[House Report 106-288]
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 173
106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-288
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                              R E P O R T

                                 on the

                    REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET

                    ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000

                             together with

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

              SUBMITTED BY MR. YOUNG OF FLORIDA, CHAIRMAN,

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS




 August 4, 1999.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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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
GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, Jr.,           JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina
    Washington                       MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,           LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
    California                       SAM FARR, California
TODD TIAHRT, Kansas                  JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                 CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
TOM LATHAM, Iowa                     ALLEN BOYD, Florida
ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire
KAY GRANGER, Texas
JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania
ROY BLUNT, Missouri

                James W. Dyer, Clerk and Staff Director
                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                               Committee on Appropriations,
                                    Washington, DC, August 4, 1999.
Hon. J. Dennis Hastert,
The Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.

    Dear Mr. Speaker: By direction of the Committee on 
Appropriations of July 30, 1999, I submit herewith the 
Committee's report on the revised suballocation of budget 
allocations.
    This revised suballocation is necessary to proceed with 
development of the remaining regular appropriations bills for 
fiscal year 2000 and several conference agreements. Also this 
suballocation accommodates the increased allocation the 
Committee received due to the reporting of the Commerce, 
Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations Bill.
            Sincerely,
                                          C. W. Bill Young,
                                                          Chairman.

                                 (III)
                                                 Union Calendar No. 173
106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-288

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 REPORT ON THE REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL 
                               YEAR 2000

                                _______
                                

 August 4, 1999.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______


 Mr. Young of Florida, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted 
                             the following

                              R E P O R T

 report on the revised suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal 
                               year 2000

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report on the revised suballocation of budget totals for fiscal 
year 2000 pursuant to sections 302 and 314 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.


                          Full Committee Votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 3(a)(1)(b) of rule 
XIII of the House of Representatives, the results of each 
rollcall vote on an amendment or on the motion to report, 
together with the names of those voting for and those voting 
against, are printed below:

                             Rollcall No. 1

    Date: July 30, 1999.
    Measure: Report on the Revised Suballocation of Budget 
Allocations for FY 2000.
    Motion by: Mr. Young.
    Description of motion: To amend the section 302(b) 
suballocations by decreasing the Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education Subcommittee by $3.7 billion and $2.881 
billion in budget authority and outlays, by increasing the VA, 
HUD, and Independent Agencies Subcommittee by $3.7 billion and 
$3.436 billion in budget authority and outlays, and by 
decreasing Reserve by $555 million in outlays.
    Results: Adopted 26 yeas to 25 nays.
        Members Voting Yea            Members Voting Nay
Mr. Aderholt                        Mr. Boyd
Mr. Callahan                        Mr. Clyburn
Mr. Cunningham                      Mr. Cramer
Mr. DeLay                           Ms. DeLauro
Mr. Frelinghuysen                   Mr. Edwards
Ms. Granger                         Mr. Farr
Mr. Hobson                          Mr. Hinchey
Mr. Istook                          Mr. Hoyer
Mr. Kingston                        Mr. Jackson
Mr. Knollenberg                     Ms. Kaptur
Mr. Kolbe                           Ms. Kilpatrick
Mr. Latham                          Mrs. Lowey
Mr. Lewis                           Mrs. Meek
Mr. Miller                          Mr. Mollohan
Mr. Nethercutt                      Mr. Moran
Mr. Packard                         Mr. Murtha
Mr. Porter                          Mr. Obey
Mr. Regula                          Mr. Olver
Mr. Rogers                          Mr. Pastor
Mr. Skeen                           Ms. Pelosi
Mr. Taylor                          Mr. Price
Mr. Walsh                           Ms. Roybal-Allard
Mr. Wamp                            Mr. Sabo
Mr. Wicker                          Mr. Serrano
Mr. Wolf                            Mr. Visclosky
Mr. Young                             

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

    The 302(b) allocations in this report will require deep 
cuts in the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary and the VA, 
HUD, and Independent Agencies Subcommittees. For example, in 
the VA/HUD bill reported by the committee, housing and urban 
development programs are cut $945 million below the FY 1999 
level (after removing the effects of one-time rescissions and 
offsets), while NASA is cut $1 billion below FY 1999.
    However, the 302(b) allocation is much worse for the Labor 
HHS and Education Subcommittee where devastating and totally 
unrealistic cuts will need to be made due to this allocation.
    The Committee's proposed 302(b) allocation cuts another 
$4.046 billion in BA and $2.881 billion in Outlays out of the 
already reduced Labor HHS allocation. This reduces the Labor 
HHS allocation from $77.1 billion to $73.0 billion in BA, and 
from $77.989 billion to $75.1 billion in Outlays. Since the 
Committee's first 302(b) allocation, the Labor HHS allocation 
has been cut by $5.1 billion in BA and $3.8 billion in Outlays.
    The new Labor HHS allocation is -$16.2 billion (-18%) below 
a hard freeze and -$18.6 billion (-20%) below the President's 
Budget in BA. However, the outlay situation is worse and is 
well below the amount needed to spend the BA. If the Committee 
spent its $73.0 billion BA allocation by cutting all programs 
in the bill by 18% below a freeze, the bill would be $6.7 
billion over the outlay allocation of $75.1 billion. If all 
programs were cut by the same percentage to keep the bill 
within the outlay allocation, the across-the-board reduction 
would need to be a -32% cut.

                                            [In billions of dollars]
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                                                                2000
                                            1999      2000     current     2000      House    Senate    House v
                                           enacted   freeze     srvs    President   302(b)    302(b)     freeze
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BA......................................    83.608    89.190    91.282     91.583    73.028    80.445    -16.162
Outlays.................................    83.964    86.073    87.632     87.378    75.108    81.061    -10.965
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Some of the potential impacts of a 32% across-the-board BA 
reduction would be:
          Education spending would be cut by $10.7 billion, the 
        Labor Department would be cut by $3.5 billion, and HHS 
        would be cut by $11.6 billion.
          Approximately 3.8 million students would be denied 
        services under Title I, Grants to LEAs (-$2.5 billion)
          The Federal contribution under Special Education 
        State Grants would be cut by -$234 per child, and the 
        Federal share of the excess cost would drop from 10% to 
        6%. (-$1.4 billion) (The House passed a resolution 
        (413-2) to support full funding for IDEA.)
          The Pell grant maximum award would be cut by $650 to 
        $2,475. (-$2.5 billion cut). (The House passed a 
        resolution (397-13) to support increasing the maximum 
        grant by $400 next year.)
          Nearly 10,000 teachers would be laid off under the 
        Class Size Reduction program (-$384 million)
          About 254,000 fewer youth would be served in TRIO 
        (-$192 million)
          There would be a 32% reduction in the Federal per 
        child contribution under Impact Aid (-$276 million)
          Safe and Drug Free Schools grants to 15,000 school 
        districts would be one-third below the 1999 level 
        (-$141 million)
          Approximately 450 schools with After School awards 
        would have their grants cut by $140,000 each, resulting 
        in 110,000 fewer children served (-$64 million)
          NIH would have to cut all grants and institutes by 
        nearly one-third or eliminate all new grants (-$5.0 
        billion)
          About 300,000 disadvantaged children would be 
        eliminated from Head Start (-$1.5 billion)
          Some 96,000 child care slots for working poor 
        families would be eliminated under the Child Care and 
        Development Block Grant program (-$320 million)
          1.6 million households would be eliminated from the 
        Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (-$352 
        million)
          About 85 million fewer meals for the elderly through 
        the Meals on Wheels and congregate meals programs 
        supported by the Administration on Aging (-$282 
        million)
          112,000 fewer drug and alcohol treatment slots under 
        the Substance Abuse Block Grant (-$507 million)
          32% reduction in Ryan White AIDS assistance for 
        cities, states, and for drug purchase programs (-$452 
        million)
          $1.6 billion cut in job training, including:
                  22,000 fewer youth served in Job Corps, and 
                approximately 38 centers would be closed (-$370 
                million)
                  237,000 fewer laid off workers would receive 
                assistance under the Dislocated Workers Program 
                (-$450 million)
                  200,000 fewer summer jobs and training for 
                disadvantaged youth (-$320 million)
          10,700 fewer OSHA consultation visits and inspections 
        that improve workplace safety (-$114 million)
          130,000 pension inquiries would not be responded to 
        by the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration 
        (-$29 million)

 IMPACT OF A 32% ACROSS THE BOARD CUT LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION DISCRETIONARY
                       [In millions of dollars BA]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    1999     -32% cut   Program impacts
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Labor..........................     10,891     -3,485  .................
HHS............................     36,171    -11,575  .................
Education......................     33,470    -10,710  Cut in education.
                                ----------------------
      Total, Labor-HHS-             89,125    -28,520  .................
       Education.

             LABOR

Training and employment service      5,022     -1,607  .................
                                ----------------------
    Job corps..................      1,157       -370  -22,000 fewer
                                                        youth served.
    Dislocated workers.........      1,405       -450  -236,632 laid off
                                                        workers denied
                                                        services.
    Youth training (summer           1,001       -320  -208,000 fewer
     jobs).                                             summer jobs.

              HHS

NIH............................     15,612      -4996  Deep cuts across
                                                        all grants and
                                                        institutes, and
                                                        elimination of
                                                        all new grants.
LIHEAP.........................      1,100       -352  -1,600,000
                                                        households cut
                                                        off.
Child Care block grant.........      1,000       -320  -96,000 fewer
                                                        child care
                                                        slots.
Head Start.....................      4,660     -1,491  -300,000 kids
                                                        denied services.
Substance abuse block grant....      1,585       -507  -112,000 fewer
                                                        drug and alcohol
                                                        treatment slots.
Ryan White AIDS................      1,411       -452  32% reduction in
                                                        assistance to
                                                        cities, states,
                                                        and drug
                                                        purchase
                                                        program.

           EDUCATION

Class Size Reduction...........      1,200       -384  -9,874 teachers
                                                        laid off.
Title 1, Grants to LEAs........      7,673     -2,455  -3,777,477
                                                        students denied
                                                        services.
Safe and Drug Free Schools.....        441       -141  One-third cut
                                                        below 1999 to
                                                        15,000 school
                                                        districts, ave.
                                                        state cut $2.7
                                                        million.
Impact Aid.....................        864       -276  32% reduction in
                                                        the per child
                                                        contribution.
Special education, state grants      4,311     -1,380  Cuts federal
                                                        contribution by
                                                        $234 per child,
                                                        drops from 10%
                                                        to 6% of excess
                                                        cost.
Pell grants....................      7,704     -2,465  .................
    Pell maximum grant.........      3,125       -650  -$650 reduction
                                                        in the maximum
                                                        award.
TRIO...........................        600       -192  -254,000 students
                                                        denied services.
After school...................        200        -64  458 schools have
                                                        their grants cut
                                                        by $140,000; -
                                                        110,000 fewer
                                                        children served.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes:
-$11.0 billion outlay cut below a freeze would require a -$28.6 billion
  BA cut at the normal 39% outlay rate.
-$28.1 billion BA cut below the 1999 freeze level of $89.1 billion is a
  32% cut.


                                                         Dave Obey.

                                  
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