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      "date": "2002-02-02",
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      "title": "Appropriations and Authorization for FY2002: Defense",
      "summary": "On June 27, the Administration submitted an amended fiscal year 2002 defense budget request\nto\nCongress. The request totaled $343.5 billion in funding for the national defense budget function,\n$32.9 billion above the amount originally enacted for FY2001, an 11% increase. The total included\nfunding for the Department of Defense and for defense-related activities of the Department of Energy\nand other agencies. Both House and Senate versions of the DOD appropriations bill provided the\ntotal for national defense that the Administration requested. To accommodate that level, Congress\nadjusted limitations in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act and set aside provisions in this year's\nconcurrent budget resolution that were designed to protect the social security surplus. \n  With the onset of a recession last spring, along with higher defense spending and additional\nfederal spending in response to the terrorist attacks, and lower revenues due to the tax cut, the\ngovernment is expected to run a deficit as well as use all of the surplus generated by social security\nrevenues. With the destruction of the World Trade Center and the extensive damage to the Pentagon\nby terrorists on September 11th, congressional concerns shifted from whether the overall federal\nbudget could accommodate higher defense expenditures without spending the budget surplus to\nadding funding for defense programs that combat terrorism.\n  Funding to aid the victims and provide for recovery from the attacks, for the ongoing conflict\nin Afghanistan, and for other programs to combat terrorism, was approved in the $40 billion\nEmergency Terrorism Response supplemental appropriations act ( P.L. 107-38 ) that passed Congress\nSeptember 14, 2001. Of that total, DOD receives $17.5 billion of the total funding in the Emergency\nTerrorism Response supplemental, about 44% of the total (see  P.L. 107-117  and  H.Rept. 107-350 )\nwith about 56% going to other agencies. Allocation of half of the $40 billion was included in  P.L.\n107-117 / H.R. 3338 , the FY2002 DOD appropriations act, which was signed by the\nPresident on January 10, 2002. \n  Although there had been broad bipartisan support for adding funds for recovery and response\nto the September 11 terrorism attacks, sharp differences emerged about whether the total amount\nwas sufficient and whether the allocations matched the most critical priorities, particularly for New\nYork and other homeland security needs. The President, however, threatened to veto any spending\nmeasure this year that went beyond the $40 billion. Faced with this threat, both the House and the\nSenate rejected proposals to add more emergency funding to  H.R. 3338  when they\npassed the bill. Instead, within the $20 billion total that was acceptable to the President, the\nconference bill shifts $3.4 billion of the $7.3 billion funds allocated to Defense by the Administration\nto homeland security and recovery of New York. \n  The conference version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2002 was passed by\nthe House and the Senate on December 13, 2001, and signed by the President on December 28, 2001\n( P.L. 107-107 / S. 1438 , H.Rept. 107-333 ). The Act provides $343.3 billion as requested\nby the Administration and authorizes another round of base closures but delays the date to 2005,\nsettling the chief issue in contention.",
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    "Economic Policy",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "National Defense"
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