On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3517 to S. 2522 (Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001) - To reduce the amount of funds made available for South American and Caribbean counternarcotics activities, and for other purposes.

Constitutional Vote: Yes

Vote Date: June 21, 2000

Cut Anti-Drug Foreign Aid Increase by $734 Million. Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) introduced this amendment to cut the anti-drug foreign foreign aid allotment for South and Central America from $934 million down to $200 million. Although Gorton’s amendment represents a sizable cut in the amount budgeted for the program in the fiscal 2001 foreign aid appropriations bill, the remaining $200 million is still quadruple the $50 million appropriated during fiscal 2000.

The Senate rejected the Gorton amendment to S. 2522 on June 21, 2000 by a vote of 19-79 (Roll Call 139). We have assigned pluses to the yeas.