H.R. 3547 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76)
Official title: An Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes
What the tracked text contains
Of the money itself: $1.20T across 35 tracked line-items — health ($578.9B, 48%), defense ($238.8B, 20%) and income security ($167.4B, 14%) lead; 8 smaller categories carry the rest. The largest single line: $255,185,000,000 for Payments to the Medicare Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance trust funds. Beyond the cash, the text also sets $40.3B of trust-fund obligation limits, $3.9B of set-asides (already counted above), $941.5B of loan-guarantee ceilings and $6.3B of revenue & offsets (pay-fors) — disclosed beside the total, never summed into it. The dated money sits in fiscal 2015 — 8% of tracked dollars carry a year in the text.
113th Congress · Enrolled (enacted, Public Law) · Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX-21] · signed into law Jan. 17, 2014 · read the full bill text →
Where the money goes
$1.20T across 35 tracked items · compare against another law →The largest verified line-items. This pie breaks down the biggest spending items in the bill — appropriations and mandatory (direct) spending — by category. Every dollar is quoted from the text; click any slice to read them. It is not necessarily every dollar in the bill, and the gaps are not always small ones — where an account was left out, How this was built at the foot of this page says so and why, and a large omission can change which category ranks first. Figures that aren’t spending — authorizations, guarantee ceilings, pay-fors, and carve-outs already counted — are deliberately left out and disclosed below.
The money map
blocks sized by dollars — open one for the law’s own wordsArea is dollars. Each block is one category of tracked spending in H.R. 3547, sized by its share of the $1.20T this page tracks. Open a block and it lists the line-items inside it, each with the passage of the enacted text that carries the dollar figure, quoted word for word, and the section it sits in. Category names are the extraction’s own labels, printed as they come — nothing here calls a category worthwhile or wasteful. The quote is the argument.
This map divides the same tracked total the pie above divides — money the text writes as exact dollar lines. It is not the bill’s total fiscal effect: what the extraction leaves out is stated above the pie and in How this was built at the foot of this page, and the dollars deliberately kept out of the count are listed under the map.
2 of the 11 blocks are too small to carry a label without overprinting themselves, so they are drawn blank — every category is named, with its figures, in the rows and the table below.
health$578.9B
$578,882,308,000 · 48% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 6 tracked line-items, largest first
- Payments to the Medicare Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance trust funds$255,185,000,000
“…incurred pursuant to section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, $255,185,000,000…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS - Grants to States for Medicaid$177,872,985,000
“…titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act, $177,872,985,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID - Grants to States for Medicaid — advance appropriation for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015$103,472,323,000
“…under title XIX of the Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, $103,472,323,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID (first-quarter FY2015 paragraph) - Defense Health Program — military medical and health care$32,699,158,000
“…of the Department of Defense as authorized by law, $32,699,158,000; of which…”
Division C, Title VI — Other Department of Defense Programs; account: DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM - Global Health Programs — HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, control and research (PEPFAR)$5,670,000,000
“…prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, HIV/AIDS, $5,670,000,000, to remain…”
Division K, Title III — Bilateral Economic Assistance; Funds Appropriated to the President; account: GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS - Indian Health Services — health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives$3,982,842,000→ Indian Health Service
“…Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, $3,982,842,000, together with…”
Division G, Title III — Department of Health and Human Services; Indian Health Service; account: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
defense$238.8B
$238,844,404,000 · 20% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 8 tracked line-items, largest first
- Military personnel, Army — pay, allowances, subsistence and retirement-fund payments$40,787,967,000
“…and to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $40,787,967,000…”
Division C, Title I — Military Personnel; account: MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY - Operation and maintenance, Navy$36,311,160,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $36,311,160,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY - Operation and maintenance, Air Force$33,248,618,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $33,248,618,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE - Operation and maintenance, Army — additional amount designated for Overseas Contingency Operations$32,369,249,000
“…ArmyFor an additional amount for Operation and Maintenance, Army, $32,369,249,000: Provided, That…”
Division C, Title IX — Overseas Contingency Operations; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY - Operation and maintenance, Defense-Wide (defense agencies other than the military departments)$31,450,068,000
“…(other than the military departments), as authorized by law, $31,450,068,000: Provided…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) - Operation and maintenance, Army$30,768,069,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $30,768,069,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY - Military personnel, Air Force — pay, allowances, subsistence and retirement-fund payments$28,519,993,000
“…and to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $28,519,993,000…”
Division C, Title I — Military Personnel; account: MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE - Foreign Military Financing — grants for allied militaries under the Arms Export Control Act$5,389,280,000
“…of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, $5,389,280,000: Provided, That…”
Division K, Title IV — International Security Assistance; Funds Appropriated to the President; account: FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
income security$167.4B
$167,400,812,000 · 14% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 5 tracked line-items, largest first
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP / food stamps)$82,169,945,000
“…Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $82,169,945,000, of which…”
Division A, Title IV — Domestic Food Programs; Food and Nutrition Service; account: SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Supplemental Security Income program benefits and administration$41,249,064,000
“…pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, $41,249,064,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title IV — Related Agencies; Social Security Administration; account: SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM - Child nutrition programs (school lunch, school breakfast, child and adult care food)$19,287,957,000
“…U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 21; $19,287,957,000, to remain…”
Division A, Title IV — Domestic Food Programs; Food and Nutrition Service; account: CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) - Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 housing choice vouchers)$15,177,218,000
“…et seq.) (the Act herein), not otherwise provided for, $15,177,218,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title II — HUD; Public and Indian Housing; account: TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE - Project-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 project-based subsidy contracts)$9,516,628,000
“…1437 et seq.) (the Act), not otherwise provided for, $9,516,628,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title II — HUD; Housing Programs; account: PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
veterans$129.6B
$129,627,529,000 · 11% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 3 tracked line-items, largest first
- Veterans compensation and pensions (disability compensation, DIC, pensions)$71,476,104,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $71,476,104,000, to remain…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Benefits Administration; account: COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) - VA medical services — advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2014$45,015,527,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…became available on October 1, 2013; and, in addition, $45,015,527,000, plus reimbursements,…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Health Administration; account: MEDICAL SERVICES - Veterans readjustment benefits (Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits, vocational rehabilitation)$13,135,898,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…payment of benefits under the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, $13,135,898,000, to remain…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Benefits Administration; account: READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
education$24.5B
$24,486,210,000 · 2% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- Student financial assistance — Pell Grants, SEOG and Federal Work-Study$24,486,210,000
“…and part C of title IV of the HEA, $24,486,210,000, which shall…”
Division H, Title III — Department of Education; account: STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
other$21.8B
$21,803,548,000 · 2% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 4 tracked line-items, largest first
- Federal Bureau of Investigation salaries and expenses$8,245,802,000→ Federal Bureau of Investigation
“…investigation, and prosecution of crimes against the United States, $8,245,802,000, of which…”
Division B, Title II — Department of Justice; Federal Bureau of Investigation; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - U.S. Customs and Border Protection salaries and expenses$8,145,568,000→ U.S. Customs and Border Protection
“…vehicles; and contracting with individuals for personal services abroad; $8,145,568,000; of which…”
Division F, Title II — Security, Enforcement, and Investigations; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - Internal Revenue Service enforcement$5,022,178,000
“…such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner, $5,022,178,000, of which…”
Division E, Title I — Department of the Treasury; Internal Revenue Service; account: ENFORCEMENT - Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account$390,000,000→ United States Senate
“…Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, $390,000,000…”
Division I, Title I — Legislative Branch; Senate; Contingent Expenses of the Senate
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
transportation$15.8B
$15,834,157,000 · 1% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 4 tracked line-items, largest first
- FAA operations — air traffic control, aviation safety, navigation facilities$9,651,422,000
“…addition to amounts made available by Public Law 108–176, $9,651,422,000, of which…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; account: OPERATIONS (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) - Transportation Security Administration aviation security (passenger and baggage screening)$4,982,735,000→ Transportation Security Administration
“…Law 107–71; 115 Stat. 597; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note), $4,982,735,000, to remain…”
Division F, Title II — Security, Enforcement, and Investigations; Transportation Security Administration; account: AVIATION SECURITY - Capital and debt service grants to Amtrak$1,050,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110–432), $1,050,000,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration; account: CAPITAL AND DEBT SERVICE GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION - Grants to WMATA for capital and preventive maintenance$150,000,000→ Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC/MD/VA)
“…section 601 of division B of Public Law 110–432, $150,000,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Transit Administration; account: GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
energy$7.8B
$7,845,000,000 · 1% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- National Nuclear Security Administration — Weapons Activities (nuclear stockpile)$7,845,000,000
“…and the purchase of not to exceed one ambulance, $7,845,000,000, to remain…”
Division D, Title III — Department of Energy; National Nuclear Security Administration; account: WEAPONS ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
community & regional development$6.2B
$6,220,908,000 · 1% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- FEMA Disaster Relief Fund (Stafford Act disaster response and recovery)$6,220,908,000→ Federal Emergency Management Agency
“…and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $6,220,908,000, to remain…”
Division F, Title III — Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery; FEMA; account: DISASTER RELIEF FUND (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
science$5.8B
$5,808,918,000 · 0.5% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- National Science Foundation research and related activities$5,808,918,000→ National Science Foundation
“…for research support; acquisition of aircraft; and authorized travel; $5,808,918,000, to remain…”
Division B, Title III — Science; National Science Foundation; account: RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
water$307.0M
$307,000,000 · 0.0% of the $1,197,060,794,000 this page tracks · 1 tracked line-item, largest first
- Mississippi River and Tributaries — flood damage reduction in the Mississippi alluvial valley$307,000,000→ Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri
“…valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by law, $307,000,000, to remain…”
Division D, Title I — Corps of Engineers—Civil; Department of the Army; account: MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
These same line-items appear in the full cited ledger lower on this page, where each one also carries the fiscal year the text gives it, when it gives one.
- Trust-fund obligation limits · 1 tracked item$40.3B
- Set-asides (already counted above) · 4 tracked items$3.9B
- Loan-guarantee ceilings · 4 tracked items$941.5B
- Revenue & offsets (pay-fors) · 1 tracked item$6.3B
None of these are added to the map. They are ceilings, borrowing limits, carve-outs of dollars already counted inside a block above, or pay-fors — summing them into the map would count the same money twice and draw permission to spend as spending. Each is itemized further down this page.
| Category | Tracked dollars | Share of $1,197,060,794,000 | Line-items |
|---|---|---|---|
| health | $578,882,308,000 | 48% | 6 |
| defense | $238,844,404,000 | 20% | 8 |
| income security | $167,400,812,000 | 14% | 5 |
| veterans | $129,627,529,000 | 11% | 3 |
| education | $24,486,210,000 | 2% | 1 |
| other | $21,803,548,000 | 2% | 4 |
| transportation | $15,834,157,000 | 1% | 4 |
| energy | $7,845,000,000 | 1% | 1 |
| community & regional development | $6,220,908,000 | 1% | 1 |
| science | $5,808,918,000 | 0.5% | 1 |
| water | $307,000,000 | 0.0% | 1 |
| Tracked total | $1,197,060,794,000 | 100% | 35 |
What’s in this bill
every mechanism we could extract, at one scaleA law can move money four different ways, and only one of them is cash. This compares what H.R. 3547 actually spends against what it authorizes, caps, guarantees or pays for. Every bar is a sample. Each one sums the tracked line-items in that mechanism — the largest figures that appear in the text as an exact dollar string — so a bar is a floor, not a mechanism total, and on some laws it is a small fraction of one. Each bar carries its item count and, where the items carry years, the span it covers and where those years came from.
These bars are not added together. Only the top bar is money leaving the Treasury. The rest are ceilings, borrowing limits, carve-outs of money already counted above, or pay-fors — summing them would count the same dollars twice and treat permission to spend as spending. How this was built says what each extraction left out.
What CBO says it does to the deficit
verified estimate, quoted with its basisNo verified CBO estimate is on file for this bill yet — the gap is stated here rather than filled from memory or news coverage.
The terms on this page, in plain English
What these things actually are — and what this bill does to each of them. Written for readers, not staffers; every figure in the “in this bill” lines appears elsewhere on this page.
The Highway Trust Fund
The federal government's dedicated road-and-transit account. Money flows in from federal taxes on gasoline and diesel, and flows out to state highway and transit projects. Congress promises states money from it years in advance — so the fund's health depends on fuel-tax receipts keeping up with the promises, and for years they haven't. When the gap gets big enough, Congress moves ordinary Treasury money in to cover it.
Contract authority
A promise now, cash later. Congress lets highway agencies sign binding commitments against future trust-fund money before any cash is in hand — useful because a bridge takes years to build. The commitments are real spending eventually, but the figure here is permission to commit, so it is disclosed beside the total rather than counted as money out the door.
Obligation limitation
The annual brake on those promises. States hold years of trust-fund commitments, and each year's spending bill caps how much of them may turn into actual signed spending that year. It is real money moving, but the number is a limit on older promises — not new money — so adding it to the total would double-count.
Mandatory vs. discretionary spending
Discretionary money must be re-approved every year in appropriations bills — if Congress does nothing, it stops. Mandatory (also called direct) spending is written into permanent law and flows automatically until Congress changes the law itself. Benefit programs mostly work the mandatory way, which is why they don't show up in the yearly funding fights.
Loan-guarantee ceiling
The government co-signing loans, not spending money. The figure caps how much new lending the government may promise to stand behind; cash leaves the Treasury only if borrowers default. These ceilings can dwarf a bill's actual spending — which is exactly why they are shown separately and never summed into it.
Rescission
Taking back money Congress previously provided that hasn't been spent yet. It reduces spending on paper; how much it saves in practice depends on whether the money was ever going out the door.
Advance appropriation
Money approved now for a future year. Used above all for veterans' benefits and care, so that a government shutdown or a late budget can never interrupt disability checks or hospital operations — the money for next year is already law.
Set-aside (carve-out)
A floor inside money already counted: “of the amounts above, at least $X shall go to Y.” It steers the money rather than adding to it — counting a carve-out again would double-count — so it is disclosed beside the total, never summed into it.
SNAP (food stamps)
Monthly grocery money on a debit card for low-income households. It is an entitlement: everyone who qualifies and applies receives it, and the appropriation has to cover whoever shows up — so the figure moves with the economy, not with a policy choice in this bill.
Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)
Rent help for low-income tenants: the household pays roughly a third of its income, the voucher covers the rest up to a local cap. Unlike SNAP it is not an entitlement — when the year's money runs out, waiting lists grow. That is why this annual number decides how many families are actually helped.
When the money is for
fiscal years the tracked line-items carry1 of 35 tracked line-items carries a fiscal year in its own quoted text — 8% of the tracked dollars. The no year column is money the text appropriates without naming a year in the quoted passage; it is shown so the dated columns aren’t mistaken for the whole schedule.
How they voted
| For | Against | Abstained | Did not vote | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | 109 88% | 13 10% | — | 2 2% | 124 |
| Democrats | 71 99% | — | — | 1 1% | 72 |
| Republicans | 38 73% | 13 25% | — | 1 2% | 52 |
| Senate | 43 72% | 17 28% | — | — | 60 |
| Democrats | 30 100% | — | — | — | 30 |
| Republicans | 11 39% | 17 61% | — | — | 28 |
| Independents | 2 100% | — | — | — | 2 |
H.R. 3547 began as a space-launch liability bill and became the vehicle for the FY2014 omnibus; the Clerk's XML still carries the old vote-desc. Final passage in the House was Roll 21 on 2014-01-15, 'On Concurring in the Senate Amendments with an Amendment', passed 359-67 with 7 not voting. The earlier House vote on this number (Roll 612, 2013-12-02, 376-5) passed the original space-launch shell text, not the enacted omnibus, and is NOT used here.
The Senate cleared the bill on 2014-01-16 by agreeing to the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment (Record Vote 13, On the Motion), 72-26 with 2 absent. Record Vote 12 the same day, also 72-26, was cloture on that motion, not final passage. Signed into Public Law 113-76 on 2014-01-17.
“Did not vote” is not the same as “absent.” The record distinguishes Present — there, and formally declining to take a side — from Not Voting, where no vote was cast. That is usually absence, but the roll call does not say so, so this table does not either.
Did not vote (2): Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Vern Buchanan (R-FL).
A member is recorded as not voting for many ordinary reasons — illness, a death in the family, official travel, or a paired vote arranged with a colleague on the other side. The roll call gives no reason, so neither does this page, and nothing here is counted against anyone’s grade. This site tracks a small number of major bills, so a single absence is a large share of what is shown here and a very small share of the hundreds of votes a member actually casts.
These tallies count the 184 members sitting today who have a recorded position, not the historical result. Several of these bills passed in earlier Congresses, and members who have since left are not in the roster — so the totals here are smaller than the 435 + 100 that voted at the time. Where both chambers held a recorded vote, a member is grouped by the chamber they sit in now; anyone who has switched chambers since then appears in their current row.
Trust-fund obligation limits — $40.3B
Ceilings on Highway Trust Fund contract authority. Real spending, but the figure is a limit and the underlying authority is set in the surface-transportation law, not this bill — so it is disclosed here, not summed into the spending pie.
- Ceiling on FY2014 obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction (Highway Trust Fund contract authority)$40.3B
Set-asides (already counted above) — $3.9B
A carve-out or reservation WITHIN a larger line-item already in the pie (e.g. a share of a fund reserved for a specific use). Shown for detail but NOT summed in — its dollars are part of the parent, and counting both would double-count.
- Foreign Military Financing grants reserved for Israel (carve-out of the FMF account)$3.1B
- Israeli Cooperative Programs (missile defense), carved out of Procurement and RDT&E, Defense-Wide; of which $235,309,000 for Iron Dome$504.1M
- New construction: DHS headquarters consolidation at St. Elizabeths (carve-out of the Federal Buildings Fund construction line)$155.0M
- New construction: San Ysidro United States Land Port of Entry (carve-out of the Federal Buildings Fund construction line)$128.3M
Loan-guarantee ceilings — $941.5B
Caps on NEW loan or mortgage-backed-security guarantee commitments. No cash is spent — the government only backstops private lending — so these are excluded from the pie entirely.
- Ginnie Mae — ceiling on NEW mortgage-backed-securities guarantee commitments (no cash outlay)$500.0B
- FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance — ceiling on NEW single-family loan-guarantee commitments (no cash outlay)$400.0B
- Ceiling on gross obligations for unsubsidized guaranteed single-family rural housing loans (no cash outlay)$24.0B
- Ceiling on FY2014 commitments for SBA section 7(a) general business loan guarantees (no cash outlay)$17.5B
Revenue & offsets (pay-fors) — $6.3B
Tax changes, rescissions and other provisions that RAISE or save money rather than spend it. Not spending — disclosed so the law’s cost is not overstated by ignoring how it was paid for.
- Rescission of CHIP performance bonus payments (reduces prior budget authority; not new spending)$6.3B
Every tracked dollar, cited
35 spending line-items · 1 carries a fiscal yearhealth$578.9B · 48%
- Payments to the Medicare Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance trust funds$255,185,000,000
“…incurred pursuant to section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, $255,185,000,000…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS - Grants to States for Medicaid$177,872,985,000
“…titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act, $177,872,985,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID - Grants to States for Medicaid — advance appropriation for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015$103,472,323,000FY2015
“…under title XIX of the Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, $103,472,323,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title II — Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; account: GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID (first-quarter FY2015 paragraph) - Defense Health Program — military medical and health care$32,699,158,000
“…of the Department of Defense as authorized by law, $32,699,158,000; of which…”
Division C, Title VI — Other Department of Defense Programs; account: DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM - Global Health Programs — HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, control and research (PEPFAR)$5,670,000,000
“…prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, HIV/AIDS, $5,670,000,000, to remain…”
Division K, Title III — Bilateral Economic Assistance; Funds Appropriated to the President; account: GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS - Indian Health Services — health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives$3,982,842,000→ Indian Health Service
“…Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, $3,982,842,000, together with…”
Division G, Title III — Department of Health and Human Services; Indian Health Service; account: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
defense$238.8B · 20%
- Military personnel, Army — pay, allowances, subsistence and retirement-fund payments$40,787,967,000
“…and to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $40,787,967,000…”
Division C, Title I — Military Personnel; account: MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY - Operation and maintenance, Navy$36,311,160,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $36,311,160,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY - Operation and maintenance, Air Force$33,248,618,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $33,248,618,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE - Operation and maintenance, Army — additional amount designated for Overseas Contingency Operations$32,369,249,000
“…ArmyFor an additional amount for Operation and Maintenance, Army, $32,369,249,000: Provided, That…”
Division C, Title IX — Overseas Contingency Operations; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY - Operation and maintenance, Defense-Wide (defense agencies other than the military departments)$31,450,068,000
“…(other than the military departments), as authorized by law, $31,450,068,000: Provided…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) - Operation and maintenance, Army$30,768,069,000
“…on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $30,768,069,000…”
Division C, Title II — Operation and Maintenance; account: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY - Military personnel, Air Force — pay, allowances, subsistence and retirement-fund payments$28,519,993,000
“…and to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $28,519,993,000…”
Division C, Title I — Military Personnel; account: MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE - Foreign Military Financing — grants for allied militaries under the Arms Export Control Act$5,389,280,000
“…of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, $5,389,280,000: Provided, That…”
Division K, Title IV — International Security Assistance; Funds Appropriated to the President; account: FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM
income security$167.4B · 14%
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP / food stamps)$82,169,945,000
“…Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $82,169,945,000, of which…”
Division A, Title IV — Domestic Food Programs; Food and Nutrition Service; account: SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Supplemental Security Income program benefits and administration$41,249,064,000
“…pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, $41,249,064,000, to remain…”
Division H, Title IV — Related Agencies; Social Security Administration; account: SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM - Child nutrition programs (school lunch, school breakfast, child and adult care food)$19,287,957,000
“…U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 and 21; $19,287,957,000, to remain…”
Division A, Title IV — Domestic Food Programs; Food and Nutrition Service; account: CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) - Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 housing choice vouchers)$15,177,218,000
“…et seq.) (the Act herein), not otherwise provided for, $15,177,218,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title II — HUD; Public and Indian Housing; account: TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE - Project-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 project-based subsidy contracts)$9,516,628,000
“…1437 et seq.) (the Act), not otherwise provided for, $9,516,628,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title II — HUD; Housing Programs; account: PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
veterans$129.6B · 11%
- Veterans compensation and pensions (disability compensation, DIC, pensions)$71,476,104,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code, $71,476,104,000, to remain…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Benefits Administration; account: COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) - VA medical services — advance appropriation becoming available October 1, 2014$45,015,527,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…became available on October 1, 2013; and, in addition, $45,015,527,000, plus reimbursements,…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Health Administration; account: MEDICAL SERVICES - Veterans readjustment benefits (Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits, vocational rehabilitation)$13,135,898,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…payment of benefits under the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, $13,135,898,000, to remain…”
Division J, Title II — Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans Benefits Administration; account: READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
education$24.5B · 2%
- Student financial assistance — Pell Grants, SEOG and Federal Work-Study$24,486,210,000
“…and part C of title IV of the HEA, $24,486,210,000, which shall…”
Division H, Title III — Department of Education; account: STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
other$21.8B · 2%
- Federal Bureau of Investigation salaries and expenses$8,245,802,000→ Federal Bureau of Investigation
“…investigation, and prosecution of crimes against the United States, $8,245,802,000, of which…”
Division B, Title II — Department of Justice; Federal Bureau of Investigation; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - U.S. Customs and Border Protection salaries and expenses$8,145,568,000→ U.S. Customs and Border Protection
“…vehicles; and contracting with individuals for personal services abroad; $8,145,568,000; of which…”
Division F, Title II — Security, Enforcement, and Investigations; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - Internal Revenue Service enforcement$5,022,178,000
“…such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner, $5,022,178,000, of which…”
Division E, Title I — Department of the Treasury; Internal Revenue Service; account: ENFORCEMENT - Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account$390,000,000→ United States Senate
“…Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, $390,000,000…”
Division I, Title I — Legislative Branch; Senate; Contingent Expenses of the Senate
transportation$15.8B · 1%
- FAA operations — air traffic control, aviation safety, navigation facilities$9,651,422,000
“…addition to amounts made available by Public Law 108–176, $9,651,422,000, of which…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; account: OPERATIONS (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) - Transportation Security Administration aviation security (passenger and baggage screening)$4,982,735,000→ Transportation Security Administration
“…Law 107–71; 115 Stat. 597; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note), $4,982,735,000, to remain…”
Division F, Title II — Security, Enforcement, and Investigations; Transportation Security Administration; account: AVIATION SECURITY - Capital and debt service grants to Amtrak$1,050,000,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
“…Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110–432), $1,050,000,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration; account: CAPITAL AND DEBT SERVICE GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION - Grants to WMATA for capital and preventive maintenance$150,000,000→ Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC/MD/VA)
“…section 601 of division B of Public Law 110–432, $150,000,000, to remain…”
Division L, Title I — Department of Transportation; Federal Transit Administration; account: GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY
energy$7.8B · 1%
- National Nuclear Security Administration — Weapons Activities (nuclear stockpile)$7,845,000,000
“…and the purchase of not to exceed one ambulance, $7,845,000,000, to remain…”
Division D, Title III — Department of Energy; National Nuclear Security Administration; account: WEAPONS ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
community & regional development$6.2B · 1%
- FEMA Disaster Relief Fund (Stafford Act disaster response and recovery)$6,220,908,000→ Federal Emergency Management Agency
“…and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $6,220,908,000, to remain…”
Division F, Title III — Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery; FEMA; account: DISASTER RELIEF FUND (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
science$5.8B · 0.5%
- National Science Foundation research and related activities$5,808,918,000→ National Science Foundation
“…for research support; acquisition of aircraft; and authorized travel; $5,808,918,000, to remain…”
Division B, Title III — Science; National Science Foundation; account: RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
water$307.0M · 0.0%
- Mississippi River and Tributaries — flood damage reduction in the Mississippi alluvial valley$307,000,000→ Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri
“…valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by law, $307,000,000, to remain…”
Division D, Title I — Corps of Engineers—Civil; Department of the Army; account: MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
How this was built
Fetched the GovInfo bulk-data enrolled XML (bill-stage=Enrolled-Bill), walked the document in order to track division/title/appropriations-major/appropriations-intermediate context for each <appropriations-small> account, regex-extracted every dollar figure with surrounding context, then hand-selected the largest and most place-specific line-items and classified each by its operative verb. Verbatim quotes are cut from a faithful ElementTree itertext() join of the same XML with whitespace normalised, and each was re-located by exact substring search in an independently re-parsed copy of the source. 45 of 45 sampled figures were re-located as exact strings in the source text. Source: GovInfo enrolled bill text. Full bill text.
Extraction notes (technical)
H.R. 3547 is a PURE APPROPRIATIONS act: it contains NO dollar-figure authorizations. All eight occurrences of 'authorized to be appropriated' in the enacted text were re-read individually by the verifier and every one is either 'such sums as may be necessary' or a cross-reference to highway apportionment formulas - not one carries a dollar amount, so no line-item here is tagged 'authorization'. FIVE mechanisms appear and MUST NOT be summed together. (1) 'appropriation' = real budget authority; note that several of the biggest - Medicaid grants, Medicare trust-fund payments, SNAP, SSI, veterans compensation - are appropriated entitlements (mandatory programs funded through this annual act), which is why the appropriated total is far above the act's ~$1.012 trillion discretionary headline. (2) 'loan_guarantee_ceiling' = a cap on NEW guarantee commitments with NO cash outlay: Ginnie Mae $500,000,000,000, FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance $400,000,000,000, SBA 7(a) $17,500,000,000, rural housing unsubsidized guarantees $24,000,000,000. These four alone total $941.5 billion; a naive 'add every dollar in the bill' would be dominated by money that is never spent. (3) 'obligation_limitation' = the $40,256,000,000 ceiling on Federal-aid highway obligations, drawn against Highway Trust Fund contract authority created by MAP-21 (Public Law 112-141), not by this act. The companion liquidating cash appropriation of $40,995,000,000 under '(Liquidation of contract authorization)(Highway Trust Fund)' is deliberately NOT listed as a separate line-item, because counting both the obligation ceiling and the cash that liquidates it would double-count the same highway program. The parallel transit obligation limitation is $8,595,000,000 with a $9,500,000,000 Mass Transit Account liquidating appropriation, treated the same way. (4) 'set_aside' = a carve-out INSIDE a larger appropriated amount, shown for detail and never summed into the totals: the $3,100,000,000 Israel share of the $5,389,280,000 Foreign Military Financing account; the $504,091,000 Israeli Cooperative Programs (of which $235,309,000 for Iron Dome) carved out of Procurement and RDT&E, Defense-Wide; and the St. Elizabeths ($155,000,000) and San Ysidro ($128,300,000) projects carved out of the GSA Federal Buildings Fund's $9,370,042,000 limitation on availability of revenue (that FBF limitation is itself spending authority from offsetting rent collections, not a new appropriation, so it is not listed in the pie). (5) 'revenue_or_offset' = the $6,317,000,000 rescission of CHIP performance-bonus payments in Division H sec. 521, which saves money rather than spending it. The act carries dozens of rescission clauses in total; only the largest is listed. ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS: this act makes several appropriations that first become available in fiscal year 2015, and they are counted consistently as appropriations because the budget authority is provided by THIS act: the $45,015,527,000 VA medical services advance and the $103,472,323,000 Medicaid first-quarter-FY2015 advance. The Medicaid advance is a separate paragraph under the same account heading as the $177,872,985,000 FY2014 grant, not a restatement of it, so listing both is not a double-count. (The $19,700,000,000 SSI first-quarter-FY2015 advance is the same kind of item and is NOT listed, which is one reason the tracked total remains a floor.) COVERAGE: these are the largest and most illustrative accounts across all twelve divisions (A-L), not every account - the act has well over 1,000 separate appropriations paragraphs, so the tracked total is a FLOOR, never the act's complete total. EARMARK DETAIL: this act's project-level detail lives in the accompanying explanatory statement printed in the Congressional Record (incorporated by section 4 of the act), a SEPARATE document not parsed here - except where the bill text itself names projects, as in the GSA Federal Buildings Fund construction list (San Ysidro CA, St. Elizabeths DC, San Juan PR, Winchester VA, Laredo TX, Lakewood CO). H.R. 3547 was introduced on 2013-11-20 as the Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act by Rep. Lamar Smith and was used as the legislative vehicle for the consolidated appropriations package; the original launch-liability provision survives as section 8. TOTALS FOR THESE 45 TRACKED ITEMS: appropriations = $1,197,060,794,000; tracked (appropriation + direct spending) = $1,197,060,794,000; naive sum of every figure listed = $2,189,021,185,000. Mechanism split: {"appropriation": 35, "loan_guarantee_ceiling": 4, "set_aside": 4, "revenue_or_offset": 1, "obligation_limitation": 1}. All 45 dollar strings and all 45 verbatim quotes were re-located by exact substring search in an independently re-fetched and re-parsed copy of the enrolled XML; every quote is unique in the source.
How this lands in a state
two layers, in order: reported, shownPick a state and this section gives you two different things, and keeps them apart. First, what the government itself reports — obligations Treasury tags to this law, where such a tag exists. Second, the state’s own numbers — the same rows an assessment would be given, with their sources and vintages, so you can check this page against the record behind it. Every state is treated identically.
1. What the government reports
no official per-state breakdown exists for this lawNo official source breaks H.R. 3547 down by state, so this page publishes no per-state dollar figure for it. No Disaster Emergency Fund Code maps to this law, so no reported obligation can be traced back to it. Without that tag there is no audit trail from an award to this bill, and any per-state figure would be modelled rather than derived.
Two of the 31 laws tracked on this site can be broken down honestly — the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act — because Treasury tags their money with a Disaster Emergency Fund Code that maps to one public law and no other. Where no such code exists, a per-state figure would be modelled rather than derived, and this site does not publish modelled numbers.
The route we refuse to take, and why (technical)
USAspending's award SEARCH endpoints accept the same def_codes filter but select AWARDS, not DOLLARS: they return an award's entire obligation if any part of it touched the law's money. That route reported a single Sandia National Laboratories contract as $42.8B of IIJA money in New Mexico against a true DEFC-apportioned $64.5M, and overstated ARPA nationally by about 80%. It is not used here and must not be.
2. The assessment
nothing staged into this buildNo assessments were staged into this build. This layer reads precomputed readings out of the page, and this build carries none, so there is nothing here for any state — a gap in the build rather than a fact about H.R. 3547. The two sourced layers either side of it are unaffected: they are the government’s figures and the state’s own, and neither depends on a model.
3. The state’s own numbers
the rows the assessment was givenChoose a state above to see the measured profile the assessment reads from — its industry mix, its concentrations, and its energy consumption, each with its source and vintage.
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