or a message between Houses).
            (3) Should the conference report be defeated, 
        debate on any request for a new conference and the 
        appointment of conferrees shall be limited to 1 hour, 
        to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the 
        manager of the conference report and the minority 
        leader or his designee, and should any motion be made 
        to instruct the conferees before the conferees are 
        named, debate on such motion shall be limited to one-
        half hour, to be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
        conference report. Debate on any amendment to any such 
        instructions shall be limited to 20 minutes, to be 
        equally divided between and controlled by the mover and 
        the manager of the conference report. In all cases when 
        the manager of the conference report is in favor of any 
        motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition 
        shall be under the control of the minority leader or 
        his designee.
            (4) In any case in which there are amendments in 
        disagreement, time on each amendment shall be limited 
        to 30 minutes, to be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the manager of the conference report and 
        the minority leader or his designee. No amendment that 
        is not germane to the provisions of such amendments 
        shall be received.
    (d) Concurrent Resolution Must be Consistent in the 
Senate.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to vote on the 
question of agreeing to--
            (1) a concurrent resolution on the budget unless 
        the figures then contained in such resolution are 
        mathematically consistent; or
            (2) a conference report on a concurrent resolution 
        on the budget unless the figures contained in such 
        resolution, as recommended in such conference report, 
        are mathematically consistent.
legislation dealing with congressional budget must be handled by budget 
                               committees
    Sec. 306. [2 U.S.C. 637] No bill, resolution, amendment, 
motion, or conference report, dealing with any matter which is 
within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget of 
either House shall be considered in that House unless it is a 
bill or resolution which has been reported by the Committee on 
the Budget of that House (or from the consideration of which 
such committee has been discharged) or unless it is an 
amendment to such a bill or resolution.
 house committee action on all appropriation bills to be completed by 
                                june 10
    Sec. 307. [2 U.S.C. 638] On or before June 10 of each year, 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
shall report annual appropriation bills providing new budget 
authority under the jurisdiction of all of its subcommittees 
for the fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that year.
  reports, summaries, and projections of congressional budget actions
    Sec. 308. [2 U.S.C. 639] (a) \1\ Reports on Legislation 
Providing New Budget Authority or Providing an Increase or 
Decrease in Revenues or Tax Expenditures.--
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            (1) Whenever a committee of either House reports to 
        its House a bill or joint resolution, or committee 
        amendment thereto, providing new budget authority 
        (other than continuing appropriations) or providing an 
        increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures 
        for a fiscal year (or fiscal years), the report 
        accompanying that bill or joint resolution shall 
        contain a statement, or the committee shall make 
        available such a statement in the case of an approved 
        committee amendment which is not reported to its House, 
        prepared after consultation with the Director of the 
        Congressional Budget Office--
                    (A) comparing the levels in such measure to 
                the appropriate allocations in the reports 
                submitted under section 302(b) for the most 
                recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the 
                budget for such fiscal year (or fiscal years);
                    (B) containing a projection by the 
                Congressional Budget Office of how such measure 
                will affect the levels of such budget 
                authority, budget outlays, revenues, or tax 
                expenditures under existing law for such fiscal 
                year (or fiscal years) and each of the four 
                ensuing fiscal years, if timely submitted 
                before such report is filed; and
                    (C) containing an estimate by the 
                Congressional Budget Office of the level of new 
                budget authority for assistance to State and 
                local governments provided by such measure, if 
                timely submitted before such report is filed.
            (2) Whenever a conference report is filed in either 
        House and such conference report or any amendment 
        reported in disagreement or any amendment contained in 
        the joint statement of managers to be proposed by the 
        conferees in the case of technical disagreement on such 
        bill or joint resolution provides new budget authority 
        (other than continuing appropriations) or provides an 
        increase or decrease in revenues for a fiscal year (or 
        fiscal years), the statement of managers accompanying 
        such conference report shall contain the information 
        described in paragraph (1), if available on a timely 
        basis. If such information is not available when the 
        conference report is filed, the committee shall make 
        such information available to Members as soon as 
        practicable prior to the consideration of such 
        conference report.
    (b) Up-To-Date Tabulations of Congressional Budget 
Action.--
            (1) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office 
        shall issue to the committees of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate reports on at least a 
        monthly basis detailing and tabulating the progress of 
        congressional action on bills and joint resolutions 
        providing new budget authority or providing an increase 
        or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures for each 
        fiscal year covered by a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget. Such reports shall include but are not limited 
        to an up-to-date tabulation comparing the appropriate 
        aggregate and functional levels (including outlays) 
        included in the most recently adopted concurrent 
        resolution on the budget with the levels provided in 
        bills and joint resolutions reported by committees or 
        adopted by either House or by the Congress, and with 
        the levels provided by law for the fiscal year 
        preceding the first fiscal year covered by the 
        appropriate concurrent resolution.
            (2) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall 
        make available to Members of its House summary budget 
        scorekeeping reports. Such reports--
                    (A) shall be made available on at least a 
                monthly basis, but in any case frequently 
                enough to provide Members of each House an 
                accurate representation of the current status 
                of congressional consideration of the budget;
                    (B) shall include, but are not limited to 
                summaries of tabulations provided under 
                subsection (b)(1); and
                    (C) shall be based on information provided 
                under subsection (b)(1) without substantive 
                revision.
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives shall submit such reports to the Speaker.
    (c) Five-Year Projection of Congressional Budget Act.--As 
soon as practicable after the beginning of each fiscal year, 
the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall issue a 
report projecting for the period of 5 fiscal years beginning 
with such fiscal year--
            (1) total new budget authority and total budget 
        outlays for each fiscal year in such period;
            (2) revenues to be received and the major sources 
        thereof, and the surplus or deficit, if any, for each 
        fiscal year in such period;
            (3) tax expenditures for each fiscal year in such 
        period; and
            (4) entitlement authority for each fiscal year in 
        such period.
             house approval of regular appropriation bills
    Sec. 309. [2 U.S.C. 640] It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives to consider any resolution providing 
for an adjournment period of more than three calendar days 
during the month of July until the House of Representatives has 
approved annual appropriation bills providing new budget 
authority under the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of 
the Committee on Appropriations for the fiscal year beginning 
on October 1 of such year. For purposes of this section, the 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives shall periodically advise the Speaker as to 
changes in jurisdiction among its various subcommittees.
                             reconciliation
    Sec. 310. [2 U.S.C. 641] (a) Inclusion of Reconciliation 
Directives in Concurrent Resolutions on the Budget.--A 
concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal year, to the 
extent necessary to effectuate the provisions and requirements 
of such resolution, shall--
            (1) specify the total amount by which--
                    (A) new budget authority for such fiscal 
                year;
                    (B) budget authority initially provided for 
                prior fiscal years;
                    (C) new entitlement authority which is to 
                become effective during such fiscal year; and
                    (D) credit authority for such fiscal year,
        contained in laws, bills, and resolutions within the 
        jurisdiction of a committee is to be changed and direct 
        that committee to determine and recommend changes to 
        accomplish a change of such total amount;
            (2) specify the total amount by which revenues are 
        to be changed and direct that the committees having 
        jurisdiction to determine and recommend changes in the 
        revenue laws, bills, and resolutions to accomplish a 
        change of such total amount;
            (3) specify the amounts by which the statutory 
        limit on the public debt is to be changed and direct 
        the committee having jurisdiction to recommend such 
        change; or
            (4) specify and direct any combination of the 
        matters described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) 
        (including a direction to achieve deficit reduction).
    (b) Legislative Procedure.--If a concurrent resolution 
containing directives to one or more committees to determine 
and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions is agreed 
to in accordance with subsection (a), and--
            (1) only one committee of the House or the Senate 
        is directed to determine and recommend changes, that 
        committee shall promptly make such determination and 
        recommendations and report to its House reconciliation 
        legislation containing such recommendations; or
            (2) more than one committee of the House or the 
        Senate is directed to determine and recommend changes, 
        each such committee so directed shall promptly make 
        such determination and recommendations and submit such 
        recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of its 
        House, which upon receiving all such recommendations, 
        shall report to its House reconciliation legislation 
        carrying out all such recommendations without any 
        substantive revision.
For purposes of this subsection, a reconciliation resolution is 
a concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the case may 
be, to make specified changes in bills and resolutions which 
have not been enrolled.
    (c) Compliance With Reconciliation Directions.--(1) Any 
committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate that is 
directed, pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget, to 
determine and recommend changes of the type described in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) with respect to laws 
within its jurisdiction, shall be deemed to have complied with 
such directions--
            (A) if--
                    (i) the amount of the changes of the type 
                described in paragraph (1) of such subsection 
                recommended by such committee do not exceed or 
                fall below the amount of the changes such 
                committee was directed by such concurrent 
                resolution to recommend under that paragraph by 
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                            (I) in the Senate, 20 percent of 
                        the total of the amounts of the changes 
                        such committee was directed to make 
                        under paragraphs (1) and (2) of such 
                        subsection; or
                            (II) in the House of 
                        Representatives, 20 percent of the sum 
                        of the absolute value of the changes 
                        the committee was directed to make 
                        under paragraph (1) and the absolute 
                        value of the changes the committee was 
                        directed to make under paragraph (2); 
                        and
                    (ii) the amount of the changes of the type 
                described in paragraph (2) of such subsection 
                recommended by such committee do not exceed or 
                fall below the amount of the changes such 
                committee was directed by such concurrent 
                resolution to recommend under that paragraph by 
                more than-- \1\
                            (I) in the Senate, 20 percent of 
                        the total of the amounts of the changes 
                        such committee was directed to make 
                        under paragraphs (1) and (2) of such 
                        subsection; or
                            (II) in the House of 
                        Representatives, 20 percent of the sum 
                        of the absolute value of the changes 
                        the committee was directed to make 
                        under paragraph (1) and the absolute 
                        value of the changes the committee was 
                        directed to make under paragraph (2); 
                        and
            (B) if the total amount of the changes recommended 
        by such committee is not less than the total of the 
        amounts of the changes such committee was directed to 
        make under paragraphs (1) and (2) of such subsection.
            (2)(A) Upon the reporting to the Committee on the 
        Budget of the Senate of a recommendation that shall be 
        deemed to have complied with such directions solely by 
        virtue of this subsection, the chairman of that 
        committee may file with the Senate appropriately 
        revised allocations under section 302(a) and revised 
        functional levels and aggregates to carry out this 
        subsection.
            (B) Upon the submission to the Senate of a 
        conference report recommending a reconciliation bill or 
        resolution in which a committee shall be deemed to have 
        complied with such directions solely by virtue of this 
        subsection, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
        of the Senate may file with the Senate appropriately 
        revised allocations under section 302(a) and revised 
        functional levels and aggregates to carry out this 
        subsection.
            (C) Allocations, functional levels, and aggregates 
        revised pursuant to this paragraph shall be considered 
        to be allocations, functional levels, and aggregates 
        contained in the concurrent resolution on the budget 
        pursuant to section 301.
            (D) Upon the filing of revised allocations pursuant 
        to this paragraph, the reporting committee shall report 
        revised allocations pursuant to section 302(b) to carry 
        out this subsection.
    (d) Limitation on Amendments to Reconciliation Bills and 
Resolutions.--
            (1) It shall not be in order in the House of 
        Representatives to consider any amendment to a 
        reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution if 
        such amendment would have the effect of increasing any 
        specific budget outlays above the level of such outlays 
        provided in the bill or resolution (for the fiscal 
        years covered by the reconciliation instructions set 
        forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent 
        resolution on the budget), or would have the effect of 
        reducing any specific Federal revenues below the level 
        of such revenues provided in the bill or resolution 
        (for such fiscal years), unless such amendment makes at 
        least an equivalent reduction in other specific budget 
        outlays, an equivalent increase in other specific 
        Federal revenues, or an equivalent combination thereof 
        (for such fiscal years), except that a motion to strike 
        a provision providing new budget authority or new 
        entitlement authority may be in order.
            (2) It shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill or 
        reconciliation resolution if such amendment would have 
        the effect of decreasing any specific budget outlay 
        reductions below the level of such outlay reductions 
        provided (for the fiscal years covered) in the 
        reconciliation instructions which relate to such bill 
        or resolution set forth in a resolution providing for 
        reconciliation, or would have the effect of reducing 
        Federal revenue increases below the level of such 
        revenue increases provided (for such fiscal years) in 
        such instructions relating to such bill or resolution, 
        unless such amendment makes a reduction in other 
        specific budget outlays, an increase in other specific 
        Federal revenues, or a combination thereof (for such 
        fiscal years) at least equivalent to any increase in 
        outlays or decrease in revenues provided by such 
        amendment, except that a motion to strike a provision 
        shall always be in order.
            (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if a 
        declaration of war by the Congress is in effect.
            (4) For purposes of this section, the levels of 
        budget outlays and Federal revenues for a fiscal year 
        shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by 
        the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives or of the Senate, as the case may be.
            (5) The Committee on Rules of the House of 
        Representatives may make in order amendments to achieve 
        changes specified by reconciliation directives 
        contained in a concurrent resolution on the budget if a 
        committee or committees of the House fail to submit 
        recommended changes to its Committee on the Budget 
        pursuant to its instruction.
    (e) Procedure in the Senate.--
            (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        provisions of section 305 for the consideration in the 
        Senate of concurrent resolutions on the budget and 
        conference reports thereon shall also apply to the 
        consideration in the Senate of reconciliation bills 
        reported under subsection (b) and conference reports 
        thereon.
            (2) Debate in the Senate on any reconciliation bill 
        reported under subsection (b), and all amendments 
        thereto and debatable motions and appeals in connection 
        therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours.
    (f) Completion of Reconciliation Process.--It shall not be 
in order in the House of Representatives to consider any 
resolution providing for an adjournment period of more than 
three calendar days during the month of July until the House of 
Representatives has completed action on the reconciliation 
legislation for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of the 
calendar year to which the adjournment resolution pertains, if 
reconciliation legislation is required to be reported by the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year.
    (g) Limitation on Changes to the Social Security Act.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in 
order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider 
any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported 
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to 
under section 301 or 304, or a joint resolution pursuant to 
section 258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, or any amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to 
the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program 
established under title II of the Social Security Act.
      budget-related legislation must be within appropriate levels
    Sec. 311. [2 U.S.C. 642] (a) Enforcement of Budget 
Aggregates.--
            (1) In the house of representatives.--Except as 
        provided by subsection (c), after the Congress has 
        completed action on a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for a fiscal year, it shall not be in order in 
        the House of Representatives to consider any bill, 
        joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 
        report providing new budget authority or reducing 
        revenues, if--
                    (A) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution as reported;
                    (B) the adoption and enactment of that 
                amendment; or
                    (C) the enactment of that bill or 
                resolution in the form recommended in that 
                conference report;
        would cause the level of total new budget authority or 
        total outlays set forth in the applicable concurrent 
        resolution on the budget for the first fiscal year to 
        be exceeded, or would cause revenues to be less than 
        the level of total revenues set forth in that 
        concurrent resolution for the first fiscal year or for 
        the total of that first fiscal year and the ensuing 
        fiscal years for which allocations are provided under 
        section 302(a), except when a declaration of war by the 
        Congress is in effect.
            (2) In the senate.--After a concurrent resolution 
        on the budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in 
        the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, 
        amendment, motion, or conference report that--
                    (A) would cause the level of total new 
                budget authority or total outlays set forth for 
                the first fiscal year in the applicable 
                resolution to be exceeded; or
                    (B) would cause revenues to be less than 
                the level of total revenues set forth for that 
                first fiscal year or for the total of that 
                first fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years 
                in the applicable resolution for which 
                allocations are provided under section 302(a).
            (3) Enforcement of social security levels in the 
        senate.--After a concurrent resolution on the budget is 
        agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, 
        or conference report that would cause a decrease in 
        social security surpluses or an increase in social 
        security deficits relative to the levels set forth in 
        the applicable resolution for the first fiscal year or 
        for the total of that fiscal year and the ensuing 
        fiscal years for which allocations are provided under 
        section 302(a).
    (b) Social Security Levels.--
            (1) In general.--For purposes of subsection (a)(3), 
        social security surpluses equal the excess of social 
        security revenues over social security outlays in a 
        fiscal year or years with such an excess and social 
        security deficits equal the excess of social security 
        outlays over social security revenues in a fiscal year 
        or years with such an excess.
            (2) Tax treatment.--For purposes of subsection 
        (a)(3), no provision of any legislation involving a 
        change in chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 shall be treated as affecting the amount of social 
        security revenues or outlays unless that provision 
        changes the income tax treatment of social security 
        benefits.
    (c) Exception in the House of Representatives.--Subsection 
(a)(1) shall not apply in the House of Representatives to any 
bill, joint resolution, or amendment that provides new budget 
authority for a fiscal year or to any conference report on any 
such bill or resolution, if--
            (1) the enactment of that bill or resolution as 
        reported;
            (2) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; 
        or
            (3) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the 
        form recommended in that conference report;
would not cause the appropriate allocation of new budget 
authority made pursuant to section 302(a) for that fiscal year 
to be exceeded.
                   determinations and points of order
    Sec. 312. [2 U.S.C. 643] (a) Budget Committee 
Determinations.--For purposes of this title and title IV, the 
levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new 
entitlement authority, and revenues for a fiscal year shall be 
determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on 
the Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as 
applicable.
    (b) Discretionary Spending Point of Order in the Senate.--
            (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in 
        this subsection, it shall not be in order in the Senate 
        to consider any bill or resolution (or amendment, 
        motion, or conference report on that bill or 
        resolution) that would exceed any of the discretionary 
        spending limits in section 251(c) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
            (2) Exceptions.--This subsection shall not apply if 
        a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect or if 
        a joint resolution pursuant to section 258 of the 
        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
        1985 has been enacted.
    (c) Maximum Deficit Amount Point of Order in the Senate.--
It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any 
concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, or to 
consider any amendment to that concurrent resolution, or to 
consider a conference report on that concurrent resolution, 
if--
            (1) the level of total outlays for the first fiscal 
        year set forth in that concurrent resolution or 
        conference report exceeds; or
            (2) the adoption of that amendment would result in 
        a level of total outlays for that fiscal year that 
        exceeds;
the recommended level of Federal revenues for that fiscal year, 
by an amount that is greater than the maximum deficit amount, 
if any, specified in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 for that fiscal year.
    (d) Timing of Points of Order in the Senate.--A point of 
order under this Act may not be raised against a bill, 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report while an 
amendment or motion, the adoption of which would remedy the 
violation of this Act, is pending before the Senate.
    (e) Points of Order in the Senate Against Amendments 
Between the Houses.--Each provision of this Act that 
establishes a point of order against an amendment also 
establishes a point of order in the Senate against an amendment 
between the Houses. If a point of order under this Act is 
raised in the Senate against an amendment between the Houses 
and the point of order is sustained, the effect shall be the 
same as if the Senate had disagreed to the amendment.
    (f) Effect of a Point of Order in the Senate.--In the 
Senate, if a point of order under this Act against a bill or 
resolution is sustained, the Presiding Officer shall then 
recommit the bill or resolution to the committee of appropriate 
jurisdiction for further consideration.
            extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation
    Sec. 313. [2 U.S.C. 644] (a) In General.--When the Senate 
is considering a reconciliation bill or a reconciliation 
resolution pursuant to section 310 (whether that bill or 
resolution originated in the Senate or the House) or section 
258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, upon a point of order being made by any Senator 
against material extraneous to the instructions to a committee 
which is contained in any title or provision of the bill or 
resolution or offered as an amendment to the bill or 
resolution, and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, 
any part of said title or provision that contains material 
extraneous to the instructions to said Committee as defined in 
subsection (b) shall be deemed stricken from the bill and may 
not be offered as an amendment from the floor.
    (b) Extraneous Provisions.--(1)(A) Except as provided in 
paragraph (2), a provision of a reconciliation bill or 
reconciliation resolution considered pursuant to section 310 
shall be considered extraneous if such provision does not 
produce a change in outlays or revenue, including changes in 
outlays and revenues brought about by changes in the terms and 
conditions under which outlays are made or revenues are 
required to be collected (but a provision in which outlay 
decreases or revenue increases exactly offset outlay increases 
or revenue decreases shall not be considered extraneous by 
virtue of this subparagraph); (B) any provision producing an 
increase in outlays or decrease in revenues shall be considered 
extraneous if the net effect of provisions reported by the 
Committee reporting the title containing the provision is that 
the Committee fails to achieve its reconciliation instructions; 
(C) a provision that is not in the jurisdiction of the 
Committee with jurisdiction over said title or provision shall 
be considered extraneous; (D) a provision shall be considered 
extraneous if it produces changes in outlays or revenues which 
are merely incidental to the non-budgetary components of the 
provision; (E) a provision shall be considered to be extraneous 
if it increases, or would increase, net outlays, or if it 
decreases, or would decrease, revenues during a fiscal year 
after the fiscal years covered by such reconciliation bill or 
reconciliation resolution, and such increases or decreases are 
greater than outlay reductions or revenue increases resulting 
from other provisions in such title in such year; and (F) a 
provision shall be considered extraneous if it violates section 
310(g).
    (2) A Senate-originated provision shall not be considered 
extraneous under paragraph (1)(A) if the Chairman and Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee on the Budget and the Chairman 
and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee which reported the 
provision certify that: (A) the provision mitigates direct 
effects clearly attributable to a provision changing outlays or 
revenue and both provisions together produce a net reduction in 
the deficit; (B) the provision will result in a substantial 
reduction in outlays or a substantial increase in revenues 
during fiscal years after the fiscal years covered by the 
reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution; (C) a 
reduction of outlays or an increase in revenues is likely to 
occur as a result of the provision, in the event of new 
regulations authorized by the provision or likely to be 
proposed, court rulings on pending litigation, or relationships 
between economic indices and stipulated statutory triggers 
pertaining to the provision, other than the regulations, court 
rulings or relationships currently projected by the 
Congressional Budget Office for scorekeeping purposes; or (D) 
such provision will be likely to produce a significant 
reduction in outlays or increase in revenues but, due to 
insufficient data, such reduction or increase cannot be 
reliably estimated.
    (3) A provision reported by a committee shall not be 
considered extraneous under paragraph (1)(C) if (A) the 
provision is an integral part of a provision or title, which if 
introduced as a bill or resolution would be referred to such 
committee, and the provision sets forth the procedure to carry 
out or implement the substantive provisions that were reported 
and which fall within the jurisdiction of such committee; or 
(B) the provision states an exception to, or a special 
application of, the general provision or title of which it is a 
part and such general provision or title if introduced as a 
bill or resolution would be referred to such committee.
    (c) Extraneous Materials.--Upon the reporting or discharge 
of a reconciliation bill or resolution pursuant to section 310 
in the Senate, and again upon the submission of a conference 
report on such a reconciliation bill or resolution, the 
Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall submit for the 
record a list of material considered to be extraneous under 
subsections (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), and (b)(1)(E) of this section 
to the instructions of a committee as provided in this section. 
The inclusion or exclusion of a provision shall not constitute 
a determination of extraneousness by the Presiding Officer of 
the Senate.
    (d) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a 
conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 
relation to, a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution 
pursuant to section 310, upon--
            (1) a point of order being made by any Senator 
        against extraneous material meeting the definition of 
        subsections (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), (b)(1)(D), (b)(1)(E), 
        or (b)(1)(F), and
            (2) such point of order being sustained,
such material contained in such conference report or amendment 
shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed, without 
intervening action or motion, to consider the question of 
whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur 
with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with 
a further amendment, as the case may be, which further 
amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference 
report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. 
Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable for two hours. 
In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a 
conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such 
conference report by operation of this subsection), no further 
amendment shall be in order.
    (e) General Point of Order.--Notwithstanding any other law 
or rule of the Senate, it shall be in order for a Senator to 
raise a single point of order that several provisions of a 
bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report 
violate this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the 
point of order as to some or all of the provisions against 
which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding 
Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the 
provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or 
conference report) against which the Senator raised the point 
of order, then only those provisions (including provisions of 
an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the 
Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be deemed 
stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer 
rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive 
such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the 
provisions against which the point of order was raised. Such a 
motion to waive is amendable in accordance with the rules and 
precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on 
such a point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the 
Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to 
some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer 
ruled.
                              adjustments
    Sec. 314. [2 U.S.C. 645] (a) Adjustments.--
            (1) In general.--After the reporting of a bill or 
        joint resolution, the offering of an amendment thereto, 
        or the submission of a conference report thereon, the 
        chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives or the Senate shall make the 
        adjustments