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What's New at Budget?
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Fiscal Year 2010 Interior Budget in Brief
The Department of the Interior "Budget in Brief" highlights and describes details of the fiscal year 2010 request.
Note: This document is presented as several separate PDF-formatted files. To view these files requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader® loaded on your computer. For a printed copy of the "Highlights" contact Margaret Kuyumjian in the Department's Office of Budget.
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Budget Justifications
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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
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2010 Congressional Budget Resolution
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On Thursday, April 2, 2009, the House and Senate approved Fiscal Year 2010 budget resolutions. Conference action on the two different measures will commence when Congress returns after the two-week Easter break, which began on April 6. The outcome of conference negotiations will generate the levels of discretionary spending available for the 12 appropriations bills.
The House measure was adopted by a vote of 233 to 196. It totals $3.6 trillion in 2010 spending. This is near to the President’s proposed $3.6 trillion budget and includes $1.089 trillion in discretionary funding. The budget includes $1.96 trillion.
The Senate adopted its measure by a vote of 55 to 43, after considering 100 amendments. The measure totals $3.53 trillion in 2010 and includes $1.081 trillion in discretionary funding. The Senate measure calls for $17.5 trillion in spending over the next five years, $1.15 trillion less than the budget and $776 billion less than the House measure.
The Senate amendments include the following:
- An amendment creating a 60-vote point of order against legislation that would increase energy taxes on middle class families (potentially impacting cap-and-trade legislation);
- An amendment that prevents the use of the budget reconciliation process for cap-and-trade legislation;
- An amendment calling for reform of the estate tax at lower rates and higher exemptions than the budget proposes;
- An amendment that adds oil and gas production in the outer continental shelf to the deficit neutral reserve
Both the House and Senate resolutions sustain priorities in the President’s budget for health care, education, energy and reducing the deficit. Areas of difference include the cap-and-trade legislation and the use of the reconciliation process to enact health care reform.
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Summary: The House and Senate Budget Committees have passed budget resolutions for Fiscal Year 2010.
Floor action on both measures is expected the week of March 30. A summary of the two
proposals is provided for your information.
President's 2010 Budget Blueprint
On February 26, 2009, the President released his 2010 Budget Blueprint, which provides the framework for the President's 2010 budget. Below is a link to the President's 2010 Budget Blueprint. Additional information will follow.
Entire President's Blueprint (140 pages, 1.8 MB)
Department of the Interior Blueprint Section (4 pages, 96 KB)
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