House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) has made public his spending allocations for the FY07 budget. House GOP leaders are hoping to bring a budget plan to the floor the week after next. In a statement on the allocations, Lewis remarked "These allocations represent my best effort to fairly distribute the limited resources available. They ensure that Congress will adequately fund our priorities while sparing no area of the federal budget from scrutiny, including member project funding." Don't forget that somehow in these "limited resources," Congress is still looking to cut $70 billion in taxes (which will disproportionately go to the wealthy) this spring. Lewis's plan, which still needs to be approved by the full committee, is $39.5 million more than what was enacted for FY 2006, and $475,000 less than Bush's request. To appease the moderate Republicans, spending for Labor-HHS programs is up $4.1 billion, which is roughly half of what they have been requesting. It remains to be seen whether this will garner the necessary votes. The allocations are within an $872.8 billion spending cap, and they provide for 99 percent ($377.4 billion) of Bush's defense spending request. Foreign aid appropriations will see the steepest percentage cut from Bush's request, as Lewis is proposing to cut $10.1 percent, or about $2.4 billion. The rest of the 302(b) allocations can be seen here.