[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 518 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 518

 To reduce the deficit by limiting the amount of appropriations which 
  may be available to the intelligence community for fiscal year 1994.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                March 5 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Bumpers (for himself and Mr. Sasser) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reduce the deficit by limiting the amount of appropriations which 
  may be available to the intelligence community for fiscal year 1994.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Deficit Reduction Through 
Intelligence Programs Reduction Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Federal budget deficit has grown to such an extent 
        that it poses a serious short, medium, and long-term threat to 
        the health of the United States economy;
            (2) gross interest costs now exceed defense expenditures in 
        the Federal budget and are one of the fastest growing 
        components in the Federal budget;
            (3) the American people are demanding serious and 
        fundamental changes in the Federal Government's management of 
        spending priorities and over-all fiscal stewardship;
            (4) programs that are not absolutely necessary to the 
        health and well-being of the American people must be closely 
        scrutinized for possible funding reduction or elimination;
            (5) the end of the Cold War allows the United States to 
        safely make cuts in intelligence programs that had as their 
        chief focus the military threat posed by the Soviet Union; and
            (6) a reduction of $1,260,000,000 in intelligence programs 
        would leave adequate funds for intelligence protection in this 
        post-Cold War era.

SEC. 3. REDUCTION OF THE DEFICIT.

    Funds appropriated to carry out the activities of the intelligence 
community for fiscal year 1994 may not exceed an amount equal to the 
amount appropriated to carry out such activities for fiscal year 1993, 
minus $1,260,000,000.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``intelligence community'' has 
the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947.

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