[House Report 109-471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




                                                 Union Calendar No. 260

109th Congress                                                   Report
 2d Session             HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                109-471
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                              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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                     U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
                             WASHINGTON: 2006        

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                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                   JERRY LEWIS, California, Chairman
C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida            DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
RALPH REGULA, Ohio                   JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky              NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia              MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
TOM DeLAY, Texas                     STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
JIM KOLBE, Arizona                   ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
JAMES T. WALSH, New York             MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina    PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio                NITA M. LOWEY, New York
ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma      JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
HENRY BONILLA, Texas                 ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan            JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
JACK KINGSTON, Georgia               JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey  ED PASTOR, Arizona
ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi         DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
TODD TIAHRT, Kansas                  CHET EDWARDS, Texas
ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                 ROBERT E. ``BUD'' CRAMER, Jr., 
TOM LATHAM, Iowa                         Alabama
ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky            PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island
ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama          JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina
JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri             MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
KAY GRANGER, Texas                   LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania       SAM FARR, California
VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., Virginia       JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
JOHN T. DOOLITTLE, California        CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
RAY LaHOOD, Illinois                 ALLEN BOYD, Florida
JOHN E. SWEENEY, New York            CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
DON SHERWOOD, Pennsylvania           STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey
DAVE WELDON, Florida                 SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho            MARION BERRY, Arkansas
JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas
MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois
ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida
DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana
JOHN CARTER, Texas
RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana

               Frank M. Cushing, Clerk and Staff Director

                                  (ii)



                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          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.






                                                 Union Calendar No. 260
109th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     109-471

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 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.




                  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 time in a generation.
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 our responsibility to invest in America's future strength 
in a fiscally 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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