PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2006 BUDGET WITH OMB DIRECTOR BOLTEN HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION FEBRUARY 9, 2005 Serial No. 109-2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAY 18.2000 TRANSFER 23-913 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 2005 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office LIBRARY OF CONCRESS COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS E. CLAY SHAW, JR., Florida JIM RAMSTAD, Minnesota JIM NUSSLE, Iowa ROB PORTMAN, Ohio PHIL ENGLISH, Pennsylvania KENNY C. HULSHOF, Missouri MARK FOLEY, Florida KEVIN BRADY, Texas THOMAS M. REYNOLDS, New York PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin JOHN LINDER, Georgia BOB BEAUPREZ, Colorado CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts EARL POMEROY, North Dakota Allison H. Giles, Chief of Staff Pursuant to clause 2(e)(4) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House, public hearing records of the Committee on Ways and Means are also published in electronic form. The printed hearing record remains the official version. Because electronic submissions are used to prepare both printed and electronic versions of the hearing record, the process of converting between various electronic formats may introduce unintentional errors or omissions. Such occurrences are inherent in the current publication process and should diminish as the process is further refined. PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2006 BUDGET WITH OMB DIRECTOR BOLTEN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:06 p.m., in room 1100, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Bill Thomas (Chairman of the Committee) presiding. [The advisory announcing the hearing follows:] (1) |