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                     THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008

                         ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS

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                         ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS

    An advance appropriation is one made to become available one year or 
more beyond the year for which the appropriations act is passed. Advance 
appropriations in 2008 appropriations acts will become available for 
programs in 2009 or beyond. Since these appropriations are not available 
until after 2008, the amounts will not be included in 2008 budget 
totals, but will be reflected in the totals for the year for which they 
are requested.
    The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)(17)) 
requires inclusion in the budget of ``information on estimates of 
appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which 
the budget is submitted for grants, contracts, and other payments under 
each program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for 
that following fiscal year when the appropriations are authorized to be 
included in an appropriation law for the fiscal year before the fiscal 
year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation.'' In 
fulfillment of this requirement, the accompanying table lists those 
accounts that have either received discretionary or mandatory advance 
appropriations since 2006 or will request, in 2008, advance 
appropriations for 2009 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing 
statute.
    The enacted Continuing Resolution for 2007 (P.L. 109-289, Division 
B, as amended) does not explicitly address advance appropriations for 
2008. If a full year continuing resolution is enacted, this Budget, as 
illustrated by the accompanying table, assumes that specific legislative 
anomaly language will be included to make 2008 advance appropriations 
available. In general, the Budget also assumes that the 2008 level that 
would be enacted in the legislative anomaly is consistent with the 2008 
advance appropriations that were requested in the 2007 Budget. However, 
for the Department of Education's Career, Technical, and Adult Education 
and Special Education accounts, the 2008 level that would be enacted in 
the legislative anomaly is consistent with the 2007 advance 
appropriation enacted in the 2006 Department of Education Appropriations 
Act (P.L. 109-149). This is in order to ensure comparability with annual 
funding provided under the enacted Continuing Resolution for 2007.
  
                       Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2008 Budget
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                 Agency/Program                   Pre-Rescission Levels
                                                    2006        2007    2008 Request    2009 
                                                                                     Preliminary
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Discretionary One-year Advances:

  Department of Eduction (20 U.S.C. 1223 and 29 
    U.S.C. 703):
    Education for the Disadvantaged.............       7,383       7,383       7,383       7,383
    Special Education...........................       5,413       5,424       5,424       6,215
    Career, Technical, and Adult Education......         791         791         791
    School Improvement Programs.................       1,435       1,435       1,435       1,435

  Department of Energy:
    Elk Hills School Lands Fund.................          36

  Department of Health and Human Services:
    Children and Families Services Programs (42 
      U.S.C. 9834)..............................       1,400       1,389       1,389       1,389

  Department of Housing and Urban Development:
    Tenant- and Project-Based Rental Assistance.       4,200       4,200       4,200       4,200

  Department of Labor:
    Training and Employment Services (29 U.S.C. 
      2801 et seq.).............................       2,463       2,463       2,463       2,463

  Postal Service:
    Payment to Postal Service fund (39 U.S.C. 
      2401).....................................          62          73          80          89

  Discretionary Two-year Advances:
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47 
      U.S.C. 396)...............................         400         400         400
      2007 and 2008 Cancellation Proposals......                     -53         -50
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      Subtotal, Discretionary Advance 
        Appropriations..........................      23,583      23,505      23,515      23,174

BioShield Advance:

    Department of Homeland Security:............
    Biodefense Countermeasures..................                                           2,175

Mandatory:

  Department of Health and Human Services:
    Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. 
      1396).....................................      58,517      62,784      65,258      67,293
    Payments to States for Child Support 
      Enforcement and Family Support (24 U.S.C. 
      Ch. 9)....................................       1,200       1,200       1,000       1,000
    Payments to States for Foster Care and 
      Adoption Assistance (P.L. 96-272).........       1,767       1,730       1,810       1,786

  Department of Labor:
    Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners 
      (30 U.S.C. 921)...........................          81          74          68          62

  Social Security Administration:
    Supplemental Security Income Program (42 
      U.S.C. 1381)..............................      16,810      11,110      16,810      14,800
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      Total, Advance Appropriations.............     101,958     100,403     108,461     110,290
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