While all of the State Department bills I have worked on have been bipartisan and fiscally responsible. this is the most fiscally austere bill by far that we have ever brought to the floor. The original administration request was already virtually a hard freeze at the fiscal 1993 appropriated level. Increases wee only permitted for selected areas such as population assistance. refugee programs. and inflation for assessed contributions for international organizations and international peacekeeping operations. In the subcommittee draft bill. we took additional cuts of $111 million. However. with an overall funding level of $7.3 billion. the bill does remain $77 million above the fiscal year 1993 appropriated level.