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 PUBLIC LAW 101-189—NOV. 29, 1989 103 STAT. 1365 tions, and the Budget of the Senate a joint report containing an agreed resolution of all differences between— (A) the technical assumptions to be used by the OfRce of Management and Budget in preparing estimates with respect to all accounts in megor fonctional category 050 (National Defense) for the budget to be submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, in the year following the year in which the report is submitted; and (B) the technical assvunptions to be used by the Congressional Budget Office in preparing estimates with respect to such ac- counts for such budget. (2) In the event that the Director of the OfGice of Management and Budget and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office are unable to agree upon any technical assumption, the report shall reflect the average of the relevant outlay rates or assumptions used by the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office. (3) The report with respect to a budget shall identify the following: (A) llie agreed first-year and outyear outlay rates for each account for the Department of Defense for each fiscal year covered by the propc^ed budget. (B) The agreed amount of outlays estimated to occur from unexpended appropriations made for fiscal years prior to the fiscal year that begins after submission of the report. Oi>) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING BUDGET RI^LUTIONS AND BUDGET SCX>R£KEEPING. —I t is the sense of Congress that, in order to prevent a recurrence of a mismatch between budget authority and outlays for budget function 050 (National Defense), the technical assumptions contained in the report under subsection (i)(1) with respect to any budget should be used in the preparation of that budget, the preparation of the budget resolution, and in all scorekeeping in connection with budget function 050 (National Defense). (c) SENSE OF (CONGRESS REGARDING REQUIRED REDUCTIONS AND OTHER CHANGES IN NATIONAL DEFENSE OUTLAYS IN RELATION TO BUDGET AUTHORTTY.— It is the sense of Congress that the outlay level specified for national defense for any fiscal year in the budget resolution for that fiscal year should not require a reduction (or other change) in outlays for national defense for that fiscal year below (or in relation to) the estimated outlays specified for national defense in the budget for such fiscal year (submitted to (Ik>ngress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) by more than the amount by which such estimated outlays would be reduced (or otherwise changed) if the amount of budget authority provided for in each title of the President's request for budget authority for national defense (as contained in such budget) were reduced (or otherwise changed) by the uniform percentage necessary for the requested budget authority for national defense to be equal to the budget authority specified for national defense in that budget resolution unless the budget resolution is accompanied by a report that describes the difference between the budget authority and outlays for National Defense (function 050) in the President's budget and the budget resolution.

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