Appropriations for Fy2002 : Foreign Operations, Export Financing, And Related Programs

By Nowels, Larry

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Title:	Appropriations for Fy2002 : Foreign Operations, Export Financing, And Related Programs
Author:	Nowels, Larry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Summary: The annual Foreign Operations appropriations bill is the primary legislative vehicle through which Congress reviews the U.S. foreign aid budget and influences executive branch foreign policy making generally. It contains the largest share -- over two-thirds -- of total U.S. international affairs spending. President Bush requested $15.167 billion for FY2002 Foreign Operations, an amount 1.5% higher than enacted FY2001 appropriations. By comparison, foreign policy resources proposed for State Department, U.N. contributions, and other nonforeign aid activities would increase by 13.2% from FY2001, in nominal terms. Although the overall FY2002 Foreign Operations proposed increase was relatively small -- $224 million -- some activities funded in FY2001 would either not need new appropriations or would require smaller resources in FY2002, thereby freeing up funds for other initiatives. After adjusting the FY2001 base amount to reflect these reduced funding requirements that did not alter current policy, the request represented a higher increase for Foreign Operations -- $698 million, or 4.8% more, in nominal terms...

Table of Contents
Contents Key Policy Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Most Recent Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Foreign Operations Funding Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Foreign Operations, the FY2002 Budget Resolution, and Sec. 302(b) Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Post-Terrorist Attack Foreign Operations Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Foreign Operations Appropriations Request for FY2002 and Congressional Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Request Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Leading Foreign Aid Recipients Proposed for FY2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Congressional Debate on Foreign Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 House Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Senate Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Conference consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Major Policy and Spending Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Terrorism Issues in Foreign Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Export-Import Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Development Aid Policy Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Family Planning and Abortion Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Debt Reduction — HIPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Andean Counterdrug Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Supplemental Appropriations, FY2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 For Additional Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Selected World Wide Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Appendix — Detailed Foreign Operations Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 List of Figures Figure 1. Foreign Policy Budget, FY2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Figure 2. Foreign Operations Appropriations, FY1977-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4