State and Foreign Operations Appropriations

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Press Contact: Kirstin Brost, Full Committee, 202-225-2771
Matthew Dennis, Chairman Lowey, 202-225-6506

SUMMARY: 2009 STATE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS
APPROPRIATIONS
CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS BILL

Bill Total
2008 Enacted: $32.8 billion
President’s Request: $38.2 billion
Final Bill: $36.6 billion

KEY INVESTMENTS

State Department and USAID Operations, Staff and Security:
• Diplomatic and Consular Programs: $4.2 billion, $464 million above 2008 for diplomatic operations and
to hire an estimated 500 additional positions to fill existing vacancies in the Foreign and Civil Service.
• World Wide Embassy Security Protection: $1.1 billion for ongoing security protection to ensure that
U.S. embassy personnel are safe and secure.
• Operating Expenses for USAID: $808.5 million, $178 million above 2008, to allow USAID to hire 300
additional foreign service officers as part of the Development Leadership Initiative.

Global Health: $7.1 billion to strengthen the global public health infrastructure and surveillance network in
order to save lives overseas and to protect the health of Americans.
• HIV/AIDS: $5.5 billion for international HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs including
$600 million for multilateral programs through the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria.
• Global Health and Child Survival: $1.6 billion for other global health programs including increases of
nearly $50 million for maternal and child health programs, $35 million to fight malaria, $11 million to fight
tuberculosis, and $82 million for international family planning.

Humanitarian Assistance:
• Refugee Assistance: $971 million, $104 million above 2008 (not including $350 million in emergency
appropriations), to help displaced people around the world with food, water, shelter and other basic needs--
including humanitarian assistance for Gaza.
• Disaster Assistance: $350 million, $30 million above 2008, (not including $200 million in emergency
appropriations) to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally
displaced people in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.

Basic Education: $700 million for grants to organizations that support basic education. This includes $240
million to help countries that have national education plans as part of the Fast Track Initiative – the international
commitment to provide all children with access to a quality education.

Improving Access to Safe Drinking Water: $300 million for safe water programs, including help to increase
access to safe drinking water (such as pumps and wells); build water systems; and expand safe hygiene
programs.

Energy and the Environment: $424 million for clean energy and biodiversity programs worldwide, including
funding for the Global Environmental Facility and international conservation programs to work with developing
nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, preserve parks, and protect wildlife.

Middle East Security Assistance: $2.4 billion for Israel (not including $170 million in emergency
appropriations) fulfilling the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Israel, $1.5
billion in economic and security assistance for Egypt, and $498.5 million in economic and security assistance
for Jordan.

Sudan: $762 million for critical humanitarian, development and peacekeeping programs. Of this amount, $414
million supports the UN Mission in Darfur.

Merida Initiative: $405 million for counter-narcotics and law enforcement programs in Mexico and Central
America (not including $465 million in emergency appropriations).

International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement: $875 million, $318.6 million above 2008, to
strengthen law enforcement, support counternarcotics efforts, combat transnational crime, terrorist networks and
other illicit enterprises worldwide.

Peacekeeping Activities
• UN Peacekeeping Missions: $1.5 billion, for Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities.
These funds support UN peacekeeping missions around the world including in Sudan, Liberia, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo and Lebanon.
• Targeted Peacekeeping Operations: $250.2 million for Peacekeeping Operations, to advance international
support for voluntary multi-national peacekeeping and stabilization efforts, including support for
international missions not supported by the UN but of particular interest to the United States.

Educational and Cultural Exchanges: $538 million, $37 million above 2008, to fund educational, cultural and
professional exchange programs worldwide.

Broadcasting: $709 million, $40 million above 2008, for radio programs critical to the nation’s overall public
diplomacy efforts.

Peace Corps: $340 million, $9 million above 2008, for the program which has over 7,800 volunteers in 70
posts serving 76 countries.

Democracy Fund: $116 million to the Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor,
and to the USAID, Office of Democracy and Governance to promote democracy, including support for human
rights, media, and the rule of law.

SIGNIFICANT CUTS

Millennium Challenge Corporation: $875 million, $669 million below 2008 and $1.35 billion below
President Bush’s request. This program has been cut because of slow program implementation, making funds
provided in this bill sufficient to move forward on new compacts.

Andean Counterdrug Program: $315 million, $4.8 million below 2008 and $91.8 million below President
Bush’s request. Additional funds were provided for Andean programs through other accounts to support core
interdiction, eradication and economic development programs in the Andean region.