Obama proposal would boost budgets of most agencies

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President Obama on Thursday released an outline of his fiscal 2010 budget. The $3.55 trillion proposal would increase the base discretionary budgets of most agencies from their 2009 levels. The complete fiscal 2010 budget will be released in the spring.

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2009
Estimate 		2009-2010
Recovery Act 		2010
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Base Discretionary Policy by Agency* (budget authority in billions of dollars)
Departments
Agriculture 23.9 6.9 26.0
Commerce 9.3 7.9 13.8
Defense (DoD -- Excluding Overseas
Contingency Operations) 		513.3 7.4 533.7
Education 41.4 81.1 46.7
Energy 26.4 38.7 26.3
Health and Human Services 80.1 22.4 78.7
Homeland Security 42.2 2.8 42.7
Housing and Urban Development 40.1 13.6 47.5
Interior 11.3 3.0 12.0
Justice 25.5 4.0 26.5
Labor 12.7 4.8 13.3
State and Other International Programs 36.7 0.6 51.7
Transportation 70.5 48.1 72.5
Treasury 12.7 0.3 13.3
Veterans Affairs 47.6 1.4 52.5
Major Agencies
Corps of Engineers 5.3 4.6 5.1
Enviornmental Protection Agency 7.8 7.2 10.5
General Services Administration 0.7 5.9 0.6
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 17.8 1.0 18.7
National Science Foundation 6.9 3.0 7.0
Small Business Administration 0.7 0.7 0.7
Social Security Administration 8.8 1.1 9.7
Other Agencies 20 0.4 25.9
Total, Base Discretionary 1,061.6 267.0 1,135.4

*Figures may not include all advance appropriations, emergency supplemental funding, or other budget estimates.

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