Omnibus Appropriation Bill

[Bono]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Military Spending ($481.23 billion: increased $20.84 billion)

$129.48 billion .... Military personnel
    Increased $11.77 bil. from base of $117.711 bil.( 10%)
$168.47 billion .... Operation and maintenance (No Change)
$89.01 billion ..... Procurement
    Increased $8.09 bil. from base of $80.920 bil.( 10%)
$64.67 billion ..... Research, development, test and evaluation (No Change)
$10.76 billion ..... Military Construction, Family Housing and Other
    Increased $0.97 bil. from base of $9.785 bil.( 10%)
$16.75 billion ..... Atomic Energy Defense Activities (No Change)
$2.09 billion ...... Defense Related activities (No Change)

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

Veterans and Military Retirement ($106.03 billion: increased $3.54 billion)

$38.97 billion ..... Military retirement pensions
    Increased $3.54 bil. from base of $35.431 bil.( 10%)
$37.18 billion ..... Income security for veterans (No Change)
$2.38 billion ...... Veterans education, training, and rehabilitation (No Change)
$26.23 billion ..... Hospital and medical care for veterans (No Change)
$1.27 billion ...... Housing and other veterans benefits and services (No Change)

International affairs ($12.2 billion: cut $11.58 billion)

$0 billion ......... International development aid and financial programs
    Cut $7.91 bil. from base of $7.920 bil.(-100%)
$3.67 billion ...... International military aid
    Cut $3.65 bil. from base of $7.334 bil.(-50%)
$7.54 billion ...... Conduct of Foreign Affairs (No Change)
$0.99 billion ...... Foreign information and exchange activities (No Change)

General science, space, and technology ($19.68 billion: cut $3.78 billion)

$4.87 billion ...... National Science Foundation programs
    Cut $0.53 bil. from base of $5.413 bil.(-10%)
$3.23 billion ...... Department of Energy & Homeland Security general science programs
    Cut $0.34 bil. from base of $3.584 bil.(-10%)
$11.58 billion ..... Space flight, research, and supporting activities
    Cut $2.89 bil. from base of $14.476 bil.(-20%)

Non-Defense Energy Spending ($0.88 billion)

$0.52 billion ...... Energy supply and conservation (No Change)
$0.36 billion ...... Energy information, preparedness, & regulation (No Change)

Natural resources and environment ($24.96 billion: cut $5.43 billion)

$4.32 billion ...... Water resources
    Cut $0.46 bil. from base of $4.795 bil.(-10%)
$8.39 billion ...... Forest Service, Conservation and land management
    Cut $2.09 bil. from base of $10.493 bil.(-20%)
$2.73 billion ...... Recreational & Park resources
    Cut $0.29 bil. from base of $3.029 bil.(-10%)
$6.83 billion ...... Pollution control and abatement
    Cut $0.75 bil. from base of $7.593 bil.(-10%)
$2.69 billion ...... Other natural resources
    Cut $1.79 bil. from base of $4.490 bil.(-40%)

Agriculture ($16.99 billion: cut $4.14 billion)

$16.99 billion ..... Farm income stabilization & crop insurance (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Agricultural research and services
    Cut $4.14 bil. from base of $4.154 bil.(-100%)

Commerce and housing credit ($-0.06 billion: cut $8.75 billion)

$-0.12 billion ..... Mortgage credit
    Increased $0.07 bil. from base of $-.188 bil.(-30%)
$0.06 billion ...... Postal service (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Deposit insurance (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Other advancement of commerce
    Cut $8.81 bil. from base of $8.825 bil.(-100%)

Transportation ($63.71 billion)

$31.25 billion ..... Highways & Highway safety (No Change)
$7.23 billion ...... Mass transit (No Change)
$1.09 billion ...... Railroads (No Change)
$17.37 billion ..... Air Transportion (No Change)
$6.48 billion ...... Water transportation (No Change)
$0.29 billion ...... Other transportation
    Cut $0.11 bil. from base of $0.413 bil.(-30%)

Community and regional development ($6.05 billion: cut $7.53 billion)

$0 billion ......... Community development
    Cut $5.16 bil. from base of $5.170 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Area and regional development
    Cut $2.37 bil. from base of $2.378 bil.(-100%)
$6.05 billion ...... Disaster relief and insurance (No Change)

Education, training, employment, and social services ($40.01 billion: cut $41.78 billion)

$35.75 billion ..... Elementary, Secondary & Vocational education (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Higher education
    Cut $22.55 bil. from base of $22.563 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Research and general education aids
    Cut $2.88 bil. from base of $2.891 bil.(-100%)
$4.26 billion ...... Training and employment
    Cut $2.83 bil. from base of $7.099 bil.(-40%)
$0 billion ......... Rehabilitation services
    Cut $2.99 bil. from base of $3.003 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Other social and family services
    Cut $10.48 bil. from base of $10.487 bil.(-100%)

Non-Medicare Health Spending ($187.86 billion: cut $57.92 billion)

$146.03 billion .... Medicaid grants
    Cut $36.5 bil. from base of $182.542 bil.(-20%)
$0.74 billion ...... State Children's Health Insurance (No Change)
$7.43 billion ...... Federal employees' and retired employees' health benefits (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Indian health
    Cut $2.88 bil. from base of $2.889 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Substance abuse and mental health services
    Cut $3.38 bil. from base of $3.393 bil.(-100%)
$33.66 billion ..... Health research, training and disease control (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Consumer and occupational health and safety
    Cut $2.87 bil. from base of $2.876 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Other health care services
    Cut $12.24 bil. from base of $12.254 bil.(-100%)

Medicare ($252.64 billion: cut $5.99 billion)

$160.47 billion .... Hospital insurance (HI) (No Change)
$92.17 billion ..... Supplementary medical insurance (SMI) (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Medicare modernization (proposed)
    Cut $5.99 bil. from base of $6.000 bil.(-100%)

Non-SS Retirement and Unemployment ($96.85 billion)

$0 billion ......... General retirement and disability insurance (excluding social security) (No Change)
$53.72 billion ..... Civilian retirement and disability programs (No Change)
$43.13 billion ..... Unemployment compensation (No Change)

Social Welfare Spending ($100.27 billion: cut $82.22 billion)

$27.11 billion ..... Housing assistance
    Cut $3 bil. from base of $30.119 bil.(-10%)
$24.96 billion ..... Food stamps
    Cut $2.76 bil. from base of $27.729 bil.(-10%)
$12.48 billion ..... Other nutrition programs (WIC, school lunches)
    Cut $5.34 bil. from base of $17.833 bil.(-30%)
$0 billion ......... Supplemental security income (SSI)
    Cut $33.46 bil. from base of $33.470 bil.(-100%)
$0 billion ......... Family support payments
    Cut $17.68 bil. from base of $17.690 bil.(-100%)
$31.38 billion ..... Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) (No Change)
$0 billion ......... Low income home energy assistance
    Cut $1.99 bil. from base of $2.0 bil.(-100%)
$4.34 billion ...... Child care funds
    Cut $0.47 bil. from base of $4.817 bil.(-10%)
$0 billion ......... Other family and child support
    Cut $17.46 bil. from base of $17.467 bil.(-100%)

Social security ($498.84 billion)

$418.25 billion .... Old-age and survivors insurance(OASI) (No Change)
$80.59 billion ..... Disability insurance (DI) (No Change)

Administration of justice ($39.74 billion)

$16.88 billion ..... Federal Law Enforcement (No Change)
$10.89 billion ..... Federal litigation and judicial activities
    Increased $0.99 bil. from base of $9.897 bil.( 10%)
$5.91 billion ...... Federal prison activities (No Change)
$6.06 billion ...... Criminal justice assistance (No Change)

General government administration ($19.48 billion)

$3.37 billion ...... Legislative functions (No Change)
$0.66 billion ...... Executive Office programs (No Change)
$11.29 billion ..... Collection of taxes & fiscal opertations (No Change)
$0.84 billion ...... General property and records management (No Change)
$2.33 billion ...... General purpose fiscal assistance (DC, Puerto Rico, etc.) (No Change)
$0.99 billion ...... Other general government (No Change)

Net interest ($233.21 billion: increased $70.5 billion)

$422.8 billion ..... Interest paid on national public debt
    Increased $70.47 bil. from base of $352.335 bil.( 20%)
$-38.71 billion .... Civil Service retirement/disability surplus (No Change)
$-13.69 billion .... Military retirement surplus (No Change)
$-17.31 billion .... Medicare surplus (No Change)
$-88.69 billion .... Social Security trust fund surpluses (No Change)
$-31.19 billion .... Other interest surpluses (No Change)

Undistributed offsetting receipts ($-53.64 billion)

$-49.47 billion .... Employer share, employee retirement (off-budget) (No Change)
$-3.98 billion ..... Rents and royalties on the Outer Continental Shelf (No Change)
$-0.19 billion ..... Spectrum Auction (No Change)

Total: 2,191,930,000,000$

[Bono]

Section 2

§1 The Education and Care for Children in Poverty Act is hereby repealed.

§2 The following programs are canceled:
--International development aid and financial programs;
--Agricultural research and services;
--Other advancement of commerce;
--Community development;
--Area and regional development;
--Higher education;
--Research and general education aids;
--Rehabilitation services of the Department of Education;
--Other social and family services of the Department of Education;
--Indian health;
--Substance abuse and mental health services;
--Consumer and occupational health and safety;
--Other health care services;
--Medicare modernization (proposed);
--Supplemental security income (SSI);
--Family support payments;
--Low income home energy assistance;
--Other family and child support.

[Bono]

I ask that this be given priority in the debate, since it is of vital importance.

[Bono]

I respect what you're trying to do Bono, and I hate to say it, but with the results of the recent elections, I think that any hopes of fiscal responsibility and paring down the size and scope of the Atlasia central government have gone down the toilet, so to speak.

PRESS ON. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

[Bono]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

I am against any reduction in spending on the Iraq War. The election is coming in a month and a half and according to all sources this is the time when we need more money put to the Iraq rebuilding funds. It would be silly to think that at the time we need the highest amount of readiness in Iraq that we are reducing the Iraq War funds by 5 billion dollars.

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I do not think that we should cut foreign aid. Many countries currently depend on the funds that we give to developing nations. We must not cut off this life line at one time. If we want to ween developing nations off of aid money than we should do it slowly and keep a close eye on the developments in these countries.

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I do not think that Community development should be scrapped all at once. This should be taken in small steps so that communities are gradually weened off of government aid.

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Again these cuts would do more harm than good. Just having the money tap stop flowing all at once would lead to more trouble than good.

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Again cut in gradual steps if you are going to cut. Many of those Mental Health and Substance abuse services are state/government owned hospitals that deal with junkies and people who are determined by the court to be mentally insane. We need them or else their would be no place for the court to seen people for drug treatment or mental help.

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Okay medicare modernization is needed. The current system is failing and these extra funds will help, hopefully to rectify the problem.

All in all I do not support this proposed appropriations bill. While I like what Bono is trying to do reducing government size has to be done gradually not in the giant leaps that he has suggested. I have already said what I do not like about the Iraq War funding that needs to be kept at current levels or even increased as we come up to the very important elections their at the end of January.

I'm not sure you realize, but even with these 'giant leaps' as you descrive them, we are still more than 200 Billion Dolars short of a surplus. YOu want to do this gradualyl, what is the objective, surplus in 2050? No, we are allready drowned in debt. If we do not take imediate action, it will only grow. Also, on a side note, community development is the codename for pork projects...

[Bono]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

I am against any reduction in spending on the Iraq War. The election is coming in a month and a half and according to all sources this is the time when we need more money put to the Iraq rebuilding funds. It would be silly to think that at the time we need the highest amount of readiness in Iraq that we are reducing the Iraq War funds by 5 billion dollars.

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I do not think that we should cut foreign aid. Many countries currently depend on the funds that we give to developing nations. We must not cut off this life line at one time. If we want to ween developing nations off of aid money than we should do it slowly and keep a close eye on the developments in these countries.

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I do not think that Community development should be scrapped all at once. This should be taken in small steps so that communities are gradually weened off of government aid.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Again these cuts would do more harm than good. Just having the money tap stop flowing all at once would lead to more trouble than good.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Again cut in gradual steps if you are going to cut. Many of those Mental Health and Substance abuse services are state/government owned hospitals that deal with junkies and people who are determined by the court to be mentally insane. We need them or else their would be no place for the court to seen people for drug treatment or mental help.

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Okay medicare modernization is needed. The current system is failing and these extra funds will help, hopefully to rectify the problem.

All in all I do not support this proposed appropriations bill. While I like what Bono is trying to do reducing government size has to be done gradually not in the giant leaps that he has suggested. I have already said what I do not like about the Iraq War funding that needs to be kept at current levels or even increased as we come up to the very important elections their at the end of January.

I'm not sure you realize, but even with these 'giant leaps' as you descrive them, we are still more than 200 Billion Dolars short of a surplus. YOu want to do this gradualyl, what is the objective, surplus in 2050? No, we are allready drowned in debt. If we do not take imediate action, it will only grow. Also, on a side note, community development is the codename for pork projects...

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts for those making over $350,000 would put a serious dent in the deficit. Reverting to Clinton levels would do it ven better.

So, it's better to take money away from people than having some responsability? if we were running a company, we would have been thrown out by the shareholders ages ago,.

[Bono]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

I am against any reduction in spending on the Iraq War. The election is coming in a month and a half and according to all sources this is the time when we need more money put to the Iraq rebuilding funds. It would be silly to think that at the time we need the highest amount of readiness in Iraq that we are reducing the Iraq War funds by 5 billion dollars.

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I do not think that we should cut foreign aid. Many countries currently depend on the funds that we give to developing nations. We must not cut off this life line at one time. If we want to ween developing nations off of aid money than we should do it slowly and keep a close eye on the developments in these countries.

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I do not think that Community development should be scrapped all at once. This should be taken in small steps so that communities are gradually weened off of government aid.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Again these cuts would do more harm than good. Just having the money tap stop flowing all at once would lead to more trouble than good.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Again cut in gradual steps if you are going to cut. Many of those Mental Health and Substance abuse services are state/government owned hospitals that deal with junkies and people who are determined by the court to be mentally insane. We need them or else their would be no place for the court to seen people for drug treatment or mental help.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Okay medicare modernization is needed. The current system is failing and these extra funds will help, hopefully to rectify the problem.

All in all I do not support this proposed appropriations bill. While I like what Bono is trying to do reducing government size has to be done gradually not in the giant leaps that he has suggested. I have already said what I do not like about the Iraq War funding that needs to be kept at current levels or even increased as we come up to the very important elections their at the end of January.

I'm not sure you realize, but even with these 'giant leaps' as you descrive them, we are still more than 200 Billion Dolars short of a surplus. YOu want to do this gradualyl, what is the objective, surplus in 2050? No, we are allready drowned in debt. If we do not take imediate action, it will only grow. Also, on a side note, community development is the codename for pork projects...

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts for those making over $350,000 would put a serious dent in the deficit. Reverting to Clinton levels would do it ven better.

So, it's better to take money away from people than having some responsability? if we were running a company, we would have been thrown out by the shareholders ages ago,.

The shareholders are the voters and they can vote you out if they don't like you and your policies.

Except shareholders actually put money into the company, while voters mostly recieve money from the government without giving more in exchange.

[Bono]

Vote opening time.

[Bono]

Nay

I urge my fellow Senators to vote against this bill.  It reduces the government to nothing.

Yes. A two trillion dollar nothing.

[Bono]

Anyways, I vote yea.

[Bono]

By two brainchildren.... killed. *cries*

[Bono]

This'll be back next session, after a remake.