For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 12, 2003
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed amendments to the FY
2004 Budget for the Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, and
Housing and Urban Development, as well as the Corps of Engineers.
These amendments would not change the total pending Presidential
Request for FY 2004. However, they would adjust upward the total
discretionary budget authority requested by $0.9 billion, bringing the
total discretionary funding agreed to by the Administration and the
Congress to $785.6 billion. This increase in discretionary funding is
fully offset by a corresponding decrease in mandatory funding. All
other proposals are assumed to be funded within this constraint.
This transmittal also contains FY 2004 budget amendments for the
Legislative Branch and FY 2003 supplemental proposals for the Judicial
Branch. As a matter of comity, appropriations requests of the
Legislative and Judicial Branches are commonly transmitted without
change.
The details of these proposals are set forth in the enclosed letter
from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sincerely,
GEORGE W. BUSH
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