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      "title": "FY2017 Defense Appropriations Fact Sheet: Selected Highlights of H.R. 5293, S. 3000, and H.R. 1301",
      "summary": "This Fact Sheet summarizes selected highlights of the FY2017 Defense Appropriations Act passed by the House, in the 114th Congress, on June 16, 2016 (H.R. 5293), the version reported by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 26, 2016 (S. 3000), and a third version agreed to March 2, 2017 by House and Senate negotiators.\nAlthough the March 2017 legislation was introduced in the 115th Congress as a new bill, it is -- for practical purposes \u2013 equivalent to the product of an informal conference committee on the two earlier versions. The Senate did not complete action on the Senate committee-reported version of the bill.\nFor DOD base budget activities (excluding military construction which is funded in a separate appropriations bill), the March 2017 version of the bill would provide $516.1 billion, which is $4.9 billion more than the Obama Administration requested in February 2016. The bill would offset $5.6 billion of the bill\u2019s cost by rescissions of unspent money appropriated in prior years and reductions to reflect lower fuel prices and other economic factors. After these reductions, the bill would provide $509.5 billion of new base budget authority.\nThe bill also would provide $62.7 billion in funds designated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), which is $4.0 billion more than the Obama Administration requested in that category of funding. That amount would be offset by rescissions totaling $890.0 million, thus reducing the net requirement for new OCO budget authority to $61.8 billion.\nThe FY2017 base budget funding the bill would provide is consistent with both the FY2017 defense spending cap set by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-74) and the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (P.L. 114-328). The spending cap does not apply to OCO-designated funds.",
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      "title": "FY2017 Defense Appropriations Fact Sheet: Selected Highlights of H.R. 5293 and S. 3000",
      "summary": "This Fact Sheet summarizes selected highlights of the FY2017 Defense Appropriations Act passed by the House on June 16, 2016 (H.R. 5293), and the version reported by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 26, 2016 (S. 3000).\nCongressional action on the FY2017 defense appropriations act has been fundamentally shaped by the legally binding caps on discretionary spending for defense programs and for non-defense programs, which were established by P.L. 114-74, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA). A central issue before Congress is the extent to which Congress and the President approve Department of Defense (DOD) funding for FY2017 that (1) exceeds the relevant BBA cap; and (2) is also exempt from that spending cap because it is classified as funding for so-called Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO).\nThe 2015 BBA increased binding caps on defense and non-defense discretionary appropriations for FY2016 and FY2017, which originally had been codified by the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 (P.L. 112-25). Those spending caps are enforced by a process of \u201csequestration.\u201d",
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