estimates, and statistics developed by the General Accounting Office, the Library of Congress, and the Office of Technology Assessment, and (upon agreement with them) to utilize their services, facilities, and personnel with or without reimbursement. The Comptroller General, the Librarian of Congress, and the Technology Assessment Board are authorized to provide the Office with the information, data, estimates, and statistics, and the services, facilities, and personnel, referred to in the preceding sentence. (g) 65 [(f)] REVENUE ESTIMATES. "For the purposes of revenue legislation which is income, estate and gift, excise, and payroll taxes (i.e., Social Security), considered or enacted in any session of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office shall use exclusively during that session of Congress revenue estimates provided to it by the Joint Committee on Taxation. During that session of Congress such revenue estimates shall be transmitted by the Congressional Budget Office to any committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate requesting such estimates, and shall be used by such Committees in determining such estimates. The Budget Committees of the Senate and House shall determine all estimates with respect to scoring points of order and with respect to the execution of the purposes of this Act.68 67 65 This is so in the original, but should read "(f)." Section 13202(b) of the Budget Enforcement Act (see infra p. 632) transferred to this second subsection (g) the text of what used to be section 273 of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. The statement of managers accompanying the conference report on the Budget Enforcement Act explains the change briefly: "The conference agreement codifies section 273 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as part of the Congressional Budget Act without change." H.R. CONF. REP. No. 101-964, 101st Cong., 2d Sess. 1,170 (1990). 66 Section 13202(c)(2) of the Budget Enforcement Act added the words "REVENUE ESTIMATES. --." See infra p. 632. 67 This subsection reflects the normal scorekeeping convention that Congress turns to its Budget Committees to assess the costs of legislation. See also section 302(g), infra p. 82; section 310(d)(4), infra p. 142; section 311(c), infra p. 157; section 313(e), infra p. 182; and section 258B(h)(4) of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, infra p. 571. 68 Section 13202(c)(1) of the Budget Enforcement Act struck the words "this title and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974" that used to be here and 69 - (g)" APPROPRIATIONS. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Office for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to enable it to carry out its duties and functions. Until sums are first appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence, but for a period not exceeding 12 months following the effective date of this subsection, the expenses of the Office shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with the paragraph relating to the contingent fund of the Senate under the heading "UNDER LEGISLATIVE" in the Act of October 1, 1888 (28 Stat. 546; 2 U.S.C. 68), and upon vouchers approved by the Director. 69 - Section 13202(a) of the Budget Enforcement Act redesignated this subsection which used to be subsection (f) -- as subsection (g) (see infra p. 632), so as to create room for the transfer to this section of what used to be section 273 of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. 40-508 0 - 91 - 3 DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS - It SEC. 202." (a) ASSISTANCE TO BUDGET COMMITTEES. shall be the duty and function of the Office to provide to the Committees on the Budget of both Houses information which will assist such committees in the discharge of all matters within their jurisdictions," including 73 (1) information with respect to the budget, appropriation bills," and other bills authorizing or providing new” budget authority or tax expenditures,' 74 75 (2) information with respect to revenues, receipts, estimated future revenues and receipts, and changing revenue conditions, and (3) such related information as such Committees may request. 70 Section 202 is codified as amended at 2 U.S.C. § 602 (1988). 71 For a discussion of the Budget Committee's jurisdiction, see infra note 360 (at the end of section 306). 72 Section 3(5) defines "appropriation Act" by reference to 1 U.S.C. § 105. See supra p. 16. For the text of 1 U.S.C. § 105 (1988), see supra note 30. 73 Section 13112(a)(3) of the Budget Enforcement Act added the word "new" here. See infra p. 624. 74 Section 3(2) defines "budget authority." See supra pp. 11-13. (b) ASSISTANCE TO COMMITTEES ON APPROPRIATIONS, WAYS AND MEANS, AND FINANCE. At the request of the Committee on Appropriations of either House, the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, or the Committee on Finance of the Senate, the Office shall provide to such Committee any information which will assist it in the discharge of matters within its jurisdiction, including information described in clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a)" and such related information as the Committee may request. (c) ASSISTANCE TO OTHER COMMITTEES AND MEMBERS. - (1) At the request of any other committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate or any joint committee of the Congress, the Office shall provide to such committee or joint committee any information compiled in carrying out clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a)," and, to the extent practicable, such additional information related to the foregoing as may be requested. 77 (2) At the request of any Member of the House or Senate, the Office shall provide to such member any information compiled in carrying out clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a),78 and, to the extent available, such additional information related to the foregoing as may be requested. - (d) ASSIGNMENT OF OFFICE PERSONNEL TO COMMITTEES AND JOINT COMMITTEES. At the request of the Committee on the Budget of either House, personnel of the Office shall be assigned, on a temporary basis, to assist such committee. At the request of any other committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress, personnel of the Office may be assigned, on a temporary basis, to assist such committee or joint committee with respect to matters directly related to the applicable provisions of subsection (b)" or (c).o 80 (e) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF FEDERAL EXPENDITURES. - (1) The duties, functions, and personnel of the Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures are transferred to the Office, and the Joint Committee is abolished. (2) Section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726) is repealed. (f) REPORTS TO BUDGET COMMITTEES. 82 (1) on or before February 1581 of each year, the Director shall submit to the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report,$2 for the fiscal year commencing on October 1 of that year, with respect to fiscal policy, including (A) alternate levels of total revenues, total new budget authority, and total outlays (including 83 84 79 80 81 Section 221(a) of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings moved up this deadline from April 1, as originally enacted in 1974, to the current February 15. See infra p. 351. 82 In practice, the Congressional Budget Office issues three reports to address the requirements of this paragraph. It generally entitles the most general report as "The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years " 83 Section 3(2) defines "budget authority." See supra pp. 11-13. |