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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2000: Defense",
      "summary": "On October 6, conferees reached agreement on the FY2000 defense appropriations bill,\n H.R. 2561 , and the conference report was filed on October 8. The House approved the\nconference agreement by a vote of 372-55 on October 13, and the Senate approved it by a vote of\n87 to 11 on October 14, and the President signed the bill into law,  P.L. 106-79 , on October 25. The\nkey issue in the conference concerned funding for the F-22 fighter. The conference agreement\nprovides a total of $2.522 billion for the program, including $1.222 billion for R&D, $1 billion\nfor\nacquisition of test aircraft, and $300 million in advance FY2001 appropriations for program\ntermination liability. The total amount is about $500 million below the request ($1.85 billion in\nprocurement and $1.2 billion in R&D). The conference agreement also prohibits award of an\ninitial\nlow-rate production contract unless certain testing is successfully completed.\n  Aside from the F-22, major issues in the FY2000 defense debate included whether to approve\na new round of military base closures, how much to provide for military pay and benefits, whether\nto impose constraints on funding for U.S. military operations in Kosovo, how to fund theater missile\ndefense programs, and how to respond to security lapses at Department of Energy (DOE) weapons\nlabs. The conference agreement on the defense authorization bill does not approve a new round of\nmilitary base closures. It provides somewhat larger increases in pay and benefits than the\nAdministration had requested, including a 4.8% pay raise in 2000 and increased retirement benefits,\nthough it does not include a Senate-passed provision to expand Montgomery GI Bill benefits. \nAlthough Congress approved supplemental FY1999 appropriations for Kosovo operations, the\nAdministration's policy remains controversial. The House removed a provision from the defense\nauthorization bill prohibiting funds to be used for future operations in Kosovo, but only after the\nAdministration agreed to seek supplemental appropriations to cover costs of a peacekeeping mission\nin FY2000. Earlier in the year, both houses approved bills calling for deployment of a nationwide\nmissile defense, but funding for theater missile defense programs was a matter of dispute. The\nauthorization conference agreement establishes an independent organization within DOE to oversee\nsecurity, and the President objected to these provisions even as he signed the bill into law. \n  Finally, the level of defense spending was resolved only at the very end of the appropriations\nprocess. The Senate-passed appropriations bill used about $4.9 billion of funds provided in the\nKosovo supplemental appropriations bill as an offset for defense increases and provided a net total\nof $264.7 billion, $1.4 billion above the request. The House bill provided $268.7 billion in new\nbudget authority, $5.4 billion above the request and $4.0 billion above the Senate level. The\nappropriations conference agreement provides $267.8 billion in FY2000, of which $7.2 billion is\ndesignated as emergency appropriations.",
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