Foreign Operations Export Financing And Related Programs Appropriations For 1997 Vol 4 PDF Download

Excerpt from Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1997, Vol. 3: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session Chairman's Opening Statement Mr. Callahan. Good morning, Mr. Administrator. We are happy you could be with us. It is important that we hear from you and have the ability to ask questions, because it is becoming difficult to obtain timely and complete information from Aid regarding its ongoing operations and the 1997 budget as well. We do not yet have a congressional presentation document from Aid. Both the State Department and Treasury Department have supplied us with documents for their budget request. We also only have tentative numbers for country allocations for fiscal year 1997, and although I do understand that you are negotiating with the State Department on final decisions on country closeout and reductions, I am told that it will be at least mid-May before a complete congressional presentation document will be available to the committee. Thus, we may mark up our 1997 appropriation bill without an adequate justification for the Presidents budget request for Aid. While our 1996 appropriation bill was not fully enacted into law until late January, with the exception of one amendment, the conference report was actually adopted in the House last October. The 1996 funding level should have been no surprise to the agency. However, it was not until 2 weeks ago that we received a final version of Aid's proposed plans for implementation of the 1996 Appropriation Act, and the 1996 country allocations have just arrived. I have stated a number of times that I am not interested in micromanaging your department. However, if operational flexibility is abused or if the agency fails to adequately inform the Congress of their activities, then we certainly have the authority to take stronger steps. In addition, as I indicated in our Haiti hearing last month, when we do take a position in either bill language or report language, I expect this direction to be taken seriously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.