How to Spend $872 Billion

CongressDailyAM (subscription only) brings us a breakdown of the discretionary spending in the House's FY07 budget: (in billions) Agriculture $17.81 Defense 377.36 Energy and Water Development 30.02 Foreign Operations 21.30 Homeland Security 32.08 Interior 25.89 Labor-HHS 141.93 Legislative 4.03 Military Quality of Life-VA 94.71 Science-State-Justice-Commerce 59.84 Transportation-Treasury-HUD 67.82 Total discretionary $872.78 So far, two of these appropriations have been passed by the House: Agriculture, at $93.6 billion, was passed on Tuesday (378-46) and Energy-Water passed (404-20) last night to the tune of $30 billion.
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