The House of Representatives approved the FY16 budget resolution conference report (SConRes 11) with a vote of 226-197, sending the measure to the Senate for final approval. The measure provides overall guidance for spending but is not signed into law by the President. The FY16 agreement follows the spending caps enacted in the Budget Control Act for both defense and non-defense discretionary spending in FY16, but it bolsters defense spending by using the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which does not count against the spending caps. The measure provides $96 billion for the OCO in FY16, or $38 billion more than the President requested.
The conference agreement authorizes the use of the expedited reconciliation process only for making changes to or repealing the Affordable Care Act.