In other words. to break with the tradition of the past of authorizing far larger than the budget resolution would permit. or that the appropriators might appropriate with. and to restrain and constrain ourselves to the limits of the Budget Enforcement Act agreement of last year and of the Housepassed budget resolution. Mr. Chairman. in a bipartisan fashion. with concurrence from every single member of the minority of the subcommittee. we established the principle that every addition to this bill from the administrations request. every addition would be compensated for by an offset somewhere else. with one exception. and one exception only. and that was a $109 million increase in the refugee and migration funding account for overseas assistance because of the massive explosion of refugees worldwide. Mr. Chairman. for that $109 million. we would offset from the foreign assistance bill. which the chairman of our committee is now in the process of marking up and which will be on the floor in several weeks. so that within the 150 functions. when you took the State Department bill. the USIA bill. the BIB authorization. and the Foreign Assistance Act. there would be total consistency between the 150 account. in the budget enforcement agreement of last year. the caps on that account. the Housepassed budget resolution. and the Presidents submission on this particular issue.
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