House Panel Receives Detailed Spending Plan for '06
(From the Washington Post)
Federal land conservation and environmental programs would bear the brunt of
budget cuts next year under budget limits sent to the House Appropriations
Committee's spending panels yesterday.
After months of debate over the broad terms of the fiscal 2006 budget, the new
allocations spell out more specifically what programs would be cut and which
would be increased when the House Appropriations Committee takes up its 11
discretionary spending bills. Among the winners are Congress itself, which would
receive a 4.9 percent increase, the third largest after the allocations for a
cluster of departments including Transportation, Treasury and Housing, and
another group of programs for veterans and military quality of life.