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      "date": "1997-11-26",
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      "title": "Appropriations for FY1998: Defense",
      "summary": "On October 23, House and Senate conferees announced agreement on a compromise version of\nthe\nFY1998 defense authorization bill,  H.R. 1119 . The House approved the conference\nreport on October 28 by a vote of 268-123, and the Senate approved the agreement on November\n6 by a vote of 90-10. The President signed the bill into law ( P.L. 105-85 ) on November 18. The\nissue that had held up agreement in the conference for several weeks was how to allocate work\nbetween public Air Force depots in Utah, Oklahoma, and Georgia and two recently privatized\nfacilities in California and Texas. The conference agreement included compromise language that\nallows competition between the public and private facilities, as the Administration insisted, but with\nconditions, including a requirement that \"core\" work essential to major missions be reserved for the\npublic depots. Senators from Texas and California opposed the compromise, however, and Office\nof Management and Budget Director, Franklyn Raines, threatened a veto of the bill without changes\nin the compromise language. No changes were made, however, and the President ultimately decided\nto sign the bill.\n  Earlier, on September 25, the House and the Senate approved a conference agreement on the\nFY 1998 defense appropriations bill,  H.R. 2266 , and the President signed the bill into\nlaw ( P.L. 105-56 ) on October 8. The agreement resolved differences between the two houses on a\nnumber of contentious issues, including B-2 bomber funding, withdrawal of troops from Bosnia,\ncontractor teaming to produce the New Attack Submarine, some other shipbuilding programs, and\nfunding for tactical aircraft programs. The B-2 and Bosnia compromises avoided a threatened veto\nby the White House. The authorization conference follows the appropriations on all of these issues. \nOn October 14, the White House announced that the President had exercised his line-item veto\nauthority to delete funding for 13 projects in the appropriations bill totaling $144 million.\n  The final version of the defense appropriations bill provides $247.7 billion in new budget\nauthority for defense programs, a compromise between the House-passed level of $248.3 billion and\nthe Senate level of $247.1 billion. The total is $3.8 billion above the Administration request. The\nfinal military construction appropriations bill, H.R.\u00a02016, which was approved in the\nHouse on September 16 and in the Senate on September 17, provides an additional $9.2 billion for\nthe Department of Defense. Several other appropriations bills also provide funds for defense-related\nactivities of other agencies. With action on all of the bills completed, total funding for national\ndefense is close to the level of $268.2 billion recommended by the FY1998 congressional budget\nresolution, which is $2.6 billion above the Administration request. The authorization conference\nagreement also provides $268.2 billion.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "National Defense"
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