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 121 STAT. 2610

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 17, 2007

activities (and such amounts are so designated pursuant to this clause) above the amounts of budget authority and new outlays specified in clause (i), then new budget authority, outlays, or receipts resulting therefrom shall not count for the purposes of titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (2) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.— (A) IN GENERAL.—After the reporting of a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment offered or considered as adopted thereto, or the submission of a conference report thereon, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall make adjustments set forth in paragraph (1) for the incremental new budget authority in that measure and the outlays flowing from that budget authority, if that measure meets the requirements set forth in paragraph (1), except that no adjustment shall be made for provisions exempted for the purposes of titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 under paragraph (1)(E)(ii). (B) MATTERS TO BE ADJUSTED.—The adjustments referred to in subparagraph (A) are to be made to— (i) the allocations made pursuant to the appropriate concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and (ii) the budgetary aggregates as set forth in this resolution. (e) OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE.—In the House and the Senate, all committees are directed to review programs within their jurisdictions to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in program spending, giving particular scrutiny to issues raised by Government Accountability Office reports. Based on these oversight efforts and committee performance reviews of programs within their jurisdictions, committees are directed to include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committees on the Budget. (f) SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007.—If legislation making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2007 is enacted, the Chairman of the appropriate Committee on the Budget shall make the appropriate adjustments in allocations, aggregates, discretionary spending limits, and other levels of new budget authority and outlays to reflect the difference between such measure and the corresponding levels assumed in this resolution. SEC. 208. APPLICATION OF PREVIOUS ALLOCATIONS IN THE SENATE.

Section 7035 of Public Law 109–234 shall no longer apply in the Senate. SEC. 209. SENATE POINT OF ORDER AGAINST PROVISIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATION THAT CONSTITUTE CHANGES IN MANDATORY PROGRAMS WITH NET COSTS.

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(a) IN GENERAL.—In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider any appropriations legislation, including any amendment thereto, motion in relation thereto, or conference report thereon, that includes any provision which constitutes a change in a mandatory program producing net costs, as defined in subsection (b), that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or

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