Chairman Rogers Outlines Subcommittee Spending Cuts for Fiscal Year 2011

Statement

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."

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