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Originally posted by Not Me
How did they define discretionary?
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Looks to me like they define it as total discretionary budget appropriations authority, but I'm not well-versed in these things so maybe you can figure it out better than I can:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm385.cfm
(This page also details some other flimflammery that goes on with the appropriations numbers in case anyone wants to read about that as well.)