Speech #820098389

Your committee saw fit to reduce that to $181.667.000. a cut of $2.689.000. It is impossible to sensibly cut the Department of Justice phase of this bill any further when you consider that included herein are such important Government agencies as the Attorney Generals Office. including all of the divisions thereofthe Criminal Division. the Tax Division. the Customs Division. all admittedly hardworking officeswhich are producing results with which everybody in the country is pretty well satisfied and which produce revenue for the Treasury. When you consider that included in the bill for the Department of Justice is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. the Federal Prison System. the Immigration and Naturalization Service. fees and expenses of witnesses and salaries of United States attorneys and marshals. you find that these appropriation requests cannot be cut any further than your committee unanimously pared them. With regard to the appropriations requests for the Federal judiciary. requests to the amount of $26.489.740. your committee found unanimously that we could safely delete from the bill the amount of $571.625. leaving an appropriation for the instant fiscal year of $25.918.115 to operate our Federal courts. With regard to the request for the Department of Commerce. where we were asked to appropriate tht amount of $763.763.925. your committee saw fit to cut the sum of $151.065.925. almost 20 percent. so that the net amount appropriated or carried in the bill for that Department is the sum of $612.698.000.