President Bush yesterday signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 to fund the Department of State exchanges funding and the Agency for International Development’s foreign operations program in FY 2005. The legislation includes $360.750 million for the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ exchange programs, an increase of $44 million over FY 2004. It also provides $19.8 billion for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s programs, an increase of $2.3 billion.