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## The Money Monitor

#### **The only document that tracks the costs of bills [as they pass the House]{.underline}**

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### **Week of March 26-30, 2007**

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Five-year cost of authorizations passed by the House *this
[week]{.underline}*:

**\$8,731,500,000.00\***

> H.R. 1468 Disadvantaged Business Disaster Eligibility Act \$1.0
> million
>
> H.R. 1195 To amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
>
> Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to
>
> make technical corrections -\$25.0 million
>
> H.R. 802 Maritime Pollution Prevention Act \$5.0 million
>
> H.R. 1401 Rail and Public Transportation Security Act \$7,296.0
> million
>
> H.R. 1562 Katrina Housing Tax Relief Act \$0.5 million
>
> H.R. 1132 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
>
> Program Reauthorization Act \$1,250.0 million

H.R. 727 Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act \$46.0 million

> H.R. 477 Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act \$95.0 million
>
> H.R. 835 Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act \$63.0 million

TOTAL FIVE-YEAR COST OF THIS WEEK'S AUTHORIZATIONS \$8,731.5 million\*

**[Previously Unavailable Cost Estimates from Earlier
Bills]{.underline}**

> H.R. 658 Natural Resource Protection Cooperative Agreement Act \$15.0
> million

TOTAL FIVE-YEAR COST OF EARLIER AUTHORIZATIONS \$15.0 million

Five-year cost of authorizations passed by the House *this
[year]{.underline}*:

**\$50,551,200,000.00\*\***

\* This figure does not include the authorizations contained in **H.R.
1538** (the Wounded Warrior Assistance Act), as it passed the House the
week of March 26^th^. When a final cost estimate becomes available, the
RSC will update *The Money Monitor* accordingly. S. 494 (the NATO
Freedom Consolidation Act) passed the House this week, but its
authorizations have already been accounted for under the House-passed
H.R. 987, which is essentially the same legislation.

\*\* This figure does not include the authorizations contained in **H.R.
1227** (Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act), as it passed the
House the week of March 19^th^; or in **H.R. 1538** (Wounded Warrior
Assistance Act), as it passed the House the week of March 26^th^. When
final cost estimates become available, the RSC will update *The Money
Monitor* accordingly.

Five-year change in mandatory spending passed by the House *this
[week]{.underline}*:

**\$0.00**

Five-year change in mandatory spending passed by the House *this
[year]{.underline}*:

**-\$3,309,000,000.00**

One-year cost of appropriations passed by the House *this
[week]{.underline}*:

######## Fiscal Year 2006: \$0.00

######## Fiscal Year 2007: \$0.00

######## Fiscal Year 2008: \$0.00

######## Fiscal Year 2009: \$0.00

One-year cost of appropriations passed by the House *this
[year]{.underline}*:

######## Fiscal Year 2006: \$0.00

######## Fiscal Year 2007: \$587,786,000,000.00

######## Fiscal Year 2008: \$23,158,000,000.00

######## Fiscal Year 2009: \$0.00

Five-year change in revenue passed by the House *this
[week]{.underline}*:

**-\$80,000,000.00**

> H.R. 1562 Katrina Housing Tax Relief Act -\$80.0 million

TOTAL FIVE-YEAR CHANGE IN REVENUES THIS WEEK -\$80.0 million

Five-year change in revenue passed by the House *this
[year]{.underline}*:

**-\$3,060,000,000.00**

**[GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS IN THE MONEY MONITOR]{.underline}**

[Authorization]{.underline}: An authorization (otherwise known as
"discretionary spending") explicitly [allows]{.underline}, but does not
actually provide, funding for a certain program, and/or directs a
federal agency to take a certain action. Authorizations express the
House's *[intent]{.underline}* to spend, however, actual funding is
provided through the annual appropriations process. Think of an
authorization like your credit card's credit limit. If it's \$10,000,
that doesn't mean you've spent \$10,000, but it does mean that you're
*allowed* to spend \$10,000. Further action by you is needed for the
money to actually be spent.

[Mandatory Spending]{.underline}: Mandatory spending (otherwise known as
"direct spending") directly provides for funding. No subsequent action
is required for the money to be spent. Think of mandatory spending like
signing up for an automatic-bill-payment program. The very act of
signing up provides for the payments from your credit card or bank
account without further action from you.

[Appropriation]{.underline}: An appropriation is an amount of money that
Congress orders to be set aside for a certain purpose, function, or
entity. The "appropriations process" commonly refers to passing the
composite bills that provide discretionary funds to various federal
agencies (see "Authorization" above). Think of an appropriation like an
individual purchase on your credit card.

[Revenue]{.underline}: Revenue refers to the amount of money that the
federal government receives in taxes, fees, sales of property, and other
sources of *incoming* funds. Think of revenue like the income from your
job, the sale of your car, etc.

**[NOTES ON PROCEDURES & ASSUMPTIONS IN THE MONEY MONITOR]{.underline}**

[Neither the costs of conference reports nor the costs of bills that
have already been recorded under substantively similar House-passed
legislation this year are recorded here]{.underline}. "The Money
Monitor," which operates as an annual document, only accounts for the
costs of bills as they [first]{.underline} pass the House (unless the
prior bills related to such reports and bills have not come to the floor
during this calendar year or unless they contain significant cost
changes BEFORE going to the Senate). **[In short, "The Money Monitor"
primarily tracks the House's *original* monetary intent each calendar
year]{.underline}.**

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Authorizations with no [net]{.underline} cost, bills that would result
in no significant [net]{.underline} change in mandatory spending or
federal revenue, and private-sector costs from federal mandates are not
reported here.

The figures for revenue changes are from **"static"** estimates by the
Joint Committee on Taxation or the Congressional Budget Office. That is,
they do not take into account the stimulative effects that certain tax
cuts and certain other revenue reductions have on the national economy.

All numbers in "The Money Monitor" are positive unless otherwise
indicated.

Most estimates are provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),
though some are provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the
referring House committee, or RSC staff calculations.

##### Staff contact: Paul Teller, [paul.teller@mail.house.gov]{.underline}, 202-226-9718