Comments on Forty-Two Proposed Deferrals of Budget Authority Contained in the President's Second Special Message for Fiscal Year 1978
Highlights
The President's second special message to Congress for fiscal year 1978 contained 42 deferral proposals affecting a total of $1,480,612,000 in budget authority. Information provided in the deferral proposals for the following agencies is correct, and the actions being proposed in these cases have been clearly and accurately stated: the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Commerce; the Department of Defense; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Department of the Interior; the Department of Justice; the Department of the Treasury; the General Services Administration; the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; the Interstate Commerce Commission; the U.S. Information Agency; and the United States Railway Association.