President's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget & Congressional Reaction

<> 5 New Things About the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget - Here are five things that are new and different about the Fiscal Year 2016 budget. All of the data in the FY 2016 budget in an easy, machine-readable format on GitHub, a website for hosting open-source projects The Full Budget The White House has a better, interactive way to actually "see" the budget Fact Sheet for the EPA, proposed budget of $8.6 billion Fact Sheet: Building a Clean Energy Economy, Improving Energy Security, and Taking Action on Climate Change U.S. EPA Summary Details (20-pages) FY 2016 EPA Budget in Brief (124-pages) EPA FY 2016 Congressional Justification (1185-pages) Department of Energy Summary Details (46-pages)

<> Speaker Boehner Statement on President Obama's Budget - Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement on President Obama's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Proposal: "Today President Obama laid out a plan for more taxes, more spending, and more of the Washington gridlock. . . McConnell Statement on the President's Budget and Coal - The new Congress will focus on ways to help the Middle Class instead as we work to pass the serious kind of budget all Americans deserve: one that roots out and reforms wasteful spending, and that aims to grow Middle-Class jobs and opportunity instead of Washington's bureaucracy. Chairman Smith: President's Budget Pushes Partisan Agenda - Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) Blackburn Statement on President Obama's Proposed Budget - Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who is a member of the House Budget Committee Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee - "The president has already spent more than $120 billion on climate change initiatives since taking office, and I will not support any special funds, including the $500 million for the Green Climate Fund, to further his climate agenda that is eroding states' rights and making it unnecessarily difficult to do business in America. . ." Murkowski Responds to President Obama's "Groundhog Day" Budget of $2.1 Trillion in New Taxes – ". . .more taxes, bigger government, less spending restraint, and the President ignoring the law. . ."