AppropriationsSubcommittee

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Appropriations Committee

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Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA

✓ $20.7B

✓$143.8B

Commerce, Justice, Science

✓✓

$51.4B✓

$51.1B

Defense ✓ ✓

$579B✓

$575BEnergy and Water Development

✓✓

$35.4B✓

$35.4BFinancial Services and General Government

✓ $20.2B

✓$20.6B

Homeland Security✓

$39.3B✓

$47.1B

Interior, Environment✓

$30.2B✓

$30.0BLabor, Health and Human Services, Education

✓$153.0B

✓$153.2B

Legislative Branch ✓✓

$3.3B✓

$4.3BMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs

✓✓

$76.6B✓

$77.6B

State, Foreign Operations✓

$48.0B✓

$49.0BTransportation, Housing and Urban Development

✓✓

$55.3B✓

$55.7BSources: National Journal Research, 2015; House Committee on Appropriations; Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Indicates recent action (June 18 - August 17)

Status of FY2016 Appropriations Bills

Sources: National Journal Research, 2015; House Committee on Appropriations; Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Bill Overview and Policy Provisions

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA

• FDA: Both the House and Senate bills increase FDA funding by at least $30 million over 2015 enacted levels and include a provision that would delay implementation of new FDA menu-labelling guidelines for a year

• WIC: Both the House and Senate bills cut funding for the supplemental nutrition program for Women, Infants, and Children to at least $100 million below the President’s request, based on projections of declining enrollment

Commerce, Justice, Science

• Marijuana: Both the House and Senate bills include a provision that would prohibit the Justice Department from using its funds to prevent implementation of state-level medical marijuana laws

• Body Cameras: The House bill provides $25 million for body cameras (compared to a administration request for $50 million), and the Senate bill provides $20 million

Defense • FISA: The House bill includes an amendment that prevents the government from performing warrantless searches of Americans’ communications stored under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act

• Veto Threat: The White House threatened to veto the bills because they side-step defense budget caps by providing nearly $40 billion more than the president’s Overseas Contingency Operations funding request

Energy and Water Development

• Clean Water Act: Both the House and Senate versions of the bill prohibit the government from altering the jurisdiction and application of the Clean Water Act; a similar provision is also contained in the House’s Interior and Environment appropriations bill

• Nuclear Waste: The House bill continues funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear repository, while the Senate bill would allow waste to be stored at private facilities proposed in Texas and New Mexico

Select Details in FY2016 Appropriations Bills

Sources: National Journal Research, 2015; House Committee on Appropriations; Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Bill Overview and Policy Provisions

Financial Services and General Government

• FCC: Both the House and Senate bills contain provisions that would block enforcement of the FCC’s net neutrality rules

• IRS and ACA: The House bill would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from further implementing the individual mandate provisions in the Affordable Care Act

• IRS Audits: Both the House and Senate bills would prohibit IRS funding to audit a faith-based 501(c)3 organization, unless the audit is approved the IRS Commissioner

• Financial Regulation: The House bill would prohibit funding for the Financial Stability Oversight Council to designate non-banks as “systemically important financial institutions”

• Abortion Coverage: The House bill would prohibit OPM funding to negotiate Obamacare “multi-state qualified health plans” that cover abortion services

Homeland Security

• Guantanamo Bay: Both the House and Senate bills prohibit funding to be used for transferring or releasing detainees from Guantanamo Bay

• Immigration: The House bill prohibits use of funds for the President’s executive order during ongoing legal proceedings

Interior, Environment

• EPA Budget: The House bill cuts the EPA’s allocation by 9%, to $7.4 billion• Carbon Regulations: The House bill prevents the EPA from enacting carbon dioxide rules

for power plants• Ozone Regulations: Both the House and Senate bills prevent updates to existing ozone

regulations• Hydraulic Fracturing: The House bill blocks regulations pertaining to natural gas

hydraulic fracturing• Clean Water Act: The House bill prohibits the government from altering the jurisdiction

and application of the Clean Water Act

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education

• Obamacare: Both the House and Senate bills would defund the Affordable Care Act• NIH: The House bill adds $1.1 billion to NIH’s 2015 enacted funding; the Senate bill adds

$2 billion• Department of Education: The House bill reduces the Department of Education’s

funding by $2.8 billion compared to the 2015 enacted level; the Senate bill reduces funding by $1.7 billion

Select Details in FY2016 Appropriations Bills (continued)

Sources: National Journal Research, 2015; House Committee on Appropriations; Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Bill Overview and Policy Provisions

Legislative • Below Request: The Senate bill totals $4.3 billion, which is $220 million (5%) below the level requested by the administration; the House bill totals $3.3 billion

Military Construction

• Medical Marijuana: The Senate bill includes an amendment that allows VA healthcare providers to recommend marijuana use for medicinal purposes

State, Foreign Operations

• Global Health: The House bill would increase spending on global health programs to $5.67 billion, 4.5 percent above the amount requested by the administration; the Senate bill increases global health funding to $8.47 billion

• Benghazi: The House bill would withhold 15% of State Department operational funding unless it more quickly turns over documents to the Select Committee on Benghazi

• Cuba: The House bill would block use of funds for a new embassy in Cuba; the bill passed the appropriations committee before the new embassy had been established

• E-mail: The Senate bill would block the use of funds for e-mail servers outside of the .gov domain

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development

• Amtrak: The House bill would fund Amtrak at $1.13 billion, down from roughly $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2015; the Senate bill would fund Amtrak at $1.68 billion

• Highway Trust Fund: The House and Senate bills assume that the Highway Trust Fund will be funded through the rest of the year, but the fund’s current revenues would be unable to provide for the spending levels in the bill

• Section 8 and Public Housing: The House bill funds public housing $2 billion below the administration request, and the Senate bill funds public housing $1.7 billion below request

• Trucking Regulations: The House bill would undo a set of Transportation Department trucking regulations, including scheduling rules designed to reduce fatigue among drivers

Select Details in FY2016 Appropriations Bills (continued)