Budget and Appropriations - Human Needs Report Archives
2012
The Federal Budget on Autopilot? (2/6/12) Congress Up Against Deadline to Extend Unemployment Insurance and Payroll Tax Cut (2/6/12)
2011 Congress Poised to Pass Omnibus Fiscal Year 2012 Appropriation Bill (12/16/11) Congress Not Anxious to Raise Working Families' Taxes in January (12/16/11) Senate Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment (12/16/11) Super Committee Cannot Leap Over Ideological Chasm; President Warns He Will Not Allow Gutting of Automatic Cuts (11/22/11) First Fiscal Year 2012 Appropriations Bills Pass Congress (11/22/11) House Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment (11/22/11) FY 2012 Minibus Spending Bill Moves Toward Passage (10/31/11) Disappointing Reports of Deficit Plans from Super Committee Democrats and Republicans (10/31/11) Congress Passes Short-Term FY2012 Spending Bill (10/10/11) Congress Expected to Act Soon on Short-Term Spending Bill for FY 2012 (9/16/11) The President's Job Creation Package (9/16/11) The Debt Crisis is Averted: What Happens Next? (8/9/11) Closer to the Brink in Order to Save Tax Cuts for the Rich (7/15/11) A Shift in Balanced Budget Amendment Strategy (7/15/11) Deficit Reduction Negotiations Intensify; Deal Sought by July 1 (6/17/11) House Agriculture Appropriations: Some WIC Funding Restored, but Other Cuts to Nutrition and Housing Programs Stay (6/17/11) Balanced Budget Amendment Would Threaten Critical Programs and the Economy (6/17/11) The Senate Rejects a Bunch of Budget Plans; Action on the Floor Still a Sideshow to Biden Debt Ceiling Negotiations (5/31/11) Hundreds of Thousands of Small Children and Mothers Would Lose Food Aid if House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Gets Its Way (5/31/11) Medicaid Program at Risk (5/31/11) How Low Can You Go; House Appropriators Start to Carry Out FY 2012 Budget Cuts (5/13/11) Senate Budget Resolution: Maybe Next Week? (5/13/11) Deficit Reduction and Raising the Debt Ceiling (5/13/11) Funding for FY 2011 Finalized; Government Shutdown Averted (4/19/11) The FY 2012 Budget: House Republicans Take Steps To Drown Government in a Bathtub; The President has Other Priorities (4/19/11) Congress Likely to Approve Another Three Weeks of Federal Spending; House Approves Another $6 Billion in Cuts Below FY 2010 Levels; Senate Expected to Follow Suit (3/17/11) Twenty-three Senators Threaten the President With Vote Against Debt Ceiling Increase (3/17/11) The House Marches Toward a Showdown on Spending Cuts (2/1/11) Senate Adopts Modest Rule Changes; Rejects More Far-Reaching Changes (2/1/11) House Rules Biased Toward More Tax Cuts; Burden of Deficit Reduction Placed on Cutting Programs-Senate Still Working on Changes (1/14/11)
2010
Senate Attempt at Full-Year Appropriations Collapses Child Care, Head Start, Disabilities, and Housing Programs Likely to Suffer (12/22/10) Congress Returns to Lame-Duck Session Facing Full Plate of Unfinished Business (11/29/10) Congress Enacts Measure to Avert a Government Shutdown (10/5/10) Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations; Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10) House and Senate Set FY 2011 Spending Targets Lower Than President’s; Spending Tight, but Some Growth in House Labor-HHS Appropriations (7/26/10) Senate Sends War Supplemental Back to House without Domestic Provisions (7/26/10) House Agrees to Funding Limit; Begins Work on Appropriations Bills (7/2/10) War Supplemental Bill Seen as Vehicle for Domestic Priorities (7/2/10) The Congressional Budget and Annual Spending Bills Remain Stalled (6/2/10) Deficit Reduction Commission Holds First Meeting (5/11/10) Senate Committee Passes Budget with Tight Restraints on Spending (4/26/10) The President’s Budget: Important Strides Forward After Years of Cuts (3/1/10) Senate Increases Debt Limit and Imposes PayGo Budget Rule (1/29/10)
2009
Omnibus Appropriations Bill Funds Major Programs; Defense Bill Carries Important Extensions (12/23/09) Debt Limit Must Be Raised Before the New Year (12/23/09) Congress Extends Temporary Spending Measure Through December 18: The Senate May Finish Two More Appropriations Bills This Week (11/02/09) New Federal Fiscal Year Begins – At FY 2009 Funding Levels (10/02/09) Fiscal Year 2010 Set to Begin: No Funding Bills Have Been Completed (9/23/09) Senate Completes Its Work on Agriculture Appropriations (8/12/09) Unprecedented Move Halts Further Production of Major Weapons System (8/12/09) Major Domestic Appropriations Bills Moving Forward (7/23/09) Both House and Senate Close to President’s Levels for Human Needs Appropriations Handful of Appropriations Bills Pass in the House Before July Recess (7/1/09) House Gets Started on Next Year’s Appropriations (6/16/09) Congress Passes Budget Outline; President Fills in the Blanks (5/11/09) House and Senate Approve Budget Resolutions President’s Priorities Move Forward, but Not Without Roadblocks (4/6/09) The President’s Budget Runs into Trouble Deficit Worries Increase Likelihood of Spending Cuts, Possibly Jeopardizing the Economic Recovery (3/23/09) The President’s Budget: A Dramatic Shift in Priorities (3/11/09) Current Year Spending Bill Finally Passes (3/11/09) Domestic Spending for This Year Awaits Final Approval; The Process for Funding in 2010 is Underway (2/18/09)
2008
Domestic Spending Extended for Six Months; Almost All Flat-Funded (10/9/08) Action to Spur the Economy Awaits Congress’ Return in September - Not to Mention Funding for Everything Else (8/5/08) Most Expect Temporary Spending Bill Until the Next Administration (7/21/08) Appropriations Bills Hit a Snag (7/1/08) Budget Passes; Appropriations Process Begins (6/13/08) House-Senate Negotiators Agree on a Budget Deal; Last Minute Snag Delays Enactment (5/23/08) The Budget is Back on Track (5/12/08) Final Agreement on the Budget Awaits Congress' Return (3/21/08) House and Senate Committees Pass Budgets (3/7/08) Human Needs Programs Take a Hit in President’s Budget (2/15/09)
2007
Congress Passes Omnibus Appropriations Bill for FY 2008 (12/21/07) Congress Enacts Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations; President Vetoes (11/13/07) Congress Almost Done with Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Spending Bill; President Still Threatens Veto (10/29/07) Congress Extends Program Funding for Seven Weeks (10/01/07) Crunch Time: Vetoes Threaten Top Human Needs Priorities as September 30 Deadline Approaches (9/17/07) Appropriations Showdown Looming (8/3/07) Appropriations Update (Revised 7/27/07) President Nominates former House Budget Committee Chair Jim Nussle as White House Budget Director (7/2307) Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Bill (6/29/07) The House Agrees to Restart Action on Spending Bills After Grinding to a Halt (6/15/07) Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations: Some Gains, but Many Disappointments (6/15/07) Appropriations Veto Threat Seeks to Force Cuts in Domestic Programs (6/1/07) Congress Passes FY 2008 Budget Resolution: Genuine Progress in Meeting Needs (5/18/07) Senate Passes FY 2008 Budget Resolution (3/30/07) The House Passes a Budget (3/30/07) Senate Committee Passes FY 2008 Budget (3/16/07) Bush Administration Budget Unveiled (2/16/07) Congress Approves Funding for the Year We're In (2/16/07) Current Year Spending Approved by House (2/5/07) Congress Works Out This Year's Funding as February Deadline Looms (1/19/07)
2006
The Old Congress Cuts and Runs (12/19/06) Congress Expected to Duck Its Funding Responsibilities Lamely – Final Decisions Shifted to the New Congress (11/28/06) Stopgap Spending Bill Passes Congress; Longer Term Not So Certain (10/04/06) Whatever Happened to Lobby Reform? (9/19/06) Republican Leaders Bent on Gutting the Estate Tax Are Running Out of Options (9/19/06) Appropriations: Stop-Gap Spending Bill Needed to Avert Government Shutdown (9/19/06) Senate Approves Funding Levels for Housing Programs (7/25/06) House Poised to Vote on Ominous Bills (7/25/06) Senate Committee’s Inadequate Labor-HHS-Education Spending (7/25/06) House Votes to Give President More Power and Diminish Their Own (7/06/06) Senate Appropriations Committee $2 billion Short of Funds Needed to Prevent Cuts in Health, Education, Other Services (7/06/06) Congressional Leadership Ignores Senate's Vote to Prevent Cuts (6/16/06) House Passes Finding Levels for Housing Programs (6/16/06) House Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending and a Minimum Wage Hike (6/16/06) Service Slashers Trying Again to Make Rules to Ensure Cuts (6/16/06) More Promises Than Funding: The House Adopts An Irresponsible 2007 Budge (5/19/06) Line-Item Veto - Giving Away the Power of the Purse (5/05/06) Budget Struggles: Spending Moves Forward Despite the Budget Resolution Logjam (5/05/05) Line Item Veto Proposal More Sweeping Than It Appears (3/31/05) House Budget Committee Targets Human Needs Programs for Cuts (3/31/06) GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) More Than 1,200 Groups Nationwide Sign Letter To Congress Opposing Budget Cuts (3/17/06) House Passes Supplemental Spending Bill With Important Provisions for Gulf Coast, LIHEAP (3/17/06) Restrictive Budget Legislation Said to be Price of Clean Debt Limit Vote (3/17/06) How A Bill Becomes A Law - Usually (2/17/06) The President's Scandalous Budget (2/17/06) GOP Leaders Hope to Jump Procedural Hurdles to Extend Tax Breaks (2/17/06) House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) Senate Passes More Tax Breaks (2/3/06) State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/07)
2005
House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) More Tax Breaks for Wealthy Approved by Congress (12/9/05) House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) Key Moderate Senator Forces Delay on Bill Cutting Taxes for Wealthy (11/11/05) Funding for At-Risk Youth Cut (11/11/05) Appropriations Bills Moving Towards Completion; Across-the-Board Cuts Threatened (11/11/05) House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Programs (10/28/05) Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for the Wealthy (9/30/05) Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) Estate Tax Vote Postponed (9/16/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Advocates Propose Medicaid Savings to Avoid Harming Low-Income People (7/22/05) Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) Housing, Community Development Funding Moves in Senate (7/22/05) Senate Appropriators Cut Census Survey of Income, Poverty Data (7/1/05) Bill Funding Housing Programs Passes the House (7/1/05) House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) House Approve Agriculture Spending Bill (6/17/05) House Cuts Juvenile Justice Programs; Rejects President's Cuts to Community Development (6/17/05) Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) Administration-Appointed Commission to Draw Plans for Cutting $10 Billion From Medicaid (5/20/05) Congress Ponders Multiple Tax Cuts (5/20/05) Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) Anti-Immigration Provisions Part of Iraq Spending Bill (4/29/05) Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) Budget Politics Intrude on TANF (4/15/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) What to Expect in the President's Budget (2/4/05)
2004
Bruising Budget Battle Looms; Entitlements at Stake (1/14/05) Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) Congress Passes Continuing Resolution Until November 20 (10/1/04) HUD Appropriations Bill Clears Senate Panel; Next Steps Unclear (10/1/04) Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Bills Before Target Adjournment (9/17/04) House Set To Consider Section 8 Appropriations (7/16/04) House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education (7/16/04) House Rejects Dangerous Budget Process Bill (7/2/04) Budget Process Bill Endangers Services for Seniors, People with Disabilities, Low-Income Families and Others (6/7/04) Budget Conference Agreement Clears House Floor, But Stalls in Senate (5/21/04) Why No Budget Resolution This Year is Not Such a Bad Idea (5/7/04) Four Budget Watchdog Groups Favor Budget Enforcement Rules (4/23/04) Still No Budget Resolution - But Tax Cuts Moving Forward in the House (4/23/04) House, Senate Unable To Agree On Budget Before Recess (4/9/04) House Approves Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Resolution (3/26/04) Senate Approves Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Resolution (3/12/04) House Budget Committee Begins to Work on Budget Resolution (3/12/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04) Senate Budget Committee Marks Up Spending Bill for FY05: Low-Income Programs are on Chopping Block (3/4/04) CHN Launches New Federal Budget Campaign (2/13/04) President Releases Fiscal Year 2005 Budget (2/13/04) CBO Releases New Report Revealing Significant Federal Deficits (1/30/04)
2003
Omnibus Appropriations Bill Moving Forward (11/21/03) APPROPRIATIONS UPDATE: Prospect of Omnibus Appropriations Bill Looms (11/7/03) Budget Committees Targeting 'Waste, Fraud, and Abuse' (10/10/03) Appropriations Update (9/12/03) Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill Passes The House (7/18/03) Congress Approves Unusual Budget Resolution (4/14/03) Senate Budget Resolution Slashes New Tax Cut (3/27/03) GOP Budget Resolutions Undermine Programs For The Poor (3/14/03) FY03 Omnibus Appropriations Package Sent to President (2/14/03) Bush Budget Undermines Anti-Poverty Programs (2/14/03) Bush Delivers State of the Union Address (1/31/03) Omnibus Appropriations Bill Passes in New Republican Senate (1/31/03) Senate Works Toward Completion of 2003 Appropriations (1/17/03) Bush Proposes $674 Billion "Economic Stimulus" Package (1/17/03)
2002
Many Programs Benefiting Poor Face Reauthorization in 2003 (11/22/02) House Appropriations Committee Reports FY03 VA-HUD Bill (10/11/02) CBO Forecast Revises Deficit Up and Surplus Down (9/13/02) Senate Committee Approves Child Care Bill (9/13/02) Senate Adds $6 Billion in Drought Assistance to Interior Bill (9/13/02) Labor HHS Bill in Limbo (9/13/02) VA-HUD Appropriations Still Held Up (9/13/02) Senate Committee Approves VA-HUD Appropriations Bill (8/2/02) Senate Committee Approves FY 2003 Agriculture Appropriations (8/2/02) House Committee Approves FY 2003 Agriculture Appropriations (7/19/02) Budget Outlook Worsens (7/19/02) Senate Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Bill (7/19/02) House Passes FY 02 Supplemental Appropriations (6/7/02) Budget Deficit May Be Larger than Projected (4/26/02) House Approves $2.1 Trillion Budget Resolution (3/29/02) House Budget Committee Approves Budget Resolution (3/15/02) Farm Bill Conferees Face Funding Setback (3/15/02) Bush Budget Weakens Low-Income Programs (2/15/02) Budget Surpluses Vanish (2/1/02)
2001
Congress Passes Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill (12/20/01) President Bush Signs VA-HUD Appropriations Bill (12/7/01) Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill Clears House (10/26/01) House and Senate Pass Airline Bailout, Economic Stimulus Next (9/28/01) House and Senate Pass Emergency Spending Bill (9/28/01) Congress Passes FY 2002 Budget Resolution (5/14/01) Tax Constitutional Amendment Falls Short (4/27/01) House and Senate Negotiate Budget Differences (4/27/01) Bush Budget Dead Before Arrival? (4/13/01) CBO Projects Ten Year, $5.6 Trillion Surplus (2/2/01)
