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Budget
In addition, the Democratic FY 2008 Budget Resolution contains significant increases for health care funding, which includes a $50 billion reserve fund to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) as well as securing more funding for public health research.
The 2008 Budget Resolution also allocates $8 billion in additional funding for education and job training programs, including money to increase Pell Grants, improving No Child Left Behind, and funding Head Start. The Budget Resolution is guided by the strict-pay-as-you-go principle that the Democrats enacted at the start of this Congress, for which every additional dollar spent on programs in the budget has to be offset with other spending cuts or increased revenue.