[House Hearing, 106 Congress]
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 DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED
                    AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000
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                                HEARINGS

                                BEFORE A

                           SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

                       COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                       ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
                              FIRST SESSION
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  SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE 
                    JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES
                    HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman

 JIM KOLBE, Arizona                 JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina  JULIAN C. DIXON, California
 RALPH REGULA, Ohio                 ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa                   LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
 DAN MILLER, Florida
 ZACH WAMP, Tennessee               

 NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full 
Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees.
    Jim Kulikowski, Jennifer Miller, Mike Ringler, and Cordia Strom,
                           Subcommittee Staff
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                                 PART 3

                  Justification of the Budget Estimates

 Department of State..............................................    1
 Maritime Administration.......................................... 1555
 The Judiciary.................................................... 1727

                              

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                        COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                   C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman

 RALPH REGULA, Ohio                    DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
 JERRY LEWIS, California               JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
 JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois          NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
 HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky               MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
 JOE SKEEN, New Mexico                 JULIAN C. DIXON, California
 FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia               STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
 TOM DeLAY, Texas                      ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
 JIM KOLBE, Arizona                    MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
 RON PACKARD, California               NANCY PELOSI, California
 SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama               PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 JAMES T. WALSH, New York              NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina     JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio                 ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma       JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
 HENRY BONILLA, Texas                  JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
 JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan             ED PASTOR, Arizona
 DAN MILLER, Florida                   CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida
 JAY DICKEY, Arkansas                  DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
 JACK KINGSTON, Georgia                CHET EDWARDS, Texas
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey   ROBERT E. ``BUD'' CRAMER, Jr., 
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi            Alabama
 MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York           JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina
 GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, Jr.,            MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
Washington                             LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
 RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,            SAM FARR, California
California                             JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 TODD TIAHRT, Kansas                   CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
 ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                  ALLEN BOYD, Florida
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa
 ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
 ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
 JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
 JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire
 KAY GRANGER, Texas
 JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania     

                 James W. Dyer, Clerk and Staff Director

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                            C O N T E N T S

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                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                                                                   Page
Overview.........................................................     4
Reorganization...................................................     9
Summary Tables...................................................    13
Administration of Foreign Affairs................................    30
    Performance Plan.............................................    32
    State Programs Overview......................................   225
        Holocaust Assets Commission..............................   246
        IRM Central Fund.........................................   247
    State Program-Current Services:..............................   255
        State Programs Bureau Summaries..........................   260
        State Programs Bureau Overviews:
            Office of the Secretary..............................   317
            Political-Military Affairs...........................   340
            Arms Control.........................................   376
            Nonproliferation.....................................   406
            Office of Protocol...................................   427
            Legislative Affairs..................................   436
            Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific 
              Affairs............................................   453
            Office of the Legal Advisor..........................   470
            Economic and Business Affairs........................   481
            Intelligence and Research............................   493
            African Affairs......................................   515
            Near Eastern Affairs.................................   546
            South Asian Affairs..................................   573
            East Asian and Pacific Affairs.......................   598
            Western Hemispheric Affairs..........................   629
            European Affairs.....................................   658
            East European/Eurasian Affairs.......................   690
            International Organization Affairs...................   710
            Information Programs and International Exchanges.....   733
            Public Affairs.......................................   765
            Consular Affairs.....................................   784
            Management...........................................   814
            Finance and Management Policy........................   829
            ICASS Transfer.......................................   855
            Personnel............................................   859
            Office of Medical Services...........................   903
            Foreign Service Institute............................   912
            Democracy, Human Rights and Labor....................   937
            Administration.......................................   953
            Diplomatic Security..................................   981
            Worldwide Security Upgrades..........................  1012
            Information Resources Management.....................  1022
            Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office.  1052
            Office of Foreign Missions...........................  1072
            Post Assignment Travel...............................  1082
            Population, Refugees and Migration...................  1087
            International Criminal Justice.......................  1092
            Foreign Service National Separation Liability Trust 
              Fund...............................................  1098
            Border Security Program..............................  1103
Other Administration of Foreign Affairs Appropriations:
    Office of Inspector General (including Performance Plan).....  1114
    Educational and Cultural Exchanges...........................  1159
    Representation Allowances....................................  1183
    Buying Power Maintenance Fund................................  1191
    Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials.................  1192
    Security and Maintenance of United States Missions...........  1200
    Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service...........  1298
    Repatriation Loans Program Account...........................  1305
    Payment of American Institute in Taiwan......................  1309
    Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund...............  1323
International Organizations and Conferences:                       1328
    Contributions to International Organizations.................  1329
    Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities......  1418
    CIO & CIPA Arrearage Payments................................  1430
    International Conferences and Contingencies..................  1432
International Commissions:                                         1434
    International Boundary and Water Commission, Salaries and 
      Expenses...................................................  1436
    International Boundary and Water Commission, Construction....  1445
    International Fisheries Commissions..........................  1463
    International Boundary Commission............................  1473
    International Joint Commission...............................  1476
    Border Environment Cooperation Commission....................  1484
Related Appropriations:                                            1488
    The Asia Foundation..........................................  1489
    National Endowment for Democracy.............................  1502
    East-West Center.............................................  1517
    North-South Center...........................................  1542
    Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program.......................  1550
    Israeli Arab Scholarship Program.............................  1552

                        MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Organizational Chart.............................................  1560
Summary Statement................................................  1561
Resource Summaries...............................................  1564
MARAD Performance Plan...........................................  1569
Maritime Security Program........................................  1615
Operations and Training..........................................  1635
Maritime Guaranteed Loan (Title XI) Program......................  1672
Operating-Differential Subsidy...................................  1692
Ocean Freight Differential.......................................  1702
Federal Ship Financing Fund......................................  1709
Miscellaneous Accounts...........................................  1714
Administrative and General Provisions............................  1724

                             THE JUDICIARY

Summary of Budgetary Requirements for Fiscal Year 2000...........  1735
Supreme Court....................................................  1742
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...........  1774
United States Court of International Trade.......................  1785
Court of Appeals, District Courts and Other Judicial Services....  1809
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.........................  1932
Federal Judicial Center..........................................  1952
Payments to Judiciary Trust Funds................................  1964
United States Sentencing Commission..............................  1970
Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund...............................  1980
General Provisions...............................................  1984

                                
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