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2 U.S.C. § 644 — Reconciliation
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**(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
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**(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 more than—
(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—
(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 633(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section633/a&num=0&edition=prelim) 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 633(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section633/a&num=0&edition=prelim) 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 632 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section632&num=0&edition=prelim).
(D) Upon the filing of revised allocations pursuant to this paragraph, the reporting committee shall report revised allocations pursuant to [section 633(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section633/b&num=0&edition=prelim) 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 Senate**
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the provisions of [section 636 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section636&num=0&edition=prelim) 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 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 632 or 635 of this title, or a joint resolution pursuant to [section 907d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section907d&num=0&edition=prelim), 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 [[42 U.S.C. 401](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section401&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
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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 s 11 So in original. Probably should be “as”. a result of a reappropriation; or
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**(a) Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund** There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund”. The Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund shall consist of the securities held by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Old-Age Reserve Account and the amount standing to the credit of the Old-Age Reserve Account on the books of the Treasury on January 1, 1940, which securities and amount the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, and, in addition, such gifts and bequests as may be made as provided in subsection (i)(1), and such amounts as may be appropriated to, or deposited in, the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund as hereinafter provided. There is hereby appropriated to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for each fiscal year thereafter, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 100 per centum of—
(1) the taxes (including interest, penalties, and additions to the taxes) received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (and covered into the Treasury) which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue before January 1, 1951; and
(2) the taxes certified each month by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as taxes received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of such Code which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue after December 31, 1950, and before January 1, 1953, with respect to assessments of such taxes made before January 1, 1951; and
(3) the taxes imposed by
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**(a) Omitted**
**(b) General statement of budget enforcement through sequestration** This subchapter provides for budget enforcement as called for in House Concurrent Resolution 84 (105th Congress, 1st session).
**(c) Definitions** As used in this subchapter:
(1) The terms “budget authority”, “new budget authority”, “outlays”, and “deficit” have the meanings given to such terms in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [[2 U.S.C. 622](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section622&num=0&edition=prelim)] and “discretionary spending limit” shall mean the amounts specified in [section 901 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The terms “sequester” and “sequestration” refer to or mean the cancellation of budgetary resources provided by discretionary appropriations or direct spending law.
(3) The term “breach” means, for any fiscal year, the amount (if any) by which new budget authority or outlays for that year (within a category of discretionary appropriations) is above that category’s discretionary spending limit for new budget authority or outlays for that year, as the case may be.
(4)
(A) The term “nonsecurity category” means all discretionary appropriations not included in the security category defined in subparagraph (B).
(B) The term “security category” includes discretionary appropriations associated with agency budgets for the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the intelligence community management account (95–0401–0–1–054), and all budget accounts in budget function 150 (international affairs).
(C
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**(a) Reporting of resolutions and reconciliation bills and resolutions, in Senate**
(1) **Committee alternatives to Presidential order** — After the submission of an OMB sequestration update report under [section 904 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section904&num=0&edition=prelim) that envisions a sequestration under section 902 or 903 of this title, each standing committee of the Senate may, not later than October 10, submit to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate information of the type described in [section 632(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section632/d&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to alternatives to the order envisioned by such report insofar as such order affects laws within the jurisdiction of the committee.
(2) **Initial Budget Committee action** — After the submission of such a report, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may, not later than October 15, report to the Senate a resolution. The resolution may affirm the impact of the order envisioned by such report, in whole or in part. To the extent that any part is not affirmed, the resolution shall state which parts are not affirmed and shall contain instructions to committees of the Senate of the type referred to in [section 641(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section641/a&num=0&edition=prelim), sufficient to achieve at least the total level of deficit reduction contained in those sections which are not affirmed.
(3) **Response of committees** — Committees instructed pursuant to paragraph (2), or affected thereby, shall submit their responses to the Budget Committee no later than 10 days after the resolution referred to in paragraph
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**(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 900(c)(4) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section900/c/4&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall not exceed the limits for each category set forth in [section 901(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(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
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This chapter may be cited as the “Social Security Act”.
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 644
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 fis-
cal year set forth in that concurrent resolu-
tion 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, speci-
fied in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985 for that fiscal year.
(d) Timing of points of order in Senate
A point of order under this Act may not be
raised against a bill, resolution, amendment,
motion, or conference report while an amend-
ment or motion, the adoption of which would
remedy the violation of this Act, is pending be-
fore the Senate.
(e) Points of order in Senate against amend-
ments between Houses
Each provision of this Act that establishes a
point of order against an amendment also estab-
lishes 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 point of order in 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 ju-
risdiction for further consideration.
(Pub. L. 93–344, title III, § 312, as added Pub. L.
101–508, title XIII, § 13207(b)(1), Nov. 5, 19
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 401
§ 401. Trust Funds
(a) Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
Trust Fund
There is hereby created on the books of the
Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be
known as the ‘‘Federal Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance Trust Fund’’. The Federal Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund shall con-
sist of the securities held by the Secretary of
the Treasury for the Old-Age Reserve Account
and the amount standing to the credit of the
Old-Age Reserve Account on the books of the
Treasury on January 1, 1940, which securities
and amount the Secretary of the Treasury is au-
thorized and directed to transfer to the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund,
and, in addition, such gifts and bequests as may
be made as provided in subsection (i)(1), and
such amounts as may be appropriated to, or de-
posited in, the Federal Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance Trust Fund as hereinafter provided.
There is hereby appropriated to the Federal Old-
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for each fis-
cal year thereafter, out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts
equivalent to 100 per centum of—
(1) the taxes (including interest, penalties,
and additions to the taxes) received under sub-
chapter A of chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1939 (and covered into the Treasury)
which are deposited into the Treasury by col-
lectors of internal revenue before January 1,
1951; and
(2) the taxes certified each month by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue as taxes re-
ceived under subchapter A of chapter 9 of such
Code which are deposited into the Treasury by
collectors of internal revenue after December
31, 1950, and before Ja
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