Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending.

Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of spending, namely:

• allocations, suballocations, and discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, program, or other line item in any appropriation Act; and
• discretionary and direct spending authority for each department, agency, and program as set forth in budget proposals of the President.

All such data shall:

• cover the 10 fiscal years immediately preceding the budget year; and
• be kept up-to-date and provided on the Committee's public website in a downloadable, searchable, and sortable format.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 707 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 707

   Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the 
Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget 
          authority and outlays for each category of spending.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2016

Mr. Brat (for himself, Mr. Amash, Mr. Jones, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. 
   Ribble, Mr. Babin, and Mr. King of Iowa) submitted the following 
        resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the 
Committee on Appropriations to maintain proposed and historical budget 
          authority and outlays for each category of spending.

    Resolved, That (a) clause 4(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
    ``(5)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall maintain proposed 
and historical budget authority and outlays for each category of 
spending. Such data shall--
            ``(i) cover a period comprising the 10 fiscal years 
        immediately preceding the budget year; and
            ``(ii) be kept up-to-date and provided on the public Web 
        site of the committee in a downloadable, searchable, and 
        sortable format.
    ``(B) As used in this subparagraph, the term `category of spending' 
includes--
            ``(i) section 302(a) allocations and section 302(b) 
        suballocations and discretionary and direct spending authority 
        for each department, agency, program, or other line item in any 
        appropriation Act; and
            ``(ii) discretionary and direct spending authority for each 
        department, agency, and program as set forth in budget 
        proposals of the Presidents submitted under section 1105(a) of 
        title 31, United States Code.''.
    (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 
immediately before noon on January 3, 2017.
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