Senate Candidate Spending Analysis -- Lisa MurkowskiAlaska Senate Candidate Lisa Murkowski
Total Net Spending Agenda: $7.928 billion
Agriculture, Energy, and the Environment: -$434 million
A. State Land Conveyance Acceleration:
"Lisa introduced legislation to speed conveyances to the state and to Native
corporations of the remaining 89 million acres of land promised at the time
of Statehood and passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971.
The measure would grant title to a variety of mineral lands and ease access
problems for several potential mineral developments." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_energy.html
Cost:
Unknown.
Source: Text of S. 1477, the "Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act" (108th Congress),
authorizes "such sums as necessary" to fund the Act. No estimate is available.
Cost:
-$434 million (-$1.301 billion over three years).
Source: Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) cost estimate for ANWR provisions in H.R. 6, http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?
index=4156&sequence=0.
CBO records the receipts from the leases as credits against direct spending.
Cost:
$823 million ($4.116 billion over five years).
Source: Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) cost estimate for S. 1248 (108th Congress):
a bill to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,
and for other purposes, http:
//www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4417&sequence=0.
Health: $79 million
A. Mental Health Equitable Treatment:
"Lisa co-sponsored the Wellstone Mental Health Act
to provide equal coverage of mental health benefits within health
insurance coverage, and to prohibit certain health plans from imposing mental
health
treatment limitations or financial requirements (S.486)." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_disabled.html
Cost:
$60 million ($600 million over ten years).
Source: CBO estimate for related
legislation: S. 543 (107 th Congress),
the "Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act," a bill to provide for
equal coverage of mental health benefits with respect to health insurance
coverage
unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits, http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?
index=3619&sequence=0.
B. Grants for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities:
"Lisa supports an increase in federal funding in grants
to help those with developmental disabilities. The FY05 budget
calls for an 11% increase in funding for such grants over FY04 funding levels." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_disabled.html
Cost:
$19 million (first year cost).
Source: CBO cost estimate for S. 1809 (106th Congress),
the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act," which
became law. This estimate is based on an 11 percent increase
of the outlays that CBO projected for 2004 ($174 million) for
disabilities
assistance, http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?
index=1729&sequence=0.
Homeland Security: $3.2 billion
A. Homeland Security Technology Improvement:
"Senator Murkowski supported the Homeland Security
Technology Improvement Act to establish a technology, equipment,
and information transfer program within the Department of Homeland Security
to allow law-enforcement
agencies to more ably secure cutting-edge detection and monitoring
equipment (S. 1612)." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_homeland.html
Cost:
$50 million ($250 million over five years).
Source: Text of S. 1612 (108th Congress):
to establish a technology, equipment, and information transfer program
within the Department of Homeland Security.
Cost:
$1.25 billion ($5 billion over four years).
Source: CBO cost estimate for
a related bill, H.R. 3266 (108 th Congress), the "Faster and Smarter Funding
for First Responders Act of 2004," which contains an authorization
of $3.4 billion in 2006 for first responder grants. CBO estimates
this authorization would
be spent over a number of years, http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?
index=5578&sequence=0.
Cost: $1.9 billion (first year cost).
Trade and Jobs: $1.008 billion
A. Federal Job Training Programs:
"She supports the proposed $19 billion to be spent
on federal job training programs next year -- a 5.6% increase,
providing people the skills to get and keep better paying jobs -- skills
fundamental
to fighting homelessness." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_disabled.html
Cost: $1.008 billion (first year cost for the increase).
Veterans: Unknown
A. Housing:
"Lisa is working on programs to increase housing for
veterans, both an extension of the state's veterans mortgage
bonding program, and also two separate programs to provide subsidies to first-time
veterans' [sic]
home owners and first-time low-income homeowners." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_disabled.html
Miscellaneous: $3.252 billion
A. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization:
"Senator Murkowski is sponsoring legislation to split up the 9th
Circuit Court. Senator Murkowski is the lead sponsor on S. 562 [Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act], a bill
to remove Alaska and several other Western states from the 9th Circuit by
creating a new circuit that makes sense." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_values.html
Cost:
$32 million (first year cost).
Source: Senate Report 104-197 for S. 956 (104th Congress),
the "Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act," to amend
Title 28, United States Code, to divide the Ninth Judicial
Circuit of the United States into two
circuits, and for other purposes. This estimate was
updated to account for inflation since 1995.
Cost:
$1.38 billion (first year cost).
C. Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination
Provisions (GPO-WEP):
"[Senator Murkowski is a] co-sponsor of S. 349, a bill
that repeals the GPO-WEP penalty that unfairly reduces the Social Security
benefits of Alaska's retired teachers." http://www.lisamurkowski.com/
artman/publish/fight_edu.html
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