Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.
Latest action · May 14, 2008 Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1190, H. Con. Res. 312 is laid on the table.
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A concurrent resolution must be agreed to by both chambers, but it is not presented to the President and does not become law.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2008
- Agreed to in HouseMar 13, 2008
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Revises and replaces the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008.
Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2009, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2010-FY2013.
Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Recommends budgetary levels and amounts for FY2008-FY2013 for: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits (on-budget); (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public.
(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY2008-FY2013.
Title II: Reconciliation - (Sec. 201) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Title III: Reserve Funds - (Sec. 301) Creates certain deficit-neutral reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for legislation concerning: (1) the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); (2) veterans and servicemembers; (3) educational benefits for servicemembers, veterans, and their families; (4) infrastructure investment; (5) renewable energy and energy efficiency; (6) middle-income tax relief and economic equity; (7) alternative minimum tax revision; (8) higher education; (9) affordable housing; (10) Medicare improvements; (11) health care quality, effectiveness, and efficiency; (12) Medicaid and other programs; (13) trade adjustment assistance (TAA) and unemployment insurance modernization; (14) county payments legislation; (15) San Joaquin River restoration and Navajo Nation Water Rights settlement; (16) the National Park Centennial Fund; and (17) child support enforcement.
Title IV: Budget Enforcement - (Sec. 401) Provides for adjustments to discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates, and allocations for: (1) continuing disability reviews and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations by the Social Security Administration (SSA); (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax compliance; (3) the health care fraud and abuse control program; and (4) unemployment insurance improper payments reviews.
(Sec. 402) Requires all House committees to: (1) review programs within their jurisdiction to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports; and (2) recommend, based on these oversight efforts and committee performance reviews, improved governmental performance in annual views and estimates reports to the House Committee on the Budget.
(Sec. 403) Prohibits House legislation that would require advance appropriations, except certain FY2010 or FY2011 programs, projects, activities, or accounts.
(Sec. 404) States that new budget authority and outlays resulting from adoption of legislation making appropriations for FY2008-FY2009 for overseas deployments and related activities, or emergency appropriations for nondefense discretionary spending, shall not count for certain purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA).
(Sec. 405) Requires in the House the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any budget resolution to include in its allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the SSA and of the Postal Service.
Title V: Policy - (Sec. 501) Declares the policy of this resolution on: (1) middle-income tax relief; and (2) defense priorities.
Title VI: Sense of the House - (Sec. 601) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on: (1) the Innovation Agenda and America Competes Act; (2) servicemembers' and veterans' health care and other priorities; (3) homeland security; (4) long-term fiscal revision; (5) waste, fraud, and abuse; (6) extension of the statutory PAYGO rule; (7) long-term budgeting; (8) the need to maintain and build upon efforts to fight hunger; (9) affordable health coverage; (10) pay parity; (11) subprime lending and foreclosures; and (12) the importance of child support enforcement.
Recorded votes 4
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| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 141 | On Agreeing to the Resolution | Passed212–207 | Mar 13, 2008 |
| House 140 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed157–263 | Mar 13, 2008 |
| House 138 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed98–322 | Mar 13, 2008 |
| House 137 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed126–292 | Mar 13, 2008 |
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 32
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 14, 2008Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1190, H. Con. Res. 312 is laid on the table.
- May 14, 2008Rule H. Res. 1190 passed House.
- May 13, 2008Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1190 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of S. Con. Res. 70 and H. Con. Res. 312. Measure will be considered read. The rule adopts as an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text H. Con. Res. 312 as adopted by the House, adopts S. Con. Res. 70, as amended, and provides that the House insists on its amendment and requests a conference with the Senate.
- Mar 13, 2008Considered as unfinished business.
- Mar 13, 2008Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1627-1659, H1661-1684)
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Affordable housing
- Afghanistan
- Agriculture and Food
- Alternative energy sources
- Appropriations
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Armed forces reserves
- Ballistic missile defenses
- Bonds
- Border patrols
- Brain
- Budget deficits
- Budget reconciliation
- Budget resolutions
- Budget surpluses
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Child support
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coinsurance
- Congress
- Congressional budget
- Congressional investigations
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Debt limit
- Defense budgets
- Defense procurement
- Depreciation and amortization
- Disability evaluation
- Disabled
- Drugs
- East Asia
- Economic growth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Employee health benefits
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy security
- Entitlements
- Environmental Protection
- Estate tax
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to research
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food prices
- Food relief
- Foreclosure
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fraud
- Freight
- Government Operations and Politics
- Head injuries
- Health
- Health care fraud
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health services administration
- Higher education
- History
- House rules and procedure
- Housing and Community Development
- Hunger
- Immigration
- Income tax
- Indian claims
- Indian water rights
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Insurance premiums
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Labor and Employment
- Legislation
- Legislative resolutions
- Local taxation
- Managed care
- Marine safety
- Marine terminals
- Married people
- Mathematics
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical fees
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental health services
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military and naval supplies
- Military hospitals
- Military medicine
- Military occupation
- Military operations
- Military pensions
- Military readiness
- Military research
- Military training
- Minimum tax
- Minorities
- Mortgages
- National Guard
- National parks
- New Mexico
- Nuclear nonproliferation
- Payments in lieu of taxes
- Performance measurement
- Philippines
- Physicians
- Poor children
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Prescription pricing
- Public debt
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Quality of care
- Recruiting of employees
- Research and development
- Research and development tax credit
- Retired military personnel
- Retiree health benefits
- Right of privacy
- Salaries
- Sales tax
- School buildings
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Security measures
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- South Asia
- Space activities
- Space warfare
- State taxation
- Supplemental appropriations
- Supplemental security income program
- Survivors' benefits
- Tax administration
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Terrorism
- Trade adjustment assistance
- Transportation and Public Works
- Unemployment insurance
- Veterans' benefits
- Veterans' disability compensation
- Veterans' employment
- Veterans' medical care
- War casualties
- Waste in government spending
- Water Resources Development
- World War II
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