So what was cut?

[fried eggs]

Does anybody know the specifics? Especially in interested in any medicaid cuts...

[butterfly77]

1. This is all I could find..

but I heard it is not definite,but the CONS are happy..

The full list of policy riders in HR1 includes: (from http://www.ombwatch.org/files/budget/OMB_Watch-HR1_Poli ... ):

Policy Riders in H.R. 1

Sec. 1284 - Prohibits funding for fresh fruits and vegetables in the school lunch program. under section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.



Sec. 1112 - Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Sec. 2237 - Prohibits HUD funding for rental assistance to the elderly.
Sec. 4006 - Blocks the FCC from implementing Net Neutrality.

Sec. 1802 - Prohibits funding new Job Corp centers.
Sec. 4017 - Strips funding for any provision of the health care reform law.
Sec. 4030 - Prohibits BATF from collecting information on multiple rifle/shotgun sales to the same person.

Sec. 1590 - Prohibits DC from using its own, non-federal funds, for abortion services.
Sec. 4046 - Prohibits finding for a govt-sponsored consumer product complaints database
Sec. 1746 - Prohibits funding for EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases

Sec. 4027 - Prohibits funds to carry out medical loss ratio restrictions in the health care reform law. (These provisions require insurers to spend at least a certain percent of their premium revenues on medical care.)

Sec. 4009 - Prohibits funds to pay the salaries and expenses of the following Presidential �czarsŽ: Obama Care Czar, Climate Change Czar, Global Warming Czar, Green Jobs Czar, Car Czar, Guantanamo Bay Closure Czar, Pay Czar and Fairness Doctrine Czar.

[CountAllVotes]

2. says "page not found"

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[fried eggs]

3. They seem to be picking on czars... And the job corps cuts??? Wtf!!??

[krabigirl]

5. The drug "czar" is still fine and dandy, though.

[Igel]

8. I understand being anticzarist.

Congress ratifies cabinet positions and upper-level policy positions.

Czars have what amount to de facto upper-level policy positions and at times river cabinet secretaries for authority. But they are appointed by presidential fiat.

Strictly speaking the president could do precisely what the czars do (or the cabinet secretaries, for that matter). He's elected, so that's fine. The problem is that the president is limited by his very nature: He can't work 600-hr work weeks, he can't attend 6 high-level meetings at the same time or simultaneously review a dozen policy proposals in a dozen different areas. The czar system allows "him" to do that--although he still can't actually direct all the czars.

Now, czars are good for "interdisciplinary" work: You have a proposal that cuts across cabinet secretaries' lines of authority and accept that the president has limited capacity, you accept the need for a czar *or* for redefining some of the positions and redrawing org charts. That's painful.

I'd submit the czars for Congressional approval. Yes, it would mean the president wouldn't get to handpick his choices and be guaranteed getting them, if he's prepared for the flack. But it would eliminate this kind of petty power struggle.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Dead link-site comes up with message "page not found".

[Love Bug]

9. Wow -- a Repub's wet dream

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[emulatorloo]

7. Here: FACTBOX-Details of deal reached to keep US government running

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/09/usa-budget-idUSN0727284120110409

Here is the section on the Riders:

MOST POLICY RESTRICTIONS BLOCKED

The package does not contain the most divisive policy "riders," or restrictions, that Republicans wanted: measures to ban funding for birth control and greenhouse-gas regulation.

Republicans had sought to block birth control funding to the Planned Parenthood family planning organization, because it also provides abortions, though not with public money.

That provision is not included. Instead, the Senate will vote on it separately, but the measure is not expected to get the 60 votes needed for passage.

The bill did include one policy rider: school vouchers for the District of Columbia, a pet project of Boehner's, according to congressional aides.

It also bans the use of local money to pay for abortions in Washington, a provision that has already been included in past budgets.

As part of the compromise, the Senate also agreed to hold a vote on blocking implementation of Obama's healthcare reform law, but that measure is expected to fail.

The bill subjects the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to yearly audits by both the private sector and the congressional Government Accountability Office.