Statement of Deidre A. Lee, Acting Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budet, before House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the Senate Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Abstract

Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittees. Your letter of invitation asked the Office of Management and Budget to discuss: (1) agency's plans to comply and its compliance to date with specific provisions relating to climate change in the 1999 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act and the 1999 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act and their associated reports; and (2) program performance measures for each line item increase in funding requested in the President's FY 2000 Budget. Before I turn to these specifics, however, I would note that since 1993 President Clinton has put into place dozens of win-win programs to develop and deploy energy efficient technologies and to spur the development and broader use of renewable energy.