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TESTIMONY
 
Statement of
James L. Blum
Deputy Director
Congressional Budget Office
 
on
The Outlook for Discretionary Spending
 
before the
Committee on Science
U.S. House of Representatives
 
July 23,1996
 
NOTICE

This statement is not available for public release until it is delivered at 10:00 a.m. (EDT), Tuesday, July 23, 1996.
 

Chairman Walker and Members of the Committee, I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the budgetary outlook for discretionary spending programs--such as the research and development activities of interest to this Committee--under both the President's and the Congress's plans for balancing the budget by 2002. At this stage, determining what future funding levels will be for individual discretionary spending programs is not possible. However, under both the President's 1997 budget and the 1997 budget resolution, the overall amount of discretionary spending through 2002 would be substantially lower in real terms than in the current year.

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