Capital Digest

The House Appropriations Committee is compiling its own list of potential budget cuts--including reductions for six education programs--in response to President Bush's $5.6-billion "hit list'' of programs he has proposed to eliminate.

The six programs that are set to receive delayed funding on Sept. 30--a device that held down outlay totals in the fiscal 1992 budget--would find those funds cut by 1 percent under a bill that would trim previously approved spending by $5.7 billion.

About $25 million of the rescissions in the committee's bill would come from programs overseen by the Labor, Health and Human...