Labor/HHS Bill fails to adequately fund health, education, and workforce

Feinstein Announces Opposition to Labor/HHS Conference Report
December 15th, 2005

- Bill fails to adequately fund health, education, and workforce programs -

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced she would oppose the FY06 Labor/HHS Conference Report. Senator Feinstein criticized the bill for cutting total health funding by $466 million, cutting total education funding by $59 million, and slashing millions of dollars from various federal workforce programs.

“This bill shortchanges American families,” Senator Feinstein said. “The cuts in this bill for vital health, education and workforce programs are a direct result of the agenda of this administration and the leadership in Congress: to pass tax cuts for the wealthy and reconciliation bills that actually worsen the deficit, all the while doing nothing to address the long-term fiscal picture of entitlement spending.”

Feinstein decried the harmful impact these cuts would have on programs for No Child Left Behind, biomedical research, pandemic flu preparedness, and job training, among others. Specifically this bill:

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