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Senate Changes to House Continuing Resolution

The Senate's substitute amendment to the House-passed continuing resolution (HR 933) kept total pre-sequester discretionary appropriations nearly level while making $1.15 billion worth of changes to the amounts for individual bills. The Interior-Environment bill took the biggest hit in the Senate amendment, while transportation and housing programs saw the greatest increase in appropriations.

In millions of dollars of regular discretionary budget authority

Subcommittee House Senate Difference
Agriculture $20,247 $20,532 +$285
Commerce-Justice-Science 50,434 50,210 -224
Defense 517,592 517,675 +83
Energy-Water 36,829 36,744 -85
Financial Services 21,226 21,453 +227
Homeland Security 39,656 39,609 -47
Interior-Environment 30,606 29,827 -779
Labor-HHS-Education 156,708 156,872 +164
Legislative Branch 4,299 4,284 -15
Military Construction-VA 71,878 71,883 +5
State-Foreign Operations 42,093 42,093 0
Transportation-HUD 51,432 51,817 +385
Total $1,043,000 $1,042,999 -$1

NOTE: Figures do not include war spending, disaster relief or other adjustments not bound by discretionary spending caps and do not take into account amendments adopted after the bills were scored by CBO.

SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office