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(23) Cut the foreign aid budget (150 account)
by 15 percent and make all earmarks in that ac-
count subject to a 2⁄3 vote for passage.
(24) Phase out the Foreign Agricultural Service
Cooperation funding.
(25) Eliminate the Appalachian Regional Com-
mission.
(26) Roll back congressional pay raise to
$89,500.
(27) Sell the national helium reserves to a joint
venture comprised of current employees and other
private investors.
(28) Reduce the ‘‘franking’’ allocation to Mem-
bers of Congress by 50 percent.
(29) Cut the National Endowment for the Arts
by 50 percent.
(30) Cut funding for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by 50 percent.
(31) Phase out subsidies for Amtrak.
(32) Phase out ACTION (umbrella organization
for domestic volunteer activities) as a tax supported
program.
(33) Facilitate contracting out and privatization
of military commissaries.
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(34) Close the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion.
(35) Phase out the United States Fire Adminis-
tration.
(36) End funding for all nonenergy related
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) activities.
(37) Eliminate essential air services subsidies.
(38) Eliminate consumer homemaking grants.
(39) Privatize the House and Senate gym-
nasiums.
(40) Reduce the legislative branch appropria-
tion by 20 percent.
(41) Reduce the Executive Office of the Presi-
dent appropriation by 20 percent.
(42) Close the Bureau of Mines and merge its
data gathering activities with other Interior Depart-
ment research agencies.
(43) Raise the level and schedule of the Power
Marketing Administration’s debt repayment.
(44) Eliminate the Clean Coal Program.
(45) Reduce the fill rate for the Strategic Pe-
troleum Reserve.
(46) End all new Bureau of Water Reclamation
water projects.
(47) Eliminate the Dairy Subsidy Program.
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(48) Merge the Agricultural Research Service,
the Cooperative State Research Service, and the Ag-
ricultural Extension Service; cut funding by 50 per-
cent.
(49) Privatize the Government National Mort-
gage Association (Ginnie Mae).
(50) Eliminate the Economic Development Ad-
ministration.
(51) Eliminate nontargeted vocational State
funding.
(52) Consolidate the administrative costs of the
AFDC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid programs.
(53) Replace new public housing construction
with vouchers.
(54) Increase medicare safeguard funding by
$540,000,000 over 5 years (net savings).
(55) Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation.
(56) End postal subsidies to not-for-profit orga-
nizations (excluding blind and handicapped individ-
uals).
(57) Eliminate HUD special-purpose grants.
(58) Reform vacation and overtime for the Sen-
ior Executive Service.
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(59) Eliminate DOD payments for indirect re-
search and development; substitute direct research
and development.
(60) Reduce DOE energy technology spending.
(61) Scale back Rural Rental Housing Assist-
ance program.
(62) Reduce mass transit grants; eliminate op-
erating subsidies.
(63) Eliminate Rural Development Association
loans and guarantees.
(64) Eliminate ‘‘Impact Aid’’ to school districts
with military bases.
(65) Consolidate social services programs.
(66) Reduce NIH funding by 10 percent, con-
centrating on overhead.
(67) Freeze the number of rental assistance
commitments.
(68) Scale back low income home energy assist-
ance grants.
(69) Service Contract Act reform.
(70) Reduce overhead in federally sponsored
university research.
(71) Strengthen and restructure NASA (NPR
proposal).
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(72) Eliminate redundant polar satellite pro-
grams.
(73) Streamline USDA field offices.
(74) Streamline HUD.
(75) Reform prison construction.
(76) Eliminate Travel, Tourism, and Export
Promotion Administration.
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