The departments and agencies to be funded in a single bill are: Agriculture, Commerce/State/Justice, Energy and Water, Financial Services, Department of Interior, Labor/HHS, Legislative Branch, Department of State/Foreign Ops, Transportation/HUD. 
This bill would increase spending for the above by $32 billion, a whopping 8.3% over FY2008. That is the largest percentage increase in decades for discretionary spending in regular appropriations. Spending in the bill totals $1.048 trillion, or $410 billion in discretionary funding plus $637.5 billion in mandatory spending for entitlement programs, i.e. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The bill provides money for practically all domestic agencies, programs, the State department, and for foreign aid. This spending is over and above the recently passed $787 billion stimulus plan and the $700 billion bailout for insolvent mega-banks that was passed last fall.  
 

At this time of crisis when the private sector is drowning in unserviceable debt and is starting to relearn the virtue of saving and living within one’s means, liberals who now control both chambers of Congress as well as the Administration are becoming more fiscally irresponsible than ever. Tell your Senators to stop the spending increases.

We need Congress to stop passing fiscally irresponsible appropriations bills. Large portions of them are not authorized by the Constitution, and we cannot pay for them without massively increasing the annual budget deficits, which will lead to increased inflation.


Take action now to send an email to both of your senators in strong opposition to H.R. 1105, the Omnibus bill!

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Richard Warner said:

	Omnibus This Omnibus bill is a bad idea. Most of the bills lately coming form the house and senate are outrageous! Our for fathers would start a new revolution because of trash like this!
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Thomas Paine said:

Out of Control, headed toward planned collapse The NWO is loving all this insane spending. Our currency can be collapsed at any time the international bankers decide to say "enough". With the Fed pumping in Trillions and the Trillions of deficit spending. We are primed for the NWO to walk in and say we get 50 cents on the dollar for a new currency: Amero. Or if we are stubborn, we get total collapse like Iceland.

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Rachmaninoff said:

	Omnibus Bill On February 23, Rep. David Obey (D) from Wisconsin introduced H.R. 1105, which is over 1,130 pages long, with an estimated cost between $400 and $500 billion dollars, averaging out to approximately $5,100 per U.S. family. When are you going to stop spending our taxpayer money?? We CANNOT have any more spending. To vote for this bill would be unconscionable. Please vote no.
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