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      "date": "1999-03-29",
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      "title": "Military Contingency Funding for Bosnia, Southwest Asia, and Other Operations: Questions and Answers",
      "summary": "For several years, Members of Congress have been concerned by the strains that military\ncontingency\noperations have placed on the U.S. armed services and the Department of Defense budget. Because\nthe costs of such missions rarely are funded in advance, problems arise when funds must be shifted\nfrom training, maintenance, or weapons modernization to cover their costs. The Administration has\nproposed mechanisms that would ease the strain, but Congress has rejected them as an unacceptable\ncurtailment of Congress' influence over such operations. Congress' unprecedented funding in the\nannual\nbudget of one or both of the current large scale on-going operations -- the NATO operation in Bosnia\nand the coalition operation in Southwest Asia -- since FY1996 has not resolved the problem because\nchanges in the plans for those operations have required the Administration to draw on funds planned\nfor other activities. Supplemental appropriations, which require recission of previously-approved\nfunding\nif they are not to increase the budget, continue to play a large part in funding these operations, as can\nbe seen from the discussion on page 4 and the charts on page 5. Page 6 details the incremental costs\nof U.S. military contingency operations from FY1991-FY1999 in a chart prepared by Stephen\nDaggett,\nSpecialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division. This report will be\nupdated as needed.",
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