As promised TCS is churning through the appropriations bills. We've just completed our
analysis of the Senate MilCon/VA appropriations bill that is making its way through the Senate Committee. This is the first heavily earmarked appropriations bill of the FY08 budget cycle.
Here are some pertinent facts from the TCS analysis: The fiscal year 2008 Senate Military Construction and Veteran Affairs spending bill contains $64.7 billion in discretionary funding, about $4 billion over the President’s budget. There are 693 administration and congressional earmarks in the bill worth $17.1 billion.
The Senate includes 82 earmarks with the requesting lawmaker’s name attached, worth $634 million. The Senate includes funding for 423 earmarked projects worth more than $10 billion that it credits to the President; of those, 77 projects worth $2.3 billion were deemed by the Senate to be administrative earmarks, though none received funding in the President’s FY2008 budget request. In addition, there are 188 earmarks worth $6.5 billion attributed to neither the Senate nor the administration.
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