COMMITTEE ON RULES - SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED TO H. CON. RES 376 - THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007

Summary of Amendment Submitted to the Rules Committee on
H. CON. RES 376 - THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007

(in alphabetical order)

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS

(summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)

Castle (DE)	#19	Expresses the Sense of Congress that the report accompanying the concurrent resolution on the budget should contain views and estimates submitted by the House Committee on Appropriations, and that the views and estimates submitted by the Committee on Appropriations should contain a recommended level for total spending within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations and a proposed suballocation of this recommended allocation among its subcommittees pursuant to Section 302(b).
Castle (DE)	#20	Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Increases the functional accounts for Health, Education and Income Security by a total of $7.158 billion. Would increase for FY07 Function 550 (Health) by $1.128 billion; Function 500 (Education, training, Employment, and Social Services) by $4.640 billion; and Function 600 (Income Security) by $1.390 billion. Reflects level funding with enacted FY06 amounts and CBO estimates for inflation. Assumes the rest of H. Con. Res. 376 as passed by the House Budget Committee.
Cooper (TN)	#8	Prohibits consideration of appropriations measures if funds for earmarks are included only in accompanying reports.
Cooper (TN)	#7	Institutes a number of reforms, including reinstituting pay-as-you-go budget discipline, discretionary spending limits, requiring a vote on debt ceiling increases, budget compliance statements, cost estimates for conference reports, roll call votes on measures costing more than $50 million, disclosure of interest costs for new spending, and changes to the House Rules to improve accountability, transparency, and oversight.
Filner (CA)	#10	Adds $1.3 billion to the budget for Veterans Affairs medical care. The breakdown is as follows: $700 million to bring the budget up to the amount requested for medical care by the Independent Budget; $341 million to end the Priority 8 enrollment ban; $210 million for mental health to address the soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan; and $51 million for medical and prosthetic research.
Ford (TN)	#9	Expresses the Sense of Congress that the implementation of the Department of Defense closure of needed military bases as a result of the base alignment and closure process (BRAC) should be postponed until major combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are complete.
Goode (VA)	#2	Decreases International Affairs Function (150) by $20 billion. Increases the National Defense Function (050) by $785 million; increases Veterans Benefits and Services Function (700) by $6 billion; increases General Science, Space, and Technology Function (250) by $200 million; increases Agriculture Function (350) by $100 million; increases Health Function (550) by $1 billion; and increases Medicare Function (570) by $200 million. Assumes a reduction in the deficit by $11.715 billion.
Hensarling (TX)	#6	Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Balances the federal budget by FY 2011, without increasing taxes. Extends the President’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and provide AMT relief. Eliminates roughly 150 federal programs, realizes a $392 billion net deficit reduction over five years, while increasing defense and veterans’ spending and making no changes to Social Security. Calls for $358 billion in reconciliation savings over five years, achieved in part by block granting Medicaid, SCHIP, and most federal education and job training programs, and capping the growth of Medicare at 5.4% annually. Significantly restructures the Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Education, reduces foreign aid by $31 billion over five years, allows drilling in ANWR, repeals the Davis-Bacon, and eliminates highway (SAFTEA-LU) earmarks. Repeals the Gephardt rule, includes reforms to emergency spending, and creates Budget Protection Accounts to divert spending to deficit reduction and further tax relief.
Holt (NJ)	#5	Removes $300 million from (National Defense) Function 050, specifically from the Missile Defense Agency, which received a $1.7 billion dollar increase over the enacted budget, and increases (General Science, Space, and Technology) Function 250 by $300 million. This maintains a $1.4 billion dollar increase for the Missile Defense Agency and funds Function 250 at the level of the President’s FY07 request.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#11	Expresses the Sense of Congress that additional revenues recovered by the IRS should be directed toward programs that are mandated yet not fully funded, as specified.
Kucinich (OH)	#1	Increases funding for NASA aeronautics programs by $179 million in FY2007 with an offset from Function 920 (Allowances).
McDermott (WA)	#3	Increases budget authority by $500 million for (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services) function 500 to provide for current funding levels for the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG).
Moran (KS)	#18	Gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the voluntary authority to extend the initial enrollment deadline under Medicare Part D past May 15, 2006.
Watt (NC)/ Scott (VA)	#15	Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Balances the budget in FY 2011, and assumes a savings of almost $25 billion on interest on the national debt. Funds essential social services – especially education, health care and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast – and national security needs – particularly providing support for the troops in Iraq, increasing the Army’s active duty personnel, maintaining current National Guard Strength and funding Navy Shipbuilding, as well as funding port security and Veterans programs and benefits.
Shays (CT)	#21	(LATE) Establishes a Pay-As-You-Go point of order in the House against consideration of any direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit or cause an on-budget deficit for the budget year or the period of the budget year and the next four fiscal years.
Shays (CT)	#22	(LATE) Reduces the Budget Committee’s recommended Function 050 level for Defense funding by $3.5 billion and increase Function 500 funding (Education, Training, Employment and Social Services) by $2 billion and increase Function 550 funding (Health) by $1.5 billion.
Spratt (SC)	#12	Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Establishes a 10 year budget through fiscal year 2016. Balances the budget by 2012. Contains smaller deficits than the House Republican budget for 2007 and over five years. Accumulates less debt over five years than House Republican budget. Rejects cuts to important domestic priorities, such as education, health, veterans, and the environment. Provides more funding than the Republican budget for homeland security functions, including port security. Contains no reconciliation instructions. Provides middle-class tax relief. Provides for budget enforcement rules to restore fiscal discipline.
Stupak (MI)	#13	Restores to fiscal year 2005 levels the funding for the three federal grant programs that may be used for interoperable communication grants to local governments. Restores funding for the COPS Interoperable Technology Grants to $100 million and restores the $634 million in cuts to the Department of Homeland Security grant programs that may be used for interoperable communications.
Stupak (MI)	#14	Funds the Commodity Supplemental Food Program at $111 million in FY 2007.
Waters (CA)	#16	Adds $20 million to (Administration of Justice) function 750 to allow the top three cities with the highest number of homicides arising from gang violence in the last calendar year from the enactment of this Act to receive grants from the Office of Justice and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention to establish job training programs for former gang members.
Waters (CA)	#17	Expresses the Sense of Congress that would urge appropriators to prohibit funding of federal programs to conduct surveillance of communications that originate within the United States or of an American citizen, except as may be authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Woolsey (CA)	#4	Reduces funding for the Department of Defense by $60 billion by cutting unused and unneeded Cold War era weapons systems and putting the money into national priorities as follows: $10 billion to modernize and rebuild every public school; $12 billion for health insurance for every child in America and medical research; $10 billion to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency; $13 billion for world-wide humanitarian relief; $5 billion to improve homeland security; $5 billion in deficit reduction; and $5 billion for job training programs.