Federal budget process 2013 conference
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The Federal Budget Process
Amirah Sequeira, Mythili Prabhu
SGAC National Conference February 2013
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What is the Budget Process?
• Determines the total amount of money that the federal government spends for one year
• It also determines what programs get funded for that year, and at what level.
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Key Actors
• Senate and House Budget Committees: – Decide on an overall cap (or ceiling) for the
entire budget, and suggest overall spending for each federal account.
• Senate and House Appropriations Committees: – Decide how much funding is going to each
program funded by the federal budget.
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Key Actors
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee – Subcommittee of the appropriations
committee. – They decide how much money will be
spent on our programs of interest: PEPFAR, Global Fund, and others.
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Budget Timeline
• Budgets run on the fiscal year timeline. The Fiscal Year begins on October 1st and ends September 30th.
• The budget process begins in December of the previous year, when the President’s office begins preparing his budget request.
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Budget Timeline
• February President submits budget request – Legally required to submit budget by
February 4th, but will be submitted later this year.
– Budget includes suggested spending for every federal program.
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Budget Timeline
• After the Budget is submitted, the budget committee of the House and the Senate set a budget cap (usually over $3 trillion) for the whole budget, and suggests spending levels for each “account” – Foreign aid is the “150 account”
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Budget Timeline
• March All members of the House and Senate submits their “wish-list” to the appropriations committee chairs. – Wish lists are a list of all programs that
the legislator wants funded. – This is REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US. We
need legislators to put Global AIDS funding on their wish lists.
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What are the Subcommittees?• Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration
and Related Agencies • Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies • Defense • Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies • Financial Services and General Government• Homeland Security • Interior, Environment and Related Agencies • Labor, Health and Human services, Education and Related
Agencies • Legislative Branch • Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies • State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs • Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related
Agencies
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Budget Timeline
• Sub-committees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees hold hearings to decide on the level of funding for their programs. • Hearings normally happen between February
and April.
• Chairman of each sub-committee puts forth his/her suggestion for funding levels. This is called the “chairman’s mark”
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Budget Timeline
• Following the Chairman’s “mark”, his proposal is debated and discussed within the subcommittee. The resulting proposal is called the “Chairman’s Mark-Up”.
• The proposal is then sent to the full appropriations committee to be voted on.
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Budget Timeline
• After the appropriations committee votes on the sub-committee budget, it goes to the full chamber to be passed.
• The conference committee, made up of the leadership of both the house and senate, and the appropriations committees, reconcile their 12 subcommittee budgets together.
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Budget Timeline
• The full chamber then gets to vote on each of the 12 subcommittee budgets.
• Once each budget passes through the chamber (with at least half of the votes), the bill is sent to the President to sign into law.
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Budget Timeline
• What is an Omnibus Bill? – When the senate or house cannot find
enough votes to pass each individual subcommittee budget, the Appropriations Committee Chairs will create a combined proposal for one large budget. Instead of voting on individual bills from each sub-committee, the chamber then votes on ONE all-inclusive bill.
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Budget Timeline
• The full chamber must agree upon a budget by September 30th.
• If they don’t, they need to pass a “continuing resolution” to extend their deadline. Funding for programs would continue at previously agreed upon levels.
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Important Targets
• Senate Budget Committee – Chairman: Patty Murray (D-WA) – Ranking member: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
• House Committee on Budget – Chairman: Paul Ryan (R-WI) – Vice-Chairman: Scott Garrett (R-NJ) – Ranking Member: Chris Van Hollen (D-
MD)
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Important Targets
• House Committee on Appropriations:– Chairman: Hal Rogers (R-KY) – Ranking Member: Nita Lowey (D-NY)
• Senate Appropriations Committee – Chairman: Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) – Vice-Chairman: Thad Cochran (R-MI)
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Important Targets • State, Foreign Operations, and Related
Programs (House Appropriations Subcommittee) – Chairwoman: Kay Granger (R-TX) – Vice-Chair: Charles Dent (R-PA)
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee) – Chair: Patrick Leahy (D-VT) – Ranking member: Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
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Important Targets
• YOUR LEGISLATORS!
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What do we want?
• In FY2013:– Maintain the House level for PEPFAR at $4.242
billion– Maintain Senate level for Global fund at $1.65
billion
• In FY2014:– Protection and expansion of PEPFAR at $5.027
billion– Contribution to the Global Fund at $2.0 billion
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Intel on the President’s Budget
• Administration has proposed:– a 5% CUT to PEPFAR – A decrease in $300 million for the
Global Fund (form last year’s request)