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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2000: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs",
      "summary": "The annual Foreign Operations appropriations bill is the primary legislative vehicle through\nwhich\nCongress reviews the U.S. foreign aid budget and influences executive branch foreign policy making\ngenerally. It contains the largest share -- over two-thirds -- of total U.S. international affairs\nspending. \n  For FY2000, President Clinton requested $14.1 billion (later amended upward to $14.4 billion),\nplus $1.9 billion over three years for the Wye River/Middle East peace accord. The President's\nproposal, excluding the Wye River funds, was about $1.35 billion, or 9% less than FY1999 amounts.\n  Congressional action on the FY2000 budget resolution resulted in preliminary funding\nallocations for Foreign Operations programs well below the requested amount. \n H.Con.Res. 68 , which cleared Congress on April 15, cut the $20.9 billion overall\nforeign policy discretionary budget request to $17.7 billion, 15% less than the President seeks. \nBecause Foreign Operations funds represent over two-thirds of the foreign policy budget, a reduction\nof this order would substantially limit amounts available for Foreign Operations programs.\n  In addition to total funding levels, five issues were among those that received the most attention\nduring the FY2000 debate, and in some cases, resulted in the sharpest split between House and\nSenate, and Congress-Executive branch positions: 1) U.S. development aid policy and spending\npriorities; 2) population aid and international family planning policy; 3) regional aid allocations; 4)\nU.S. funding for North Korea's heavy fuel oil and broad U.S.-North Korean policy; and 5)\ncompeting initiatives to reduce debt owed to the United States and other creditors by the world's\npoorest and most highly indebted nations.\n  During the summer, the Senate ( S. 1234 ) and House ( H.R. 2606 )\napproved FY2000 Foreign Operations spending measures providing $12.69 billion and $12.62\nbillion, respectively. Because of the reduced funding levels and a House-passed abortion restriction,\nthe White House said the President would veto either bill. A House-Senate conference committee,\nafter deleting the House abortion restriction, agreed to $12.69 billion for Foreign Operations. \nPresident Clinton vetoed the bill, however, due to cuts totaling $1.92 billion to his budget request. \nFollowing weeks of negotiations, Congress and the White House agreed to a revised Foreign\nOperations bill ( H.R. 3422 , enacted by reference in  H.R. 3194 ,  P.L.\n106-113 ) that totals $15.3 billion, including $1.8 billion for the Wye River/Middle East peace\naccord. The compromise package further funds $799 million of White House spending priorities\nthat Congress had rejected in the vetoed  H.R. 2606 .",
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