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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4898 
To reallocate funds toward sensible priorities such as improved children’s 
education, increased children’s access to health care, expanded job train-
ing, and increased energy efficiency and conservation through a reduction 
of wasteful defense spending, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2006 
Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Ms. LEE, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. NADLER, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. OWENS, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. HONDA, Ms. JACKSON-LEE 
of Texas, Mr. STARK, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and Ms. MCKINNEY) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Edu-
cation and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Rela-
tions, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reallocate funds toward sensible priorities such as im-
proved children’s education, increased children’s access 
to health care, expanded job training, and increased en-
ergy efficiency and conservation through a reduction of 
wasteful defense spending, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Common Sense Budget 
Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Department of Defense’s increasingly 
large budget provides for total defense spending that 
is greater than that of the other 192 countries in the 
world combined, yet— 
(A) the United States now ranks 25th in 
the world in infant mortality, behind most of 
the nations of Western Europe and the indus-
trialized Far East, while $60,000,000,000 of 
the United States defense budget is expended 
annually on weapons designed to thwart Soviet 
Union aggression during the Cold War and 
other wasteful programs; 
(B) Federal spending on elementary and 
secondary education has fallen to less than 10 
percent of the proposed 2007 outlays for the 
Department of Defense, while schools through-
out the Nation are eliminating programs in 
music, foreign language, and physical edu-
cation; 
(C) 61,000,000 individuals in the United 
States lack health insurance during some period 
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of any given year, and half that number of indi-
viduals (over 10,000,000 of whom are children) 
lack such insurance for the entire year; 
(D) the Government Accountability Office 
estimates that— 
(i) 1⁄3 of the Nation’s public schools, 
serving 14,000,000 children, need exten-
sive repair or need to have their entire 
physical plants replaced; 
(ii) 85 percent of the Nation’s public 
schools, 
73,000 
facilities 
serving 
40,000,000 children, need some repair 
work; and 
(iii) the total cost for the repairs and 
replacement described in this subpara-
graph is over $120,000,000,000; 
(E) research conducted by the National 
Center for Education Statistics shows that mid-
dle school students in the United States rank 
18th in science test scores and 19th in math 
test scores internationally, behind students in 
such countries as the Republic of Korea, the 
Slovak Republic, Singapore, the Russian Fed-
eration, and Malaysia; and 
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(F) the Government Accountability Office 
estimated in 2003 that the Department of De-
fense 
could 
not 
account 
for 
over 
$1,000,000,000,000 in funds appropriated to 
the Department of Defense. 
(2) 
The 
United 
States 
spends 
over 
$20,000,000,000 annually to maintain its nuclear 
arsenal, although many of the weapons in that arse-
nal no longer have practical utility. The United 
States needs to eliminate spending on obsolete weap-
ons systems and use the funds saved to meet urgent 
domestic needs for health care, education, job train-
ing, and increased energy efficiency and conserva-
tion. 
(3) The Department of Defense is spending bil-
lions of dollars developing space weapons and pre-
paring plans to deploy them, although— 
(A) those expenditures and plans con-
travene White House policy, in place for a dec-
ade, that emphasizes arms control and non-
proliferation pacts; and 
(B) the development of those weapons is 
opposed by many United States allies, who have 
rightly stated that a shift in policy towards that 
development will create an arms race in space. 
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(4) The United States needs to reduce its de-
pendence on foreign oil by promoting long-term en-
ergy security through greater investment in sustain-
able and renewable energy alternatives. 
(5) The United States is facing unprecedented 
challenges to national security and broader national 
interests. Sustainable development and humanitarian 
assistance programs should be a central part of 
United States foreign policy. To address the root 
causes of instability and terrorism and undercut the 
ability of terrorist organizations to recruit effec-
tively, the United States needs to address the global 
challenges of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, dis-
ease, and disaster by increasing funding for sustain-
able development and humanitarian assistance pro-
grams. 
SEC. 3. REDUCTIONS IN AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR CER-
TAIN DEFENSE AND ENERGY PROGRAMS. 
(a) REDUCTIONS IN AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR PRO-
GRAMS.— 
(1) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, of the amounts appro-
priated or otherwise available for fiscal year 
2007 for each program or account of the De-
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partment of Defense specified in subparagraph 
(B)— 
(i) the amount available in such fiscal 
year for such program or account shall be 
reduced by the amount specified with re-
spect to such program or account in that 
subparagraph; and 
(ii) an amount equal to the aggregate 
amount of all such reductions under clause 
(i) shall be available instead for the pur-
poses set forth in subsection (b). 
(B) SPECIFIED PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS 
AND AMOUNTS.—The programs and accounts, 
and amounts with respect to such programs 
and accounts, specified in this subparagraph 
are as follows: 
(i) The F–22 fighter aircraft pro-
gram, $2,800,000,000. 
(ii) The F–35 Joint Strike fighter air-
craft program, $3,300,000,000. 
(iii) The C–130J aircraft program, 
$1,600,000,000. 
(iv) The V–22 Osprey aircraft pro-
gram, $2,100,000,000. 
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(v) The Virginia class submarine pro-
gram, $2,300,000,000. 
(vi) The next generation destroyer 
(DD(X)) program, $3,400,000,000. 
(vii) The Ballistic Missile Defense 
program, $8,300,000,000. 
(viii) Cross-service accounts for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation, 
$5,000,000,000. 
(ix) Accounts providing funds for per-
sonnel and other costs associated with 
drawdowns and other reductions in the 
Armed Forces, $5,000,000,000. 
(x) 
Space 
weapons 
programs, 
$5,000,000,000. 
(xi) The Future Combat System, 
$2,700,000,000. 
(xii) Programs relating to the oper-
ations of the Department of Defense that 
can be combined to achieve efficiencies in 
such operations, $5,000,000,000. 
(2) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECU-
RITY PROGRAMS.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, of the amounts appropriated or other-
wise available for fiscal year 2007 for the Depart-
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ment of Energy for the National Nuclear Security 
Administration for national security programs— 
(A) the amount available in such fiscal 
year for such programs shall be reduced by 
$14,000,000,000; and 
(B) an amount equal to the amount of the 
reduction under subparagraph (A) shall be 
available instead for the purposes set forth in 
subsection (b). 
(b) DOMESTIC PROGRAMS.—From amounts made 
available under subsection (a)— 
(1) $10,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
carry out the modernization of school facilities under 
section 8007(b) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7707(b)); 
(2) $10,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
carry out State child health plans under title XXI 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et 
seq.); 
(3) $5,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
carry out employment and training activities under 
chapter 5 of subtitle B of title I of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2861 et seq.); 
(4) $10,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
the Secretary of Energy for such programs as that 
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Secretary may specify to increase energy efficiency 
and conservation and increase investment in sustain-
able and renewable energy alternatives; 
(5) $13,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
the Secretary of State for such sustainable develop-
ment and humanitarian assistance programs as that 
Secretary may specify to alleviate the global chal-
lenges of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, disease, 
and disaster; 
(6) $5,000,000,000 shall be available to the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to improve safe-
guards pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 
2002; 
(7) $5,000,000,000 shall be made available to 
reduce the deficit; and 
(8) $2,000,000,000 shall be made available for 
medical research. 
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act takes effect 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
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