From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

United States Senate Committee on the Budget

Standing committee of the U.S. Senate

Field	Value
name	Senate Budget Committee
type	standing
chamber	senate
congress	119th
image	Senate Budget Committee.png
image_size	150
status	active
formed	1974
chair	Lindsey Graham
chair_party	R
chair_since	January 3, 2025
ranking_member	Jeff Merkley
rm_party	D
rm_since	January 3, 2025
seats	21
majority1	R
majority1_seats	11
minority1	D
minority1_seats	9
minority2	I
minority2_seats	1
policy_areas	Budgetary policy and process, Fiscal policy, Government spending, Public debt, Tax expenditures
oversight	Congressional Budget Office
counterpart	House Budget Committee
subcommittees
meeting_place	608 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
website
committee_rules	Rules of the Committee on the Budget

Washington, DC 20510 The United States Senate Committee on the Budget was established by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. It is responsible for drafting Congress's annual budget plan and monitoring action on the budget for the Federal Government. The committee has jurisdiction over the Congressional Budget Office. The committee briefly operated as a special committee from 1919 to 1920 during the 66th Congress, before being made a standing committee in 1974.

The current Chair is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, and the Ranking Member is Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.

Contrasted with other committees

The Budget Committee should not be confused with the Finance Committee and the Appropriations Committee, both of which have different jurisdictions: The Finance Committee is analogous to the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives; it has legislative jurisdiction in the areas of taxes, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and some other entitlements. The Appropriations Committee has legislative jurisdiction over appropriations bills, which provide funding for government programs.

While the budget resolution prepared by the Budget Committee sets out a broad blueprint for the Congress with respect to the total levels of revenues and spending for the government as a whole, these other Committees prepare bills for specific tax and spending policies.

119th Congress

Main article: 119th United States Congress

Majority	Minority

Leadership, 1974–present

State	Start	End
Democratic	Maine	1974
Democratic	South Carolina	1980
Republican	New Mexico	1981
Democratic	Florida	1987
Democratic	Tennessee	1989
Republican	New Mexico	1995
Democratic	North Dakota	2001
Republican	New Mexico	2001
Democratic	North Dakota	2001
Republican	Oklahoma	2003
Republican	New Hampshire	2005
Democratic	North Dakota	2007
Democratic	Washington	2013
Republican	Wyoming	2015
Independent{{Efn	name="indy"}}	Vermont
Democratic	Rhode Island	2023
Republican	South Carolina	2025

State	Start	End
Republican	Colorado	1974
Republican	Oklahoma	1975
Democratic	South Carolina	1981
Democratic	Florida	1983
Republican	New Mexico	1987
Democratic	Nebraska	1995
Democratic	New Jersey	1997
Republican	New Mexico	2001
Democratic	North Dakota	2003
Republican	New Hampshire	2007
Republican	Alabama	2011
Independent{{Efn	name="indy"}}	Vermont
Republican	South Carolina	2021
Republican	Iowa	2023
Democratic	Oregon	2025

Historical membership rosters

118th Congress

Main article: 118th United States Congress

Majority	Minority

117th Congress

Main article: 117th United States Congress

Majority	Minority

Source:

116th Congress

Main article: 116th United States Congress

Majority	Minority

115th Congress

Majority	Minority

114th Congress

Majority	Minority

113th Congress

Majority	Minority

112th Congress

Majority	Minority

111th Congress

Majority	Minority

110th Congress

Majority	Minority

109th Congress

Majority	Minority

Notes

References

Walter Stubbs. (1985). "Congressional Committees, 1789–1982: A Checklist". Greenwood Press.
{{USBill. 119. SRes. 16 (119th Congress)
{{USBill. 119. SRes. 17 (119th Congress)
{{USBill. 118. SRes. 30 (118th Congress)
{{USBill. 118. SRes. 31 (118th Congress)
"Committee Members | U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget".

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

united-states-federal-budgets committees-of-the-united-states-senate 1974-establishments-in-washington,-d.c. organizations-established-in-1974 bernie-sanders

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about United States Senate Committee on the Budget — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report