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25 Third Branch 1 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/thirdbran25 and id is 1 raw text is: THE BRANCH Newsletter of the Federal 4 C Courts Vol. 25 Number 1 January 1993 Chief Justice Issues 1002 Year-End Report President Clinton and Vice President Gore met late last year with the justices of the Supreme Court. Annual year-end reports on the federal judiciary-this is my seventh-provide an opportunity to summarize the federal judicial system's performance in the past year and to communicate with the other branches of government and the many others who use and sup- port the federal courts. The reports also allow me to comment, from my perspective, on some of the funda- mental, underlying challenges that we face in determining how best to use and administer the limited re- source that is the federal judiciary. Thus, for example, my last year's re- port was cautionary. I noted the commencement of the federal judiciary's long-range planning ef- fort and urged that it include serious reexamination of the role federal courts should play in our nationwide system of justice. I cautioned against substantial rejection of traditional concepts of federalism and advo- cated a vision of the federal courts as distinctive forums of limited jurisdic- tion, meant to complement state courts rather than supplant them. See Year-End Report on page 2 A Stsia Snir of Cog esoa cin 1 Judiciary Faces Broed Spending Reductions Faced with an unprecedented funding crisis, the Executive Com- mittee of the Judicial Conference has formulated a spending plan for the federal judicial branch for fiscal year 1993. The plan identifies five different areas where significant spending cuts will be made in an attempt to compensate for a short- fall of over $100 million in the Judiciary's principal operating ac- count-Salaries and General Oper- ating Expenses. There was no painless or agree- able way to find over $100 million in a budget that was already tight, Executive Committee Chairman, Chief Judge John F. Gerry, said in a memo sent to all United States judges. The Executive Committee identi- fied nearly $120 million in reduc- tions needed to stay within avail- able resources for salaries and gen- eral operating expenses. The reduc- tions will be made in the following areas: automation systems and sup- port; building alterations and other space-related expenses; furniture, equipment, and other operating ex- penses; probation and pretrial ser- vices; travel; and personnel. An additional shortfall in the funding of some key Judiciary See Budget on page 7

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