The bill includes $139 million for the infant mortality initiative proposed by the President. up from the $25 million allocated in 1991. There are two areas. in particular. however. where the committee was not able to provide funding in the amounts which we would have liked. These are lowincome homeenergy assistance and State immigration grants. In the case of lowincome energy assistance. the bill includes $1.600 million. which is $575 million more than requested by the President. $600 million of this amount. however. is in an emergency fund to be available if released by the President under the provisions of the 1990 Budget Enforcement Act. We would have liked to restore this cut completely but the outlays were just not available. In the case of immigration assistance. the President proposed to rescind the full $1.123 million currently available for 1992. The committee did not approve this. but we did delay the payment of these funds for 5 months until October 15. 1992. This gave the committee an outlay savings of $359 million which was used to fund increases throughout the bill.
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