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Bush Budget Plan to Aid Libraries, Museums

Associated Press
WPVI.com(ABC News)
January 24, 2003
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(White House-AP) — President Bush is hoping that a federal budget hike will speak volumes for libraries and museums.

The spending request he'll present to Congress next month includes 242 million dollars for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in 2004. The institute gives federal money to libraries and museums.

Bush requested 211 million dollars for the same purpose in the 2003 budget year, but Congress hasn't approved it yet.

The president's new request was announced yesterday by first lady Laura Bush, who's a former librarian. Mrs. Bush has made books and reading her special cause.

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Highlights of the Spending Bill

Covers every government agency except the Pentagon for the federal budget year that began on Oct. 1. Congress and President Bush completed the military budget last fall.

$54 billion for the Education Department. $2 billion more than last year. $8.5 billion grants to states for special education, $1 billion over 2002, and $11 billion for low-income school districts, $1 billion more than 2002.
$31.8 billion for highways
$27 billion for the National Institutes of Health, almost $4 billion over 2002 and completing a five-year effort to double its budget.
About $24 billion for various domestic security programs, including money for bioterrorism preparedness, airport explosive detectors and more FBI agents.
$3.1 billion extra aid for farmers, including for many hurt by the recent drought.
$2.3 billion for the National Park Service
$1.6 billion for construction of water projects
$280 million for the Peace Corps, about $30 million below Bush's request.

Budget expected to show record deficit - "Bush will release on Feb. 4 his budget proposal for 2004. Daniels said it would show a deficit of $300 billion or more. That would be the largest deficit in U.S. history, surpassing the $290 billion reached in Bush's father's administration in 1992."