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Lesson Plan: Exploring Organisms General Description This activity is designed to teach the process of science and emphasize the importance of asking questions, begin teaching course content without any assumed background, and allow a discussion leader to establish rapport with his/her students. Objectives Students will • ask basic questions (how, why, what, where, when) about organisms that are related to evolutionary and ecological issues. • perceive themselves as engaged in the process of science by way of asking questions in the learning activity.

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A New Era of Responsibility
Renewing America’s Promise
O f f i c e o f M a n a g e m e n t a n d B u d g e t
www.budget.gov)
A A New Era of Responsibility
Renewing America’s Promise
O f f i c e o f M a n a g e m e n t a n d B u d g e t
www.budget.govTable of Contents
Page
President’s Message ....................................................................................................................................1
Inheriting a Legacy of Misplaced Priorities ..............................................................................................5
Jumpstarting the Economy and Investing for the Future ......................................................................17
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................43
Department of Agriculture .......................................................................................................................45
Department of Commerce .........................................................................................................................51
Department of Defense .............................................................................................................................53
National Intelligence Program .................................................................................................................57
Department of Education 59
Department of Energy ..............................................................................................................................63
Department of Health and Human Services ...........................................................................................67
Department of Homeland Security ..........................................................................................................71
Department of Housing and Urban Development ..................................................................................73
Department of the Interior .......................................................................................................................77
Department of Justice ...............................................................................................................................81
Department of Labor ................................................................................................................................83
Department of State and Other International Programs .......................................................................87
Department of Transportation .................................................................................................................91
Department of the Treasury .....................................................................................................................93
Department of Veterans Affairs ...............................................................................................................95
Corps of Engineers—Civil Works .............................................................................................................97
Environmental Protection Agency ...........................................................................................................99
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ..................................................................................103
National Science Foundation ..................................................................................................................105
Small Business Administration..............................................................................................................107
Social Security Administration 109
Corporation for National and Community Service ...............................................................................111
Summary Tables .....................................................................................................................................113GENERAL NOTES
1. All years referenced for economic data are calendar years
unless otherwise noted. All years referenced for budget
data are ﬁscal years unless otherwise noted.
2. At the time of this writing, only three of the appropriations
bills for 2009 had been enacted; therefore, references to
2009 spending in the text and tables reﬂect approximate
estimates of ﬁnal likely appropriations action that set total
discretionary funding at the level assumed to conform
to the total level for in the Concurrent
Resolution on the Budget for 2009. Adjustments are also
made to include the costs of the just-enacted American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
3. Details in the tables may not add to the totals due to
rounding.
4. Web address: http://www.budget.gov
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 2009
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ISBN: 978-0-16-082552-1PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Throughout America’s history, there have been private and public institutions from some of our
some years that appeared to roll into the next largest companies’ executive suites to the seats
without much notice or fanfare. Budgets are pro- of power in Washington, D.C. For decades, too
posed that offer some new programs or eliminate many on Wall Street threw caution to the wind,
an initiative, but by and large continuity reigns. chased proﬁts with blind optimism and little re-
gard for serious risks—and with even less regard
Then there are the years that come along for the public good. Lenders made loans without
once in a generation, when we look at where the concern for whether borrowers could repay them.
country has been and recognize that we need a Inadequately informed of the risks and over-
break from a troubled past, that the problems we whelmed by ﬁne print, many borrowers took on
face demand that we begin charting a new path. debt they could not really afford. And those in
This is one of those years. authority turned a blind eye to this risk-taking;
they forgot that markets work best when there
We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike is transparency and accountability and when the
any we have seen in our lifetimes. Our economy rules of the road are both fair and vigorously en-
is in a deep recession that threatens to be deeper forced. For years, a lack of transparency created
and longer than any since the Great Depression. a situation in which serious economic dangers
More than three and a half million jobs were lost were visible to all too few.
over the past 13 months, more jobs than at any
time since World War II. In addition, another 8.8 This irresponsibility precipitated the interlock-
million Americans who want and need full-time ing housing and ﬁnancial crises that triggered
work have had to settle for part-time jobs. Manu- this recession. But the roots of the problems we
facturing employment has hit a 60-year low. Our face run deeper. Government has failed to fully
capital markets are virtually frozen, making it confront the deep, systemic problems that year
difﬁcult for businesses to grow and for families to after year have only become a larger and larger
borrow money to afford a home, car, or college ed- drag on our economy. From the rising costs of
ucation for their kids. Many families cannot pay health care to the state of our schools, from the
their bills or their mortgage payments. Trillions need to revolutionize how we power our economy
of dollars of wealth have been wiped out, leav- to our crumbling infrastructure, policymakers in
ing many workers with little or nothing as they Washington have chosen temporary ﬁxes over
approach retirement. And millions of Americans lasting solutions.
are unsure about the future—if their job will be
there tomorrow, if their children will be able to The time has come to usher in a new era—
go to college, and if their grandchildren will be a new era of responsibility in which we act not
able to realize the full promise of America. only to save and create new jobs, but also to lay
a new foundation of growth upon which we can
This crisis is neither the result of a normal renew the promise of America.
turn of the business cycle nor an accident of his-
tory. We arrived at this point as a result of an era This Budget is a ﬁrst step in that journey. It
of profound irresponsibility that engulfed both lays out for the American people the extent of 2 A NEW ERA OF RESPONSIBILITY
the crisis we inherited, the steps we will take to To improve the quality of our health care while
jumpstart our economy to create new jobs, and lowering its cost, we will make the immediate in-
our plans to transform our economy for the 21st vestments needed to computerize all of America’s
Century to give our children and grandchildren medical records within ﬁve years while protect-
the fruits of many years of economic growth. ing the privacy of patients. This is a necessary
step to reducing waste, eliminating red tape,
It is true that we cannot depend on govern- and avoiding the need to repeat expensive medi-
ment alone to create jobs or to generate long-term cal tests. We also will fundamentally reform our
growth. Ours is a market economy, and the health