President Clinton today sent Congress a package of $2 billion
in Fiscal Year 1994 spending cuts and reform measures.
The legislation would implement elements of the National
Performance Review, eliminate programs that are no longer needed,
trim some appropriations back to the level proposed in the
President's 1994 budget, and eliminate funds for unneeded
projects.
Combined with the $9 billion in National Performance Review
proposals sent to Congress last week, the President has now
proposed $11 billion in specific spending savings for Fiscal Years
1994-1999, combined with comprehensive procurement reforms which
the Administration estimates would save another $22 billion over
five years.
The 37 rescission proposals affect programs of the
Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and
Urban Development, Interior, State, and Transportation, the Agency
for International Development, the Army Corps of Engineers, the
General Services Administration, the Small Business
Administration, and the U.S. Information Agency. The other
reforms also affect a number of agencies. The proposals include
the following:
$339 million in savings resulting from the National
Performance Review, including a number for which the repeal
of authorizations was included in last week's proposals (but
for which the Fiscal Year 1994 rescission amount was not
counted)
elimination of the State Justice Institute and the
North/South Center
repeal of numerous micromanagement provisions contained in
appropriations bills, such as minimum levels of employees for
specific agencies or functions, prohibitions on reorganizing
agencies, and a provision limiting flexibility for the
U.S./Russian cooperative space program
rescissions of $601 million from military construction
funding not requested in the President's budget
rescission of the $126 million that was appropriated more
than the amount requested by the Administration for the
General Services Administration Federal buildings fund
rescissions of $139 million from Department of Energy
programs for unneeded nuclear reactor research and
development
rescissions of amounts for totally unauthorized highway
projects and earmarked water projects, with flexibility for
the Congress to rescind funds for specific projects or other
funds in the same areas
rescissions of $52 million in mass transit funds that have
remained unobligated since Fiscal Year 1991 or prior years,
to ensure that projects for which the money was intended are
still appropriate.