[House Report 112-96]
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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

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                          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.

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                                                  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

                                _______
                                

  June 1, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

    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.

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  SUBALLOCATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES FISCAL YEAR 2012 BUDGET AUTHORITY AND
                                 OUTLAYS
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Subcommittee           Discretionary   Mandatory      Total
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

                                  
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