Yesterday, House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis released subcommittee discretionary allocations that will result in spending cuts to non-defense domestic programs. The chairman’s 302(b) allocations will result in actual spending cuts to three of the House’s 11 appropriations bills from current levels — Energy-Water, Interior-Environment, and Labor-HHS-Education — and a spending freeze for Agriculture. As called for in the fiscal 2006 budget, total discretionary spending would increase 2.9 percent to $843 billion. The allocations will not become official until the full committee approves them next week, which is highly likely. In good news, Lewis respond to broad bipartisan concerns about the future of the Community Development Block Grant program by keeping it within HUD rather than collapsing it into the Commerce Department at reduced levels. Below are all 11 proposed House subcommittee allocations: AGRICULTURE: $16.83 billion DEFENSE: $363.44 billion ENERGY AND WATER: $29.75 billion FOREIGN OPERATIONS: $20.27 billion HOMELAND SECURITY: $30.85 billion INTERIOR: $26.11 billion LABOR-HHS: $142.51 billion LEGISLATIVE BRANCH: $3.72 billion MILITARY QUALITY OF LIFE: $85.16 billion SCIENCE-STATE-JUSTICE-COMMERCE: $57.45 billion TRANSPORTATION-TREASURY-HUD: $66.94 billion