1. CARA
Appropriations 101

2. Authorization vs. Appropriations
Everyone gets confused over the difference
between authorizations and appropriations.
Authorization bills create or continue an
agency or program.
Appropriations bills provide funds to authorized agencies or programs.

3. The Bucket Explanation
Create a Bucket (authorize) - Fill a Bucket (appropriate)
Authorizations create programs, agencies, things of varying sizes
$1 million-dollar –sized bucket
$500 million-dollar-sized bucket
But these buckets are EMPTY
Appropriations fills these buckets up – but it’s up to appropriators how much they put in

4. TREATMENT Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant
$1.86 billion
$1.86 billion (pg. 82)
$1.86 billion[i]
Substance Abuse Treatment
$116 million
$362 million (pg. 196)
HRSA: Community Health Centers, Drug Treatment
N/A
 N/A
$94 Million[ii]
Criminal Justice Activities
$78 million
$78 million (pg. 81)
$61.9 million[iii]
Community Health Centers, Opioid Abuse
$50 million[iv]
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment
$47 million
$28 million (pg. 81)
$32 million[v]
Drug Courts
$42 million
$42 million[vi]
$43 million[vii]
Medication Assisted Treatment for Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction
$25 million
$50 million
(pg. 81)
$60 million[viii]
Pregnant and Postpartum Women
$ million
(pg. 83)
$15.931[ix] million

5. TREATMENT (CTD.) Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
$13 million
$14 million[x]
$14 million[xi]
Grants to Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdoses
$12 million
(pg. 83)
$26 million[xii]
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT)
$12 million[xiii]
$14 million[xiv]
Opioid Treatment Programs/ Regulatory Activities
$8.7 million
(pg. 81)
$8.7 million[xv]
Veterans Treatment Courts
$6 million
$7 million[xvi]
$6 million[xvii]
Improving access to Medication Assisted Treatment in Primary Care Settings
$4 million
 N/A
Not specified
Drug Court Training
$2 million
National Health Service Corps
$310 million
Treatment Total
$2.552 billion

6. PREVENTION Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
Drug Free Communities Program
$95 million
$97 million
 $95 million
CDC Prescription Drug Overdose -Prevention for States Program
$70 million
 $90 million
$98 million[xviii]
Strategic Prevention Framework Rx Program
$10 million
 $10 million
$10 million[xix]
 Prevention Total
$175 million

7. RECOVERY Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
Safe and Stable Families
$405 million
$405 million (pg. 97)
$385 million[xx]
Recovery Community Services Program
$2.434 million
$2.434 million[xxi]
Recovery Total
$407 million

8. RESEARCH & POLICY Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
National Institute on Drug Abuse
$1.07 billion
 N/A
$1.103 billion[xxii]
Research on Initiation of Heroin Use
$6 million
$0 million
Funds made available under section 1105 of Public Law 109–469
$1.25 million
Research Total
$1.077 billion

9. ENFORCEMENT Program FY 16 Funding Level FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
Drug Enforcement- Administration Salaries and Expenses
$2.45 billion
$2.49 billion[xxiii]
$2.49 billion[xxiv]
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement
$512 million
$522 million[xxv]
$512 million[xxvi]
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants
$476 million
$476 million[xxvii]
$384 million[xxviii]
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)
$250 million
$255 million
National Guard Counterdrug Program
$192.9 million
$159 million
$214 million
Methamphetamine Lab Clean Up
$11 million
$11 million[xxix]
$11 million[xxx]
Anti-Meth Task Forces
$7 million
$7 million[xxxi]
Enforcement Total
$3.899 billion

10. CARA House Labor Appropriations Bill Text Program FY 16 Funding Level
FY 17 House Mark
FY 17 Senate Mark
CARA
$103 million*
*16 million
*new funding
CARA – Labor/HHS
$500 million
House Labor Appropriations Bill Text

11. LABOR APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS
HOUSE
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) Chairman
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)
Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR)
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN)
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)
Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
SENATE
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) Chairman
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

12. CARA Breakdown Section Appropriation Appropriation per Year
Total Appropriation
Section 103
$5 million for each of the fiscal years
$5,000,000
$25,000,000
Section 107
$5 million for period of
$1,000,000
Section 109
$10 million for each of the fiscal years
$10,000,000
$50,000,000
Section 110
$5 million for period of
$1,666,667
Section 201
$103 million for each of the fiscal years
$103,000,000
$515,000,000
Section 202
$12 million for each of the fiscal years
$12,000,000
$60,000,000
Section 301
$125,000,000
Section 302
$1 million for each of the fiscal years
Section 501
$16.9 million for each of the fiscal years
$16,900,000
$84,500,000
Section 601
TOTAL
$180,566,667
$899,500,000

13. Timeline FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JULY Budget released
Appropriations Letters begin circulating
All appropriations letters and requests from stakeholders submitted
APRIL
Congressional Appropriations deadlines
MAY
Committee mark-ups
JULY
Possible Floor consideration

14. Budget vs. Appropriations
Budget = framework
Appropriations = the real deal

15. Budget
The President requests annual appropriations in his budget submission in February. This is the starting point.
Congress considers that framework, and tries to pass their own budget – with overall numbers, no specifics.

16. Appropriations
The Appropriations Committee divides the total amount from the budget across 13 spending bills – one for each Appropriations Subcommittee.
Each Appropriations Subcommittee begins work on its annual spending bill for the relevant areas of government operations.
The subcommittees work off the Administration's budget request, as well as the previous year's spending bills, incorporating any new priorities Congress may have.

17. What makes the appropriations process unique?
It must happen every year to keep the government operating. If the appropriations bills aren’t law by the start of the fiscal year on October 1st, the lights go out.
Although House rules prohibit authorizing legislation in appropriations bills, Congress sometimes attaches legislative provisions as ‘riders.’
Unlike authorizing bills, which make policy, the point of appropriations is to distribute federal funds.

18. The Cardinals
The appropriations process is led by the Chairmen and Chairwomen of the 13 Appropriations Subcommittees – called Cardinals – because these are 13 of the most powerful people in Washington.
For the most part, the level of funding in each bucket is left solely to the cardinals and other committee members.

19. Homework!
Identify members and groups for Labor/HHS and CJS Members districts/states
Finalize appropriations requests
Finalize authorization priorities
Develop one pager
One pager on data
Identify programs to highlight
Outreach, invitation to events, relationship building with each office

20. Meeting with a Legislator
Know your legislator/staffer
Prepare
Have a message
Have an “ASK”
Prepare materials
Follow up

21. Before the Meeting Know the Legislator Prepare materials
Facebook them
Appeal to personal, professional, and legislative concerns
Know their district/state
Prepare materials
Concise (no more than one page)
All politics is local – make your pitch, ask and materials local
Staff are important (sometimes more important than the member)
If you are bringing people in, make sure they are prepared

22. During the Meeting
Have business cards, including business cards of anyone else you are bringing in
Be Clear
Be Concise
Have key message
Have an ASK
Give them your one pager

23. Don’t Drown Them in Paper
NOT
NOT
THIS
A Note About Being Pretty:
We have a tendency to want to share our pretty materials. The field may like slick documents and fancy materials, but the hill does not. They can’t share it with their boss, they can’t take credit for the ideas or work and it’s just clutter to them (staff on average have ten meetings per day, times that by 7 days per week, maybe 45 weeks of being in session and you basically don’t have a desk to sit at). We can share some of these items electronically, but don’t bring it unless they ask for it.

24. After the Meeting Follow up Send an email or thank you letter
Make sure you get any promised items to the staff ASAP

25. Building Relationships
The key getting things done is building relationships
Not making friends – but becoming a reliable, valued resource to staff and members
How do you do that?
Do as much of a staffer’s job as you possible can. Prep for meetings, memos, talking points, background.
If an office needs something, you do it, and you do it quickly.
Give them credit.
Make it local.

26. Do's and Don'ts DO
Be brief.
Be honest. Acknowledge opposing arguments and any political liabilities.
Leave behind a one-page fact sheet summarizing your position. Include your name, and telephone number.
DON’T
Overwhelm them with too much information or jargon.
Be afraid to say you don't know.
Bring binders, folders or stacks of paper (they will just wind up in the trash).