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On September 9, 2003, the\nHouse passed H.R. 2989 , the FY2004 Transportation, Treasury and Independent\nAgencies Appropriations bill, which provided $85.8 billion. The major financial change from the\nAdministration's request was to recommend an additional $4.4 billion in highway spending (another\nmajor change, the deletion of the $3.4 billion for grants-in-aid to airports, was a procedural change;\nfunding may be restored in conference). On October 23, the Senate passed its version of the bill,\nwhich provided $91.0 billion, adding $4.5 billion in highway funding to the Administration's\nrequest. Conferees agreed on $89.8 billion on November 25th. The conference version of the bill\nwas added to the Consolidated Appropriations bill, which the House passed on December 8, 2003. \nThe Senate adjourned for the year without voting on the bill; they approved the bill on January 22,\n2004. The Consolidated Appropriations Act contains a 0.59% across-the-board rescission; the\nfigures in this report do not reflect the impact of that rescission. They also do not reflect the $55\nmillion in transportation projects and $1 billion for election reform grants projects located in the\n\"Miscellaneous Appropriations\" Division at the end of the Act.\n Prior to passage of P.L. 108-199 , FY2004 funding for agencies and programs in the\nTransportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies appropriations bill was provided, at FY2003\nlevels, through January 31, 2004 by a series of continuing resolutions.\n Key issues in the FY2004 appropriations bill included: pay for federal civilian employees (the\nWhite House proposed a 2% raise; the bill provides a 4.1% raise for federal civilian employees, in\nline with the military pay raise); outsourcing of federal work (the bill restricts the Administration's\nplan to increase outsourcing, but the broader restrictions contained in both House and Senate bills\nwere dropped due to veto threats); \"cash balance\" pension plans (the bill prohibits the Treasury\nDepartment from finalizing rules affecting conversion of traditional pension plans to cash balance\nbasis); and Cuba (the conference bill omitted provisions contained in both House and Senate bills\nthat constrained enforcement of travel restrictions to Cuba). 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