Judd Gregg: “the pending Departments of Transportation, Treasury, HUD, the Judiciary and Related Agencies appropriations bill for…”

“the pending Departments of Transportation, Treasury, HUD, the Judiciary and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 2006, H.R. 3058, as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations provides $84.806 billion in budget authority and $141.037 billion in outlays in fiscal year 2006. Of these totals, $18.987 billion in budget authority and $18.973 billion in outlays are for mandatory programs in fiscal year 2006. The bill provides total discretionary budget authority in fiscal yer 2006 of $65.819 billion. This amount is $5.689 billion more than the President's request, equal to the 302(b) allocations adopted by the Senate and $47 million less than fiscal year 2005 enacted levels. This legislation is also equal to the 302(b) outlay allocation. For the information of my colleagues, I must note that this legislation contains several provisions that will result in spending in 2007 and subsequent years. I must inform my colleagues that the provisions creating these advance appropriations would be subject to a budget point of order under section 401(b) of the 2006 budget resolution. It is my hope that these problems can be addressed by the bill managers so that we will not have to consider points of order against this bill. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a table displaying the Budget Committee scoring of the bill be inserted in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: H.R.…”