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## The Money Monitor

#### ...keeping track of how Washington wants to spend your money

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### **Week of March 27-31, 2006**

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Net five-year cost of House authorizations passed by the House *this
week*:

**\$23,960,000,000.00**

> H.R. 609 College Access and Opportunity Act \$23,960.0 million

TOTAL FIVE-YEAR COST OF THIS WEEK'S AUTHORIZATIONS \$23,960.0 million

*Year-to-date total* of net five-year costs of House-passed
authorizations:

**\$29,112,730,000.00**

Net five-year change in House-passed mandatory spending *this week*:

**\$0.00**

*Year-to-date* net five-year change in House-passed mandatory spending:

**-\$36,608,000,000.00**

Net one-year cost of appropriations passed by the House *this week*:

######## Fiscal Year 2005: \$0.00

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

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

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

*Year-to-date total* of net one-year costs of appropriations passed
during the 2^nd^ Session of the 109^th^ Congress:

######## Fiscal Year 2005: \$0.00

######## Fiscal Year 2006: \$91,949,000,000.00

**Fiscal Year 2007: \$0.00**

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

Net five-year revenue change by House bills passed *this week*:

**\$0.00**

*Year-to-date* net five-year revenue change by House-passed bills:

**-\$327,300,000.00**

An authorization (otherwise known as "discretionary spending")
explicitly allows funding for a certain program and/or directs a federal
agency to take a certain action. Authorizations express the House's
*intent* to spend, however, actual funding is provided through the
annual appropriations process.

Mandatory spending directly establishes an appropriation. No subsequent
action is required for the money to be spent.

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.

**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.**

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

**[Neither the costs of conference reports nor the costs of bills that
have already been recorded under substantively similar House-passed
legislation 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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Most estimates are provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),
though some are provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the
referring House committee, or RSC staff calculations.

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