Three cheers for Operation Offset!

An excellent project from House Majority Leader Tom Delay --
Operation Offset.

Given that we are talking megabucks to clean up the aftermath and
rebuild after Hurricane Katrina (and heaven knows what will happen
in the coming days with Rita on a beeline for the Gulf Coast).....and
given that Congress is putting drunken sailors to shame in the spending
department....Delay is finally saying "ENOUGH."

For those items that are needed in this emergency spending, there
needs to be an "offset" so that the budget isn't busted any further.

Funny, that's what happens in our family budget in the Daly household.
We aren't printing money in the garage, ya know.

So anyhoo, here is a list that the folks at the Republican Study Committee
have come up with in Operation Offset. (If you have any additional offset
suggestions, I'd be happy to pass them on to some friends I have over there
-- just email them to me through this website.)

OPERATION OFFSET
Republican Study Committee
September 21, 2005

Delay the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill for One year
Repeal the Highway Earmarks in TEA-LU
Reduce Medicaid Administrative Spending
Increase Allowable Co-pays in Medicaid Block Grant
Medicaid Acute Services
Reduce Farm Payment Acreage by 1%
Eliminate Subsidized Loans to Graduate Students
Base Federal Retiree Health on Length of Service
Increase Medicare Part B Premium from 25% to 30%
Restructure Medicare's Cost-Sharing Requirement
Impose a Home Health Co-payment of 10%
Update the Formula Used for Federal Pension
Eliminate US subscriptions to the European Bank
Reduce Economic Assistance to Egypt
Eliminate Millennium Challenge Accounts
Level Funding for Peacekeeping Operations
Eliminate International Fund for Ireland
Level Funding for Global AIDS Initiative
Level Funding for Inter-American Foundation
Level Funding for the African Development Foundation
Level Funding for the Peace Corps
Level Funding for Andean Counter-Drug Initiative
Reduce USAID Operating Expenses
Level Funding for the International Development Assoc.
Level Funding for Asian Development Bank
Eliminate State Grants for Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Eliminate the Even Start Program
Eliminate Teen Funding Portion of Title X Family Planning
Eliminate the Administration Fees to Schools
Eliminate the Leveraging Educational Assistance Program
Eliminate Funding for the National and Community Service Act
End the Redistribution of Unused Federal Funds from SCHIP
Eliminate Childless Adult Coverage in SCHIP
Eliminate Funding for Penile Implants Under Medicare
Tie Rent Subsidies for One Person to Cost of Efficiency Apartments
Eliminate School Lunches for Students Above 350% of Poverty
Remove Ceiling for Collecting Overpayments from SSI
Verify Income of Earned Income Tax Credit Participants
Eliminate Fiscal Assistance to District of Columbia
Require IRS to Deposit Fees Collected by Treasury
Eliminate Presidential Election Campaign Fund
Eliminate the Federal Anti-Drug Advertising
Eliminate Federal Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Raise the Threshold for Davis-Bacon Coverage
Charge Federal Employees for Parking
Eliminate Legal Services Corporation
Eliminate High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program
United States Postal Service Foregone
Decline Member Pay Raise
Reduce Bureau of Land Management Construction
Reduce Fish and Wildlife Construction
Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
Eliminate Funding for National Endowment for Humanities
Eliminate Funding for the Forest Service's Economic Action Program
Reduce Funds for the Water Quality Cooperative Agreement
Reduce Funds for Bureau of Indian Affairs School Construction
Reduce Funds for Forest Service Capital Improvements
Reduce Funds for the NCRS OperationsReduce Funds for Waste
Disposal Grants
Reduce Funds for Cooperative State Research and Education
Eliminate Rural Empowerment Zone Grant
Eliminate Citrus Canker Compensation
Reduce DOE Environmental Management
Eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission
Eliminate the Denali Commission
Eliminate Native Hawaiian Funding
Level Funding for Community Health Centers
Reduce Funding for the Centers for Disease Control
Reduce Funding for the Airport Improvement Program
Eliminate positions in the Foreign Agricultural Service
Reduce Funding for Department of Education Administration
Level Funding DOE Departmental Administration Funding
Level Funding for FAA Operations
Level Funding for Treasury Departmental Offices
Level Funding for the Federal Building Fund
Level Funding for OMB
Level Funding for Agriculture Building and Facilities
Reduce Funding for the Agriculture Research Service
Eliminate the Applied Research for Renewable Energy
Sources Program
Eliminate the Clean Coal Technology Program
Eliminate the FreedomCAR Program
Eliminate the Research Initiative for Future Agriculture Systems
Eliminate the Export-Import Bank and OPIC
Limit the Repayment Period of Export Credit Guarantees
Impose a Fee on the GSEs Investment Portfolio
Require GSEs to Register with the SEC and Pay Fees
Eliminate the ITA's Trade Promotion Activates
Eliminate the Advanced Trade Program
Eliminate the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnerships
Repeal the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act
Eliminate the Foreign Market Development Program
Eliminate the Market Access Program
Eliminate the Export Enhancement Program
Eliminate the Hydrogen Fuel InitiativeS
Speed the Sale of Old and Excess Naval Vessels
Consolidate the Military Exchanges
Close the Domestic Dependent School System
Reduce DOD Administrative Accounts
Restrict First-Responder Grants to At-Risk Communities
Introduce HSAs as a TRICARE Option