This act incorporated 11 of the 12 FY2008 appropriations bills; the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008, was included as Division K of the act. The THUD appropriations act provided $103.6 billion (after rescissions and other adjustments) in total budgetary resources, $4.0 billion more than the FY2007 level. DOT received $65.5 billion, an increase of $2.3 billion over FY2007. HUD received $37.6 billion, $1.4 billion over the FY2007 level. 3074 ) had reported a conference agreement ( H.Rept. 110-446 ) on November 13, 2007, and the House had approved the agreement on November 14, 2007. The President threatened to veto the bill for exceeding the requested funding level. The Senate did not take up the agreement. 3074 , which provides $105.9 billion (after rescissions and other adjustments) for transportation and housing and urban development appropriations for FY2008. The HUD request was $35.6 billion, $1.0 billion (3%) less than the amount provided for FY2007. Within that total, the bill provides $66.9 billion for DOT ($2.4 billion more than requested and $3.8 billion more than the FY2007 level), $38.7 billion for HUD ($3.1 billion more than requested and $2.1 billion over the FY2007 level), and $235 million for the other independent agencies ($1 million more than requested and $12 million over the FY2007 level). 2764 / P.L. The THUD appropriations act provided $65.5 billion for DOT, $2.3 billion more than enacted in FY2007 and $1.0 billion more than the Administration request, but less than the amount agreed to by the conference committee. Both of the House and Senate bills, the conference agreement, and the final THUD appropriations act include a provision (Section 136) that prohibits any funds in the act from being used to "establish" a cross-border trucking demonstration program allowing Mexican trucking companies to operate beyond the commercial zone (a zone extending 20 miles into the United States from the U.S.-Mexico border). DOT continued to operate the program after passage of the FY2008 act, contending that FY2008 funding used for the program would not be used to establish the program, but to continue its operation. On July 11, 2007, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the FY2008 Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (THUD) funding bill ( H.R. Both bills would have increased funding above the President's request for a number of HUD programs, including Section 8 tenant-based rental assistance, Housing for the Elderly and Housing for the Disabled, and CDBG. Both bills also would have provided funding for all programs that were slated for elimination in the President's budget. The total for HUD in the conference agreement ( H.Rept. On December 19, 2007, Congress enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (attached to H.R. 110-161 —like the House bill, Senate bill, and the House-Senate conference agreement—provides funding for the HOPE VI program and does not rescind FY2007 funding, as requested in the President's budget.
The FY2008 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill (THUD) provides funding for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and five independent agencies related to these two departments.
The Bush Administration requested $100.3 billion (after scorekeeping adjustments) for FY2008, an increase of $300 million (less than 1%) over FY2007. DOT would receive $64.5 billion, $1.3 billion more than provided in FY2007. HUD would receive $35.6 billion, $1.0 billion less than provided in FY2007.
A conference agreement (H.Rept. 110-446) on H.R. 3074, the FY2008 THUD appropriations bill, followed both the House- and Senate-passed versions of the bill in recommending more funding for both DOT and HUD than requested by the Administration. The conference agreement was published on November 13, 2007, and brought to the House floor and approved on November 14. The President threatened to veto the conference agreement because it exceeded the amount requested. The Senate did not take up the agreement.
On December 19, 2007, a revised THUD appropriations act was passed as Division K of H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY2008 (P.L. 110-161). Division K, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008, provided $103.6 billion (after rescissions and other adjustments) in total budgetary resources for the agencies included in the THUD appropriations bill, $4.0 billion more than the FY2007 level, $3.3 billion over the Administration request, and $2.2 billion less than the amount agreed in H.Rept. 110-446. DOT received $65.5 billion, an increase of $2.3 billion over FY2007. HUD received $37.6 billion, $1.4 billion over the FY2007 level.
For DOT, the agreement recommended increases in the requested level for highways, transit, Amtrak, and aviation. The agreement also included a provision included in both the House- and Senate-passed bills that would bar FY2008 funding from being used to establish a cross-border trucking demonstration program, which allows Mexican trucking companies to operate beyond the commercial zones on the United States-Mexico border. DOT has announced that it would not establish any new cross-border trucking demonstration programs, but would continue to operate the program it established on September 6, 2007 (after passage of the House and Senate THUD bills but before passage of the final appropriations act). For HUD, the agreement recommends increases in the requested level for Section 8 tenant-based rental assistance, Housing for the Elderly, Housing for the Disabled, and the Community Development Block Grant program, and recommends funding for HUD programs that were slated for elimination in the President's budget. The act includes a 2% rescission applied to funding designated for projects under certain programs whose funding is extensively earmarked.
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