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2008
HNR: The Budget is Back on Track (5/12/08) Over 80 National Organizations Sign Letter Urging Congress to Maximize Funding for Human Needs in Final Budgte Resolution (3/31/08) HNR: Final Agreement on the Budget Awaits Congress’ Return (3/21/08) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budgets (3/7/08) ECAP: Federal Budget Must Respond to Pressing Needs (3/3/08) Network - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby: Statement on the FY 2009 Budget Request (2/25/08) HNR: Human Needs Programs Take a Hit in President’s Budget (2/15/09) National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: President's Budget Slashes Homeless Funding (2/6/08) CHN: Statement by Deborah Weinstein to President Bush's Fiscal 2009 Budget (2/4/08) The Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs: Bush’s 2009 Budget Slams the Door of Opportunity on America’s Farmworkers (2/4/08) CWLA: Statement by Christine James-Brown, President and a CEO, Child Welfare League of America on President Bush's Proposed Cut to the Social Services Block Grant (2/4/08)
2007
HNR: Congress Passes Omnibus Appropriations Bill for FY 2008 (12/21/07) CHN: Statement by Deborah Weinstein, The President's Veto of Appropriations for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Must be Overriden (11/14/07) HNR: Congress Enacts Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations; President Vetoes (11/13/07) HNR: Congress Almost Done with Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Spending Bill; President Still Threatens Veto (10/29/07) HNR: Congress Extends Program Funding for Seven Weeks (10/1/07) HNR: Crunch Time Vetoes threaten top human needs priorities as September 30 deadline approaches (9/17/07) HNR: Appropriations Showdown Looming (8/3/07) HNR: Appropriations Update (Revised 7/27/07) HNR: President Nominates former House Budget Committee Chair Jim Nussle as White House Budget Director (7/23/07) HNR: Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Bill (6/29/07) HNR: The House Agrees to Restart Action on Spending Bills After Grinding to a Halt (6/15/07) HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations: Some Gains, but Many Disappointments (6/15/07) House FY 2008 Appropriations Subcommittee Allocations - 302(b)s (6/6/07) National Groups Sign Letter in Opposition of Veto Threat (6/4/07) HNR: Appropriations Veto Threat Seeks to Force Cuts in Domestic Programs (6/1/07) HNR: Congress Passes FY 2008 Budget Resolution: Genuine Progress in Meeting Needs (5/18/07) CBPP: Claim that Congressional Budget Calls for "Largest Tax Increase in History" is Inaccurate (5/16/07) Over 70 Natioanl Organizations Sign Letter to Congress in Support of Best FY08 Budget Resolution (4/18/07) TomPaine.com: The Inspiration Budget by Jared Bernstein & Deborah Weinstein (4/2/07) HNR: Senate Passes FY 2008 Budget Resolution (3/30/07) HNR: The House Passes a Budget (3/30/07) Progresssive Caucus: The Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2008-17 "Peace and Security" Budget Alternative (03/30/07) Joint letter by major organizations on Senate budget (3/21/07) HNR: Senate Committee Passes FY 2008 Budget (03/16/07) CLASP: It Makes Sound Fiscal Sense to Restore Fundig for Child Support Enforcement (03/16/07) TomPaine.com: Undoing Bush's Budget Priorities by Deborah Weinstein (3/6/07) HNR: Bush Administration Budget Unveiled (02/16/07) HNR: Congress Approves Funding for the Year We're In (02/16/07) CHN: The Bush Budget - Less Help for People in Need; Needless Help for Those with High Incomes (revised 02/16/07) NWA: President's Budget Threatens WIC's Success (02/09/07) NEADA: President's Budget Calls for 44% Cut in Energy Assistance to the Poor! More than One Million Households Face Elimination of Benefits (02/07/07) AFSC: The Proposed Fiscal Year 2008 Budget: Little to Reflect Our Values (02/07/07) NCLR: Preliminary Analysis of the Proposed FY 2008 Federal Budget (02/06/07) Voices: 2008 President's Budget Neglects Health Care Needs of Children (02/05/07) ECAP: President's Budget is Backwards: ECAP call on Congress to Reject the Budget and Put "First Things First!" (02/05/07) Families USA: President's Budget Cuts Children's Health Coverage, Contrary to His 2004 Promises (02/05/07) AFSCME: To Pay for Costly War, Bush Tries to Abandon Basic Domestic Responsibilities (02/05/07) CCF: Public Supports Strengthening Medicaid, SCHIP - President's FY'08 Budget 'Out of Touch' with Voters (02/05/07) CWLA: CWLA Calls on Congress to Reject Out of Balance Budget by President (02/05/07) FRAC: Statement on the President's FY2008 Budget (02/05/07) NWLC Press Release: Bush Budget Would Exacerbate Growing Inequality (02/05/07) HNR: Current Year Spending Approved by House (02/05/07) ECAP: ECAP Commends Democratic Leadership for Putting a Stop to the Hemorrhaging of the FY07 Budget (01/30/07) NWLC: Continuing Resolution: A Step in the Right Direction (01/30/07) Joint letter signed by major organizations seeking funding to avoid painful loss of services (01/22/07) HNR: Congress Works Out This Year's Funding as February Deadline Looms (01/19/07)
2006
HNR: The Old Congress Cuts and Runs (12/19/06) HNR: Congress Expected to Duck Its Funding Responsibilities Lamely – Final Decisions Shifted to the New Congress (11/28/06) CBPP: Appropriations for 2006: Domestic Funding Continues to Shrink as a Percentage of the Economy and Is Now Below 2001 Levels (10/13/06) CBPP: Recent Action By Congress Sets Up Larger Appropriations Cuts in Lame-Duck Session (10/13/06) HNR: Stopgap Spending Bill Passes Congress; Longer Term Not So Certain (10/04/06) CBPP: The 109th Congress' Track Record on teh Budget: Making Deficits Worse (9/29/06) HNR: Whatever Happened to Lobby Reform? (9/19/06) HNR: Republican Leaders Bent on Gutting the Estate Tax Are Running Out of Options (9/19/06) HNR: Appropriations: Stop-Gap Spending Bill Needed to Avert Government Shutdown (9/19/06) CBPP: Gregg Bill Would Make Changes in Budget Rules (8/19/06) HNR: Senate Approves Funding Levels for Housing Programs (7/25/06) HNR: House Poised to Vote on Ominous Bills (7/25/06) HNR: Senate Committee’s Inadequate Labor-HHS-Education Spending (7/25/06) HNR: House Votes to Give President More Power and Diminish Their Own (7/6/06) HNR: Senate Appropriations Committee $2 billion Short of Funds Needed to Prevent Cuts in Health, Education, Other Services (7/6/06) HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) HNR: Senate HELP Committee Approves Bill That Would Seriously Weaken Health Insurance Consumer Protections (3/17/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06) NYTimes: Budget Accord Could Mean Payments by Medicaid Recipients (12/20/05) CBPP: Gregg Bill would Make Far-Reach Changes in Budget Rules (6/23/06) HNR: Congressional Leadership Ignores Senate's Vote to Prevent Cuts (6/16/06) HNR: House Passes Finding Levels for Housing Programs (6/16/06) HNR: House Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending and a Minimum Wage Hike (6/16/06) HNR: Service Slashers Trying Again to Make Rules to Ensure Cuts (6/16/06) HNR: More Promises Than Funding: The House Adopts An Irresponsible 2007 Budget (5/19/06) HNR: Budget Struggles: Spending Moves Forward Despite the Budget Resolution Logjam (5/05/06) HNR: Line-Item Veto - Giving Away the Power of the Purse (5/05/06) CBPP: Joint Tax Committee Shows Budget Gimmick Propsed To Evade Senate Budget Rules Would Increase Long-Term Deficits (4/25/06) ECAP: Sign The Online Petition To Stop Cuts In Vital Services And Tax Breaks for Millionaires (4/20/06) HNR: Line Item Veto Proposal More Sweeping Than It Appears (03/31/06) HNR: House Budget Committee Targets Human Needs Programs for Cuts (3/31/05) AlterNet: The Budget and the Damage Done (quoting Deborah Weinstein) (3/22/06) NY Times Op-Ed: Deficit Demagogues (3/21/06) HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) NY Times: Senate Approves Budget (3/17/06) NY Times: House Approves $4.2 In Aid Sought By Louisiana (3/16/06) CHN: Over 1,200 Organizations Sign Letter to Congress Opposing Federal Budget Cuts (3/16/06) NYTimes Editorial: Congress's $2 Billion Typo (2/23/06) WP Editorial: Undynamic Analysis (2/21/06) (tax cuts do not pay for themselves) WP Op-ed: Trillion Dollar Gimmick: Extending Bush's Tax Cuts Through Sleight of Hand (2/19/06) HNR: The President's Scandalous Budget (2/17/06) HNR: How a Bill Becomes a Law - Usually (2/17/06) HNR: GOP Leaders Hope to Jump Procedural Hurdles to Extend Tax Breaks (2/17/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06) HNR: Senate Passes More Tax Breaks for Wealthy (2/3/06) Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: A Egregious Budget In Congress (1/31/06) Sojourners: The Budget's Bottom Line (2/15/06) WashPost: Senate Approves Cuts; Not Drilling (12/22/05) CHN: State Fact Sheets - How Budget Cuts Will Affect Your State (1/13/06) CHN: When is a Cut a Cut? When it Takes Away Services People Need (1/10/06) CBPP: Assessing the Effects of Budget Conference Agreement on Low Income Families (revised 1/9/06)
December 2005
NYTimes Ed: Last-Minute Budget Madness (12/20/05) NYTimes: Budget Accord Could Mean Payments by Medicaid Recipients (12/20/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) Call to Renewal: Civil Disobedience for A Moral Budget (12/14/05) WashPost: A Religious Protest Largely From Progressives (12/14/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) HNR: More Tax Breaks for Wealthy Approved by Congress (12/9/05) HNR: Congress Approves, President Signs, Final Housing Appropriation Bill (12/9/05) American Prospect: New Budget Bills Undermine the Poor -- Especially Those Working Hard (12/9/05) NYTimes Ed: Profiles in Pusillanimity (12/6/05)
November 2005
Philly Inq Op-Ed: Before Hurting Poor, Look Elsewhere for Cuts (11/27/05) NYTimes: Republicans Deeply Split About How to Apportion New Tax Cuts (11/26/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) AP: House Democrats Defeat Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (11/17/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) HNR: Key Moderate Senator Forces Delay on Bill Cutting Taxes for Wealthy (11/11/05) HNR: Funding for At-Risk Youth Cut (11/11/05) HNR: Appropriations Bills Moving Towards Completion; Across-the-Board Cuts Threatened (11/11/05) WashPost: House Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Pulled (11/11/05) Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Budget Cuts - Children and Poor Unfairly Targeted (11/9/05) Houston Chronicle Editorial: GOP Budget Will Harm Children to Finance Tax Cuts for Top Earners (11/9/05) WashPost: GOP Budget Cuts Face Varied Opposition (11/8/05) NYTimes Editorial: The Best Hope for Fiscal Sanity (11/8/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress' Sham Budget (11/6/05) E.J. Dionne: House Budget Mollycoddles The Rich (11/04/05) Faithful America: Religious Leaders Say No to Budgte Cuts, Get a Chance Meeting With House Speaker (11/03/05) WashPost: Food Stamp and Other Cuts on Table (11/3/05) WP: Rhetoric Meets Reality in the Budget Season (11/1/05)
October 2005 HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) WashPost: Bush Open to Across-the-Board Spending Cuts; Encourages Conservatives to "Push the Envelope" (10/27/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) WashPost: Planned GOP Budget Cuts Target Programs Such as Foster Care (10/26/05) ACORN: Members Take Action to Oppose Unfair Budget Cuts (10/21/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) USAction: Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities Launched to Set Congress's Priorities Straight (10/19/05) NY Times: Congress Returns, To A Major Spending Fight (10/18/05) WP: House GOP Set to Cut Services (10/17/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05)
August-September 2005 HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) WashPost Op-Ed: Fiscal Policy: Why "Stupid" Fits (9/23/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) HNR: Estate Tax Vote Postponed (9/16/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress Finesses the Storm (9/14/05) WashPost: Critical Votes on Budget Cuts Loom for Republicans (8/28/05) WashPost: CBO Predicts $331 Billion Deficit for FY 2005 (8/15/05)
July 2005
HNR: Advocates Propose Medicaid Savings to Avoid Harming Low-Income People (7/22/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) HNR: Housing, Community Development Funding Moves in Senate (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) NY Times Op-Ed: Un-Spin the Budget (7/11/05) HNR: Bill Funding Nutrition Programs Advances in the Senate (7/1/05) HNR: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) HNR: Bill Funding Housing Programs Passes the House (7/1/05) HNR: Senate Appropriators Cut Survey of Income, Poverty Data (7/1/05)
May-June 2005
WashPost Op-Ed: The Price of Public TV's Win (6/30/05) HNR: House Approves Agriculture Spending Bill (6/17/05) HNR: House Cuts Juvenile Justice Programs; Rejects President's Cuts to Community Development (6/17/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: Administration-Appointed Commission to Draw Plans for Cutting $10 Billion From Medicaid (5/20/05) NYTimes: States Propose Sweeping Changes to Cut Medicaid by Billions (5/9/05) April 2005
HNR: C ongress Ponders Multiple Tax Cuts (5/20/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/29/05) WP Editorial: Worse Than No Budget (4/28/05) NY Times: Medicaid Panel is Key to Congressional Budget Deal That Would Include Cuts (4/27/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) MinutemanMedia.org: The President's Budget Is Immoral (4/29/05) WP Editorial: The Rich Get Richer (4/11/05) American Prospect: President Questions Bonds in Social Security While He Leads Historic Expansion of National Debt (4/8/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05)
March 2005
NY Times: In Blow to Bush, Senate Rejects Cuts to Medicaid (3/18/05) LA Times: Senate Fails to Approve "Pay-As-You-Go" Rules to Tax Cuts (3/17/05) WP: Senators Aim to Shield Medicaid from $15 Billion in Budget Cuts (3/16/05) WP Editorial: Budget Politics (3/15/05) Charleston (WV) Gazette: Federal Cutbacks (Series on Federal Budget (3/15/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) February 2005
HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) NYT Op-Ed: Bush's Class War Budget (2/11/05) WP Editorial: A Breathtaking Budget (2/8/05) WP: Agency by Agency Breakdown in President's Budget (2/8/05) WP: Congress Unlikely to Embrace President's Wish List (2/8/05) CHN: The President's Budget - The Wrong Choices (2/7/05) Voices for America's Children: Reaction to Federal Budget Cuts (2/7/05) HNR: What to Expect in the President's Budget - Human Needs Cuts (2/4/05) NYTimes: Bush Officials Spell Out Cuts in Money for Housing (2/4/05) WP: Benefit Cuts Would Offset Contributions (2/4/05) NYTimes: Health Secretary Calls for Medicaid Changes (2/2/05) WP: HHS Secretary Suggests Major Changes to Medicaid (2/2/05) January 2005
WP Opinion: Cutting Out the Poor (1/31/05) WP: Leavitt Won't Rule out Medicaid Budget Cuts (1/20/05) HNR: Bruising Budget Battle Looms; Entitlements at Stake (1/14/05) WP: Bush Plans Sharp Cuts in HUD Community Efforts (1/14/05) WP: Bush's Budget Expected to Be Aggressive (1/12/05) WP Op-Ed: Deficit Dance (1/11/05) NCSL: Don't Shift Deficits to States by Cutting Vital Funds (1/11/05) NYT: Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing (1/9/05)
2004
HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) WP: Congress Agrees on Tight Budget for U.S. (11/21/04) HNR: Congress Passes Continuing Resolution Until November 20 (10/1/04) HNR: HUD Appropriations Bill Clear Senate Panel; Next Steps Unclear (10/1/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: House Set To Consider Section 8 Appropriations (7/16/04) HNR: Congress Starts Work on Appropriations (7/2/04) HNR: House Rejects Dangerous Budget Process Bill (7/2/04) HNR: Budget Process Bill Endangers Services for Seniors, People with Disabilities, Families and Others (6/7/04) WP: 2006 Cuts In Domestic Spending On Table (5/26/04) HNR: Budget Conference Agreement Clears House Floor, But Stalls in Senate (5/21/04) HNR: Why No Budget Resolution This Year is Not Such a Bad Idea (5/7/04) HNR: Four Budget Watchdog Groups Favor Budget Enforcement Rules (4/23/04) HNR: Still No Budget Resolution - But Tax Cuts Moving Forward in the House (4/23/04) HNR: CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Marks Up Spending Blueprint for FY05: Programs on Chopping Block (3/4/04) HNR: CHN Launches New Federal Budget Campaign (2/13/04) HNR: President Releases Fiscal Year 2005 Budget (2/13/04) => Back to Budget and Appropriations Main Page
