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	House clears budget hurdle -The Olympian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite the struggle for solidarity, House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, said she thinks her party can pass its spending plan as soon as today, though she conceded Democrats are having trouble lining up votes to approve all the tax increases required to fund the budget.
		The Senate budget approved two weeks ago cut health care eligibility for children, making it available only to those whose family incomes are within 175 percent of the poverty level -- $32,200 for a family of four.
		The House Republicans' plan kept eligibility at 250 percent of poverty, or $46,000 for a family of four.
	www.theolympian.com /home/specialsections/Legislature/20030418/45147.shtml (828 words)

	House Budget Committee’s Discretionary Spending Cap Proposal Represents Unsound Policy, Rev. 3/25/04
		Committee approved legislation on March 17 that would establish binding caps for each of the next five years on overall levels for discretionary programs (i.e., programs that are non-entitlements).
		Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, the cap for each year would be set at the overall levels for discretionary programs contained in the final budget resolution that the House and Senate agree to in conference.
		The levels in the Committee plan are very similar to those in the Senate budget resolution, so the conference agreement is likely to be very close to the discretionary totals in the House Budget Committee’s plan.
	www.cbpp.org /3-17-04bud2.htm (2714 words)

	House Budget Committee Adopts Severe Five-Year Caps on Discretionary Programs, Rev. 3/24/04
		The caps in the legislation are designed to lock in the steep cuts in domestic discretionary programs outside homeland security that are featured in the House Budget Committee’s new budget plan (i.e., in the budget resolution the Committee approved) and in the budget the Senate adopted on March 12.
		Under the House budget plan, every area of domestic discretionary funding would be cut over the next five years except for education and training and Social Security administrative costs.
		Committee has endorsed caps that are more severe, and would require even deeper cuts, than the unrealistic 1997 caps that could not be sustained.
	www.cbpp.org /3-16-04bud3.htm (880 words)

	Testimony before the House Budget Committee on the FY 2002 Defense Budget
		The budget resolution recognized that the United States military has suffered from nearly a decade of overdeployments, confused priorities and underfunding that under the previous administration the increases were needed to correct some very urgent problems.
		The budget resolution provided a reserve fund to accommodate these needs, and in the House the amount used for defense from that fund was to be determined by the chairman of this committee.
		The budget for this year is what's done thus far as shown in the first upper half of this chart that I have before you, and I have given you a copy of it so that you can see it.
	www.defenselink.mil /speeches/2001/s20010711-depsecdef2.html (13944 words)

	House Budget Committee - Democrats
		October 18, 2005 --This week, the House is expected to consider a plan – in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita – to amend the budget resolution with spending cuts even deeper than the budget resolution now mandates.
		House Republicans have just recently filed the budget resolution conference report, and the House is expected to consider it shortly under a same-day rule, leaving Democrats with virtually no time to review the $2.6 trillion budget.
		The attached document, prepared by the House Budget Committee Democratic staff, analyzes the key similarities and differences between the House- and Senate-passed budget resolutions in the major areas of deficits, revenues, and discretionary and mandatory spending.
	www.house.gov /budget_democrats (3565 words)

	ipedia.com: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Committee on Appropriations, or Appropriations Committee (often referred to as simply "Appropriations", as in "He's on appropriations") is a committee of the United States House of Representatives.
		The first budget of the U.S., in 1789, was for $639639,000--a hefty sum for the time, but a much smaller amount relative to the economy than the federal budget would later become.
		The Appropriations committee is widely recognized by political scientists as one of the "power committees", since it holds the power of the purse.
	www.ipedia.com /u_s__house_committee_on_appropriations.html (877 words)

	House Budget Committee Passes Rainy Day Fund Proposal
		JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's $19 billion operating budget is headed for the House -- as well as the controversial plan of the governor to dip into the state's emergency reserve fund.
		The committee approved the proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 and the use of $75 million from the Rainy Day Fund.
		Budget chair Tim Green, D-St. Louis, said he was not happy with the budget, but given the circumstances, it was acceptable.
	www.mdn.org /2002/STORIES/PASSED.HTM (552 words)

	The House Budget Committee's Proposed Medicaid And SCHIP Cuts Are Larger Than Those The Administration Proposed, 3/10/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THE HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE'S PROPOSED MEDICAID AND SCHIP
		This cut significantly exceeds the savings the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates would be achieved if all of the changes in Medicaid and SCHIP the President proposed in his budget last month are enacted.
		The House Committee budget plan would require the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reduce spending for mandatory programs (programs not controlled by annual appropriations) within its jurisdiction by $20 billion in 2006 through 2010.
	www.cbpp.org /3-10-05health.htm (884 words)

	USATODAY.com - House GOP pushes budget through committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But based on the House committees assigned to find the savings, the Medicaid program for the poor and elderly could be targeted for up to $20 billion in five-year cuts — more than double Bush's plan — plus other reductions for student loans, welfare, farmers and veterans.
		In a nod to moderates, the House measure would give only $45 billion of those procedural protections from Senate filibusters that can kill legislation, though House leaders were aiming eventually to approve the full $106 billion.
		The House budget did not include the drilling language, meaning the fight will have to be resolved later this year.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-03-09-house-budget_x.htm (970 words)

	USATODAY.com - GOP starts moving 2005 budget through House panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like Bush's budget and a similar plan Republicans were pushing through the Senate, much of the House package's deficit cutting would come from assuming that a recovering economy will produce extra revenue.
		Bowing to election-year pressures to curb deficits that have set new records, the House budget claims to cut this year's projected $477 billion shortfall, the highest ever in dollar terms, to $378 billion next year and $236 billion four years from now.
		Congress' budget sets tax and spending guidelines for lawmakers for the year, but actual changes are made in later legislation.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-03-11-budget_x.htm (847 words)

	LexisNexis(TM) Congressional - Document
		Chairman, members of the committee, I am pleased to have this opportunity to testify before you for the first time as Secretary of State, in support of President Bush s budget request for FY 2002.
		The Budget also supports political and economic transitions in Africa, with emphasis on those countries, such as Nigeria and South Africa, that have a direct bearing on our national security and on those countries that have demonstrated progress in economic reform and in building democracy.
		With $247 million, the Budget supports our efforts to reduce risks posed by international terrorism and to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction by supporting stronger international safeguards on civilian nuclear activity and by helping other countries to improve their controls on exports of potentially dangerous technology.
	lobby.la.psu.edu /_107th/127_Basic_Education/Congressional_Hearings/Testimony/H_Budget_Powell_031501.htm (3750 words)

	Update on House Budget Committee Action
		The more active role the House Budget Committee is playing this year adds a layer of complexity to what is already a confusing budgeting process.
		House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-OH) has long been active in his pursuit of lower federal spending.
		Kasich is now chairman of the committee, and has the power to formulate a budget resolution that will pass the House.
	www.aip.org /enews/fyi/1995/fyi95.011.htm (429 words)

	House Budget Committee approves 2001 GOP budget plan - March 15, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio, said he expects the full House to approve the measure next week, when the Senate plans to work on it own version.
		House Republicans have criticized the Clinton budget as bloated and ineffective in addressing matters like overhauling the Medicare system and shoring up the Social Security trust fund.
		The House GOP plan also would set aside $40 billion to be applied toward changes to the Medicare system, and to the proposed prescription drug plan.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/15/house.budget (989 words)

	Testimony Before the House Budget Committee
		Good morning Chairman Kasich, members of the committee, my name is George Cunningham and I am a member of the Arizona House of Representatives and a Vice-Chair of the Federal Budget and Taxation Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
		As Senator Finan stated, it is a pleasure to speak before the committee today, because I believe we are at one of the most critical junctures in the history of this country and in the redefinition of the relationship between the federal government and the states.
		Congressional initiatives which seek to balance the budget by reneging on federal commitments to use transportation user fees to finance critical infrastructure needs, or reducing federal financial support where federally-imposed state obligations have not been curtailed, flies in the face of a state-federal partnership, and merely shifts costs and responsibility to the states.
	www.ncsl.org /statefed/TES4BUDG.htm (6178 words)

	Press Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These cuts are made to a budget that already relies upon $1.1 billion in vaguely defined management efficiencies and $1.4 billion in mostly unpalatable legislative and policy proposals already included in the President’s budget.
		Ninety percent of the mandatory spending the Budget Committee proposes to cut is from cash payments to service disabled veterans, low-income wartime veterans and their survivors.
		In order to meet the Budget Committee criteria the House Committee on Veterans Affairs could propose a cost-of living decrease of 1.4% and no increase for FY 2004.
	veterans.house.gov /democratic/press/108th/3-13-03budget.htm (874 words)

	House Budget Committee to Hold Field Hearings on Spending Cuts
		The House Budget Committee travels to Ohio, Arizona, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Montana during the next four weeks for hearings on federal spending.
		The committee is formulating proposals to reduce federal spending by approximately $200 billion over five years to pay for the Contract with America.
		Seven joint working groups composed of members from the budget, authorization, and appropriations committees are developing budget policy guidance for the FY 1996 House Budget Resolution.
	www.aip.org /enews/fyi/1995/fyi95.007.htm (318 words)

	FRB:Testimony, Greenspan--Economic outlook and current fiscal issues--February 25, 2004
		For about a decade, the rules laid out in the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and the later modifications and extensions of the act, provided a procedural framework that helped the Congress make the difficult decisions that were required to forge a better fiscal balance.
		The budget scenarios considered by the CBO in its December assessment of the long-term budget outlook offer a vivid--and sobering--illustration of the challenges we face as we prepare for the retirement of the baby-boom generation.
		I trust that the recent deterioration in the budget outlook and the fast-approaching retirement of the baby-boom generation will be met with similar determination and effectiveness.
	www.federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/testimony/2004/20040225 (2233 words)

	Graham resigns from House Budget Committee
		Graham's resignation from the committee, which determines the House's budget proposals, came just before the committee votes on its budget for next year.
		House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said she purposely placed some freshmen on the committee to provide continuity into the years ahead.
		House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden, R-St. Charles, said he appreciated Graham's work on the committee, even if the two didn't always agree.
	www.mdn.org /2004/STORIES/GRAHAM.HTM (425 words)

	House Appropriations Committee Testimony, March 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although this is an amount that would increase our funding substantially over the current year's budget of $110.7 million, it is a sum that would still be significantly lower than the $172 million appropriated for FY 1995.
		Indeed, the Endowment's $136 million budget request is designed to begin the process of breathing some vital new fiscal life into these important federal programs, which have not recovered from the devastating reductions that were inflicted on them three years ago.
		As this Committee is well aware, NEH's core grant programs are time-tested vehicles for enabling high quality humanities projects to take place across the nation, projects that enrich our educational and cultural life and that benefit citizens in every state of the union.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/archive/19980312.html (2447 words)

	Before the House Budget Committee
		These budget deficits, which had reached 6 percent of GDP in 1983, were eliminated by a combination of three factors: First, real defense spending plummeted by 30 percent in the 1990s as a result of winning the Cold War.
		Budgets are about setting priorities, and the central priorities of the federal budget are to defend the American people from external threats and to protect individual’s paychecks.
		Given the long planning stage, the potential for hold ups, and the inconsistency between the war’s schedule and the budget’s, it is prudent to bifurcate war spending from regular defense spending.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/tst021605a.cfm (3042 words)

	Project for the New American Century
		Today, we face a similar situation with the White House and OMB slashing the Secretary of Defense’s and the military services’ requests for increased defense expenditures.
		For example, Secretary Rumsfeld came to the White House several weeks ago saying he needed at least $35 billion as a supplement to the 2002 defense budget; the White House authorized only half that amount.
		So, the clear implication of the deputy secretary of defense’s testimony is that his president’s budget is woefully insufficient, and the White House is dangerously misguided, when it comes to providing for the nation’s security and its interests around the globe.
	www.newamericancentury.org /defense-20010712.htm (614 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Democrats Plan an Assault on GOP's Push for Budget Vote
		House Democrats and their allies are planning a weeklong assault on the GOP's proposed budget plan, hoping to kill an impending vote on budget cuts and highlight internal division within the Republican Conference.
		Rep. John Spratt (S.C.), ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, plans to hold the mock hearing tomorrow.
		Democrats on both sides of the Capitol have periodically tried to hold events that appear to be congressionally sanctioned hearings even though only Democrats participate in them as a way to work around congressional rules that prevent the minority from organizing official hearings.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/110805G.shtml (749 words)

	Bush Tax Cut Affordable, Trigger Not Workable: NCPA Tax Expert Bartlett Tells House Budget Committee Tax Cut is ...
		As this Committee well knows, the impact of tax changes on aggregate revenues is highly uncertain.
		Six years ago, the House amended its rules to allow such an estimate to be made, but in all the years since, no one has ever asked.
		But in most cases, the tax increase portion of those budget packages were their least controversial element.
	www.ncpa.org /press/nr030801a.html (1696 words)

	Insight on the News: Congress' golden boy - House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich
		Committee on the Budget / Officials and employees
		Just as Insight sat down to interview House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich of Ohio, three of his Republican colleagues dashed into his tiny suite in the Longworth House Office Building and whisked away the maverick to a meeting.
		But much of the House Republicans' agenda sits stalled in the more deliberative and moderate Senate, prompting many political analysts to wonder whether the revolution is over.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n42_v11/ai_17626388 (741 words)

	FRB: Testimony, Greenspan --Economic outlook and current fiscal issues-- March 2, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed, the unified budget is running deficits equal to about 3-1/2 percent of gross domestic product, and federal debt held by the public as a percent of GDP has risen noticeably since it bottomed out in 2001.
		The pressures on the budget from this dramatic demographic change will be exacerbated by those stemming from the anticipated steep upward trend in spending per Medicare beneficiary.
		The likelihood of escalating unified budget deficits is of especially great concern because they would drain an inexorably growing volume of real resources away from private capital formation over time and cast an ever-larger shadow over the growth of living standards.
	www.federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/testimony/2005/20050302 (2131 words)

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