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1 45 001 117 THCONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 117 79 FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2022 JULY1, 2021. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. QUIGLEYof Illinois, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following R E P O R T together with MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany 4345] The Committee on Appropriations submits the following report in explanation of the accompanying bill making appropriations for Fi-nancial Services and General Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022. INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT Page Number Bill Report Title I Department of the Treasury.

2 3 13 Title II executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President ..30 35 Title III The Judiciary ..48 49 Title IV District of Columbia ..57 55 Title V Independent Agencies ..68 60 Administrative Conference of the United States ..68 60 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ..60 Consumer Product Safety Commission ..68 61 Election Assistance Commission ..70 62 Federal Communications Commission ..73 64 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ..75 68 Federal Election Commission ..75 68 Federal Labor Relations Authority ..75 69 Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council ..76 70 Federal Trade Commission ..77 70 VerDate Sep 11 2014 08:15 Jul 02, 2021 Jkt 045001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6659 E:\HR\OC\ HR0792 Page Number Bill Report General Services Administration ..78 73 Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation ..93 88 Merit Systems Protection Board.

3 93 88 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation ..94 89 National Archives and Records Administration ..95 90 National Credit Union Administration ..97 93 Office of Government Ethics ..97 93 Office of Personnel Management ..97 94 Office of Special Counsel ..101 99 Postal Regulatory Commission ..101 99 Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ..101 100 Public Buildings Reform Board ..102 101 Securities and Exchange Commission ..102 101 Selective Service System ..105 105 Small Business Administration ..105 105 United States Postal Service ..111 112 United States Tax Court ..113 116 Title VI General Provisions This Act ..113 117 Title VII General Provisions Government-wide: Departments, Agencies, and Corporations ..128 119 Title VIII General Provisions, District of Columbia ..179 123 House of Representatives Report Requirements ..124 Minority Views ..205 SUMMARY OFESTIMATES ANDAPPROPRIATIONS The following table compares on a summary basis the appropria-tions, including trust funds, for fiscal year 2022, the budget request for fiscal year 2022, and the Committee recommendation for fiscal year 2022 in the accompanying bill.

4 SUMMARY TABLE AMOUNTS IN NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY [Net Discretionary Funding in Thousands of Dollars] Title Fiscal Year Committee Recommendation compared to 2021 Enacted 2022 Budget 2022 Committee Recommendation 2021 Enacted 2022 Budget Title I Department of the $13,488,335 $14,998,191 $14,998,191 +1,509,856 Title II executive Office of the President and Funds Appro-priated to the President ..758,773 825,823 841,073 +82,300 +15,250 Title III The Judiciary ..7,719,832 8,122,562 8,152,134 +432,302 +29,572 Title IV District of Columbia ..747,478 794,494 794,494 +47,016 Title V Other Independent ,785,232 4,274,292 3,773,758 +1,988,526 500,534 Title VI General Provisions This Act .. 74,150 850 19,150 +55,000 20,000 Title VII Genral Provisions Government-wide.

5 1,000 2,000 500 +500 +1,500 1 Total does not include Program Integrity funding requested in the 2022 Budget and included in the 2022 Committee Recommendation. 2 Total does not include Disaster Relief funding provided under the Small Business Administration. INTRODUCTION The Committee recommends a total of $29,099,897,000 in new discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2022, which includes allocation adjustments of $416,897,000 for tax enforcement and VerDate Sep 11 2014 08:15 Jul 02, 2021 Jkt 045001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\ HR0793 $143,000,000 for disaster relief. The recommendation is $4,836,533,000 above the comparable fiscal year 2021 enacted level. The Committee report refers to certain organizations, offices, and institutions as follows: the Government Accountability Office as GAO; the Office of Management and Budget as OMB; the Office of Personnel Management as OPM; the Internal Revenue Service as IRS; the General Services Administration as GSA; and full-time equivalent as FTE.

6 References to the Committee means the Com-mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, unless otherwise noted. In addition, any reference to the budget request or the request should be interpreted to mean the Budget of the Government, Fiscal Year 2022, that was submitted to Con-gress on May 28, 2021. HIGHLIGHTS OF THEBILL The Financial Services and General Government bill has jurisdic-tion over a broad and varied range of government functions and services encompassing both the executive and Judicial branches. These appropriations support the Department of the Treasury, the executive Office of the President, Federal Payments to the District of Columbia, and the Federal Judiciary. The bill also provides re-sources for a long list of independent agencies and commissions, each of which serves the public with a distinct mission.

7 Several of these diverse institutions of government, such as the General Services Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration, bear re-sponsibility for basic, but critical, operations of the United States Government. Others serve public-facing functions such as pro-tecting consumers from defective and dangerous products, ensuring that government officials are complying with ethics laws, assisting small businesses, and investing in distressed communities. Some of the most significant investments in the fiscal year 2022 Committee recommendation include the following: Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The fiscal year 2022 budget in-vests significantly in improving the taxpayer experience, strength-ening IRS collections and enforcement, and modernizing IRS sys-tems. The recommendation of $13,156,926,000 in discretionary funding, a percent increase above fiscal year 2021, supports ef-forts to rebuild IRS after years of budget cuts that have left the agency understaffed and lacking critical modernized IT.

8 An addi-tional $416,897,000 is included to increase IRS Enforcement and Operations Support. Recent hearings and reports have exposed that the current tax gap of $441 billion is underestimated. The Committee is pleased with IRS s efforts to increase oversight of high-income taxpayers and corporations to ensure all taxpayers are compliant with tax laws. IRS played a critical role in the pandemic relief effort by pro-viding over 480 million economic impact payments to the American people. This effort continues with the rollout of the monthly Ad-vanced Child Tax Credit. These payments will help many strug-gling families and could reduce child poverty in the by 55 per-cent. The Committee commends the IRS for their dedication to serving the American people during these challenging times and supports the agency as it takes on new initiatives and programs in the next year.

9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:56 Jul 02, 2021 Jkt 045001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\ HR0794 Election Security. The United States continues to face threats from Russia and other actors attempting to influence the democratic process. Since fiscal year 2018, Congress has provided $805,000,000 in grants to States to improve election security, and an additional $400,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 to help states pre-pare for the 2020 elections during the COVID 19 pandemic. As a result of these investments and the dedicated work by officials at all levels of government, the 2020 election was declared the most secure in American history by the Department of Homeland Security. However, the threats to democracy are constant and ever evolving, and vulnerabilities continue to exist throughout the Nation s election system.

10 While Congress has made significant in-vestments in election security, the funding has been inconsistent, unpredictable, and insufficient to meet the vast need across all the States and territories. Congress must provide a consistent, steady source of Federal funds to support State and local election officials on the frontlines of protecting elections. The Committee rec-ommends $500,000,000 for Election Security Grants and reaffirms the commitment to providing a consistent, steady source of Federal funds to support State and local election officials on the frontlines of protecting elections. In addition to providing support to State and local election officials, the Committee has supported ef-forts to rebuild the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), nearly doubling funding for the agency s operating expenses from fiscal year 2019 to fiscal year 2021.