Both Chambers have already approved these higher funding levels in enacting the first concurrent budget resolution for fiscal 1984. The amounts in our amendment are well within the budget ceilings for that resolution. Our amendment totals $997.7 million and would appropriate the following extra amounts for 16 key education and domestic programs: Chapter 1 (education for disadvantaged ) .................................................... $165.0 Vocational education ............................ 81.4 Adult education ...................12.0 Community services block grant......... 30.0 Lowincome energy assistance ............. 195.0 Education of the handicapped ............ 143.0 Vocational rehabilitation ............ 43.9 Education of immigrant children ....... 145.0 College construction ............................. 43.3 College work study ................................ 20.0 Supplemental opportunity grants ...... 10.0 Community health centers .................. 20.0 National Technical Institute for D eaf ...................................................... 1.7 Job training ..................... 75.4 Gallaudet College ................. 2.0 Emergency Shelters for the homeless ........................................................ 10.0 In addition. the amendment authorizes. but does not appropriate $1.360.000.000 for the special supplemental feeding program for women. infants. and children (WIC). This is a $300 million increase in the authorization. Now.
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