Political Quotes

“I offer for the Record the Budget Committee's cost estimate of S. 2844, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017. The reported measure provides $56.5 billion in discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2017, which will result in new outlays of $46.3 billion. When outlays from prior-year budget authority are taken into account, nonemergency discretionary outlays for the bill will total $120.5 billion. The reported bill matches its section 302(b) allocation set forth in S. Rept. 114-238 for budget authority for both the security and nonsecurity categories and is below the 302(b) allocation for outlays by $10 million. The bill contains emergency-designated appropriations, which are effectively exempt from budget enforcement. The Budget Act provides a mechanism to prevent abuse of the emergency designation in the form of the 314(e) point of order, which allows any Senator to challenge whether the appropriation is actually needed for an emergency. Specifically, the bill transfers to the community planning and development account previously appropriated emergency-designated Housing and Urban Development spending for administrative costs related to disaster relief efforts. This transfer does not change budget authority, but increases outlays by $1 million.…”