Cut Federal Spending Act of 2011
Latest action · Jan 26, 2011 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 25, 2011
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cut Federal Spending Act of 2011 - Reduces FY2011 appropriations by specified amounts for: (1) the legislative branch; (2) the judicial branch; (3) the Department of Agriculture (USDA), including the Forest Service; (4) the Department of Commerce, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); (5) the Department of Defense (DOD) military personnel, procurement, operations and maintenance, research and development, and War funding/Overseas Contingency; (6) the Department of Energy (DOE); (7) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Indian Health Service, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration; (8) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA); (9) the Department of Interior, including Land and Mineral Management, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service (NPS); and (10) the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Reduces FY2011 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Labor, except for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Employment and Training Administration (including all unemployment compensation); (2) the Department of State; (3) the Department of Transportation (DOT); (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; (5) the Environment Protection Agency (EPA); (6) the General Services Administration (GSA); (7) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (8) the National Science Foundation (NSF); (9) the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM); and (10) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Defunds entirely: (1) the Government Printing Office (GPO); (2) the Agriculture Research Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Resources Conservation Service, and the Foreign Agricultural Service of the USDA; (3) all Department of Education programs, except the Pell grant program, which is capped; (4) all Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs, except Veteran housing programs, which are transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); (5) all Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) accounts and programs of the Department of the Interior; (6) the DOJ Office of Justice Programs accounts and programs; (7) International Organizations and Conferences and International Commissions of the State Department; (8) Amtrak federal subsidies; (9) the Affordable Housing Program; (10) the Commission on Fine Arts; (11) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); (12) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (13) the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); (14) the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); and (15) the State Justice Institute.
Transfers: (1) all DOE accounts to DOD, and (2) the U.S. Coast Guard funds and accounts from DHS to DOD.
Excludes the VA and the Social Security Administration from funding cuts for FY2011.
Specifies FY2011 savings with respect to: (1) collection of delinquent taxes from federal employees, (2) a freeze on federal employee pay, (3) federal government travel, (4) a prohibition against union labor project agreements, (5) sale of unused federal assets, and (6) the federal government vehicle budget.
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), with specified resulting savings.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 26, 2011Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.
- Jan 25, 2011Introduced in Senate
- Jan 25, 2011Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Appropriations
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Coast guard
- Commission of Fine Arts
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional operations and organization
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Defense spending
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Defense
- Department of Education
- Department of Energy
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Department of State
- Department of the Interior
- Department of Transportation
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal appellate courts
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal district courts
- Financial crises and stabilization
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- General agriculture matters
- General Services Administration
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government Publishing Office (GPO)
- Health programs administration and funding
- Higher education
- Housing supply and affordability
- Humanities programs funding
- Indian social and development programs
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Labor-management relations
- Land use and conservation
- Medical research
- Mental health
- Military operations and strategy
- Military personnel and dependents
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Mining
- Minority health
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Public contracts and procurement
- Research administration and funding
- Space flight and exploration
- Student aid and college costs
- Supreme Court
- Transportation costs
- Transportation safety and security
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 26, 2011Placed on Calendar Senate
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