Making appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, and Transportation for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4422
Sponsor: Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Airlines
Animal diseases
Animals
Apartment houses
Appropriations
Broadband
Building construction
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Department of Agriculture
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Distance education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Enterprise zones
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government corporations
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Insect control
Maintenance and repair
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Pest control
Plant diseases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate development
Rental housing
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rural Telephone Bank
Rural economic development
Rural education
Rural health
Rural housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Subsidies
Tax rates
Taxation
Telemedicine
Transportation and Public Works
User charges
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for the: (1) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (2) Rural Community Advancement Program; (3) Rural Housing Service; and (4) Rural Utilities Service (rural telephone bank program account, and distance learning, telemedicine, and broadband program).
 
Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Education for the rural education achievement program.
 
Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for rural programs of the Health Resources and Services Administration.
 
Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for air carrier payments.
 
States that for taxpayers with adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million for calendar year 2004 the amount of the tax reduction resulting from enactment of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall be reduced by 5.1 percent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House