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What We Will Accomplish |
What We Will Spend
(2004
levels except where noted) |
Meet Other Priorities |
| No Child Left Behind |
Test all students in grades 3-8 by the 2005-2006 school year
and ensure all students reach proficiency in reading and math.
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$12.4 billion (+$1 billion or nine percent) for Title I programs
in needy public schools.
$1 billion for Reading First (+$50 million).
$100
million for Early Reading First (+$25 million or 33 percent).
$220
million for Charter School grants (+$20 million or 10 percent).
$75
million for a new School Choice Incentive Fund.
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| Pell Grants |
Provide nearly five million low-income students the opportunity
to get postsecondary education.
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$12.7 billion in Pell Grants ($4,000 maximum award for eligible
students).
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| Special Education |
Provide support to states to ensure over 6.5 million students
with disabilities get a quality education.
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$9.5 billion (+$1 billion).
$447 million to serve
infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. |
| Compassion |
Expand the capacity of faith-based and community organizations
to address problems, promote responsible fatherhood and marriage by targeting
the 25 million children living in homes without fathers, and reach out to
the five million people who need drug coverage but do not receive it.
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$200 million for drug treatment vouchers.
$2.1 billion
in charitable tax incentives ($20 billion over 10 years).
$100
million for the Compassion Capital Fund.
$20 million to promote
responsible fatherhood and marriage.
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Engage Americans in volunteer service through the USA Freedom
Corps.
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$50 million in grants for mentoring children of prisoners, doubling
the program.
$359 million for the Peace Corps.
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| Global AIDS prevention, research, and cure |
Combat the spread of AIDS that currently afflicts 42 million
people in the world and is destroying the social and economic fabric of many
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as threatening other regions.
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$15 billion over five years for the hardest hit countries.
$627
million in Health and Human Services (HHS).
$790 million in Agency
for International Development.
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| Famine |
Presidential authority to respond to famine and other crises. |
$200 million contingency fund with flexible authorities to provide
food, grants, or other emergency support. |
| Energy security |
Accelerate widespread use of fuel-cell vehicles by focusing on
hydrogen technologies.
Work with other nations to develop fusion
as a commercially viable energy source.
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Devote more than $1.5 billion over five years to the hydrogen
initiative, more than doubling funding in this area.
Contribute
to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.
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| Health insurance |
Extend health insurance coverage to four million low and middle
income Americans who do not have employer coverage.
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Refundable tax credit to subsidize up to 90 percent of coverage
for low and middle income Americans ($89 billion over 10 years).
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| Health centers |
Add 230 new and expanded sites to serve an additional one million
people in rural and underserved urban areas.
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$1.6 billion (+$169 million) to fund 3,685 health center sites
serving 14 million people.
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| Disease prevention |
Reduce the incidence of asthma (26.7 million people), diabetes
(17 million people), and obesity.
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+$100 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
in partnership with other HHS agencies.
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| Homeownership |
Increase minority homeownership by 5.5
million through 2010 and continue America's record overall homeownership
rate (68 percent of households).
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Add $7.5 billion in Federal Housing Administration
mortgages to 60,000 homebuyers with lower credit ratings.
$200
million to fully fund the Down Payment Assistance initiative.
$2.2
billion (+five percent) for HOME formula funding.
Tax incentives
for low-income homeowners ($16 billion over 10 years).
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| Medicare |
Modernize and reform Medicare for its 41 million eligible beneficiaries
to improve care, including a prescription drug benefit option while ensuring
its long-term financial viability.
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+$400 billion (10-year increase).
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| Environment |
Reduce powerplant emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide,
and mercury by 70 percent.
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$150 million to cleanup orphan hazardous waste sites.
Add
$10 million to the President's Brownfields initiative (doubled in 2003).
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Continue America's progress on clean air, clean water, and
natural resource protection. |
$4.3 billion (+seven percent) for the Environmental Protection
Agency's operating budget.
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Increase from 91 percent to 95 percent by 2005 the population
served by community water systems that meets all health-based standards.
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Increase the long-term Clean Water State Revolving Fund level
to $2.8 billion and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to $1.2 billion.
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| Stewardship of parks and other federal lands |
Eliminate the National Park Service maintenance backlog.
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Double funding (2002–2006) to eliminate maintenance backlog.
$900
million to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Reduce risk to the 73 million acres of federal forest vulnerable
to catastrophic fire.
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$415 million for the Forest Service and Interior Department to
implement the President's Healthy Forests Initiative.
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Enhance the nation's wildlife refuges.
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$402 million (+$27 million) for national wildlife refuges.
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| Research and development |
Promote scientific discovery and technological innovation to
generate economic growth and jobs, and to improve national defense and the
quality of life.
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$123 billion (+seven percent).
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| Veterans |
Serve six million veterans participating
in Veterans Affairs programs.
Reduce disability claims processing
from 209 days (2002) to 100 days (2004).
Increase claims accuracy
from 80 percent to 90 percent in this same time period.
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$63.6 billion.
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