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      "date": "2000-01-24",
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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2000: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies",
      "summary": "This report tracks action by the 106th Congress on FY2000 appropriations for the Departments\nof\nCommerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and other related agencies (often referred to as CJS\nappropriations).  P.L. 105-277  ( H.R. 4328 ) appropriated $36.2 billion for these agencies\nfor FY1999. The President's FY2000 budget requested about $40.5 billion for these agencies,\nabout a $4.3 billion increase or 12% above the FY1999 total. On October 18, the Conference\nCommittee approved a CJS bill for FY2000 ( H.R. 2670 ,  H.Rept. 106-283 ) totaling $39\nbillion--$2.8 billion (or 7.7%) above the FY1999 appropriation and $1.5 billion below the President's\nrequest. The bill passed Congress on October 20. However, the bill was vetoed by the President on\nOctober 25. A second CJS bill approved by Conference ( H.Rept. 106-479 ) and included in\n H.R. 3194 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2000, was passed by the House\non November 18, 1999. The number for the CJS bill is  H.R. 3421  which is in Division\nB of  H.R. 3194 , Section 1000(a). The Senate passed the bill on November 19, 1999. \nThe measure was signed into law by the President on November 29, 1999 ( P.L. 106-113 ; 113 Stat.\n1501). The law approves total funding of $39.63 billion which is about $625 million above the level\ninitially approved by Congress, $3.4 billion (or 9.5%) above FY1999 appropriation and $920 million\nbelow the President's request. \n  The major CJS appropriations issues or concerns that received attention in both the Senate and\nthe House included the following.  Department of Justice:  extending the 1994 Crime Act\nfunding\nauthorization beyond FY2000; eliminating most funding under the 1994 Crime Act for Title III crime\nprevention programs; increasing funding for drug-related efforts among the Department of Justice\n(DOJ) agencies; changing the focus and levels of appropriations for DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice\nand Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); funding for programs that would reduce violence in schools;\ndetermining the level of INS detention capacity necessary to comply with the statutory mandate that\ncertain criminal aliens be detained until deported; determining the severity of INS budget overruns\nin FY1999 due to over hiring in FY1998 and other mandatory costs; meeting the statutory mandate\nthat the Border Patrol be increased by 1,000 agents in FY2000; restructuring of INS either in the\nform of legislative proposals to dismantle the agency or as an internal restructuring of the agency by\nthe Administration.  Department of Commerce:  the progress made in streamlining and\ndownsizing\nDepartment programs; implementation of the forthcoming decennial census; federal financial support\nof industrial technology development programs; and implementing new White House environmental\ninitiatives at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Department of State: \nincreasing\nfunding for embassy security; reorganization of foreign policy agencies of State, USIA, and other\nforeign policy agencies; and the payment of arrears to the United Nations.  The Judiciary : \n level of\nfunding required for court staff, defender services, security for the lower courts, court administration,\nand the Supreme Court's building improvements program; and the merits of increasing judges'\nsalaries.   Other Related Agencies:  adequacy of funding levels for the Legal Services\nCorporation,\nand the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, given a rapidly growing workload of civil\nrights cases.",
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