United States. Office of Management and Budget. Budget of the United States Government 1997: Supplement

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BUDGET
SUPPLEMENT
BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Fiscal Year 1997
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BUDGET
SUPPLEMENT
BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Fiscal Year 1997
THE BUDGET DOCUMENTS
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1997 A Citizen’s Guide to the Federal Budget, Budget of the
contains a summary of the President’s budget proposals. This docu- United States Government, Fiscal Year 1997 is an Office of Man-
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Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year
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All years referred to are fiscal years, unless otherwise noted.
Detail in this document may not add to the totals due to rounding.
At the time of this writing, five of the 13 appropriations bills were not enacted, and
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Budget Message of the President
Creating an Age of Possibility
E.., Ae Visions fore tiie Fb ir ooo ve ccececcceccakateriniecscitsesew
2. Three Years of Progress .............
Projecting American Leadership
3. Advancing United States Leadership in the World
4. Supporting the World’s Strongest Military Force
Creating Opportunity and Encouraging Responsibility
Restoring the American Community
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6. Strengthening Health Care
Making Work Pay
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Investing in Education and Training
Protecting the Environment
10. Promoting Science and Technology
11. Enforcing the Law
12. Promoting Tax Fairness
Making Government Work
13. Improving Government Performance 121
14. Building on Success 131
Summary Tables
ND iid sais tcscncdenininsdadcvecnsbumnnnantisetuadbddinlic 139
Re MI FI csi ci icccecienssscennindessenreriaieenss 145
Summaries by Agency/Function 161
Other Summary Tables 169
List of Charts and Tables
OMB Contributors to the 1997 Budget

THE BUDGET MESSAGE
OF THE PRESIDENT
THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOLLAR
FISCAL YEAR 1997 ESTIMATES
WHERE IT COMES FROM...
CORPORATE
INCOME
SOCIAL “ . XES
INSURANCE
RECEIPTS
33 %
OTHER
4%
EXCISE
“+— TAXES
4%
INDIVIDUAL
INCOME
TAXES
39 %
WHERE IT GOES...
DIRECT BENEFIT
OTHER PAYSMeE NTS FOR:
FEDERAL . NDaIV e JAiLS
OPERATIONS i
5 %
NATIONAL
GRANTS TO DEFENSE
STATES NET 16 %
& LOCALITIES INTEREST
15 % b 15 %
RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUS OR DEFICIT
(In billions of dollars)
1995 Estimate
Actual 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Receipts 1,495 1,578 1,653 1,734 1,820
Outlays 1,635 1,676 1 TLY 1,761 1,812
Surplus/Deficit (—) —140 —98 —64 —28 8
THE BUDGET MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
To the Congress of the United States: than half in three years, bringing the deficit
to its lowest level since 1979.
The 1997 Budget, which I am transmitting
to you with this message, builds on our While cutting overall discretionary spending,
strong economic record by balancing the budg- we also shifted resources to investments in
et in seven years while continuing to invest our future. With wages increasingly linked
in the American people. to skills, we invested wisely in education
and training to help Americans acquire the
The budget cuts unnecessary and lower tools they need for the high-wage jobs of
priority spending while protecting senior citi- tomorrow. We also invested heavily in science
zens, working families, and children. It re- and technology, which has been a_ strong
forms welfare to make work pay and provides engine of economic growth throughout the
tax relief to middle-income Americans and Nation’s history.
small business.
For Americans struggling to raise their
Three years ago, we inherited an economy children and make ends meet, we have
that was suffering from short- and _ long- sought to make work pay. We _ expanded
term problems—problems that were created the Earned Income Tax Credit, providing
or exacerbated by the economic and budgetary tax relief for 15 million working families.
policies of the previous 12 years. And we have given 37 States the freedom
to test ways to move people from welfare
In the short term, economic growth was to work while protecting children.
slow and job creation was weak. The budget
deficit, which had_ first exploded in_ size As the economy has become increasingly
global, prosperity at home depends heavily
in the early 1980s, was rising to unsustainable
on opening foreign markets to American goods
levels.
and services. With this in mind, we secured
Over the longer term, the growth in produc- legislation to implement the General Agree-
tivity had slowed since the early 1970s and, ment on Tariffs and Trade and the North
as a result, living standards had stagnated American Free Trade Agreement, and we
or fallen for most Americans. At the same have completed over 80 other trade agree-
time, the gap between rich and poor had ments. Under our leadership, U.S. exports
widened. have grown to an all-time high.
Over the last three years, we have put With these policies, we have helped pave
in place budgetary and other economic policies the way for a future of sustained economic
that have fundamentally changed the direction growth, low interest rates, stable prices, and
of the economy—for the better. We have more opportunity for Americans of all incomes.
produced stronger growth, lower interest rates, 3ut our work is not done.
stable prices, millions of new jobs, record Looking ahead, as I said recently in my
exports, lower personal and corporate debt State of the Union address, we must answer
burdens, and higher living standards. three fundamental questions: First, how do
we make the American dream of opportunity
Working with the last Congress in 1993,
for all a reality for all Americans who
we enacted an economic program that has
are willing to work for it? Second, how
worked better than even we projected in
do we preserve our old and enduring values
spurring growth and reducing the deficit.
We have cut the deficit nearly in half, as we move into the future? And, third,
how do we meet these challenges together,
from $290 billion in 1992 to $164 billion
as one America?
in 1995. As a share of the Gross Domestic
Product, we have cut the deficit by more This budget addresses those questions.
THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997
Creating an Age of Possibility tional conflicts; the proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction; international terrorism
I am committed to finishing the job that
and crime; narcotics trading; and environ-
we began in 1993 and finally bringing the
mental degradation.
budget into balance. In our negotiations with
congressional leaders, we have made great On the diplomatic front, our successes have
progress toward reaching an agreement. We been numerous and heartening, and they
have simply come too far to let this oppor- have made the world a safer and more
tunity slip away. stable place. Through our leadership, we
are helping to bring peace to Bosnia and
A balanced budget would reduce interest
the Middle East, and we have spurred progress
rates for all Americans, including the young
in Northern Ireland. We also encouraged
families across the land who are struggling
the movement toward democracy and free
to buy their first homes. It also would
markets in Russia and Central Europe, and
free up funds in the private markets with
we led a successful international effort to
which businesses could invest in factories
defuse the nuclear threat from North Korea.
and equipment, or in training their workers.
On the military front, we have deployed
But we have to balance the budget the
our forces where we could be effective and
right way—by cutting unnecessary and lower
where it was in our interest to promote
priority spending; investing in the future;
stability by ending bloodshed (such as in
protecting senior citizens, working families,
Bosnia) and suffering (such as in Rwanda).
children, and other vulnerable Americans;
We also have used the threat of force to
and providing tax relief for middle-income
ease tensions, such as to unseat an unwelcome
Americans and small businesses.
dictatorship in Haiti and to stare down
My budget does that. It strengthens Medi- Iraq when it threatened again to move against
care and Medicaid, on which millions of Kuwait.
senior citizens, people with disabilities, and
This budget provides the funds to sustain
low-income Americans rely. It reforms welfare.
and modernize the world’s strongest, best-
It cuts other entitlements. And it cuts deeply
trained, best-equipped, and most ready mili-
into discretionary spending.
tary force. Through it, we continue to support
But while cutting overall discretionary service members and their families with qual-
spending, my budget invests in education ity-of-life improvements in the short term,
and training, the environment, science and while planning to acquire the new technologies
technology, law enforcement, and other prior- that will become available at the turn of
ities to help build a brighter future for this decade.
all Americans. We should spend more on
Creating Opportunity and Encouraging
what we need, less on what we don’t.
Responsibility
Projecting American Leadership The Federal Government cannot—by itself—
solve most of the problems and address
Across the globe, we live in a time of
most of the challenges that we face as
great opportunity and great challenge. With
a people. In some cases, it must play a
the end of the Cold War, the world looks
lead role—whether to ensure the guarantee
to the United States for leadership. Providing
of health care for vulnerable Americans, ex-
it is clearly in our best interest. We must
pand access to education and training, invest
not turn away.
in science and technology, protect the environ-
My budget provides the necessary resources ment, or make the tax code fairer. In other
to advance America’s strategic interests, carry cases, it must play more of a partnership
out our foreign policy, open markets abroad, role—working with States, localities, non-
and support U.S. exports. It also provides profit groups, churches and synagogues, fami-
the resources to confront the emerging global lies, and individuals to strengthen commu-
threats that have replaced the Cold War nities, make work pay, protect public safety,
as major concerns—regional, ethnic, and na- and improve the quality of education.