Date: April 26, 1978
Subject: HEW Budget Cut
Description: Byrd (I-VA) amendment to reduce by $2.1 billion budget authority and outlays for Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Department programs, to make up for funds reported to have been misspent by HEW in 1977. This would reduce federal spending and the inflation-causing deficit, that is compounded by HEW's inept usage of funds through mismanagement which resulted in a $7 billion waste to the taxpayer.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 38-57
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