[House Report 110-746]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




 
110th Congress 
 2d Session             HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                 Report
                                                                110-746
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 472

                                     

                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                  SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

                          FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                    SUBMITTED BY MR. OBEY, CHAIRMAN,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS




  July 8, 2008.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
                                                                      ?

                                  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                   DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman

 JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
 NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
 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
 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
 BARBARA LEE, California
 TOM UDALL, New Mexico
 ADAM SCHIFF, California
 MICHAEL HONDA, California
 BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota
 STEVE ISRAEL, New York
 TIM RYAN, Ohio
 C.A. ``DUTCH'' RUPPERSBERGER, 
Maryland
 BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky
 DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida
 CIRO RODRIGUEZ, Texas              JERRY LEWIS, California
                                    C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
                                    RALPH REGULA, Ohio
                                    HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky
                                    FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
                                    JAMES T. WALSH, New York
                                    DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio
                                    JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan
                                    JACK KINGSTON, Georgia
                                    RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey
                                    TODD TIAHRT, Kansas
                                    ZACH WAMP, Tennessee
                                    TOM LATHAM, Iowa
                                    ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
                                    JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
                                    KAY GRANGER, Texas
                                    JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania
                                    VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., Virginia
                                    RAY LaHOOD, Illinois
                                    DAVE WELDON, Florida
                                    MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho
                                    JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas
                                    MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois
                                    ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida
                                    DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana
                                    JOHN R. CARTER, Texas
                                    RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana
                                    KEN CALVERT, California
                                    JO BONNER, Alabama

                  Rob Nabors, Clerk and Staff Director

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                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                      Washington, DC, July 8, 2008.
Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
The Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.

    Dear Madam Speaker: By direction of the Committee on 
Appropriations, I submit herewith the Committee's report on the 
suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 2009.
    As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal 
year 2009 spending authority to the House Committee on 
Appropriations contained in the Joint Explanatory Statement of 
the Committee of Conference on S. Con. Res. 70, the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009.
            Sincerely,
                                             David R. Obey,
                                                          Chairman.

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 472
110th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     110-746

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 REPORT ON THE SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009

                                _______
                                

  July 8, 2008.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

Mr. Obey, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

        SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal 
year 2009 pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974. This report is consistent with the 
``Allocation of Spending Authority to House Committee on 
Appropriations'' presented in the Joint Explanatory Statement 
of the Committee of Conference on S. Con. Res. 70, the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009.



              MINORITY VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE JERRY LEWIS

    The 302(b) suballocations adopted by the House 
Appropriations Committee on June 24, 2008, marked the first 
time in history that the discretionary spending allocated to 
the Appropriations Committee exceeded one trillion dollars. The 
President proposed a generous $991 billion total spending level 
reflecting an increase of $59 billion, or 6%, above the 2008 
enacted spending level. Yet such an increase was not enough to 
satisfy the spending desires of our Democrat majority as they 
added $21 billion on top of the $59 billion, for a total of $80 
billion, or 9%, above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level. Since 
the majority's overall budget blueprint was so excessive, we 
did not offer an alternative 302(b) suballocation. It is more 
instructive to illustrate the impacts of the majority's 
spending plans, which will further squeeze American families.
    The majority's plan to spend $80 billion over the 2008 
enacted budget levels represents exactly the kind of unfettered 
spending that illustrates the differences between Republicans 
and Democrats. Rather than making tough spending choices, the 
majority continues to throw more money at problems without 
demanding results. If this spending philosophy continues and is 
adopted into the baseline, this country will see an increase of 
$241 billion in new spending over the next five years.
    In the end, who will pay for these massive increases in 
spending? The Democrats have chosen to pay the bill by further 
squeezing American families. Their agenda requires tax 
increases of more than $683 billion over the next five years. 
Families of four who earn $40,000 today will see a tax increase 
of more than $2,000 in 2011. A single parent of two children 
who earns $30,000today will see a tax increase of more than 
$1,600 in 2011. This year alone, millions more middle income families 
may be captured by the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). In addition, the 
Democrats have also failed to address skyrocketing food and energy 
prices. The cost of a gallon of gasoline has increased more than 75% 
since the Democrats claimed the majority in January of 2007. The 
majority has offered no real solutions for the tightening household 
budgets of hard working Americans.
    The allocations before us also point to another key 
difference in the spending priorities between Democrats and 
Republicans. We have heard countless arguments by the majority 
party that they fully support funding for our troops, yet 
despite increasing spending by $21 billion above the 
President's request, the Democrat majority chose to cut defense 
spending by $4 billion below the President's request.
    By cutting defense, the majority chose to divert funds that 
benefit our troops to instead bolster spending for other non-
defense, non-homeland security discretionary programs at levels 
over and above the generous funding levels assumed in the 
budget resolution. We think it is important that the record be 
set straight so that the American people can see the priorities 
that are reflected in the Democrat majority's decisions.
    By moving forward with the allocations as adopted by the 
majority, we are guaranteeing vetoes from the White House. We 
are guaranteeing that most, if not all, of the spending bills 
will never see the light of day and we will be forced to fund 
the operations of government through a continuing resolution 
into the next calendar year. We are guaranteeing less real 
income to America's families as they pay for the Democrats' 
spending spree and inability to address rising food and energy 
costs.
    Adoption of these 302(b) allocations spells failure to do 
our job. We cannot and do not support them.
                                                       Jerry Lewis.

                                  
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