Chairman Rogers Outlines Subcommittee Spending Cuts for Fiscal Year 2011

Friday, February 4, 2011

February 3rd, 2011 - -

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the release by the Budget Committee of the

overall spending limit for the fiscal year 2011 Continuing Resolution, House

Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today announced spending cut levels

for each of the twelve Appropriations subcommittees. These cuts will save

American taxpayers $74 billion compared to the President’s fiscal year 2011

request and will help fulfill the commitment laid out in the Republican “Pledge

to America” to cut spending to the pre-stimulus, pre-bailout funding levels of 2008.

The statement by Chairman Rogers follows:

“The Budget Committee today outlined a responsible and prudent level of

funding for the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2011. This top-line

level will provide for significant spending reductions in the upcoming Continuing

Resolution (CR), while allowing us to meet our commitment outlined in the

Pledge to America to reduce non-security discretionary spending to the

pre-stimulus and pre-bailout non-security funding levels of 2008.

“The Appropriations Committee will not only craft legislation that will meet

the budget committee’s non-security discretionary total of $58 billion, but go even

further to find savings in virtually every area of the federal government, reducing

spending from the President's fiscal year 2011 request by a total of $74 billion.

“To accomplish this goal, I am instructing each of the twelve Appropriations

subcommittees to produce specific, substantive and comprehensive spending

cuts. We are going go line by line to weed out and eliminate unnecessary, wasteful,

or excess spending – and produce legislation that will represent the largest series

of spending reductions in the history of Congress. These cuts will not be easy, they

will be broad and deep, they will affect every Congressional district, but they are

necessary and long overdue.

“With this CR, we will respond to the millions of Americans who have called on this

Congress to rein in spending and help our economy grow and our businesses

create jobs. It is my intention –and that of my Committee – to craft a responsible,

judicious CR that will significantly reduce government spending, begin to get our

nation’s finances in order so that the economy can thrive, and provide essential

resources for our national security.”

To view the spending limits and cuts announced by Chairman Rogers for

each Appropriations Subcommittee for the CR, please click the following link: