Senate Ways & Means Budget Appropriations

The Senate came out with it's budget today, and it seems to have been the first body to take the budget crunch seriously.  As you can see from the table below, the Senate's numbers are significantly lower than those of the Governor and House, and last year's enacted budget.

FY09 as Enacted .........................$29,666,643,801
Governor's House 1 ......................$30,870,720,678
House Ways & Means ......................$29,351,895,971
House Engroseed .........................$29,826,325,083
Senate Ways & Means .....................$27,415,399,490

The chart below demonstrates this graphically,  including the portions devoted to direct appropriations, chargebacks, retained revenue and federal grants respectively:

That means that what the Senate has proposed is:

• $2,251,244,311 less than last year's enacted budget
  
• $3,455,321,188 less than what the Governor proposed in House 1
  
• $1,936,496,481 less than House Ways & Means
  
• $2,410,925,593 less than the House Engrossed budget
  

Click here to see the entire spreadsheet of SW&M appropriations and how they compare to previous versions of budgets.