Fiscal Year 2014 Report Committee on the Budget
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113TH CONGRESS " ! REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113–17 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET— FISCAL YEAR 2014 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ACCOMPANY H. Con. Res. 25 ESTABLISHING THE BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 AND SETTING FORTH APPRO- PRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2015 THROUGH 2023 together with MINORITY VIEWS MARCH 15, 2013.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:57 Mar 17, 2013 Jkt 079777 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6012 Sfmt 6012 E:\HR\OC\HR017.XXX HR017 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HEARING seneagle CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET—FISCAL YEAR 2014 VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:57 Mar 17, 2013 Jkt 079777 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\HR017.XXX HR017 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HEARING with DSK6VPTVN1PROD on rfrederick 1 113TH CONGRESS " ! REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113–17 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET— FISCAL YEAR 2014 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ACCOMPANY H. Con. Res. 25 ESTABLISHING THE BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 AND SETTING FORTH APPRO- PRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2015 THROUGH 2023 together with MINORITY VIEWS MARCH 15, 2013.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 79–777 WASHINGTON : 2013 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, http://bookstore.gpo.gov. For more information, contact the GPO Customer Contact Center, U.S. Government Printing Office. Phone 202–512–1800, or 866–512–1800 (toll-free). E-mail, [email protected]. VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:57 Mar 17, 2013 Jkt 079777 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5012 Sfmt 5012 E:\HR\OC\HR017.XXX HR017 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HEARING seneagle COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin, Chairman TOM PRICE, Georgia CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland, SCOTT GARRETT, New Jersey Ranking Minority Member JOHN CAMPBELL, California ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania KEN CALVERT, California JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky TOM COLE, Oklahoma BILL PASCRELL, JR., New Jersey TOM MCCLINTOCK, California TIM RYAN, Ohio JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma GWEN MOORE, Wisconsin DIANE BLACK, Tennessee KATHY CASTOR, Florida REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin JIM MCDERMOTT, Washington BILL FLORES, Texas BARBARA LEE, California TODD ROKITA, Indiana DAVID N. CICILLINE, Rhode Island ROB WOODALL, Georgia HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee MARK POCAN, Wisconsin ALAN NUNNELEE, Mississippi MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia JARED HUFFMAN, California VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri TONY CA´ RDENAS, California JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon LUKE MESSER, Indiana KURT SCHRADER, Oregon TOM RICE, South Carolina ROGER WILLIAMS, Texas SEAN P. DUFFY, Wisconsin PROFESSIONAL STAFF AUSTIN SMYTHE, Staff Director THOMAS S. KAHN, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:57 Mar 17, 2013 Jkt 079777 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\HR017.XXX HR017 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HEARING C O N T E N T S Page Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 Summary Tables—Spending and Revenues: Table 1. Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution Total Spending and Revenue ......................................................................................................... 10 Table 2. Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution Discretionary Spending ........ 13 Table 3. Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution Mandatory Spending ............ 15 Table 4. Summary of Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution ........................... 18 Table 5. Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution vs. the President’s Budget ... 19 Economic Assumptions of the Budget Resolution ................................................. 21 Table 6. Economic Projections: Administration, CBO, and Private Forecasters .................................................................................................... 25 Table 7. Economic Assumptions of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution ...................................................................................................... 26 Table 8. Tax Expenditure Estimates by Budget Function, Fiscal Years 2012–2017 ...................................................................................................... 27 Function-by-Function Presentation ........................................................................ 39 050 National Defense ....................................................................................... 39 150 International Affairs ................................................................................. 43 250 General Science, Space, and Technology ................................................. 47 270 Energy ........................................................................................................ 49 300 Natural Resources and Environment ...................................................... 53 350 Agriculture ................................................................................................. 57 370 Commerce and Housing Credit ................................................................ 59 400 Transportation ........................................................................................... 65 450 Community and Regional Development .................................................. 69 500 Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services ........................ 73 550 Health ......................................................................................................... 79 570 Medicare ..................................................................................................... 83 600 Income Security ......................................................................................... 87 650 Social Security ........................................................................................... 91 700 Veterans Benefits and Services ................................................................ 95 750 Administration of Justice ......................................................................... 97 800 General Government ................................................................................. 99 900 Net Interest ............................................................................................... 101 920 Allowances ................................................................................................. 103 930 Government-Wide Savings ....................................................................... 105 950 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts ........................................................... 107 970 Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism ................ 109 Revenue .................................................................................................................... 111 Committee on Ways and Means Letter ................................................................. 115 Direct Spending Trends and Reforms .................................................................... 119 Table 9. Historical Means-Tested and Non Means-Tested Direct Spending ........................................................................................................ 123 Table 10. Projected Means-Tested and Non Means-Tested Direct Spending ........................................................................................................ 125 Reconciliation ........................................................................................................... 127 The Long-Term Budget Outlook ............................................................................. 129 Section-by-Section Description ............................................................................... 131 Title I. Recommended Levels and Amounts ................................................... 131 Title II. Reconciliation ...................................................................................... 132 Title III. Recommended Levels for Fiscal Years 2030, 2040, and 2050 ....... 133 Title IV. Reserve Funds ................................................................................... 134 Title V. Estimates of Direct Spending ............................................................ 137 Title VI. Budget Enforcement ......................................................................... 138 Title VII. Policy Statements ............................................................................ 142 Title VIII. Sense of the House Provisions ...................................................... 144 The Congressional Budget Process ......................................................................... 145 (III) VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:57 Mar 17, 2013 Jkt 079777 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\HR017.XXX HR017 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HEARING IV Page The Congressional Budget Process—Continued Table 11. Allocation of Spending Authority to House Committee on Ap- propriations ................................................................................................... 147 Table 12. Resolution by Authorizing Committee (on-budget amounts) ....... 147 Statutory Controls Over the Budget ...................................................................... 151 Table