Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, FY 2004: Committee Print to Accompany S. Con. Res. 23 Together with Additional Views and Estimates

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 261 pages

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Page 149 - States and with foreign nations and to provide for the general welfare, to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources — M STAT.
Page 27 - Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Indian Health Service, the...
Page 218 - ... and public and private entities in rural states — ie, those with a population density of 52 or fewer persons per square mile, or in which the largest county's population is less than 150,000 people.
Page 84 - Act would be provided to supply "equity capital" to the community development corporations and make the corporations eligible for a range of programs administered by the 'Small Business Administration, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A second part of the title provides grants as well as loans to low-income farm families and rural cooperatives.
Page 230 - Conventional sources of business credit, such as bank financing, are often beyond the reach of...
Page 31 - These balances are available to finance future benefit payments and other trust fund expenditures — but only in a bookkeeping sense. * * * They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures. The existence of large Trust Fund balances, therefore, does not, by itself, have any...
Page 57 - Section 302(a) of the 1974 act provides for allocations to committees to be made in the statement of managers accompanying the conference report on the budget resolution. A section 302 (a) allocation is made to each committee that has jurisdiction over spending, both for the budget year and the full period covered by the budget resolution — at least five fiscal years. The committee allocations do not take into account jurisdiction over discretionary authorizations...
Page 31 - These funds are not set up to be pension funds, like the funds of private pension plans. They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury, that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures. The existence of...
Page 212 - Act and to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system, with emphasis on violent crime and serious offenders. The States are required to prepare a statewide anti-drug and violent crime strategy as part of their applications for Formula Grant funds. Federal funds may be used for up to 75 percent of the total project costs.
Page 222 - ... and lenders pay significant fees to the SBA to help offset the credit subsidy cost necessary to underwrite the program. The Fiscal Year 2002 budget request seeks to increase the fees paid by borrowers and lenders to offset the need for an annual appropriation. The net result of the Administration 's budget would be to drive both the small business borrowers and the lenders from the program. I do not believe it is the intention of the Administration, nor is it the intent of Congress, to deny needed...

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