Similarly, a House-passed appropriations bill covering the Interior Department and related agencies (HR-4568) would limit the funds that may be spent on competitive sourcing and requires the agencies to decide whether to contract-out work solely on the basis of cost, barring the use of other considerations as allowed by the revisions to government-wide contracting-out policy made last year. The Bush administration in a policy statement said it “strongly opposes” that provision on grounds that it “unnecessarily limits the funds that may be spent on competitive sourcing studies and faces agencies to make decisions based solely on cost considerations, rather than both cost and quality.”