FY 09 House and Senate Budget Resolutions
The House and Senate Budget Committees mark up their FY 09 budget resolutions today. Both the House and Senate budget resolutions proposed significant increases in domestic discretionary spending above the President's request. Senate budget resolution includes $18 billion more for domestic discretionary spending in the President's budget. The House budget resolution requests $25 billion more than the President's budget domestic spending. The Democrats additional funding for domestic programs has already resulted in a veto threat from the Administration, which is unprecedented at this stage in the process.
USAWorks has been working with senior Budget Committee members in both the House and the Senate on behalf of the WIA funding and reports good news for WIA. While the details of the budget resolutions are not yet public, we are told that there will be a significant increase in the Senate budget resolution for WIA, as much as from $390 million above current levels. Senator Patty Murray has championed this effort on behalf of WIA funding and spoke passionately in the Committee markup today about the need to restore WIA's funding, indicating that we could face as many as 1.7 million job losses this year. On the House side, Chairman Spratt has ensured that current services levels for Function 500 (which includes WIA) will be included in the House budget resolution.
The resolutions are expected to reach the floor next week in both the House and Senate and conference negotiations to begin at the staff level over the Easter recess, which begins the following week.
3 comments:
This is the most import issue facing local workforce areas.
When will we have National One-Stop Month
I wish the Presidentail Candidates would talk about how they will protect WIA. Workforce professionals should only vote for the person who commit to full funding the program.
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