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1. These are appropriated amounts. Actual spending is reduced mostly by a mandated transfer of 2.65% of extramural R&D funds for SBIR/STTR. Some funding levels are adjusted to reflect current organization and categories. 2. Includes a rescission of 0.91% in DOE programs and 1.56% in EPA programs. Includes increases that Congress did not allocate at the individual program level—thus some levels were determined by DOE. TIMELINE AND STATUS 06-05 Senate passes FY09 Budget Resolution. Budget Resolution provides guidance and spending ceilings for the Appropriations Committees. 06-11 House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Passes FY09 Interior Appropriations bill. House Interior Subcommittee holds mark-up on FY09 Interior Appropriations bill. Numbers in budget chart above reflect this bill. 06-19 House Energy and Water Subcommittee passes FY09 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. House Energy and Water Subcommittee holds mark-up. 06-25 House Appropriations Full Committee passes FY09 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. House Energy and Water Appropriations is marked-up by Full House Appropriations Committee and sent to the full House. Numbers in budget chart above reflect this bill. 07-08 Senate Energy and Water Subcommittee passes FY09 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Senate Energy and Water Subcommittee holds mark-up. 07-09 House postpones mark-up of FY09 Interior Appropriations bill. 07-10 Senate Appropriations Full Committee passes FY09 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Senate Energy and Water Appropriations is marked-up by Full Senate Appropriations Committee and sent to the full Senate. Senate numbers in budget chart above reflect this bill. 07-22 Senate Appropriations Committee cancels Subcommittee mark-up of Senate FY09 Interior Appropriations bill. 09-05 Congress Reconvenes. 09-30 End of Fiscal Year and deadline for Congress to pass Continuing Resolution. PRESENT STATUS (Energy and Water) The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have each approved a fiscal year 2009 Energy and Water appropriations bill, but neither the full House nor the full Senate has yet considered their bills. If and when Congress approves the bills, both the House and Senate would have to convene a conference committee to reconcile differences between the two bills. For example, the House-passed Energy and Water Appropriations bill contains $168 billion for Building Technologies, while the Senate-passed version contains $176 billion. The Conference Committee would have to decide on a number within that range. PRESENT STATUS (Interior Subcommittee) The House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved the FY 2009 Interior Appropriations bill, but the full Appropriations Committee markup of the bill has been postponed indefinitely. In the Senate not even the subcommittee has considered the bill. The bill and other appropriations bills have stalled in both houses of Congress because of fights over off-shore drilling. SEPTEMBER ACTION When Congress reconvenes in September, under the intended process, both House and Senate would pass their respective bills, they would convene conference committees to settle differences in each bill, then they would both pass the same conference reports and send them to the president for signature before the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1. In fact they are unlikely to pass the bills and will likely instead pass a continuing resolution, which would keep spending levels at their FY 2008 levels through December or January. At that point Congress may pass an “omnibus” bill that combines all remaining appropriations bills, or could pass a continuing resolution for the rest of the fiscal year. |
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