Y 4.AP 6/1: C 73/2/2000/PT.5 DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. JIM KULIKOWSKI, JENNIFER MILLER, MIKE RINGLER, and CORDIA STROM, DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking JIM KULIKOWSKI, JENNIFER MILLER, MIKE RINGLER, and CORDIA STROM, For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman RALPH REGULA, Ohio JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JOE SKEEN, New Mexico FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ZACH WAMP, Tennessee TOM LATHAM, Iowa ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JULIAN C. DIXON, California ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana NITĄ M. LOWEY, New York JOSE E. SERRANO, New York CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina ROBERT E. "BUD" CRAMER, JR., Alabama JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1999. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WITNESS WILLIAM M. DALEY, SECRETARY INTRODUCTION Mr. ROGERS. The Committee will come to order. We are pleased to welcome William Daley, the Secretary of Commerce, who will testify on behalf of the programs and the fiscal year 2000 budget request for the Department of Commerce. The Department's budget was submitted as part of the President's overall budget on February 2nd of this year. However, we have read in the newspapers that the Department's budget may be $1 to $2 billion short of what will ultimately be requested. Consequently, we are in a bit of a quandary, to put it mildly, since we are here to consider the Department's fiscal year 2000 budget without knowing what the operating request for the Department's budget will be. I have never quite known how to add up numbers when there were zeroes in certain columns. We hope the Secretary will be able to enlighten us today on where things stand. I am sure he has brought with him the detailed requests that his Department is going to ask the Congress to have the taxpayers spend. If he does not have those numbers, I will be sorely disappointed and absolutely amazed. I might also note that the Congressional Budget Office is said to be releasing their reestimate of the President's budget request today, and it apparently has concluded that the President's budget request is some $30 billion in outlays over the spending caps that are in place for fiscal year 2000. What this means is that some $30 billion in outlay spending, which probably translates into $40 to $50 billion in budget authority spending, contained in the overall President's request, cannot be accommodated if we are to stay within the spending caps that are in place for fiscal year 2000. As a result, I do not think we can underestimate or understate the difficulty of the task ahead in considering the Department's submission. Before yielding to the Secretary, I will yield to my colleague, Mr. Serrano, for any comments he would like to make at this time. Mr. SERRANO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. (1) |
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