{ "id": "RL32301", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL32301", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 104837, "date": "2004-12-09", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T20:03:25.366756", "title": "Appropriations for FY2005: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies", "summary": "On November 20, 2004, the House and Senate approved the conference agreement on the\nFY2005\nConsolidated Appropriations Act ( H.R. 4818 , H.Rept. 108-792 ), which combined nine\nannual appropriations bills into one measure. The President signed H.R. 4818 into law\n( P.L. 108-447 ) on December 8, 2004. Division A of the act provides the U.S. Department of\nAgriculture and Related Agencies with $85.28 billion in budget authority for FY2005, which is $1.3\nbillion below FY2004 and $2.0-$2.3 billion above the FY2005 House-passed ( H.R. 4766 ) and Senate-reported ( S. 2803 ) bills, and the Administration's FY2005 request. \n An estimated $66.4 billion, or nearly 80%, of the total FY2005 spending in Division A is for\nmandatory USDA programs, primarily farm commodity support programs and various nutrition\nprograms. The mandatory total for FY2005 is $1.45 billion below FY2004, mainly because\nimproved farm commodity prices have required reduced spending for farm commodity support\nauthorized by the 2002 farm bill. FY2005 mandatory spending is approximately $2 billion above the\nrecommendations of the House, Senate, and the Administration, mainly because of a revision in\nnutrition program funding needs subsequent to these recommendations.\n For all discretionary programs, USDA and related agencies receive $16.98 billion for FY2005,\nbefore taking into account the effect of a 0.8% across-the-board rescission on all discretionary\naccounts required by P.L. 108-447 . Discretionary spending is the category over which appropriators\nhave direct control in annual spending bills. The pre-rescission discretionary total is about $140\nmillion above the enacted FY2004 level and the FY2005 House level, $210 million above the Senate\nlevel, and $413 million above the Administration request. Once it is applied, the rescission likely\nwill bring FY2005 spending close to the FY2004 and House level of $16.84 billion.\n In order to meet an FY2005 discretionary allocation that was close to the FY2004 enacted level,\nappropriators, as in past years, placed limitations on authorized levels of spending in the 2002 farm\nbill for various mandatory conservation, rural development, and research programs. P.L. 108-447 \nreduced authorized FY2005 mandatory spending levels for these programs by a total of about $1.2\nbillion, and applied those savings toward meeting the discretionary allocation. \n Among the provisions that were deleted by conferees in the final law were a Senate provision\nthat would have relaxed licensing rules for businesses seeking to travel to Cuba to promote and sell\nagricultural products; and a House provision that would have prohibited FDA from enforcing the\ncurrent law that bans importation of prescriptions drugs by parties other than drug companies.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL32301", "sha1": "1fc943add58dced67be661feb7cb933a7445e0ef", "filename": "files/20041209_RL32301_1fc943add58dced67be661feb7cb933a7445e0ef.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL32301", "sha1": "7bc00b3f20e5f2edc7e567f19a8b8878230f5d07", "filename": "files/20041209_RL32301_7bc00b3f20e5f2edc7e567f19a8b8878230f5d07.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs5896/", "id": "RL32301 2004-09-23", "date": "2004-09-23", "retrieved": "2005-06-11T10:58:32", "title": "Appropriations for FY2005: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies", "summary": "Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. 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