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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03 Connecting Bucks with the Cosmos: Six Policy Questions for the New Fiscal Year Joel Parriott Office of Management and Budget

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Page 1: BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03 Connecting Bucks with the Cosmos: Six Policy Questions for the New Fiscal Year Joel Parriott Office of Management and Budget

BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

Connecting Bucks with the Cosmos:Six Policy Questions for the New Fiscal Year

Joel ParriottOffice of Management and Budget

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#1: What is the nature of the Executive Office of the President?

• Office of the Vice President*• Chief of Staff*• Council of Economic Advisers• Council on Environmental Quality• Domestic Policy Council• National Economic Council• National Security Council• Office of Homeland Security• Office of Management and Budget*• Office of National Drug Control Policy* • Office of Science & Technology Policy• Office of the United States Trade Representative*

* Cabinet rank members

EXOP includes:

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

OMB StructurePolitical

• Director & Deputy Directors

• Program Associate Directors – Run the RMOs (next slide)

Career

• Division Associate Directors

• Branch Chiefs

• Program Examiners

There are also important statutory & support offices.

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

OMB Resource Management Office Jurisdiction

• Natural Resource Programs– DOE, NASA, NSF, USDA, EPA

• Human Resource Programs– NIH, DoEd

• General Government Programs– DHS, NOAA, NIST

• National Security Programs– DOD, NNSA

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#2: How is the President’s Budget sausage made each year?

• Agency internal reviews: March-August• OMB sends guidance to agencies: May/June• Agencies brief OMB: September-October• OMB internal reviews: October-November• OMB response (“passback”): Thanksgiving• Appeal and settling process: Early December-

Early January• Budget numbers & text locked: January• Budget sent to Congress: Early February

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#3: Are there different colors of money?

OSTP’s Mike Holland (as quoted in Science): “It helps to think of the government as an insurance company with an army.”

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

Federal 2004 Budget($2.2 Trillion in Outlays)

Defense Discretionary

17%

Non-Defense Discretionary

19%

Interest8%Other Mandatory

16%

Medicare/Medicaid19%

Social Security21%

Federal S&T:$60 billion (~15%)

Homeland Security

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#4: What are the Administration’s priorities for the 2004 Budget?

• Making our people safe

• Strengthening our economy

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

-400

-300

-200

-100

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100

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Baseline

Economic Growth Package

Defense andHomeland Security

Medicare

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Education Veterans

Homeownership Global AIDS Initiative

Health Care for the Uninsured Other Priorities

NB: Does not include $79 billion Supplemental Bill for War on Terrorism

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

The 2004 Budget Increase Reflects the Nation’s Priorities

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Percentage growth 2003-2004 requests

Budget

Total (Discretionary)

Family Income

Homeland Security

Veterans

AffairsEducation EPA

Operating

Program

State & Int'l Assistance

Nat'l Science

Foundation

Defense

Millennium Challenge Account

Global AIDS

Foreign Military

Diplomatic & Consular

Famine

Other

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

The Big FivePercent Change in S&T Budgets

-14

-12

-10

-8

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Defense

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#5: What about the “M” in OMB?

From Examiner Training Materials:“The fact that [a program] ‘serves’ a ‘needy’ population is immaterial to you, if the service is not effective, is not adequately or efficiently provided, or is not worth the investment.”

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

“Government should be results-oriented—guided not by process but by performance.” – George W. Bush

• Most sweeping assessment of federal programs - 234 programs ($494 billion)

• 20% of programs to be added each year

• Introduced this year: Performance Rating Assessment Tool (PART)

• Of the 234 programs, 32 were R&D.

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

Not Just How much but How wellRatings of Sample R&D Programs

EffectiveDOD: Basic ResearchNASA: Mars ExplorationNSF: Tools

Moderately EffectiveDOE: Solar EnergyNSF: Geosciences Directorate

AdequateDOC-NIST: Advanced Technology ProgramDOE: Geothermal EnergyHHS: Translating Research into Practice

Ineffective DOE: Oil Exploration and Production

Results Not DemonstratedDOE: High Energy PhysicsDOI-USGS: National MappingNASA: Space Station

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BERAC Meeting, 04/30/03

#6: Are there policy issues at exceedingly small dollar amounts?

• Priorities, priorities, priorities– If the science community doesn’t set them,

someone else will.

• OSTP-OMB Guidance Memo

• International context

• Interagency cooperation