Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
NAACP
INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
S. Con. Res. 83 / Fiscal year 2007 Budget Resolution / Specter amendment
Amendment offered by Senator Specter (PA) to increase federal spending on health,
education, training and low-income support programs by $7 billion. The Specter
amendment was agreed to.AFL-CIO
BUDGET RESOLUTION/SPENDING CUTS.
Based on Bush administration recommendations, the fiscal year 2007 budget resolution called for cuts, or underfunded, many vital working family programs. Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered an amendment to increase funding for labor, health and education programs by $7 billion. The amendment was passed.National Education Association
Budget.
This group supported an amendment offered by Senators Specter (R-PA) and Harkin (D-IA) to the Senate budget resolution for fiscal year 2007, which would add $7.1 billion for education and health programs. The amendment passed.National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Specter Amdt No. 3048; To increase the advance appropriations allowance in order to fund health, education and training, and low-income programs.
Specter Amendment No. 3048, to increase the advance appropriations allowance in order to fund health, education and training, and low-income programs.American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Funding Working Families’ Programs.
The Senate approved an amendment by Sens.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to the Budget
Resolution (S. Con. Res. 83) that would increase
funding for labor, health and education programs
by $7 billion. The Bush administration
had recommended a fiscal year 2007 budget
resolution calling for major cuts in working
family programs and overall domestic spending.Children's Defense Fund Action Council
Increasing Education and Health Care Funding, S. Con. Res. 83.
Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Thomas Harkin (D-IA) offered an amendment to increase the budget by $7 billion in fiscal year 2007 for health, education and training and for low-income programs that have suffered deep cuts since 2005. This amendment would have added funding for critical programs children need to succeed in school and helped restore funding continually chipped away.Service Employees International Union
Senate Passes Amendment to Increase Health, Education Funding.
The Senate passed an amendment to the budget that adds $7 billion in funding for health, education and training, and low-income programs.The John Birch Society
Health and Education Programs.
During consideration of the Fiscal 2007 Budget Resolution, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) introduced this amendment that would provide for a $7 billion increase in funding for health, education and training, and poverty programs. Federal social-welfare programs are unconstitutional. The Senate passed Specter’s amendment.