Budget Resolutions (Historical Table)

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Notes

1. From FY '76 through FY '86, the deadline for adopting the spring Budget Resolution was May 15. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (GRH) changed the deadline to April 15, beginning with FY '87.

2. As originally enacted, the Budget Act required a first and second Budget Resolution for each fiscal year. The first Budget Resolution spending and revenue totals served only as targets for congressional action on spending and revenue bills. Spending and revenue totals were not binding (i.e., not enforced by parliamentary points of order) until adoption of a second Budget Resolution. Beginning with FY '83, the Congress discontinued the formulation of second Budget Resolutions and made first Budget Resolution totals binding with the start of the fiscal year on October 1. Beginning with FY '87, G-R-H made the Budget Resolution totals immediately binding upon adoption of the one Budget Resolution each spring. U.S. Senate Comm. on the Budget, “Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the Congressional Budget Process,” 99th Cong., 1st sess., 1985, S.Prt. 99-119, appendix I. (Uncredited author: Charles S. Konigsberg, Staff Attorney.)

3. A third concurrent resolution on the budget for FY77 was adopted by the Congress on March 3, 1977 (S.Con.Res. 10).

4. Replaced S.Con.Res. 36.

5. Congress did not complete action on a Budget Resolution for FY99. Instead, the House agreed to H.Res. 477 on Jun e19, 1998, and H.Res. 5 on January 6, 1999 deeming the budget levels contained in the House-passed Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 284) to have been adopted by the full Congress for budget enforcement purposes; likewise in the Senate with passage of S.Res. 209 on April 2, 1998, and S.Res. 312 on October 21, 1998. Bill Heniff Jr., “Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and Information Guide,” RL30297 ( Washington D.C. : Congressional Research Service, February 10, 2006), 6.

6. Congress did not complete action on a Budget Resolution for FY03. Instead, the House agreed to H.Res. 428 on 05/22/02 and H.Res. 5 on January 7, 2003, deeming the budget levels contained in the House-passed budget (H.Con.Res. 353) to have been adopted by the full Congress for budget enforcement purposes. The Senate did not take similar action. Heniff, “Congressional Budget Resolutions,” 6.

7. Congress did not complete action on a Budget Resolution for FY 05. The House-Senate conference committee reported S.Con.Res. 95; the House adopted the conference report, but the Senate never considered it. In the absence of a Budget Resolution, the House deemed the conference report to have been agreed to for purposes of budget enforcement in the House (by operation of H.Res. 649, the “Rule” governing consideration of the conference report). The Senate included a provision, §14007, in the Defense Appropriations Act (2005) setting forth the FY '05 spending allocation for the Senate Appropriations Committee. Heniff, “Congressional Budget Resolutions,” 6.

8. Congress did not complete action on a Budget Resolution for FY '07. Instead the House deemed the budget levels in the House-passed Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 376) to have been adopted by the full Congress for budget enforcement purposes; the deeming language was included in H.R. 5386, the FY 2007 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill. The Senate included a provision in the FY06 supplemental appropriations bill (HR 4939) to establish a total discretionary appropriations level for the Senate Appropriations Committee.