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Signed by President Bill Clinton

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report appropriating $591.75 billion to the Department of Defense, Department of Labor, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, Department of the Interior, and other federally funded agencies.

Highlights:

• Bans the use of funds to pay for an abortion, except in the case of rape or if the woman's life is endangered.

• Prohibits the usage of funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes, or research in which a human embryo is destroyed or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than is permitted by law.

• Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1986 to allow police and fire departments to use maximum hiring and mandatory retirement ages.

• Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress on new technologies for preventing and solving acts of terrorism involving explosive devices.

• Bans the use of appropriated funds to pay for a United Nations peacekeeping mission.

• Declares it is the policy of the United States to assist emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe to transition to full membership in NATO.

• $245.77 billion to the Department of Defense, including $79.31 billion for operation and maintenance, $70.05 billion for military personnel, $43.82 billion for weapon procurement, $37.44 billion for research, development, test, and evaluation, $10.21 billion for the Defense health program, and $100 million for defense against weapons of mass destruction.

• $204.1 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services, including $103.15 billion for Medicaid grants to states and $60.08 billion for payments to health care trust funds.

• $16.51 billion to the Department of Justice, including $3.19 billion to the Federal Prison System, $2.84 billion to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and $2.11 billion to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

• $28.8 billion to the Department of Education, including $7.56 billion for student financial assistance.

• $6.21 billion to the Department of the Interior.

• $10.49 billion to the Department of the Treasury.

• $8.31 billion to the Department of Labor.

• $7.28 billion for bilateral economic assistance.

• $3.21 billion for military assistance.

• $715.25 million in emergency appropriations.

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $246.43 billion to the Department of Defense and related agencies.

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text