When the Committee agreed to totals for Function 150. it knew that it was providing less than the increase of $1.5 billion in budget authority and $0.6 billion in outlays needed to cover the Conference Report on the Foreign Assistance appropriation bill and the Presidents pending supplemental requests. The recommendation does not make room for all of the pending supplementals. It can accommodate only onethird of the $197 million P.L. 480 request. the amount that is needed for Somali and Afghani refugees. If supplemental appropriations in this function are limited to food aid for these refugees and to the more urgent of the remaining requests such as funding for the October 1979 pay raise. the amount that would remain available for the programs funded by the Foreign Assistance Appropriation bill would be closer to $0.2 billion in outlays than the $13 million indicated by your analysis. Nevertheles. the recommendation does not make room for the pending Conference Report on the Foreign Assistance Appropriation bill for fiscal year 1980. The Budget Committee Report language reflects the Committees intent that the increase over the Second Budget Resolution be focused upon certain programs in the Conference Report that. apart from any adjustment in the ExportImport Bank ceiling. would require $98 million in outlays.
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