House panel cuts health and school aid

House panel cuts health and school aid

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer
13 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Health research, school aid and social services for the poor would bear budget cuts under a bill approved by a House panel Wednesday.

But despite the cuts in a bill providing $141.9 billion for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, lawmakers found $1 billion more than last year for back-home projects unrequested by President Bush. Those include grants to local hospitals and clinics and research earmarks for universities and colleges in lawmakers' districts.

The House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee approved the bill by a 9-7 party-line vote Wednesday after Democrats such as Rep. David Obey (news, bio, voting record) savaged the bill for its cuts to the National Institutes of Health, programs funded by the 2002 No Child Left Behind education bill and for reducing the federal share for special education programs.

Overall, the NIH would be frozen at last year's levels, though almost every individual institute — including those funding research into child development, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health and general medicine — would face cuts.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending

How can these fuckers even sleep at night?

Ralph Regula, OH (R - Chairman)
Ernest J. Istook, Jr., OK (R)
Roger F. Wicker, MS (R)
Anne Northup, KY (R)
Kay Granger, TX (R)
John E. Peterson, PA (R)
Don Sherwood, PA (R)
Dave Weldon, FL (R)
James Walsh, NY (R)
Michael K. Simpson, ID (R)

faces, in the same order:

These are sick mother fuckers that have the guts to call themselves compassionate.

lots of money for a loser of a war.....
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bigtree (1000+ posts) 
Wed Jun-07-06 11:46 AM
Original message
House Panel Approves $50B More for Wars (Why Occupations Continue)
Jun 7 2006

If approved, the House bill would push total war-related dollars since 2001 toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.

The Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan agency that writes reports for lawmakers, says that since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawmakers already have provided $368 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other costs associated with the war on terrorism.

Additionally, a bill making its way through Congress now to pay for the rest of this year's war costs includes another $65.7 billion for the Pentagon, much of which will be used to pay for military operations, maintenance and personnel costs in the two war zones.

Lawmakers say the Pentagon is spending about $8 billion a month in Iraq and $1 billion a month in Afghanistan.

http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/headlines/D8DTIE...

It's on DU at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1374430

God, do I hate the Republican Party -- the party of death, hate, greed, hypocrisy, war, waste and corruption.

I now hate conservatives with every bit as much vitriol as conservatives have been hating liberals for 300 years.

The bill also fails to provide future-year funding for public television as is the typical practice.

Congress created the corporation in 1967 to shield public broadcasting from political influence. It distributes federal subsidies to PBS, National Public Radio and hundreds of public radio and television stations.

Meanwhile, the House gave only cursory debate to a $3 billion measure funding its own budget. That represents a 4 percent increase. Floor action moved so swiftly that a half-dozen members who hoped to offer amendments such as a plan to block smoking areas in House office buildings lost their chance.