Dog Bites Man - House Democrats
Taxing and Spending
Democrat spending spree by the numbers

Five-year cost of spending authorizations passed by the House this year:
 $787,112,870,000.00*

 Five-year cost of non-defense spending authorizations passed by the House this year:
 $146,130,000,000.00**

 One-year cost of appropriations passed by the House this year:
 FY 2007:  $587,786,000,000.00
 FY 2008:  $124,157,000,000.00

This spending spree is brought to you by House Democrats, who passed the largest tax     
 increase in American history to fuel their spending ways:
 Overall cost to American taxpayers: $392,000,000,000.00
 Cost to individual American taxpayers: $3,026

 Number of House Republicans committed to sustaining Presidential veto of bloated Democrat
 spending bills:
 147


* This figure does not include the authorizations contained in:

·         H.R. 1538 (Wounded Warrior Assistance Act), which passed the House the week of March 26^th;

·         H.R. 1684 (Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008), which passed the House the week of May 7^th; or

·         H.R. 1051 (National STEM Scholarship Database Act), which passed the House the week of June 4^th.

**This figure does not include the authorizations contained in H.R. 1051 (National STEM Scholarship Database Act), which passed the House the week of June 4^th.

Figures based on CBO scoring.

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