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July 27th, 2010 SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4899, SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FY 2010Today, the House will consider, under suspension of the rules, the Senate-passed version of H.R. 4899, Supplemental Appropriations for FY 2010. The Senate first passed this Supplemental Appropriations bill on May 27 by a vote of 67 to 28. On July 1, the House passed the bill, with the Senate-passed provisions and with a House amendment that was fully paid for and included funding for such items as $10 billion for a fund to prevent the layoff of teachers, $5 billion for Pell Grants, $1 billion for youth jobs, $701 million for border security, and some other key priorities. However, on July 22, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to concur with this House amendment by a vote of 46 to 51. The Senate then passed the identical Supplemental bill that it had passed back on May 27, by voice vote. The Senate-passed bill provides a total of $58.8 billion in supplemental appropriations for FY 2010 – including $45.4 billion in discretionary funding and $13.4 billion in mandatory funding. Some of the major components of the discretionary funding include: -$37.1 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Senate-passed bill also includes $13.4 billion in mandatory funding for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, as requested by the President.
July 1st, 2010 The House of Representatives passed two amendments to H.R. 4899, the 2010 supplemental appropriations bill for efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti and pressing domestic needs. The Senate bill provides a total of $45.5 billion in discretionary funding for FY 2010, of which $37.12 billion is provided for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill also provides $5.1 billion for FEMA disaster relief, $2.9 billion for Haiti, $162 million for the Gulf Coast oil spill, and over $600 million for other domestic needs in discretionary appropriations. Additionally, the bill includes $13 billion in mandatory funding for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange as requested by the President. The House passed amendments add $22.8 billion for important domestic needs, including $10 billion for an Education Jobs Fund to help save 140,000 education jobs for the next school year, and funding for Pell Grants, summer youth jobs, the Pigford and Cobell settlements, border security, innovative technology energy loans, schools on military installations, additional Gulf Coast oil spill funding, emergency food assistance, a new soldier processing center at Fort Hood, and program integrity investments that are proven to produce 1½ times their cost in savings. In order to hold the total amount to the President’s requested level over a ten-year period, the amendments includes a total of $23.5 billion in offsets: $11.7 billion in rescissions from programs that no longer require the funding, have sufficient funds on hand, or do not need the funding this year or next; $4.7 billion in savings from changes to mandatory programs; and $7.1 billion in increased revenues. In total, the amendments save the Federal Government $493 million over ten years compared to the President’s request for Supplemental funding.
June 30th, 2010 House Amendment to Add Education Jobs and other Necessary Funding The House of Representatives will act on the 2010 supplemental appropriations bill for efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti and pressing domestic needs this week. The Appropriations Committee is proposing an amendment to H.R. 4899 to add additional, fully offset, investments to meet domestic needs, such as education jobs and border security. The Senate bill provides a total of $45.5 billion in discretionary funding for FY 2010, of which $37.12 billion is provided for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill also provides $5.1 billion for FEMA disaster relief, $2.9 billion for Haiti, $162 million for the Gulf Coast oil spill, and over $600 million for other domestic needs in discretionary appropriations. Additionally, the bill includes $13 billion in mandatory funding for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange as requested by the President. The House amendment adds $10 billion for an Education Jobs Fund, $4.95 billion for Pell Grants, $701 million for border security, $180 million for innovative technology energy loans, $163 million for schools on military installations, $142 million in additional Gulf Coast oil spill funding, $50 million in emergency food assistance, and $16.5 million to build a new soldier processing center at Fort Hood. In order to hold the total amount to the President’s requested level over a ten-year period, the bill includes $11.7 billion in rescissions from programs that no longer require the funding, have sufficient funds on hand, or do not need the funding this year or next and $4.7 billion in savings from changes to mandatory programs. In total, the amendment saves the Federal Government $493 million over ten years compared to the President’s request. The amendment also provides $538 million for program integrity investments that are proven to produce 1½ times that in savings.
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May 26th, 2010 Draft FY2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act (Circulated But Not Considered) This supplemental appropriations bill provides over $37.47 billion to support our troops, conduct the war in Afghanistan, continue to drawdown troops in Iraq, and provide non-military assistance and build up State Department operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It also provides over $24 billion to keep teachers, firefighters and law enforcement personnel on the job while states continue to recover from the recession; over $13 billion for Vietnam veterans and survivors exposed to Agent Orange; $5.7 billion for PELL; $2.8 billion for Haiti; $677 million, fully offset, for border security; $275 million for the Gulf Coast oil spill; and $725 million, fully offset, for other needs.  -Bill Summary
March 22nd, 2010 FY2010 Disaster Supplemental As Introduced In The House This $5.1 billion disaster aid package will help these communities rebuild their homes, infrastructure and local economies and to take steps to protect them from future disasters. While we begin to recover from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the bill also provides funding, that is fully offset, to expand this summer’s youth jobs program and continues assistance to America’s small businesses under the favorable terms established by the Recovery Act.
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