$8.4 million to maintain the 132-room White House. The 97-person staff includes five florists, five calligraphers and five curators.
$1.7 million for a research center in Texas to study how to make “killer bees” less aggressive.
$466 million to operate the Senate, which employs about 7,400 people; it costs $709 million to operate the House, which employs 12,500.
$2.2 billion for Head Start; it will serve 39,000 more preschoolers than it did last year.
$50 million to house people with AIDS.
