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" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109TH CONGRESS

2d Session 

REPORT

2006

109–471 

Union Calendar No. 260 

R E P O R T 

ON THE

SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 

TOGETHER WITH

MINORITY VIEWS 

SUBMITTED BY MR. LEWIS OF CALIFORNIA, 

CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 

MAY 18, 2006.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 

JERRY LEWIS, California, Chairman 

C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida 

RALPH REGULA, Ohio 

HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky 

FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia 

TOM DELAY, Texas 

JIM KOLBE, Arizona 

JAMES T. WALSH, New York 

CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina 

DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio 

ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma 

HENRY BONILLA, Texas 

JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan 

JACK KINGSTON, Georgia 

RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey 

ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi 

TODD TIAHRT, Kansas 

ZACH WAMP, Tennessee 

TOM LATHAM, Iowa 

ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky 

ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama 

JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri 

KAY GRANGER, Texas 

JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania 

VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., Virginia 

JOHN T. DOOLITTLE, California 

RAY LAHOOD, Illinois 

JOHN E. SWEENEY, New York 

DON SHERWOOD, Pennsylvania 

DAVE WELDON, Florida 

MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho 

JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas 

MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois 

ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida 

DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana 

JOHN CARTER, Texas 

RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana 

DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin 

JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania 

NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington 

MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota 

STENY H. HOYER, Maryland 

ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia 

MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio 

PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana 

NITA M. LOWEY, New York 

JOSE ́ E. SERRANO, New York 

ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut 

JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia 

JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts 

ED PASTOR, Arizona 

DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina 

CHET EDWARDS, Texas 

ROBERT E. ‘‘BUD’’ CRAMER, JR., Alabama 

PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island 

JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina 

MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York 

LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California 

SAM FARR, California 

JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois 

CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan 

ALLEN BOYD, Florida 

CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania 

STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey 

SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia 

MARION BERRY, Arkansas 

FRANK M. CUSHING, Clerk and Staff Director 

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LETTER OF SUBMITTAL 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, 

Washington, DC, May 18, 2006. 

Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, The Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: By direction of the Committee on Appropriations, I submit herewith the Committee’s report on the suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 2007. This report is consistent with the ‘‘Allocation of Spending Authority to House Appropriations Committee’’ presented in H. Rpt. 109–402, the report to 

accompany H. Con. Res. 376, setting forth the congressional budget 

for the United States Government for the fiscal year 2007. 

The Committee, in distributing our allocation among the 11 

regular appropriations bills, has remained within the allocation’s 

totals. 

Sincerely, 

JERRY LEWIS, 

Chairman. 


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Union Calendar No. 260 

109TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 109–471 

REPORT ON THE SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET 

ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 

MAY 18, 2006.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of 

the Union and ordered to be printed 

Mr. LEWIS of California, from the Committee on Appropriations, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

together with 

MINORITY VIEWS 

SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007

The Committee on Appropriations submits the following report 

on the suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 2007 pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

This report is consistent with the ‘‘Allocation of Spending Authority 

to House Appropriations Committee’’ presented in H. Rept. 109–

402, the report to accompany H. Con. Res. 376, setting forth the 

congressional budget for the United States Government for the 

fiscal year 2007. 


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MINORITY VIEWS OF HON. DAVID R. OBEY 

RETURNING THE CONGRESS TO PAYING-AS-YOU-GO

The House Republican budget is misguided and irresponsible. It 

shirks our responsibility to make key investments in our country’s 

future and squanders billions of dollars on unaffordable and unfair 

tax cuts skewed to benefit the most prosperous one percent of 

Americans. 

Their budget provides over $40 billion in tax cuts for people who 

make over $1 million a year but does not include the funding necessary to make life easier for middle class families trying to send 

their kids to college or find and keep affordable healthcare. It does 

not make critical investments in energy research, infrastructure, 

and scientific research to keep America #1 in the world. 

Their budget would cut domestic discretionary programs by $9.4 

billion relative to current services. While these cuts will cause serious damage to important domestic programs, they will have little 

impact on the $348 billion deficit their budget is projected to create. The Senate knows these cuts are unrealistic and added $3.2 

billion to domestic discretionary spending. House Appropriators 

agreed and moved $7.2 billion from defense and foreign assistance 

programs into domestic programs. 

But even with these moves in the House: 

• the bill that funds the Department of Energy and the 

Army Corps of Engineers is cut by $172 million mid-energy crisis and post-Katrina; 

• funding for veterans and military families is so tight the 

Republican subcommittee chair needed an ‘‘emergency’’ budget gimmick to pay for $507 million of routine construction projects 

in that bill; • the Interior and the Environment bill cuts the Clean 

Water State Revolving fund by nearly 50 percent over three 

years, and funding for lands acquisition by 85 percent since 

2001; • the Labor, HHS, and Education bill does not keep up with 

the inflation; • and the Homeland Security bill will be $164 million below 

the request unless the subcommittee makes up for user fees 

the President had in his budget but knew Congress would 

never pass. 

House Appropriations Democrats offered a responsible amendment 

to the Republican allocations based on two beliefs: 

1. the needs of the nation and the needs of middle-class families 

should come before tax cuts for the most well-off; and, 

2. Congress must return to the pay-as-you-go requirements that 

produced balanced budgets under President Clinton for the first 

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The Democratic amendment to subcommittee allocations represents 

a fiscally disciplined, balanced approach based on the Democratic 

budget alternative offered by Mr. Spratt. It would provide $13 billion in additional funding for key domestic investments, fully fund 

shortfalls in defense health programs and military family housing, 

and reduce the deficit by $13 billion by scaling back the supersized 

average tax cut for those making more than $1 million a year from 

$114,172 to $38,918—almost $18,000 higher than the average tax cut for those making between $500,000 and $1 million a year. 

This amendment will be the framework for amendments to appropriations bills throughout the year. 

The Democratic amendment makes the following changes to subcommittee allocations: • Agriculture: Adding $500 million to biofuels research and rural 

development. • Energy and Water: Adding $1.0 billion to address our nation’s 

energy crisis by increasing investments in conservation, new 

sources of energy such as clean coal technology, biofuels and other 

alternative sources, and energy research and development. • Homeland Security: Adding $2.0 billion to improve security at 

our borders, enhance port security, equip and train first responders, and expand our ability to detect bombs on airplanes. • Interior and the Environment: Adding $800 million to preserve 

open spaces, improve services and facilities at our national parks, 

refuges, and forests, and ensure communities have access to clean 

water. • Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: Adding $4.7 billion to improve educational opportunities for our children, 

help American workers stay competitive in the global economy, 

support medical research, improve access to health care and protect 

the public health, and provide heating assistance for our most 

needy. • Military Quality of Life: Adding $1.8 billion to fund critical improvements in the veterans medical care system, including shorter 

waiting times at VA health care facilities, expanded supply and 

quality of prosthetics, modernized health facilities, and enhanced 

mental health services to address needs resulting from wartime deployments. 

• Science, State, Justice: Adding $600 million to sustain assistance to state and local law enforcement including increased funding to fight methamphetamine, restore funding for technology development, enhance scientific research, and support programs that 

improve the competitiveness of American small business. 

• Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development: 

Adding $1.7 billion for Community Development Block Grants, Amtrak, community airports, and to provide housing for the most vulnerable Americans, including the elderly and disabled. 

The Democratic amendment also would provide $735 million to 

eliminate the health care tax on military retirees and $507 million 

to fully pay for the 24 routine military construction projects requested by the President but that the Republicans would move 

from the regular budget to an emergency measure. 

In contrast to the Republican budget, this approach would meet 

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cally and socially responsible manner. Unfortunately, it was defeated on a party-line vote. This is particularly ironic given that 

the next day, the Majority pushed a bill through the House that 

provides taxpayers with incomes greater than $1 million per year 

tax cuts of $42,000, while families with incomes of $50,000 a year 

would only get on average a $46 tax cut. 

DAVID R. OBEY. 

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