Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations

Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations

Recap aka. The Great Slide February 2010 President s budget Domestic Spending Freeze June 2010 House Democrats FY11 bills - $7 billion below the President July 2010 Senate Democrats FY11 bills - $14 billion below August 2010 House Republicans Pledge to America - $100 billion below December 2010 Omnibus in December -$29 billion below Sessions McCaskill number

The Sides (as of 3:30 pm EST today) House Republicans $100 billion below the President Senate Democratic bill $51 billion below the President

HR1 Examples $50 million cut to Maternal Child Health Cuts $1 billion from Community Health Centers $269 million (37%) cut to public health preparedness grants Eliminates of the Prevention & Public Health Fund 30% cut to health professions training programs Eliminates 218,000 Head Start slots and child care subsidies for another 165,000 families

And That s Not All. 9 provisions to stop health reform implementation Total elimination of Title X Family Planning Provision to stop all funding to Planned Parenthood Climate Change Drilling Egypt/Libya Aid Guantanamo Bay Tribunals

Getting the word out Billings Gazette Editorial: Congress must fund Billings VA Clinic. Vancouver Columbian: Budget cuts may cost ports $10M. Tri-City Herald: House budget could mean lost jobs for PNNL. Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Sonoma County health clinics fear federal cuts. Las Vegas Sun: GOP fights funding for vital Nevada renewable projects. Missoula Missoulian: Plan to cut Pell grants disappoints Montana college financial aid advocates. Chicago Tribune Op-Ed: Science budget cuts threaten high tech jobs, future frontiers. Quad City Times: Jobs program faces shutdown, advocates say. Dayton Daily News: Federal budget cuts would close Ohio s poison control centers. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Sen. Sherrod Brown and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson say proposed federal budget cuts could lead to police layoffs. The New London Day Editorial: Understand effects before making cuts. Frederick News-Post: Proposed Pell Grant cuts would slash 15 percent. Wheeling News-Register: Head Start cuts were painful. Orlando Sentinel: House budget would slash many popular programs. Birmingham News Editorial: Cut NIH, hurt UAB. Pine Bluff Commercial Editorial: Spending cuts target NCTR. Oklahoma City Journal Record: Community health centers face loss of federal money. Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Job training in crossfire of deficit battles. Dallas Morning News Blog: Conservative budget irony.

When the votes came in..

HR1 ($100 billion cut) 44 in favor, 56 opposed Every Republican supported the bill Democratic Bill ($51 billion cut) 42 in favor, 58 opposed 10 Democrats and 1 independent voted against

Senators who voted against a $51 billion cut because it wasn t deep enough Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennet (D-CO) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagan (D-NC) Hatch (R-UT) Hoeven (R-ND) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (R-WI) Kirk (R-IL) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lee (R-UT) Lugar (R-IN) Manchin (D-WV) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Paul (R-KY) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rubio (R-FL) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Udall (D-CO) Vitter (R-LA) Webb (D-VA) Wicker (R-MS)

Prevention Fund Vote Yea means eliminate Fund Nay means don t eliminate Fund Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Not Voting Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Pryor (D-AR), Yea California: Boxer (D-CA), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Nay Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-CO), Nay Connecticut: Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Nay Florida: Nelson (D-FL), Nay Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Nay Idaho: Crapo (R-ID), Yea Risch (R-ID), Yea Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Nay Indiana: Lugar (R-IN), Yea Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay Kansas: Roberts (R-KS), Yea Kentucky: McConnell (R-KY), Yea Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Yea Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Nay Massachusetts: Brown (R-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Nay Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Nay Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Nay Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Yea Wicker (R-MS), Yea Missouri: McCaskill (D-MO), Nay Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay Nebraska: Johanns (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Nay New Hampshire: Shaheen (D-NH), Nay New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Udall (D-NM), Nay New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Nay North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Nay Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Nay Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Nay Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Nay Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea Utah: Hatch (R-UT), Yea Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Nay Virginia: Warner (D-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay West Virginia: Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay