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      "date": "2004-12-21",
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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2005: Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies",
      "summary": "The FY2005 Transportation, Treasury and Independent Agencies appropriations bill was passed\nas\nDivision H of  P.L. 108-447 , an omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law on December\n8, 2004. The bill provides $90.6 billion for Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies. \nHowever, the bill also includes an across-the-board rescission of 0.80%, which will reduce the\nTransportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies funding by approximately $725 million. This\nwill make the final figure $89.9 billion, slightly less than FY2004\u2019s $90.3 billion but more\nthan the\nAdministration\u2019s request for FY2005.\n \n For FY2005, the Administration requested $88.9 billion for the Departments of Transportation\nand the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, and a variety of independent agencies. This\nwas $1.6 billion (1.7%) less than the amount enacted for FY2004.\n \n On September 22, 2004, the House of Representatives passed  H.R. 5025 , the\nTransportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005. The Committee on\nAppropriations had recommended $89.9 billion, an increase of $0.9 billion over the\nPresident\u2019s\nrequest and $495 million below the FY2004 level. During the House floor debate on the bill,\nsections of the bill appropriating funds for unauthorized programs were struck. Since at the time of\nthe floor debate the surface transportation programs were not authorized for FY2005, the result was\nthat funding for federal highway, highway safety, and transit programs was eliminated, as was\nfunding for Amtrak and the Airport Improvement Program. In the end, the House cut some $47\nbillion in transportation funding from the $89.9 billion bill reported by the Committee. The \nappropriation subcommittee chairman assured members that this funding would be restored in\nconference (for this reason, the tables in this bill do not reflect these cuts). The House bill included\nseveral provisions similar to provisions that were included in the FY2004 House bill and that proved\ncontroversial. These included setting the FY2005 federal civilian pay increase at the same level the\nAdministration requested for the military (3.5% for FY2005), limits on the outsourcing of\ngovernment work, and loosening of sanctions on Cuba.\n \n On September 15, 2004 the Senate Committee on Appropriations reported out  S. 2806 , their FY2005 Transportation, Treasury and General Government Appropriations bill. The\nCommittee recommended $90.6 billion in funding and included provisions aligning the FY2005\nfederal civilian pay increase with that of the military and limiting outsourcing of government work. \nThis full Senate never acted on this bill.\n \n The conferees dropped the provisions limiting outsourcing of government work and relaxing\nrestrictions on Cuba. Final passage of the bill was delayed to allow Congress to delete a provision\nthat would have given appropriators\u2019 access to individual tax return information. This report\nwill\nnot be updated.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Domestic Social Policy",
    "Economic Policy",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "Latin American Affairs",
    "National Defense",
    "Science and Technology Policy"
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