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Our cap
"
$ 105 from CBO
$ 20.8 from
our baseline
JUN
L
REACH TARGET BY 2005
(In billions of dollars)
10-Year
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total
Outlays:
Discretionary:
Department of Defense
261
251
247
245
250
259
266
272
272
272
272
2,605
Non-Defense
269
292
299
298
297
296
295
296
300
305
310
2,989
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Total discretionary.
550
542
545
543
548
555
561
568
572
577
582
5,594
Mandalory:
Health:
--
Medicare
154
172
186
199
213
227
243
260
282
304
326
2,411
Medicald
68
92
100
109
117
127
138
150
163
177
193
1,367
Other
-
-
3
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
6
40
Subtotal, health
243
264
290
312
334
358
386
415
450
466
524
3,818
72
Other
508
536
570
597
628
660
691
720
.754
791
630
6,776
Subtotal, mandatory
751
800
860
908
962
1,018
1,076
1,135
1,204
1,278
1,355
10,594
Net interest
234
255
266
272
278
281
283
283
280
277
273
2,749
Total, outlays
1,535
1,597
1,671
1,723
1,787
1,854
1,921
1,966
2,056
2,132
2,210
18,937
Receipts
1,346
1,416
1,473
1,550
1,626
1,712
1,804
1,904
2,009
2,123
2,238
17,856
Deficit
189
181
196
173
161
142
117
82
47
9
-28
1,081
3 62878:#
D
Year-by-Year Savings
(In billions of dollars)
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
201
218
209
221
229
235
240
248
255
266
Baseline deficit
-8
-13
-19
-25
-35
-45
-60
-69
-81
-95
Entitlements
-16
-23
-30
-39
-45
-55
-67
Medicare savings
T
-6
-10
-4
-4
-6
-7
-9
-11
-13
-15
-17
-19
Medicaid savings
3
4
4,
5
5
5
6
6
7
Health Coverage
-
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Welfare reform
-2
-4
-5
-6
-6
-7
-7
-8
-8
-8
-1
-2
-6
-7
-7
-7
Other
1
-2
-2
-1
-13
-11
-14
-25
-35
-46
-57
-72
-86
-101
Discretionary
--
_*
:
_*
-2
-10
-18
-27
-
-
Department of Defense
Nondefense
-12
-11
-14
-25
-35
-46
-55
-62
-67
-74
-61
-79
-97
-117
Interest
-2
-5
-12
-22
-34
-46
72
Corporate Subsidies
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-5
--5
-6
-6
-6
3
11
12
16
21
23
24
25
23
25
Revenue changes
Deficit or surplus
181
198
173
161
142
117
82
47
9
-28
2 62878:#
-- . $500 million or less
August 9, 1995
Health Division
Office of Management and Budget
Executive Office of the President
Washington, DC 20503
Please route to:
Chris Jennings
Decision needed
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Nancy-Ann Min
Per your request
Please comment
Through:
Barry Clendenin
For your information X
Mark Miller
With informational copies for:
ID Chron., HFB Chron . AM. TH
Subject:
Quotes on CBO Scoring of
Phone:
202/395-4930
Medicare Managed Care
Fax:
202/395-7840
E-mail:
[email protected]
From:
Judy Mann
Room:
#7001
Brent Gustafson BCG
Parashar Patel
As requested, we have searched for CBO quotes and comments on Medicare managed care. Our
search included a Lexis-Nexis search on the issue going back to January 1994. We also
conducred a manual search of CBO testimony and statements before various Congressional
committees during the health reform debate in 1993. Finally. we found additional quotes from
CBO officials going back to 1992. While some of these quotes are not directly relevant to CBO
scoring of Medicare managed care savings, they do provide ineite into CBO scoring of managed
care savings in general.
insight
Also included are two quotes from Representatives Armey and Kolbe regarding the political
pressures that CBO was allegedly facing last year.
Please note that this memo also includes quotes provided in earlier memos.
Rep. Richard K Armey (R-TX), National Journal, "By the Numbers." 2/12/94
Rep. Armey, described in the article as a "frequent CBO critic." was quoted as saying of CBO,
"These are generally very professional, well-trained people who would like to do their best work
and maintain their standing in the profession. But they are under enormous pressures. and at
times, they clearly have produced work product that has a partisan bias and has been used by the
majority for political purposes."
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), National Journal, "By the Numbers," 2/12/94
In the same article, Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), a member of the Budget Committee in the 103rd and
104th Congresses, was cited as having said that CBO is "a budgetary brothel little more than a
campaign research tool for the majority."
Statement of Robert D. Reischauer, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, 2/2/93
CBO has "consistently taken the position that savings could be achieved by moving people from
fee-for-service medicine into group or staff model HMOs. Thus, estimated savings would
depend on the extent that a particular proposal would shift people into these types of managed
care organizations."
"We are convinced, however, that even if a managed competition approach with all the critical
elements described above were carried out, its effects would occur over an extended period of
time. Significant savings in national health expenditures would probably not occur within the
usual five-year time horizon of CBO cost estimates."
Robert D. Reischauer, New York Times: Robert Pear, "Second Thoughts on Health Data,"
5/9/94
In defending CBO's reluctance to accept savings from "market-oriented reforms" that encourage
greater use of managed care, Reischauer said, "There is more certainty about the savings from
budget constraints, price controls and premium caps than with respect to the savings that might
result from changed market incentives."
Statement of Robert D. Reischauer, Committee on Ways and Means. 3/4/92
The proportion of Medicare beneficiaries in coordinated-care arrangements could also expand,
although if this resulted from the proposed higher payments to HMOs. the effect would probably
be to increase costs overall rather than to decrease them. In fact. there is considerable e\ idence
that HMOs currently receive more than Medicare would have spent on these enrollees in the fee-
for-service sector."
"In the past. however, expanding coordinated care has not resulted in lower health care spending
in the nation. even when particular organizations have been effective for their specific enrollees."
Quotes Included in Previous Memos
Remark by Sandy Christensen, Health Line. August 1, 1995
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Republicans are currently holding discussions to
predict the savings [from moving Medicare beneficiaries into managed care], but CBO's Sandy
Christensen said, "Our position right now is the more people enrolled in managed care, the
higher the costs will be."
Health News Daily Interview with Dr. June O'Neill. Tuesday, August 1. 1995
While some Republican lawmakers have criticized CBO for "not scoring managed care," O'Neill
countered that "the question 'what does managed care save?' depends on the context. In the
context of the current Medicare program, the research has been very slim and what is there is
somewhat controversial, I would say, of what managed care either saves or doesn't save." She
also called it "conceivable that fee-for-service with gatekeepers and preferred providers would
come out to be just as cheap" as HMOs under Medicare.
[Dr. O'Neill] noted that "there is abundant evidence not for the elderly but for the ordinary
population that HMOs are cheaper than other modes of insurance." Emphasis added.
Asked to distinguish her approach from that of her predecessor, Robert Reischauer, O'Neill
stressed the similarities: "We actually both attended the same graduate school and had the same
advisor, so we have the identical training." In addition, she noted that the office's staff remains
the same. Emphasis added.
Statement of Paul N. Van de Water, Senate Budget Committee, February 1, 1995
"Despite the cost-saving potential of managed care plans, expanding enrollment in such plans
among the Medicare population would be unlikely to reduce Medicare's costs under the current
system."
"To generate savings to Medicare from expanded enrollment in HMOs, changes in Medicare's
enrollment conditions and payment system for HMOs would have to be made. Medicare's
enrollment requirements would be relatively easy to redesign, but appropriate changes in the
payment system would be more difficult to specify."
"[D]efining a set of additional factors [to reflect HMOs' true cost of serving Medicare
beneficiaries] that would improve the accuracy of the payment rate without generating
undesirable incentives for HMOs has proved to be a difficult task."
August 9, 1995
Health Division
Office of Management and Budget
Executive Office of the President
Washi igton, DC 20503
Please route to:
Chris Jennings
Nancy-Ann Min
Decision needed
Through:
Barry Clendenin
Please sign
Per your request
Mark Miller
Please comment
For your information
X
With informational copies for:
Subject:
Addendum to Memo on CBO Quotes on
HD Chron, HFB Chron
Medicare Managed Care
From:
Judy Mann Blb (si
Phone:
202/395-4930
Brent Gustafson BlG
Fax:
202/395-3910
Parashar Patel
P.O.P.
Email:
Room:
7002
The following are additional comments attributed to CBO regarding Medicare managed care
which are an addendum to previous memos.
June O'Neill, Senate Budget Committee, 5/4/95, and Senate Finance Committee, 5/11/95
"Despite apparent evidence that the overall resource cost of services used by Medicare
beneficiaries falls when they move from the fee-for-service sector to an effective HMO, higher
HMO enrollment may have the perverse effect of increasing Medicare's costs-not lowering them-
-under Medicare's current payment system."
"That link to fee-for-service costs means that Medicare pays a fixed capitation amount for each
Medicare beneficiary enrolled in an HMO, regardless of the actual resource cost of the services
provided. Second, Medicare's capitation rates do not fully adjust for the generally healthier group
of people who are likely to choose the HMO option compared with those who remain in fee-for-
service, nor do they account for the greater efficiency of managed care."
"Medicare's HMO enrollment could generate savings. however, if the method of setting
capitation rates was changed. But significant savings would not be generated unless the
payment link between fee-for-service and managed care was broken."
Previous Republican Statements on Cutting Medicare
"The reimbursement levels of Medicare have reached potentially disastrous
levels
"
From the "Minority Views" included with the Ways and Means Committee
Report on the Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) signed by every Republican
Member of the Committee, July 14, 1994:
"For more than a decade Congress has cut back on payments to doctors and
hospitals until they no longer cover the cost of care for Medicare patients --
and the additional massive cuts in reimbursement to providers proposed in
this bill [H.R. 3600] will reduce the quality of care for the nation's elderly.
There will be no place else to shift."
From the "Minority Views" included with the Ways and Means Committee
Report on the Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) signed by every Republican
Member of the Committee, July 14, 1994:
"Medicare Part A, I hope, will not be on the table [to fund tax cuts] because I
would like to see that reserved for when we reform the health care later on
next year."
Congressman Bill Archer, December 18, 1994, on "Meet the Press"
"We have here in this bill the seeds of the destruction of Medicare let's not
destroy a health care program in this country that we know works and that
our seniors are depending on."
- Congressman Clay Shaw, June 25, 1994, speaking against proposed Medicare
expenditure reductions during Ways and Means Committee consideration of
H.R. 3600
"Make no mistake about it for the elderly in this country, [these cuts are]
going to devastate their program under Medicare."
- Congressman Bill Archer, June 25, 1994, speaking against proposed Medicare
expenditure reductions during Ways and Means Committee consideration of
H.R. 3600
"The Medicare cuts proposed by the President would devastate the Medicare
program The committee must not approve these destructive Medicare cuts.
- Congressman Clay Shaw, May 18, 1994, press release referring to the health
care reform proposal (H.R. 3600) presented by President Clinton.
"I just don't believe that quality of care and availability of care can survice
these additional cuts. And that is the price that is going to have to be paid to
pay for these cuts."
- Congressman Bill Archer, June 25, 1994, speaking against proposed Medicare
expenditure reductions during Ways and Means Committee consideration of
H.R. 3600
"I would love to believe that we could achieve the level of cuts you have in
this bill But history tells us that this isn't possible. And I think we are just
playing games here, we are just making the numbers match. That's all
Democrats have done in your bill to make it revenue neutral. You have just
estimated the number needed from Medicare to make the numbers match,
and I think the public understands that."
- Congressman Jim McCrery, June 25, 1994, speaking against proposed Medicare
expenditure reductions during Ways and Means Committee consideration of
H.R. 3600
"The Republicans are attempting to secure the program which would be
almost absolutely destroyed and trashed if the cuts that have been brought
into the bill are established."
- Congressman Clay Shaw, June 25, 1994, speaking against proposed Medicare
expenditure reductions during the Ways and Means Committee consideration of
H.R. 3600
"Mr. Chairman, I recognize and agree with your call for bipartisan support on
this issue, but there are some proposals that many of us in good conscience will
never support because we know that they are bad for the American people."
- Congressman Clay Shaw, May 18, 1994, press release referring to the health
care reform proposal (H.R. 3600) presented by President Clinton.
"I think those of us on this committee especially well remember the lessons
of Medicare catastrophic coverage legislation, and recognize that making
changes without broad public support is a potential disaster."
- Congressman Clay Shaw, May 18, 1994, press release referring to the health
care reform proposal (H.R. 3600) presented by President Clinton.
NOTE: The 1994 Ways and Means Committee health reform bill would have
achieved S168 billion in Medicare savings over seven years. all of
which would have been re-directed to expand health care coverage, as
compared to 1995 Republican proposals to reduce Medicare spending
by nearly $300 billion over seven years.
"Forget the budget pressure, let's find out what number saves Medicare.
We'll plug that into the budget. We're not going to find out what number the
budget needs and try to reshape Medicare to that effect."
- Speaker Newt Gingrich, May 7, 1995, on "Meet the Press"
-- PREPARED BY THE DEMOCRATIC STAFF OF THE
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, MAY 8, 1995
Congressman Pete Stark's
MEDICARE MONITOR
Voll Issue 10
May 12, 1995
Is ARMEY ACCUSING
FELLOW REPUBLICANS OF LYING?
Dear Colleague:
"In a blistering attack delivered to an American Enterprise Institute forum on
the politics of Medicare," the National Journal reported this week, "[Majority
Leader Dick] Armey insisted 'anyone claiming we are cutting Medicare is
simply lying,' since the program will continue to grow, only at a slower rate."
Is Mr. Armey saying that Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee
lied last year during consideration of health care reform? It seems a
reasonable conclusion to reach.
After all Republicans in 1994 called a proposed $168 billion reduction in
Medicare spending a "cut." Why less than R year later A $283 billion "cut" in
Medicare should not be considered one would be a mystery,
[See the reverse side for Republicans' 1994 portrayal of
reductions in Medicare expenditures.]
Remember, the level of cuts (or reductions in growth or whatever one
prefers to call it) proposed last year is one half the level passed by Budget
Committee Republicans this year
You decide what's 8 cut.
If federal policy is changed so that services now fully covered by Medicare are
only partially covered, and charges currently paid by Medicare are pushed on
to beneficiaries, wouldn't you call this a cut? (See page 10 of the "House
Republican Budget Committee Recommendations" for three such examples.)
And if the funds not spent on Medicare beneficiaries create room in the
budget to cut taxes for wealthy Americans, isn't it accurate to describe the
Medicare cuts as financing tax cuts for well-to-do Americans?
I've never had difficulty accepting that reductions in projected expenditures
drastic
nature
of
the
Every Republican on the Ways and Means Committee last year,
eleven of which are on the panel this year as well, were signatories to
the following statement --
" the additional massive curs in reimbursement to
providers proposed in this bill will reduce the quality of care for
the nation's elderly."
The current Ways and Means Chairman made the following charge
last year --
"I just don't believe that quality of care and availability of care
can survive these additional CUTS. And that is the price that is
going to have to be paid to pay for these CUTS."
Current Subcommittee Chairman Clay made the following
indictment -
"The Medicare CUTS proposed by the President would
devastate the Medicare program. The committee must not
approve these destructive Medicare CUTS."
A Republican Member of the Health Subcommittee this year and last
year commented --
"I would love to believe that we could achieve the level of
CUTS you have in this bill But history tells us that isn't
possible."
NOTE: The 1994 Ways and Means Committee health reform bill would have
achieved $168 billion in Medicare savings over seven years, all of
which would have been re-directed to expand health care coverage, as
compared to 1995 Republican proposals to reduce Medicare spending
by $283 billion over seven years, none of which would be reinvested
to cover uninsured Americans.
Pea Sincerely, Starks
Pete Stark
Member of Congress
239 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 202-225-5065
6
August 9, 1995
BUDGET RECONCILIATION STATUS REPORT
NOTE: This report will soon be replaced by a separate daily report
tracking Reconciliation action.
[Changes from previous day indicated by asterisk (*).]
House: (Sept. 22 reporting deadline); Note--the
Reconciliation instructions for House committees set a total
direct spending cap for each committee's programs for FY96,
FY96-2000, and FY 96-2002. Each committee must produce
spending cuts which meet the instructions for each of the
three budget periods. However, for brevity, the following
summaries reflect only the 7-year totals.
Agriculture -- Instructions require savings of $43.760 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as
follows -- $30.374 billion from food stamps and $13.386 billion from price
support programs. Full committee mark-up scheduled for September 13, 14,
and 15. Chairman Roberts likely to include his Freedom to Farm Act
(introduced 8/3) in the committee's Reconciliation package.
Banking -- Instructions require savings of $2.391 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as
follows -- $2.181 billion from reform of flood insurance premiums and $210
million from FHA multifamily property disposition. Chairman Leach has
indicated he may try to attach his bank overhaul bill (HR 1858).
Commerce -- Instructions require savings of $469.490 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as
follows -- $182 billion from Medicaid; $270 from Medicare (shared with
Ways & Means); $14 b from FCC spectrum auction; $483 million from FCC user
fees; $1.308 b from extending NRC user fees; $702 million from FDA user
fees; $1.659 b from selling US Enrichment Corp; $1.046 from selling the
Naval Petroleum Reserve (shared with Nat'l Sec Comm); and $737 million
from Energy asset sales.
Econ & Educational Opp--Instructions require savings of $21.976 billion in
direct spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be
achieved as follows -- $10.077 billion from student loans; and $11.899
billion from reform of child nutrition programs.
Govt Reform--Instructions require savings of $10.624 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as
follows -- $1.155 b from High-5; $4.9 b from fixed dollar FEHB
contributions from retirees; $2.662 b from increased agency pension
contributions; $780 m from charging federal employees for parking; and
$1.127 billion from increasing employee pension contributions.
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Internat'l Rel--Instructions require savings of $48 million in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as
follows -- $26 million from direct spending savings in foreign service
retirement; and $22 million from employee contributions (?) to foreign
service retirement.
Judiciary--Instructions require savings of $476 million in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from patent
and trademark offices fees.
Nat'l Sec--Approved Reconciliation package Aug. 1, producing a net
spending increase of $2.2 billion over 7 years (achieving its Recon.
instructions). The package, approved 31-21, includes: (1) sale of 6 naval
petroleum reserves (which produces a $1.6 billion in savings in FY96 from
the sale, but results in lost receipts each year thereafter) for a net
loss of $1 billion (shared w/ Commerce Comm) ; (2) a requirement to
calculate military retirement pay on a "high-12-month" basis, which saves
$649 million over 7 years; and (3) a shift in military COLA dates to April
from October which is a $1.8 billion coster.
Resources--Instructions require savings of $2.3 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as follows
-- $1.3 billion from leasing portions of ANWR for oil/gas exploration;
$225 m from park entrance and concession fees; $50 m from privatizing
helium reserves; $737 m from energy asset sales; and new spending of $42
million for territorial assistance.
Transportation- Instructions require savings of $715 million in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved
from the following fees -- $357 m (rail safety); $196 m (vessel tonnage)
$84 m (FEMA radiation); $78 m (corp of engineer permit fees.
Veterans--Instructions require savings of $6.392 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved
from the following -- $2.602 b from extending current law provisions;
$2.283 from veterans comp; $1.067 from prescription drug copayments; and
$440 million from half COLA for GI bill.
Ways & Means--No mark-ups held yet. The schedule for September is still
not definitive, contrary to press reports. The Reconciliation trade
provisions may be marked up early in the month. Mark-up of human resources
provisions and Medicare provisions around mid-month.
Instructions require savings of $341.564 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved as follows -
- $270 b from Medicare (shared with Commerce Comm) $58 b from welfare
reform; $6.6 billion from AFDC JOBs; $3 billion from foster care; $525
million from drug treatment; $1.9 billion from TAA; $1.6 billion from
requiring a state match for Title XX social services block grants; $657
million from unemployment insurance; and $88 million from veterans medical
care.
Committee is also instructed to make changes in tax laws which
reflect tax cuts of no more than $46 b in FY 2000 and $245 b in 2002 (the
FY 2000 reference was a mistake in the resolution; should have been $50 b
in 2002.) Committee is unlikely to open up the House-passed tax bill
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(which cost $354 billion). Rules committee may incorporate it, with some
provisions to shave it down, in the Reconciliation Bill.
Committee is also instructed to report provisions to increase the
debt ceiling to $5.5 trillion.
Senate: (Sept. 22 reporting deadline for spending cuts, but 5 days
following CBO certification for tax cuts). Note--the Reconciliation
instructions for Senate committees require specified cuts for each of
three budget periods: FY96, FY96-2000, and FY 96-2002. However, for
brevity, the following summaries reflect only the 7-year totals.
Agriculture- is likely to meet late in September; the Rep./Dem.
split is 10-8, SO Lugar cannot afford to lose any Republican votes;
minority believes Lugar will have a tough time getting all the Repubs to
agree on a package; if Lugar fails, Dole and Domenici would have to
attempt to put together 51 Republican votes to add an Ag. title on the
Floor. Dem. contacts: Pat Westhoff, 224-8240; Jim Cubie, 224-6901.
Instructions require savings of $48.402 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from the
following -- $35 b from welfare reform (food stamps) and $13 b from
agriculture commodity programs.
Armed Services--Mark-up not expected until later in the month, just prior
to the reporting deadline. Instructions require savings of $2.199 billion
in direct spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be
achieved from the following -- $1.55 b from sale of the Naval Petroleum
Reserve; and $649 million from military retirement reform (high-12
months). There is some concern on the comm. about NPR being a "give-away"
and the staff will present the committee with other savings options
besides high-1. Min. contact: Mike McCord - 224-9353.
ing--Instructions require savings of $2.391 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from the
following--$2.1 b from flood insurance premiums and $210 million from
FHA multifamily property disposition.
In addition, Chairman D'Amato has signaled the possibility of
including legislation to recapitalize the Savings Association Insurance
Fund (SAIF) in reconciliation. OMB has estimated an outlay savings of $5
billion in 1996, $4.3 billion for 1996-2000, and $3.5 billion for
1996-2002 for the SAIF proposal (assuming that no RTC money is used and
that excess reserves are not rebated when BIF and SAIF merge). CBO's
estimate of the savings is lower, due to differences in technical
assumptions. CBO is currently estimating a savings of $5 billion in the
first year, $2.6 billion in the first five years, and $1.3 billion over
the first seven years.
Commerce Instructions require savings of $15.036 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved
from the following--$14 b from FCC spectrum auction; $357 m from extending
rail safety fees; $196 million from extending vessel tonnage fees; and 483
million from FCC fees.
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Energy--Instructions require savings of $4.001 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from the
following--$ billion from leasing portions of ANWR for oil/gas
exploration; $1.659 b from selling US Enrichment Corp; $60 m from
reforming concession fees; $50 m from privatizing helium reserves;
$195 m from national park service fees; and $737 m from energy asset
sales.
Environment & PW--Mark-up delayed until after recess. Instructions require
savings of $2.250 billion in direct spending over 7 years. Budget
committee assumed this would be achieved from the following b from
extending NRC fees; $780 m by charging Fed. employees for parking; $78 m
from Corps of Engineers permit fees; and $84 m from extending FEMA
radiological fee. Contact: Tom Sliter
Finance--Finance has the heaviest load in the Congress, with all of
Medicare, Medicaid, most of welfare, and all the tax cuts to report.
Instructions require savings of $530 billion in direct spending over
7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from the
following- $270 b from Medicare; $181 b from Medicaid; $65 b from welfare
reform; $6.6 b from AFDC JOBs; $3 b from foster care and adoption
assistance; $1.6 b from social services block grants; $1.3 b from TAA cash
benefits; $655 m from TAA NAFTA & training; and $657 m from unemployment
insurance.
If CBO certifies that budgetary balance has been achieved in 2002,
then Finance Committee is to report tax cuts of up to $245 billion over 7
years.
Finance is also to report an increase in the debt ceiling to $5.5
trillion.
With an 11-9 split, the Republicans need every vote to report out a
Reconciliation package; however, the Republicans may have trouble holding
Chafee's vote.
Govt Affairs--Mark-up the week of Sept. 11. Instructions require savings
of $9.844 billion in direct spending over 7 years. Budget committee
assumed this would be achieved from the following--$4.9 b from fixed
dollar FEHB contributions from retirees; $2.663 b from increased agency
pension contributions; $1.145 b from civilian retirement reform; $1.127 b
from increased employee contributions; and $9 m from congressional
retirement reform.
Judiciary--Instructions require savings of $476 million in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from patent
and trademark offices fees.
Labor--Instructions require savings of $10.779 billion in direct spending
over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved from--
$10.077 b from student loans and $702 million from FDA user fees.
Veterans--Instructions require savings of $6.392 billion in direct
spending over 7 years. Budget committee assumed this would be achieved
from the following -- $2.601 b from extending current law provisions;
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$2.284 from veterans comp; $1.067 from prescription drug copayments; and
$440 million from half COLA for GI bill.
HIGHLIGHTS OF ACTION ON APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
Week of July 31st
Status as of 5:30 p.m., August 4th
Defense/National Security
o
The House began consideration of the bill on July 31st but did not complete action. Senate Floor debate
is expected the week of August 7th.
Both the House and Senate versions of the bill provide funding in excess of the request -- $7.8 billion and
$6.5 billion, respectively.
The House Committee bill includes $0.5 billion in unrequested funding for production of the B-2 bomber.
The Senate Committee bill does not include funds for B-2 bomber production.
o
The Technology Reinvestment Project is not funded in the House version of the bill. The Senate version
of the bill provides $238 million for the program, $262 million below the request but $30 million over FY
1995.
The House Committee bill would almost cut in half funding for the Nunn-Lugar program. The Senate
Committee bill would fund the program at $325 million, $46 million below the request but $125 million
above the level in the House bill.
o
The House Committee bill includes language that would restrict the President's ability to conduct and
finance contingency operations. (The objectionable language in the Subcommittee bill that would have
permitted ballistic missile testing without regard to the ABM Treaty was deleted in House Committee
action.) The Senate Committee bill does not include restrictive language relating to contingency
operations in Bosnia.
o
The House Committee bill does not provide any of the requested funds ($1.5 billion) for the third Seawolf
attack submarine, although $1.0 billion is provided for development and construction of a future attack
submarine. The Senate Committee bill provides incremental funding of $0.7 billion for the Seawolf
submarine.
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The Senate version of the bill provides $300 million for "defense-related" activities of the Coast Guard.
The House version of the bill provides $44 million for "national security" activities of the Coast Guard.
Neither version of the bill provides funds for contributions for international peacekeeping.
Both the House and Senate versions of the bill assume a 2.4 percent pay raise for military personnel.
Energy/Water Development
The Senate passed the bill on August 1st by a voice vote.
A Dirgan amendment was adopted (83 to 14) that expressed the sense of the Senate that the Speaker of
the House should move to appoint conferees on the line-item veto legislation immediately.
A Bumpers amendment was adopted (62 to 38) that deleted funds in the Senate bill for the study of the
Gas-Turbine Modular Helium Reactor. The House version of the bill includes no FY 1996 funding for the
reactor.
A Johnston (for Lautenberg/Bradley) amendment that allows the Department to allocate up to $56 million
for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor was adopted. (This amendment did not, however, increase the total
appropriation for the fusion program above the $225 million level in the bill.)
A Grams amendment was tabled that would have reduced Appalachian Regional Commission funding by
$40 million, or to the same level as in the House-passed bill.
Both the Senate- and House-passed versions of the bill would reject the reinvention of the Corps of
Engineers' mission. Both versions would prohibit the Corps from closing or changing the function of
district offices.
Funding in the Senate-passed bill for environmental cleanup programs is $0.7 billion over the level in the
House-passed bill and almost equal to the request.
The Senate bill provides $5 million for treatment of North Korean spent fuel. The House-passed bill does
not provide any funding for this key nonproliferation objective.
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The Senate bill includes $15 million that is not in the House bill for two key measures that would avoid
biological jeopardy to the Columbia/Snake River threatened and endangered salmon runs.
Interior
The Senate Floor SAP (8/4) contains a Secretary of the Interior/OMB Director VETO threat.
The Senate is expected to consider the bill on Friday, August 4th or Saturday, August 5th.
The Senate Committee bill provides $146 million for the National Biological Service, $27 million below the
request but $33 million above the level in the House-passed bill.
The House-passed version of the bill would extend the current moratorium on patenting mining claims on
Federal lands. The Senate Committee version of the bill does not include an extension of the moratorium.
Both versions of the bill would continue the existing moratoria on oil and gas leasing and drilling off most
of the Outer Continental Shelf.
The Senate version of the bill includes a provision that would prohibit updating the Forest Management
Plan for the Tongass National Forest and instead, would require the use of an outdated 1991 plan.
The Senate Committee bill would fund Native American programs within the Department of the Interior at
a level that is 23 percent below the request. The House-passed bill would fund these programs at a level
that is 12 percent below the request. The Senate version of the bill would transfer responsibility for all
Indian trust programs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Office of the Secretary.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is funded at $99 million in both the House and Senate
versions of the bill. This level is $73 million below the request and 40 percent below FY 1995.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is funded at $114 million in the Senate Committee bill, $68
million below the request but $15 million over the level in the House-passed bill.
O
The Senate version of the bill does not contain the provision in the House version of the bill that would
restrict the Department of Energy from issuing appliance efficiency regulations.
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Both versions of the bill would prohibit the use of funds provided in the Act for AmeriCorps national service
projects.
Labor/HHS/Education
The House Floor SAP (8/2) stated that the President would VETO the bill if it were presented to him in its
current form.
The House passed the bill during the legislative session of August 3rd by a vote of 219 to 208.
A Greenwood amendment was adopted (224 to 204) that restored $193 million to the Title X family
planning program. The Committee bill would have terminated this program.
A Kolbe amendment that would have deleted the Istook language that would allow States the option to
restrict Medicaid funds for abortions in the case of rape or incest was defeated (206 to 215)
The bill would deny funds in the Act to any State or any program if such program or State has conformed
with the new rules of the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The
ACGME recently revised its rules to require ob-gyn training programs to provide training -- or refer
students for training -- in abortion procedures. A Ganske/Johnson amendment that would have deleted
this provision was defeated (189 to 235).
A Skaggs amendment was defeated (187 to 232) that would have deleted the language in the bill that
would prohibit Federal Government grantees from using any funds in the Act for political advocacy.
A Hoekstra amendment that would have eliminated the FY 1998 advance appropriation of $240 million for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was defeated (136 to 286).
Funding provided for the President's investment programs is significantly below the request and in many
cases below the FY 1995 levels. Several investment programs would be terminated.
The House-passed bill would prohibit Federal funds from being used for embryo research outside the
womb.
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0
The Department of Education would be prohibited from implementing Title IX (discrimination on the basis
of sex in intercollegiate sports) unless the Department revises its criteria for measuring compliance.
The House-passed bill would terminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. A Blute
amendment that would have provided $1.2 billion for the program, to be offset by a two percent across-
the-board reduction in discretionary programs, was defeated (53 to 367).
A Lazio amendment was adopted by voice vote that increased the funding in the bill for the domestic
volunteer component of the National Service initiative by $13.8 million. Funding for National Service in the
House-passed bill is $0.2 billion, 30 percent below the request and 15 percent below FY 1995.
Head Start is funded at $3.4 billion, $0.5 below the request and $0.1 billion below FY 1995.
Funding provided for NIH is $0.2 billion over the request and $0.6 billion, or five percent, over FY 1995.
The bill provides $0.6 billion for Ryan White Act programs, $0.1 billion below the request but a slight
increase above FY 1995.
The Goals 2000 investment program would be terminated.
The School-to-Work initiatives in the Department of Education and Labor are funded at a total of $0.2
billion, $0.2 billion below the request and $0.1 billion below FY 1995.
The bill contains numerous legislative limitations, including: (1) a provision that would prohibit the
implementation of the President's Executive Order on striker replacement; (2) a provision that would
prohibit funds in the bill from being used to support the Office of the Surgeon General; and (3) provisions
that would restrict OSHA and NLRB activities. An Obey amendment that would have deleted 17 separate
legislative riders in the bill was defeated by a vote of 270 to 155.
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Transportation
The Senate Committee reported the bill on August 4th, following Subcommittee mark-up on August 2nd.
The Senate version of the bill contains language that would create State Infrastructure Banks, a part of the
Administration's proposed Unified Infrastructure Investment Program.
Language is included in the Senate bill that would allow States to voluntarily "trade in" previously
authorized but unused FHWA contract authority for new contract authority. (This is a partial fix to the
ISTEA section 1003 problem.)
The language in the Senate Subcommittee bill that would have allowed the FAA to raise passenger facility
charges to offset reductions in airport improvement grants was deleted during Committee action. The
issue will be dealt with by the appropriate authorization committees.
Both the Senate Committee and House-passed versions of the bill fund transit operating subsidies at $400
million, $100 million below the request and $310 million below FY 1995.
The Senate version of the bill provides $39 million to complete ongoing appropriated highway
demonstration projects. The House-passed bill does not include funding for new highway demonstration
projects. Neither version of the bill would limit authorized/ISTEA demonstration projects, as requested by
the Administration.
Both versions of the bill fund Amtrak, including the Northeast Corridor Improvement Program, at a level
that is more than $250 million below the request. In the Senate bill, the Pennsylvania Station
redevelopment project is funded at $25 million, 50 percent below the request. The House-passed bill
includes no funds for the project.
The Senate Committee bill assumes that $300 million will be provided to the Coast Guard in the
Defense/National Security appropriations bill.
The Senate bill does not include the provision in the House bill that would prohibit any funds from being
used for CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) rule-making.
Neither version of the bill provides any funding for the purchase of a DOT headquarters building.
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Treasury/Postal Service
The Senate Floor SAP (8/4) contains a Presidential VETO threat over the elimination of ONDCP. In
addition, the Secretary of Treasury has indicated that he would recommend that the President VETO the
bill.
0
The Senate is expected to consider the bill on Friday, August 4th or Saturday, August 5th.
0
The Senate Committee bill does not contain the provision in the House-passed bill that would prohibit
health plans that participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program from providing coverage
for abortions except when the life of the mother is in danger.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) would be terminated in the Senate Committee bill.
Several of its programs, including the Counter-Drug Technology Center and the High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas program, would be funded at or near the requested levels under the control of the
Treasury Under Secretary for Enforcement.
In the Senate bill, both the Council of Economic Advisers and the Information Security Oversight Office
are funded at the requested levels of $3.4 million and $1.5 million, respectively. The House-passed bill
would terminate these entities.
0
Both the Senate Committee and the House-passed versions of the bill would terminate the Advisory
Council on Intergovernmental Relations and the Administrative Conference of the United States.
0
EXOP entities are funded at the following levels in the Senate bill: (1) the White House Office -- $38.1
million, $2.1 below the request and $1.3 million below the House level; (2) the Office of Administration --
$25.6 million, $0.5 million below the request and $0.2 below the House level; (3) NSC -- $6.6 million, the
requested level and $0.2 million above the House; (4) Executive Residence -- $7.8 million, the requested
level and $0.3 million above the House; and (5) OMB -- $55.9 million, $0.4 million below the request but
$0.5 million above the House. The language in the House-passed bill that would divide the OMB budget
into nine separate appropriations is not included in the Senate Committee bill.
0
The funding level for the tax systems modernization project is $255 million below the request of $933
million in the Senate Committee bill and $211 million below the request in the House-passed bill.
10
The Senate Committee bill does not contain the objectionable language in the House-passed bill that
would prohibit the use of FY 1996 salaries and expenses funds for making additional loans to Mexico from
the Exchange Stabilization Fund.
The Senate version of the bill includes the FTS 2000 mandatory use language, which has been in the Act
for several years. The House version of the bill does not contain this language.
VA/HUD/Independent Agencies
The House Floor SAP (7/26) stated that the President would VETO the bill if it were presented to him in
its current form.
The House passed the bill on July 31st by a vote of 228 to 193.
On July 31st, the House reconsidered the Stokes/Boehlert amendment (originally adopted on July 28th by
vote of 212 to 206) that would delete 16 separate legislative riders in the bill that would prevent EPA from
conducting certain enforcement and regulation activities. The amendment was defeated in the second
vote (210 to 210).
A Dingell amendment that would have restored $440 million to the Superfund, offset with reductions to
FEMA, was defeated (155 to 261).
An Ensign amendment was defeated (121 to 296) that would have increased funding for VA Medical Care
to the requested level and decreased funding for NSF and NASA.
Funding for the President's investment proposals is virtually eliminated in the House-passed bill. In
particular, the National Service and Community Development Financial Institutions programs would be
terminated.
EPA is funded at $4.9 billion in the House-passed bill, $2.5 billion below the request and $1.1 billion, or 18
percent, below FY 1995. The bill reduces EPA's operating programs (research, regulatory development,
enforcement, and State grants) by 24 percent and reduces EPA's enforcement activities by nearly 50
percent.
11
The House-passed bill provides no funds for Drinking Water State Revolving Funds in FY 1996 and would
eliminate all previous funding. This is contrary to the agreement reflected in P.L. 104-19.
The House bill does not include any funding for HUD's new "performance funds" accounts that are crucial
to the Administration's reinvention proposal.
The bill would eliminate HUD's operating subsidies program and replace it with 76,294 Section 8 vouchers.
No funds are included for special purpose grants.
Homeless assistance programs in HUD are funded at a level that is $0.4 billion below FY 1995.
Space Station Alpha is funded at the requested level; however, $0.4 billion of the funds provided would
not be available until August 1, 1996. During Floor debate, several amendments that would have
eliminated funding for the Space Station were defeated. The Mission to Planet Earth (Earth Observing
System) initiative is funded $0.3 billion below the requested level of $1.3 billion.
VA Medical Care is funded at $16.7 billion in the House-passed bill, $0.2 billion below the request but $0.5
billion above FY 1995. Language is included that would direct the use of $0.2 billion in mandatory
program savings from veterans' benefits to fund increases in discretionary programs.
The Council on Environmental Quality would be terminated. This would hamper the President's ability to
coordinate environmental policy throughout the Executive Branch.
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OBJECTIONABLE LEGISLATIVE RIDERS IN APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
Week of July 31st
Agriculture/Rural Development (House Floor)
The food stamp standard deduction would be frozen at the FY 1995 level.
The accelerated privatization of the Rural Telephone Bank proposed in the budget would not be permitted.
Section 722 would prohibit increases in FTEs for the Food and Drug Administration.
Section 721 would prohibit the use of funds for programs, projects, or activities that are not in compliance
with Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights, or unfunded
mandates.
Commerce/Justice/State (House Floor)
The Legal Services Corporation would be prohibited from representing illegal aliens and from handling
eviction litigation for suspected drug dealers or those formally charged with a drug offense.
Section 609 would limit the use of funds for diplomatic facilities in Vietnam.
The House bill would prohibit all funds from being used for new Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
awards.
Defense (House Committee/Senate Committee)
Section 8102 of the House Committee bill would require congressional consultation before funds can be
used for international peacekeeping or peace-enforcing operations, any deployment of U.S. ground forces
to Yugoslavia, or humanitarian assistance operations costing $50 million or more. Emergency
supplemental appropriations are to be requested within 90 days of deployment.
Section 8103 of the House Committee bill would require congressional notification 15 days in advance of
the transfer of defense articles or services (except intelligence) to any other nation or international
organization.
Section 8104 of the House Committee bill would require congressional authorization before the President
could deploy U.S. troops to implement a negotiated peace settlement in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Section 8074 of the Senate Committee bill would require approval of the Comptroller General, an agent of
the Legislative Branch, before any reorganization of ROTC could be implemented. Provision raises
constitutional separation of powers concerns
Section 8083 of the Senate Committee bill would require the Department of Defense to pay invoices in 24
days when all other Government agencies are required to pay invoices in 30 days under the Prompt
Payment Act. This provision would increase Defense outlays by $750 million in FY 1996.
Energy/Water Development (House Floor/Senate Floor)
The Army Corps of Engineers in both House and Senate versions of the bill would be prohibited from
closing or changing the function of district offices.
Section 504 of the House-passed bill would prohibit the use of funds for programs, projects, or activities
that are not in compliance with Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property
rights, or unfunded mandates. The Senate Committee bill does not contain this provision.
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Foreign Operations (House Floor)
0
The bill contains a provision that would prohibit U.S. funding for any private, non-government, or
multilateral organization that directly or indirectly performs abortions -- or promotes changes in abortion
laws -- in any foreign country except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is in danger.
Language is included in the bill that would bar aid to the government of Haiti after March 1, 1996, if the
President determines that the government held power through means other than democratic elections.
o
The bill includes language that would limit the amount that the U.S. can contribute to the Korean
Peninsula Energy Development Organization to $13 million ($3 million for administration and $10 million
for fuel purchases) vs. the request of $22 million.
Interior (House Floor/Senate Committee)
o
The Senate Committee bill would lift the moratorium on patenting mining claims on Federal lands, which
continues a ban against low-priced Government sales of mining claims. The House-passed bill continues
the moratorium. The Administration has argued to retain the moratorium.
0
The Senate Committee bill would require the use of an outdated 1991 forest plan for management of the
Tongass National Forest. This would prohibit use of updated scientific information and recent public input
regarding multiple use management of the Forest.
0
The House bill would limit the use of volunteers by the National Biological Service if it is determined that
the volunteers are not properly trained and supervised.
0
The House-passed bill would prohibit the Department of Energy from planning, proposing, or issuing new
or amended energy efficiency standards through its Codes and Standards Program. The Senate bill does
not contain this restriction although it would still prohibit the Department from issuing standards for high-
efficiency ballasts for florescent lights.
15
Both the House-passed and Senate Committee versions of the bill would prohibit the use of funds
appropriated under the Act for AmeriCorps national service projects.
The Senate Committee bill would prevent any reorganization or "reinvention" of the Forest Service unless
approved in advance by four House and Senate committees.
Section 317 would prohibit the use of funds for programs, projects, or activities that are not in compliance
with Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights, or unfunded
mandates.
Labor/HHS/Education (House Floor)
The bill would prohibit implementation of the President's Executive Order on striker replacement.
The bill would prohibit funds from being spent on the position of Surgeon General.
The bill would prohibit the use of funds in the Act by any recipient of grants (including private
organizations) for political advocacy. The provision would also bars grants to organizations that have
expended a significant amount of their own funds (from any source) for political advocacy in the past five
years. All grantees would be subject to a GAO audit to confirm compliance and must file annual reports
on political advocacy
The Education Department would be prohibited from implementing Title IX (discrimination on the basis of
sex in intercollegiate sports) unless the Department revises its criteria for measuring compliance
States would be allowed the option to deny abortion funding for poor women who are victims of rape or
incest.
0
Funds in the Act would be denied to any State or program if such a program or State has conformed with
the new rules of the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The ACGME
recently revised its rules to require ob-gyn training programs to provide or refer students for training in
abortion procedures.
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Federal funds would be prohibited from being used for embryo research outside the womb.
The bill would restrict the National Labor Relations Board's ability to issue 10(j) injunctive relief.
The bill would prohibit OSHA from developing, promulgating or issuing any standards or guidelines
regarding ergonomic protection or recordkeeping.
The bill would prohibit the Department of Labor from enforcing a Hazardous Occupation order with respect
to incidental and occasional driving by minors under age 18, unless the Secretary finds that motor vehicle
operations is the primary duty of the minor's employment.
Legislative (Conference)
This conference bill would transfer certain GAO review functions to OMB.
Military Construction (House Floor/Senate Floor)
Both the House- and Senate-passed versions of the bill contain limitations on the amount of base closure
funds that can be used for environmental restoration.
Transportation (House Floor/Senate Committee)
The Senate bill does not include the language in the House bill that would set standards governing the
arbitration of labor disputes involving the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
The House bill contains a provision that would prohibit any funds from being used for CAFE rule-making.
The Senate bill does not contain this provision.
Both versions of the bill contain a provision that would discontinue Worker's Compensation benefits to all
Department of Transportation employees (excluding the Maritime Administration) who are eligible to retire.
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Treasury/Postal Service (House Floor/Senate Committee)
The House-passed bill includes a provision that would prohibit health plans that participate in the Federal
Employees' Health Benefits Program from providing coverage for abortions except when the life of the
mother is in danger. The Senate Committee bill does not include this provision.
The House-passed bill includes a provision that would prohibit OPM from using funds to implement a RIF
in the Investigations program before June 30, 1996. This would delay REGO II privatization. The Senate
Committee bill does not include this provision.
Section 528 of the House-passed bill would restrict the use of funds for Federal employee training.
The Senate Committee bill would exempt the U.S. Mint from all provisions of law governing procurement
or public contracts.
Both House and Senate versions of the bill would direct the Comptroller General to apply a statute of
limitations for overtime pay for Federal criminal investigators that is three time longer than that applicable
to claims filed by all other private and public sector employees.
VA/HUD/Independent Agencies (House Floor)
No funds could be expended from the Superfund pending authorization.
No funds could be expended from the Water Infrastructure Fund pending authorization of the Clean Water
Act.
Section 518 would prohibit the use of funds for programs, projects, or activities that are not in compliance
with Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights, or unfunded
mandates.
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o
The House bill would place a cap of $19.9 billion on outlays associated with Annual Contributions for
Assisted Housing.
0
Section 202 raises the monthly rental contribution of individuals receiving rental assistance from 30
percent of adjusted income to 32 percent.
Section 209 prohibits the Office of Federal Housing Oversight from promulgating, implementing, or
enforcing any regulations associated with mortgage insurance.
Section 209 (e) prohibits HUD from taking any action against a State or local agency that has "English
only" provisions.
o
The House bill prohibits EPA from using any funds to promulgate or enforce regulations associated with
several environmental laws.
The House bill directs the NASA Administrator to conduct a study on closing/restructuring space flight and
research centers, and to submit recommendations and a detailed schedule of how this would be
accomplished, to the Congress by March 31, 1996.
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STATUS REPORT: FY 1996 APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
House Action
Senate Action
Conference Report
Signed
Appropriations Bills
Subcom
Committee
Floor
Subcom
Committee
Floor
Cont.
House
Senate
P.L.#
Agriculture/Rural Development
6/14
6/27
7/19-21
(H.A. 1976)
Commerce/Justice/State
6/28
7/19
7/25-26
(H.R. 2076)
Defense
7/11-13*
7/25
7/31
7/26
7/28
(week of 8/7)
(H.R. 2126)
District of Columbia
(H.R. )
Energy/Water Development
6/13*
6/20
7/11-12
7/25
7/27
7/31-8/1
(H.R. 1905)
Foreign Operations
6/8
6/15
6/22, 6/27-28,
(H.R. 1868)
7/11
Interior
6/20
6/22, 27
7/13, 7/17-18
7/26
7/28
(8/4 or 5)
(H.R. 1977)
Labor/HHS/Education
7/11-12 a.m.
7/20-21, 24
8/2-3
(H.R. 2127)
Legislative
6/8
6/15
6/21-22
---
7/18
7/20
7/27
(H.R. 1854)
Military Construction
6/7
6/13
6/16, 6/20-21
--
7/19
7/21
(H.R. 1817)
Transportation
6/21
6/30
7/21, 7/24-25
8/2
8/4
(H.R. 2002)
Treasury/Postal
6/28
7/11-12
7/18-19
7/25
7/27
(8/4 or 5)
(H.R. 2020)
VA/HUD/Ind. Agencies
7/10
7/18
7/27-28, 31
(H.R. 2099)
1995 DOD Supplementals and Rescissions:
(H.R. 845)
---
2/10
Merged Into H.R. 889
(H.R. 889)
...
2/10
2/22
---
3/2
3/7-10, 3/13-16
3/29, 4/4-5
4/6
4/6
4/10/95
104-6
1995 Emergency Supplementals/Rescission
(H.R. 1159)
2/22-24
3/2
Merged into H.R. 1158
(H.R. 1158)
2/22-24
3/2
3/15-16
week of 3/20
3/24
3/29-31, 4/3-6
5/3, 5/10-12
5/18
5/25
6/7/95
5/15-16
Vetoed
(H.R. 1944)
...
...
6/29
...
---
6/30, 7/20-21
...
...
...
7/27/95
104-19
. Denotes closed mark-up. ( ) Dates shown represent expected or ongoing action.
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APPROPRIATIONS -- SUPPORT/OPPOSITION
Agriculture (HR 1976)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/21: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/18: Agriculture/OMB veto recommendation.
C/J/S (HR 2076)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/18: Attorney General/ Commerce/OMB
veto recommendation.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/20: Attorney General/ Commerce/OMB veto
recommendation.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/24: Attorney General/ Commerce/OMB veto
recommendation.
-House committee reported--POTUS letter 7/25: "I would veto it because it would
eliminate the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program."
Defense
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/20: Administration does not support.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/27: serious concerns and "the President
will not support the bill unless those concerns are addressed."
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/31: serious concerns and "the President
will not support the bill unless those concerns are addressed."
DC
Energy/Water (HR 1905)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/20: strongly opposed.
-House passed--OMB letter 7/20: strongly opposed.
-Senate committee reported--Senate SAP 7/31: strongly opposed.
Foreign Ops (HR 1868)
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 6/22: difficulty supporting if improvements
are not made.
Interior (HR 1977)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/21: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/12: OMB/Interior veto recommendation.
-House passed--OMB letter 7/25: OMB/Interior veto recommendation.
-House passed--Senate Floor SAP 8/4: OMB/Interior veto recommendation.
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Labor/HHS/Ed
-Panetta, 7/11: if subcomm. chairman's mark reaches the President's desk in its
current form, "he will veto."
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/19: President would veto.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/27: President would veto.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 8/2: President would veto.
Leq Branch (HR 1854)
-Conference report--POTUS said on 8/1: "If the congressional leadership follows
through on its plan to send me its own funding bill before it finishes work on
the rest of the budget, I will be compelled to veto it."
Mil Con (HR 1817)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/13: would support if modified.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 6/15: would support if modified.
-House-passed--OMB letter 7/18: strongly objects to certain provisions.
-Senate committee reported--Floor SAP 7/20: strongly objects to certain
provisions.
Transportation (HR 2002)
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/19: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/21: serious objections.
-House passed--OMB letter 8/1: serious objections.
Treasury/Postal (HR 2020)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/10: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/17: OMB/Sr.WH officials/OPM veto
recommendation.
-House-passed--OMB letter 7/24: OMB/Sr.WH officials/Treasury/OPM veto
recommendation.
-Senate subcommittee reported--POTUS STATEMENT on ONDCP 7/26: As this bill is
now constructed, I will not sign it.
-Senate subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/27: Treasury veto recommendation.
-Senate committee reported--Floor SAP 8/3: President has stated he would not
sign due to elimination of ONDCP; Treasury veto recommendation due to other
concerns.
VA/HUD/Independent Agencies
-House subcommittee reported--Panetta statement 7/11: President will veto.
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/17: senior advisors veto
recommendation.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/24: President would veto bill.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/26: President would veto bill.
-House-passed--POTUS said on 8/1: "The minute this polluter's protection act
hits my desk, I will veto it."
Budget Working Group Library
Produced by:
Steve Lisio, NEC, 456-5806
Razi Mithani, NEC, 456-5384
8/4/95
Daily Budget Notes: Republicans Continue to Stall on Line-Item Veto
Working Group:
Mtg. 17-a Agenda
Schedules:
Cabinet Amplification and Planning (8/3/95 - 8/8/95)
Appropriations:
Support/Opposition of bills in the House
Budget Process:
Charts and figures demonstrating Administration's long-range forecast of
annual growth (Michele Jolin, Larry Hass)
Clips:
Budget: O'Neill: Differences 'small' between CBAo, OMB estimates,
Congress Daily (8/3/95)
House Spending-Bill Votes Reveal Faults in Party Unity, NYT
Clinton Says Government Needs to Combat Smoking by Youths, NYT
Republicans Begin Shifting Medicare Battle to the Home Front, NYT
Senate Advances "Star Wars" Revival Plan, NYT
In a World of Peril, Let's Keep B-2 Bomber, NYT
Why Art Society Shouldn't Have Endorsed West Side Project, NYT
Save The Drug Czar, NYT
House Votes Major Cuts in Domestic Programs, WP
Missile Defense System Wins Senate Approval, WP
CPB Funds Survive House Vote, WP
Federal Court Moves to Control Redistricting, WP
Lawmakers Challange Runyon's Postal Plan, WP
Erin Thrashes Gulf Coast, Swirls Into Deep South, WP
Culture Truce? Arts and humanities people take heart from a close-if losing-
vote, WP
Abolish the Income Tax, WP
Washington Wire, (front page), WSJ
GOP Overhaul of Medicare Could Be a Windfall For Insurance Firms
Because of Voucher System, WSJ
Old Bull Fight, (fight between freshman senators and senior senators), WSJ
Asides, Senatorial Incoherence, WSJ
A Juvenile injustice, two children found in contempt by judge ruling over
custody, USA Today
House OKs Deep Cuts in Spending, LAT
Clinton Considers Landmark Federal Regulation of Tobacco, LAT
Pro-life language stays in House Bill, WT
Energy Department layoffs called likely, 25% staff cut if 5 yr. goal, WT
Ballistic-missile defense system survives attack by Democrats, WT
Gephardt rips GOP anew on Medicare, says plan aids those "who have made
it", WT
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"Cooking Books" remark heats up budget debate, WT
Clinton's Wishful Medicare thinking, WT
Reforming EPA.. protecting the Earth, Sen. Christopher Bond, WT
Reforming EPA.. protecting the Earth, Cord Meyer, WT
The ethic of service, WT
Foreign Policy Partisanship, WT
Lawmakers Clash over bill that would slash programs, Newsday
Witnesses: Hillary had documents moved after Foster death, Newsday
8/3/95
Daily Budget Notes:
President says Education key to Future, will stop efforts to gut Ed.
Investments
Working Group:
Mtg. 16-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar for 8/3/95 - 8/13/95
Cabinet Amplification and Planning (8/3/95)
Education/Training:
President's Remarks on Labor/HHS/Education
Appropriations:
President's Remarks on Labor/HHS/Education
Communications:
President's Remarks on Labor/HHS/Education
Clips:
Vying for Friendlier Skies, Al Gore CHITRIB (8/2/95)
Family Planning Funds Restored WP 8/3/95
Hearings open on Social Security Changes WP 8/3/95
Disabled people see Budget-Cutting Fervor as Threat 8/3/95
GAO layoff rules mulled WP 8/3/95
Right act, wrong villians (Editorial, Budget politics) WP 8/3/95
A toughening on Bosnia? WP 8/3/95
House debates bill wiping out President's prized initiatives WSJ 8/3/95
House likely to miss September Deadline for Deficit package WSJ 8/3/95
California legislature clears $55 billion budget WSJ 8/3/95
Senate refuses to force Packwood Public Hearings WSJ 8/3/95
DuPont Co. to stop Cyanazine production after EPA pressure WSJ 8/3/95
Showtime for Republicans (Editorial, Budget Politics) WSJ 8/3/95
A Waste of Food Stamps (Op-Ed, vitamin subsidies) WSJ 8/3/95
Give the poor a choice (Op-ed, vitamin subsidies) WSJ 8/3/95
Spending has GOP's hackles up: House may kill deep-cuts bill WT 8/3/95
Senate keeps hearings on Packwood closed WT 8/3/95
Revolution, evolution or dissolution? (public belief of politicians) WT
8/3/95
An appropriate revolution WT 8/3/95
Who needs Social Security? WT 8/3/95
A critical appropriations bill WT 8/3/95
Local Press Clips (Vermont) (8/3/95)
Clinton Captivates Vermonters/Gov.s divided BURL. FREE PRESS 8/1/95
Turkey, pie-- and the meal of a lifetime BURL.FREE PRESS 8/1/95
Dole, Clinton heighten welfare battle BURL.FR.PRESS 8/1/95
Clinton thrills Burlington with morning stroll BURL.FR.PRESS 8/1/95
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Clinton, Dole offer '96 political preview BURL.FR.PRESS 8/1/95
Clinton's shrewd move BURL.FR.PRESS 8/1/95
Clinton Shakes up Burlington BARRE TIMES ARGUS 8/1/95
Mixed reaction for Clinton Welfare Plan B. TIMES ARGUS 8/1/95
Hot Dogs, Protesters: Just the way in Vermont B.TIMES ARGUS 8/1/95
Clinton comes to Vermont
Clinton, Dole debate welfare BENNINGTON BANNER 8/1/95
Governors rethinking funding BENNINGTON BANNER 7/31/95
Clinton, Dole on welfare at governors' BATTLEBO.REFORMER 8/1/95
Pres. visit leaves VT'ers smiling BATTLEBORO REFORMER 8/1/95
Governors grapple over Medicare BATTLEBORO REFORMER 8/1/95
President to receive history lesson as gift B.REFORMER 8/1/95
Visit leaves memories CALEDONIAN RECORD 8/1/95
Clinton, Dole duel on welfare reform CALEDONIAN RECORD 8/1/95
President and Senator in Burlington CALEDONIAN RECORD 8/1/95
Clinton offers faster Welfare NEW DAILY EXPRESS 8/1/95
Mixed reaction to Clinton Plan RUTLAND HERALD 8/1/95
President offers plan for welfare RUTLAND HERALD 8/1/95
Thousands turn out to greet president ST.ALBANSMESSENGER 8/1/95
The Welfare Duel ST. ALBANS MESSENGER 8/1/95
Weld blasts prez on welfare reform BOSTON HERALD 8/1/95
8/2/95
Daily Budget Notes: President Clinton Vows to Fight Special Interests, Defend Environment And
Public Health
Working Group:
Mtg. 15-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar for 8/2/95 - 8/6/95
Cabinet Amplification and Planning for 8/1/95 - 8/5/95
Communications:
US Budget: Rivlin says new forecasts make balance goal (Goldberg)
Clips:
GOP Medicare Effort Avoids Deadly Detail, NYT
Clinton Lashes Out At Congress, Citing Pollution and Guns, NYT
Governors Seek Formula for Medicaid, NYT
Philip Morris Denies Charge By Lawmaker, NYT
The Billion-Dollar Lemon (B-2 bomber), NYT
Misguided Attack on Family Planning, NYT
Clinton Says Congress on "Wrong Track", WP
Clinton May Jump Into Tax Reform Fray, WP
Senate Democrats Stymie Helm's Bid To Kill 3 Foreign Policy Agencies,
WP
Science Centers Scramble for Funds, WP
Rep. Livingston Shows Caution in Cutting Back A Home-State Agency, WP
Executives Seek Common Ground On Serving Needy (National Governors'
Association), WP
Boxer Heads for Showdown on Public Packwood Hearings, WP
Formula-Saving Options (Budget), WP
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Stamp Out Diseases, Not Programs, WP
Baby Boomers and the Savings 'Crisis', WP
Dilemmacrats (Democrats suffering from identity crisis), WP
Clinton Threatens More Vetoes, Saying GOP Congress Is 'on the Wrong
Track', WSJ
Manufacturing Bounced Back in July After Two Declines, Survey Indicates,
WSJ
No New Laws Curbing Guns, Gingrich Lwtter To NRA Promises, WSJ
Blue Cross Association Plans HMO Network with Medicare Link, WSJ
Will the Flat Tax KO Housing?, WSJ
GOP bills run into veto threat, USA Today
Clinton Vows Vetoes on Environmental, Communications Bill, LAT
Reno Defends Decision to Use Tear Gas at Waco, LAT
First Lady's Role in Handling Foster's Suicide Disputed, LAT
Clinton fumes over GOP Hill actions, WT
Helms set to halt all action by panel, WT
Senators try to save reform of rules, WT
Spector vows war on pro-life riders, WT
Drilling in wildlife refuge imminent, WT
US cuts put pinch on global loans, WT
Answers scarce on Medicare's future, WT
Family planning and the title X debacle, WT
What markets are good for, WT
Clinton Berates Congress for passing 'Polluters Protection Act', Chicago
Tribune
GOP action slows NAFTA expansion; fast track vote delayed, Journal of
Commerce
Helms gets taste of his own medicine: Democrats reject foreign policy bill,
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Clinton Blasts GOP-Led Congess, Threatens Vetoes, Newsday
Reno Defends Her Decision to Raid Waco Compund, Newsday
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8/1/95
Daily Budget Notes:
1995 Deficit Forecast Down by over $30 Billion
Working Group:
Mtg. 14-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar for 8/2/95 - 8/13/95
Cabinet Amplification and Planning for 7/31/95 - 8/4/95 (8/1/95)
Health Care:
GOP Medicare Recess Packet
Medicare Presentation Suggested Talking Points
Opposition Message:
GOP Medicare Recess Packet
7/31/95
Daily Budget Notes:
Republican Cuts Push 500,000 Medicare Beneficiaries into Poverty
Working Group:
Follow-up from 9:00am Meeting, 7/31/95
Mtg. 13-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar for 7/31/95 - 8/13/95
Cabinet Amplification and Planning
Cabinet/Sub-Cabinet Events (Cabinet Affairs)
"Week Three" Schedule (7/31/95)
7/28 American Federation of Teachers Speech
7/29 Medicare 30th Anniversary Radio Address
8/1 POTUS Response on Labor/HHS Vote
8/3 (?) Satellite to Fraternal Order of Police
8/4 (?) Family and Medical Leave Radio Address
Clips:
Watch out with that budget Ax. My district NEEDS that dam NYT
(7/30/95)
7/28/95
Daily Budget Notes:
House is Expected to take up the FY96 VA/HUD Approps. Bill
Education/Training:
Education State-by-State Press Releases
Representative Bob McGinnis Supports Clinton's Education Budget
(Leg. Research)
From Senator Shirley Gold (775 9612)
Maine loses $157 million under GOP budget plan BDN (7/26/95)
News Release from Assemblywoman Dede Alpert, House action
slashes Education funding for California (7/27/95)
Cuts hit Del. Education, training NEWS JOURNAL (7/26/95)
Lt. Gov. Bob Weygand: Criticizes proposed Cuts in Education
Assemblyman Steven Sanders (NY): Backs Clinton in Opposing
Education Cuts
Ohio House: Dem. State Lawmakers Blast Congress Budget Cuts
Gov. Carnahan (MO) Re: Congress Cuts in Education/Job Training
Gov. of MD: Education Cuts Expected to hurt MD's Ed. Programs
Sen. David Magnani (Mass.): Op-Ed piece for Boston Globe
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Health Care:
Too Young to Die: Medicare 1965-2002 (Republican Ad, USAT. 7/28/95)
Balanced Budget:
President's Balanced Budget Speaker's Packet
OMB Analysis of VA-HUD Approps (7/19/95)
OMB Analysis of Labor-HHS Approps (7/19/95)
President's speech to Boy's Nation/Common Ground on Budget
(7/24/95)
President's speech on 30th Anniversary of Medicare (7/25/95)
Balanced Budget Built on Shared Values
Balanced Budget for Working Families
Budget Notes, 7/24/95 - 7/28/95
Opposition Message: Too Young to Die: Medicare 1965-2002 (Republican Ad, USAT. 7/28/95)
State-by-State: Education State-by-State Press Releases
Representative Bob McGinnis Supports Clinton's Education Budget
(Leg. Research)
From Senator Shirley Gold (775 9612)
Maine loses $157 million under GOP budget plan BDN (7/26/95)
News Release from Assemblywoman Dede Alpert, House action
slashes Education funding for California (7/27/95)
Cuts hit Del. Education, training NEWS JOURNAL (7/26/95)
Lt. Gov. Bob Weygand: Criticizes proposed Cuts in Education
Assemblyman Steven Sanders (NY): Backs Clinton in Opposing
Education Cuts
Ohio House: Dem. State Lawmakers Blast Congress Budget Cuts
Gov. Carnahan (MO) Re: Congress Cuts in Education/Job Training
Gov. of MD: Education Cuts Expected to hurt MD's Ed. Programs
Sen. David Magnani (Mass.): Op-Ed piece for Boston Globe
Working Group:
Mtg. 12-a Agenda
Communications:
GOP, White House trade charges on Medicare (Goldberg)
White House sees US Economy Growing Steadily (Goldberg)
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar (7/29 - 8/13)
Cabinet Amplification and Planning
PRESS:
House Rebuffs Many Budget Amendments NYT
Faded Memory of Korea War is Celebrated NYT
GOP Urges Big Spending to cure Capital's problems NYT
Ethics Panel in House hears from Gingrich NYT
President Approves GOP spending cuts WP
Dole aims at Affirmative Action WP
Senate Committee Votes to abolish Drug Office WP
Senate votes to continue AIDS program WP
Senate Thwarts Helms's Efforts to trim AIDS program WP
CIA steps up "scrub down" of agents WP
Spending Vote threatens GOP unity WP
Securities Laws overhaul offered WP
HMOs to get big Medicare rate increase WSJ
Kodak seeks US help to crack Japan market WSJ
White House sees Deficit for year at $160 Billion WSJ
Workers weekly wages rose to $475 in quarter WSJ
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GOP's Block-grant plan for food stamps fades WSJ
House GOP wins bid to put waivers in EPA Bill WSJ
Medicare battle widens USATODAY
Dole joins Affirmative Action fray USATODAY
Foster death not immediately ruled suicide USAT.
Waco tear-gas assault only option, Reno says USATODAY
Congress' cuts bleeding cities, advocates say USATODAY
Korea's warriors forgotten no more USATODAY
Saving Medicare means more managed care USATODAY
No HMO for me, please USATODAY
Clinton says Air Strikes are "Last Chance" for Peacekeepers LAT
Croatian residents brace for renewed shelling LAT
Clinton signs Budget-Cut measure, releasing quake aid LAT
Despite Helms' objections, Senate OKs New Funds for AIDS care LAT
Three-way union merger has roots in USAir labor battle LAT
House takes up. first major bill targeting social spending LAT
AIDS law renewal passes with ban on forced training WT
Dole, Canady seek "equal opportunity" in US govt. WT
College Republicans learn to play politics WT
House Democrats fail in effort to kill space construction WT
Op-Ed Page, WT :
He who controls the language controls the culture
This would show that Clinton really believes in affirmative action
From the very first sentence, news article showed your bias on
rights
Miscalculating what AmeriCorps really costs in dollars and cents
Fudging the Medicare facts WT
Whitewater Investigators dig on in vain NEWSDAY
Feds testify tear gas at Waco was not lethal NEWSDAY
Ethics Panel urged to broaden Gringrich investigation NEWSDAY
Senate votes to reauthorize Ryan White Act (AIDS assistance for states)
ND
Three Labor giants agree to merge NEWSDAY
Reno at large: Check fine print on GOP's plans for Medicare NEWSDAY
7/27/95
Daily Budget Notes:
Republicans Feeling Heat Over Appropriations Bills -- Tough Votes Ahead
Working Group:
Mtg. 11-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar (7/27 - 8/13)
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar (7/23 - 9/16) (Rec.'ed 7/27/95)
Cabinet/Sub-Cabinet Events (Cabinet Affairs)
Education/Training:
Statement by Undersecretary of Education Marshall Smith Re: Student Loans
Statement of Alice Rivlin: on House Republicans and College Student Loans
Environment/Safety:
ABC Interview: Impact GOP Budget cuts, Environment (Sperling, Waldman)
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Environment/Safety:
Businesses find allies in GOP to launch Attacks on Federal job-
safety and Labor regulations WSJ (6/20/95)
Wood Products Company helps write a law to derail EPA inquiry
NYT (7/26/95)
Health Care:
ABC Interview: Impact GOP Budget cuts, Public Health (Sperling,
Waldman)
GOP Defends Squeezing Medicare; Democrats want Details (Goldberg)
Lobbying:
GOP Members use Lobbyists to write Bills
Politics and People: Special Interests are Feasting WSJ (7/27/95)
Businesses find allies in GOP to launch Attacks on Federal job-
safety and Labor regulations WSJ (6/20/95)
Locals' Access (Editorial) WSJ (6/8/95)
Wood Products Company helps write a law to derail EPA inquiry
NYT (7/26/95)
In GOP Congress, Lobbyists Remain as powerful as ever WSJ
(4/20/95)
Republicans rule Lobbyists world with strong arm NYT (3/20/95)
Appropriations:
Memo on Appropriations (Sperling, Goldberg)(dated 7/25/95)
Statement of Admin. Policy, HR2099 VA/HUD Appropriations Bill, FY96
Opposition Message:
GOP Ad Says Clinton Ignoring Medicare Financial Crisis (AP)
GOP Members use Lobbyists to write Bills
Politics and People: Special Interests are Feasting WSJ (7/27/95)
Businesses find allies in GOP to launch Attacks on Federal job-
safety and Labor regulations WSJ (6/20/95)
Locals' Access (Editorial) WSJ (6/8/95)
Wood Products Company helps write a law to derail EPA inquiry
NYT (7/26/95)
In GOP Congress, Lobbyists Remain as powerful as ever WSJ
(4/20/95)
Republicans rule Lobbyists world with strong arm NYT (3/20/95)
Communications:
GOP Defends Squeezing Medicare; Democrats want Details (Goldberg)
PRESS:
GOP Women tell leaders to soft-pedal abortion The Hill 7/26 (Rec.'ed
7/27)
Gingrich Plays the Dealmaker on Budget Bills NYT
Senate Panel votes to topple restrictions on logging in Alaska WP
Senate Ethics vice chairman urges meeting on Packwood WP
Kasich: Speed Medicare Reform WP
And elimination of Commerce WP
More protection due for addresses on the internet WP
Senate panel sides with House NEA cuts WP
Shrinking Pay Raises (federal employment) WP
GOP Leaders Forestall Debate on Commerce WP
New-look urban policy expounded USATODAY
GOP rules ride spending bills (policy through Approp.s) USAT.
Guard tells Senate Whitewater Panel he saw files taken WSJ
First lady's aide denies moving files USATODAY
House Panel funding vote gives Public Broadcasting new hope LAT
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PBS Chief Optimistic as Congress debates Funding LAT
Jesse Jackson vows recall campaign against Gov. Wilson LAT
Top 3 US industrial Unions expected to seek merger LAT
"Quicker and Sicker" Rebellion (hospital care) LAT
Perspective on S.Korea: Put toasts to Democracy on Hold LAT
Medicare Debate: Circus, Circus LAT
Clinton hits bill killing agencies WT
Congress may take budget reins of DC police WT
7/26/95
Daily Budget Notes:
Common Ground For America's Communities (Jason Goldberg)
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar (7/25 - 7/30)
Appropriations:
FY 1996 Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies,
7/25
Health Care:
Memo to POTUS Re: 30th anniversary of Medicare (Gingrich and Dole),
7/25/95
HHS Fact Sheet (HCFA Press Off.)(Recieved 7/25/95)
Opposition Message:
Newt Clips from Iowa (Goldberg) (Received 7/25/95)
The Seniors Coalition (DNC Research) (Recieved 7/25/95)
United Seniors Association (DNC Research)(Recieved 7/25/95)
Communications:
Reminder on Reports due for POTUS at 5pm (Jason Goldberg)(Rec.'ed 7/25)
PRESS:
Senior Schism (GOP targeting alternatives to AARP) (Recieved 7/25/95)
Clinton Joins Rally on Medicare's Birthday, NYT
Parties Swap Fire in Fight On Medicare, WP
Clinton denounces GOP on Medicare, USA Today
S.F. threatens to sue over Calif. regents' vote, USA Today
Clinton at Medicare Rally, Calls GOP Plan 'Bad Deal', LA Times
Republicans Quietly Plot Drive to Revamp Medicare, La Times
Clinton hist GOP reform of Medicare, Warns of higher premiums, WT
GOP Puts the Heat on the Commerce Dept., NYT
Commerce secretary defends department, WT
Wireless firms hit interference at FCC, WT
Defense, Energy Projects Fare Well in Hill Panels, WP
Panel Approves Funding of CEA, WP
Senator Propose Single Culture Agency, Senators would gain control under
NEA, NEH merger, WP
Alaska, BP America to Gain If Oil Export Ban is Ended, WP
Hill Panel Votes to Halt Chip Research Funding, WP
House GOP Is Dealt Blow as Bill to End Transit Workers' Protection is
Rejected, WSJ
U.S. Is Probing If ADM, Rivals Set Sales Goals, WSJ
GOP proposal defeated in House, WT
Federal job training may turn to a no-frills, on-the-job focus, WT
Jon C. Hinson, a Republican congressman from Mississippi Dies at 53,
WP
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GAO's Special Buyouts (offering workers buyouts of up to $25,000
through
Sept. 30) WP
Whitewater panel won't call for testimony from first lady, USA Today
Senate OKs first step toward lobby reform, USA Today
Two GOP senators try to save arts funds, USA Today
Messing With Medicare, (Budget Cuts) WP
Freebies Vote, (regulation of lobbyist), WP
Mr. Cortines Acts Boldly, (suspended a local school board), NYT
For a Better Line-Item Veto, (Congressional Repub. lost enthusiams for
Line-Item Veto) NYT
Washington as Usual, (7/25/95) NYT
The End of Something, (U.S. consulate in Bordeaux, France was shut last
week) NYT
Scare Politics of Medicare, WP
7/25/95
Daily Budget Notes:
Common Ground: Protecting Health Care for Seniors (Jason Goldberg)
Working Group:
Follow-up from Daily 7/25 9:00am Meeting (Erskine Bowles)
Mtg. 8-a Agenda
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar (7/25 - 8/13)
Education:
Packet, State-by-State #'s (Ben-Ami)
Est. State-by-State Repub. Reduct. from FY95 Funding Levels
House Republicans cut $36 Billion in Education and Training
State-by-State Republican Cuts in Education/Training (incl. DC)
President Clinton's Commitment to Education and Training
Health Care:
Luntz Research Memo on GOP Medicare, 7/8/95 (Hancox)
Urban:
White House Community Empowerment Conference, July 25 and 26, 1995
Rural:
White House Community Empowerment Conference, July 25 and 26, 1995
Appropriations:
FY96 Dept. of Transportation/Related Agencies Approps. Bill, 7/24/95
(Haas)
HR2099 (VA/HUD Appropriations) / HR 2076 (CJS Approps) (Goldberg)
Pol. (Background):
Delaney Clause (Jim O'Hara)
Pol. (State-by-State):
Packet, State-by-State #'s (Ben-Ami)
PRESS:
Clinton Attacks the GOP on Priorities in Budget Plan NYT
New SEC Rules to Require Funds to disclose Trading Costs NYT
Payouts down in tax credit program for the poor NYT
Two Meanings of Shelter:Shift Housing Tax Break hurts working poor
NYT
A Bright side to Moving out (Housing, non-/working poor) NYT
Talking Peace in Ireland (Editorial, IRA) NYT
A Bold, Imperfect Medicare Plan (Editorial) NYT
Clinton asks GOP to protect funds for "Our Common Ground" WP
Veto threatened on Commerce Measure (GOP VS. Commerce) WP
Drug Policy Director Denounces Senate Plan (GOP vs. DPO) WP
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Study finds nest eggs vary greatly (disparity in senior wealth) WP
Farm Bill Followers have hard, wide, row to hoe WP
D.C. as a Tax Laboratory WP
This is no way to reward work (Reich, Tyson) WP
Housing Squeeze (editorial) WP
Japanese Democracy's Discontents (editorial, Japan politics) WP
Clinton, GOP brace for shodown on Fed. spending, fear "Train Wreck"
WSJ
Senate clears a compromise on lobby rules WSJ
House Panel clears measure to curb lobbying by liberal grant recipients
WSJ
Chinese-American Students sue to kill Affirmative-Action plan WSJ
Boehlert Plan seeks Accord on Superfund waste-liability law WSJ
Amendment to save SBA Advocacy Office expected in House WSJ
Turn out the lights (Op-Ed, Energy/deficit reduction) WSJ
The Party's Over (Op-Ed, selling Tennessee Valley Authority) WSJ
Power Play (Editorial, Rural Electrification) WSJ
Loan program's savings disputed (Education) USA TODAY
House "corrections" have bumpy debut (removing govt. regulations) USAT.
Los Angeles Times first-edition page 1 layout LAT
WH: UC system Won't Face Loss of Fed. funds (Affirmative Act.) LAT
Clinton Hints at Veto unless GOP works with him on Budget LAT
Appeals Court Upholds Motor Voter Law in California LAT
On budget, Clinton tills common ground WT
Panel told business executives want Commerce axed WT
Resolving the Medicare crisis WT
7/24/95
Daily Budget Notes:
A Balanced Budget Built on Shared Values (Jason Goldberg)
Working Group:
Update on Budget Working Group Activities (7/21/95) (Erskine Bowles)
Follow-up From Daily 7/24/95 9:00am Meeting (Erskine Bowles)
Mtg. 7-a Agenda.
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar.
Update on Budget Working Group Activities (7/21/95) (Erskine Bowles)
Possible Budget Events (7/23/95) (Goldberg, Gordon, Sperling)
Health Care:
Coalition to Save Medicare, Background Paper (Berman)
Opposition Message:
Republican Response to Medicare in 1965
7/23/95
PRESS:
Added Options, or Coercion? (Medicare vouchers) NYT (7/23/95)
Fight Echoes A Wider Struggle (Medicare vouchers) NYT (7/23/95)
After Bad Week, GOP Look to Budget for Rebound NYT (7/23/95)
Clinton Regains Voice with 3 Speeches NYT (7/23/95)
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Wording House GOP Medicare Memo Upsets Seniors WP (7/23/95)
Pushing Workers to Plant Seeds of Secure Retire WP (7/23/95)
Divided, We Stand a Chance (class warfare, politics) WP (7/23/95)
Sick over Medicare WT (7/23/95)
Rx: Income-based fees, premiums? WT (7/23/95)
Radical treatment: Physicians protest (Medicare) WT (7/23/95)
Brown Decries Impact of Hill on Vet. Benefits PRNwswire (7/23/95)
GOP Split charge fee for Child Support Services AP (7/23/95)
7/21/95
Daily Budget Notes:
GOP Swipes at Education and Training, Line Item Veto, Approps. Update
(Jason Goldberg)
Schedules:
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar
Opposition Message:
Republican Voices for expanding Head Start, Immunization and Job
Training, 7/20/95 (Robert Gordon)
Republican Voices for Head Start Expansion (Robert Gordon)
Republicans on Community Development Block Grants (Robert Gordon)
Bob Dole and Medicare
Republicans response to Medicare in 1965
Medicare
Pete Wilson and Medicare
Nightmare Scenario, GOP's Long Record Against Social Security and
Medicare
Health Care:
Floor Debate on Medicare 1965 to 1986, Congressional Quaterly Almanac
PRESS:
Family-Aid Plan Rejected in House NYT
Once-Notorious Haunt Still Stands (Op-Ed, Housing) NYT
New Yorkers Can Expect More Medical Errors (Op-Ed) NYT
Don't Kill the C.E.A. (Op-Ed) NYT
Campaign Finance Added to Agenda WP
Promised Votes End Stalemate on Spending Cuts, Disaster Aid WP
Democrats Charge Republicans with "Stealth" Plan for Medicare Vouchers
WP
Balanced-Budget Batting Practice (Editorial) WP
Housecleaning (Editorial, lenient financial records of House of Rep.s) WP
Panel Acts to End Family-Planning Funds WSJ
Zig-Zig, Zag-Zag, Elect-Elect (On Clinton, P.Gigot) WSJ
Cut the Dead Wood (Streamlining Govt. Contracting) WSJ
Study Links Rise in Teen Smoking to Ad Spending WSJ
Sen. D'Amato to Ask Limits on US Fund for Mexico WSJ
Panel Approves Measure Changing Public Housing WSJ
Legal Services, the Agency that Wouldn't Die, looks like it May survive
the
Age of Gingrich WSJ
Political Activity costs housing group funding WT
Clinton raps GOP plan, clashes with Greenspan WT
The FDA isn't blowing smoke (Editorial) WT
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No time for "Big Choices" (Editorial, on Rivlin and Budget) WT
Buying United Airlines saved and improved jobs (Op-Ed) USAToday
Affirmative action isn't perfect, but it's the best tool we have (Op-Ed)
USAToday
Training already a partnership (Op-Ed, job training) USAToday
Clinton asks state lawmakers to urge 10-year balanced-budget deadline
instead of 7 years Chicago Tribune
Compromise reached on proposed spending cuts Chicago Tribune
House panel votes to transfer family planning funds to community health
centers and a maternal and child health block grant Knight-Ridder
House panel votes to abolish Federal Family Planning Program LAT
Gramm-Led Conservatives seek deeper welfare cuts than Dole LAT
AIDS Research Office Targeted for Cuts by GOP-led Congress Newsday
7/20/95
Budget Notes:
Republican Medicare Choice, GOP Swipes at Education & Training, App.
update (no contact).
Appropriations:
FY 96 Interior and related agencies app. bill (Larry Haas).
Appropriations:
House app. subcommittee on VA/HUD, comparison to POTUS's Budget
Plan (Larry Haas).
Schedules:
Proposal for CEO and Univ. Presidents events w/POTUS
(Jason Goldberg).
Working Group:
Planning Calendar for 7/20/95-7/23/95 (Jason Goldberg)
Working Group:
Meeting 5-a (no contact).
Opposition Message:
RNC Talking Points, "Democrats "exploit'medicare" (Eric Berman).
Opposition Message:
RNC Balance Sheet, Medicare-- "What Democrats won't tell you"
(Eric Berman).
Opposition Message:
RNC "POTUS's unwillingness to propose a balanced budget"
(Eric Berman).
Quotes:
Quotes from Republicans on Line-Item Veto (Paul Weinstein).
PRESS:
Medicare moves: Shopping, bonuses USA Today
Economic Scene, GOP walks a narrow line with farm subsidies NYT
Parties Trade Barbs Over Medicare, AP
Line-Item Veto, A Major GOP Priority, Stalls in Congress, AP
After a Century, a Black Cadet is Vindicated, NYT
Initial Goals of Balanced Budget Plan Matched, WP
GOP Counters on Packwood Case, WP
Pressure on National Labor Relations Board Turns Into a Doubled Budget
Cut, WP
Americorp: It's "Volunteer" Service, But What Does It Cost?, WP
Bargaining Room for Cultural Agencies, WP
Wilder to Get Clinton's Aid At Fund-Raiser, WP
House Budget Trims Would Hit Md. Suburbs, WP
Medicare as We Know It, WP
A Warning on Casinos, WP
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Students May Pay Much More for Loans, WSJ
Mismanager's Journal, WSJ
Attn., Pagan Loft-Dwellers, parity on NEA after GOP budget cuts, WSJ
GOP Lawmakers Favor Spending Limit for Each Medicare User, LAT
Senate likely to cut arts as far a S House for '96, WT
Speaker OKs limiting grant-backed groups, WT
Sharpening the ax for budgetary cuts, Specifics on Uncle Sugar, WT
Sharpening the ax for budgetary cuts, ready for sacred cows, WT
Other ways to fund the arts, WT
7/19/95
Working Group:
Follow-up from 7/19/95 9:00am Mtg. (Erskine Bowles).
Working Group:
Mtg 4-a (no contact).
Schedules:
ADA Event Proposal (Herman, Rasco)
PRESS:
Administration criticizes GOP's Medicare Voucher proposals AP
7/18/95
Budget Notes:
"GOP Proposal Offers false choices..." (no contact).
Bal.BudgetProp.:
Rohatyn Supports Clinton Balanced Budget (Robert Gordon).
Working Group:
Follow-up from 7/18/95 9:00am Mtg. (Erskine Bowles).
Working Group:
Mtg 3-a (no contact).
PRESS:
House GOP Medicare Plans would raise copayments, deductibles WP
Survey at Odds with Welfare Reform Plans Wash, Post.
A broader strategy on deficit Philadelphia Inq.
7/17/95
Bal.BudgetProp.:
"A Balanced Budget for Working Families" (Sperling).
Working Group:
Mtg. 2-a (no contact).
Working Group:
Follow-up from 7/17/95 9:00am Mtg. (Erskine Bowles).
Schedules:
Planning Calendar for 7/17/95-8/13/95 (Jason Goldberg).
PRESS:
Train Wreck a'Coming W.Post.
Cost Presidential Access too high (DNC on donations) Chicago Sun Times
US-Backed ads hog tax dollars (industry subsidies in ads) Chi Sun Times
Don't Ax the Economic Advisers (Editorial) Chi. Trib.
7/16/95
PRESS:
Goddard spared closure (Space Flight Center) Baltimore Sun
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7/15/95
PRESS:
GOP Gun-shy about how to cut Medicare Balt. Sun (7/13?, 7/15? 1995)
7/14/95
Working Group:
Mtg. 1-a (no contact).
Appropriations:
House Appropriations Subcommittee (no contact).
Opposition Message:
Republican Quotes on Medicare (Eric Berman).
PRESS:
GOP zaps federal support of arts NY Daily News
7/13/95
PRESS:
GOP Gun-shy about how to cut Medicare Balt. Sun (7/13?, 7/15? 1995)
Poor plan (utility subsidies to the poor) Charleston Daily Mail
Gephardt's fradulent flat tax plan Detroit News
House Democrats criticize "Stealth" cuts Milwaukee Journal
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August 4, 1995
APPROPRIATIONS -- SUPPORT/OPPOSITION
Agriculture (HR 1976)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/21: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/18: Agriculture/OMB veto
recommendation.
C/J/S (HR 2076)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/18: Attorney General/Commerce/
OMB veto recommendation.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/20: Attorney General/Commerce/
OMB veto recommendation.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/24: Attorney General/Commerce/
OMB veto recommendation.
Defense
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/20: Administration does not
support.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/27: serious concerns and "the
President will not support the bill unless those concerns are
addressed."
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/31: serious concerns and "the
President will not support the bill unless those concerns are
addressed."
DC
Energy/Water (HR 1905)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/20: strongly opposed.
-House passed--OMB letter 7/20: strongly opposed.
-Senate committee reported--Senate SAP 7/31: strongly opposed.
Foreign Ops (HR 1868)
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 6/22: difficulty supporting if
improvements are not made.
Interior (HR 1977)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/21: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/12: OMB/Interior veto recommendation.
-House passed--OMB letter 7/25: OMB/Interior veto recommendation.
Labor/HHS/Ed
-Panetta, 7/11: if subcomm. chairman's mark reaches the President's desk in
its current form, "he will veto."
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/19: President would veto.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/27: President would veto.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 8/2: President would veto.
4
Leq Branch (HR 1854)
-Conference report--POTUS said on 8/1: "If the congressional leadership
follows through on its plan to send me its own funding bill before it
finishes work on the rest of the budget, I will be compelled to veto it."
Mil Con (HR 1817)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 6/13: would support if modified.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 6/15: would support if modified.
-House-passed--OMB letter 7/18: strongly objects to certain provisions.
-Senate committee reported--Floor SAP 7/20: strongly objects to certain
provisions.
Transportation (HR 2002)
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/19: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/21: serious objections.
-House passed--OMB letter 8/1: serious objections.
Treasury/Postal (HR 2020)
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/10: serious objections.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/17: OMB/Sr.WH officials/OPM veto
recommendation.
-House-passed--OMB letter 7/24: OMB/Sr.WH officials/Treasury/OPM veto
recommendation.
-Senate subcommittee reported--POTUS STATEMENT on ONDCP 7/26: As this bill
is now constructed, I will not sign it.
-Senate subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/27: Treasury veto recommendation.
-Senate committee reported--Floor SAP 8/3: President has stated he would not
sign due to elimination of ONDCP; Treasury veto recommendation due to other
concerns.
VA/HUD/Independent Agencies
-House subcommittee reported--Panetta statement 7/11: President will veto.
-House subcommittee reported--OMB letter 7/17: senior advisors veto
recommendation.
-House committee reported--Rules SAP 7/24: President would veto bill.
-House committee reported--Floor SAP 7/26: President would veto bill.
-House-passed--POTUS said on 8/1: "The minute this polluter's protection act
hits my desk, I will veto it."
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20500
August 3, 1995
TO:
MEDIA
FROM:
Michele Jolin
Council of Economic Advisers
Lawrence Haas
Office of Management and Budget
Attached are materials we hope will provide you with some perspective on the Clinton
Administration's long-range growth estimates. As the chart demonstrates, the Administration's
long-range forecast of annual growth is clearly consistent with the projections being made by the
Blue Chip and other private forecasters.
If you have any questions, please contact Michele Jolin (395-5084) or Lawrence Haas
(395-7254).
Attachments:
COMPARISON OF LONG-RANGE FORECASTS OF REAL GDP
GROWTH (ANNUAL AVERAGE) - 1997-2002
3
2.5
2
Average annual GDP growth
1.5
1
0.5
0
CBO
DRI
Larry Meyer
Administration
Blue Chip
WEFA
Ray Fair
Forecaster
Long-Range Forecasts for GDP growth, 1997 through 2002
Forecaster (date)
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
WEFA (July)
2.3
2.4
2.7
2.6
2.6
2.4
L. Meyer* (August)
2.1
2.0
2.7
3.0
2.7
2.4
Ray Fair (July)
2.5
2.6
2.9
2.8
2.6
2.7
DRI (July)
2.9
2.8
2.1
2.4
2.2
2.1
Blue Chip* (March)
2.0
2.3
2.9
2.8
2.4
2.4
CBO* (January)
2.4
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
Administration(July)
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.4
2.4
Q4/Q4 changes, except for those starred(*), which are Y/Y.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
LRM NO: 2074
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Washington, D.C. 20503-0001
FILE NO: 1182
7/20/95
LEGISLATIVE REFERRAL MEMORANDUM
Total Page(s): 5
TO: Legislative Liaison Officer - See Distribution below:
FROM: James JUKES
OMB CONTACT: M. JIII GIBBONS 395-7593
Assistant Director J. for Legislative Reference
(for)
Legislative Assistant's line (for simple responses): 395-3454
SUBJECT: HHS Proposed Draft Bill: To Designate the Federal Building located at 7500 Security Blvd.,
Baltimore, as the "Harry S. Truman Building"
DEADLINE: 12:00 Monday, July 24,1995
In accordance with OMB Circular A-19, OMB requests the views of your agency on the above subject before
advising on its relationship to the program of the President.
Please advise us if this Item will affect direct spending or receipts for purposes of the
"Pay-As-You-Go" provisions of Title XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.
COMMENTS: HHS has requested expedited clearance so that this bill may be Introduced in conjunction with
the 30th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid on July 30th.
DISTRIBUTION LIST:
AGENCIES:
EOP:
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Barbara Retzlaff
Bob Damus
Jeff Connaughton
Jennifer Klein
Chris Jennings
Jim Murr
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FILE NO: 1182
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DRAFT
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Enclosed for the consideration of the Congress is a draft
bill to designate the Federal building located at 7500 Scourity
Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, as the "Harry S. Truman
Building".
As the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S.
Truman is remembered as the ordinary man from Missouri who became
a great President and a great statesman. It was fortunate indeed
for this Nation, the world, and the future of democracy that this
little-known former Congressman from Missouri proved to be a man
of enormous courage, integrity, vision, and common sense. He saw
us sately through the end ot a world war, charted the Western
democracies' course of resolute resistance to totalitarianism at
the start of the Cold War, and established a solid foundation for
world stability in undertakings including the United Nations and
the Marshall Plan.
President Truman's domestic programs were also ambitious and
visionary. and represented at once a commitment to improvement of
the lives of every American and an investment in our future. As
just one example. President Truman was a prime mover of the G.I.
Bill, which enabled millions of returning seervicemen and women
to get. an education and to own their own homes, created jobs for
millions of other Americans, and ensured the country the highly
skilled and educated workforce that has made possible the
enormous economic and social development of the last half-
century.
It was President Truman who first placed on the national
agenda the idea of assuring health insurance coverage for all
Americans. He proposed establishment of such a program in his
State of the Union address on November 19, 1945, and returned to
the theme repeatedly during his Presidency. During his second
term, he appointed a National Commission on Health Needs of the
Nation to study shortcomings in the nation's health care, and to
consider "how to bring the cost of modern medical care within the
reach of all people."
in addition to pressing Congress to improve the availability
of health coverage, President Truman obtained enactment of
legisiation establishing a Federal Aid program, the Federal
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Hospital Survey and Construction Act, for the construction of
hospitals to be owned and operated by local communities. He
pushed for expansion of medical schools, for scholarship aid for
medical students, and for aid for construction of teaching
hospitals.
In 1952, toward the end of Mr. Truman's presidency, the
hospital insurance bill known today as Medicare was introduced in
the Congress. Thirteen years later, on July 30, 1965, Prosident
Johnson signed into law the bill creating the Medicare and
Medicaid programs, with former President Truman in attendance, in
Truman's home town of Independence, Missouri. President Johnson
said, "[1]t was really Harry Truman of Missouri who planted the
seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care
tor the sick, and serenity for the teartul." At the signing
ceremony, Harry Truman and his wife, Bess, completed applications
for enrollment in Medicare Part B, thus making them,
respectively, the first and second Medicare beneficiaries.
In tribute to his leadership, compassion, and foresight, we
recommend enactment of legislation naming the new headquarters
building of the Health Care Financing Administration. which.
administers the Medicare program, in the honor and memory of the
first Medicare beneficiary, President Harry S. Truman.
We urge the Congress to give the draft bill its prompt and
favorable consideration.
The Office of Management and Budget has advised that there
is no objection to the submission of this legiolative proposal to
the Congress.
Sincerely,
Donna E. Shalala
Enclosure
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DRAFT 7/19/95
1
ABILL
2 TO designate the Federal building located at 7500 Security
3
Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, as the "Harry B. Truman
4
Building".
5
Be it enacted by the Senale and House of Representatives of
6
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
7
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF BUILDING.
8
The Federal Building located at 7500 Security Boulevard,
9
Baltimore, Maryland, shall be known and designated as the "Harry
10
S. Truman Building".
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SEC. 2. LEGAL REFERENCES.
12
Any reference to such building in any law, map, regulation,
13
document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be
14
deemed to be a reference to the "Harry S. Truman Federal
15 Building".
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE
ON VA, HUD AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Preliminary Analysis
and
Comparison to the President's Budget Plan
July 19, 1995
(Updated)
VA, HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS:
PRESIDENT'S FY 1996 REQUEST VS. REPUBLICAN FY 1996 EXPECTED ACTION
Cuts programs under its jurisdiction by about $10 billion below President's request for 1996 --
31 percent of the $32 billion that Congress plans to cut in non-defense discretionary spending.
PRESIDENT'S 10-YEAR BUDGET
REPUBLICAN CUTS
National Service
Provides $819 million in 1996 for
Eliminates AmeriCorps, Learn and
AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve and related
Serve, and related programs.
national service.
AmeriCorps
Increases to $430 million in 1996, giving
Eliminates AmeriCorps. Nearly
another 21,000 young Americans the
50,000 young middle-income
opportunity to serve their communities
Americans will lose the opportunity
and earn an education award.
to serve their communities.
Learn and Serve
Increases to $60 million in FY 1996,
Eliminates Learn and Serve. 580,000
creating 140,000 new opportunities for
children, adolescents, and college
children, adolescents, and college
students will be unable to participate
students to help their communities while
in Learn and Serve.
developing a service ethic.
HUD Budget
Provides $24.3 billion and restructures
Provides $19.1 billion ($5.2 billion
HUD to devolve responsibilities to States
below the President's request and
and localities within a framework of
$6.4 billion below 1995).
national goals.
HUD Homeless
Includes $1.12 billion in 1996 for a new
Cuts 1996 HUD homeless funding
Assistance
homeless assistance fund to help
almost in half, to $576 million.
communities develop continuum-of-care
systems to reduce homelessness.
HUD Vouchers
Adds over 500,000 voucher subsidies
Provides no funding for incremental
over 7 years.
housing vouchers other than to
renew outstanding ones, and 50,000
fewer vouchers than the President's
request.
HUD Public Housing
Provides $8.1 billion in 1996 for public
Cuts 1996 funding by 37 percent, or
housing capital and operating funds,
$3 billion, and repeals the
enough to reduce a backlog of capital
requirement that rents be set at 30
needs and tear down or reconfigure the
percent of a household's income.
worst projects.
EPA Budget
Continues Administration's strong
Cuts EPA's budget by 33 percent
support for EPA by providing $.1 billion
below 1995, with a nearly 50
over 1995.
percent cut in enforcement.
Drinking Water State
Provides $500 million to help
Provides no funding in 1996 and
Revolving Fund
municipalities prevent drinking water
eliminates $225 million in prior-year
problems.
funding.
NASA Budget
Restructures NASA using a balanced
Provides $13.7 billion ($0.6 billion
Space Station and science program that
below the President's request and
does not close any research centers.
$0.8 billion below 1995).
OVERVIEW
The Subcommittee mark would cut programs under its
jurisdiction by about $10 billion below the President's request
for 1996 -- 31 percent of the $32 billion that Congress plans to
cut in non-defense discretionary spending.
The Subcommittee mark attacks the President's priorities on
several fronts:
It virtually eliminates funding for the President's
investment programs over which it has jurisdiction:
-- It eliminates national service programs.
-- It eliminates Community Development Financial
Institutions.
-- It slashes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
by a third.
-- It cuts funding for HUD homeless programs in half.
The Subcommittee includes legislative provisions that have
not been debated through the necessary authorization and
hearing process and have no place in appropriations bills:
-- It limits EPA's implementation of the Clean Air and
Clean Water Acts.
-- It restructures NASA.
-- It imposes substantial rent increases on tenants in
public and private HUD-assisted housing.
The Subcommittee eliminates the Council on Environmental
Quality in the Executive Office of the President --
representing inappropriate congressional interference in the
Executive Branch.
NATIONAL SERVICE
Subcommittee:
Eliminates AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve, and related
programs.
-- [In a related matter, the Labor-HHS
Subcommittee mark also cuts the other piece of
national service: It cuts VISTA programs by almost
60 percent and the senior volunteer programs by
about one-third].
The VA/HUD cuts will mean:
-- Nearly 50,000 young, middle-income Americans
will lose the chance to serve their communities
through AmeriCorps in locally-identified areas of
crucial need and earn an educational award to help
pay for college or other training.
-- Another 580,000 children, adolescents, and
college students will be unable to participate in
Learn and Serve, helping communities solve
problems while also developing the ethic of
service.
President:
Provides $819 million in 1996 for AmeriCorps, Learn
and Serve and related national service opportunities.
-- For AmeriCorps, 1996 funding would provide
another 21,000 young Americans with the chance to
help meet locally-determined needs and earn an
educational award.
-- For Learn and Serve, 1996 funding would provide
140,000 additional service opportunities to help
children, adolescents, and college students
develop the service ethic while contributing to
their communities.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT:
The Subcommittee allocation for HUD is $19.1 billion ($5.2
billion below the President's request and $6.4 billion below
1995).
Homeless Assistance.
Subcommittee:
Cuts 1996 HUD homeless funding almost in half, to
$576 million, and
Cuts FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Assistance,
which supports local homeless programs, by $30 million,
to $100 million.
These cuts will:
Combined with large cuts in low-income housing
subsidies (below), will increase the numbers of
homeless,
Deny communities help needed to create transitional
and longer-term housing options for the homeless, and
Reduce emergency services.
President:
Would provide $1.12 billion in 1996 for a new,
homeless assistance fund to help communities develop
continuum-of-care systems to reduce homelessness.
The President and HUD have made cutting the number of
homeless, who number 600,000 on any given night, a
major priority.
Vouchers.
Subcommittee:
Provides no funding for incremental housing vouchers
other than to renew outstanding ones, and
Provides 50,000 fewer vouchers in 1996 than the
President's request.
President:
Adds over 500,000 voucher subsidies over 7 years.
Public housing.
Subcommittee:
Would cut 1996 funding by 37 percent, or $3 billion,
to repair, rehabilitate, and modernize housing projects
and provide annual subsidies to operate and maintain
1.4 million units for the low-income and elderly.
-- These cuts will force Public Housing
Authorities to under-maintain and abandon projects
or cut security and services.
Would repeal the requirement that rents be set at 30
percent of a household's income.
-- Many PHAs would raise rents on poorest
families, forcing some into homelessness and
others to use most of their cash income for rent.
President:
Would provide $8.1 billion in 1996 public housing
capital and operating funds, enough to:
-- Reduce a backlog of capital needs,
-- Tear down or reconfigure the worst projects,
and
-- Prepare for a proposed transition to portable
assistance, giving choices to public housing
residents.
Public and assisted housing tenants.
Subcommittee:
Requires public housing and Section 8 residents to
pay minimum rent of $50 plus utilities.
-- If enacted immediately, this would increase
rents paid by 600,000 public housing and Section 8
families by average of over $460 per year.
Increases rents paid by residents who get Section 8
vouchers from 30 to 32 percent of adjusted income.
-- This would take away $140 per year from the
average assisted family.
Suspends caps on tenant rent in public housing.
President:
Includes rent reforms to encourage public and
assisted housing recipients to move towards self-
sufficiency, but
Would not arbitrarily impose higher rent burden on
low-income tenants.
FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs.
Subcommittee:
Would eliminate all credit subsidies for multifamily
mortgage insurance:
-- Denying support, each year, for over 56,000 low
and moderate income rental units, and
-- Exacerbating shortage of affordable housing.
In New York State, insurance would not be
available for 8,400 housing units.
In southern California, insurance would not
be available for 4,100 housing units.
President:
Provides $188 million in credit subsidies in 1996 to
help finance multifamily housing.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY:
The Subcommittee allocation for EPA is $4.9 billion ($2.5
billion below the President's request and $2.4 billion below
1995).
EPA budget.
Subcommittee:
Cuts EPA's budget by 33 percent below 1995,
jeopardizing public health by quashing enforcement of
pollution control rules and blocking new protections.
President:
Continues Administration's strong support for EPA by
providing a net $.1 billion increase over 1995.
Operating Program.
Subcommittee:
Cuts EPA's pollution control and enforcement programs
by $430 million below 1995 and $821 million below the
President's request.
-- The nearly 50 percent cut in enforcement would
decimate EPA's ability to enforce environmental
laws.
-- The cuts could necessitate layoffs of several
thousand workers.
President:
Proposes 14 percent increase for EPA's operating
programs, the backbone of the nation's efforts to
protect the environment.
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds.
Subcommittee:
Provides no funds in 1996 and eliminates $225 million
in prior-year funding not included in H.R. 1944's $1.1
billion rescission:
-- This $225 million was restored to H.R. 1944 in
response to the President's veto.
President:
Proposes $500 million to establish new state
revolving funds to help municipalities provide clean,
safe drinking water.
-- That will help prevent problems such as the
cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee that killed
100 people and caused illness in another 400,000.
-- It will most affect the 30 million people
served by a system that violated a drinking water
standard in the past year.
Superfund Clean-ups of Toxic Wastes.
Subcommittee:
Would cut spending by 30 percent below 1995 and 36
percent, or $360 million, below the President's
request.
-- This would eliminate planned funding for 120
long-term cleanup projects and 160 actions to
address more immediate public health threats,
subjecting hundreds of thousands of citizens to
continued exposure to dangerous chemicals.
Proposes that taxpayers pay for all cleanups, not
polluters who created the dumps.
President:
Proposes a $130 million increase for Superfund
cleanups of toxic waste dumps.
Overriding Environmental Laws.
Subcommittee:
Includes legislative "riders" to overturn existing
law without any hearings on their environmental impact.
-- They block or rescind numerous rules to protect
public health, including those to ensure safe
water, food, and air.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION:
The Subcommittee allocation for NASA is $13.7 billion ($0.6
billion below the President's request and $0.8 billion below
1995).
Science and Technology Programs.
Subcommittee:
Significantly cuts NASA's S&T programs.
-- Cuts $333 million from NASA's Mission to Planet
Earth project, an Administration priority:
This project was designed to help better
understand man's impact on Earth's
environment.
The cut will have a major impact on the
Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, by
cutting more than 1,000 public and private
jobs.
-- Significantly cuts NASA's contribution to
several Administration technology initiatives,
including High Performance Computing and
Communications, Clean Car, and research
improvements in air traffic control.
President:
Provides $14.3 billion in 1996 and restructures NASA
using a balanced Space Station and science program that
does not close any research centers.
Budget Working Group
Routing Slip
DATE: 7/20/95
SUBJECT: Quotes from Reprbiicans on Line - Item. Veto -July 20,1995
Contact: Paul Wenstein
Name
Room
Name
Room
John Angell
178
Joseph Minarik
244
Michael Barr
TREAS
Nancy-Ann Min
262
Jeremy Ben-Ami
218
Julia Moffett
169
Erskine Bowles
1/WW
Tom O'Donnell
2/WW
Emily Bromberg
106
Jack Quinn
272
Susan Brophy
2/WW
Bruce Reed
216
Don Baer
196
Alice Rivlin
252
Alan Cohen
TREAS
Jake Siewert
169
Barbara Chow
107/EW
Stephen Silverman
160
Bill Curry
469
Greg Simon
288
Paul Dimond
225
Doug Sosnik
G/WW
David Dreyer
TREAS
Gene Sperling
2/WW
Rahm Emanuel
1/WW
George Stephanopoulos 1/WW
Martha Foley
178
Todd Stern
G/WW
Jason Goldberg
160
Leslie Thornton
EDUC
Robert Gordon
223
Barry Toiv
178
Mary Ellen Glynn
G/WW
Laura Tyson
2/WW
Larry Haas
253
Loretta Ucelli
EPA
Karen Hancox
G/WW
Michael Waldman
214
Kitty Higgins
160
Anne Walley
184
Harold Ickes
1/WW
Marilyn Yager
116
Chris Jennings
212
FAX to Treasury: 622-0073
Jennifer Klein
2/WW
FAX to Education: 401-2098
David Lane
FAX to EPA: 260-0279
231
Jack Lew
243
Mark Mazur
318
Gaynor McCown
217
Lorrie McHugh
G/WW