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      "id": 104904,
      "date": "2002-01-15",
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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2002: Transportation and Related Agencies",
      "summary": "On December 18, 2001, the President Bush signed the FY2002 Department of Transportation\n(DOT)\nand Related Agencies conference agreement ( H. Rept. 107-308 ), appropriating a total of $59.588\nbillion for DOT, a 2.5% increase over the FY2001 enacted level. The enacted bill provides $507\nmillion more than the House-passed version and $391 million less than the Senate-passed bill. At\n$32.895 billion, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will receive slightly less than in FY\n2001. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will receive $734 million, $21 million less than\nin FY2001. The other major agencies all get increases. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)\nbudget will increase roughly 6% to $13.295 billion; the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) budget\nwill increase 8% to $6.747 billion; and the Coast Guard will receive an increase of 12% to $5.031\nbillion. The Act also includes $1.25 billion (to be offset by user fee collections) for the new\nTransportation Security Administration (TSA).\n  The enacted conference agreement mandates significant safety and inspection requirements be\n met\nby Mexico-domiciled trucks before DOT begins processing Mexican applications for operating\nauthority\nin the U.S. beyond the commercial zones along the border. It does, however, include a number of\nmodifications in response to Administration concerns that the original Senate bill (as well as the\nHouse\nbill) violated provisions of the North American Free Trade Association agreement (NAFTA).\n  The conference agreement created a controversy when the conferees redirected and earmarked\n$997.6 million of Revenue Aligned Budget Authority (RABA) funds. The RABA mechanism adjusts\nDOT program authorization and obligation levels to reflect recent fuel tax revenues (by increasing\nor decreasing both the authorization and the obligation limitation). For FY2002, this added $4.5\nbillion to DOT programs. This redirection of RABA funds reduces the RABA portion of the states'\nformula funding by 10.7% from what they otherwise would have received. Authorizers see this\naction as a usurpation of their authority, and some vowed to oppose this sort of action in the future.\n  Congress responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by passing the 2001\nEmergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks\non the United States ( P.L.107-38 ). That Act provides $40 billion, government-wide, to pay the costs\nof a variety of responses, including \"providing increased transportation security.\" As of this writing,\nroughly $1.9 billion of these emergency supplemental funds have been approved for transfer to DOT.",
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    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "National Defense"
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