Res. 312. the House Budget Resolution for fiscal year 2009. There are a number of reasons why the Presidents budget was considered "dead on arrival" by Members of this House. I can think of five off of the top of my head-(1) $200 billion in cut funding over 5 years from Medicare and Medicaid. (2) $570 million in cut funding from the Low Income Home Heating Assistance Program. (3) $800 million cut from the FederalAid Highways Administration. (4) $85 million from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and 5) $59 million cut from the Migration and Refugee Assistance. The icing on the cakethe President proposed freezing spending for the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Institutes of Health. If this is not a sign that this President is out of tune with the American people. then I would advise this President that he spend more time reading the mail that comes to his office and less time on his ranch in Crawford.