Speech #930281085

I wish to commend the Appropriations Committee for including in this bill language specifically prohibiting the use of any funds available in this bill for the transfer of any functions. personnel or equipment out of the U.S. Customs Service or from the Bureau of Customs to any other agency of the Federal Government without the express consent of Congress. This requirement relates. of course. to the efforts of the Office of Management and Budget to transfer the functions of the Customs Service between ports of entry along the Mexican border to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. and to carry out this transfer of statutorily assigned functions without the benefit of congressional approval. Last year the OMB was unable to obtain approval for all the transfers they wished to accomplish. so this yearlacking the power to transmit reorganization proposals any longerthey decided to carry out the transfer unilaterally. and to label it a "management" decision. Last month.