United States Senate Committee on the Budget

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.[1]

Senate Budget Committee
Standing committee
Active

United States Senate
117th Congress
History
Formed1974
Leadership
ChairBernie Sanders (I)[lower-alpha 1]
Since February 2, 2021
Ranking memberLindsey O. Graham (R)
Since February 2, 2021
Structure
Seats22[lower-alpha 2]
Political partiesMajority (11)
  •   Democratic (10)
  •   Independent (1)
Minority (11)
Jurisdiction
Policy areasGovernment spending
House counterpartHouse Budget Committee
Website
budget.senate.gov
  1. Senator Sanders is an independent but caucuses with the Democrats
  2. Democrats are in the majority due to the tiebreaking power of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who serves ex officio as the president of the Senate.

Contrasted with other committees

The Budget Committee is often 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.

Chairs, 1975–present
Chairs Party State Years
Edmund S. Muskie Democratic Maine 1975–1980
Ernest F. Hollings Democratic South Carolina 1980–1981
Pete Domenici Republican New Mexico 1981–1987
Lawton Chiles Democratic Florida 1987–1989
James Sasser Democratic Tennessee 1989–1995
Pete Domenici Republican New Mexico 1995–2001
Kent Conrad Democratic North Dakota 2001[lower-alpha 1]
Pete Domenici Republican New Mexico 2001
Kent Conrad Democratic North Dakota 2001-2003[lower-alpha 2]
Don Nickles Republican Oklahoma 2003–2005
Judd Gregg Republican New Hampshire 2005–2007
Kent Conrad Democratic North Dakota 2007–2013
Patty Murray Democratic Washington 2013–2015
Mike Enzi Republican Wyoming 2015–2021
Bernie Sanders Independent[lower-alpha 3] Vermont 2021–present

Historical membership rosters

117th Congress[2]
Main article: 117th United States Congress
Majority Minority

116th Congress
Main article: 116th United States Congress
Majority Minority

115th Congress
Majority Minority

Notes
  1. At the beginning of the 107th Congress in January 2001 the Senate was evenly divided. With a Democratic president and vice president still serving until January 20, the Democratic vice president was available to break a tie, and the Democrats thus controlled the Senate for 17 days, from January 3 to January 20. On January 3 the Senate adopted S. Res. 7 designating Democratic senators as committee chairmen to serve during this period and Republican chairmen to serve effective at noon on January 20, 2001.
  2. On June 6, 2001, the Democrats took control of the Senate after Senator James Jeffords (VT) changed from the Republican Party to Independent and announced that he would caucus with the Democrats.
  3. Senator Sanders is an independent but caucuses with the Democrats.

References
  1. Walter Stubbs (1985), Congressional Committees, 1789–1982: A Checklist, Greenwood Press, pp. 16–17
  2. https://www.budget.senate.gov/about/committee-members
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