POLICY ITEMS IN FEDERAL BUDGET PLAN

Some major policy items in the $520 billion fiscal 1999 budget
package.

- -Allows U.S. food exports to India and Pakistan, despite sanctions on
other exports.

- -Prohibits FBI user fees for its instant check system for gun
purchases.

- -Links U.N. back due payments to passage of a bill banning aid to
international family planning groups promoting abortion.

- -Bans local and federal funding for needle exchange programs in the
District of Columbia and bans federal funding for a D.C. referendum on
legalizing marijuana.

- -Eliminates funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which is starting
new programs in China.

- -Prohibits introduction of wolves or grizzly bears in wilderness areas
in Idaho and Montana.

- -Establishes a six-month moratorium on new Indian gambling
licenses.

- -Prohibits funds for implementing national education
tests.

- -Bans the implementation of regulations changing how organs for
transplants are allocated.

- -Prohibits federal funding for a rerun of the Teamsters
election.

- -Bars federal funding for human embryo research.

- -Prohibits the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from
issuing a final rule on national identification cards.

- -Blocks a pay raise for members of Congress.

- -Requires health plans for federal workers to cover prescription
contraceptives.

- -Allows 40,000 Haitian refugees to gain permanent residency.

- -Provides temporary visas for foreign nationals with high-tech
skills.

- -Establishes a three-year moratorium on state and local Internet
taxation.

- -Approves the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act.

Checked-by: Rich O'Grady