Legislative Background
Recent Action on Aid to Colombia
On February 7, 2000, the Clinton Administration, as part of its annual budget request, asked Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 supplemental appropriations of $954 million for assistance to Colombia and other Andean counter-narcotics efforts. FY 2000 allocated funding for Colombia, from appropriations made in 1999, already totals some $164 million. At the same time, the Administration requested $318 million for FY 2001 assistance to Colombia and other regional efforts, in addition to the $150 million that it previously indicated it had planned to allocate to Colombia in FY 2001.The Administration’s "Plan Colombia" program, as it became known, would substantially…
