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02-27-2009, 06:38 PM
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Tell Your Senators to Vote NO on the $410B Omnibus
Written by Larry Greenley
Friday, 27 February 2009
Introduced in the House on February 23 and passed (http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090225/pl_cq_politics/politics3060939_9) only two days later by a vote of 245-178, the Omnibus Appropriations bill, H.R. 1105 (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1105), is the consolidation of nine FY2009 appropriations bills that were unfinished business from the previous Congress. See "The Ominous Omnibus Bill (http://www.jbs.org/index.php/news-feed-archive/4565)," for further analysis of the bill.
Funding for the applicable departments was temporarily sustained at FY2008 levels under a continuing resolution due to expire on March 6. The bill is now in the Senate where swift action is expected during the week of March 2.
The departments and agencies to be funded in a single bill are: Agriculture, Commerce/State/Justice, Energy and Water, Financial Services, Department of Interior, Labor/HHS, Legislative Branch, Department of State/Foreign Ops, Transportation/HUD. This bill would increase spending for the above by $32 billion, a whopping 8.3% over FY2008. That is the largest percentage increase in decades for discretionary spending in regular appropriations. Spending in the bill totals $1.048 trillion, or $410 billion in discretionary funding plus $637.5 billion in mandatory spending for entitlement programs, i.e. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The bill provides money for practically all domestic agencies, programs, the State department, and for foreign aid. This spending is over and above the recently passed $787 billion stimulus plan and the $700 billion bailout for insolvent mega-banks that was passed last fall.
At this time of crisis when the private sector is drowning in unserviceable debt and is starting to relearn the virtue of saving and living within one’s means, liberals who now control both chambers of Congress as well as the Administration are becoming more fiscally irresponsible than ever. Tell your Senators to stop the spending increases.
We need Congress to stop passing fiscally irresponsible appropriations bills. Large portions of them are not authorized by the Constitution, and we cannot pay for them without massively increasing the annual budget deficits, which will lead to increased inflation.
Take action now (http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=16604) to send an email to both of your senators in strong opposition to H.R. 1105, the Omnibus bill!
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/index.php/inflation-taxes-economy-blog/4567
http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=16604
Tell Your Senators to Vote NO on the $410B Omnibus
Written by Larry Greenley
Friday, 27 February 2009
Introduced in the House on February 23 and passed (http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090225/pl_cq_politics/politics3060939_9) only two days later by a vote of 245-178, the Omnibus Appropriations bill, H.R. 1105 (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1105), is the consolidation of nine FY2009 appropriations bills that were unfinished business from the previous Congress. See "The Ominous Omnibus Bill (http://www.jbs.org/index.php/news-feed-archive/4565)," for further analysis of the bill.
Funding for the applicable departments was temporarily sustained at FY2008 levels under a continuing resolution due to expire on March 6. The bill is now in the Senate where swift action is expected during the week of March 2.
The departments and agencies to be funded in a single bill are: Agriculture, Commerce/State/Justice, Energy and Water, Financial Services, Department of Interior, Labor/HHS, Legislative Branch, Department of State/Foreign Ops, Transportation/HUD. This bill would increase spending for the above by $32 billion, a whopping 8.3% over FY2008. That is the largest percentage increase in decades for discretionary spending in regular appropriations. Spending in the bill totals $1.048 trillion, or $410 billion in discretionary funding plus $637.5 billion in mandatory spending for entitlement programs, i.e. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The bill provides money for practically all domestic agencies, programs, the State department, and for foreign aid. This spending is over and above the recently passed $787 billion stimulus plan and the $700 billion bailout for insolvent mega-banks that was passed last fall.
At this time of crisis when the private sector is drowning in unserviceable debt and is starting to relearn the virtue of saving and living within one’s means, liberals who now control both chambers of Congress as well as the Administration are becoming more fiscally irresponsible than ever. Tell your Senators to stop the spending increases.
We need Congress to stop passing fiscally irresponsible appropriations bills. Large portions of them are not authorized by the Constitution, and we cannot pay for them without massively increasing the annual budget deficits, which will lead to increased inflation.
Take action now (http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=16604) to send an email to both of your senators in strong opposition to H.R. 1105, the Omnibus bill!
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/index.php/inflation-taxes-economy-blog/4567