[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 7 (Monday, February 17, 1997)]
[Page 176]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Reporting Budget Rescissions and Deferrals

February 10, 1997

To the Congress of the United States:

    In accordance with the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974, I herewith report nine proposed rescissions of budgetary 
resources, totaling $397 million, and one revised deferral, totaling $7 
million.
    The proposed rescissions affect the Departments of Agriculture, 
Defense-Military, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and Justice, 
and the General Services Administration. The deferral affects the Social 
Security Administration.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 10, 1997.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
February 11.