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Union Calendar No. 61 105TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±100 "! CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGETÐFISCAL YEAR 1998 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ACCOMPANY H. Con. Res. 84 SETTING FORTH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, AND 2002 TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS MAY 18, 1997.ÐCommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 1 Union Calendar No. 61 105TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±100 "! CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGETÐFISCAL YEAR 1998 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ACCOMPANY H. Con. Res. 84 SETTING FORTH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, AND 2002 TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS MAY 18, 1997.ÐCommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 40±634 WASHINGTON : 1997 COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET JOHN R. KASICH, Ohio, Chairman DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio JOHN M. SPRATT, JR., South Carolina CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut JIM MCDERMOTT, Washington WALLY HERGER, California ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia JIM BUNNING, Kentucky JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii DAN MILLER, Florida EARL POMEROY, North Dakota BOB FRANKS, New Jersey LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California NICK SMITH, Michigan LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California BOB INGLIS, South Carolina LYNN N. RIVERS, Michigan SUSAN MOLINARI, New York LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas JIM NUSSLE, Iowa BENNIE G. THOMPSON, Mississippi PETER HOEKSTRA, Michigan BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona SCOTTY BAESLER, Kentucky GEORGE P. RADANOVICH, California DAVID MINGE, Minnesota CHARLES F. BASS, New Hampshire KEN BENTSEN, Texas MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin JIM DAVIS, Florida MIKE PARKER, Mississippi BRAD SHERMAN, California ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Maryland ROBERT A. WEYGAND, Rhode Island GIL GUTKNECHT, Minnesota EVA M. CLAYTON, North Carolina VAN HILLEARY, Tennessee KAY GRANGER, Texas JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire JOSEPH R. PITTS, Pennsylvania PROFESSIONAL STAFF RICHARD E. MAY, Staff Director THOMAS KAHN, Minority Staff Director (II) C O N T E N T S Page Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 Budget Resolution Tables ....................................................................................... 3 Function 050: National Defense ...................................................................... 11 Function 150: International Affairs ................................................................ 12 Function 250: General Science, Space and Technology ................................. 13 Function 270: Energy ....................................................................................... 14 Function 300: Natural Resources and Environment ..................................... 15 Function 350: Agriculture ................................................................................ 17 Function 370: Commerce and Housing Credit ............................................... 18 Function 400: Transportation .......................................................................... 20 Function 450: Community and Regional Development ................................. 21 Function 500: Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services ....... 22 Function 550: Health ....................................................................................... 24 Function 570: Medicare .................................................................................... 26 Function 600: Income Security ........................................................................ 28 Function 650: Social Security .......................................................................... 32 Function 700: Veterans' Benefits and Services .............................................. 33 Function 750: Administration of Justice ........................................................ 35 Function 800: General Government ................................................................ 36 Function 900: Net Interest .............................................................................. 37 Function 920: Allowances ................................................................................ 38 Function 950: Undistributed Offsetting Receipts .......................................... 39 Revenues ................................................................................................................... 40 Economic Assumptions ............................................................................................ 50 The Congressional Budget Process ......................................................................... 54 Spending Allocations ........................................................................................ 54 Reconciliation Instructions .............................................................................. 67 Enforcing the Budget Resolution .................................................................... 71 Statutory Controls Over the Budget ...................................................................... 72 FY 1998 Budget Resoltuion vs. President's Budget Totals .................................. 73 Sense of Congress .................................................................................................... 74 Rollcall Votes and Related Matter ......................................................................... 74 Additional and Dissenting Views .................................................................... 87 Appendix A: Bipartisan Budget Agreement .......................................................... 130 Appendix B: Budget Resolution .............................................................................. 148 (III) 105TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±100 "! CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGETÐFISCAL YEAR 1998 MAY 18, 1997.ÐCommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KASICH, from the Committee on Budget, submitted the following REPORT together with ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H. Con. Res. 84] INTRODUCTION The budget resolution described in this report was developed over the past 2 months through intensive deliberations involving the congressional leadership and the President and officials of his administration. The overall framework of the planÐwhich is in- tended to balance the Federal budget by 2002 and provide various forms of tax reliefÐwas agreed to on May 2, 1997. Agreements con- cerning numerous policy components of the plan, in both discre- tionary and mandatory spending, subsequently have been devel- oped, sealing this bipartisan agreement. On May 16, 1997, the House Committee on the Budget, in a 31± 7 vote, favorably reported this resolution to the House. Attached as Appendix A to this report is the Bipartisan Budget Agreement, dated May 15, 1997. The parties to the Agreement have pledged to engage in a coordinated effort to enact its provi- sions into law. This report and the budget resolution represent a good faith effort to reflect the contents of the Agreement. FISCAL YEAR 1998 BUDGET RESOLUTIONÐTOTAL SPENDING AND REVENUES [In billions of dollars] Fiscal year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 1998±2002 SUMMARY Total Spending: BA .......................................... 1,703.995 1,766.155 1,825.407 1,874.010 1,921.084 9,090.652 O ............................................ 1,692.189 1,753.645 1,811.140 1,858.381 1,888.811 9,004.167 Revenues ........................................ 1,601.784 1,664.181 1,728.128 1,805.143 1,890.389 8,689.625 Deficit (¥)/SURPLUS(+) ............... ¥90.405 ¥89.464 ¥83.012 ¥53.238 1.578 ¥314.542 Debt Subject to Limit .................... 5,593.500 5,836.000 6,082.400 6,301.100 6,473.200 .................... BY FUNCTION National Defense (050): BA .......................................... 268.197 270.784 274.802 281.305 289.092 1,384.180 O ............................................ 265.978 265.771 268.418 270.110 272.571 1,342.848 International Affairs (150): BA .......................................... 15.909 14.918 15.782 16.114 16,353 79.076 O ............................................ 14.558 14.569 14.981 14.751 14.812 73.671 General Science, Space, & Tech- nology (250): BA .......................................... 16.237 16.203 15.947 15.800 15.604 79.791 O ............................................ 16.882 16.528 16.013 15.682 15.668 80.953 Energy (270): BA .......................................... 3.123 3.469 3.186 2.939 2.846 15.563 O ............................................ 2.247 2.446 2.293 2.048 1.867 15.563 Natural Resources & Environment (300): BA .......................................... 23.877 23.227 22.570 22.151 22.086 113.911 O ............................................ 22.405 22.702 22.963 22.720 22.313 113.103 Agriculture (350): BA .......................................... 13.133 12.790 12.215 10.978 10.670 59.786 (3) 4 FISCAL YEAR 1998 BUDGET RESOLUTIONÐTOTAL SPENDING AND REVENUESÐContinued [In billions of dollars] Fiscal year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 1998±2002 O ............................................ 11.892 11.294 10.664 9.494 9.108 52.452 Commerce & Housing Credit (370): BA .........................................