[House Prints, 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
110th Congress
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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CONSOLIDATED SECURITY, DISASTER AS-
SISTANCE, AND CONTINUING APPROPRIA-
TIONS ACT, 2009
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C O M M I T T E E P R I N T
of the
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
on
H.R. 2638 / Public Law 110-329
[Legislative Text and Explanatory Statement]
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October 2008
CONSOLIDATED SECURITY, DISASTER ASSISTANCE, AND CONTINUING
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009
H.R. 2638 / PUBLIC LAW 110-329
110th Congress 2d
Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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CONSOLIDATED SECURITY, DISASTER AS-
SISTANCE, AND CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009
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C O M M I T T E E P R I N T
of the
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
on
H.R. 2638 / Public Law 110-329
[Legislative Text and Explanatory Statement]
[GRAPHIC NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
44-807 WASHINGTON : 2008
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman
JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JERRY LEWIS, California
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia RALPH REGULA, Ohio
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky
PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
NITA M. LOWEY, New York JAMES T. WALSH, New York
JOSE E. SERRANO, New York DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio
ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan
JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia JACK KINGSTON, Georgia
JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New
ED PASTOR, Arizona Jersey
DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina TODD TIAHRT, Kansas
CHET EDWARDS, Texas ZACH WAMP, Tennessee
ROBERT E. ``BUD'' CRAMER, Jr., TOM LATHAM, Iowa
Alabama ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York KAY GRANGER, Texas
LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania
SAM FARR, California VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., Virginia
JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois RAY LaHOOD, Illinois
CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan DAVE WELDON, Florida
ALLEN BOYD, Florida MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho
CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas
STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois
SANFORD D. BISHOP, Jr., Georgia ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida
MARION BERRY, Arkansas DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana
BARBARA LEE, California JOHN R. CARTER, Texas
TOM UDALL, New Mexico RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana
ADAM SCHIFF, California KEN CALVERT, California
MICHAEL HONDA, California JO BONNER, Alabama
BETTY McCOLLUM, Minnesota
STEVE ISRAEL, New York
TIM RYAN, Ohio
C.A. ``DUTCH'' RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland
BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida
CIRO RODRIGUEZ, Texas
Rob Nabors, Clerk and Staff Director
C O N T E N T S
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Provisions Applying to All Divisions of the Act.................. 1
Division A--Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009........... 7
Division B--Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2008....................................... 23
Division C--Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009....... 53
Division D--Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2009........................................................... 571
Division E--Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009...................... 703
Clerk's Note
This committee print provides a compilation of the enacted
text and applicable explanatory material for the Consolidated
Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations
Act, 2009 (H.R. 2638; P.L. 110-329).
This Act was developed through a legislative procedure
referred to as ``amendments between the Houses''. The House of
Representatives took up an appropriations bill that had been
passed by both the House and the Senate (H.R. 2638, the fiscal
year 2008 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act)
and replaced the entire Senate-passed text with a five-division
package making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2009,
providing supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance,
and covering 3 regular annual appropriations bills for fiscal
year 2009 (Department of Defense, Department of Homeland
Security, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and
Related Agencies Appropriations Acts).\1\ The Senate then
agreed to this House amendment,\2\ thereby completing
congressional action on the bill. The President signed the
legislation on September 30, 2008 and it became Public Law 110-
329.
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\1\ On September 24, Chairman Obey moved that the House concur in
the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 2638 with a House amendment printed
in House Report 110-875 (see Congressional Record, September 24, 2008,
pages H9248-9289). The motion was agreed to by a vote of 370 yeas to 58
nays with 1 voting ``present'' (Roll No. 632).
\2\ On September 27, the Senate concurred in House amendment to the
Senate amendment to H.R. 2638, by a vote of 78 yeas to 12 nays (Vote
No. 208) (see Congressional Record, September 27, 2008, page S9965).
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Because an amendments-between-the-Houses process was used
instead of a conference committee, there is no conference
report and no ``joint explanatory statement of the managers''
for H.R. 2638. Instead, as directed by the House of
Representatives,\3\ Mr. Obey, Chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, filed an Explanatory Statement in the
Congressional Record of September 24, 2008.\4\ Section 4 of the
Act provides that this Explanatory Statement ``shall have the
same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and
implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory
statement of a committee of conference''. The text of the
Explanatory Statement is reproduced in full in this committee
print.
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\3\ H. Res. 1488, section 3.
\4\ The Statement appears in Book II of the September 24
Congressional Record.
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For the convenience of users, this print is organized
according to the five divisions of the Act, with the
legislative text of each division paired with the applicable
portion of the Explanatory Statement.
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[House Appropriations Committee Print]
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2009
(H.R. 2638; P.L. 110-329)
PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL DIVISIONS OF THE ACT
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[Clerk's note: Reproduced below is the text of the sections
of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and
Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 2638, P.L. 110-329) which
precede division A and which apply to all divisions of that
Act.]
Legislative Text
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Consolidated Security,
Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009''.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
DIVISION A--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2009
DIVISION B--DISASTER RELIEF AND RECOVERY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2008
DIVISION C--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009
DIVISION D--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009
DIVISION E--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2009
SEC. 3. REFERENCES.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to
``this Act'' or ``this joint resolution'' contained in any
division of this Act shall be treated as referring only to the
provisions of that division.
SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT.
The explanatory statement regarding this legislation, printed
in the House of Representatives section of the Congressional
Record on or about September 24, 2008 by the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same
effect with respect to the allocation of funds and
implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory
statement of a committee of conference.
[Clerk's note: Reproduced below are the introductory
paragraphs of the ``Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr.
Obey, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations,
Regarding the Amendment of the House of Representatives to the
Senate Amendment to H.R. 2638''.]
Explanatory Statement
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MR. OBEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, REGARDING THE AMENDMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2638
Following is an explanation of the amendment of the House
of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 2638,
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008,
including disclosure of congressional earmarks and
congressionally directed spending items as defined in clause 9
of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives and
rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Section 4 of the House amendment specifies that this
explanatory statement shall have the same effect with respect
to the allocation of funds and implementation of this
Continuing Appropriations Act as if it were a joint explanatory
statement of a committee of conference.
The House amendment strikes the text of the Senate
amendment and inserts language continuing appropriations for
fiscal year 2009, making emergency supplemental appropriations
for fiscal year 2008, and covering 3 regular fiscal year 2009
appropriations bills, each in a separate division, as follows:
Division A--Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009;
Division B--Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2008;
Division C--Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009;
Division D--Department of Homeland Security Appropriations
Act, 2009;
Division E--Military Construction and Veterans Affairs
Appropriations Act, 2009;
Section 1 of the bill provides that the bill as a whole may
be referred to as the Consolidated Security, Disaster
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. Section 3
states that, unless expressly provided otherwise, any reference
to ``this Act'' or ``this joint resolution'' contained in any
division of the bill shall be treated as referring only to the
provisions of that division.
In the following explanations, the legislation resulting
from the House amendment is generally referred to simply as the
``bill''.