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      "id": 103360,
      "date": "1999-08-16",
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      "title": "National Endowment for Democracy: Policy and Funding Issues",
      "summary": "The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private, nonprofit organization established\nduring\nthe Reagan Administration, provides grants to private organizations to promote democracy in more\nthan 90 countries around the world. Throughout its 16-year history, NED's budget has ranged from\na low of $15 million in FY1987 and FY1989 to a high of $35 million in FY1994. During the 1990s,\nNED has come under attack from a few Members of Congress for several reasons: its cost; its\ndistribution of noncompetitive grants to four core political, business, and labor grantees; its reliance\non government rather than private funding; and its possible duplication with other U.S. government\nprograms. \n  The President's FY2000 request for NED is $32 million. The House version of the Commerce,\nJustice, State (CJS) appropriations bill ( H.R. 2670 ) recommends $31 million for NED's\nFY2000 budget; the Senate Appropriation Committee recommended no government funding for NED\nin its version of the CJS FY2000 appropriation bill ( S. 1217 ). Senate floor action on\nthis issue later restored NED funding to $30 million by reducing that amount from the State\nDepartment technology account. Opponents are likely to continue to raise debate on federal versus\nprivate funding for NED. This report will be updated as legislation occurs.",
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    "Foreign Affairs"
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