4475 ), the Transportation appropriations bill, Title V of which partially funds a selectgroup of accounts from the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government primary funding measure. 4985 (Vetoed October 30)
Transportation Appropriations or P.L. 5658 , Treasury and GeneralGovernment)

	Introduction

The bulk of the accounts within the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and GeneralGovernment FY2001 are funded through P.L.106-554 ( H.R. On February 7, 2000, the budget for FY2001 was submitted. Status and Legislative History

In addition to the 21 FY2001 continuing funding resolutions, (9) there were four legislative measures designed to provide appropriations for all the Treasury andGeneral Government accounts and one to provide partial funding for selected accounts. 4985 was included as a section in Division B of the Legislative Branch appropriations( H.R. 4516 . On September 14, 2000, the House agreed to the conference report for H.R. (25) Those accounts which are new for FY2001 had no funding during the period October 1 through December 21,2000. On October 5, the conference committee for the Transportation FY2001appropriation, H.R. Treasury and General Government Appropriations, 2001 (Public Law 106-554)

		Budget and Key Policy Issues

		Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury has both financial and law enforcement functions. Combined with the funding in P.L. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Senate-reported version would have funded it at $4.3 million. The FY2001 continuing funding resolution ( P.L. 106-275 , as amended by P.L. National Science and Technology Council. At the time P.L.106-346 was signed, H.R. 106-346

During the debates in both the House and Senate on the Legislative Branch Appropriations conference report,several Members indicated that they supportedhigher levels of funding for some of the accounts under discussion. 106-346 on October 23, 2000. The House had passed H.R. 4516 . 4871 . The Senate's bill ( S. 2900 ), as approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 20, 2000, included language identical to H.R. 4871 , the conference version ( H.R. Major Funding Trends

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have approved the allocations to the various appropriations. The House, on May 9, 2000, approveddiscretionary budget authority at $14.088 billion, with outlays at $14.563 billion. 106-761 ) of $14.402 billion in budget authority and $14.751 in outlays. The Senate, on May 4, 2000, allocated $14.3 billion for budget authority and$14.566 billion for outlays. While the congressional numbers are in disagreement with one another, they areconsistently lower than the requested funding. Themandatory accounts are funded at $14.68billion and the discretionary accounts at $15.63 billion. CBO calculates that total at $31.2 billion. Appropriations for the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and General Government, FY1996to FY2000 (in billions of current dollars) a
Source for FY2000: U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations, as of July 26 2000. 
a These figures, in current dollars, include CBO adjustments for permanent budget authorities, rescissions, and supplementals, as well as other elements factoredinto the CBO scorekeeping process. Table 4. Department of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and General GovernmentAppropriations (in thousands of dollars)
Sources: 
Conference Report on H.R. Scorekeeping.
FY2001 Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the president, and General Government funding was enacted through P.L. 106-554 , the ConsolidatedAppropriations Act for FY2001, December 21, 2001. Partial funding for a select few of the accounts and somegeneral provisions of the Treasury, Postal Service,Executive Office of the President, and General Government FY2001 Appropriations are included in the Departmentof Transportation FY2001 Appropriation( P.L. 106-346 , Title V, October 23, 2000) and the continuing funding resolution ( P.L. 106-275 , as amended). Twenty-one continuing resolutions providedstopgap funding during the period October 1 through December 21, 2000. There were four appropriations billswhich would have funded all or some of theaccounts usually funded through the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government FY2001 appropriations acts. The House had passed, on July 20, H.R. 4871 . The Senate had reported, on July 20, S. 2900 and, on July 26, had voted to invoke clotureto proceed with debate on H.R. 4871 . The third version, H.R. 4985 , was introduced on July 26 as a new bill and reported fromthe Legislative Branch( H.R. 4516 ) appropriations conference committee as section 1001, Division B of that conference. This billwas vetoed October 30, 2000.The Houseagreed to the conference report on H.R. 4516 September 14. On October 6, the House and Senate approvedand sent to the President, a conferenceagreement for Department of Transportation appropriations ( H.R. 4475 ). Title V partially funds ($348.4million) several of the accounts.
P.L. 106-554 funds the accounts at $30.4 billion ($14.7 in mandatory funding and $15.6 in discretionary accounts). The FY2001 budget, submitted to Congresson February 7, 2000, requested $31.2 billion. The FY2000 funding totals $28.3 billion, including mandatoryfunding (reflecting scorekeeping by theCongressional Budget Office (CBO)). Incorporating the CBO scorekeeping for FY2001, the budget would havemandatory accounts funded at $14.7 billion anddiscretionary funding set at $16.5 billion. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees approved allocationsto the various appropriations:House--discretionary budget authority at $14.402 billion with outlays at $14.751 billion; and Senate--$14.3 billionfor budget authority and $14.566 billion foroutlays. While the congressional allocations were in disagreement with one another, they were consistently lowerthan the requested funding. P.L. 106-346 ( H.R. 4475 ) adds $348 million.
The Budget and Key Policy Issues section of the report discusses both the funding provisions and policy initiatives in the funding statutes. The funding provisionsin Title V of the Department of Transportation appropriations act were critical to the success of passage of the mainfunding provisions in that compromises werereached on the main bill based on commitments to funding for the Department of the Treasury, principally theInternal Revenue Service's (IRS) STABLE programand for IRS information technology. Table 4 details the funding, in the various versions of the FY2001appropriations proposals, by account.
Key Policy Staff
Division abbreviations: G&F = Government and Finance; DSP = Domestic Social Policy; RSI=Resources, Science, and Industry.