Political Quotes

“Mr. President, section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 establishes statutory limits on discretionary spending and allows for various adjustments to those limits, while section 302 and 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 allows the chairman of the Budget Committee to establish and make revisions to allocation, aggregates, and levels consistent with those adjustments. Today, the Senate passed H.R. 719, the TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2015, with Senate amendment 2689, the continuing resolution. This measure included a provision providing $700 million to the wildland fire management account for the U.S. Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture that was designated as emergency funding pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Deficit Control Act of 1985. The inclusion of this designation makes this spending eligible for an adjustment under the Congressional Budget Act. As a result, I am revising the budgetary aggregate for 2016 by $700 million in budget authority and $700 million in outlays. I am also revising the 2016 allocations for budget authority and outlays to the Appropriations Committee by $700 million in budget authority for the revised nonsecurity category and $700 million in outlays. I ask unanimous consent that this notice and the accompanying tables, which provide details about the adjustment, be printed in the Record.…”