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May 8, 2003

House Appropriations Chairman C.W. Bill Young (FL-10) and Speaker J. =
Dennis
Hastert (IL-14) met yesterday to discuss the Appropriations Committee's
progress in determining subcommittee allocations for FY'04. Reportedly,
House appropriators are having a difficult time arriving at allocations
because the discretionary spending ceiling, totaling $784.5 billion, is
already $2.2 billion below the President's FY'04 request.  Young =
indicated
that he is committed to meeting the cap level of $784.5 billion. The =
most
likely scenario is that appropriators will pro-rate the $2.2 billion cut
from the President's level across the 13 subcommittees.  That would come =
out
to about $1 billion less than the President's FY'04 request for the =
programs
in the Labor, HHS and Education subcommittee.

This means that we'll have our work cut out for us to prevent a cut in =
adult
ed funding for FY'04

Jon Randall
Consultant, Government Relations
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