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STATE-BY-STATE DATA ON FORMULA GRANT PROGRAMS: REPORT TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
 
 
May 8, 1991
 
 
PREFACE

This report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. The requirement for the report appeared in Section 24 of Senate Resolution 62, the Senate Committee Funding Resolution. This section expressed the sense of the Senate that better historical information should be available on state-by-state distributions of funds under programs for which funds are provided in accordance with a formula for distribution.

Philip Joyce of CBO's Budget Process Unit wrote the report, under the supervision of Marvin Phaup and James L. Blum. The author is indebted to knowledgeable people in the various organizations discussed in the report, including Larry Hush of the Office of Management and Budget, David Kellerman of the Census Bureau, Vic Miller of Federal Funds Information for States, and Stuart Rabinowitz of Fiscal Planning Services Incorporated. Within CBO, valuable comments were provided by Thomas Cuny, Gail Del Balzo, Robert Hartman, C. G. Nuckols, Charles Seagrave, and Paul Van de Water. The report was edited by Frank Pierce.

Questions concerning this report should be directed to Philip Joyce.
 

Robert D. Reischauer
Director
May 1991
 
 


INTRODUCTION

This report focuses on the availability of data on the state-by-state distribution of formula grant funds. The objective, as stated in Senate Resolution 62, is the receipt of such data by the United States Senate for the most recent available fiscal year (for ongoing programs) or the receipt of data on prospective impacts (in the case of new programs). This report focuses primarily on retrospective, rather than prospective, data.

The report defines formula grant programs, surveys the sources of current data on the funding of those programs, reviews the extent to which the Congress currently receives and uses such information, and evaluates the feasibility of using these sources to provide the Senate with better historical information on the distribution of formula funds, by state.

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