1 Includes $17.9 billion for the International Monetary Fund.
² Excludes $1.1 billion in transportation budget authority for transit programs, which is scored as obligation limitations for Congressional Budget Act purposes.
³ Allocation available after scoring of all other bills. Includes all adjustments to allocations permitted by the Congressional Budget Act.

• Allows President to waive sanctions on United States government-financed exports to India and Pakistan.
• Places a March 30, 1999 moratorium on any Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) action on swaps and derivatives.

• Funds Census and the entire Commerce-Justice appropriations bill only through June 15, 1999 pending a court decision on sampling vs. enumeration.
• Prohibits the FBI from charging a user fee for its National Instant Check System (NICS).
• Citizen Protection Act: Subjects federal attorneys to state ethics rules (120-day delay).
• Changes the implementation date of Section 110(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act at the land and seaports of entry to March 30, 2001.
• No abortion funding for federal prisoners.
• $475 million for United Nations arrearage payments subject to authorization and achievement of reforms, including a reduction in the United States assessment from 25-22%.

• Bans use of local and federal funding for needle exchange programs in the District.
• Bans federal or DC funds used for abortions, except in cases of life of the mother, rape, or incest.
• Bans implementation of the District's Domestic Partners Program.
• Prohibits funding for a referendum on legalizing marijuana.
• Retains repeal of property tax exemption for National Education Association.
• Repeals the Residency Requirement Reinstatement Amendment Act of 1998.

• Mexico City remains on authorizing legislation, meaning it is tied to UN arrearages.
• Funds for international family planning assistance are capped at $385 million and subject to monthly apportionment on an equal basis -- 8.3% per month (same as current law).
• Includes provision-tightening language on voluntary family planning to prevent abuses.
• Does not include money for the UN Population Fund, which is starting new programs in China.
• Provides $35 million for KEDO (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization), only after March 1999, and only if the President certifies that North Korea is making progress toward ending its nuclear and ballistic missiles programs.
• Substantive IMF conditions/reforms (see box below).

• Izenbek Road compromise: Alternative approach taken to address critical health and safety needs: road on private, non-wilderness lands, improved health facilities, improvements to existing airstrip.
• Provides $8 million for the "Quincy Library Group" plan, a pilot program in Sierra Nevada to scientifically manage the forests by bringing together the Forest Service in cooperation with local governments and communities.
• Prohibits implementation of oil valuation regulations for eight months.
• Includes a 6-month moratorium on Class III Indian Gaming.
• Retains NEA reforms.

• Prohibits federal funding for needle exchange programs.
• Prohibits the use of federal funding for embryo research.
• Expands Hyde language to cover Medicare.
• Protects health care systems, including Catholic hospitals, from having to perform or pay for abortions if they participate in the Medicare+Choice program.
• Prohibits implementation of new administration organ procurement and transplantation regulations for one year. Also, provides for a study of current policies and new rule making.
• Includes one-year moratorium on the President's proposed national tests in reading and math unless such tests are specifically and explicitly authorized.
• Includes $1.2 billion for 100,000 New Teachers initiative through the Title VI, Education Block Grant. 100% of funding goes to local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train regular and special education teachers and test new teachers for academic content knowledge.
• Requires a study on ergonomics to be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences.
• Prohibits federal funding for a rerun of the Teamsters election.

• Prohibits the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from promulgating regulations related to federalizing the state driver's license issuance process and requiring states to place Social Security numbers on driver's licenses. (Title III, Section 362).
• Extends the Airport Improvement Program for six months.

• Retains a provision blocking Members of Congress, Judges and members of the federal executive service from receiving their annual cost of living adjustment.
• Prohibits funding to government health plans that refuse to cover certain contraceptives. Exceptions are made for religious convictions and individual moral convictions.
• Allows certain Haitian refugees to receive green cards.
• Continues a prohibition on the use of funds for abortion in connection with any health plan under the federal employees health benefit program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions, except in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother.
• Includes a provision providing for compensation to certain gun owners, necessary as a result of the President's recent decision to ban the importation of certain rifles.
• Includes a provision modifying representation of U.S. interests before the Universal Postal Union.

• Prohibits the use of funds in this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13083 on Federalism (Sec 623).
• Adds a new Regulatory Reform provision that requires OMB to do an accounting statement and associated report on the cumulative costs and benefits of federal regulatory programs, including analysis of impacts of federal regulation on state and local governments, for the calendar year 2000. (Title V - Section 638)
• Gradually increases state-wide volume limits on private activity bonds from the current annual volume limits of the greater of $50 per resident of the state or $150 million to the greater of $75 per capita or $225 million by 2007 (Title XI). Private activity bonds include bonds for privately operated transportation facilities, privately owned and/or provided municipal services, economic development, and social programs, such as low-income housing.
• Funds the Clean Water Action Plan at $1.7 billion, a $230 million (16.1%) increase over FY98.
• Reverses Freddie Mac language included in original Senate VA-HUD bill and conference report that allows Freddie Mac to buy loans not backed with private mortgage insurance.
• Includes H1B, providing temporary visas for professional workers.
• Internet Taxation: Establishes a 3-year moratorium on internet taxation (state and local); includes no new federal Internet taxes (Sense of Congress); establishes civil and criminal penalties for commercial distribution of material harmful to children; creates a framework for the Federal Trade Commission to regulate collection and dissemination of information about children on the internet.
• Provides tax relief for the Unabomber reward going to victims.
• Allows the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to refinance its federal bank debt without prepayment penalty ($16 million for FY99). Appropriations for Land between the Lakes and other management activities are included under management responsibilities for TVA.
• Includes State Department Reorganization: Merges the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) into State Department by April 1, 1999 and the United States Information Agency (USIA) into State Department by October 1, 1999.
• Includes the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act.

Appropriation Highlights:
(Does not include emergency spending)
FY98 Funding Level: $13.75 billion (with mandatories: $49.55 billion)
FY99 President’s Request: $13.67 billion (with mandatories: $58.06 billion)
FY99 Funding Level: $13.69 billion (with mandatories: $55.9 billion)

• $1.5 billion for natural disasters.
• $3.05 billion for market loss payments, including $200 million for dairy producers.
• $875 million for multiple year losses.
• $200 million for livestock feed assistance.
• $25 million for Food for Peace shipments.
• Additional funding for farm operating loans, the forestry incentive program, and the Farm Service Agency.

• Mutual and Self-Help Housing is preserved at FY98's level of $26 million. This program brings groups of low-income families together to work on the construction and repair of each other's houses.
• Rural Housing loan authority for low-income housing is increased $40 million over FY98, bringing FY99 to $4.26 billion.
• The Rural Community Advancement Program is increased $70.5 million over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $722.69 million, $7.5 million above the President’s request.
• Farm Operating Loans are funded at a level of $1.65 billion.
• Agriculture research and extension is increased $98 million over FY98, bringing FY99 to $1.69 billion.
• Civil Rights for Farmers is funded at $15 million to help USDA process discrimination cases.

• The Food Safety Inspection Service is increased $28.2 million over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $617.5 million.
• The Food Safety Initiative is increased by $75.2 million.
• The Food and Drug Administration is funded at $1.1 billion, $129 million more than FY98, and $97 million more than the President’s request.
• Prescription Drug User Fees (PDUFA) is funded at $132.3 million, $15 million more than FY98 and $5.4 million more than the President's request.
• Funding for the tobacco program within FDA is funded at $34 million in FY99, the same as FY98.

• The School Lunch Program is funded at $5.4 billion, the same as the President’s request.
• The School Breakfast Program is funded at $1.397 billion, the same as the President’s request.
• The Child and Adult Food Program is funded at $1.612 billion, the same as the President’s request.
• Food for Peace (PL 480 Program) is funded at $1.08 billion, an increase of $103 million over the President’s request.
• Preserved funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) at the FY98 funding level of $3.9 billion.

• Extends final rulemaking on milk marketing orders by six months, from April 4, 1999 to October 1, 1999.
• Waives any sanctions to India and Pakistan.

Discretionary without Crime Trust Fund
FY99 Funding level: $27.6 billion
FY99 President’s Request: $ 28.4 billion
FY98 Funding Level: $26.4 billion

Violent Crime Trust Fund:
FY99 Funding level: $5.5 billion
FY99 President’s Request: $5.5 billion
FY98 Funding level: $5.2 billion

• $440 million more than FY98 (includes mandatory programs), and $116 million less than the President’s request. Includes :
• $4.8 billion for State and Local Law Enforcement, $400 million over the President’s request and $49 million over FY98.
• Restores Local Law Enforcement Block Grant at $523 million (the President proposed to terminate this program).
• Provides $535 million to combat juvenile crime, including $284.6 million for juvenile crime prevention programs, $46 million more than last year and $7 million more than the President’s request. Also includes $250 million for the second year of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant, which the President proposed to terminate.
• Provides $1.4 billion for the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) and allows COPS to use $180 million of funding for innovative community policing grants to provide bullet proof vests ($25 million – new initiative); school violence ($17.5 million -- new initiative); methamphetamine trafficking and drug hot spots ($35 million); technology ($80 million); $5 million for additional positions to provide supervision of D.C. parolees and probationers by the D.C. Offender Services Trustee Office; $5 million for community prosecutors; and $17.5 million for domestic violence initiatives.
• Provides $283 million for the Violence Against Women Act, $12 million more than the President’s request and FY98’s funding.
• Provides $585 million to reimburse states for incarceration of illegal aliens, $85 million more than the President’s request.
• Provides $210 million for a safe schools initiative, including $167.5 million to hire police officers and school resource officers to combat violence in schools within the COPS hiring program; $32.5 million for programs in schools to prevent violence; and $10 million for development of effective technologies to help prevent violence in schools.

• Provides $145 million, increased $93 million over FY98, including $125 million for equipment grants and training for state and local first responders.

• Includes $111 million in increases over FY98, including $1.229 billion for the Drug Enforcement Administration, $36 million above the President’s request and $93 million above FY98. The increases include:
• +$23 million above the President’s request to support source country and transit zone enforcement;
• +$37 million above FY98 to combat domestic methamphetamine and heroin trafficking;
• +$10 million above the President’s request for Drug Courts;
• +$4 million not requested by the President to provide assistance to small businesses to implement drug free workplaces (recently authorized in House).
• +13 million not requested by the President for domestic, regional enforcement teams to respond to the needs of our smaller cities and rural areas.

• The INS is funded at $ 2.464 billion, $198 million more than FY98, and $130 million below the request. This will fund 1,000 new border patrol agents and a $48 million interior enforcement initiative to address INS’s failure to work with state and local law enforcement by providing up to 50 local quick response teams charged with responding to local police when they apprehend illegal aliens.

• $3.65 billion is provided for FY99, $188 million more than FY98 and $155 million below the President’s request.

• Provides a total of $5 billion for the Department of Commerce, $2.8 billion below the President’s request and $800 million more than FY98, including:
• $1.031 billion for the Decennial Census, including $4 million for the Census Monitoring Board, an increase of $661 million over FY98 and $82 million over the President’s request. Bill language limits funding after March 31, 1999, requiring the President to request release of the funds, as well as a total cost estimate for the Census, and then a vote by the Congress to release funding for the final six months of the year, to put a deadline on resolving how the Census will be conducted.
• $1.174 billion for the National Weather Service and Related Programs. Includes $659 million for the National Weather Service, including a $41 million increase over FY98 for National Weather Service operations, and continues funding for NWS modernization activities. Also provides $465 million for weather satellites, a $135 million increase over FY98.
• NOAA is funded at $2.166 billion, $164 million over FY98.
• NIST is funded at $647 million, $183 million below the request. Core internal research programs are funded at $280 million, $41.7 million over FY98, while the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) is funded at $203.5 million, $11 million above FY98, and $65 million below the request.

• Provides $4.4 billion for the State Department, $356 million below the request and $322 million above FY98.
• $475 million is provided for United Nations arrearages, subject to authorization and achievement of reforms, including a reduction in the U.S. assessment from 25% to 22%.
• $15 million is provided for design of a new embassy in Beijing and $10 million for design of a new embassy in Berlin.
• The United States Information Agency is funded at $1.1 billion, $21 million below the President’s request and $7 million below FY98. Funding includes $42 million for the second year of an initiative to expand broadcasting to China by Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America, and $203 million for Educational and Cultural Exchanges.
• The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) is funded at $41.5 million, $2 million below the President’s request and the same as FY98.

• Legal Services Corporation is funded at $300 million, $17 million more than FY98 and $40 million below the President’s request (subject to the same restrictions as last year).
• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is funded at $192 million, a $5.5 million increase over FY98.
• The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is funded at $116.7 million, $10.2 million more than FY98.
• The Small Business Administration is provided with $76.3 million for the costs of subsidizing direct disaster loans and another $71 million is provided within the Disaster Supplemental. The Administration had not requested any funding.
• The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is provided with a $37 million increase for mediation and investigation resources to support further reductions in the EEOC’s backlog of outstanding charges. Total funding is $279 million.

Federal Payment:
FY99 Conference Agreement: $494.6 million
FY99 President’s Request: $486.2 million
FY98 Level: $835 million*

(*included $302 million for federal payment to DC Corrections
Facilities Construction and Repair – now in Commerce-Justice bill)

District Funds:
FY99 Chairman’s Mark: $6.790 billion
(includes $1.7 billion for a 6-year appropriation for capital outlays)
FY99 President’s Request: $6.767 billion
FY98 Level: $4.962 billion

• Offender Trustee: $59.4 million
• D.C. Courts: $128 million
• Prison Trustees: $184.8 million
• Charter Schools: $15.62 million
• Metro Station at Convention Center: $25 million
• Management Reform: $25 million
• Boy’s Town: $7.1 million
• D.C. Medicare Coordinated Care Demo $3 million
• Children's National Medical Center $1 million
• D.C. Historic Society Carnegie Museum: $2 million
• U.S. Park Police Aviation Unit: $8.5 million
• Fire Fighter Pay Raise (5.5%): $3.24 million
• Infrastructure Fund: $18.78 million
• Lorton Environmental Study: $7 million
• People’s House Hotline & Mentor Program: $250,000
• Metropolitan Police Dept. Review Board: $1.2 million
• Southwest Waterfront Improvements $3 million
• Georgetown Waterfront Park Fund $1 million
• National Museum of Music/Downtown Renovation $700,000
• Subtotal: $494.6 million
• D.C. Revitalization Plan $125 million
  (Not in D.C. bill; funded in Miscellaneous Provisions)

• Appropriates $25 million (as proposed by the Senate) for continued management reform in the District and directs that the funds be used for projects that enhance government efficiency and service delivery to District residents. Includes:
• Fire and Emergency Medical Service -- funding for 55 full-time equivalent positions necessary to place five additional EMS units in operation in FY99.
• Department of Health Toxicology Lab -- funding to re-open the Chief Medical Examiner's laboratory and obtain the necessary equipment.
• Technology: District-wide Voice/Data Network -- funding to implement a high-speed, city-owned fiber network for providing voice and data services.
• Includes $125 million District of Columbia Revitalization Plan: $50 million for infrastructure, $30 million for special education, $20 million for Year 2000 compliance, $25 million for Economic Development Corporation.
• Provides $1 million (Senate provision) in federal funds for payment to the Georgetown Waterfront Park on a dollar-for-dollar matching basis.
• Provides $700,000 (Senate provision) in federal funds for a National Museum of American Music and for Downtown Revitalization.
• Provides $1 million in federal funds for the Children's National Medical Center for the Community Pediatric Health Initiative.
• Provides $3 million for D.C. Medicare coordinated care demonstration project.
• Deletes $573,000 (House provision) for the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Funding elimination comes after several reports by the D.C. Auditor documenting abuse of taxpayer funds.
• Bans use of local and federal funding for needle exchange programs.
• Repeals the Residency Requirement Reinstatement Amendment Act of 1998.
• Retains Barr prohibition on funds included in this act for holding referendum on legalizing marijuana.

• Approve consensus budget and provide any excess revenue projected to be applied to 1) eliminate accumulated deficit; 2) create reserve fund of up to $250 million to replace seasonal borrowing; 3) payoff water and sewer fund debt; 4) retire outstanding long term debt.
• Charter Schools: Earmark full funding of $27.86 million.
• Retain current law restrictions on funds for domestic partners and no local funding for abortion.
• Require Control Board Counsel and Executive Director to reduce salaries to Executive Level IV.
• Limitation on funds for suing Congress for voting representation.
• Places responsibility for contracting annual city audit with D.C. Inspector General.
• Permit Corps of Engineers to contract for school repairs.
• Permanently extend existing Business Improvement District Tax status.
• Requires repayment of $17 million to residents for parking ticket overcharges.
• Limit attorney fees for special education cases.
• Provides that D.C. public schools cannot use funds to educate nonresident non-tuition paying students.
• No payment for teachers or D.C. officials who knowingly provide false enrollment or attendance information.
• Capped Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) at 32,900.
• Mandates D.C. public schools open on time.
• Permanently repeals NEA tax exempt status.
• Includes improvements to adoption process through outsourcing.
• Enhances prompt payment procedures for D.C. courts to pay attorneys for indigents.

Appropriation Highlights:
FY99 Conference agreement: $31.271 billion
FY99 President’s Request: $31.99 billion
FY98 Enacted Levels: $13.19 billion

• Provides a $82 million increase for the Export-Import Bank in order to protect American job interests abroad, bringing FY99 funding to $765 million, $43 million below the President’s request.
• Provides a $60 million increase for the Asian Development Fund, bringing FY99 funding to $210 million, $40 million below the President’s request.

• Provides the President’s requested level of $17.9 billion for the IMF’s New Arrangements to Borrow and the U.S. quota increase.
• Contains conditions and reforms outlined in attachment.

• Provides net savings of $100 million to American taxpayers.
• Israel’s economic assistance is reduced from $1.2 billion in FY98 to $1.08 billion in FY99. The President’s request was the same as FY98.
• Israel’s military assistance is increased from $1.8 billion in FY98 to $1.86 billion in FY99. The President’s request was the same as FY98.
• Egypt’s economic assistance is decreased from $815 million in FY98 to $775 million in FY99. The President’s request was the same as FY98.
• Egypt’s military assistance is level funded at $1.3 billion in FY99. The President’s request was the same as FY98.

• Former States of the Soviet Union funding is $124 million below the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $801 million. There is an additional $46 million in the Emergency Supplemental for NIS.
• For the first time in more than twenty years, no funding is provided for the Foreign Military Financing Program for Turkey and Greece.
• Voluntary peacekeeping operations are funded at $6.5 million below the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $76.5 million, $1 million below FY98.

• Restores the President’s $47 million cut to the Child Survival and Disease Programs Fund to the FY98 level of $650 million. An additional $50 million is provided in the Emergency Supplemental.
• Increases UNICEF $5 million over FY98 and the President’s request, bringing FY99 to $105 million.
• Reserves $228 million of the Newly Independent States funds for the Southern Caucasus region, making $40 million available as American share of international effort to restore peace between Armenia and its neighbors.
• Funds for international family planning assistance are capped at $385 million and subject to monthly apportionment on an equal basis -- 8.3% per month (current law).
• Withholds 50% of the assistance to the government of Russia unless it ends nuclear and ballistic missile cooperation with Iran; includes Presidential waiver.
• Increases International Narcotics Control $46 million over last year’s levels, bringing FY99 to $261 million.
• Increases the Nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, de-mining account $65 million over FY98, bringing FY99 to $198 million, $18 million below the President’s request.
• Freezes the International Fund for Ireland at $19.6 million, the same as FY98.

• Increases the Peace Corps $18 million over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $240 million, $30 million below the President’s request.
• Funds the Agency for International Development at $2.639 billion for FY99, $90 million above the President’s request.
• Funds the Trade and Development Agency at $44 million for FY99, $2.5 million more than FY98.
• Funds the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program at $50 million for FY99, the same as FY98 and the President’s request.
• Funds the European Bank at $35.8 million for FY99, the same as FY98 and the President’s request.

Appropriation Highlights:
FY99 Interior Bill: $14.1 billion
FY99 President's request: $14.3 billion
FY98 Enacted: $14.1 billion

High Priorities (increases compared to FY98):

• $140 million for Everglades restoration ---
• $1.3 billion for National Park operations ($99 million increase)
• $1.3 billion for National Forest System ($59 million decrease)
• $1.2 billion for Bureau of Land Management ($20 million increase)
• $237 million for National Wildlife Refuges ($18 million increase)
• $600 million for BIA education and law enforcement ($35 million increase)
• $2.2 billion for the Indian Health Service ($141 million increase)
• $950 million for wildland firefighting ($65 million increase)

• Extends the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program by 2 years to allow public lands to keep 100% of the fees. This will result in over $500 million of added revenue over the life of the demo program spent at collection sites on maintenance backlogs.
• Terminates $50 million timber purchaser road credit program.
• Wildland fire management gets full funding for wildfire preparation and for hazardous fuels.
• Provides $140 million for the Everglades restoration effort ($80 million land acquisition, $12 million science, $14 million water delivery system, and $21 million for management in the National Park Service, and $13 million in other Interior bureaus).
• Includes $17 million to finish the construction of two new Indian schools and an additional $6 million to address the growing backlog of serious repair projects at other BIA schools.
• Completes the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.
• Cultural programs increased by $22 million (Smithsonian operations), $2.1 million (National Gallery), and $800,000 (Kennedy Center). Level funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ($98 million).
• Includes an additional $20 million for BIA law enforcement to begin to address the growing crime problems on tribal lands.
• Completes the construction of the Hopi Indian health clinic in Arizona and the design of two other Indian health facilities in Nebraska and Arizona; and begins the construction of one new hospital and one new clinic in Arizona.
• Land & Water Conservation Fund land acquisition total is $328 million.
• Millennium Program is initiated to restore the nation’s treasures such as the Declaration of Independence, the Star-Spangled Banner and the U.S. Constitution.
• Weatherization assistance program in the Department of Energy is funded at $133 million, an increase of $8 million.

Appropriation Highlights:
Discretionary (Discretionary + Mandatory)
FY99 conference agreement: $83.33 billion ($292.0 billion)
FY99 President’s Request: $84.5 billion ($293.3 billion)
FY98 Spending: $81.2 billion ($271.7 billion)

• Increases overall block grant funds in the bill $879 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $7.77 billion, $473 million over FY98, including,
• Education Block Grant (Title VI) is increased $375 million over the President’s request (his budget proposed terminating the program), bringing FY99 to $375 million, $25 million more than FY98.
• Social Services Block Grant is funded at the President's requested level of $1.9 billion, a reduction of $390 million from FY98, a reduction of $471 million below the guaranteed authorized level agreed to in the historic welfare reform agreement.
• Substance Abuse Block Grant is increased $80 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $1.585 billion, $275 million more than FY98.
• Preventative Health Block Grant is increased $1 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $150 million, $1 million more than FY98.
• Community Services Block Grant is increased $11 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $500 million, $10 million more than FY98.
• The Maternal and Child Block Grant is increased $18 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $700 million, $19 million more than FY98.
• The Child Care Development Block Grant is funded at the President's requested level of $1.182 billion*, $172 million is earmarked for childcare quality improvements. *$1,182,672,000 advanced appropriations for FY2000; of which $222,672,000 above the amount required by basic law (no less than 4% of total funds) to improve the quality of child care for FY2000, including $50 mil to improve the quality of infant care, $19.120 mil for school-aged care, $10 mil for research, demos, and evaluation.

• Job Corps is fully funded at the President’s requested level of $1.307 billion, $61.4 million more than FY98.
• Summer Youth is funded at the President's requested level of $871 million, the same as FY98.
• Youth Job Training is fully funded at the President’s requested level of $130 million, the same as FY98.
• Vocational Education (State Grants) is funded at the President’s requested level of $1.03 billion, $3.1 million more than FY98.
• Safe and Drug Free Schools (State Grants) is funded at $441 million, $90 million below FY98, $85 million below the President's request. National programs are funded at $90 million, $65 million more than FY98, to focus on school violence.
• 100,000 Teachers in the Classroom is funded through the Education Block Grant (Title VI) at the President's requested level of $1.2 billion. 100% of funding goes to local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train regular and special education teachers and test new teachers for academic content knowledge, in order to meet state certification requirements. No funds can be spent to increase the salaries or benefits of currently employed teachers.
• Head Start is increased $313 million over the FY98 level, bringing FY99 to $4.66 billion, the same as the President’s request.
• Pell Grants are increased to a maximum grant award level of $3,125, $25 more than the President’s request, $125 more than FY98’s level. This funding supports 3.9 million financially needy students.
• Title 1 for disadvantaged students is increased $301 million above FY98, bringing FY99 funding to funded at the FY98 level of $7.796 billion, $121.1 million below the President’s request.
• Bilingual and Immigrant Education is increased $26 million over FY98 levels, bringing FY99 funding to $380 million.
• Special Education (State Grants) is increased $523 million over FY98 and $500 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $5.055 billion.
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting (FY 2001) is funded at the President’s requested level of $340 million.
• TRIO program for minority and disadvantaged students is increased $70.3 million over the FY98 level and $17 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $600 million.
• The Gear Up program for disadvantaged students is funded at $120 million (new initiative).
• Impact Aid is increased $168 million over the President’s request and $56 million over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $864 million (under the President’s proposal, 769 school districts would have been denied funding in FY99).
• Child Welfare Services is increased by $531,000 funded at $292 million, about the same as FY98.
• Child Abuse state grants increased by $38,000, to $21,026 million; child abuse discretionary grants increased by $26,000 to $14.154 million.
• Abandoned infants increased by $22,000 to $21.251 million.
• Adoption opportunities increased by $2.042 million to $25 million. The bill also provides $20 million for a new adoption incentive program.
• Community-based Family Resource Centers increased by $60,000 to $32,835,000.
• Community food and nutrition increased by $1.007 million to $5 million; family support and preservation increased by $20 mil to $275 mil;
• Runaway and Homeless youth basic grants increased by $79,000, to $43,653,000 transitional living grants increased by $27,000 to $14,949,000
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers increased by $160 million to $200 million for FY99
• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is funded at $1.1 billion, the same as FY98. $300 million is available upon a Presidential emergency declaration (same as FY98).
• Community Service Employment for Older Americans is funded at the President’s requested level of $440.2 million, the same as FY98.
• Home Delivered Meals and Congregate Meals Program (Administration on Aging) is preserved at the President’s requested level of $486.4 million, the same as FY98.

• Reflecting an ongoing commitment to medical research, the National Institutes of Health is increased $1.96 billion over FY98 (11%) and $819 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $15.582 billion.
• Disease prevention programs under the Centers for Disease Control are increased $222 million over FY98 and $100 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $2.554 billion. The funding includes a $16 million increase (over FY98) for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, bringing total funding to $159 million; a $82 million increase (over FY98) for Chronic and Environmental Diseases, bringing total funding to $294.4 million; an $12.6 million increase (over FY98) for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, bringing FY99 funding to $123.8 million; and an $11.3 million increase (over 98)/$22 million over the President’s request for Childhood Immunizations, bringing FY99 funding to $421 million.
• Ryan White AIDS Health Service is increased $249 million over FY98 and $86 million over the President’s request, bringing FY99 funding to $1.399 billion. A $175.5 million increase (over FY98) is designated for the State AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) in recognition of increased program needs related to new protease inhibitor drugs. Total ADAP funding is $461 million.
• Health Professions training programs to train a variety of primary care and nursing professionals receive an $11.7 million increase, rather than the President’s proposed $2 million cut. Total FY99 funding is $304.3 million.
• Community and Migrant Health Centers receives a $100 million increase over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $925 million.
• The Violence Against Women Act is increased $12.2 million over FY98, bringing FY99 funding to $156 million.

• OSHA is funded at $353 million, $16.3 million more than FY98 and $2 million less than the President's request. Compliance Assistance is increased $7.3 million over FY98.
• NLRB is funded at the President's requested level of $184.5 million.

• Retains the present abortion funding restrictions and adds new Hyde language pertaining to Medicare trust fund; prohibits federal funding for research using human embryos; prohibits the distribution of hypodermic needles and syringes for the injection of any illegal drug; prohibits federal funding for a rerun of the Teamsters election.

Appropriations Highlights:
FY99 Conference report: $13.742 billion
(Total budgetary resources: $47.049 billion)
President’s Request: $13.459 billion (Total budgetary resources: $43.013 billion)
FY98 Bill: $12.726 billion (Total budgetary resources: $42.124 billion)

• In total, including all obligation authority (new budget authority, guaranteed obligations contained in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century, limitations on obligations, and exempt obligations), the bill includes $47.049 billion, an increase of $4.9 over the 1998 level, and $4 billion more than the budget request.
• The firewalls contained in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century essentially created new mandatory appropriations for highways and transit programs within the discretionary cap. As a result, almost 70 percent of this bill is not determined by annual appropriations acts. Moreover, the increase of $2.8 billion in outlays provided in the transportation subcommittee’s 302(b) allocation was fully consumed by the highway and transit guarantees.

• Total discretionary highway spending amounts to $25.511 billion, an increase of $4 billion (almost 20 percent) over the 1998 enacted level. This is the same level as guaranteed within the new firewalls created as part of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century. In addition, $1.2 billion is available for other "exempt" highway programs, for a total highway program level of $26.723 billion.
• Transit program spending totals $5.390 billion, an increase of $546 million over the 1998 enacted level and $614 million over the request. This level, too, is guaranteed within the new firewalls created as part of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century. Funding for the transit formula program is increased from $2.5 billion to $2.850 billion, up fourteen percent; capital investment grants (formerly transit discretionary grants) increase almost thirteen percent, from $2.0 billion to $2.257 billion in fiscal year 1999.
• The bill provides a total of $9.563 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration, including $1.95 billion for the Airport Improvement Program, an increase of $250 million over 1998 and the request. AIP is extended for six months. The total funding increase for the FAA is $461 million over the 1998 level.
• A total of $3.895 billion is provided for the Coast Guard, a reduction of $21 million from the 1998 levels, and $73 million below the President’s request.
• Funding to reduce fatalities on the nation’s roadways is increased to $361.4 million, an increase of more than eight percent over 1998.
• Appropriations for Amtrak total $609 million, $12 million below the President’s request.
• Administrative expenses of the Department of Transportation are cut. Significant reductions in staff are also proposed for the Federal Highway Administration, Coast Guard and other agencies of the department.

Appropriation Highlights:
FY99 Conference Agreement: $13.44 billion (includes $132 million for Crime Trust Fund)
President’s FY99 Request: $13.58 billion (includes $132.2 million for Crime Trust Fund)
FY98 bill: $12.73 billion (includes $131 million for Crime Trust Fund)

• Allows certain Haitian refugees to receive green cards.
• Provides that insurance companies cover contraceptive costs for federal employees. Includes exceptions for religious convictions and individual moral convictions.

• Provides $1.95 billion for drug-related activities, a 1-% increase over FY98. This funding includes the second year of funding ($185 million) for the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) national media campaign targeting youth drug use.
• Provides $13 million to continue the commitment to making counter-drug technology available to state and local law enforcement agencies.
• Doubles funding for the Drug Free Communities Act of ’97, bringing FY99 funding to $20 million.
• Includes $184 million for High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA’s), $22 million more than FY98 and $22 million above the President’s request.

• Provides Treasury Law Enforcement with $3.6 billion, $219 million over FY98 and $22 million more than the President's request. This includes $132 million for the Crime Control Trust Fund.
• Provides $1.83 billion for the Customs Service, including $54 million for new narcotics detection technologies for both sea and land ports of entry, $13 million to address critical maintenance needs for the Air and Marine interdiction programs, $5 million for narcotics and money laundering investigations, and a $6.8 million increase for Operation Hardline III, bringing total Hardline funding to $54.5 million.
• Provides $571.7 million for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) compared with $572.4 million in FY98 and the President’s request of $599 million. Includes $16 million for the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT), $3 million more than FY98 and the President’s budget.
• The conferees have increased support of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, providing $3.2 million for forensic technology and other investigation assistance through the U.S. Secret Service.
• The conferees have also provided a total of $3.4 million to further combat child pornography and related internet cyber-smuggling. Funding will allow the U.S. Customs Service to increase staffing and technical resources directed at this priority issue.

• Provides $7.9 billion for the IRS, $469 million below the President’s request and $128 million more than FY98. The funding includes $211 million to continue support for development of a modernized computer system. $25 million is included for efforts to restructure and reform the way IRS does business. Additional funds of $103 million are provided for improved customer service initiatives.

• Provides $36.5 million for the Federal Election Commission, $4.8 million over FY98 and the same as the President’s requested level. The conferees agree to fence off funds for computer modernization and urge the FEC to apply additional resources above the 1998 level to prevent the unnecessary dismissal of appropriate enforcement actions.
• Includes $462 million for courthouse construction.
• Conferees agree to retain a provision that will block Members of Congress, Judges and members of the federal executive service from receiving their annual cost of living adjustment.
• Conferees agree to continue a prohibition on the use of funds for abortion in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions, except in the case of rape or incest or when the life of the mother is endangered.
• Conferees agree to include a provision providing for compensation to certain gun owners, necessary as a result of the President's recent decision to ban the importation of certain rifles.
• Conferees agree to include a provision modifying representation of U.S. interests before the Universal Postal Union.

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