Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 3.djvu/642

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Ill STAT. 2730 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-JUNE 5, 1997 (ii) subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) shall apply only with respect to fiscal year 1998. (c) WAIVER.—This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (a) APPEALS. —Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of this section shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the concurrent resolution, bill, or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of threefifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section. (e) DETERMINATION OF BUDGET LEVELS. — For purposes of this section, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, new entitlement authority, revenues, and deficits for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. SEC. 202. ALLOWANCE FOR THE IMF. (a) ADJUSTMENTS.— In the Senate, for fiscal year 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002, and in the House of Representatives, for fiscal year 1998 or 1999, after the reporting of an appropriations measure (or after the submission of a conference report thereon) that includes an appropriation with respect to paragraph (1) or (2), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall increase the appropriate allocations, budgetary aggregates, and, in the Senate only, discretionary limits, by the amount of budget authority in that measure that is the dollar equivalent, in terms of Special Drawing Rights, of— (1) an increase in the United States quota as part of the International Monetary Fund Eleventh General Review of Quotas (United States Quota); or (2) any increase in the maximum amount available to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 17 of the Bretton Woods Agreement Act, as amended from time to time (New Arrangements to Borrow). (b) COMMITTEE SuBALLOCATiONS.The Committee on Appropriations may report to its House appropriately revised suballocations pursuant to sections 302(b)(1) and 602(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 following the adjustments made pursuant to subsection (a). SEC. 203. ALLOWANCE FOR SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE. (a) ADJUSTMENT FOR DISCRETIONARY SPENDING. —For fiscal year 1998, after the reporting of an appropriation measure (or after the submission of a conference report thereon) that includes an appropriation for the renewal of expiring contracts for tenant- and project-based housing assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget may increase the appropriate allocations in this resolution by the amount provided in that appropriation measure for that purpose, but not to exceed $9,200,000,000 in budget authority and the appropriate amount of outlays. (b) COMMITTEE SUBALLOCATIONS.— The Committee on Appropriations may report to its House appropriately revised suballocations pursuant to sections 302(b)(1) and 602(b)(1) of the Congressional