[House Report 112-96]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
112th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 112-96
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Union Calendar No. 53
R E P O R T
on the
SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
SUBMITTED BY MR. ROGERS, CHAIRMAN,
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
June 1, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman
C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida\1\ NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
JERRY LEWIS, California\1\ MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
JACK KINGSTON, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York
RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New JerseyJOSE E. SERRANO, New York
TOM LATHAM, Iowa ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
KAY GRANGER, Texas ED PASTOR, Arizona
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
DENNY REHBERG, Montana SAM FARR, California
JOHN R. CARTER, Texas JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
KEN CALVERT, California STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey
JO BONNER, Alabama SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia
STEVEN C. LaTOURETTE, Ohio BARBARA LEE, California
TOM COLE, Oklahoma ADAM B. SCHIFF, California
JEFF FLAKE, Arizona MICHAEL M. HONDA, California
MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota
CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania
STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio
CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming
TOM GRAVES, Georgia
KEVIN YODER, Kansas
STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas
ALAN NUNNELEE, Mississippi
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1}}Chairman Emeritus
William B. Inglee, Clerk and Staff Director
(ii)
LETTER OF SUBMITTAL
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House of Representatives,
Committee on Appropriations,
Washington, DC, June 1, 2011.
Hon. John A. Boehner,
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 2012.
As required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974, this report subdivides the allocation of fiscal
year 2012 spending authority to the House Committee on
Appropriations.
Sincerely,
Harold Rogers,
Chairman.
(iii)
Union Calendar No. 53
112th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 112-96
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REPORT ON THE SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
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June 1, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Mr. Rogers, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the
following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report on the suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal
year 2012 pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.
(1)
SUBALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES FISCAL YEAR 2012 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND
OUTLAYS
[In millions of dollars]
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Subcommittee Discretionary Mandatory Total
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Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration:
Budget authority........... 17,250 116,916 134,166
Outlays.................... 20,950 104,805 125,755
Commerce, Justice, Science:
Budget authority........... 50,237 272 50,509
Outlays.................... 62,446 284 62,730
Defense:
Budget authority........... 530,025 514 530,539
Outlays.................... 596,349 514 596,863
Energy and Water Development:
Budget authority........... 30,639 ........... 30,639
Outlays.................... 44,578 ........... 44,578
Financial Services and General
Government:
Budget authority........... 19,895 21,455 41,350
Outlays.................... 23,523 21,450 44,973
Homeland Security:
Budget authority........... 40,850 1,440 42,290
Outlays.................... 45,313 1,402 46,715
Interior, Environment:
Budget authority........... 27,473 456 27,929
Outlays.................... 30,766 456 31,222
Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education:
Budget authority........... 139,218 536,436 675,654
Outlays.................... 153,179 537,939 691,118
Legislative Branch:
All except Senate:
Budget authority........... 3,326 110 3,436
Outlays.................... 3,437 110 3,547
Senate items:
Budget authority........... 988 26 1,014
Outlays.................... 960 26 986
Total Legislative:
Budget authority........... 4,314 136 4,450
Outlays.................... 4,397 136 4,533
Military Construction, Veterans
Affairs:
Budget authority........... 72,535 67,916 140,451
Outlays.................... 78,492 67,726 146,218
State, Foreign Operations:
Budget authority........... 39,569 159 39,728
Outlays.................... 46,060 159 46,219
Transportation, HUD:
Budget authority........... 47,655 ........... 47,655
Outlays.................... 118,272 ........... 118,272
Grand total:
Budget authority..... 1,019,660 745,700 1,765,360
Outlays.............. 1,224,325 734,871 1,959,196
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SBDV 2012-1
MINORITY VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE NORM DICKS
The most recent Commerce Department report showed that
economic growth slowed to an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the
first quarter of 2011, down from the fourth quarter of 2010,
when real GDP increased by 3.1 percent. As David Leonhardt
wrote in the New York Times (May 26, 2011):
``The economy is struggling to emerge from the
aftermath of a terrible recession. The one thing not to
do is to turn to deficit reduction too quickly after a
crisis, as Europe is painfully learning.''
From the beginning of this Congress, my Democratic
colleagues and I have warned: you can't balance the budget
simply by cutting discretionary spending. The numbers don't
work. Yet the Committee adopted 302(b) allocations for Fiscal
Year 2012 that would, in my judgment, cause real harm to the
economy and devastate programs that represent vital investments
in people and infrastructure all across the nation. Yet, these
cuts would do next to nothing to balance the budget.
Our message has been amplified many times over in the past
few months by the Bowles-Simpson Commission, the Rivlin-
Domenici deficit reduction plan and by leading economists,
including Dr. Kenneth Rogoff, who advised Senator John McCain's
presidential campaign. Rogoff said earlier this month:
``You just can't do this overnight. If we tighten too
fast, we would slam growth. The economy will implode on
itself. We didn't get here in two years; we shouldn't
try to get out of it in two years. And it's not just
about cutting spending. The tax take needs to go up
too.'' (AP, May 17, 2011)
The Bowles-Simpson Commission issued a stern warning
against ``shocking the fragile economic recovery'' by enacting
spending cuts too quickly. Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici,
chairing the Bipartisan Policy Center's debt reduction task
force, said if you cut too quickly more Americans will lose
their jobs.
All of these people are right.
But the spending levels in these 302(b) allocations ignore
all sensible advice; are dangerously inadequate to fund the
needs of the nation, particularly at this time when signs point
to a fragile economic recovery; and would reverse the recent
gains in job growth. Further and deeper cuts at the federal
level will undoubtedly delay our nation's economic recovery and
will actually work against the efforts to reduce the deficit
because they diminish revenues coming into the Treasury by
slowing economic growth.
This allocation will cause real harm to people in need;
make it harder to get an education; provide too little for law
enforcement, for environmental protection and for homeland
security; and in doing so push recovery further into the future
so balancing the budget will be harder to achieve. These
allocations, if implemented, would make it impossible to
support the investments we as a nation need to make.
The Homeland Security bill is a perfect example. Funding
front-line federal personnel--CBP, ICE, TSA, Coast Guard and
Secret Service--and adding needed funding for disaster relief,
doesn't leave enough to support our state and local partners,
including the first responders who must react to terrorism
threats and natural disasters.
On the Energy and Water bill, the allocation is nearly $6
billion below the President's budget request and $1 billion
below the current year. In the context of historic flooding in
the Mississippi River basin, an area that makes up 41 percent
of the continental United States and encompasses all or part of
31 states, this allocation will probably mean inadequate
funding to meet the nation's needs. Several years ago we spent
more federal money rebuilding one community, New Orleans, than
we did in nearly three years on every other water project in
the country because we had not made the proper initial
investments. With this allocation, we continue down that path,
having learned nothing from the tragedy.
Approximately half of the Energy and Water bill is defense
related, including the nuclear weapons program and non-
proliferation activities. Given instability in the Middle East
and elsewhere, these programs are more important than ever. At
this allocation, we may not be able to provide the level of
national security we need.
The Labor, HHS, Education bill will be cut by $18.2 billion
below last year and $41.6 billion below the request level. This
represents not a return to FY 2008 levels but a return to FY
2004 levels. Pell grants, Head Start, NIH all will face
disturbing cuts.
The Transportation/HUD bill and the Agriculture bill will
each be cut by more than 13 percent below last year's level.
The Commerce, Justice, Science bill faces deep cuts also,
despite the need to increase funding for FBI, federal prisons
and detention, and restore funding for weather satellites or
risk a gap in weather data.
In 2006, the Bush Administration committed to double the
funding for certain science investments over a period of seven
years. The Obama Administration renewed that commitment; for
the first time, we in Congress fell off track in last year's
bill and I am concerned that this allocation will only take us
farther off-track.
I appreciate and completely support Chairman Rogers'
commitment to regular order in committee and on the floor. I
renew my pledge to provide whatever procedural support the
minority can offer. However, when the starting point is an
unrealistic and dangerous allocation, I fear that we cannot
complete the process. At these numbers, many of these bills
will be extremely difficult to pass in the House and impossible
to pass in the Senate or be signed into law. I cannot support
this allocation.
Norm Dicks.