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President Submits $27 Billion Supplemental Appropriations Bill

March 29, 2002 - President Bush March 21 submitted to Congress his proposal for $27.1 billion in emergency supplemental FY 2002 spending. The request contains significant funding for the war on terror ($14 billion), homeland security ($5.2 billion), international assistance and embassy protection ($1.7 billion), economic recovery and assistance to dislocated workers ($750 million), and assistance to New York ($5.5 billion).

The request also includes $240 million in non-emergency spending that is offset by recissions in other programs. Among the non-emergency spending proposed by the President is an additional $142 million for veterans health care. The proposed recissions include $20 million from the Community Access Program in the Health Resources and Services Administration, $30 from the National Institutes of Health intramural facilities construction account, and $5 million from the VA medical and prosthetics research account (this represents the shift of funding for the Office of Research Compliance and Assurance from the research account to the medical care account).

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