{ "id": "RL30541", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL30541", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 104450, "date": "2001-07-05", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:22:44.377941", "title": "Colombia: Plan Colombia Legislation and Assistance (FY2000-FY2001)", "summary": "On February 7, 2000, the Clinton Administration, as part of its annual budget request, asked\nCongress for FY2000 supplemental appropriations of $954 million for assistance to Colombia and\nother Andean counternarcotics efforts. FY2000 allocated funding for Colombia, from appropriations\nmade in 1999, already totals some $164.0 million. At the same time, the Administration requested\n$318 million for FY2001 assistance to Colombia and other regional efforts, in addition to the $150\nmillion that it previously indicated it had planned to allocate to Colombia in FY2001.\n The Clinton Administration's \"Plan Colombia\" program, as it became known, was intended to\nsubstantially increase the assistance provided to Colombia. The proposal's centerpiece was funding\nfor the \"Push into Southern Colombia\" program, which would include training and equipping two\nnew army CN battalions, and providing funding to purchase new and sustain existing Blackhawk and\nHuey helicopters to transport them. Other assistance was included for interdiction, resettlement of\ndisplaced persons, economic development, and programs to improve Colombian National Police\n(CNP) eradication capabilities and to support human rights monitors, improve the justice system and\nstrengthen the rule of law. \n The 106th Congress commenced action on the request on March 9, 2000, when the House\nAppropriations Committee approved an emergency supplemental appropriations bill\n( H.R. 3908 , H.Rept. 106-521 ) that included some $1.4 billion in funding for FY2000\nand FY2001 counternarcotics efforts in Colombia, its neighbors, and other parts of Latin America\nand the Caribbean. On March 30, the House approved that amount, placing conditions on the\nmilitary assistance. On May 9, the Senate Appropriations Committee included $1.1 billion in\nFY2000 emergency supplemental Plan Colombia funding in its FY2001 Military Construction\n( S. 2521 ) and Foreign Operations ( S. 2522 ) bills, placing extensive\nconditions on the assistance in both bills. These three measures were dealt with in the conference\non the military construction appropriations bill ( H.R. 4425 , H.Rept. 106-710 ) with some\n$1.3 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for Plan Colombia. As approved and signed\ninto law ( P.L. 106-246 ) on July 13, the bill included five human rights and two other conditions on\naid to Colombia. Certification that these conditions had been met was required before the obligation\nof FY2000 and FY2001 funds, but the President could waive them on national security grounds. \nPresident Clinton waived six of the seven certification criteria on August 22, 2000, and he\ndetermined a second certification was not required on January 19, 2001, but submitted a report on\nprogress regarding certification criteria.\n On April 9, 2001, the Bush Administration requested $731 million in FY2002 funding for a\nbroader regional strategy called the Andean Counterdrug Initiative that would include funding from\nthe International Narcotics Control account (INC) for not only Colombia, but also Bolivia, Brazil,\nEcuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. In later references, the Bush Administration included other\nfunding for those countries in a Andean Regional Initiative. As a result, total funding for the\nregional initiative, including the ACI, now stands at some $882.29 million.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL30541", "sha1": "1c787fb052834c8d1e180ceef8475c5138c31b04", "filename": "files/20010705_RL30541_1c787fb052834c8d1e180ceef8475c5138c31b04.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL30541", "sha1": "ed8ad730a24d6df3860476e699053441eabc6985", "filename": "files/20010705_RL30541_ed8ad730a24d6df3860476e699053441eabc6985.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1733/", "id": "RL30541 2001-05-15", "date": "2001-05-15", "retrieved": "2005-06-11T12:39:44", "title": "Colombia: U.S. Assistance and Current Legislation", "summary": "This report provides an overview of U.S. assistance before the Plan Colombia proposal, describes the Clinton Administration Plan Colombia proposal, and tracks Congressional action on it. It also covers the Bush Administration\u2019s Andean Regional Initiative (ARI), which incorporated the Bush Administration\u2019s Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI). Table 2 provides a breakdown of the ARI by country, purpose, and account. Table 1 provides an overview of U.S. assistance from FY1999-FY2001, Tables 3 and 4 compare the Clinton Administration\u2019s Plan Colombia proposal with House, Senate, and conference action on it, and Table 5 charts U.S. assistance from FY1989-FY1998. Discussion of conference action includes a list of certification and reporting requirements, and Clinton Administration responses.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20010515_RL30541_9069d1bc8aef6b9cb384ca5cc20daa51aad049e1.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20010515_RL30541_9069d1bc8aef6b9cb384ca5cc20daa51aad049e1.html" } ], "topics": [ { "source": "LIV", "id": "Foreign aid", "name": "Foreign aid" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "American economic assistance - Colombia", "name": "American economic assistance - Colombia" } ] } ], "topics": [ "Appropriations", "Foreign Affairs", "Intelligence and National Security", "National Defense" ] }