Pete Domenici: “the Senate-reported Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Appropriations bill, S. 2260, represents the excellent…”

“the Senate-reported Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Appropriations bill, S. 2260, represents the excellent work of my distinguished colleague from New Hampshire, Subcommittee Chairman Gregg. It is a difficult task to balance the competing program requirements funded in this bill, and he and his staff are to be commended for their efforts to present a sound and equitable measure for the Senate's consideration. When outlays from prior-year budget authority and other completed actions are taken into account, the bill totals $33.2 billion in budget authority and $31.8 billion in outlays for fiscal year 1999. The bill is within the revised Senate Subcommittee's Section 302(b) allocation for both budget authority and outlays. It is $10 million in budget authority and $6 million in outlays below the 302(b) allocation. It is $1.4 billion in budget authority and $2.6 billion in outlays above the 1998 level. I today submit a table displaying the Budget Committee scoring of this bill. It is a pleasure serving on the Appropriations Subcommittee with Chairman Gregg. I appreciate the consideration he gave to issues I brought before the Subcommittee, as well as his attention to the many important programs contained in this bill.”