H.R.1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (Introduced in House)

PMAS wrote (at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192740/posts#19):
Maybe I missed something, but what F#@%-ing $410 billion bill is this ????

This is the bill.

1010RD wrote (at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192740/posts#22):
President Obama will post it for five days for all Americans to see before he signs it.
Barak promised us that.

And Pelosi and the Dems promised a list of earmarks available online. And the Senate rules require the bill be available online for 48 hours before they vote on it.

This is an extreme emergency. Don't you understand. The government will shut down on March 6 if this isn't passed and the President doesn't sign this before that deadline.

Obama only promised to post Non-Emergency bills online for 5 days.

And his exact promise was:

From http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/#earmarks
Sunlight Before Signing: Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.

Remember, we're dealing with Democrats here. Like the Clintons. He never said he'd allow us to review and comment before he signs the bill. If he signs it, and it's not an emergency, and then he puts it up for five days, that might live up to the letter of his promise.

Porkulus the Younger.

Roger that. The Democratic Party built itself on lies and broken promises.

Last I heard, there were 9,000 pork projects in it.

Though I honestly do have to admit, the $2 million for astronomy in Hawaii isn’t a bad thing, if they indeed use it for astronomy. I figure for a conservatory.

That useless skeleton is making almost $5,000,000 a year strong-arming everybody in Congress?

She and all of her combined staff are worth less than $500, not 5 mil...

The only mention of Department of Defense was the "Civil: Department of the Army". Strictly funding for the Army Corps of Engineers and projects under their purview.

jwparkerjr wrote:
This bill BY LAW was due out before the start of the current fiscal year, Oct. 31, 2008. This bill is for the current fiscal year. What a crock.

Correct.

And, sit down, because this next statement will make you even more angry.

The reason they passed the "continuing resolution" in September of last year was because President Bush threatened to veto the appropriations bills that exceeded his budget requests. They wanted bigger increases, so they thought they could wait until Obama (or even "Mr. Bipartisan" McCain) was in office to sign off on the increases.

Finally, I pointed out in another thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2192977/posts?page=8#8) that an increase of 8% at this point will really be a 16% increase for the next 6 months, because we've been operating at 2008 levels for the past 6 months.

sam_paine wrote:
So in 24 workdays, we’re on House Bill # 1105!
46 bills filed per day for the 111th congress, and unlimited bills to pay for the 21st century Americans.

I don't think bills are numbered consecutively. Some lower numbers I know are reserved for bills that leaders consider significant priorities.

Also, every Congress critter arrives in Washington with a breifcase full of bills (some with moving vans filled with files), and submits them. Most never even make it before a committee. But they are still logged and numbered.

CPT Clay wrote:
Is this the bill with 9000 earmarks?

I'm not sure exactly how many. The earmarks that they admit to being earmarks are all disclosed in the Explanatory Statements (links above at post 7 of this thread). I haven't counted them all yet, but I ran a quick count of "table row" tags in the explanatory statements. There are 10,910 table rows in those two files. So there are fewer than that number of earmarks (earmarks are in tables, but not every table is an earmark table).

Just go to those links and click the "printer friendly version" immediately, then search for "earmark" and you'll find the tables.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

$472,000,000.

No pork, but how about elephant!! Found this in there:

MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND

For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4214, 4221-4225, 4241-4246, and 1538), the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261-4266), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301-5306), the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301-6305), and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601-6606), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.

DIVISION G—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

TITLE I

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

SENATE

Expense Allowances

For expense allowances of the Vice President, $20,000; the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, $40,000; Majority Leader of the Senate, $40,000; Minority Leader of the Senate, $40,000; Majority Whip of the Senate, $10,000; Minority Whip of the Senate, $10,000; Chairmen of the Majority and Minority Conference Committees, $5,000 for each Chairman; and Chairmen of the Majority and Minority Policy Committees, $5,000 for each Chairman; in all, $180,000.

Representation Allowances for the Majority and Minority Leaders

For representation allowances of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, $15,000 for each such Leader; in all, $30,000.

Salaries, Officers and Employees

For compensation of officers, employees, and others as authorized by law, including agency contributions, $171,699,000, which shall be paid from this appropriation without regard to the following limitations:

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

For the Office of the Vice President, $2,413,000.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

For the Office of the President Pro Tempore, $720,000.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE EMERITUS

For the Office of the President Pro Tempore Emeritus, $100,000.

OFFICES OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY LEADERS

For Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders, $4,998,000.

OFFICES OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY WHIPS

For Offices of the Majority and Minority Whips, $3,096,000.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

For salaries of the Committee on Appropriations, $15,200,000.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

For the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of the Minority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the Chairman of each such committee, $1,655,000 for each such committee; in all, $3,310,000.

OFFICES OF THE SECRETARIES OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE MAJORITY AND THE CONFERENCE OF THE MINORITY

For Offices of the Secretaries of the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of the Minority, $814,000.

POLICY COMMITTEES

For salaries of the Majority Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $1,690,000 for each such committee; in all, $3,380,000.

OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN

For Office of the Chaplain, $397,000.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

For Office of the Secretary, $24,020,000.

OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER

For Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $66,800,000.

OFFICES OF THE SECRETARIES FOR THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY

For Offices of the Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the Minority, $1,758,000.

AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS AND RELATED EXPENSES

For agency contributions for employee benefits, as authorized by law, and related expenses, $44,693,000.

Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate

For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate, $6,743,000.

Office of Senate Legal Counsel

For salaries and expenses of the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, $1,484,000.

Expense Allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, and Secretaries for the Majority and Minority of the Senate

For expense allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, $7,500; Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, $7,500; Secretary for the Majority of the Senate, $7,500; Secretary for the Minority of the Senate, $7,500; in all, $30,000.

Contingent Expenses of the Senate

INQUIRIES AND INVESTIGATIONS

For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, or conducted under paragraph 1 of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, section 112 of the Supplemental Appropriations and Rescission Act, 1980 (Public Law 96-304), and Senate Resolution 281, 96th Congress, agreed to March 11, 1980, $137,400,000.

EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE CAUCUS ON INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL

For expenses of the United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, $520,000.

SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

For expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, $2,000,000.

SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF THE SENATE

For expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, $153,601,000, which shall remain available until September 30, 2013.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

For miscellaneous items, $21,043,000, of which up to $500,000 shall be made available for a pilot program for mailings of postal patron postcards by Senators for the purpose of providing notice of a town meeting by a Senator in a county (or equivalent unit of local government) at which the Senator will personally attend: Provided, That any amount allocated to a Senator for such mailing shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of the mailing and the remaining cost shall be paid by the Senator from other funds available to the Senator.

SENATORS’ OFFICIAL PERSONNEL AND OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNT

For Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, $400,000,000.

OFFICIAL MAIL COSTS

For expenses necessary for official mail costs of the Senate, $300,000.

Administrative Provisions

SEC. 1. GROSS RATE OF COMPENSATION IN OFFICES OF SENATORS. Effective on and after October 1, 2008, each of the dollar amounts contained in the table under section 105(d)(1)(A) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1968 (2 U.S.C. 61-1(d)(1)(A)) shall be deemed to be the dollar amounts in that table, as adjusted by law and in effect on September 30, 2008, increased by an additional $50,000 each.

SEC. 2. CONSULTANTS. (a) In General-

(1) The first sentence of section 101(a) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977 (2 U.S.C. 61h-6(a)) is amended by striking `eight individual consultants’ and inserting `nine individual consultants’.

(2) The second sentence of section 101(a) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977 (2 U.S.C. 61h-6(a)) is amended by striking `two individual consultants’ and inserting `three individual consultants’.

(b) Effective Date- This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Salaries and Expenses

For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives, $1,301,267,000, as follows:

HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES

For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, $25,113,000, including: Office of the Speaker, $4,879,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $2,436,000, including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $4,390,000, including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Majority Whip, $2,115,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority Whip; Office of the Minority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Minority Whip, $1,630,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Activities, $501,000; Republican Steering Committee, $950,000; Republican Conference, $1,777,000; Republican Policy Committee, $337,000; Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, $1,315,000; Democratic Caucus, $1,749,000; nine minority employees, $1,502,000; training and program development—majority, $290,000; training and program development—minority, $290,000; Cloakroom Personnel—majority, $476,000; and Cloakroom Personnel—minority, $476,000.

Members’ Representational Allowances Including Members’ Clerk Hire, Official Expenses of Members, and Official Mail

For Members’ representational allowances, including Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail, $609,000,000.

Committee Employees

Standing Committees, Special and Select

For salaries and expenses of standing committees, special and select, authorized by House resolutions, $154,000,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain available for such salaries and expenses until December 31, 2010, except that $9,500,000 of such amount shall remain available until expended for committee room upgrading.

Committee on Appropriations

For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Appropriations, $31,300,000, including studies and examinations of executive agencies and temporary personal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall remain available for such salaries and expenses until December 31, 2010.

Salaries, Officers and Employees

For compensation and expenses of officers and employees, as authorized by law, $187,954,000, including: for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, including not more than $23,000, of which not more than $20,000 is for the Family Room, for official representation and reception expenses, $27,457,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available until December 31, 2010 and $2,060,000 shall remain available until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including the position of Superintendent of Garages, and including not more than $3,000 for official representation and reception expenses, $8,355,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, including not more than $3,000 for official representation and reception expenses, $125,838,000, of which $7,057,000 shall remain available until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, $4,945,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Operations, $3,974,000, to remain available until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of General Counsel, $1,357,000; for the Office of the Chaplain, $173,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian, including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official representation and reception expenses, $2,007,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House, $3,057,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, $8,337,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of Interparliamentary Affairs, $777,000; for other authorized employees, $1,158,000; and for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Historian, including the costs of the House Fellows Program (including lodging and related expenses for visiting Program participants), $519,000.

Allowances and Expenses

For allowances and expenses as authorized by House resolution or law, $293,900,000, including: supplies, materials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, $11,656,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain available until expended; official mail for committees, leadership offices, and administrative offices of the House, $201,000; Government contributions for health, retirement, Social Security, and other applicable employee benefits, $260,703,000; supplies, materials, and other costs relating to the House portion of expenses for the Capitol Visitor Center, $1,900,000, to remain available until expended; Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, $18,698,000, of which $6,260,000 shall remain available until expended; and miscellaneous items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of House motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratuities to heirs of deceased employees of the House, $742,000.

Child Care Center

For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited in the account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2062), subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center, as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

Administrative Provisions

SEC. 101. (a) REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL DEBT- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for `HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SALARIES AND EXPENSES—MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2009. Any amount remaining after all payments are made under such allowances for fiscal year 2009 shall be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate).

(b) REGULATIONS- The Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this section.

(c) DEFINITION- As used in this section, the term `Member of the House of Representatives’ means a Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.

SEC. 102. (a) The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall deposit all amounts received as promotional rebates and incentives on credit card purchases, balances, and payments into the House Services Revolving Fund under section 105 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005.

(b) Section 105(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 117m(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

`(6) The collection of promotional rebates and incentives on credit card purchases, balances, and payments.’.

(c) The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding fiscal year.

SEC. 103. (a) Section 101 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 95b) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

`(d) Amounts appropriated for any fiscal year for the House of Representatives under the heading `Allowances and Expenses’ may be transferred to the Architect of the Capitol and made available under the heading `House Office Buildings’, subject to the approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.’.

(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding fiscal year.

SEC. 104. (a) Effective with respect to fiscal year 2008 and each succeeding fiscal year, the aggregate amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the lump-sum allowance for each of the following offices is increased as follows:

(1) The allowance for the office of the Majority Floor Leader is increased by $200,000.

(2) The allowance for the office of the Minority Floor Leader is increased by $200,000.

(b) Effective with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding fiscal year, the aggregate amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the lump-sum allowance for each of the following offices is increased as follows:

(1) The allowance for the office of the Majority Whip is increased by $72,000.

(2) The allowance for the office of the Minority Whip is increased by $72,000.

SEC. 105. (a) Section 101 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 95b) is amended by striking `transferred among’ each place it appears in subsections (a), (b), and (c)(1) and inserting `transferred among and merged with’.

(b) Section 101(c)(2) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 95b(c)) is amended to read as follows:

`(2) The headings referred to in paragraph (1) are `House Leadership Offices’, `Members’ Representational Allowances’, `Committee Employees’, `Salaries, Officers and Employees’, and `Allowances and Expenses’.’.

(c) The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding fiscal year.

SEC. 106. PERMITTING HOUSE CHILD CARE CENTER TO OFFER SERVICES FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN- Section 312(a)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2062(a)(1)) is amended by striking `pre-school child care’ and inserting the following: `pre-school child care and (subject to the approval of regulations by the Committee on House Administration) child care for school age children other than during the course of the ordinary school day’.

JOINT ITEMS

For Joint Committees, as follows:

Joint Economic Committee

For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, $4,626,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.

Joint Committee on Taxation

For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Taxation, $10,719,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives.

For other joint items, as follows:

Office of the Attending Physician

For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending Physician and his assistants, including: (1) an allowance of $2,175 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an allowance of $1,300 per month to one Senior Medical Officer; (3) an allowance of $725 per month each to three medical officers while on duty in the Office of the Attending Physician; (4) an allowance of $725 per month to two assistants and $580 per month each not to exceed 11 assistants on the basis heretofore provided for such assistants; and (5) $2,223,000 for reimbursement to the Department of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff and equipment assigned to the Office of the Attending Physician, which shall be advanced and credited to the applicable appropriation or appropriations from which such salaries, allowances, and other expenses are payable and shall be available for all the purposes thereof, $3,105,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives.

[singing] and oh! what heights we’ll hit, on with the show this is it!

later

and Don’t forget close to 14 Million for the Household needs for the Obama family this year in the WH (almost a Mill more than Bush, includes utilities, entertainment, etc). This does not include the 53 Mill for the rest of the Whitehouse.

So, if he wants to tell everyone else who collects tax dollars to cut back, maybe he should lead by example and cut back from his own 14 Million/yearly living expenditures.

Is there a Freeper email or phone call to voice ones opinion on this going on yet?

Call or fax or contact your Congress Critter about this. I sent a fax Monday, and I'm sending another today. This thing stinks, and they need to know that we have seen it and know what they are trying to do.

I think it's scheduled for a vote today.

How bout these:

$200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;

*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;

*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;

*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.

5.8 million for Ted Drunkennedy. Hmmm, he could pay for that in ONE MONTH if he quit drinking.

Hey! Well at least we know that there are NO earmarks in the stimulus bill already passed! Obama said so last night!

What a relief!!!

Thanks for the info you mailed me!!! Will call/fax now!

Yikes. Want more sickening news. Chris Dodd put this out on twitter.

SenChrisDoddOn my way to the White House for a meeting on improving our financial regulations.

February 23, 2009

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

DIVISION A--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION B--COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION C--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION D--FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION E--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION F--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION G--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION H--DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION I--TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009

DIVISION J--FURTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND OTHER MATTERS