{ "id": "RL31011", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL31011", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 104907, "date": "2002-02-04", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:16:02.983941", "title": "Appropriations for FY2002: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs", "summary": "The annual Foreign Operations appropriations bill is the primary legislative vehicle through\nwhich\nCongress reviews the U.S. foreign aid budget and influences executive branch foreign policy making\ngenerally. It contains the largest share -- over two-thirds -- of total U.S. international affairs\nspending.\n President Bush requested $15.167 billion for FY2002 Foreign Operations, an amount 1.5%\nhigher than enacted FY2001 appropriations. By comparison, foreign policy resources proposed for\nState Department, U.N. contributions, and other non-foreign aid activities would increase by 13.2%\nfrom FY2001, in nominal terms. Although the overall FY2002 Foreign Operations proposed\nincrease was relatively small -- $224 million -- some activities funded in FY2001 would either not\nneed new appropriations or would require smaller resources in FY2002, thereby freeing up funds for\nother initiatives. After adjusting the FY2001 base amount to reflect these reduced funding\nrequirements that did not alter current policy, the request represented a higher increase for Foreign\nOperations -- $698 million, or 4.8% more, in nominal terms.\n The FY2002 Foreign Operations request set most accounts at or near FY2001 funding levels,\nwhile largely concentrating proposals to increase spending in a few areas -- disaster aid, global\nhealth, international narcotics control, and contributions to the World Bank and other international\nfinancial institutions. Likewise, the budget submission recommended cutting appropriations\nsignificantly in two accounts -- debt reduction resources for the Heavily Indebted Poor Country\n(HIPC) initiative and the Export-Import Bank -- but only the latter represented a policy shift.\n Except in one area, the FY2002 budget request represented few changes in the list of top U.S.\nforeign aid recipients. Israel, Egypt, and Jordan remained the leading recipients. The most\nsignificant change was the increase in aid for Latin American drug producing nations. Under the\nAdministration's Andean Counterdrug Initiative, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia would be among the\nleading 10 recipients of U.S. aid.\n Following nearly six months of debate, Congress cleared for the President on December 20,\n2001, a $15.35 billion Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY2002 ( P.L. 107-115 ;\n H.R. 2506 ). The measure is roughly midway between levels passed earlier by the House\n($15.17 billion) and the Senate ($15.52 billion), and $178 million higher than requested by the\nPresident. This marks one of the few occasions when Congress has approved more spending for\nForeign Operations than sought by the Administration. The amount is about $400 million, or 2.7%\nhigher than for FY2001 (excluding the $1.1 billion for Foreign Operations programs allocated from\nthe terrorism emergency supplemental measure; P.L. 107-38 ). Highlights of the bill include: $779\nmillion for the Export-Import Bank, nearly $100 million more than requested; $475 million for\nHIV/AIDS, up from the $429 million proposal; and $625 million for the Andean Counternarcotics\nInitiative, a cut of $106 million from the request. The enacted measure drops Senate-passed\nlanguage overturning the President's international family planning restrictions, but approved funding\nlevels for population aid and UNFPA near the higher Senate-passed amounts.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL31011", "sha1": "faad672cc40b8c9b0817465311013a84a290da4a", "filename": "files/20020204_RL31011_faad672cc40b8c9b0817465311013a84a290da4a.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL31011", "sha1": "ccf3877c3c53f86c04598b4b333c5f4230ee3c3c", "filename": "files/20020204_RL31011_ccf3877c3c53f86c04598b4b333c5f4230ee3c3c.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1738/", "id": "RL31011 2001-12-26", "date": "2001-12-26", "retrieved": "2005-06-11T12:41:00", "title": "Appropriations for FY2002: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs", "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. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20011226_RL31011_d3eb74c3fe5a5099676d159902b706f298b823f5.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20011226_RL31011_d3eb74c3fe5a5099676d159902b706f298b823f5.html" } ], "topics": [ { "source": "LIV", "id": "Foreign aid", "name": "Foreign aid" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Foreign aid - Appropriations", "name": "Foreign aid - Appropriations" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Budgets", "name": "Budgets" } ] } ], "topics": [ "Appropriations", "Asian Affairs", "Economic Policy", "Foreign Affairs", "Intelligence and National Security", "Latin American Affairs", "National Defense" ] }