To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Subject: Clinton's 1995 Budget proposal Date: Mon, 06 Feb 95 17:54:43 -0600 From: Christopher Hoover There is some ``interesting'' stuff in Clinton's 1995 Budget proposal. I have excerpted portions below. You will need 90 columns to view some of the tables. -- Chris. (ch@lks.csi.com) [ftp://ftp.whitehouse.gov/pub/political-science/US-Budget-1995/budget-by-agencies/Department-of-the-Treasury/Bureau-of-Alcohol,-Tobacco-and-Firearms] Department-of-the-Treasury Bureau-of-Alcohol,-Tobacco-and-Firearms (In millions of dollars) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Account 1993 1994 1995 actual estimate estimate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Federal funds General and Special Funds: Salaries and expenses: Appropriation, current.......... 751 BA 372 372 380 Spending authority from offsetting collections......... BA 18 16 16 Outlays......................... O 394 387 395 ------------------------------- Salaries and exp [Excerpted from ftp://ftp.whitehouse.gov/pub/political-science/US-Budget-1995/bud05.txt] [...] Table 5-2. MAJOR CRIME CONTROL INITIATIVES (Increased budget authority in millions of dollars) -------------------------------------------------- New Police Officers........................ 1,720 Criminal Records Upgrade (Brady Bill)...... 100 Juvenile Crime Prevention.................. 69 ----- Total.................................... 1,889 [...] Implementing the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act The recently enacted Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act requires a five-day waiting period for the purchase of a handgun and a criminal records check of potential purchasers. This Act will make America's neighborhoods safer by limiting access to guns for felons and those psychologically unable to use handguns responsibly. The 1995 budget provides $100 million for grants to States to improve their criminal records identification systems, facilitate records checks, and fund the FBI's national instant record check system. Within a few years, this system will allow the immediate processing of criminal records information. Upgrading Gun Licensing Procedures The Administration is taking steps to ensure compliance with gun dealer licensing requirements. The 1995 budget includes nearly $6 million to fund a number of new initiatives to ensure that the President's commitment is realized. First, over $2 million is requested for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) to obtain more information from dealer license applicants, including fingerprints and photographic identification. This information will help ensure that only authorized gun dealers receive licenses. Second, over $2 million is requested to automate multiple handgun sales reports and to enhance firearms enforcement databases. These steps will increase BATF's ability to access additional databases to trace firearms used in the commission of crimes. Third, over $1 million is requested to automate the records of gun dealers who have gone out of business, thereby expediting the tracing of firearms used in illegal activities. In addition, the Administration will address the proliferation of Federally licensed gun dealers. Currently, there are over 280,000 gun dealers paying a license fee of $66 a year, though it costs the taxpayer about $600 each year to award the license. Before the President signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, a license had cost only $10 a year. As part of this budget, the President will submit a legislative proposal that the licensing fee for Federal firearms dealers be increased to $600 annually. This increase could eliminate up to 200,000 gun dealers and will end the taxpayer subsidization of the gun business. [...] Table 5-3. LAW ENFORCEMENT SPENDING BY AGENCY (Discretionary budget authority; dollar amounts in billions) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dollar Percent 1990 1993 1994 1995 Change: Change: Actual Actual Enacted Proposed 1994 to 1994 to 1995 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crime Control Fund....... ....... ....... ....... 2.4 +2.4 N/A Bureau of Prisons........ 2.6 1.9 2.2 2.6 +0.4 +17% Drug Enforcement Administration.......... 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.7 +* +* Federal Bureau of Investigation........... 1.7 1.9 2.0 2.1 +0.1 +5% Immigration and Naturalization Service.. 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.1 +0.1 +9% General Legal Activities. 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 +* +6% U.S. Attorneys........... 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.8 +* +1% U.S. Customs............. 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.5 +* +1% Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms... 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 +* +2% U.S. Secret Service...... 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 +* +2% Judiciary................ 1.6 2.4 2.6 2.9 +0.3 +13% All Other Law Enforcement 2.4 3.2 3.1 2.8 -0.2 -8% ---------------------------------------------------- Total Crime Control.... 12.4 14.6 15.1 18.3 +3.2 +21% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Less than $50 million. __ Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 04:51:42 EST To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com From: pjm@nando.net (Paul Milligan) Subject: Excerpts of Clinton's 1995 Budget The following are some segments of President Clinton's 1995 budget which are relevent to this list. Note : All 'commentary' included is NOT my commentary, it is 100 % verbatim the budget from President Rodham eeerrrrrrr.... I mean Clinton. BTW, these clips are NOT comprehensive. Full text of the budget, and lots of related stuff, is available at : http://www.alw.nih.gov/legislative-govt.html Table 5-2. MAJOR CRIME CONTROL INITIATIVES (Increased budget authority in millions of dollars) -------------------------------------------------- New Police Officers........................ 1,720 Criminal Records Upgrade (Brady Bill)...... 100 Juvenile Crime Prevention.................. 69 ----- Total.................................... 1,889 -------------------------------------------------- Implementing the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act The recently enacted Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act requires a five-day waiting period for the purchase of a handgun and a criminal records check of potential purchasers. This Act will make America's neighborhoods safer by limiting access to guns for felons and those psychologically unable to use handguns responsibly. The 1995 budget provides $100 million for grants to States to improve their criminal records identification systems, facilitate records checks, and fund the FBI's national instant record check system. Within a few years, this system will allow the immediate processing of criminal records information. Upgrading Gun Licensing Procedures The Administration is taking steps to ensure compliance with gun dealer licensing requirements. The 1995 budget includes nearly $6 million to fund a number of new initiatives to ensure that the President's commitment is realized. First, over $2 million is requested for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) to obtain more information from dealer license applicants, including fingerprints and photographic identification. This information will help ensure that only authorized gun dealers receive licenses. Second, over $2 million is requested to automate multiple handgun sales reports and to enhance firearms enforcement databases. These steps will increase BATF's ability to access additional databases to trace firearms used in the commission of crimes. Third, over $1 million is requested to automate the records of gun dealers who have gone out of business, thereby expediting the tracing of firearms used in illegal activities. In addition, the Administration will address the proliferation of Federally licensed gun dealers. Currently, there are over 280,000 gun dealers paying a license fee of $66 a year, though it costs the taxpayer about $600 each year to award the license. Before the President signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, a license had cost only $10 a year. As part of this budget, the President will submit a legislative proposal that the licensing fee for Federal firearms dealers be increased to $600 annually. This increase could eliminate up to 200,000 gun dealers and will end the taxpayer subsidization of the gun business. Violent juvenile crime has increased sharply during the last decade. In response the 1995 budget proposes $172 million in grants to aid in the prevention and reduction of juvenile crime and the treatment of youthful offenders. This request is $69 million above 1994 levels and builds upon strategies to strengthen the family, support core community institutions in their work with youth, emphasize the prevention of delinquency and gang-related activity, and control violent youth. Passing Effective Crime Control Legislation Several important crime control initiatives are funded contingent upon enactment of a strong crime bill, such as that passed by the Senate. During the past year, the Administration has worked with the Congress to develop a comprehensive crime bill that will provide much needed relief in the fight against crime. The Senate bill includes a number of initiatives strongly supported by the Administration, including grants for community policing, boot camps and drug courts for youthful and non-violent offenders, as well as drug treatment in prisons and jails. The Administration also supports a ban on semi-automatic firearms; limitations on access to handguns by juveniles; and the creation of a crime control fund to pay for eligible crime control initiatives. The Administration will continue to work for the earliest possible passage of a crime bill. Table 5-6. TREATMENT AND PREVENTION SPENDING SHOW GREATEST GROWTH (Budget authority; dollar amounts in billions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dollar Percent 1990 1993 1994 1995 Change: Change: Actual Actual Enacted Proposed 1994 to 1994 to 1995 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Treatment....... 1.6 2.3 2.5 2.9 +0.4 +14% Prevention and Education...... 1.2 1.5 1.6 2.1 +0.4 +28% Criminal Justice 4.2 5.7 5.7 5.9 +0.2 +4% Interdiction.... 1.8 1.5 1.3 1.2 -0.1 -7% International... 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 +0.1 +22% Intelligence and Research....... 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.7 +* +4% ---------------------------------------------------- Total......... 9.7 12.1 12.1 13.2 +1.0 +9% Supply Reduction 6.6 7.9 7.6 7.8 +0.2 +3% 68% 65% 63% 59% Demand Reduction 3.2 4.4 4.5 5.4 +0.8 +18% 32% 35% 37% 41% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Less than $50 million. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Full details are available at : http://www.alw.nih.gov/legislative-govt.html _______________________________________ No waste of bandwidth is too great, No expenditure of ( remote ) MIPs too excessive, my E-mail must go through this virtual wasteland !! 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