[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23723-23724]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 THE CONFERENCE REPORT TO H.R. 2299, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
      AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2002

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise to offer for the Record the Budget 
Committee's official scoring for the conference report to H.R. 2299, 
the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act for Fiscal Year 2002.
  The conference report provides $15.3 billion in discretionary budget 
authority, including $440 million for defense spending. That budget 
authority, when coupled with the report's new limitations on 
obligational authorities, will result in new outlays in 2002 of $20.076 
billion. When outlays from prior-year budget authority and obligation 
limitations are taken into account, discretionary outlays for the 
conference report total $52.744 billion in 2002. Of that total, $28.489 
billion in outlays counts against the allocation for highway spending 
and $5.275 billion counts against the allocation for mass transit 
spending. The remaining $18.980 billion in outlays, including those for 
defense spending, counts against the allocation for general purpose 
spending.
  By comparison, the Senate-passed version of the bill provided $15.575 
billion in discretionary budget authority, which, when combined with 
the bill's obligation limitations, would have resulted in $52.925 
billion in total outlays, or $181 million more than the conference 
report. H.R. 2299 is within the subcommittee's Section 302(b) 
allocations for budget authority and outlays for general purpose, 
defense, highways, and mass transit spending. It does not include any 
emergency designations.
  I would like to commend Chairwoman Murray and Senator Shelby for 
their bipartisan efforts in completing this important legislation. I 
ask unanimous consent that a table displaying the budget committee 
scoring of the conference report to H.R. 2299 be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

 H.R. 2299, CONFERENCE REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002, SPENDING COMPARISONS--CONFERENCE REPORT
                                                                [(In millions of dollars]
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                                                              General
                                                              purpose        Defense 1        Highway     Mass Transit 2     Mandatory         Total
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Conference report:
    Budget Authority....................................          14,860             440               0               0            -915          14,385
    Outlays.............................................          18,568             412          28,489           5,275             801          53,545
Senate 302(b) allocation: 3
    Budget Authority....................................          14,884             695               0               0            -915          14,664
    Outlays.............................................          19,164               0          28,489           5,275             801          53,729
President's request:
    Budget Authority....................................          14,552             340               0               0            -915          13,977
    Outlays.............................................          18,543             332          28,489           5,275             801          53,440
House passed:
    Budget authority....................................          14,552             340               0               0            -915          13,977
    Outlays.............................................          18,500             332          28,489           5,275             801          53,397
Senate-passed:
    Budget Authority....................................          14,880             695               0               0            -915          14,660
    Outlays.............................................          18,545             616          28,489           5,275             801          53,726
 
             CONFERENCE REPORT COMPARED TO:
 
Senate 302(b) allocation: 3
    Budget Authority....................................             -24            -255               0               0               0            -279
    Outlays.............................................            -184               0               0               0               0            -184
President's request:
    Budget Authority....................................             308             100               0               0               0             408
    Outlays.............................................              25              80               0               0               0             105
House-passed:
    Budget Authority....................................             308             100               0               0               0             408
    Outlays.............................................              68              80               0               0               0             148
Senate-passed:
    Budget Authority....................................             -20            -255               0               0               0            -275
    Outlays.............................................              23            -204               0               0               0            -181
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1 The 2002 budget resolution includes a contingent ``firewall'' in the Senate between defense and nondefense spending. Because the contingent firewall
  is for budget authority only, the appropriations committee did not provide a separate allocation for defense outlays. This table combines defense and
  nondefense outlays together as ``general purpose'' for purposes of comparing the conference report outlays with the Senate subcommittee's allocation.
2 Mass transit budget authority is not counted against the appropriations committee's allocation and is therefore excluded from the above numbers.
3 For enforcement purposes, the budget committee compares the conference report to the Senate 302(b) allocation.
 
Notes.--Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Totals adjusted for consistency with scorekeeping conventions.

                         NORTH KOREA AND EGYPT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me begin my remarks on North Korea 
and Egypt with an expression of sympathy and solidarity with the people 
of Israel following the weekend's brutal violence that killed and 
injured scores of innocent civilians. My thoughts and prayers are with 
the victims and their families.
  The fanatical suicide bombings by Palestinian extremists must end 
today. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat must immediately and unequivocally 
prove that he embraces peace with Israel, and he can do this by taking 
concrete action against those responsible for organizing and committing 
these heinous attacks. Israel has already appropriately responded to 
the Palestinian terrorism, and I do not doubt that further retaliation 
is possible.
  North Korea today is a failed state. Its centrally planned economy is 
in shambles, and the people of North Korea are, at best, oppressed and, 
at worst, starving and dying. Borrowing a page from Mao Zedong and Pol 
Pot, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il recently launched a new 
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movement to build ``a people's paradise on this land at an early 
date.'' I would remind my colleagues that in the jargon of dictators, 
``paradise'' is synonymous with ``purgatory.''
  While the North Korean leadership poses a clear and present danger to 
the welfare of its own people, state sponsorship of international 
terrorism and news reports of North Korean missile sales to Egypt 
present wider challenges to democracies around the world, from Japan to 
Israel.
  I have stood on the Senate floor several times this year to express 
my concern with reports of Egyptian insistence on buying North Korean 
missiles and weapons technology. Last week, this issue surfaced once 
again at the State Department's daily press briefing. When asked 
whether the Department has concluded that a missile deal between 
Pyongyang and Cairo has not occurred, Spokesman Richard Boucher stated 
``No, I wouldn't go that far.''
  This should give pause to all of us who follow events in the Middle 
East closely. According to a November 16 article in the Washington 
Post, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak publicly warned of an arms race 
between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The danger posed by North Korean 
weapons sales to the region is double-edged: hostile arsenals are 
bolstered while Pyongyang receives much-needed infusions of cash. Deny 
both, and stability is strengthened in Asia and the Middle East.
  Egypt must immediately and honestly answer whether the purchase of 
Nodong missiles, that have a range of 1,000 kilometers, is the 
beginning of that arms race. If this is the case, America has no choice 
but to review new foreign military sales to Egypt. I know some of my 
colleagues will disagree with me on this issue, but, to paraphrase that 
old car repair commercial, we can pay for our inaction now, or we can 
really pay for it later.

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