There is a line graph titled "NRC Spending Trend". The horizontal axis is a time axis covering seven fiscal years beginning at 2008-09. The vertical axis is labelled in millions of dollars from 500 to 1,000. The graph shows two curves labelled "Total Spending (Continuing Funding)", "Total Spending + Sunset Programs".

The "Total Spending + Sunset Programs" goes from $757.9 million to a maximum of $931.0 million in 2009-10. The "Total Spending + Sunset Programs" curve then decreases to $903.3 million in 2010-11 and then by another 22% in 2011-12. The "Total Spending (Continuing Funding)" curve is lower by approximately 36% in 2011-12. The "Total Spending (Continuing Funding)" then increases annually by approximately 4%.