FY2010 Supplemental for Wars, Disaster Assistance, Haiti Relief, and Other Programs
Abstract
Much of the debate about this year's supplemental focused on the effect on the deficit of additional spending and, particularly, whether certain spending should be designated as emergency spending that Congress is not required to offset under congressional rules. Offsets can come from either rescissions, which cancel prior year budget authority (BA), and then apply that BA to new spending, thus reducing the amount of new budget authority required, or from savings in direct spending or mandatory programs. On March 24, 2010, the House passed H.R. 4899, the Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act, by a vote of 239 to 175, with $5.7 billion in funding, including $5.1 billion to replenish FEMA's Disaster Assistance Fund and $600 million for a Labor Department summer jobs program. Taking the bill's $600 million in offsetting rescissions into account, the bill required $5.1 billion in new budget authority (BA). A House Appropriations Committee (HAC) markup of an $84.8 billion draft bill with additional domestic spending scheduled for May 26, 2010, was cancelled.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 06, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA530563
Entities
People
- Amy Belasco
- Bruce R. Lindsay
- Curt Tarnoff
- Daniel H. Else
- Kennon H. Nakamura
- Maureen Taft-morales
- Rhoda Margesson
Organizations
- Library of Congress