In the past, the federal housing department financed agencies for all the vouchers they were allowed to issue, based on actual costs.

It also passed - no small feat - all 13 spending bills to finance Government departments and agencies.

Last week the House approved a $37 billion measure to finance several federal agencies, which also included a provision to restore the 35 percent limit.

For some poorly financed agencies, survival may be at stake; all have a chance to dispute their scores in the next two weeks.

Amman has spent about $50 million a year to keep the agencies operating and to subsidize other agencies also financed by Israel.

Lawmakers would pay for that by imposing an across-the-board budget cut of three-quarters of a percent on the agencies being financed.

Dogs Free to Handicapped Most of the training schools are nonprofit agencies financed by private donations.

Most of the spending bills to finance the various departments and agencies in the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1 have still not been enacted.

The Washington-based international agency, financed by leading industrial nations, makes about $7 billion in development loans to Latin America each year.

Republicans instead said that if Democrats blocked the omnibus bill, they would push through a resolution financing the affected departments and agencies at last year's levels.