Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1998: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Part 1

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Page 478 - Council, the Department of the Treasury, and the Office of Management and Budget — the Administration's economic "troika" — are responsible for producing the economic forecasts that underlie the Administration's budget proposals.
Page 196 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I welcome this opportunity to appear before you to...
Page 872 - ... means any card, plate, code, account number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other telecommunications service, equipment, or instrument identifier, or other means of account access that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain money, goods, services, or any other thing of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds...
Page 728 - Except as hereinafter provided, every article of foreign origin (or its container, as provided in subsection (b) hereof) imported into the United States shall be marked in a conspicuous place as legibly, indelibly, and permanently as the nature of the article (or container) will permit in such manner as to indicate to an ultimate purchaser in the United States the English name of the country of origin of the article.
Page 478 - Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, popularly known as the "Results Act.
Page 861 - It confers with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Board...
Page 1562 - FMS also manages the central accounting and reporting systems that track the government's monetary assets and liabilities. FMS tracks and reports on enacted Congressional appropriations, some 7,500 separate accounts. FMS publishes the government's major financial and budgetary reports that are used by the public and private sectors to make policy and economic decisions.
Page 1484 - This concludes my opening remarks, Mr. Chairman, and I will be happy to respond to questions you or other members of the Committee may wish to ask.
Page 9 - ... all. Third, the sectors that benefit from official export credits are not necessarily the ones that most benefit the poorest segments of an LDC economy. The exports tend to be capital-intensive manufactured goods, while the truly poor people need help in more basic areas such as agriculture. Finally, the World Bank, the regional development banks...

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