(WSJ) House Panel's Spending Bill Ends 49 Government Programs

[wookie294]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 9, 2005 9:12 p.m.; Page A4

The House Appropriations Committee gave initial approval to a domestic-spending bill that would terminate scores of government programs and cut more than $1 billion from current funding for the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services.

Among the accounts hardest-hit are community-services block grants and health-professions programs important for training minorities in medical fields. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would lose 25% of the government support previously promised for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, and the Republican-controlled panel is proposing to rescind $124 million that Congress approved in the fall for President Bush's community-college initiative to improve workers' skills.

Altogether, 49 government programs, totaling $2.3 billion in this fiscal year, would be killed. A portion of the savings would be reallocated to fund increases in Title I and Pell Grant programs for needy public-school and college students. But on balance, the Education Department's $56 billion-plus budget is effectively frozen, with only a $117 million increase -- the smallest in many years.

The bill, totaling $602 billion, is the largest of the 13 annual spending measures required to fund the government and Washington's mandated contributions to programs such as Medicaid, the joint federal-state health-care program for the poor. About a quarter of the total, or $142.5 billion, is judged to be really discretionary, but these funds must also pay for administering Medicare and Social Security benefits, including the new prescription-drug benefit for the elderly that starts next year.

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[Dover]

1. But plenty of $ on hand for boondogles, increased salaries for themselves,

tax breaks for their wealthy brethren, etc.

The States should all get together and excercise those states rights the GOP believes in so firmly, by insisting that the gov. find other ways and means to protect the citizens WHO PAY TAXES FOR THESE SERVICES and prevent the burden from being shouldered by them and their floundering budgets.

[TomClash]

2. Iraq

$175,601,130,448 and counting.

http://costofwar.com/

[Barrett808]

7. $5.5 billion / month, iirc n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Under the bu$h regime, only corporate welfare is acceptable

We wouldn't want the peasants to get anything that might help them survive.

[symbolman]

4. Must be the

"Leave No Human Behind" Bill.. Bush should be crowing about how great he is, he's solved the drain on the govt by WE the PEOPLE..

I think it was Reagan or one of his cronies that said they wanted to get all the social programs small enough to drown them in a bathtub..

It's working.

I want my FREAKING COUNTRY BACK! WHO are these SNAKES? Can't they get their OWN planet to ruin? Can't they kill and starve their OWN CHILDREN?

[ret5hd]

5. not reagan...grover norquist

the worst of the worst.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Heck if we could find the 8 billion they can't find in Iraq

we could still have all these things