Common Sense Budget Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4898
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Ballistic missile defenses
Budget deficits
Building construction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Department of State
Developing countries
Disaster relief
Dislocated workers
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal budgets
Fighter aircraft
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Health
Health insurance
Illiteracy
International Affairs
International relief
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Medically uninsured
Military aircraft
Military personnel
Military research
Nuclear ships
Nuclear weapons
Poor children
Poverty
Productivity in government
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research and development
Research grants
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Space activities
Space warfare
Submarines
Sustainable development
Terrorism
Unemployment
Warships
Waste in government spending
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Common Sense Budget Act of 2006 - Requires certain reductions in amounts appropriated for FY2007 for specified Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) programs. Makes amounts from such reductions available for: (1) modernization of school facilities; (2) state child health plans; (3) adult and dislocated worker employment and training activities; (4) programs to increase energy efficiency and conservation and increase investment in sustainable and renewable energy alternatives; (5) sustainable development and humanitarian assistance programs to alleviate global poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, disease, and disaster; (6) homeland security safeguard improvements; (7) reduction of the deficit; and (8) medical research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and International Relations, 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: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in House