Executive Summary

Agency would be funded at $1.24 bil. in fiscal 2001, $57.1 mil. above the FY 2000 level and $66 mil. below the President's request, under a spending bill cleared by the House Appropriations/Agriculture Subcommittee May 4. The full House Appropriations Committee marks up the Ag/FDA bill May 10. The Senate version received unanimous consent from the Ag Subcommittee, providing $1.07 bil. for salaries and expenses, $29.9 mil. above last year's request, as well as a $24 mil. increase for food safety initiatives, a $25.1 mil. increase for premarket review and $20 mil. for the agency's new Los Angeles lab