[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2719-2764]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 2007

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 116, I call up 
the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 20) making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes, and 
ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 20

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That this 
     joint resolution may be cited as the ``Revised Continuing 
     Appropriations Resolution, 2007''.
       Sec. 2. The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 
     (Public Law 109-289, division B), as amended by Public Laws 
     109-369 and 109-383, is amended to read as follows:

        ``DIVISION B--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2007

       ``The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any 
     money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of 
     applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, 
     for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and 
     other organizational units of Government for fiscal year 
     2007, and for other purposes, namely:

             ``TITLE I--FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS

       ``Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at the 
     level specified in subsection (c) and under the authority and 
     conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for 
     fiscal year 2006, for projects or activities (including the 
     costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not 
     otherwise provided for and for which appropriations, funds, 
     or other authority were made available in the following 
     appropriations Acts:
       ``(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
     Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006.
       ``(2) The Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 
     2006.
       ``(3) The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(4) The Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(5) The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.

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       ``(6) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(7) The Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(8) The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(9) The Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban 
     Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and 
     Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
       ``(b) For purposes of this division, the term `level' means 
     an amount.
       ``(c) The level referred to in subsection (a) shall be the 
     amounts appropriated in the appropriations Acts referred to 
     in such subsection, including transfers and obligation 
     limitations, except that--
       ``(1) such level shall not include any amount designated as 
     an emergency requirement, or to be for overseas contingency 
     operations, pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th 
     Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
     year 2006; and
       ``(2) such level shall be calculated without regard to any 
     rescission or cancellation of funds or contract authority, 
     other than--
       ``(A) the 1 percent government-wide rescission made by 
     section 3801 of division B of Public Law 109-148;
       ``(B) the 0.476 percent across-the-board rescission made by 
     section 439 of Public Law 109-54, relating to the Department 
     of the Interior, environment, and related agencies; and
       ``(C) the 0.28 percent across-the-board rescission made by 
     section 638 of Public Law 109-108, relating to Science, 
     State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies.
       ``Sec. 102.  Appropriations made by section 101 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner that would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       ``Sec. 103.  Appropriations provided by this division that, 
     in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2006, 
     carried a multiple-year or no-year period of availability 
     shall retain a comparable period of availability.
       ``Sec. 104.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this 
     division, the requirements, authorities, conditions, 
     limitations, and other provisions of the appropriations Acts 
     referred to in section 101(a) shall continue in effect 
     through the date specified in section 106.
       ``Sec. 105.  No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to 
     initiate or resume any project or activity for which 
     appropriations, funds, or other authority were specifically 
     prohibited during fiscal year 2006.
       ``Sec. 106.  Unless otherwise provided for in this division 
     or in the applicable appropriations Act, appropriations and 
     funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this 
     division shall be available through September 30, 2007.
       ``Sec. 107.  Expenditures made pursuant to this division 
     prior to the enactment of the Revised Continuing 
     Appropriations Resolution, 2007, shall be charged to the 
     applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization provided by 
     this division (or the applicable regular appropriations Act 
     for fiscal year 2007) as in effect following such enactment.
       ``Sec. 108.  Funds appropriated by this division may be 
     obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public 
     Law 91-672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State 
     Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), 
     section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section 
     504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     414(a)(1)).
       ``Sec. 109.  With respect to any discretionary account for 
     which advance appropriations were provided for fiscal year 
     2007 or 2008 in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2006, 
     the levels established by section 101 shall include advance 
     appropriations in the same amount for fiscal year 2008 or 
     2009, respectively, with a comparable period of availability.
       ``Sec. 110. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory 
     payments whose budget authority was provided in 
     appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2006, and for activities 
     under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, the levels established by 
     section 101 shall be the amounts necessary to maintain 
     program levels under current law.
       ``(b) In addition to the amounts otherwise provided by 
     section 101, the following amounts shall be available for the 
     following accounts for advance payments for the first quarter 
     of fiscal year 2008:
       ``(1) `Department of Labor, Employment Standards 
     Administration, Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners', 
     for benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine 
     Safety and Health Act of 1977, $68,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.
       ``(2) `Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for 
     Medicare and Medicaid Services, Grants to States for 
     Medicaid', for payments to States or in the case of section 
     1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social 
     Security Act, $65,257,617,000, to remain available until 
     expended.
       ``(3) `Department of Health and Human Services, 
     Administration for Children and Families, Payments to States 
     for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support Programs', 
     for payments to States or other non-Federal entities under 
     titles I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security 
     Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), 
     $1,000,000,000, to remain available until expended.
       ``(4) `Department of Health and Human Services, 
     Administration for Children and Families, Payments to States 
     for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance', for payments to 
     States or other non-Federal entities under title IV-E of the 
     Social Security Act, $1,810,000,000.
       ``(5) `Social Security Administration, Supplemental 
     Security Income Program', for benefit payments under title 
     XVI of the Social Security Act, $16,810,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.
       ``Sec. 111. (a)(1) In addition to any amounts otherwise 
     provided by this division, such sums as may be necessary are 
     hereby appropriated to fund, for covered employees under a 
     statutory pay system (as defined by section 5302 of title 5, 
     United States Code), 50 percent of any increase in rates of 
     pay which became effective under sections 5303 through 5304a 
     of such title 5 in January 2007.
       ``(2)(A) In addition to any amounts otherwise provided by 
     this division, such sums as may be necessary are hereby 
     appropriated to provide the amount which would be necessary 
     to fund, for covered employees not described in paragraph 
     (1), 50 percent of the cost of an increase in rates of pay, 
     calculated as if such employees were covered by paragraph (1) 
     and as if such increase had been made on the first day of the 
     first pay period beginning in January 2007 based on the rates 
     that were in effect for such employees as of the day before 
     such first day.
       ``(B) Subparagraph (A) is intended only to provide funding 
     for pay increases for covered employees not described in 
     paragraph (1). Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall be 
     considered to modify, supersede, or render inapplicable the 
     provisions of law in accordance with which the size or timing 
     of any pay increase actually provided with respect to such 
     employees is determined.
       ``(b) Appropriations under this section shall include 
     funding for pay periods beginning on or after January 1, 
     2007, and the pay costs covered by this appropriation shall 
     include 50 percent of the increases in agency contributions 
     for employee benefits resulting from the pay increases 
     described in subsection (a).
       ``(c) For purposes of this section, the term `covered 
     employees' means employees whose pay is funded in whole or in 
     part (including on a reimbursable basis) by any account for 
     which funds are provided by this division (other than by 
     chapters 2 and 11 of title II of this division) after October 
     4, 2006.
       ``Sec. 112.  Any language specifying an earmark in a 
     committee report or statement of managers accompanying an 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 2006 shall have no legal 
     effect with respect to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 113.  Within 30 days of the enactment of this 
     section, each of the following departments and agencies shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate a spending, expenditure, or 
     operating plan for fiscal year 2007 at a level of detail 
     below the account level:
       ``(1) Department of Agriculture.
       ``(2) Department of Commerce, including the United States 
     Patent and Trademark Office.
       ``(3) Department of Defense, with respect to military 
     construction, family housing, the Department of Defense Base 
     Closure accounts, and `Defense Health Program'.
       ``(4) Department of Education.
       ``(5) Department of Energy.
       ``(6) Department of Health and Human Services.
       ``(7) Department of Housing and Urban Development.
       ``(8) Department of the Interior.
       ``(9) Department of Justice.
       ``(10) Department of Labor.
       ``(11) Department of State and United States Agency for 
     International Development.
       ``(12) Department of Transportation.
       ``(13) Department of the Treasury.
       ``(14) Department of Veterans Affairs, including 
     `Construction, Major Projects'.
       ``(15) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
       ``(16) National Science Foundation.
       ``(17) The Judiciary.
       ``(18) Office of National Drug Control Policy.
       ``(19) General Services Administration.
       ``(20) Office of Personnel Management.
       ``(21) National Archives and Records Administration.
       ``(22) Environmental Protection Agency.
       ``(23) Indian Health Service.
       ``(24) Smithsonian Institution.
       ``(25) Social Security Administration.
       ``(26) Corporation for National and Community Service.
       ``(27) Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
       ``(28) Food and Drug Administration.
       ``Sec. 114.  Within 15 days after the enactment of this 
     section, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
     shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate--

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       ``(1) a report specifying, by account, the amounts provided 
     by this division for executive branch departments and 
     agencies; and
       ``(2) a report specifying, by account, the amounts provided 
     by section 111 for executive branch departments and agencies.
       ``Sec. 115.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division and notwithstanding section 601(a)(2) of the 
     Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31), the 
     percentage adjustment scheduled to take effect under such 
     section for 2007 shall not take effect.

``TITLE II--ELIMINATION OF EARMARKS, ADJUSTMENTS IN FUNDING, AND OTHER 
                               PROVISIONS

      ``CHAPTER 1--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
                  ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

       ``Sec. 20101.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Agricultural Programs of 
     the Department of Agriculture shall be as follows: `Common 
     Computing Environment', $107,971,000; `Economic Research 
     Service', $74,825,000; `National Agricultural Statistics 
     Service', $146,543,000, of which up to $36,074,000 shall be 
     available until expended for the Census of Agriculture; 
     `Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities', 
     $0; `Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service, Research and Education Activities', $671,224,000; 
     `Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service, Extension Activities', $450,252,000; `Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service, Salaries and Expenses', 
     $841,970,000; `Agricultural Marketing Service, Payments to 
     States and Possessions', $1,334,000; `Grain Inspection, 
     Packers and Stockyards Administration, Salaries and 
     Expenses', $37,564,000; `Food Safety and Inspection Service', 
     $886,982,000; and `Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
     Expenses', $1,028,700,000.
       ``Sec. 20102.  The amounts included under the heading 
     `Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service, Research and Education Activities' in the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 
     109-97) shall be applied to funds appropriated by this 
     division as follows: by substituting `$322,597,000' for 
     `$178,757,000'; by substituting `$30,008,000' for 
     `$22,230,000'; by substituting `for payments to eligible 
     institutions (7 U.S.C. 3222), $40,680,000' for `for payments 
     to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee 
     University and West Virginia State University (7 U.S.C. 
     3222), $37,591,000'; by substituting `$0' for `$128,223,000'; 
     by substituting `competitive grants for agricultural research 
     on improved pest control' for `special grants for 
     agricultural research on improved pest control'; by 
     substituting `$190,229,000' for `$183,000,000'; by 
     substituting `$1,544,000' for `$1,039,000'; by substituting 
     `competitive grants for the purpose of carrying out all 
     provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242' for `noncompetitive grants for 
     the purpose of carrying out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242'; 
     by substituting `to institutions eligible to receive funds 
     under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222, $12,375,000' for `to colleges 
     eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 
     U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee and West Virginia 
     State University, $12,312,000'; by substituting `$3,342,000' 
     for `$2,250,000'; by substituting `$10,083,000' for 
     `$50,471,000'; by substituting `$2,561,000' for `$2,587,000'; 
     and by substituting `$2,030,000' for `$2,051,000'.
       ``Sec. 20103.  The amounts included under the heading 
     `Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
     Service, Extension Activities' in the Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be applied to funds 
     appropriated by this division as follows: by substituting 
     `$285,565,000' for `$275,730,000'; by substituting 
     `$3,321,000' for `$3,273,000'; by substituting `$63,538,000' 
     for `$62,634,000'; by substituting `at institutions eligible 
     to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222, $16,777,000' 
     for `at the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee 
     University and West Virginia State University, as authorized 
     by section 1447 of Public Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 3222b), 
     $16,777,000'; by substituting `$3,000,000' for `$1,196,000'; 
     by substituting `payments for cooperative extension work by 
     eligible institutions (7 U.S.C. 3221), $35,205,000' for 
     `payments for cooperative extension work by the colleges 
     receiving the benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 
     321-326 and 328) and Tuskegee University and West Virginia 
     State University, $33,868,000'; and by substituting 
     `$6,922,000' for `$25,390,000'.
       ``Sec. 20104.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Conservation Programs of 
     the Department of Agriculture shall be as follows: `Natural 
     Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Operations', 
     $759,124,000; and `Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
     Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations', $0.
       ``Sec. 20105.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Rural Development Programs 
     of the Department of Agriculture shall be as follows: `Rural 
     Development Salaries and Expenses', $160,349,000; `Rural 
     Business-Cooperative Service, Rural Cooperative Development 
     Grants', $26,718,000; and `Rural Utilities Service, Rural 
     Telephone Bank Program Account', $0.
       ``Sec. 20106.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Rural Housing Service, Rental Assistance Program' shall be 
     $616,020,000, to remain available through September 30, 2008, 
     and the second and third provisos under such heading shall 
     not apply to funds appropriated by this division. Using funds 
     available in such account, the Secretary of Agriculture may 
     enter into or renew contracts under section 521(a)(2) of the 
     Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490a(a)(2)) for two years. 
     Any unexpended balances remaining at the end of such two-year 
     agreements may be transferred and used for the purposes of 
     any debt reduction; maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation of 
     any existing projects; preservation; and rental assistance 
     activities authorized under title V of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1471 et seq.).
       ``Sec. 20107.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Programs' shall 
     be $13,345,487,000, of which $7,614,414,000 is appropriated 
     funds and $5,731,073,000 shall be derived by transfer from 
     funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
     1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c).
       ``Sec. 20108.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Foreign Assistance and 
     Related Programs of the Department of Agriculture shall be as 
     follows: `Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and 
     Expenses', $155,422,000; `Foreign Agricultural Service, 
     Public Law 480 Title I Ocean Freight Differential Grants', 
     $0; and `Foreign Agricultural Service, Public Law 480 Title 
     II Grants', $1,214,711,000.
       ``Sec. 20109.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Food and Drug Administration, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $1,965,207,000, of which $352,200,000 shall be derived 
     from prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
     379h, shall be credited to this account and remain available 
     until expended, and shall not include any fees pursuant to 21 
     U.S.C. 379h(a)(2) and (a)(3) assessed for fiscal year 2008 
     but collected in fiscal year 2007, $43,726,000 shall be 
     derived from medical device user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
     379j and shall be credited to this account and remain 
     available until expended, and $11,604,000 shall be derived 
     from animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j and 
     shall be credited to this account and remain available until 
     expended: Provided,  That fees derived from prescription 
     drug, medical device, and animal drug assessments received 
     during fiscal year 2007, including any such fees assessed 
     prior to the current fiscal year but credited during the 
     current year, shall be subject to the fiscal year 2007 
     limitation: Provided further,  That none of these funds shall 
     be used to develop, establish, or operate any program of user 
     fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: Provided further,  That of 
     the total amount appropriated: (1) $453,180,000 shall be for 
     the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related 
     field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (2) 
     $567,594,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and 
     Research and related field activities in the Office of 
     Regulatory Affairs, of which not less than $34,900,000 shall 
     be for the Office of Generic Drugs; (3) $209,180,000 shall be 
     for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and for 
     related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; 
     (4) $103,544,000 shall be for the Center for Veterinary 
     Medicine and for related field activities in the Office of 
     Regulatory Affairs; (5) $253,710,000 shall be for the Center 
     for Devices and Radiological Health and for related field 
     activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) 
     $41,751,000 shall be for the National Center for 
     Toxicological Research; (7) $68,609,000 shall be for Rent and 
     Related activities, of which $25,552,000 is for relocation 
     expenses, other than the amounts paid to the General Services 
     Administration for rent; (8) $146,013,000 shall be for 
     payments to the General Services Administration for rent; and 
     (9) $121,626,000 shall be for other activities, including the 
     Office of the Commissioner, the Office of Management, the 
     Office of External Relations, the Office of Policy and 
     Planning, and central services for these offices.
       ``Sec. 20110.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Food and Drug Administration, Buildings and Facilities' 
     shall be $4,950,000.
       ``Sec. 20111.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following provisions included in the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division: the last proviso 
     under the heading `Common Computing Environment'; the 
     provisos under the heading `Economic Research Service'; the 
     third, fourth, sixth, and eighth through twelfth provisos 
     under the heading `Agricultural Research Service, Salaries 
     and Expenses'; the set-aside of funds under the heading 
     `Agricultural Marketing Service, Payments to States and 
     Possessions'; the set-aside of $753,252,000 under the heading 
     `Food Safety and Inspection Service' and the first three 
     provisos under such heading; the first proviso under the 
     heading `Natural Resources Conservation Service, Resource 
     Conservation and Development'; the set-aside of $5,600,000 in 
     the seventh proviso under the heading `Rural Development 
     Programs, Rural Community Advancement Program'; the first 
     proviso under the heading `Rural

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     Development Salaries and Expenses'; the second proviso in the 
     second paragraph under the heading `Rural Housing Service, 
     Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account'; the last 
     paragraph under the heading `Rural Business-Cooperative 
     Service, Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account'; 
     the set-aside of $2,500,000 under the heading `Rural 
     Business-Cooperative Service, Rural Cooperative Development 
     Grants'; the proviso under the heading `Rural Business-
     Cooperative Service, Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise 
     Communities Grants'; the last paragraph under the heading 
     `Rural Utilities Service, Rural Telephone Bank Program 
     Account'; the second proviso under the heading `Food and 
     Nutrition Service, Food Stamp Program'; the first paragraph, 
     including the proviso in such paragraph, under the heading 
     `Foreign Agricultural Service, Public Law 480 Title I Direct 
     Credit and Food for Progress Program Account'; and the first 
     four provisos under the heading `Food and Drug 
     Administration, Salaries and Expenses'.
       ``Sec. 20112.  The following provisions of the Agriculture, 
     Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be applied to funds 
     appropriated by this division by substituting `2007' and 
     `2008' for `2006' and `2007', respectively, each place they 
     appear: the second paragraph under the heading `Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service, Salaries and Expenses'; the 
     availability of funds clause under the heading `Natural 
     Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Operations'; the 
     eighth proviso under the heading `Rural Development Programs, 
     Rural Community Advancement Program'; the first proviso in 
     the second paragraph under the heading `Rural Housing 
     Service, Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account'; the 
     proviso under the heading `Rural Housing Service, Mutual and 
     Self-Help Housing Grants'; the fourth proviso under the 
     heading `Rural Housing Service, Rural Housing Assistance 
     Grants'; the three availability of funds clauses under the 
     heading `Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Rural 
     Development Loan Fund Program Account'; the second proviso 
     under the heading `Food and Nutrition Service, Special 
     Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and 
     Children (WIC)'; section 719; section 734; and section 738.
       ``Sec. 20113.  Section 704 of the Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be applied to the 
     funds appropriated by this division by substituting `avian 
     influenza programs' for `low pathogen avian influenza 
     program'.
       ``Sec. 20114.  The following sections of title VII of the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be 
     applied to funds appropriated by this division by 
     substituting $0 for the following dollar amounts: section 
     721, $2,500,000; section 723, $1,250,000; section 755, 
     $1,000,000; section 764, $650,000; section 766, $200,000; 
     section 767, $2,250,000; section 779, $6,000,000; section 
     790, $140,000, $400,000, $200,000, $500,000, and $350,000; 
     and section 791, $1,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20115.  The following sections of title VII of the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply 
     for fiscal year 2007: section 726; paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
     section 754; section 768; section 785; and section 789.
       ``Sec. 20116.  The following sections of title VII of the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 authorized or 
     required certain actions by the Secretary of Agriculture that 
     have been performed before the date of the enactment of this 
     division and need not reoccur: section 761; section 770; 
     section 782; and section 783.
       ``Sec. 20117.  Of the unobligated balances under section 32 
     of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), $37,601,000 is 
     rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20118.  Of the unobligated balances of funds 
     provided pursuant to section 16(h)(1)(A) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)(1)(A)), $11,200,000 is 
     rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20119.  Of the funds derived from interest on the 
     cushion of credit payments, as authorized by section 313 of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c), 
     $74,000,000 shall not be obligated and $74,000,000 is 
     rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20120.  In addition to amounts otherwise 
     appropriated or made available by this division, $31,000,000 
     is appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for the costs 
     of loan and loan guarantees under the Rural Development 
     Mission Area to ensure that the fiscal year 2006 program 
     levels for such loan and loan guarantee programs are 
     maintained for fiscal year 2007. The Secretary may transfer 
     funds, to the extent practicable, among loan and loan 
     guarantee programs within the Rural Development Mission Area 
     to ensure that the fiscal year 2006 program levels for such 
     programs and activities are maintained during fiscal year 
     2007.
       ``Sec. 20121.  For the programs and activities administered 
     by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Farm Service 
     Agency, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, the Secretary may 
     transfer funds made available by this division among programs 
     and activities within such Fund: Provided,  That the fiscal 
     year 2006 program levels for such programs and activities are 
     at least maintained.
       ``Sec. 20122.  With respect to any loan or loan guarantee 
     program administered by the Secretary of Agriculture that has 
     a negative credit subsidy score for fiscal year 2007, the 
     program level for the loan or loan guarantee program, for the 
     purposes of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, shall be 
     the program level established pursuant to such Act for fiscal 
     year 2006.
       ``Sec. 20123.  The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue 
     the Water and Waste Systems Direct Loan Program and the loan 
     guarantee programs of the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund 
     under the authority and conditions (including the borrower's 
     interest rate and fees as of September 1, 2006) provided by 
     the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
     Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006.
       ``Sec. 20124.  Of the appropriations available for payments 
     for the nutrition and family education program for low-income 
     areas under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 
     343(d)), if the payment allocation pursuant to section 
     1425(c) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175(c)) would be less 
     than $100,000 for any institution eligible under section 
     3(d)(2) of the Smith-Lever Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
     shall adjust payment allocations under section 1425(c) of the 
     National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 to ensure that each institution receives a 
     payment of not less than $100,000.

                   ``CHAPTER 2--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

       ``Sec. 20201.  For purposes of title I, the appropriations 
     Acts listed in section 101(a) shall be deemed to include the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 for purposes 
     of activities of the Department of Defense under the 
     `Environmental Restoration' accounts.
       ``Sec. 20202.  In addition to amounts otherwise provided in 
     this division or any other Act, amounts are appropriated for 
     certain military activities of the Department of Defense for 
     the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, as follows:
       ``(1) For an additional amount for `Military Personnel, 
     Army', $3,902,556,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Army on active duty.
       ``(2) For an additional amount for `Military Personnel, 
     Navy', $3,726,778,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Navy on active duty.
       ``(3) For an additional amount for `Military Personnel, 
     Marine Corps', $1,241,965,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Marine Corps on 
     active duty.
       ``(4) For an additional amount for `Military Personnel, Air 
     Force', $3,278,835,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Air Force on active 
     duty.
       ``(5) For an additional amount for `Reserve Personnel, 
     Army', $321,642,000, to be available for the basic allowance 
     for housing for members of the Army Reserve on active duty.
       ``(6) For an additional amount for `Reserve Personnel, 
     Navy', $204,115,000, to be available for the basic allowance 
     for housing for members of the Navy Reserve on active duty.
       ``(7) For an additional amount for `Reserve Personnel, 
     Marine Corps', $43,082,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Marine Corps Reserve 
     on active duty.
       ``(8) For an additional amount for `Reserve Personnel, Air 
     Force', $76,218,000, to be available for the basic allowance 
     for housing for members of the Air Force Reserve on active 
     duty.
       ``(9) For an additional amount for `National Guard 
     Personnel, Army', $457,226,000, to be available for the basic 
     allowance for housing for members of the Army National Guard 
     on active duty.
       ``(10) For an additional amount for `National Guard 
     Personnel, Air Force', $258,000,000, to be available for the 
     basic allowance for housing for members of the Air National 
     Guard on active duty.
       ``(11) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Army', $1,810,774,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(12) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Navy', $1,202,313,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(13) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Marine Corps', $473,141,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(14) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air Force', $1,684,019,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(15) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Defense-Wide', $86,386,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(16) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Army Reserve', $202,326,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(17) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Navy Reserve', $52,136,000, to be available for 
     facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.

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       ``(18) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve', $10,004,000, to be 
     available for facilities sustainment, restoration and 
     modernization.
       ``(19) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air Force Reserve', $53,850,000, to be available 
     for facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization.
       ``(20) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Army National Guard', $387,579,000, to be 
     available for facilities sustainment, restoration and 
     modernization.
       ``(21) For an additional amount for `Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air National Guard', $177,993,000, to be 
     available for facilities sustainment, restoration and 
     modernization.
       ``Sec. 20203.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     or of this division, amounts are appropriated for the Defense 
     Health Program of the Department of Defense, as follows:
       ``(1) For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical 
     and health care programs of the Department of Defense, as 
     authorized by law, $21,217,000,000, of which $20,494,000,000 
     shall be for Operation and Maintenance, of which not to 
     exceed 2 percent shall remain available until September 30, 
     2008, and of which up to $10,887,784,000 may be available for 
     contracts entered into under the TRICARE program; of which 
     $375,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2009, shall be for Procurement; and of which 
     $348,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2008, shall be for Research, Development, Test 
     and Evaluation.
       ``(2) Of the amount made available in this section for 
     Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, $217,500,000 
     shall be made available only for peer reviewed cancer 
     research activities, of which $127,500,000 shall be for 
     breast cancer research activities; of which $10,000,000 shall 
     be for ovarian cancer research activities; and of which 
     $80,000,000 shall be for prostate cancer research activities.
       ``(3) Amounts made available in this section are subject to 
     the terms and conditions set forth in the Department of 
     Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 109-289).

               ``CHAPTER 3--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

       ``Sec. 20301.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: `Corps of 
     Engineers, Construction', $2,334,440,000; and `Corps of 
     Engineers, General Expenses', $166,300,000.
       ``Sec. 20302.  The limitation concerning total project 
     costs in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act 
     of 1986, as amended (33 U.S.C. 2280), shall not apply during 
     fiscal year 2007 to any project that received funds provided 
     in this division.
       ``Sec. 20303.  All of the provisos under the heading `Corps 
     of Engineers--Civil, Department of Army, Investigations' in 
     Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20304.  All of the provisos under the heading `Corps 
     of Engineers--Civil, Department of Army, Construction' in 
     Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20305.  All of the provisos under the heading `Corps 
     of Engineers--Civil, Department of Army, Flood Control, 
     Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, 
     Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee' in 
     Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20306.  All of the provisos under the heading `Corps 
     of Engineers--Civil, Department of Army, Operation and 
     Maintenance' in Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20307.  The last proviso under the heading `Corps of 
     Engineers--Civil, Department of Army, General Expenses' in 
     Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20308.  Section 135 of the Energy and Water 
     Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-103) 
     shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20309.  The last proviso under the heading 
     `Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Water and 
     Related Resources' in Public Law 109-103 shall not apply to 
     funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20310.  The last proviso under the heading 
     `Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 
     California Bay-Delta Restoration' in Public Law 109-103 shall 
     not apply to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20311.  Section 208 of the Energy and Water 
     Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-103) 
     shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20312.  Section 8 of the Water Desalination Act of 
     1996 (42 U.S.C. 10301 note) is amended--
       ``(1) in subsection (a) by striking `2006' and inserting 
     `2011'; and
       ``(2) in subsection (b) by striking `2006' and inserting 
     `2011'.
       ``Sec. 20313.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: 
     `Department of Energy, Elk Hills School Lands Fund', $0; 
     `Department of Energy, Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve', 
     $5,000,000; `Department of Energy, Energy Information 
     Administration', $90,314,000; `Department of Energy, 
     Science', $3,796,393,000; `Department of Energy, Nuclear 
     Waste Disposal', $99,000,000; `Department of Energy, National 
     Nuclear Security Administration, Weapons Activities', 
     $6,275,103,000; and `Department of Energy, Defense 
     Environmental Cleanup', $5,730,448,000.
       ``Sec. 20314.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Energy, Energy Supply and Conservation' shall 
     be $2,153,627,000, of which not less than $1,473,844,000 
     shall be for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 
     Resources.
       ``Sec. 20315.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     salaries and expenses of the Department of Energy necessary 
     for departmental administration in carrying out the purposes 
     of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 
     et seq.), including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
     official reception and representation expenses not to exceed 
     $35,000, shall be $275,789,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $43,075,000 shall be available for cyber-
     security activities and of which $7,000,000 shall be 
     available for necessary administrative expenses of the loan 
     guarantee program authorized in title XVII of the Energy 
     Policy Act of 2005, plus such additional amounts as necessary 
     to cover increases in the estimated amount of cost of work 
     for others notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-
     Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1511 et seq.): Provided, That such 
     increases in cost of work are offset by revenue increases of 
     the same or greater amount, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided further, That moneys received by the 
     Department for miscellaneous revenues estimated to total 
     $123,000,000 in fiscal year 2007 may be retained and used for 
     operating expenses within this account, and may remain 
     available until expended, as authorized by section 201 of 
     Public Law 95-238, notwithstanding the provisions of section 
     3302 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That 
     the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of 
     miscellaneous revenues received during 2007, and any related 
     appropriated receipt account balances remaining from prior 
     years' miscellaneous revenues, so as to result in a final 
     fiscal year 2007 appropriation from the general fund 
     estimated at not more than $152,789,000.
       ``Sec. 20316.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security 
     Administration, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation' shall be 
     $1,683,339,000, of which $472,730,000 shall be for 
     International Nuclear Material Protection and Cooperation and 
     of which $115,495,000 shall be for Global Threat Reduction 
     Initiative.
       ``Sec. 20317.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     necessary expenses of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 
     1974 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, including official 
     representation expenses (not to exceed $15,000), and 
     including purchase of promotional items for use in the 
     recruitment of individuals for employment, shall be 
     $813,300,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That of the amount appropriated herein, $45,700,000 shall be 
     derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided further, That 
     revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other 
     services and collections estimated at $659,055,000 in fiscal 
     year 2007 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries 
     and expenses in this account, notwithstanding section 3302 of 
     title 31, United States Code, and shall remain available 
     until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
     appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues 
     received during fiscal year 2007 so as to result in a final 
     fiscal year 2007 appropriation estimated at not more than 
     $154,245,000.
       ``Sec. 20318.  The Secretary of Energy may not make 
     available any of the funds provided by this division or 
     previous appropriations Acts for construction activities for 
     Project 99-D-143, mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility, 
     Savannah River Site, South Carolina, until August 1, 2007.
       ``Sec. 20319.  Section 302 of Public Law 102-377 is 
     repealed.
       ``Sec. 20320. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, subject to 
     the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, as amended, 
     commitments to guarantee loans under title XVII of the Energy 
     Policy Act of 2005 shall not exceed a total principal amount, 
     any part of which is to be guaranteed, of $4,000,000,000: 
     Provided, That there are appropriated for the cost of the 
     guaranteed loans such sums as are hereafter derived from 
     amounts received from borrowers pursuant to section 
     1702(b)(2) of that Act, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided further, That the source of payments received from 
     borrowers for the subsidy cost shall not be a loan or other 
     debt obligation that is made or guaranteed by the Federal 
     government. In addition, fees collected pursuant to section 
     1702(h) in fiscal year 2007 shall be credited as offsetting 
     collections to the Departmental Administration account for 
     administrative expenses of the Loan Guarantee Program: 
     Provided further, That the sum appropriated for 
     administrative expenses for the Loan Guarantee Program shall 
     be reduced by the amount of fees received during fiscal year 
     2007: Provided further, That any fees collected under section 
     1702(h) in excess of the amount appropriated for 
     administrative expenses shall not be available until 
     appropriated.

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       ``(b) No loan guarantees may be awarded under title XVII of 
     the Energy Policy Act of 2005 until final regulations are 
     issued that include--
       ``(1) programmatic, technical, and financial factors the 
     Secretary will use to select projects for loan guarantees;
       ``(2) policies and procedures for selecting and monitoring 
     lenders and loan performance; and
       ``(3) any other policies, procedures, or information 
     necessary to implement title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 
     2005.
       ``(c) The Secretary of Energy shall enter into an 
     arrangement with an independent auditor for annual 
     evaluations of the program under title XVII of the Energy 
     Policy Act of 2005. In addition to the independent audit, the 
     Comptroller General shall conduct an annual review of the 
     Department's execution of the program under title XVII of the 
     Energy Policy Act of 2005. The results of the independent 
     audit and the Comptroller General's review shall be provided 
     directly to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate.
       ``(d) The Secretary of Energy shall promulgate final 
     regulations for loan guarantees under title XVII of the 
     Energy Policy Act of 2005 within 6 months of enactment of 
     this division.
       ``(e) Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 
     of this division, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 
     Energy shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
     containing a summary of all activities under title XVII of 
     the Energy Policy Act of 2005, beginning in fiscal year 2007, 
     with a listing of responses to loan guarantee solicitations 
     under such title, describing the technologies, amount of loan 
     guarantee sought, and the applicants' assessment of risk.
       ``Sec. 20321.  For fiscal year 2007, except as otherwise 
     provided by law in effect as of the date of enactment of this 
     division or unless a rate is specifically set by an Act of 
     Congress thereafter, the Administrators of the Southeastern 
     Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, 
     the Western Power Administration, shall use the `yield' rate 
     in computing interest during Construction and interest on the 
     unpaid balance of the cost of Federal power facilities. The 
     yield rate shall be defined as the average yield during the 
     preceding fiscal year on interest-bearing marketable 
     securities of the United States which, at the time the 
     computation is made, have terms of 15 years or more remaining 
     to maturity.
       ``Sec. 20322.  The second proviso under the heading 
     `Department of Energy, Energy Programs, Nuclear Waste 
     Disposal' in title III of the Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-103) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20323.  The provisos under the heading `Atomic 
     Energy Defense Activities, National Nuclear Security 
     Administration, Weapons Activities' in title III of the 
     Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public 
     Law 109-103) shall not apply to funds appropriated by this 
     division.
       ``Sec. 20324.  The second proviso under the heading `Power 
     Marketing Administrations, Construction, Rehabilitation, 
     Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration' 
     in title III of the Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-103) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20325.  Title III of the Energy and Water 
     Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-103) is 
     amended by striking sections 310 and 312.
       ``Sec. 20326.  Section 14704 of title 40, United States 
     Code, is amended by striking `October 1, 2006' and inserting 
     `October 1, 2007'.

``CHAPTER 4--FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS

       ``Sec. 20401.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: `Export 
     and Investment Assistance, Export-Import Bank of the United 
     States, Subsidy Appropriation', $26,382,000; `Bilateral 
     Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, 
     Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Assistance for Eastern 
     Europe and the Baltic States', $273,900,000; `Bilateral 
     Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, 
     Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Assistance for the 
     Independent States of the Former Soviet Union', $452,000,000; 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Department of State, Andean 
     Counterdrug Initiative', $721,500,000; `Bilateral Economic 
     Assistance, Department of State, Migration and Refugee 
     Assistance', $832,900,000; `Bilateral Economic Assistance, 
     Department of State, United States Emergency Refugee and 
     Migration Assistance Fund', $55,000,000; `Military 
     Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, Foreign 
     Military Financing Program', $4,550,800,000, of which not 
     less than $2,340,000,000 shall be available for grants only 
     for Israel and $1,300,000,000 shall be available for grants 
     only for Egypt; and `Military Assistance, Funds Appropriated 
     to the President, Peacekeeping Operations', $223,250,000, of 
     which not less than $50,000,000 should be provided for 
     peacekeeping operations in Sudan: Provided, That the number 
     in the third proviso under the heading `Military Assistance, 
     Funds Appropriated to the President, Foreign Military 
     Financing Program' in the Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 
     (Public Law 109-102) shall be deemed to be $610,000,000 for 
     the purpose of applying funds appropriated under such heading 
     by this division.
       ``Sec. 20402.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the 
     President, Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Economic 
     Support Fund' shall be $2,455,010,000: Provided, That the 
     number in the first proviso under the heading `Other 
     Bilateral Economic Assistance, Economic Support Fund' in the 
     Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall be deemed 
     to be $120,000,000 for the purpose of applying funds 
     appropriated under such heading by this division: Provided 
     further, That the number in the second proviso under the 
     heading `Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Economic 
     Support Fund' in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
     and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 
     109-102) shall be deemed to be $455,000,000 for the purpose 
     of applying funds appropriated under such heading by this 
     division: Provided further, That up to $50,000,000 shall be 
     made available for assistance for the West Bank and Gaza and 
     up to $50,000,000 shall be made available for the Middle East 
     Partnership Initiative: Provided further, That not less than 
     $5,000,000 shall be made available for the fund established 
     by section 2108 of Public Law 109-13: Provided further, That 
     the fourteenth and twentieth provisos under the heading 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the 
     President, Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Economic 
     Support Fund' in Public Law 109-102 shall not apply to funds 
     made available under this division.
       ``Sec. 20403.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Department of State, Global 
     HIV/AIDS Initiative', $3,246,500,000, of which $377,500,000 
     shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, except for the United States Leadership Against HIV/
     AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-
     25) for a United States contribution to the Global Fund to 
     Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and `Bilateral Economic 
     Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, United 
     States Agency for International Development, Child Survival 
     and Health Programs Fund', $1,718,150,000, of which 
     $248,000,000 shall be made available for programs and 
     activities to combat malaria.
       ``Sec. 20404.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be $0: `Multilateral 
     Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, 
     Contribution to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee 
     Agency'; `Multilateral Economic Assistance, Funds 
     Appropriated to the President, Contribution to the Inter-
     American Investment Corporation'; and `Multilateral Economic 
     Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, Contribution 
     to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development'.
       ``Sec. 20405. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
     from funds appropriated under the heading `Funds Appropriated 
     to the President, International Financial Institutions, 
     Contribution to the International Development Association' in 
     the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102), 
     $31,350,000 is rescinded.
       ``(b) Of the unobligated balances available from funds 
     appropriated under the heading `Bilateral Economic 
     Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, Other 
     Bilateral Economic Assistance, Economic Support Fund', 
     $200,000,000 is rescinded: Provided, That such amounts shall 
     be derived only from funds not yet expended for cash transfer 
     assistance.
       ``Sec. 20406.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the eighth proviso under the heading `Bilateral 
     Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, 
     United States Agency for International Development, 
     Development Assistance' in the Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 
     (Public Law 109-102) shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20407.  Section 599D of the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-102) is amended by striking `certifies' 
     and all that follows and inserting the following: `reports to 
     the appropriate congressional committees on the extent to 
     which the World Bank has completed the following:
       ```(1) World Bank procurement guidelines have been applied 
     to all procurement financed in whole or in part by a loan 
     from the World Bank or a credit agreement or grant from the 
     International Development Association (IDA).
       ```(2) The World Bank proposal ``Increasing the Use of 
     Country Systems in Procurement'' dated March 2005 has been 
     withdrawn.
       ```(3) The World Bank maintains a strong central 
     procurement office staffed with senior experts who are 
     designated to address commercial concerns, questions, and 
     complaints regarding procurement procedures

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     and payments under IDA and World Bank projects.
       ```(4) Thresholds for international competitive bidding 
     have been established to maximize international competitive 
     bidding in accordance with sound procurement practices, 
     including transparency, competition, and cost-effective 
     results for the Borrowers.
       ```(5) All tenders under the World Bank's national 
     competitive bidding provisions are subject to the same 
     advertisement requirements as tenders under international 
     competitive bidding.
       ```(6) Loan agreements between the World Bank and the 
     Borrowers have been made public.'.
       ``Sec. 20408.  Section 523 of the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall be applied to funds made 
     available under this division by substituting 
     `$1,022,086,000' for the first dollar amount.
       ``Sec. 20409.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following provisions in the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division: the proviso in subsection (a) 
     under the heading `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds 
     Appropriated to the President, Other Bilateral Economic 
     Assistance, Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
     States'; the eleventh proviso under the heading `Bilateral 
     Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, 
     United States Agency for International Development, 
     Development Assistance'; the third proviso under the heading 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Department of State, 
     Migration and Refugee Assistance'; subsection (d) under the 
     heading `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to 
     the President, Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, 
     Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
     Union'; the fourth proviso of section 522; subsections (a) 
     and (c) of section 554; and the first proviso of section 593.
       ``Sec. 20410.  The Inter-American Development Bank Act (22 
     U.S.C. 283--283z-10) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:

     ```SEC. 39. FIRST REPLENISHMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF THE 
                   ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS MULTILATERAL 
                   INVESTMENT FUND.

       ```(a) Contribution Authority.--
       ```(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury may 
     contribute on behalf of the United States $150,000,000 to the 
     first replenishment of the resources of the Enterprise for 
     the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund.
       ```(2) Subject to appropriations.--The authority provided 
     by paragraph (1) may be exercised only to the extent and in 
     the amounts provided for in advance in appropriations Acts.
       ```(b) Limitations on Authorization of Appropriations.--For 
     the United States contribution authorized by subsection (a), 
     there are authorized to be appropriated not more than 
     $150,000,000, without fiscal year limitation, for payment by 
     the Secretary of the Treasury.'.
       ``Sec. 20411.  The authority provided by section 
     801(b)(1)(ii) of Public Law 106-429 shall apply to fiscal 
     year 2007.
       ``Sec. 20412. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this division, section 534(m) of the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall not apply to funds and 
     authorities provided under this division.
       ``(b) The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-167) is 
     amended--
       ``(1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)--
       ``(A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking `and 2006' and 
     inserting `2006, and 2007'; and
       ``(B) in subsection (e), by striking `2006' each place it 
     appears and inserting `2007'; and
       ``(2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note), in subsection 
     (b)(2), by striking `2006' and inserting `2007'.
       ``Sec. 20413.  Notwithstanding section 653(b) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2413), the 
     President shall transmit to Congress the report required 
     under section 653(a) of that Act with respect to the 
     provision of funds appropriated by this division: Provided, 
     That such report shall include a comparison of amounts, by 
     category of assistance, provided or intended to be provided 
     from funds appropriated for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, for 
     each country and international organization.
       ``Sec. 20414.  The seventh proviso under the heading 
     `Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the 
     President, United States Agency for International 
     Development, Child Survival and Health Programs Fund' of the 
     Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall be 
     applied to funds made available under this division by 
     substituting `The GAVI Fund' for `The Vaccine Fund'.
       ``Sec. 20415.  Section 501(i) of H.R. 3425, as enacted into 
     law by section l000(a)(5) of division B of Public Law 106-113 
     (appendix E, 113 Stat. 1501A-313), as amended by section 
     591(b) of division D of Public Law 108-447 (118 Stat. 3037), 
     shall apply to fiscal year 2007.

   ``CHAPTER 5--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

       ``Sec. 20501.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: `Bureau 
     of Land Management, Management of Lands and Resources', 
     $862,632,000; `United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
     Resource Management', $1,009,037,000; `National Park Service, 
     Historic Preservation Fund', $55,663,000; `United States 
     Geological Survey, Surveys, Investigations, and Research', 
     $977,675,000; and ``Environmental Protection Agency, 
     Hazardous Substance Superfund'', $1,251,574,000.
       ``Sec. 20502.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `National Park Service, Operation of the National Park 
     Service', shall be $1,758,415,000, of which not to exceed 
     $5,000,000 may be transferred to the United States Park 
     Police.
       ``Sec. 20503.  Notwithstanding section 101, under `National 
     Park Service, Construction', the designations under Public 
     Law 109-54 of specific amounts and sources of funding for 
     modified water deliveries and the national historic landmark 
     shall not apply.
       ``Sec. 20504.  The contract authority provided for fiscal 
     year 2007 under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
     1965 (16 U.S.C. 4601-10a) is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20505.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Land and Water Claim 
     Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians', shall be 
     $42,000,000 for payments required for settlements approved by 
     Congress or a court of competent jurisdiction.
       ``Sec. 20506.  Notwithstanding section 101, the `Minerals 
     Management Service, Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management' 
     shall credit an amount not to exceed $128,730,000 under the 
     same terms and conditions of the credit to said account as in 
     Public Law 109-54. To the extent $128,730,000 in addition to 
     receipts are not realized from sources of receipts stated 
     above, the amount needed to reach $128,730,000 shall be 
     credited to this appropriation from receipts resulting from 
     rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect 
     before August 5, 1993.
       ``Sec. 20507.  Notwithstanding section 101, within the 
     amounts made available under `Environmental Protection 
     Agency, State and Tribal Assistance Grants', $1,083,817,000, 
     shall be for making capitalization grants for the Clean Water 
     State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water 
     Pollution Control Act, as amended, and no funds shall be 
     available for making special project grants for the 
     construction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm water 
     infrastructure and for water quality protection in accordance 
     with the terms and conditions specified for such grants in 
     the joint explanatory statement of the mangers in Conference 
     Report 109-188.
       ``Sec. 20508.  Notwithstanding section 101, for `Forest 
     Service, State and Private Forestry', the $1,000,000 
     specified in the second proviso and the $1,500,000 specified 
     in the third proviso in Public Law 109-54 are not required.
       ``Sec. 20509.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Forest Service, National Forest System', shall be 
     $1,445,646,000, except that the $5,000,000 specified as an 
     additional regional allocation is not required.
       ``Sec. 20510.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Forest Service, Wildland Fire Management', shall be 
     $1,816,091,000 of which the allocation provided for fire 
     suppression operations shall be $741,477,000; the allocation 
     for hazardous fuels reduction shall be $298,828,000; and 
     other funding allocations and terms and conditions shall 
     follow Public Law 109-54.
       ``Sec. 20511.  Notwithstanding section 101, of the level 
     for `Forest Service, Capital Improvement and Maintenance', 
     the $3,000,000 specified in the third proviso is not 
     required.
       ``Sec. 20512.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Indian Health Service, Indian Health Services', shall be 
     $2,817,099,000 and the $15,000,000 allocation of funding 
     under the eleventh proviso shall not be required.
       ``Sec. 20513.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Smithsonian Institution, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $533,218,000, except that current terms and conditions shall 
     not be interpreted to require a specific grant for the 
     Council of American Overseas Research Centers or for the 
     reopening of the Patent Office Building.
       ``Sec. 20514.  Notwithstanding section 101, no additional 
     funding is made available by this division for fiscal year 
     2007 based on the terms of section 134 and section 437 of 
     Public Law 109-54.
       ``Sec. 20515.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Bureau of Indian Affairs, Operation of Indian Programs' 
     shall be $1,984,190,000, of which not less than $75,477,000 
     is for post-secondary education programs.
       ``Sec. 20516.  The rule referenced in section 126 of Public 
     Law 109-54 shall continue in effect for the 2006-2007 winter 
     use season.
       ``Sec. 20517.  Section 123 of Public Law 109-54 is amended 
     by striking `9' in the first sentence and inserting `10'.
       ``Sec. 20518.  For fiscal year 2007, the Minerals 
     Management Service may retain 3 percent of the amounts 
     disbursed under section 31(b)(1) of the Coastal Impact 
     Assistance Program, authorized by section 31 of the Outer 
     Continental Shelf Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1456(a)), 
     for administrative costs, to remain available until expended.

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       ``Sec. 20519.  Of the funds made available in section 
     8098(b) of Public Law 108-287, to construct a wildfire 
     management training facility, $7,400,000 shall be transferred 
     not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of the 
     Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007, to the ``Forest 
     Service, Wildland Fire Management'' account and shall be 
     available for hazardous fuels reduction, hazard mitigation, 
     and rehabilitation activities of the Forest Service.
       ``Sec. 20520.  Section 337 of division E of Public Law 108-
     447 is amended by striking `2006' and inserting `2007'.
       ``Sec. 20521.  No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available to the Department of the Interior may be used, in 
     relation to any proposal to store water for the purpose of 
     export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar 
     authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands 
     managed by the Needles Field Office of the Bureau of Land 
     Management or for carrying out any activities associated with 
     such right-of-way or similar approval.

   ``CHAPTER 6--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND 
                    EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

       ``Sec. 20601. (a)(1) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Employment and Training Administration, Training and 
     Employment Services' shall be $2,670,730,000 plus 
     reimbursements.
       ``(2) Of the amount provided in paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) $1,672,810,000 shall be available for obligation for 
     the period July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008, of which (i) 
     $341,811,000 shall be for dislocated worker employment and 
     training activities; (ii) $70,092,000 shall be for the 
     dislocated workers assistance national reserve; (iii) 
     $79,752,000 shall be for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, 
     including $74,302,000 for formula grants, $4,950,000 for 
     migrant and seasonal housing (of which not less than 70 
     percent shall be for permanent housing), and $500,000 for 
     other discretionary purposes; (iv) $878,538,000 shall be for 
     Job Corps operations; (v) $14,700,000 shall be for carrying 
     out pilots, demonstrations, and research activities 
     authorized by section 171(d) of the Workforce Investment Act 
     of 1998; (vi) $49,104,000 shall be for Responsible 
     Reintegration of Youthful Offenders; (vii) $4,921,000 shall 
     be for Evaluation; and (viii) not less than $1,000,000 shall 
     be for carrying out the Women in Apprenticeship and 
     Nontraditional Occupations Act (29 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.);
       ``(B) $990,000,000 shall be available for obligation for 
     the period April 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008, for youth 
     activities, of which $49,500,000 shall be available for the 
     Youthbuild Program; and
       ``(C) $7,920,000 shall be available for obligation for the 
     period July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2010, for necessary 
     expenses of construction, rehabilitation and acquisition of 
     Job Corps centers.
       ``(3) The Secretary of Labor shall award the following 
     grants on a competitive basis: (A) Community College 
     Initiative grants or Community-Based Job Training Grants 
     awarded from amounts provided for such purpose under section 
     109 of this division and under the Department of Labor 
     Appropriations Act, 2006; and (B) grants for job training for 
     employment in high growth industries awarded during fiscal 
     year 2007 under section 414(c) of the American 
     Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998.
       ``(4) None of the funds made available in this division or 
     any other Act shall be available to finalize or implement any 
     proposed regulation under the Workforce Investment Act of 
     1998, Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, or the Trade Adjustment 
     Assistance Reform Act of 2002 until such time as legislation 
     reauthorizing the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the 
     Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002 is enacted.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Employment and Training Administration, Program 
     Administration' shall be $116,702,000 (together with not to 
     exceed $82,049,000, which may be expended from the Employment 
     Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust 
     Fund), of which $28,578,000 shall be for necessary expenses 
     for the Office of Job Corps.
       ``(c) None of the funds made available in this division or 
     under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 
     shall be used to reduce Job Corps total student training 
     slots below 44,491 in program year 2006 or program year 2007.
       ``(d) Of the funds available under the heading `Employment 
     and Training Administration, Training and Employment 
     Services' in the Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 
     for the Responsible Reintegration of Youthful Offenders, 
     $25,000,000 shall be used for grants to local educational 
     agencies to discourage youth in high-crime urban areas from 
     involvement in violent crime.
       ``(e) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Employment and Training Administration, Community Service 
     Employment for Older Americans' shall be $483,611,000.
       ``(f) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     administrative expenses of `Employment and Training 
     Administration, State Unemployment Insurance and Employment 
     Service Operations' shall be $106,252,000 (together with not 
     to exceed $3,234,098,000, which may be expended from the 
     Employment Security Administration Account in the 
     Unemployment Trust Fund), of which $63,855,000 shall be 
     available for one-stop career centers and labor market 
     information activities. For purposes of this division, the 
     first proviso under such heading in the Department of Labor 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be applied by substituting 
     `2007' and `2,703,000' for `2006' and `2,800,000', 
     respectively.
       ``Sec. 20602.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Employee Benefits Security Administration, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $140,834,000, of which no less than 
     $5,000,000 shall be for the development of an electronic Form 
     5500 filing system (EFAST2).
       ``Sec. 20603.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and Expenses' 
     shall be $416,308,000 (together with $2,028,000 which may be 
     expended from the Special Fund in accordance with sections 39 
     (c), 44(d), and 44(j) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
     Compensation Act).
       ``Sec. 20604.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $485,074,000, of which $7,500,000 shall be 
     for continued development of the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Information System, and of which $10,116,000 shall be 
     for the Susan Harwood training grants program. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the 
     fifth proviso under such heading in the Department of Labor 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds apprpriated 
     by this division.
       ``Sec. 20605.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Mine Safety and Health Administration, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $299,836,000.
       ``Sec. 20606.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Bureau of Labor Statistics, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $468,512,000 (together with not to exceed $77,067,000, which 
     may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
     Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund).
       ``Sec. 20607.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Departmental Management, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $297,272,000 (together with not to exceed $308,000, which may 
     be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
     Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund), of which $72,516,000 
     shall be for contracts, grants, or other arrangements of 
     Departmental activities conducted by or through the Bureau of 
     International Labor Affairs, including $60,390,000 for child 
     labor activities, and of which not to exceed $6,875,000 may 
     remain available until September 30, 2008, for Frances 
     Perkins Building Security Enhancements.
       ``Sec. 20608. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Veterans Employment and Training, Salaries and Expenses' 
     shall not exceed $193,753,000 which may be derived from the 
     Employment Security Administration Account in the 
     Unemployment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 
     sections 4100 through 4113, 4211 through 4215, and 4321 
     through 4327 of title 38, United States Code, and Public Law 
     103-353, of which $1,967,000 is for the National Veterans 
     Employment and Training Services Institute.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the level to carry out 
     the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Programs and the Veterans 
     Workforce Investment Programs shall be $29,244,000, of which 
     $7,435,000 shall be available for obligation for the period 
     July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008.
       ``Sec. 20609.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Office of the Inspector General' shall be $66,783,000 
     (together with not to exceed $5,552,000, which may be 
     expended from the Employment Security Administration Account 
     in the Unemployment Trust Fund).
       ``Sec. 20610.  Section 193 of the Workforce Investment Act 
     of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2943) is amended to read as follows:

     ```SEC. 193. TRANSFER OF FEDERAL EQUITY IN STATE EMPLOYMENT 
                   SECURITY REAL PROPERTY TO THE STATES.

       ```(a) Transfer of Federal Equity.--Notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, any Federal equity acquired in real 
     property through grants to States awarded under title III of 
     the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.) or under the 
     Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.) is transferred to 
     the States that used the grants for the acquisition of such 
     equity. The portion of any real property that is attributable 
     to the Federal equity transferred under this section shall be 
     used to carry out activities authorized under this Act, the 
     Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.), or title III of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.). Any disposition 
     of such real property shall be carried out in accordance with 
     the procedures prescribed by the Secretary and the portion of 
     the proceeds from the disposition of such real property that 
     is attributable to the Federal equity transferred under this 
     section shall be used to carry out activities authorized 
     under this Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, or title III of the 
     Social Security Act.
       ```(b) Limitation on Use.--A State shall not use funds 
     awarded under this Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, or title III 
     of the Social Security Act to amortize the costs of real 
     property that is purchased by any State on or after the date 
     of enactment of the Revised Continuing Appropriations 
     Resolution, 2007.'.
       ``Sec. 20611. (a)(1) Notwithstanding section 101 or any 
     other provision of this division,

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     the level for `Department of Health and Human Services, 
     Health Resources and Services Administration, Health 
     Resources and Services' shall be $6,883,586,000.
       ``(2) Of the amount provided in paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) $1,988,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 330 
     of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b; relating to 
     health centers), of which $25,000,000 shall be for base grant 
     adjustments for existing health centers and $13,959,000 shall 
     be for carrying out Public Law 100-579, as amended by section 
     9168 of Public Law 102-396 (42 U.S.C. 11701 et seq.);
       ``(B) $184,746,000 shall be for carrying out title VII of 
     the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.; 
     relating to health professions programs) of which (i) 
     $31,548,000 shall be for carrying out section 753 of the 
     Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294c; relating to 
     geriatric programs); and (ii) $48,851,000 shall be for 
     carrying out section 747 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
     U.S.C. 293k; relating to training in primary care medicine 
     and dentistry), of which (I) not less than $5,000,000 shall 
     be for pediatric dentistry programs; (II) not less than 
     $5,000,000 shall be for general dentistry programs; and (III) 
     not less than $24,614,000 shall be for family medicine 
     programs;
       ``(C) $1,195,500,000 shall be for carrying out part B of 
     title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff-
     11 et seq.; relating to Ryan White CARE Grants); and
       ``(D) $495,000,000 shall be transferred to `Department of 
     Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Public 
     Health and Social Services Emergency Fund' to carry out 
     sections 319C-2, 319F, and 319I of the Public Health Service 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-3b, 247d-6, 247d-7b; relating to hospital 
     preparedness grants, bioterrorism training and curriculum 
     development, and credentialing/emergency systems for advance 
     registration of volunteer health professionals).
       ``(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     the parenthetical preceding the first proviso under the 
     heading `Department of Health and Human Services, Health 
     Resources and Services Administration, Health Resources and 
     Services' in the Department of Health and Human Services 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``(c) Amounts made available by this division to carry out 
     parts A and B of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 300ff-11 et seq.; relating to Ryan White Emergency 
     Relief Grants and CARE Grants) shall remain available for 
     obligation by the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     through September 30, 2009.
       ``(d) Any assets and liabilities associated with any 
     program under section 319C-2, 319F, or 319I of the Public 
     Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-3b, 247d-6, 247d-7b; 
     relating to hospital preparedness grants, bioterrorism 
     training and curriculum development, and credentialing/
     emergency systems for advance registration of volunteer 
     health professionals) shall be permanently transferred to the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services.
       ``Sec. 20612.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources 
     and Services Administration, Vaccine Injury Compensation 
     Program Trust Fund', for necessary administrative expenses, 
     shall not exceed $3,964,000.
       ``Sec. 20613. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for 
     Disease Control and Prevention; Disease Control, Research, 
     and Training' shall be $5,829,086,000, of which (1) 
     $456,863,000 shall be for carrying out the immunization 
     program authorized by section 317(a), (j), and (k)(1) of the 
     Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b(a), (j), and 
     (k)(1)); (2) $99,000,000 shall be for carrying out part A of 
     title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300w et 
     seq.; relating to preventive health and health services block 
     grants); and (3) $134,400,000 shall be for equipment, 
     construction, and renovation of facilities.
       ``(b) None of the funds appropriated by this division may 
     be used to (1) implement section 2625 of the Public Health 
     Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff-33; relating to the Ryan White 
     early diagnosis grant program); or (2) enter into contracts 
     for annual bulk monovalent influenza vaccine.
       ``(c) Of the amounts made available in the Department of 
     Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease 
     Control and Prevention; Disease Control, Research, and 
     Training', $29,680,000 for entering into contracts for annual 
     bulk monovalent influenza vaccine is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20614. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the levels 
     for the following accounts of the Department of Health and 
     Human Services, National Institutes of Health, shall be as 
     follows: `National Institute of Child Health and Human 
     Development', $1,253,769,000; `National Center for Research 
     Resources', $1,133,101,000; `National Center on Minority 
     Health and Health Disparities', $199,405,000; `National 
     Library of Medicine', $319,910,000; and `Office of the 
     Director', $1,095,566,000, of which up to $14,000,000 may be 
     used to carry out section 217 of the Department of Health and 
     Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006, $69,000,000 shall be 
     available to carry out the National Children's Study, and 
     $483,000,000 shall be available for the Common Fund 
     established under section 402A(c)(1) of the Public Health 
     Service Act.
       ``(b) The seventh, eighth, and ninth provisos under the 
     heading `Department of Health and Human Services, National 
     Institutes of Health, Office of the Director' in the 
     Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 
     2006, pertaining to the National Institutes of Health Roadmap 
     for Medical Research, shall not apply to funds appropriated 
     by this division.
       ``(c) Funds appropriated by this division to the Institutes 
     and Centers of the National Institutes of Health may be 
     expended for improvements and repairs of facilities, as 
     necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the 
     activities authorized herein, not to exceed $2,500,000 per 
     project.
       ``Sec. 20615. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for 
     Medicare and Medicaid Services, Program Management' shall be 
     $3,136,006,000, of which $15,892,000 shall be for Real Choice 
     Systems Change Grants to States, $48,960,000 shall be for 
     contract costs for the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger 
     Accounting System, and $106,260,000 shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2008, for contracting reform activities 
     of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
       ``(b) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
     charge fees necessary to cover the costs incurred under 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for 
     Medicare and Medicaid Services, Program Management' for 
     conducting revisit surveys on health care facilities cited 
     for deficiencies during initial certification, 
     recertification, or substantiated complaints surveys. 
     Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, 
     receipts from such fees shall be credited to such account as 
     offsetting collections, to remain available until expended 
     for conducting such surveys.
       ``Sec. 20616.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the provision of the Department of Health and Human 
     Services Appropriations Act, 2006, `Department of Health and 
     Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
     Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee 
     Fund', shall not apply to funds appropriated by this 
     division.
       ``Sec. 20617.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for 
     Children and Families, Refugee and Entrant Assistance' shall 
     be $587,823,000, of which $95,302,000 shall be for costs 
     associated with the care and placement of unaccompanied alien 
     children under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 
     2002 (6 U.S.C. 279).
       ``Sec. 20618.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the first proviso under the heading `Department of 
     Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and 
     Families, Payments to States for the Child Care and 
     Development Block Grant' in the Department of Health and 
     Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 may be applied to 
     child care resource and referral and school-aged child care 
     activities without regard to any specific designation 
     therein.
       ``Sec. 20619.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for 
     Children and Families, Children and Families Services 
     Programs' shall be $8,937,059,000, of which (1) 
     $6,888,571,000 shall be for making payments under the Head 
     Start Act; (2) $186,365,000 shall be for Federal 
     administration; and (3) $5,000,000 shall be for grants to 
     States for adoption incentive payments, as authorized by 
     section 473A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 673b).
       ``Sec. 20620.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on 
     Aging, Aging Services Programs' shall be $1,382,859,000, of 
     which $398,919,000 shall be for Congregate Nutrition Services 
     and $188,305,000 shall be for Home-Delivered Nutrition 
     Services.
       ``Sec. 20621.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health and 
     Social Services Emergency Fund' shall be $160,027,000, of 
     which $100,000,000 shall be transferred within 30 days of 
     enactment of the Revised Continuing Appropriations 
     Resolution, 2007, to `Department of Health and Human 
     Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Disease 
     Control, Research, and Training' for preparedness and 
     response to pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious 
     diseases.
       ``Sec. 20622.  Notwithstanding section 208 of the 
     Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 
     2006, not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
     (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985) that are appropriated for the current 
     fiscal year for the Department of Health and Human Services 
     in this division may be transferred among appropriations, but 
     no such appropriation to which such funds are transferred may 
     be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: 
     Provided, That an appropriation may be increased by up to an 
     additional 2 percent subject to approval by the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate: Provided further,

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     That the transfer authority granted by this section shall be 
     available only to meet unanticipated needs and shall not be 
     used to create any new program or to fund any project or 
     activity for which no funds are provided in this division: 
     Provided further, That the Committees on Appropriations are 
     notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
       ``Sec. 20623.  Section 214 of the Department of Health and 
     Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 shall be applied to 
     funds appropriated by this division by substituting `2006' 
     and `2007' for `2005' and `2006', respectively, each place 
     they appear.
       ``Sec. 20624.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, sections 222 and 223 of the Department of Health 
     and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20625. (a) Notwithstanding section 101 or any other 
     provision of this division, the level for `Department of 
     Education, Education for the Disadvantaged' shall be 
     $14,725,593,000.
       ``(b) Of the amount provided in subsection (a)--
       ``(1) $7,172,994,000 shall become available on July 1, 
     2007, and shall remain available through September 30, 2008, 
     of which (A) $5,451,387,000 shall be for basic grants under 
     section 1124 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
     1965 (ESEA); (B) $125,000,000 shall be for school improvement 
     grants authorized under section 1003(g) of the ESEA; and (C) 
     not to exceed $2,352,000 shall be available for section 1608 
     of the ESEA; and
       ``(2) $7,383,301,000 shall become available on October 1, 
     2007, and shall remain available through September 30, 2008, 
     for academic year 2007-2008, of which (A) $1,353,584,000 
     shall be for basic grants under section 1124 of the ESEA; (B) 
     $2,332,343,000 shall be for targeted grants under section 
     1125 of the ESEA; and (C) $2,332,343,000 shall be for 
     education finance incentive grants under section 1125A of the 
     ESEA.
       ``(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     the last proviso under the heading `Department of Education, 
     Education for the Disadvantaged' in the Department of 
     Education Appropriations Act, 2006 may be applied to 
     activities authorized under part F of title I of the ESEA 
     without regard to any specific designation therein.
       ``Sec. 20626.  For purposes of this division, the proviso 
     under the heading `Department of Education, Impact Aid' shall 
     be applied by substituting `2006-2007' for `2005-2006'.
       ``Sec. 20627.  Of the amount provided by section 101 for 
     `Department of Education, School Improvement Programs', 
     $33,907,000 shall be for programs authorized under part B of 
     title VII of the ESEA and $33,907,000 shall be for programs 
     authorized under part C of title VII of the ESEA. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the 
     second proviso under such heading in the Department of 
     Education Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20628.  Notwithstanding section 101 or any other 
     provision of this division, (1) the level for `Department of 
     Education, Innovation and Improvement' shall be $837,686,000, 
     of which not to exceed $200,000 shall be for the teacher 
     incentive fund authorized in subpart 1 of part D of title V 
     of the ESEA; and (2) the first proviso under such heading in 
     the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 may be 
     applied to advanced credentialing activities authorized under 
     subpart 5 of part A of title II of the ESEA without regard to 
     any specific designation therein.
       ``Sec. 20629.  Notwithstanding section 101 or any other 
     provision of this division, (1) the level for `Department of 
     Education, Safe Schools and Citizenship Education' shall be 
     $729,518,000, of which (A) not less than $72,674,000 shall be 
     used to carry out subpart 10 of part D of title V of the 
     ESEA; and (B) $48,814,000 shall be used for mentoring 
     programs authorized under section 4130 of the ESEA; and (2) 
     the last proviso under such heading in the Department of 
     Education Appropriations Act, 2006 may be applied to civic 
     education activities authorized under subpart 3 of part C of 
     title II of the ESEA without regard to any specific 
     designation therein.
       ``Sec. 20630. (a)(1) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Department of Education, Special Education' shall be 
     $11,802,867,000.
       ``(2) Of the amount made available in paragraph (1), 
     $6,175,912,000 shall become available on July 1, 2007, and 
     shall remain available through September 30, 2008, of which 
     $5,358,761,000 shall be for State grants authorized under 
     section 611 (20 U.S.C. 1411) of part B of the Individuals 
     with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
       ``(b) None of the funds appropriated by this division may 
     be used for State personnel development authorized in subpart 
     1 of part D of the IDEA (20 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.).
       ``(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     the first and second provisos under the heading `Department 
     of Education, Special Education' in the Department of 
     Education Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division. For purposes of this division, 
     the last proviso under such heading shall be applied by 
     substituting `2006' for `2005'.
       ``Sec. 20631.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the second appropriation under the heading 
     `Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services and 
     Disability Research' in the Department of Education 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20632.  The provision pertaining to funding for 
     construction under `Department of Education, Special 
     Institutions for Persons With Disabilities, National 
     Technical Institute for the Deaf' shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20633. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Department of Education, Student Financial Assistance' 
     shall be $15,542,456,000.
       ``(b) The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be 
     eligible during award year 2007-2008 shall be $4,310.
       ``Sec. 20634. (a) In addition to the amounts provided under 
     section 101 of this division, amounts obligated in fiscal 
     year 2006 from funding provided in section 458(a)(1) of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087h(a)(1)) (as 
     reduced by the amount of account maintenance fees obligated 
     to guaranty agencies for fiscal year 2006 pursuant to section 
     458(a)(1)(B) of that Act) shall be deemed to have been 
     provided in an applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
     2006.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Education, Student Aid Administration' shall 
     be $718,800,000, to remain available until expended.
       ``Sec. 20635.  Of the amount provided by section 101 for 
     `Department of Education, Higher Education', $11,785,000 
     shall be for carrying out section 317 of the Higher Education 
     Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059d).
       ``Sec. 20636.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Education, Departmental Management, Program 
     Administration' shall be $416,250,000, of which $2,100,000, 
     to remain available until expended, shall be for building 
     alterations and related expenses for the move of Department 
     staff to the Mary E. Switzer building in Washington, DC.
       ``Sec. 20637.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, section 305 of the Department of Education 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (title III of Public Law 109-149; 
     119 Stat. 2870) shall not apply to this division.
       ``Sec. 20638.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Corporation for National and Community Service, Domestic 
     Volunteer Service Programs, Operating Expenses' shall be 
     $316,550,000, of which $3,500,000 shall be for establishment 
     in the Treasury of a VISTA Advance Payments Revolving Fund 
     (in this section referred to as the `Fund') for the 
     Corporation for National and Community Service which, in 
     addition to reimbursements collected from eligible public 
     agencies and private nonprofit organizations pursuant to 
     cost-share agreements, shall be available until expended to 
     make advance payments in furtherance of title I of the 
     Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4951-4995): 
     Provided, That up to 10 percent of funds appropriated to 
     carry out title I of such Act may be transferred to the Fund 
     if the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for 
     National and Community Service determines that the amounts in 
     the Fund are not sufficient to cover expenses of the Fund: 
     Provided further, That the Corporation for National and 
     Community Service shall provide detailed information on the 
     activities and financial status of the Fund during the 
     preceding fiscal year in the annual congressional budget 
     justifications to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate.
       ``Sec. 20639. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for the `Corporation for National and Community Service, 
     National and Community Service Programs, Operating Expenses' 
     shall be $494,007,000, of which (1) $117,720,000 shall be 
     transferred to the National Service Trust; and (2) 
     $31,131,000 shall be for activities authorized under subtitle 
     H of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 
     1990.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     the eleventh and thirteenth provisos under the heading 
     `Corporation for National and Community Service, National and 
     Community Service Programs, Operating Expenses' in the 
     Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
     Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 
     shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20640.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Corporation for National and Community Service, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $68,627,000.
       ``Sec. 20641.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Corporation for National and Community Service, Office of 
     Inspector General' shall be $4,940,000.
       ``Sec. 20642.  In addition to amounts provided by section 
     101 of this division, funds appropriated to the Medicare 
     Payment Advisory Commission under section 106(b)(1)(B) of the 
     Medicare Improvements and Extension Act of 2006 (division B 
     of Public Law 109-432) shall be used to carry out section 
     1805 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395b-6).
       ``Sec. 20643.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Railroad Retirement Board, Dual Benefits Payments Account' 
     shall be $88,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20644.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Railroad Retirement Board, Limitation on Administration' 
     shall be $103,018,000.

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       ``Sec. 20645. (a) Administrative Expenses.--Notwithstanding 
     section 101, the level for the first paragraph under the 
     heading `Social Security Administration, Limitation on 
     Administrative Expenses' shall be $9,136,606,000.
       ``(b) Conforming Change.--Notwithstanding section 101, the 
     level for the first paragraph under the heading `Social 
     Security Administration, Supplemental Security Income 
     Program' shall be $29,058,000,000, of which $2,937,000,000 
     shall be for administrative expenses.

                    ``CHAPTER 7--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

       ``Sec. 20701. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Senate, Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Senators' 
     Official Personnel and Office Expense Account' shall be 
     $361,456,000.
       ``(b)(1) The Architect of the Capitol may acquire (through 
     purchase, lease, transfer from another Federal entity, or 
     otherwise) real property, for the use of the Sergeant at Arms 
     and Doorkeeper of the Senate to support the operations of the 
     Senate--
       ``(A) subject to the approval of the Committee on Rules and 
     Administration of the Senate; and
       ``(B) subject to the availability of appropriations and 
     upon approval of an obligation plan by the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.
       ``(2) Subject to the approval of the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate may 
     transfer funds for the acquisition or maintenance of any 
     property under paragraph (1) from the account under the 
     heading `Senate, Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Sergeant 
     at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate' to the account under 
     the heading `Architect of the Capitol, Senate Office 
     Buildings'.
       ``(3) This subsection shall apply with respect to fiscal 
     year 2007 and each fiscal year thereafter.
       ``(c)(1) Section 10 of the Legislative Branch 
     Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-447; 118 Stat. 3170) 
     is amended--
       ``(A) by inserting `(a) In General.--' before `The Office'; 
     and
       ``(B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ```(b) Effective Date.--This section shall apply to fiscal 
     year 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter.'''.
       ``(2) The amendments made by this subsection shall take 
     effect as though included in the Legislative Branch 
     Appropriations Act, 2005.
       ``Sec. 20702. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `House of Representatives, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $1,129,454,000, to be allocated in accordance with an 
     allocation plan submitted by the Chief Administrative Officer 
     and approved by the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives.
       ``(b) Sections 103 and 107 of H.R. 5521, One Hundred Ninth 
     Congress, as passed by the House of Representatives on June 
     7, 2006, are enacted into law.
       ``Sec. 20703. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Capitol Guide Service and Special Services Office' shall 
     be $8,490,000, and the provisos under the heading `Capitol 
     Guide Service and Special Services Office' in the Legislative 
     Branch Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-55; 119 Stat. 
     571) shall not apply.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Capitol 
     Police, General Expenses' shall be $38,500,000: Provided, 
     That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cost of 
     basic training for the Capitol Police at the Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center for fiscal year 2007 shall be 
     paid by the Secretary of Homeland Security from funds 
     available to the Department of Homeland Security.
       ``(c)(1) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Architect of the Capitol, Capitol Power Plant' shall be 
     $73,098,000.
       ``(2) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Architect 
     of the Capitol, Library Buildings and Grounds' shall be 
     $27,375,000.
       ``(3) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Architect 
     of the Capitol, Capitol Police Buildings and Grounds' shall 
     be $11,753,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2011.
       ``(4) Notwithstanding section 101, amounts made available 
     under such section for projects and activities described 
     under the heading `Architect of the Capitol, Capitol Visitor 
     Center' in the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006 
     may be transferred among the accounts and purposes specified 
     in such heading, upon the approval of the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate.
       ``(d)(1) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Library of Congress, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $385,000,000, of which not more than $6,000,000 shall be 
     derived from collections credited to this appropriation 
     during fiscal year 2007 and shall remain available until 
     expended under the Act of June 28, 1902 (chapter 1301; 32 
     Stat. 480; 2 U.S.C. 150), and not more than $350,000 shall be 
     derived from collections credited to this appropriation 
     during fiscal year 2007 and shall remain available until 
     expended for the development and maintenance of an 
     international legal information database (and related 
     activities).
       ``(2) The eighth, tenth, and eleventh provisos under the 
     heading `Library of Congress, Salaries and Expenses' in the 
     Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-
     55; 119 Stat. 580) shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``(3) Of the unobligated balances available under the 
     heading `Library of Congress, Salaries and Expenses', the 
     following amounts are rescinded:
       ``(A) Of the unobligated balances available for the 
     National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation 
     Program, $47,000,000.
       ``(B) Of the unobligated balances available for furniture 
     and furnishings, $695,394.
       ``(C) Of the unobligated balances available for the 
     acquisition and partial support for implementation of an 
     Integrated Library System, $1,853,611.
       ``(4) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Library 
     of Congress, Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 
     Salaries and Expenses' shall be $53,505,000, of which 
     $16,231,000 shall remain available until expended.
       ``(5) The proviso under the heading `Books for the Blind 
     and Physically Handicapped, Salaries and Expenses' in the 
     Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109--
     55; 119 Stat. 582) shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``(6) Section 3402 of the Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and 
     Tsunami Relief, 2005 (Public Law 109-13; 119 Stat. 272) is 
     repealed, and each provision of law amended by such section 
     is restored as if such section had not been enacted into law.
       ``(e) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Government Printing Office, Government Printing Office 
     Revolving Fund' shall be $1,000,000.
       ``(f) Notwithstanding section 101, the amount applicable 
     under the first proviso under the heading `Government 
     Accountability Office, Salaries and Expenses' in the 
     Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-
     55; 119 Stat. 586) shall be $5,167,900, and the amount 
     applicable under the second proviso under such heading shall 
     be $2,763,000.

       ``CHAPTER 8--MILITARY QUALITY OF LIFE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

       ``Sec. 20801.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts of the Department of Defense 
     for projects authorized in division B of Public Law 109-364 
     shall be as follows: `Military Construction, Army', 
     $2,013,000,000; `Military Construction, Navy and Marine 
     Corps', $1,129,000,000; `Military Construction, Air Force', 
     $1,083,000,000; `Military Construction, Defense-Wide', 
     $1,127,000,000; `Military Construction, Army National Guard', 
     $473,000,000; `Military Construction, Air National Guard', 
     $126,000,000; `Military Construction, Army Reserve', 
     $166,000,000; `Military Construction, Navy Reserve', 
     $43,000,000; and `Military Construction, Air Force Reserve', 
     $45,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20802.  Of the total amount specified in section 
     20801, the amount available for study, planning, design, 
     architect and engineer services, and host nation support, as 
     authorized by law, under the headings `Military Construction, 
     Army', `Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps', 
     `Military Construction, Air Force', and `Military 
     Construction, Defense-Wide' shall not exceed $541,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20803.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following provisions included in the Military 
     Quality of Life, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-114) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division: the first two 
     provisos under the heading `Military Construction, Army'; the 
     first proviso under the heading `Military Construction, Navy 
     and Marine Corps'; the first proviso under the heading 
     `Military Construction, Air Force'; and the second proviso 
     under the heading `Military Construction, Defense-Wide'.
       ``Sec. 20804.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for the Department of Defense 
     shall be as follows: `Family Housing Construction, Army', 
     $579,000,000; `Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, 
     Army', $671,000,000; `Family Housing Construction, Navy and 
     Marine Corps', $305,000,000; `Family Housing Operation and 
     Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps', $505,000,000; `Family 
     Housing Construction, Air Force', $1,168,000,000; `Family 
     Housing Operation and Maintenance, Air Force', $750,000,000; 
     `Family Housing Construction, Defense-Wide', $9,000,000; 
     `Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide', 
     $49,000,000; `Chemical Demilitarization Construction, 
     Defense-Wide', $131,000,000; and `Department of Defense Base 
     Closure Account 2005', $2,489,421,000.
       ``Sec. 20805.  Of the funds made available under the 
     following headings in Public Law 108-132, the following 
     amounts are rescinded: `Military Construction, Navy and 
     Marine Corps', $19,500,000; and `Military Construction, 
     Defense-Wide', $9,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20806.  Of the funds made available under the 
     following headings in Public Law 108-324, the following 
     amounts are rescinded: `Military Construction, Navy and 
     Marine Corps', $8,000,000; `Military Construction, Air 
     Force', $2,694,000; `Military Construction, Defense-Wide', 
     $43,000,000; and `Family Housing Construction, Air Force', 
     $18,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20807.  Of the funds made available under the 
     following headings in Public Law

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     109-114, the following amounts are rescinded: `Military 
     Construction, Army', $43,348,000; `Military Construction, 
     Defense-Wide', $58,229,000; and `Military Construction, Army 
     National Guard', $2,129,000.
       ``Sec. 20808.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts of the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs shall be as follows: `Veterans Health Administration, 
     Medical Services', $25,423,250,000; `Veterans Health 
     Administration, Medical Administration', $3,156,850,000; 
     `Veterans Health Administration, Medical Facilities', 
     $3,558,150,000; `Departmental Administration, General 
     Operating Expenses', $1,472,164,000, provided that the 
     Veterans Benefits Administration shall be funded at not less 
     than $1,161,659,000; `Departmental Administration, 
     Construction, Major Projects', $399,000,000, of which 
     $2,000,000 shall be to make reimbursements as provided in 
     section 13 of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 
     612) for claims paid for contracts disputes; and 
     `Departmental Administration, National Cemetery 
     Administration', $159,983,000.
       ``Sec. 20809.  The first proviso under the heading 
     `Veterans Benefits Administration, Compensation and Pensions' 
     in the Military Quality of Life, Military Construction, and 
     Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-
     114) shall be applied to funds appropriated by this division 
     by substituting `$28,112,000' for `$23,491,000'.
       ``Sec. 20810.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following provisions included in the Military 
     Quality of Life, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-114) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division: the first, second, 
     and last provisos, and the set-aside of $2,200,000,000, under 
     the heading `Veterans Health Administration, Medical 
     Services'; the set-aside of $15,000,000 under the heading 
     `Veterans Health Administration, Medical and Prosthetic 
     Research'; the set-aside of $532,010,000 under the heading 
     `Departmental Administration, Construction, Major Projects'; 
     and the set-aside of $155,000,000 under the heading 
     `Departmental Administration, Construction, Minor Projects'.
       ``Sec. 20811.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following sections included in the Military 
     Quality of Life, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-114) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division: section 217, section 
     224, section 228, section 229, and section 230.
       ``Sec. 20812.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts of the American Battle 
     Monuments Commission shall be as follows: `Salaries and 
     Expenses', $37,000,000; and `Foreign Currency Fluctuations 
     Account', $5,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20813.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Salaries 
     and Expenses' shall be $20,100,000.
       ``Sec. 20814.  Section 2101(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (division B of Public 
     Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2445) is amended by striking the first 
     table of authorized Army construction and land acquisition 
     projects for inside the United States and by adding at the 
     end of the remaining table the last two items in the 
     corresponding table on pages 366 and 367 of House Report 109-
     702, which is the conference report resolving the disagreeing 
     votes of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the 
     amendment of the Senate to H.R. 5122 of the 109th Congress.

  ``CHAPTER 9--SCIENCE, STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES

       ``Sec. 20901.  (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for each of the following accounts of the Department of 
     Justice shall be as follows: `General Administration, 
     Salaries and Expenses', $97,053,000; `General Administration, 
     Justice Information Sharing Technology', $123,510,000; 
     `General Administration, Narrowband Communications/Integrated 
     Wireless Network', $89,188,000; `General Administration, 
     Detention Trustee', $1,225,788,000; `General Administration, 
     Office of Inspector General', $70,118,000; `United States 
     Parole Commission, Salaries and Expenses', $11,424,000; 
     `Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, Foreign Claims 
     Settlement Commission', $1,551,000; `United States Marshals 
     Service, Salaries and Expenses', $807,967,000; `United States 
     Marshals Service, Construction', $6,846,000; `Salaries and 
     Expenses, Community Relations Service', $10,178,000; `Assets 
     Forfeiture Fund', $21,211,000; `Interagency Law Enforcement, 
     Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement', $494,793,000; `Drug 
     Enforcement Administration, Salaries and Expenses', 
     $1,737,412,000; `Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
     Explosives, Salaries and Expenses', $979,244,000; `Federal 
     Prison System, Salaries and Expenses', $4,974,261,000; 
     `Office of Justice Programs, Justice Assistance', 
     $237,689,000; `Office of Justice Programs, Community Oriented 
     Policing Services', $541,697,000; and `Office on Violence 
     Against Women, Violence Against Women Prevention and 
     Prosecution Programs', $382,534,000.
       ``(b) In addition to the amount otherwise appropriated by 
     this division for `Department of Justice, Office of Justice 
     Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance' for the 
     Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, there 
     is appropriated $108,693,000 for such purpose.
       ``Sec. 20902.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Legal Activities, Salaries and 
     Expenses, Antitrust Division' shall be $147,002,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
     $129,000,000 of offsetting collections derived from fees 
     collected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-
     Scott-Rodino Anti-trust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 
     18a), regardless of the year of collection, shall be retained 
     and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation, and 
     shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
     the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be 
     reduced as such offsetting collections are received during 
     fiscal year 2007, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2007 
     appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 
     than $18,002,000.
       ``Sec. 20903.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Legal Activities, United States 
     Trustee System Fund', as authorized, shall be $222,121,000, 
     to remain available until expended and to be derived from the 
     United States Trustee System Fund: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, deposits to the 
     Fund shall be available in such amounts as may be necessary 
     to pay refunds due depositors: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, $222,121,000 of 
     offsetting collections pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 589a(b) shall be 
     retained and used for necessary expenses in this 
     appropriation and remain available until expended: Provided 
     further, That the sum herein appropriated from the Fund shall 
     be reduced as such offsetting collections are received during 
     fiscal year 2007, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2007 
     appropriation from the Fund estimated at $0.
       ``Sec. 20904.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
     Salaries and Expenses' shall be $5,962,219,000.
       ``Sec. 20905.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
     Construction' shall be $51,392,000.
       ``Sec. 20906.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, National Security Division', as 
     authorized by section 509A of title 28, United States Code, 
     shall be $66,741,000: Provided, That upon a determination by 
     the Attorney General that emergent circumstances require 
     additional funding for activities of the National Security 
     Division, the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to 
     the National Security Division from available appropriations 
     for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as 
     may be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided 
     further, That any transfer pursuant to the previous proviso 
     shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 605 of 
     Public Law 109-108 and shall not be available for obligation 
     or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
     forth in that section.
       ``Sec. 20907.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, United States Attorneys, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $1,645,613,000.
       ``Sec. 20908.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Administrative Review and Appeals' 
     shall be $228,066,000.
       ``Sec. 20909.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, General Legal Activities, Salaries 
     and Expenses' shall be $672,609,000.
       ``Sec. 20910.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Justice, Federal Prison System, Buildings and 
     Facilities' shall be $432,290,000.
       ``Sec. 20911.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Bureau of the Census, Periodic Censuses and Programs' shall 
     be $511,603,000 for necessary expenses related to the 2010 
     decennial census and $182,489,000 for expenses to collect and 
     publish statistics for other periodic censuses and programs 
     provided for by law.
       ``Sec. 20912.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Commerce, Science and Technology, Technology 
     Administration, Salaries and Expenses' shall be $2,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20913.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the following accounts of the National Institute of Standards 
     and Technology shall be as follows: `Scientific and Technical 
     Research and Services', $432,762,000; and `Construction of 
     Research Facilities', $58,651,000.
       ``Sec. 20914.  Notwithstanding section 101 under `National 
     Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Operations, Research, 
     and Facilities', $79,000,000 shall be derived by transfer 
     from the fund entitled `Promote and Develop Fishery Products 
     and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries'.
       ``Sec. 20915.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the following accounts of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration shall be as follows: `Science, Aeronautics and 
     Exploration', $10,075,000,000, of which $5,251,200,000 shall 
     be for science, $890,400,000 shall be for aeronautics 
     research, $3,401,600,000 shall be for exploration systems, 
     and $531,800,000 shall be for cross-agency support programs; 
     `Exploration Capabilities', $6,140,000,000; and `Office of 
     Inspector General', $32,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20916.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `National Science Foundation,

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     Research and Related Activities' shall be $4,665,950,000, of 
     which not to exceed $485,000,000 shall remain available until 
     expended for Polar research and operations support, and for 
     reimbursement to other Federal agencies for operational and 
     science support and logistical and other related activities 
     for the United States Antarctic Program: Provided, That from 
     funds provided under this section, such sums as are necessary 
     shall be available for the procurement of polar icebreaking 
     services: Provided further, That the National Science 
     Foundation shall reimburse the Coast Guard according to the 
     existing memorandum of agreement.
       ``Sec. 20917.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Antitrust Modernization Commission, Salaries and Expenses' 
     shall be $462,000.
       ``Sec. 20918.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Legal Services Corporation, Payment to the Legal Services 
     Corporation' shall be $348,578,000.
       ``Sec. 20919.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Justice, General Administration, 
     Working Capital Fund', $2,500,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20920.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Justice, General Administration, 
     Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund', $39,000,000 is 
     rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20921.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Justice, Violent Crime Reduction 
     Trust Fund', $8,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20922.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Justice, Legal Activities, Assets 
     Forfeiture Fund', $170,000,000 shall be rescinded not later 
     than September 30, 2007.
       ``Sec. 20923.  Of the unobligated balances available from 
     prior year appropriations under any `Department of Justice, 
     Office of Justice Programs' account, $109,000,000 shall be 
     rescinded, of which no more than $31,000,000 shall be 
     rescinded from `Department of Justice, Office of Justice 
     Programs, Community Oriented Policing Services', not later 
     than September 30, 2007: Provided, That funds made available 
     for `Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 
     Community Oriented Policing Services' program management and 
     administration shall not be reduced due to such rescission.
       ``Sec. 20924.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration', $25,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20925.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Department of Commerce, National Institute of 
     Standards and Technology, Industrial Technology Services', 
     $7,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20926.  The third proviso under the heading 
     `Department of Justice, Legal Activities, Salaries and 
     Expenses, United States Attorneys', of the Science, State, 
     Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-108) shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20927.  The first through third provisos under the 
     heading `Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation, Construction' of the Science, State, Justice, 
     Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 
     (Public Law 109-108) shall not apply to funds appropriated by 
     this division.
       ``Sec. 20928.  The tenth through twelfth provisos under the 
     heading `Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
     Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses' of the 
     Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20929.  The matter pertaining to the National 
     District Attorneys Association in paragraph (12) under the 
     heading `Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 
     Community Oriented Policing Services' of the Science, State, 
     Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-108) shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20930.  Sections 207, 208, and 209 of the Science, 
     State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108) shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20931.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the following provisions of the Science, State, 
     Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-108), relating to the Department of 
     Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
     shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division: the 
     twelfth proviso under the heading `Operations, Research and 
     Facilities'; the fifth proviso under the heading 
     `Procurement, Acquisition and Construction'; and the set-
     aside of $19,000,000 under the second proviso under the 
     heading `Fisheries Finance Program Account'.
       ``Sec. 20932.  In the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 
     109-108), under the heading `National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, Administrative Provisions', the paragraph 
     beginning `Funding made available under' and all that follows 
     through `conference report for this Act.' shall not apply to 
     funds appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20933.  Title VIII of the Departments of Commerce, 
     Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-447, division B) is 
     amended by striking `fiscal years 2005 and 2006' each place 
     it appears and inserting `fiscal years 2005, 2006, and 2007'.
       ``Sec. 20934.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Commerce, United States Patent and Trademark 
     Office, Salaries and Expenses' shall be $1,771,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That the sum 
     herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced as 
     offsetting collections assessed and collected pursuant to 
     section 1113 of title 15 of the United States Code, and 
     sections 41 and 376 of title 35 of the United States Code, 
     are received during fiscal year 2007, so as to result in a 
     fiscal year 2007 appropriation from the general fund 
     estimated at $0: Provided further, That during fiscal year 
     2007, should the total amount of offsetting fee collections 
     be less than $1,771,000,000, this amount shall be reduced 
     accordingly.
       ``Sec. 20935.  Funds appropriated by section 101 of this 
     division for International Space Station Cargo Crew Services/
     International Partner Purchases and International Space 
     Station/Multi-User System Support within the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration may be obligated in the 
     account and budget structure set forth in the pertinent Act 
     specified in section 101(a)(8).
       ``Sec. 20936.  The matter pertaining to paragraph (1)(B) 
     under the heading `Department of Justice, Office of Justice 
     Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance' of the 
     Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated by this division.
       ``Sec. 20937.  The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-
     108), under the heading `National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, Science, Aeronautics and Exploration' is 
     amended by striking `, of which amounts' and all that follows 
     through `as amended by Public Law 106-377'.
       ``Sec. 20938.  The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-
     108), under the heading `National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, Exploration Capabilities' is amended by 
     striking `, of which amounts' and all that follows through 
     `as amended by Public Law 106-377'.
       ``Sec. 20939.  Notwithstanding section 101, or any other 
     provision of law, no funds shall be used to implement any 
     Reduction in Force or other involuntary separations (except 
     for cause) by the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration prior to September 30, 2007.
       ``Sec. 20940.  Any terms, conditions, uses, or authorities 
     put into effect, available, or exercised pursuant to the 
     reprogramming notification dated August 10, 2006, relating to 
     the Department of Justice with respect to the Office of 
     Justice Programs, the Office of Community Oriented Policing 
     Services, or the Office on Violence Against Women are hereby 
     made applicable, available, and effective with respect to 
     Fiscal Year 2007 appropriations for those Offices.
       ``Sec. 20941.  Section 824(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 
     1980 (22 U.S.C. 4064(g)) is amended--
       ``(1) in paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     `To facilitate' and all that follows through `the Secretary' 
     and inserting `The Secretary'; and
       ``(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking `if' and inserting 
     `to facilitate the assignment of persons to Iraq and 
     Afghanistan or to posts vacated by members of the Service 
     assigned to Iraq and Afghanistan, if';
       ``(2) in paragraph (2), by striking `subparagraphs (A) or 
     (B) of such paragraph' and inserting `such subparagraph'; and
       ``(3) in paragraph (3), by striking `paragraph (1)' and 
     inserting `paragraph (1)(B)'.
       ``Sec. 20942.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts and activities shall be $0: 
     `Department of State, Administration of Foreign Affairs, 
     Centralized Information Technology Modernization Program'; 
     and the grant to the Center for Middle Eastern-Western 
     Dialogue Trust Fund made available in the Science, State, 
     Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-108) under the heading `Department of 
     State, Other, Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue 
     Trust Fund'.
       ``Sec. 20943.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts shall be as follows: 
     `Department of State, Administration of Foreign Affairs, 
     Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs', $445,275,000; 
     `Department of State, Administration of Foreign Affairs, 
     Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service', 
     $4,940,000; `Department of State, Administration of Foreign 
     Affairs, Payment to the American Institute in Taiwan', 
     $15,826,000; `Department of State, International 
     Organizations, Contributions for International Peacekeeping 
     Activities', $1,135,275,000; `Related Agency, Broadcasting 
     Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Operations', 
     $636,387,000; `Related Agency, Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors, Broadcasting Capital Improvements', $7,624,000; 
     and `Related Agencies, Commission on International

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     Religious Freedom, Salaries and Expenses', $3,000,000.
       ``Sec. 20944.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, the fourth proviso under the heading `Department of 
     State, Administration of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic and 
     Consular Programs' in the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, 
     and Related Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108) and 
     section 406 of such Act shall not apply to funds appropriated 
     by this division.
       ``Sec. 20945.  The appropriation to the Securities and 
     Exchange Commission pursuant to this division shall be deemed 
     a regular appropriation for purposes of section 6(b) of the 
     Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)) and sections 13(e), 
     14(g), and 31(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 
     U.S.C. 78m(e), 78n(g), and 78ee(k)).
       ``Sec. 20946.  Section 302 of the Universal Service 
     Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act (Public Law 108-494; 
     118 Stat. 3998) is amended by striking `December 31, 2006,' 
     each place it appears and inserting `December 31, 2007,'.
       ``Sec. 20947.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Small Business Administration, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $326,733,000, and section 613 of the Science, State, 
     Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2006 (Public Law 109-108; 119 Stat. 2336) shall not apply to 
     such funds.
       ``Sec. 20948.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Small Business Administration, Disaster Loans Program 
     Account' shall be $113,850,000, to remain available until 
     expended, which shall be for administrative expenses to carry 
     out the direct loan program authorized by section 7(b) of the 
     Small Business Act, of which $112,365,000 may be transferred 
     to and merged with `Small Business Administration, Salaries 
     and Expenses', and of which $1,485,000 is for the Office of 
     Inspector General of the Small Business Administration for 
     audits and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan 
     program and shall be transferred to and merged with 
     appropriations for the Office of Inspector General.
       ``Sec. 20949.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Small Business Administration, Salaries and 
     Expenses', $6,100,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20950.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Small Business Administration, Business Loans 
     Program Account', $5,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 20951.  Of the unobligated balances available under 
     the heading `Small Business Administration, Disaster Loans 
     Program Account', $2,300,000 is rescinded.

``CHAPTER 10--TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 
   THE JUDICIARY, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

       ``Sec. 21001.  Of the amounts provided by section 101 for 
     `Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, 
     Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development', for 
     activities of the Department of Transportation, up to 
     $9,900,000 may be made available for the purpose of agency 
     facility improvements and associated administrative costs as 
     determined necessary by the Secretary.
       ``Sec. 21002. (a) Section 44302(f)(1) of title 49, United 
     States Code, shall be applied by substituting the date 
     specified in section 106 of this division for `August 31, 
     2006, and may extend through December 31, 2006'.
       ``(b) Section 44303(b) of title 49, United States Code, 
     shall be applied by substituting the date specified in 
     section 106 of this division for `December 31, 2006'.
       ``Sec. 21003.  Of the funds made available under section 
     101(a)(2) of Public Law 107-42, $50,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 21004.  Notwithstanding section 101, no funds are 
     provided by this division for activities or reimbursements 
     described in section 185 of Public Law 109-115.
       ``Sec. 21005.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Aviation Administration, Operations' shall be 
     $8,330,750,000, of which $5,627,900,000 shall be derived from 
     the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which no less than 
     $6,704,223,000 shall be for air traffic organization 
     activities; no less than $997,718,000 shall be for aviation 
     regulation and certification activities; not to exceed 
     $11,641,000 shall be available for commercial space 
     transportation activities; not to exceed $76,175,000 shall be 
     available for financial services activities; not to exceed 
     $85,313,000 shall be available for human resources program 
     activities; not to exceed $275,156,000 shall be available for 
     region and center operations and regional coordination 
     activities; not to exceed $144,617,000 shall be available for 
     staff offices; and not to exceed $35,907,000 shall be 
     available for information services.
       ``Sec. 21006.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Aviation Administration, Research, Engineering, and 
     Development (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)' shall be 
     $130,000,000.
       ``Sec. 21007.  Of the amounts provided by section 101 for 
     limitation on obligations under `Federal Aviation 
     Administration, Grants-in-Aid for Airports (Liquidation of 
     Contract Authorization) (Limitation on Obligations) (Airport 
     and Airway Trust Fund)', not to exceed $74,971,000 shall be 
     obligated for administrative expenses; up to $17,870,000 
     shall be available for airport technology research, to remain 
     available until expended; not less than $10,000,000 shall be 
     for airport cooperative research; and $10,000,000 shall be 
     available and transferred to `Office of the Secretary, 
     Salaries and Expenses' to administer the small community air 
     service development program to remain available until 
     expended.
       ``Sec. 21008.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     liquidation of contract authorization under `Federal Aviation 
     Administration, Grants-in-Aid for Airports (Liquidation of 
     Contract Authorization) (Limitation on Obligations) (Airport 
     and Airway Trust Fund)' shall be $4,399,000,000.
       ``Sec. 21009.  Of the amounts authorized for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 2007, and prior years under 
     sections 48103 and 48112 of title 49, United States Code, 
     $621,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 21010.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Highway Administration, Federal-Aid Highways 
     (Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)' shall be 
     $39,086,464,683.
       ``Sec. 21011.  Notwithstanding section 101, sections 110, 
     112, and 113 of division A of Public Law 109-115 shall not 
     apply to fiscal year 2007.
       ``Sec. 21012.  Funds appropriated under this division 
     pursuant to section 1069(y) of Public Law 102-240 shall be 
     distributed in accordance with the formula set forth in 
     section 1116(a) of Public Law 109-59.
       ``Sec. 21013.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the limitation on obligations and transfer of contract 
     authority for `National Highway Traffic Safety 
     Administration, Operations and Research (Highway Trust Fund) 
     (Including Transfer of Funds)' shall be $121,232,430: 
     Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     whenever an allocation is made of the sums authorized to be 
     appropriated for expenditure on the Federal lands highway 
     program, and whenever an apportionment is made of the sums 
     authorized to be appropriated for the surface transportation 
     program, the congestion mitigation and air quality 
     improvement program, the National Highway System, the 
     Interstate maintenance program, the bridge program, the 
     Appalachian development highway system, and the equity bonus 
     program, the Secretary of Transportation shall deduct from 
     all sums so authorized such sums as may be necessary to fund 
     this section: Provided further, That funds made available 
     under this section shall be transferred by the Secretary of 
     Transportation to and administered by the National Highway 
     Traffic Safety Administration: Provided further, That the 
     Federal share payable on account of any program, project, or 
     activity carried out with funds made available under this 
     section shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That the sum 
     deducted in accordance with this section shall remain 
     available until expended: Provided further, That all funds 
     made available under this section shall be subject to any 
     limitation on obligations for Federal-aid highways and 
     highway safety construction programs set forth in this 
     division or any other Act: Provided further, That the 
     obligation limitation made available for the programs, 
     projects, and activities for which funds are made available 
     under this section shall remain available until used and 
     shall be in addition to the amount of any limitation imposed 
     on obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety 
     construction programs for future fiscal years: Provided 
     further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     prior to making any distribution of obligation limitation for 
     the Federal-aid highway program under section 1102 of Public 
     Law 109-59 for fiscal year 2007, the Secretary of 
     Transportation shall not distribute from such limitation 
     amounts provided under this section: Provided further, That, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, in allocating 
     funds for the equity bonus program under section 105 of title 
     23, United States Code, for fiscal year 2007, the Secretary 
     of Transportation shall make the required calculations under 
     that section as if this section had not been enacted.
       ``Sec. 21014.  Of the unobligated balances of funds 
     apportioned to each State under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
     States Code, $3,471,582,000 is rescinded: Provided, That such 
     rescission shall not apply to the funds distributed in 
     accordance with sections 130(f) and 104(b)(5) of title 23, 
     United States Code; sections 133(d)(1) and 163 of such title, 
     as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
     Public Law 109-59; and the first sentence of section 
     133(d)(3)(A) of such title.
       ``Sec. 21015.  Notwithstanding section 101 and section 111, 
     the level for each of the following accounts under the 
     heading `Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration' shall 
     be as follows: `Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs 
     (Liquidation of Contract Authorization) (Limitation on 
     Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)', $223,000,000; and `Motor 
     Carrier Safety Grants (Liquidation of Contract Authorization) 
     (Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)', 
     $294,000,000.
       ``Sec. 21016.  Notwithstanding section 101 and section 111, 
     the level for each of the following accounts under the 
     heading `National Highway Traffic Safety Administration' 
     shall be as follows: `Operations and Research

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     (Liquidation of Contract Authorization) (Limitation on 
     Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)', $107,750,000; `National 
     Driver Register (Liquidation of Contract Authorization) 
     (Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)', 
     $4,000,000; and `Highway Traffic Safety Grants (Liquidation 
     of Contract Authorization) (Limitation on Obligations) 
     (Highway Trust Fund)', $587,750,000.
       ``Sec. 21017.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Railroad Administration, Safety and Operations' 
     shall be $149,570,000.
       ``Sec. 21018.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Railroad Administration, Railroad Research and 
     Development' shall be $34,524,000.
       ``Sec. 21019.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Federal Railroad Administration, Efficiency Incentive Grants 
     to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation' shall be 
     $31,300,000 and section 135 of division A of Public Law 109-
     115 shall not apply to fiscal year 2007.
       ``Sec. 21020.  Notwithstanding section 101, no funds are 
     appropriated under this division for `Federal Railroad 
     Administration, Alaska Railroad Rehabilitation'.
       ``Sec. 21021.  Notwithstanding section 101 and section 111, 
     the level for each of the following accounts under the 
     heading `Federal Transit Administration' shall be as follows: 
     `Administrative Expenses', $85,000,000; `Research and 
     University Research Centers', $61,000,000; and `Capital 
     Investment Grants', $1,566,000,000.
       ``Sec. 21022.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the liquidation of contract authorizations for `Federal 
     Transit Administration, Formula and Bus Grants (Liquidation 
     of Contract Authorization)' available for payment of 
     obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 
     sections 5305, 5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, 
     5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 of title 49, United States Code, 
     and section 3038 of Public Law 105-178 shall be 
     $4,660,000,000, to be derived from the Mass Transit Account 
     of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until 
     expended.
       ``Sec. 21023.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the limitation on obligations for `Federal Transit 
     Administration, Formula and Bus Grants (Liquidation of 
     Contract Authorization) (Limitation on Obligations) 
     (Including Transfer of Funds)' shall be $7,262,775,000: 
     Provided, That no funds made available to modernize fixed 
     guideway systems shall be transferred to `Capital Investment 
     Grants'.
       ``Sec. 21024.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     funds appropriated or limited under this division and made 
     available to carry out the new fixed guideway program of the 
     Federal Transit Administration shall be allocated at the 
     discretion of the Administrator of the Federal Transit 
     Administration for projects authorized under subsections (a) 
     through (c) of section 3043 of Public Law 109-59 and for 
     activities authorized under section 5309 of title 49, United 
     States Code.
       ``Sec. 21025.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Maritime Administration, Operations and Training' shall be 
     $111,127,000.
       ``Sec. 21026.  Of the unobligated balances under the 
     heading `Maritime Administration, National Defense Tank 
     Vessel Construction Program', $74,400,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 21027.  Of the unobligated balances under the 
     heading `Maritime Administration, Ship Construction', 
     $2,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 21028.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts under the heading `Pipeline 
     and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration' shall be as 
     follows: `Administrative Expenses', $18,000,000; `Hazardous 
     Materials Safety', $26,663,000; and `Pipeline Safety 
     (Pipeline Safety Fund) (Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund)', 
     $74,832,000, of which $14,850,000 shall be derived from the 
     Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2009, of which $59,982,000 shall be 
     derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $24,000,000 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2009.
       ``Sec. 21029.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Research 
     and Development' shall be $7,716,260, of which $2,000,000 
     shall be for the air transportation statistics program.
       ``Sec. 21030.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, 
     Salaries and Expenses' shall be $63,643,000.
       ``Sec. 21031.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     the `National Transportation Safety Board, Salaries and 
     Expenses' shall be $78,854,000.
       ``Sec. 21032.  Of the available unobligated balances made 
     available to the `National Transportation Safety Board' under 
     Public Law 106-246, $1,000,000 is rescinded.
       ``Sec. 21033.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public and 
     Indian Housing, Tenant-Based Rental Assistance' shall be 
     $15,920,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     $11,727,000,000 shall be available on October 1, 2006, and 
     notwithstanding section 109, $4,193,000,000 shall be 
     available on October 1, 2007: Provided, That paragraph (1) 
     under such heading in Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2440) 
     shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division: 
     Provided further, That of the amounts available for such 
     heading, $14,436,200,000 shall be for renewals of expiring 
     section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts 
     (including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision 
     of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
     United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
     et seq.) (`the Act' herein)): Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, from amounts 
     provided under the second proviso under this section the 
     Secretary shall, for the calendar year 2007 funding cycle, 
     provide renewal funding for each public housing agency based 
     on voucher management system (VMS) leasing and cost data for 
     the most recently completed period of 12 consecutive months 
     for which the Secretary determines the data is verifiable and 
     complete, prior to prorations, and by applying the 2007 
     Annual Adjustment Factor as established by the Secretary, and 
     by making any necessary adjustments for the costs associated 
     with the first-time renewal of tenant protection or HOPE VI 
     vouchers or vouchers that were not in use during the 12-month 
     period in order to be available to meet a commitment pursuant 
     to section 8(o)(13) of the Act: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the 
     amount provided under the second proviso under this section, 
     pro rate each public housing agency's allocation otherwise 
     established pursuant to this section: Provided further, That 
     except as provided in the following proviso, the entire 
     amount provided under the second proviso under this section 
     shall be obligated to the public housing agencies based on 
     the allocation and pro rata method described above: Provided 
     further, That public housing agencies participating in the 
     Moving to Work demonstration shall be funded pursuant to 
     their Moving to Work agreements and shall be subject to the 
     same pro rata adjustments under the previous proviso:  
     Provided further, That from amounts provided under the second 
     proviso of this section up to $100,000,000 shall be available 
     only: (1) for adjustments for public housing agencies that 
     experienced a significant increase, as determined by the 
     Secretary, in renewal costs resulting from unforeseen 
     circumstances or from the portability under section 8(r) of 
     the Act of tenant-based rental assistance; and (2) for 
     adjustments for public housing agencies that could experience 
     a significant decrease in voucher funding that could result 
     in the risk of loss of voucher units due to the shift to 
     using VMS data based on a 12-month period: Provided further, 
     That none of the funds provided under the second proviso of 
     this section may be used to support a total number of unit 
     months under lease which exceeds a public housing agency's 
     authorized level of units under contract.
       ``Sec. 21034.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Public and Indian Housing 
     of the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be 
     as follows: `Project-Based Rental Assistance', 
     $5,976,417,000, of which $5,829,303,000 shall be for 
     activities specified in paragraph (1) under such heading in 
     Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2442); `Public Housing 
     Operating Fund', $3,864,000,000; and `Indian Housing Loan 
     Guarantee Fund Program Account', $6,000,000: Provided, That 
     such funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 
     any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
     $251,000,000.
       ``Sec. 21035.  Of the unobligated balances, including 
     recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated 
     under the headings referred to under the heading `Department 
     of Housing and Urban Development, Public and Indian Housing, 
     Housing Certificate Fund' in Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 
     2442) for fiscal year 2006 and prior years, $1,650,000,000 is 
     rescinded: Provided, That the provisions under such heading 
     shall be applied to such rescission by substituting 
     `September 30, 2007' for `September 30, 2006' and `2007 
     funding cycle' for `2006 funding cycle'.
       ``Sec. 21036.  None of the funds appropriated by this 
     division may be used for the following activities under the 
     heading `Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public 
     and Indian Housing' in Public Law 109-115: the activities 
     specified in the last three provisos under the heading 
     `Public Housing Capital Fund' (119 Stat. 2444); and the first 
     activity specified in the second proviso under the heading 
     `Native American Housing Block Grants' (119 Stat. 2445).
       ``Sec. 21037.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for Community Planning and 
     Development of the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development shall be as follows: `Community Development 
     Fund', $3,771,900,000, of which $3,710,916,000 shall be for 
     carrying out the community development block grant program 
     under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
     1974, as amended: Provided, That none of the funds made 
     available by this section for such account may be used for 
     grants for the Economic Development Initiative, neighborhood 
     initiatives, or YouthBuild program activities; `Self-Help and 
     Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program', $49,390,000, of 
     which $19,800,000 shall be for the Self Help Homeownership 
     Opportunity Program as authorized under section 11 of the 
     Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as

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     amended, and $29,590,000 shall be made available through a 
     competition for activities authorized by section 4 of the HUD 
     Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note); and 
     `Homeless Assistance Grants', $1,441,600,000.
       ``Sec. 21038.  None of the funds appropriated by this 
     division may be used for activities specified in the first 
     proviso under the heading `Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development, Housing Programs, Housing for the Elderly' in 
     Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2452).
       ``Sec. 21039.  The first proviso in the first paragraph 
     under the heading `Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development, Federal Housing Administration, General and 
     Special Risk Program Account' in Public Law 109-115 (119 
     Stat. 2454) shall be applied in fiscal year 2007 by 
     substituting ``$45,000,000,000'' for ``$35,000,000,000''.
       ``Sec. 21040.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of Housing and Urban Development, Policy 
     Development and Research, Research and Technology' shall be 
     $50,087,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available 
     by this section for such account may be used for activities 
     under the first four provisos under such heading in Public 
     Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2455).
       ``Sec. 21041.  Funds appropriated by this division for 
     `Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead 
     Hazard Control, Lead Hazard Reduction' shall be made 
     available without regard to the limitations that are set 
     forth after `needs' in the second proviso under such heading 
     in Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2457)''.
       ``Sec. 21042.  The provisions of title II of the McKinney-
     Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11311 et seq.) shall 
     continue in effect, notwithstanding section 209 of such Act, 
     through the earlier of (1) the date specified in section 106 
     of this division, or (2) the date of the enactment into law 
     of an authorization Act relating to the McKinney-Vento 
     Homeless Assistance Act.
       ``Sec. 21043. (a) Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted 
     Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f 
     note) is amended--
       ``(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking `October 1, 2006' 
     and inserting `October 1, 2011', and
       ``(2) in subsection (b), by striking `October 1, 2006' and 
     inserting `October 1, 2011'.
       ``(b) The repeal made by section 579(a)(1) of the 
     Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 
     1997 shall be deemed not to have taken effect before the date 
     of the enactment of the Revised Continuing Appropriations 
     Resolution, 2007, and subtitle A of such Act shall be in 
     effect as if no such repeal had been made before such date of 
     enactment.
       ``Sec. 21044.  Notwithstanding the limitation in the first 
     sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 
     U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development may, until the date specified in section 106 of 
     this division, insure and enter into commitments to insure 
     mortgages under section 255 of the National Housing Act (12 
     U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)).
       ``Sec. 21045.  Section 24 of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended--
       ``(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking `2003' and 
     inserting `2007'; and
       ``(2) in subsection (o), by striking ``September 30, 2006'' 
     and inserting ``September 30, 2007''.
       ``Sec. 21046.  Section 710 of Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 
     2491) shall be applied to funds appropriated by this division 
     by substituting `2007' and `30 days' for `2006' and `60 
     days', respectively.
       ``Sec. 21047.  Section 711 of Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 
     2492) shall be applied to funds appropriated by this division 
     by substituting `2007' for `2006' each place it appears, and 
     by substituting `September 30, 2008' for `September 30, 
     2007'.
       ``Sec. 21048.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices, Salaries 
     and Expenses' shall be $215,167,000, of which not less than 
     $23,826,000 shall be for the following increases for the 
     following activities: $9,352,000 to expand the overseas 
     presence of the Department of the Treasury; $3,761,000 for 
     intelligence analysts; $1,000,000 for additional secure 
     workspace for intelligence analysts; $2,050,000 to support 
     the Department of the Treasury's participation as co-lead 
     agency in the Iraq Threat Finance Cell; $1,483,000 to support 
     economic sanctions efforts against terrorist networks; 
     $946,000 to support economic sanctions efforts against 
     proliferators of Weapons of Mass Destruction; $542,000 for 
     General Counsel support of the Office of Terrorism and 
     Financial Intelligence; $492,000 for Chief Counsel support of 
     the Office of Foreign Assets Control; and $4,200,000 to 
     reimburse the United States Secret Service for the security 
     detail to the Secretary of the Treasury.
       ``Sec. 21049.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices, 
     Department-wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs' 
     shall be $30,268,000, of which not less than $6,100,000 shall 
     be for an increase for the Treasury Foreign Intelligence 
     Network.
       ``Sec. 21050.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts of the Internal Revenue 
     Service shall be as follows: `Taxpayer Services', 
     $2,142,042,391; `Enforcement', $4,708,440,879; `Operations 
     Support', $3,461,204,720; `Health Insurance Tax Credit 
     Administration', $14,846,000; and `Business Systems 
     Modernization', $212,310,000.
       ``Sec. 21051.  Funds appropriated by section 101 of this 
     division for the Internal Revenue Service may be obligated in 
     the account and budget structure set forth in title II of 
     H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House of 
     Representatives.
       ``Sec. 21052.  Funds for the Internal Revenue Service for 
     fiscal year 2007 under the `Taxpayer Services', 
     `Enforcement', and `Operations Support' accounts may be 
     transferred between the accounts and among budget activities 
     to the extent necessary to implement the restructuring of the 
     Internal Revenue Service accounts after notice of the amount 
     and purpose of the transfer is provided to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate and 
     a period of 30 days has elapsed:  Provided, That the 
     limitation on transfers is 10 percent in fiscal year 2007.
       ``Sec. 21053.  Funds appropriated by this division for 
     `Internal Revenue Service, Business Systems Modernization' 
     are available for obligation without the prior approval of 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate for employee salaries and 
     expenses.
       ``Sec. 21054. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `The Judiciary, Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and 
     Other Judicial Services, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $4,498,130,000, of which $20,371,000 shall be available for 
     critically understaffed workload associated with immigration 
     and other law enforcement needs.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 402 of Public Law 109-115, of 
     the amount provided by this section, not to exceed 
     $80,954,000 shall be available for transfer between accounts 
     to maintain fiscal year 2006 operating levels.
       ``Sec. 21055.  Notwithstanding section 101, within the 
     amount provided by this division for `The Judiciary, 
     Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Salaries 
     and Expenses', $990,000 shall not be required for the 
     National Academy of Public Administration for a review of the 
     financial and management procedures of the Federal Judiciary.
       ``Sec. 21056.  Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improvements 
     Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-650; 28 U.S.C. 133 note), is 
     amended--
       ``(1) in the second sentence, by inserting `the district of 
     Kansas,' after `Except with respect to'; and
       ``(2) by inserting after the second sentence the following: 
     `The first vacancy in the office of district judge in the 
     district of Kansas occurring 16 years or more after the 
     confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary 
     judgeship created for such district under this subsection, 
     shall not be filled.'.
       ``Sec. 21057. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Office of National Drug Control Policy, Counterdrug 
     Technology Assessment Center' shall be $20,000,000, which 
     shall remain available until, and obligated and expended by, 
     September 30, 2008, consisting of $10,000,000 for 
     counternarcotics research and development projects, of which 
     up to $1,000,000 is to be directed to supply reduction 
     activities, and $10,000,000 for the continued operation of 
     the technology transfer program.
       ``(b) The Office of National Drug Control Policy shall 
     expend funds provided for `Counterdrug Technology Assessment 
     Center' by Public Law 109-115 in accordance with the Joint 
     Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference for 
     Public Law 109-115 (House Report 109-307) within 60 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this section.
       ``(c) Funding for counternarcotics research and development 
     projects shall be available for transfer to other Federal 
     departments or agencies within 45 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this section. Any unexpended funds from previous 
     fiscal years shall be expended in fiscal year 2007 to 
     reinstate the demand instrumentation program as instructed in 
     the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of 
     Conference for Public Law 109-115 (House Report 109-307). The 
     Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate an accounting of fiscal year 
     2006 funds, including funds that are unexpended for fiscal 
     year 2007.
       ``Sec. 21058.  The structure of any of the offices or 
     components within the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
     shall remain as they were on October 1, 2006, and none of the 
     funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
     division may be used to implement a reorganization of offices 
     within the Office of National Drug Control Policy without the 
     explicit approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate.
       ``Sec. 21059. (a) Funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this division for `Federal Drug Control 
     Programs, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program' 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2008.
       ``(b) The Office of National Drug Control Policy shall 
     submit a plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate for the initial High 
     Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas allocation funding within 90 
     days after the date

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     of the enactment of this section and the discretionary High 
     Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas funding within 150 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this section. Within the 
     discretionary funding amount, $2,000,000 shall be available 
     for new counties, not including previously funded counties, 
     with priority given to meritorious applicants who have 
     submitted applications previously and have not been funded.
       ``Sec. 21060.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Election Assistance Commission, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $16,236,000, of which $4,950,000 shall be transferred to 
     the National Institute of Standards and Technology for 
     election reform activities authorized under the Help America 
     Vote Act of 2002.
       ``Sec. 21061.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     each of the following accounts for the General Services 
     Administration shall be as follows: `Operating Expenses', 
     $82,975,000; and `Office of Inspector General', $52,312,000.
       ``Sec. 21062.  Notwithstanding GSA Order ADM 5440 of 
     December 21, 2006, the Office of Governmentwide Policy and 
     the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs 
     shall continue to exist and operate separately, and none of 
     the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
     division or any other Act may be used to establish or operate 
     an Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs and 
     Governmentwide Policy or any combination thereof without the 
     explicit approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate.
       ``Sec. 21063.  Notwithstanding section 101--
       ``(1) the aggregate amount of new obligational authority 
     provided under the heading `General Services Administration, 
     Real Property Activities, Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations 
     on Availability of Revenue' for Federal buildings and 
     courthouses and other purposes of the Fund shall be 
     $7,598,426,000, including repayment of debt, of which not 
     less than $280,872,000 shall be for courthouse construction, 
     and not less than $96,539,000 shall be for border station 
     construction, and of which $89,061,000 shall be from the 
     additional amount provided by paragraph (2) of this 
     subsection;
       ``(2) for an additional amount to be deposited in the 
     `General Services Administration, Real Property Activities, 
     Federal Buildings Fund', $89,061,000 is appropriated, out of 
     any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;
       ``(3) the Administrator of General Services is authorized 
     to initiate design, construction, repair, alteration, 
     leasing, and other projects through existing authorities of 
     the Administrator: Provided, That the General Services 
     Administration shall submit a detailed plan, by project, 
     regarding the use of funds to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     within 30 days of enactment of this section; and
       ``(4) none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this division for the `General Services 
     Administration, Real Property Activities, Federal Buildings 
     Fund' may be obligated for the Coast Guard consolidation and 
     development of St. Elizabeths campus in the District of 
     Columbia.
       ``Sec. 21064.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Merit Systems Protection Board, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $35,814,000, together with not to exceed $2,579,000 for 
     administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement appeals to 
     be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and 
     Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Systems 
     Protection Board.
       ``Sec. 21065.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `National Archives and Records Administration, Electronic 
     Records Archives' shall be $45,214,000.
       ``Sec. 21066. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `National Archives and Records Administration, Repairs 
     and Restoration' shall be $9,120,000.
       ``(b) Within the amount provided by this section, the 
     following amounts shall not be required:
       ``(1) $1,485,000 for construction of a new regional 
     archives and records facility.
       ``(2) $990,000 for repair and restoration of a plaza 
     surrounding a presidential library.
       ``Sec. 21067. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `National Archives and Records Administration, Operating 
     Expenses' shall be $278,235,000.
       ``(b) Within the amount provided by this section, 
     $1,980,000 shall not be required for the initial move of 
     records, staffing, and operations of a presidential library.
       ``Sec. 21068.  Section 403(f) of Public Law 103-356 (31 
     U.S.C. 501 note) shall be applied by substituting the date 
     specified in section 106 of this division for `October 1, 
     2006'.
       ``Sec. 21069.  The text of section 405 of the Ethics in 
     Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended to read as 
     follows: `There are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
     out this title such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 
     2007'.
       ``Sec. 21070.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Office of Personnel Management, Salaries and Expenses' shall 
     be $111,095,000, of which $6,913,170 shall remain available 
     until expended for the Enterprise Human Resources Integration 
     project and $1,435,500 shall remain available until expended 
     for the Human Resources Line of Business project; and in 
     addition $112,017,000 for administrative expenses, to be 
     transferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 
     Personnel Management without regard to other statutes, 
     including direct procurement of printed materials, for the 
     retirement and insurance programs, of which $13,000,000 shall 
     remain available until expended for the cost of automating 
     the retirement recordkeeping systems.
       ``Sec. 21071.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Office of Special Counsel, Salaries and Expenses' shall be 
     $15,407,000.
       ``Sec. 21072.  Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `United States Postal Service, Payment to the Postal Service 
     Fund' shall be $29,000,000; and, in addition, $6,915,000, 
     which shall not be available for obligation until October 1, 
     2007, and shall be in addition to amounts provided under 
     section 109.
       ``Sec. 21073. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the level 
     for `Federal Payment to the Court Services and Offender 
     Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia', shall be 
     $209,594,000, of which $133,476,000 shall be for necessary 
     expenses of the Community Supervision and Sex Offender 
     Registration, $45,220,000 shall be available to the Pretrial 
     Services Agency, and $30,898,000 shall be transferred to the 
     Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia.
       ``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Federal 
     Payment to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of the 
     District of Columbia' shall be $20,000,000, and shall be used 
     only for upgrading and expanding public transportation 
     capacity, in accordance with an expenditure plan submitted by 
     the Mayor of the District of Columbia not later than 60 days 
     after the enactment of this section which details the 
     activities to be carried out with such Federal Payment. Such 
     Federal Payment may be applied to expenditures incurred as of 
     October 1, 2006.
       ``(c) Notwithstanding section 101, any appropriation or 
     funds made available to the District of Columbia pursuant to 
     this division for `Federal Payment for School Improvement' 
     which are made available to expand quality public charter 
     schools in the District of Columbia shall remain available 
     until expended to the extent that the appropriation or funds 
     are used for public charter school credit enhancement and 
     direct loans.
       ``(d) Notwithstanding section 101, no appropriation or 
     funds shall be made available to the District of Columbia 
     pursuant to this division with respect to any of the 
     following items in the District of Columbia Appropriations 
     Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-115; 119 Stat. 2508 et seq.):
       ``(1) The item relating to `Federal Payment for the 
     National Guard Youth Challenge Program'.
       ``(2) The item relating to `Federal Payment for Marriage 
     Development and Improvement'.
       ``(e) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Federal 
     Payment for Emergency Planning and Security Costs in the 
     District of Columbia' shall be $8,533,000.
       ``(f) Notwithstanding section 101, the level for `Defender 
     Services in District of Columbia Courts' shall be 
     $43,475,000.
       ``(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     except section 106, the District of Columbia may expend local 
     funds for programs and activities under the heading `District 
     of Columbia Funds' for such programs and activities under 
     title V of H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House 
     of Representatives, at the rate set forth under `District of 
     Columbia Funds, Summary of Expenses' as included in the 
     Fiscal Year 2007 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted 
     to the Congress by the District of Columbia on June 5, 2006 
     as amended on January 16, 2007.
       ``(h) Section 203(c) of the 2005 District of Columbia 
     Omnibus Authorization Act (Public Law 109-356; 120 Stat. 
     2038) is amended by striking `6 months' and inserting `1 
     year'.
       ``(i) Not later than 60 days after the enactment of this 
     section, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit a 
     plan for the expenditure of the funds made available to the 
     District of Columbia pursuant to this division to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate.
       ``Sec. 21074.  Within the amount provided by this division 
     for `Other Federal Drug Control Programs', the following 
     amount shall not be required: $1,980,000 as a directed grant 
     to the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America for the 
     National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute, as 
     authorized in chapter 2 of the National Narcotics Leadership 
     Act of 1988, as amended.
       ``Sec. 21075.  Within the amount provided by this division 
     for `Other Federal Drug Control Programs', $1,980,000 is 
     provided, as authorized, under the Drug-Free Communities 
     Support Program, for training, technical assistance, 
     evaluation, research, and capacity building for coalitions.
       ``Sec. 21076.  Notwithstanding section 101, no funds shall 
     be appropriated or otherwise made available by this division 
     for the following accounts of the Department of the Treasury: 
     `Air Transportation Stabilization Program Account'; and 
     `Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration'.
       ``Sec. 21077.  For purposes of this division, section 206 
     of Public Law 109-115 shall not apply.

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       ``Sec. 21078. (a) The Federal Election Commission may 
     charge and collect fees for attending or otherwise 
     participating in a conference sponsored by the Commission, 
     and notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States 
     Code, any amounts received from such fees during a fiscal 
     year shall be credited to and merged with the amounts 
     appropriated or otherwise made available to the Commission 
     during the year, and shall be available for use during the 
     year for the costs of sponsoring such conferences.
       ``(b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 
     2007 and each succeeding fiscal year.

             ``CHAPTER 11--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

       ``Sec. 21101.  Not to exceed $155,600,000 shall be 
     transferred to `Department of Homeland Security, 
     Transportation Security Administration, Expenses', to 
     liquidate obligations incurred against funds appropriated in 
     fiscal years 2002 and 2003, of which $150,300,000 shall be 
     from unobligated balances currently available to the 
     Transportation Security Administration, $300,000 shall be 
     from unobligated balances currently available to the Office 
     of the Secretary and Executive Management, and $5,000,000 
     shall be from unobligated balances currently available to the 
     Under Secretary for Management: Provided, That the 
     Transportation Security Administration shall not utilize any 
     unobligated balances from the following programs: screener 
     partnership program; explosive detection system purchase; 
     explosive detection system installation; checkpoint support; 
     aviation regulation and other enforcement; air cargo; air 
     cargo research and development; and operation integration: 
     Provided further, That of the funds transferred, $2,000,000 
     shall be from the `Secure Flight Program'; $100,000 shall be 
     from the `Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary'; $100,000 
     shall be from the `Office of Legislative and 
     Intergovernmental Affairs'; $100,000 shall be from the 
     `Office of Public Affairs'; and $5,000,000 shall be from 
     `MAX-HR Human Resource System'.
       ``This division may be cited as the `Continuing 
     Appropriations Resolution, 2007'.''.

  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I demand the question of 
consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DeFazio). The gentleman from Georgia 
demands the question of consideration. Under clause 3 of rule XVI, the 
question is: Will the House now consider the joint resolution?
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. I ask for a division on that vote, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. A recorded vote has already been ordered. 
The vote will proceed. Members will record their vote by electronic 
device. It will be a 15-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 179, not voting 33, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 68]

                               AYES--222

     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--179

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Latham
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--33

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Carney
     Culberson
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Delahunt
     Farr
     Fossella
     Gilchrest
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Higgins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kennedy
     King (NY)
     LaTourette
     Maloney (NY)
     McCrery
     McDermott
     Myrick
     Norwood
     Ortiz
     Paul
     Peterson (PA)
     Reynolds
     Rush
     Stark
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1258

  Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico, Mr. ROHRABACHER and Mr. SALI changed their 
vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. KUCINICH and Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin changed their vote from 
``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the question of consideration was decided in the affirmative.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote.


                  Motion to Table Offered by Mr. Obey

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I move to table the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table the 
motion to reconsider.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 226, 
noes 180, not voting 29, as follows:

[[Page 2737]]



                             [Roll No. 69]

                               AYES--226

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--180

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Taylor
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Alexander
     Bachus
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Culberson
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     English (PA)
     Farr
     Fossella
     Giffords
     Gilchrest
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Higgins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     King (NY)
     Lamborn
     Maloney (NY)
     McDermott
     Myrick
     Norwood
     Paul
     Peterson (PA)
     Poe
     Reynolds
     Ruppersberger
     Stark

                              {time}  1323

  Ms. SLAUGHTER and Mr. HINOJOSA changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to make a point of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DeFazio). The gentleman will state his 
point of order.
  Mr. McHENRY. Under the new House rules, there is an anti-earmark rule 
that governs the House, which the rule governing this bill does not 
waive that rule of the House; and sections of this legislation actually 
go forward and violate that anti-earmark legislation. Therefore, I rise 
to make a point of order against H.J. Res. 20, as title I, section 
101(a)(2), violates rule XXI, clause 9, of the House rules, stating, 
``There shall be no Member-directed earmarks,'' which this legislation 
does possess.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does any Member wish to be heard?
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I would simply note that on page 2543 of the 
Congressional Record there is listed the following statement:
  Under clause 9(a) of rule XXI, lists or statements on congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits are submitted 
as follows offered by myself: H.J. Res. 20 making further continuing 
appropriations for fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes, does not 
contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited 
tariff benefits as defined in clause 9(d), 9(e), or 9(f) of rule XXI.
  Mr. McHENRY. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OBEY. No.
  Mr. McHENRY. The gentleman will not yield for the question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. On a point of order there is no yielding. 
The chair will hear each Member in turn. Does the gentleman from North 
Carolina wish to be heard on his point of order?
  Mr. McHENRY. Yes. I wish to speak further.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is stating, simply because 
legislation states that there are no earmarks, that you can contain 
thousands of earmarks after that statement. It defies logic and defies 
reason.
  And, furthermore, your section explaining that there shall be no 
congressional earmarks is further on in the legislation. Therefore, it 
is not operational over the violation that I am stating in section 101. 
Therefore, under the legislation here, it is not operational. 
Therefore, it is a very crafty way, and I have got to compliment the 
gentleman for putting together a very crafty piece of legislation to 
try to slip this by. But under these House rules, this is a clear 
violation of the anti-earmarking provision that is very important to 
the rules of debate, even when the minority is not able to offer any 
amendments, even when the minority has no other means of removing 
congressional earmarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will restrict himself to the 
point of order.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under clause 9(a) of rule XXI, it is not in 
order to consider an unreported bill or joint resolution unless the 
chairman of each committee of initial referral has caused to be printed 
in the Congressional Record a list of congressional earmarks, limited 
tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits contained in the measure, or a 
statement that the measure contains no such earmarks or benefits.

[[Page 2738]]

  Under clause 9(c) of rule XXI, a point of order under clause 9(a) of 
rule XXI may be based only on the failure of the submission to the 
Congressional Record to include such a list or statement.
  The Chair has examined the Congressional Record and finds that it 
contains the statement contemplated by clause 9(a) of rule XXI.
  Accordingly, the point of order is overruled.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the Chair.


                  Motion to Table Offered by Mr. Obey

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I move to table the appeal.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. McHENRY. Division. I ask for a division vote, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  Mr. McHENRY. Wait a second, Mr. Speaker. I asked for a division vote.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Constitution, the yeas and nays 
have precedence over a request for a division.
  The yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas 
and nays will rise. A sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays 
are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 226, 
nays 184, not voting 25, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 70]

                               YEAS--226

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--184

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--25

     Alexander
     Bachmann
     Boucher
     Buyer
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Davis, Jo Ann
     English (PA)
     Farr
     Fossella
     Gilchrest
     Hastert
     Higgins
     Johnson, Sam
     King (NY)
     Maloney (NY)
     McCaul (TX)
     McDermott
     Myrick
     Norwood
     Paul
     Reynolds
     Skelton
     Stark
     Watson

                              {time}  1350

  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                        Parliamentary Inquiries

  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DeFazio). The gentleman will state his 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. McHENRY. We just had a vote on this floor about rule XXI, section 
9. Just for clarification, for the body's purposes going forward with 
this new rule, in essence, this is the parliamentary inquiry, if I may 
state it. The summary of rule XXI, section 9 is that as long as the 
legislation states that there are no earmarks, there may be thousands 
of earmarks within that legislation, but only operationally must the 
legislation include text that states that there are no earmarks. Is 
that the ruling of the Chair? I would be happy to give the Speaker 
numerous examples of earmarks in this.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair does not respond to hypothetical 
questions raised under the guise of a parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. McHENRY. Further parliamentary inquiry then.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary 
inquiry.
  Mr. McHENRY. Rule XXI, section 9, states that a bill or joint 
resolution reported by a committee, unless the report includes a list 
of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, limited tariff 
benefits in the bill or in the report and the name of any Member, 
Delegate or Resident Commissioner who submits a request to the 
committee for each respective item included in such list or a statement 
that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax 
benefits or limited tariff benefits. Does this legislation state that 
and conform to rule XXI, section 9?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair previously ruled on that question, 
and the House sustained the Chair by tabling an appeal.
  Mr. McHENRY. Further parliamentary inquiry. Operationally, may a 
committee Chair simply sign and attest to the Parliamentarian that 
there

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are no earmarks within said legislation?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will not render advisory opinions. 
That is not a proper parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. McHENRY. Further parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman have a proper 
parliamentary inquiry?
  Mr. McHENRY. I appreciate the Speaker operating in such an unbiased 
way. It is very kind of you.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. If the gentleman will refrain for a moment, 
the Chair is operating under the precedents and rules of the House of 
Representatives and properly respecting those rules. So, if the 
gentleman has a proper parliamentary inquiry, he would please state it.
  Mr. McHENRY. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker. What is an earmark? 
Under House rules, what is an earmark?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has again not stated a proper 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 116, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Obey) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) each will control 
30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. OBEY. I thank the Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, I simply want to thank Janet Airis and her staff at the 
CBO scoring unit; Ira Forstater and Nadia Soree and the entire staff at 
the Legislative Council; and certainly, most of all, the staff of the 
Appropriations Committee, both majority and minority, both Senate and 
House, especially Rob Nabors and David Reich.
  This is a bill that needs to pass so that everyone who is reliant 
upon programs contained therein understands what the rules of the game 
will be for the remainder of the fiscal year. I urge passage.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to do something that I have never done 
before, and that is to oppose House passage of an appropriations bill.
  My friends on the other side of the aisle, and I use the term 
``friends'' sincerely, have produced an 8-month omnibus spending bill 
that appropriates $463.5 billion. It is legislation that few have seen, 
which cannot be amended in any way, and that will pass this House after 
only 1 hour of debate. It is the first omnibus spending bill that I 
have seen during my time in Congress written and considered without the 
input of the chairman or ranking members of any appropriations 
subcommittee, without the input of any Republican or Democratic 
subcommittee members, without the benefit of a full Appropriations 
Committee markup, without the standard three days for circulating the 
bill to committee members before markup, without the standard 3 days 
for circulating the bill to all House Members after full committee 
consideration, without any prior debate whatsoever, and without the 
opportunity to offer even one amendment on the House floor.
  I do not fault my friend, Mr. Obey, the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee, for he is doing what he is asked to be done 
by his leadership. He is in the position today because of the former 
Senate majority leader's complete failure to schedule and pass the 
fiscal year 2007 appropriations bills. The House and the Senate 
Appropriations Committee did their work last year, and Mr. Obey and I 
worked very closely in attempting to see it was fully completed. The 
Senate leadership did not.
  As the former chairman of the committee, I know that Mr. Obey feels 
strongly about maintaining regular order and passing other 
appropriations bills. I can vividly recall a conversation Mr. Obey had 
with me shortly after I became chairman when he suggested that perhaps 
I would be the last chairman of the Appropriations Committee because of 
the breakdown of regular order.
  I looked to his comments and have taken them to heart because I 
committed to him and to our Members that we would pass our spending 
bills in regular order, and the 2 years I served as chairman we did.
  Today, my fear is that Mr. Obey may be the last chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee because of the very concern he expressed to 
me, the breakdown of that regular order. Shutting both Republicans and 
Democrats out of the legislative process is a highly, highly unusual 
circumstance, but that is exactly what has occurred.
  Both Republicans and Democrats are being denied a full and open 
debate on this legislation that will spend, as I suggested earlier, 
$463.5 billion, roughly one-half of the annual Federal budget.
  Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer, both former members of the 
Appropriations Committee, know that our process is very open and a 
collaborative one. Historically, appropriations bills are brought to 
the floor under an open rule to encourage debate and create better 
legislation. Our spending bills reflect not just the will of the 
Appropriations Committee but, indeed, the will of the entire bipartisan 
House. It is not uncommon to have hours and hours of debate and more 
than 100 Democrat or Republican amendments offered on a single spending 
bill. That is, until today.
  The House will debate this legislation today for 1 hour. Not one 
amendment has been made in order. The Senate, that is, the other body, 
on the other hand, will have the opportunity to debate the legislation 
for up to 15 days and with the potential for an unlimited number of 
amendments.

                              {time}  1400

  Let me repeat, it is important that the Members hear that. One hour 
of debate in the House with no amendments, 15 days of debate in the 
Senate with potentially unlimited amendments.
  Speaker Pelosi has vowed to run the House in a more open, democratic 
and inclusive way. A spirit of bipartisanship, she said, would prevail 
in the people's House. That pledge was put on the shelf so the new 
majority could complete their first 100 hours agenda.
  The new majority then promised that business would soon return to 
regular order with plenty of opportunity for Democrats and Republicans 
to participate in the democratic process. Members of the House, 
Democrats and Republicans, are still waiting for the Speaker to keep 
her word.
  In closing, I would suggest that our country would be better served 
by extending for a full year the clean continuing resolution the House 
and Senate passed in December. That legislation, a mere 19 pages long, 
contained no gimmicks, no policy changes, and did not reward or punish 
agencies indiscriminately, as is done in this 137-page package.
  This omnibus spending bill before us today totally disregards the 
once proud tradition of regular order within the House Appropriations 
Committee and violates the longstanding bipartisan customs of the 
people's House. I urge that my colleagues join me in a ``no'' vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Lampson) for a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which was 
signed by the President in August of 2005, included four directed 
spending programs that will each make a significant positive 
contribution to the security and reliability of the energy supply and 
infrastructure of this Nation. The Energy Policy Act authorized these 
programs with full funding so that they could be implemented as soon as 
possible. It should be made clear that it is the intent of the 
Continuing Resolution to remove any impediments that may have arisen to 
the timely implementation of the four Energy Policy Act provisions--
Section 105, the Energy Saving Performance Contracts; Section 384, 
Coastal Impact Assistance; Section 999, Ultra-deepwater and 
Unconventional Onshore Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research and 
Development; and Section 1211, Electric Reliability Organization. These 
programs were clearly authorized and directly

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funded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and should be fully funded and 
implemented immediately.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 12 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the President will submit to the Congress his 
new budget. It would be kind of nice if we had disposed of his last 
year's budget request before the President brings his new budget 
forward, because I believe that he is entitled to start the year with a 
clean slate, and I think we are entitled to start the year with a clean 
slate as well.
  Unfortunately, we cannot do that because of the failures of the last 
Congress. This resolution represents the last remaining legislation 
that must be passed in order to clean up the mess left to us by the 
last Congress.
  Now, we all know the story. Last year, the House debated and passed 
every single appropriation bill except the Labor, Health, Education 
bill. That was held up because of the now-well-known division between 
the two parties on the minimum wage and also because moderate 
Republicans in this House, led by people like Mr. Castle and others, 
were demanding that the Republican leadership add at least $3 billion 
to the Labor, Health, Education appropriation bill in order to get 
their votes on the Republican budget resolution.
  The then chairman, Mr. Lewis from California, my good friend, 
specifically said on the House floor that the reason the Congress was 
not allowed to finish its work is because the Senate majority leader, 
Senator Frist, shielded the Senate from any painful votes on 
appropriations before the election. Then, after the election, the 
majority party walked away from their responsibility to finish the 
budget, and they left us to clean up the mess as they walked out the 
door.
  When we considered the CR under which we are now operating, I 
specifically said from this place on the House floor that I would make 
any substantive compromise that was necessary and I would make any 
procedural compromise that was necessary in order to enable the then 
majority Republicans to finish the bills on their watch, on their 
terms. I said I was willing to recognize that they still controlled the 
Congress and so they had a right to have Republican priorities 
reflected in those bills, even if I disagreed with those priorities.
  But I also warned that if they did not live up to their 
responsibilities to pass the budget, then they would forfeit their 
right to complain and whine about how we went about cleaning up their 
leftover jobs.
  So when it became apparent that they would not meet their 
responsibilities, Senator Byrd and I announced that we would proceed by 
doing two things. We announced, first of all, that we would provide no 
congressional earmarks. We told anybody who had an earmark in a 2007 
bill that if they wanted it considered in the following fiscal year 
they would need to present it under the reform process, which we were 
in the process of putting together; and we announced at that time that 
we intended to cut earmarks by 50 percent in comparison to the 2007 
bill.
  The second thing that we announced is that we would take the 2006 
continuing resolution and make whatever adjustments were necessary in 
order to avoid shutdowns of agencies or layoffs or furloughs and in 
order to recognize priorities that we thought people had on both sides 
of the aisle. That is what we did.
  In this bill, we started with the fiscal 2006 base. We then cut or 
rescinded $9- to $10 billion, almost $10 billion, in items that we 
thought could be cut or rescinded. We cut over 60 programs. We 
generated $10 billion or so in savings, and we added that to the $7 
billion that still remained within the Republican budget resolution 
cap, and then we allocated that money on the basis of what we thought 
were better priorities.
  Now, the gentleman from California says we should have just stuck 
with the existing 2006 continuing resolution. We could have done that. 
If we had, we would not have been able to add $3.6 billion in veterans' 
health care, which we have done in this bill, which is our number one 
priority. We would not have been able to add $1.2 billion in defense 
health, which we add in this bill. We would not have been able to add 
$500 million for basic housing allowances for our military, and we 
would not have been able to add the $1 billion that we added for BRAC, 
the base closing operations. We would also not have been able to add 
the $216 million that we added to the FBI budget at the request of the 
administration.
  In education, two weeks ago, when the Democratic Party brought to 
this House floor a proposition to lower interest rates on student 
loans, we were told, ``oh, that is just tokenism. What you ought to do 
is add to the Pell Grants.''
  That is what we have done. We added enough to the Pell Grant program 
to allow an increase in the maximum grant of $260. We wouldn't have 
been able to do that either if we had followed Mr. Lewis' suggestion 
and simply stuck to the CR under which we are now operating.
  In addition to that, we added $250 million to Title I and $100 
million to Head Start so we could end the decline in enrollment in that 
program.
  In the area of science, we were asked by a number of Members on the 
Republican side of the aisle in this House, and on our side, plus the 
Senate on both sides, to add money for NIH. Members did not like the 
fact that, under the alternative, we were going to lose at least 500 
medical grants in cancer research, heart disease, Alzheimer's and the 
rest.
  I have not met a single constituent who said, ``Hey, Obey, I think 
you ought to save money by cutting cancer research grants.'' We added 
$620 million to reverse the decline in the number of research grants at 
NIH, and we added some additional funds to the National Science 
Foundation.
  We added some additional money to energy conservation and energy 
research programs, in addition to which we provided a $200 million add-
on for the Clean Water Revolving Fund. There isn't a small community in 
this country that doesn't need some help with clean water.
  We added $100 million for park maintenance, and we added $90 million 
for firefighting.
  We also were requested by the administration to provide at least the 
amount that they asked for the global AIDS program and to combat 
malaria and TB. So we added $1.4 billion to do that, and we added $146 
million to prevent the Social Security Administration from having a 10-
day furlough for their employees. That is what we did.
  We also provided a suspension of all earmarks.
  Now, I want to make clear a lot of the earmarks that we suspended are 
perfectly defensible. They accomplish laudatory public purposes. I 
think it is sad that we haven't been able to fund them. But the fact is 
that it became apparent to me that the earmarking process had been so 
discredited by the Cunningham case and by other cases that we have no 
choice but to start over. So we wanted to clear the decks, clean up the 
process, and start over.
  Ninety-nine percent of the Members of this House on both sides of the 
aisle have immense integrity. They don't ask the Congress for things 
that are illegitimate, but it is that 1 percent that has fouled the 
nest for everybody else. So we are trying to clean up the nest so that 
we can approach next year with a clean start and so that we will have a 
process so that both parties will know what earmarks the other party is 
putting into the bills.
  I want the minority to be fully cognizant of whatever earmarks the 
majority puts in the bills, and I want us to be fully cognizant of the 
other earmarks you put in the bills. That is the only way we can 
protect the integrity of this institution.
  So we are being criticized in some quarters because we are being 
told, ``Well, when you eliminated the earmarks, you should also have 
eliminated the money in those programs.'' We didn't do that for one 
very simple reason. We didn't want to reduce the amount of money in the 
COPS program, for instance.
  What we are doing, by eliminating earmarks, and let's be clear about 
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we are not saving a dime by eliminating earmarks. But what we are doing 
is transferring the power to decide where that money goes from the 
congressional branch to the executive branch. I don't like that, but it 
is a price I am willing to pay to clean up the system. What that means 
is that the administration will have much more authority than normal to 
decide where money goes, whether it is in the Army Corps of Engineers 
program or COPS or you name it.
  I would simply say, we may have made some wrong choices. Undoubtedly, 
we did. But the process was this.
  For 3\1/2\ weeks our staffs worked 7 days a week round the clock, and 
they negotiated with the Senate, Republican and Democratic staff alike. 
The Republican staff was invited to every meeting that took place. If 
they attended or didn't, that was up to them.
  Whenever the staff could not reach agreement, the Members were 
brought in order to argue it up. If you don't think that occurred, talk 
to Mr. Visclosky, talk to Senator Domenici, talk about the arguments 
they had on the Energy and Water bill, and there are countless other 
examples.
  We are now in a situation in which we have to move on. We may have 
made some wrong choices, but at least, in contrast to last year, we 
made those choices, we made them. They may not be popular, but they 
were necessary so that we can turn the page, get on the next year.
  This bill is the functional equivalent of a conference report. All of 
the appropriation bills that were not completed action on last year, 
this is what they look like. This is what they look like. This is a 
continuing resolution that we are producing today in order to direct 
where the spending in these bills ought to go.
  Now, you may say you don't think it fits the traditional definition 
of a continuing resolution. Either you can have an automatic continuing 
resolution, or you can have a thinking man's continuing resolution. I 
don't think that we were obligated to lock ourselves into the 2006 
numbers, because that would have prevented us from providing the 
initiatives that I talked about for veterans, for education and the 
like.
  This is a responsible document. Nothing was sneaked in. Everybody 
knows what is in this package. All the staff knows.
  I would urge an ``aye'' vote for the bill so that, come Monday, we 
can deal with the President's new budget, rather than continuing to 
deal with the spilt milk of yesterday's majority.

                              {time}  1415

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my 
colleague, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of 
Appropriations (Mr. Rogers of Kentucky).
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I am sad to say that this is a 
sad day for the U.S. House.
  Why do I say that? Well, Mr. Speaker, the power of the purse is the 
most important power of the Congress. James Madison called the power of 
the purse ``the most complete and effectual weapon with which any 
constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people.''
  The power of the purse of the Congress is exercised through its 
Appropriations Committee and the appropriations process that is 
longstanding in this body.
  Today, we are throwing out that procedure. We are saying in this bill 
that all of the work that has gone on in the hearings, hundreds of 
hearings, hours and hundreds of hours of testimony that we have taken 
in the various subcommittee hearings from the administration, from 
outside witnesses, from Members of Congress, the Senate and so on, all 
of those hearings are being disregarded and thrown out. The testimony 
from the agency and the department heads and the Inspectors General and 
all of the people that are in the executive branch that are in charge 
of keeping track of the money, the GAO reports, budget reports, policy 
expert reports, all of those are being tossed out in favor of the 
judgment of two Members of the Congress, one from the House, one from 
the Senate. The bill before us is the product of two people, one from 
the House, one from the Senate.
  All of the debate that took place on the House floor on these 
individual bills as they came before this body, and Members expressed 
their views, offered amendments, had some won, some lost, but 
nevertheless, the process worked. That is being thrown out.
  These bills were chock full of reporting requirements of oversight 
provisions, congressional controls, money closely tied to results from 
the administration. The bills were carefully crafted in an open 
process, input from every Member, and all 10 of the 11 bills passed 
through the House gained widespread bipartisan support. Legislation we 
can be proud of. And yet we are throwing that out.
  The bipartisan work, we are throwing it away. This annual process we 
call the appropriations process is being discarded. We are cutting the 
purse strings, blindly handing over the money to the executive branch 
with no leverage, no new oversight of nearly half of the Federal 
discretionary budget.
  The new majority, Mr. Speaker, has been very righteous in saying it 
will conduct much more oversight than the previous Congress. And yet 
this so-called CR completely abdicates the majority's responsibilities 
as conducting any oversight. Just give the money to the executive 
branch. Spend it as you please. We don't care. That is what we are 
saying.
  And, Mr. Speaker, I don't like it.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman talks about how we should have stuck with 
the bills that they produced last year. There is only one problem. They 
couldn't convince their Republican brethren in the Senate to buy them. 
And so we had to try something else.
  I can't help it that the majority party did not meet its 
responsibilities to pass these appropriations because you had an 
internal fight within the Republican Party. But now the responsibility 
is passed to us, and at least we are producing a proposal which can 
pass both Houses. That is more than can be said for the work product of 
the last Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Edwards).
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I heard the term ``abdication of 
responsibility'' used. I consider abdication of responsibility only 
passing two out of 13 appropriation bills last year.
  Today is a good day for America's veterans. As someone who has fought 
hard for veterans over the years, I want to applaud Chairman Obey and 
Democratic leaders for placing such a high priority on veterans in this 
resolution. It is the right thing to do. Our veterans fought for our 
country, and now it is time for us to stand up for them.
  Unfortunately, though, since October 1 of last year, for the last 4 
months, VA health care has been woefully underfunded. Why? Because 
those who are arguing against this resolution today failed to pass for 
the entire year the 2007 VA appropriations bill when they were in 
charge of this House and the other body, continued underfunding that 
put veterans health care seriously at risk.
  VA medical care in this resolution has increased by $3.6 billion. 
That means $300 million each month once this resolution becomes law, 
helping to provide better health care for our men and women who have 
served our country.
  Let me personalize what those numbers mean to our veterans. Without 
the vital funding increase in this resolution, millions of veterans 
could see their health care services reduced. Hundreds of thousands of 
veterans could have to wait in line longer, perhaps months longer, to 
get the medical services they need and they deserve. Tens of thousands 
of veterans might not even receive any medical care at all from the VA 
without this resolution.
  A vote for this resolution is a vote to respect our veterans. It says 
we will not only respect our veterans with our words. We will respect 
them with our deeds. Our veterans deserve no less.

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Vote ``yes'' for our veterans by voting ``yes'' for this resolution.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf).
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Lewis for yielding.
  I rise in opposition to the resolution. And let me just stipulate it 
probably has a lot of very good things in it. But when I was chairman 
of two different subcommittees, we always had complete consultation, 
and if what I am saying is not accurate, those Members should come down 
here and attack me for it, complete consultation before we sent the 
bills out. And what I am concerned about is the precedent that we are 
establishing.
  I have a resolution to put the Congress on record in support of the 
Iraq Study Group. Now, am I going to be foreclosed from offering that 
resolution? Here is a group of men and women, Baker and Hamilton, who 
spent 8 months. It was one of these evil earmarks that you hear all 
about it. Am I going to be foreclosed from offering the Baker-Hamilton 
solution to the problem? The administration doesn't like it. Probably 
Members on both sides of the aisle don't like it. But am I going to be 
foreclosed? Here is a group that spent 8 months looking at this. And 
Jim Baker is a good man and Lee Hamilton is a good man. They were 
bipartisan. Chuck Robb; Bill Perry; Leon Panetta, who served over here; 
and Ed Meese. Based on what we are seeing here now, I will be 
foreclosed. Any resolution that comes from this side of the aisle is 
automatically foreclosed. We have watched it for the whole month of 
January.
  So let me just say I am sure, Mr. Obey, this is probably a lot of 
good stuff. But we on the minority side have to be treated the way we 
should be. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
  Now, the test will be with my resolution, and there are only two of 
us on it, Gilchrest and myself. Will I be foreclosed by the Rules 
Committee in 2 weeks from my resolution that puts the Congress on 
record in support of the Baker-Hamilton Commission? Ten people, five 
Republicans, five Democrats, spent more time looking at this issue of 
Iraq than this Congress has, than the Republican Party has and the 
Democratic Party has. And based on what is taking place so far today, I 
will be foreclosed.
  And I hope I am not foreclosed because when you are in the minority 
and you don't have that opportunity to offer amendments, then, frankly, 
you are being cut out of the process.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution.
  This is a continuing resolution like no other that I have seen 
before. It is an omnibus appropriations bill that will fund nearly one-
half of the federal government for fiscal year 2007.
  When I was Chairman of the Science, State, Justice Subcommittee, we 
had in-depth discussions and consultations with our Ranking and 
minority members. On our committee we worked in a bi-partisan manner. 
The precedent that this CR is setting troubles me.
  I have a resolution supporting the recommendations of the recently 
released Iraq Study Group, also known as the Baker-Hamilton report.
  Based on this CR process with its closed rule and no committee 
debate, does this mean that I am going to be foreclosed from offering 
the resolution?
  The chairman of the Appropriations Committee has been quoted saying 
that most of the negotiations on the CR were conducted by staff. While 
we have terrific staff on both sides of the aisle, this is not the way 
this institution is supposed to operate.
  The resolution before the House includes $31.2 billion for the State, 
Foreign Operations accounts.
  This is an increase of $1 billion dollars over the Fiscal Year 2006 
level.
  I am in no way criticizing the Gentlelady from New York, but I did 
not meet with the chairwoman of the subcommittee to discuss the CR. I 
know she is fair and reaches out across the aisle, and perhaps her 
hands were tied in this unfair process.
  To be candid, there are some positive aspects of the State, Foreign 
Operations chapter. One is the full funding of the president's request 
for Global HIV/AIDS. This funding will provide life saving drugs to 
thousands of people infected with HIV/AIDS and will meet President 
Bush's goal of treating 2 million people, preventing 7 million new 
infections, and caring for 10 million people by 2009.
  In addition, another $50 million is provided for the African Union's 
Mission in Sudan, and another $113 million for United Nations' 
international peacekeeping.
  But, these funding increases had to result in decreases elsewhere. 
The president's 2007 Budget request included $3.2 billion for the 
Economic Support Fund, the continuing resolution cuts $746 million from 
the request, and is $148 million below the 2006 enacted level. A 
reduction of this magnitude will affect the Administration's ability to 
carry out critical foreign policy priorities, including democracy, 
infrastructure, and economic development programs in Iraq.
  The president's 2007 Request included an increase of $709 million for 
stability and reconstruction programs in Iraq, these programs are 
essential to improving the safety of our troops in the country. Yet, 
the majority directed that there be no mention of funding for anything 
related to Iraq in the resolution.
  This process is not the way the House's business should be conducted. 
I urge members to vote against this measure to make a statement about 
the way this entire process has been handled.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New 
York (Mrs. Lowey).
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say to my good friend, my 
colleague, Mr. Wolf, I look forward to working closely with you. And as 
you may know, or I am surprised if you don't know, my staff was working 
with your staff every single step of the way, and your input and the 
input of your staff was invaluable. So we can have further discussions. 
Thank you very much.
  And I want to commend Chairman Obey and all the staff on both sides 
of the aisle, because we worked on the bill together, for their 
tireless work.
  It is a shame, frankly, that the Republican leadership of the 109th 
Congress failed to finish its work on the fiscal year 2007 
appropriations bills, leaving vital programs in the lurch.
  And while this bill is the result of the Republicans' abdication of 
duty in the 109th Congress, it is a fair, balanced, and bipartisan 
attempt to continue essential government programs and services and 
address critical priorities.
  Specifically, this joint resolution provides a total of $4.55 billion 
for global HIV/AIDS and TB, almost $300 million above the President's 
fiscal year 2007 request, including $724 million for the Global Fund. 
We have also increased PEPFAR funding by $75 million over the 
President's request to put hundreds of thousands more people on 
lifesaving medications.
  In addition to keeping the momentum in our HIV/AIDS initiatives, the 
joint resolution also addresses the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. 
Two-and-a-half years after Congress declared the atrocities to be 
genocide, violence continues unabated. This bill provides $50 million 
in additional funds for the only peacekeepers on the ground, the 
African Union forces.
  Additionally, this bill meets our commitment for Israel and Egypt as 
requested for fiscal year 2007.
  And, finally, having just returned from Afghanistan, I do believe 
there is still a glimmer of hope that our assistance can make a 
positive impact there. I am pleased that the joint resolution provides 
over $1 billion for reconstruction programs, counternarcotics and other 
priorities. And I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this 
joint resolution.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the 
ranking member of our Transportation Subcommittee of Appropriations 
(Mr. Knollenberg).
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.J. Res. 20 as it is currently 
written.
  The CR includes authorization language that will change the formula 
for distributing section 8 housing assistance that will cut funding 
from 31 States and 1,227 PHAs, permanently.
  I make no bones about this. Both in my State of Michigan, in Detroit 
and in Pontiac, PHAs in the State of Michigan as a whole would be 
severely impacted by the language in this bill. But I am just one of 
many Members, 31 States, who are impacted by this legislation, by this 
bill.

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  I ask why are we doing this now? There is no need to make the change 
now. There is no urgent situation that needs fixing. Under the current 
system, every PHA would have received an increase that fully covers the 
cost of running their section 8 program. No one gets cut; no one gets 
hurt.
  This language has one impact. It creates instability and uncertainty 
by creating a new set of winners and losers every year.
  And in their very first budget, the new majority would cut $460 
million for 1,227 PHAs from what would have been provided if the 
program had been left alone. A complete list of the PHAs being impacted 
has been made available for all Members to review.
  And this is not a one-time sweep, by the way, of so-called excess 
funds. The losses being imposed on the PHAs with this language are 
permanent losses, not just for this year.
  This is not the system that we worked so hard to develop. Where 
stability and uncertainty has been the order of the day, we are now 
having disruption and uncertainty.
  The principal claim by the supporters of this provision is that there 
are excess funds in PHAs that can be redistributed to other entities so 
that more families can be served. But that is not what the people who 
run the program say. Of the nearly $29 billion in funds that has been 
provided to the PHAs over the last 2 years, only 2.5 percent is 
actually deemed excess. Two-and-a-half percent. That hardly seems like 
a crisis to me.

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  To take away those funds permanently from those areas and the 
families that could be served is not the solution. Getting the funds 
spent on families in those areas by those PHAs is the right solution.
  It is clear from the language in the bill that the majority has no 
real certainty on what this provision is going to do. They have set 
aside $100 million of the funds for unanticipated outcomes. But there 
will be no doubt about the outcome, and $100 million is a drop in the 
bucket.
  Again, according to the Department, the top 10 PHAs, including New 
York City, L.A. County, L.A. City, Sacramento, Dallas, Cook County, 
Miami/Dade, and San Diego County, will be cut $132 million alone; and 
that leaves $328 million, or 70 percent, of the destruction being 
caused in smaller PHAs throughout the country untouched.
  Finally, the majority has argued that the administration is proposing 
the same change in 2008 and 2009. No one has seen the HUD budget. We 
have very conflicting information coming through. Regardless of what is 
wrong, I would urge all Members on both sides of the aisle with those 
PHAs that will be impacted like mine, 31, I strongly suggest they look 
at all of these losses; and I strongly oppose this legislation.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield for the purpose of 
making a unanimous consent request to the gentlewoman from Illinois 
(Mrs. Biggert).
  Mrs. BIGGERT. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I support provisions in this resolution that provide 
funding for roads and transit, Pell Grants, Special Education, NCLB, 
veterans' healthcare and scientific research at places like NIH and 
Argonne National Laboratory.
  However, I do not support a provision in this bill that will slash 
housing assistance for hundreds of families and seniors in my district 
and for thousands more nationwide.
  It is unfortunate that the leadership and appropriators on the other 
side of the aisle decided that it was OK to completely rewrite the 
funding formula for the disbursement of Section 8 housing funds in this 
bill without consulting with the authorizing committee, Financial 
Services. The last time I checked, authorizing on an appropriations 
bill is against the House rules. But of course, the rule for this bill 
denies us any opportunity to raise a point of order, or amend the bill. 
At least during previous Republican-led Congresses, our leadership had 
the courtesy to allow Democrats to offer amendments and points of order 
and followed rules that reflect a truly democratic process.
  Now, I must point out that the other side of the aisle still has a 
chance to do this the right way. As the new Ranking Member of the 
Financial Services Housing Subcommittee, I am perfectly happy to work 
with the majority to craft a comprehensive, bipartisan Section 8 reform 
package that will provide stability and predictability for our public 
housing authorities and those whom they serve.
  My constituents are not well served by this abrupt and drastic change 
in the formula, and I would warn my colleagues from Illinois to look 
closely at the new numbers for their districts.
  The Chicago suburbs are hit hard by this new formula. Each housing 
authority in all three counties of my Congressional district will 
receive a funding cut this year. The housing authority in Cook County 
will lose $8 million, Joliet will lose $1.1 million, Aurora and DuPage 
County will lose over a million dollars.
  These are not just dollars; these are families and seniors who are 
being hurt here. With this bill's proposed cuts to Section 8 housing 
funding, more than 100 families in DuPage County, about 150 in Will 
County, and thousands across the country will be kicked to the curb in 
2007. This is unacceptable.
  I am disappointed by the thoughtlessness of those on the other side 
of the aisle who determined the new formula and numbers in this bill. I 
urge my colleagues to alert their constituents who will become homeless 
this year about this fly-by-night formula change that our dear 
colleagues have brought to the floor today. I invite the Democratic 
leadership to explain to the neediest citizens in the suburbs of 
Chicago and in communities across our Nation why they won't have a roof 
over their heads in 2007. This is no way to start the New Year.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time remains on both sides.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 12 minutes. 
The gentleman from California has 16.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen).
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, this joint resolution includes important increases above 
the fiscal year 2006 level for programs that are truly necessary in our 
Commerce Justice Appropriations Subcommittee. I appreciate the 
inclusion of increased funding for FBI counterterrorism and 
intelligence and for the cost of conducting a timely and accurate focus 
on our next census.
  Also included are important increases for basic scientific research, 
an additional $335 million for the National Science Foundation 
research, which will set the groundwork for new technologies that will 
spark innovation and ensure our competitiveness.
  Mr. Speaker, I am very concerned, however, about funding for drug 
enforcement. Funding is included in this resolution to maintain the 
current rate of operations for every Department of Justice entity 
except the Drug Enforcement Agency. The funding for the DEA will result 
in a loss of over 160 agents and deep cuts to the Mobile Enforcement 
Team program, the DEA's primary tool to fight meth and violent drug 
crime at the State and municipal levels.
  With violent crime on the rise and many communities dealing with 
methamphetamine, that crisis, this is the wrong time to retreat on 
funding for the DEA. For this and many other reasons I rise to oppose 
this resolution.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Massachusetts, the chairman of the Financial Services 
Committee (Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, when I hear some of my 
Republican colleagues leap to the defense of section 8, I can only 
compare that to learning that Ahmadinejad had applied for membership in 
B'nai Brith. We have been trying to defend section 8 against assault 
for some time.
  One form of the assault has been formulaic rules that prevent all of 
the money that is appropriated from being spent. Because there is a lot 
of support for section 8, the administration has been unhappy when we 
have voted here more money than they have asked for. So they have had a 
series of formulaic restrictions that keep us from getting it all 
spent.
  I will note, by the way, that the particular change here that the 
committee has recommended is supported by the National Association of 
Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the Council of Large Public 
Housing Authorities, and the Public Housing Authorities Directors 
Association. That is, all of those

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who administer section 8 through their organizations endorse it.
  Here is the way it has worked. There were formulas put in there that 
kept some agencies from spending money which they received. That is, 
many agencies were given money that could not be spent and had not been 
spent that came out of the hide of agencies that needed to spend more. 
What this bill does is to make sure that every appropriation is spent; 
and as to those agencies that might be losing an allocation, in every 
case they are losing money that they had not been able to spend because 
they did not have the legal authority to do it.
  This bill guarantees, and we will be here to make good on that 
guarantee, that any agencies that can say, well, we are not getting the 
same allocation that we got before, they will have reserves available 
to them on which they can draw. So we can guarantee that no one will be 
unable to serve everyone they are now serving.
  What it does mean is that money which this formula has prevented from 
being spent in some agencies will now be spent. We will not give some 
agencies more than they can spend and some less. We will even it out.
  And I stress again that the reserves will be available, and that is 
why every one of the agencies in this country that spends money on 
section 8, all of the public housing authorities have explicitly 
supported this particular change.
                                   Council of Large Public Housing


                                                  Authorities,

                                 Washington, DC, January 31, 2007.
     Hon. David Obey,
     Chairman, House of Representatives, Committee on 
         Appropriations, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: The Council of Large Public Housing 
     Authorities (CLPHA) represents 60 of the nation's largest 
     housing authorities that own and manage 40 percent of the 
     nation's public housing and administer over 30 percent of the 
     Housing Choice Voucher program. We are writing to support the 
     FY 2007 Joint Resolution in the House of Representatives.
       CLPHA greatly appreciates the inclusion of an additional 
     $300 million for Public Housing Operating Fund in the 
     legislation and the $487 million increase in the Housing 
     Choice Voucher account. The increase in operating funds is a 
     good start in addressing the chronic under-funding of public 
     housing programs. Public housing is still significantly 
     under-funded and we look forward to working with Congress to 
     provide full funding for public housing.
       CLPHA commends the House for unraveling the complicated and 
     inefficient funding system HUD has imposed on housing 
     authorities since 2004. By adopting a formula. that bases 
     funding on the most recent 12 months of leasing and cost data 
     the House action will guarantee funding for all vouchers in 
     use. The increase in funds, combined with the change in how 
     these funds are distributed ensure that housing authorities 
     do not have to reduce the number of families they currently 
     serve.
       However, in order to effectively transition to this new 
     formula, housing authorities need access to currently 
     allocated funds to help them to offset losses and to increase 
     leasing levels in their communities. Congress must protect 
     these funds and prohibit HUD from recapturing them for either 
     punitive reasons or to meet a rescission target.
       Thank you again for supporting public and assisted housing 
     programs. We look forward to working with you on these most 
     important issues.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Sunia Zaterman,
     Executive Director.
                                  ____

                                        Public Housing Authorities


                                        Directors Association,

                                 Washington, DC, January 31, 2007.
     Hon. David Obey,
     Chairman, House of Representatives, Committee on 
         Appropriations, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: PHADA represents the professional 
     administrators of almost 1,900 local housing authorities from 
     all over the United States. I am writing in regard to the FY 
     2007 Joint Resolution the House of Representatives will soon 
     consider.
       PHADA supports and appreciates the inclusion of $300 
     million more in operating funds included in the legislation. 
     The summary accompanying the resolution notes that this 
     increase still leaves HAs with a significant shortfall in FY 
     2007. Still, the measure is a welcome step in the right 
     direction. PHADA wants to work with you and your Senate 
     colleagues on future efforts to bring public housing funding 
     up to more adequate levels.
       PHADA also supports the Housing Choice Voice (HCV) funding 
     and formula in the legislation. The association has long 
     supported a more rational voucher formula based on actual 
     leasing and voucher costs. Your bill establishes the 
     inception of such a policy. Recent experience demonstrates 
     that the Bush Administration's ``snapshot'' voucher formula 
     has not been successful. Inefficiencies in that formula have 
     over-funded some housing agencies and underfunded others. 
     Moving to a formula based on actual voucher lease up and 
     costs distributes funding to agencies as it is actually being 
     used and thus guarantees funding for all vouchers in use. 
     Importantly, the bill also includes $100 million to protect 
     housing agencies and residents that might otherwise be harmed 
     during the transition to the new formula.
       Thank you again for your support of public and assisted 
     housing programs. PHADA looks forward to working with you on 
     the implementation of this legislation and during the FY 2008 
     budget process that begins next week.
           Sincerely,
                                                Timothy G. Kaiser,
     Executive Director.
                                  ____

                                   National Association of Housing


                                  and Redevelopment Officials,

                                  Washington DC, January 31, 2007.
     Hon. David Obey,
     Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Washington, DC.
     Hon. John Olver,
     Chairman, House Appropriations Subcommittee on 
         Transportation, HUD, and Related Agencies, Washington, 
         DC.
     Hon. Jerry Lewis.,
     Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations, 
         Washington, DC.
     Hon. Joseph Knollenberg,
     Ranking Member, House Appropriations Subcommittee on 
         Transportation, HUD, and Related Agencies, Washington, 
         DC.
       Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members: I am writing to express 
     the strong support of the National Association of Housing and 
     Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) for the Section 8 Tenant-
     Based Rental Assistance voucher- renewal formula included in 
     H. J. Res. 20. Formed in 1933, with more than 22,000 agency 
     and individual members, NAHRO is the nation's oldest and 
     largest nonprofit organization composed of local agencies and 
     officials engaged in creating and maintaining affordable 
     housing opportunities. NAHRO members are responsible for 
     administering more than 80 percent of all Section 8 Housing 
     Choice vouchers.
       This revision to the voucher distributional formula is a 
     long-overdue correction of a policy that has simply proven 
     not to work. Prior to the adoption of the current law policy 
     in 2004, the voucher program was highly successful in serving 
     families it was charged to assist. The funding policies in 
     place provided the incentives and stability necessary for 
     agencies to efficiently administer the program.
       Since the current law formula was instituted in 2004, this 
     highly-successful program has lost well over 100,000 
     vouchers, and by some estimates are as many as 150,000 
     vouchers, due to inefficiencies in the formula. In contrast, 
     H. J. Res. 20 will provide all agencies sufficient funding to 
     continue assisting the same number of families served in FY 
     2006, and some may be able to make some progress toward 
     restoring lost vouchers.


        Inefficiency of Current Formula Led to Loss of Vouchers

       Newspapers across the country have chronicled the numbers 
     of families whose assistance was abruptly terminated or 
     denied, dismissed from waiting lists, or for whom rent 
     burdens have increased since 2004. The loss of assistance for 
     these tens of thousands of families has not been due to a 
     shortage of funding provided by Congress. In fact, Congress 
     appropriated sufficient funding each year to support these 
     families.
       These dramatic losses are, in fact, due to the inefficiency 
     of tbe formula in place since 2004. The current formula bases 
     funding to each agency upon an outdated and unrepresentative 
     ``snapshot'' of data from three months in 2004. As a result, 
     it has distributed more money to some agencies than necessary 
     to serve 100 percent of their authorized families, while at 
     the same time, deeply cutting other agencies, forcing them to 
     reduce the number of families served. The depth of the 
     inefficiency has grown with time.


        H J Res. 20 Makes More Efficient Use of Available Funds

       The revised formula contained in H J Res. 20, as written, 
     will ensure that all public housing agencies will receive at 
     least the amount necessary to serve the number of families 
     served in their voucher programs in 2006, plus inflation. 
     These agencies will not lose funding needed to maintain their 
     programs at the levels existing in 2006, and some may be able 
     to make progress in restoring lost vouchers. In addition, 
     agencies have access to a $100 million adjustment pool for 
     any agency tbat has increased need due to unforeseen 
     circumstances or any hardship caused by the transition to the 
     new formula.
       The net result is a more accurate formula than the one in 
     use from 2004 through 2006. This formula will utilize tbe 
     funding provided more efficiently than the previous formula, 
     assisting a larger number of families with the appropriated 
     amounts than would occur under the previous formula.


 Focus Must be on Serving the Greatest Number of Families With Dollars 
                                Provided

       Detractors opposing formula revision have unfortunately 
     relied on data that provides a

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     misleading picture of the impact of the revised formula. This 
     is because the data focus solely on the amounts distributed 
     to each community rather than on the efficiency with which 
     those dollars will be used to serve eligible families. 
     Because the current formula is based on outdated ``snapshot'' 
     information, much of the funding cited as a ``net loss'' 
     under the H J Res. 20 formula is actually in excess of the 
     amounts needed to serve 100 percent of those agencies' 
     authorized families in 2007. These are funds that would be 
     distributed but could not be used by agencies to serve 
     families if the present formula were retained. Therefore, the 
     data do not provide an accurate picture of the families 
     served by those dollars, the most important measure of 
     success for this program.
       The agency-by-agcncy listing in the data does not show the 
     half of all agencies who receive less funding under the 
     current formula than under H J Res. 20. For these agencies, 
     the consequences of loss of dollars under the current formula 
     will have a real and severe impact on the number of families 
     they can serve. The H J Res. 20 formula is based on the 
     amount necessary to continue serving the number of families 
     presently assisted, Failing to enact it would mean that these 
     agencies will not receive the funds necessary to serve 
     families in place last year and perhaps make some progress in 
     restoring lost vouchers,
       We do not dispute that there is much unmet need for housing 
     assistance across the country. However, providing some 
     agencies with funding above 100 percent of their authorized 
     vouchers while others continue to lose assistance for 
     families in place last year is not a sound national policy. 
     Instead, it is an inefficient use of taxpayers' dollars that 
     needlessly leaves thousands of families unassisted.
       In sum, we congratulate you on your willingness to correct 
     in this voucher funding policy. Repairing the damage done to 
     this program over the past three years will take time. The 
     funding policy provided by H J Res. 20 is a good step in that 
     direction. With continued funding support from Congress for 
     both vouchers and the administrative funds necessary to help 
     families find housing, and efficient funding policies, we can 
     set this critical program back on its former path of success 
     and restore the number of vouchers lost in recent years.
       Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions 
     about this information
           Sincerely,
                                             Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,
     Executive Director.
                                  ____

                                              Center on Budget and


                                            Policy Priorities,

                                 Washington, DC, January 30, 2007.
     Hon. David Obey,
     Chair, Committee on Appropriations,
     House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Congressman Obey: I am writing to state our strong 
     support for the provisions relating to ``Section 8'' Housing 
     Choice Vouchers in H.J. Res. 20, the Joint Funding Resolution 
     for Fiscal Year 2007.
       Section 8 vouchers are the leading source of federal 
     housing assistance, and provide access to affordable housing 
     for approximately two million low-income households, 
     including working families with children, the elderly, and 
     people with disabilities.
       H.J. Res. 20 fully funds the President's request for 
     voucher renewals, by providing the $487 million above the FY 
     2006 level that the President has said is needed to maintain 
     the program. In a bill where resources were very constrained, 
     this is a notable achievement.
       Even more important, however, the bill makes a badly needed 
     change in the formula used to allocate funding among the 2400 
     state and local housing agencies that administer the voucher 
     program. For the past three years, voucher funding has been 
     distributed under a highly flawed and inefficient formula. 
     This formula relies on outdated data about housing trends, 
     and has been providing many agencies with more funds than 
     they can use, while others have had to make significant cuts. 
     In all, a staggering 150,000 vouchers have been lost since 
     2004.
       H.J. Res. 20 would ensure that the funding for each voucher 
     in use in 2006 is renewed, by basing agencies' funding on 
     their actual leasing rates and costs in the prior year. This 
     simple but critical reform would stem the tide of voucher 
     cuts, and restore badly needed stability to the program, at 
     no additional cost to the federal government. By contrast, 
     had the formula not been altered, thousands of vouchers in 
     use in 2006 would have been in jeopardy.
       I commend you and Members of the Committee for including 
     this provision in the bill, and would urge others to support 
     your efforts.
           Sincerely,
                                                Robert Greenstein,
     Executive Director.
                                  ____



                                           National Low Income

                                            Housing Coalition,

                                 Washington, DC, January 31, 2007.
       Dear Representative: The National Low Income Housing 
     Coalition urges you to support H.J. Res. 20, the joint 
     funding resolution that will fund the federal government for 
     the remainder of FY07. The bill provides necessary program 
     increases and policy changes to critical low income housing 
     programs.
       In particular, I want to call to your attention the 
     provisions that will make important improvements to the 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development's housing choice 
     voucher program.
       In 2004, HUD and Congress changed the formula for 
     distribution of housing choice voucher funds to the 2600 
     public housing agencies that manage the program. This was 
     done as a cost-cutting measure. Unfortunately, this change 
     resulted in a system that has proved to be inefficient and 
     wasteful, while at the same time reducing the number of 
     vouchers available to many communities.
       Under this new distribution formula, many public housing 
     authorities were forced to reduce the number of families that 
     were served by vouchers. As a result, there has been a loss 
     of 150,000 vouchers since 2004, which could have assisted the 
     large number of families on waiting lists for affordable 
     housing across the country. At the same time, some public 
     housing agencies received funding allocations that were 
     higher than their funding needs and these funds went unused,
       Congress has the opportunity to remedy this problem by 
     adopting the new formula included in H.J. Res. 20. In 2006, 
     this formula was included in legislation (H.R. 5443) approved 
     by the House Financial Service Committee and in the Senate 
     FY07 Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary and Housing and 
     Urban Development appropriations bill.
       The change allocates funding in FY07 based on each housing 
     agency's most recent twelve month period of voucher leasing 
     and cost data, rather than a three-month snapshot in 2004 
     that is current measure. The National Low Income Housing 
     Coalition strongly supports this formula change.
       We also thank the appropriators for including the 
     President's FY07 request for voucher funding in the joint 
     funding resolution. If both the formula change and the 
     funding increase are enacted, no public housing authority 
     will have to make cuts to their voucher programs in 2007.
       Thank you for considering our views.
           Sincerely,
                                        Sheila Crowley, MSW, PhD.,
     President and CEO.
                                  ____

                                           National Leased Housing


                                                  Association,

                                 Washington, DC, January 31, 2007.
     Hon. John W. Olver,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Representative Olver: The members of the National 
     Leased Housing Association have reviewed Joint Resolution 20 
     with regard to funding for the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development and are writing to share our perspectives 
     on the Section 8 programs.
       First, we commend both the House and Senate for their 
     efforts to provide adequate funding for the ``Section 8 
     Housing Choice Voucher'' program and for the renewals of 
     Section 8 project-based contracts. These programs are 
     critical to the provision of affordable housing to 3.5 
     million households. We are also pleased that the Joint 
     Resolution addressed the expiration of HUD's restructuring 
     authority under the Mark to Market program.
       Further, we applaud you for addressing how vouchers are 
     allocated to local communities. We believe that the approach 
     taken in the Joint Resolution, which bases agencies' budgets 
     on their leasing costs from the most recent 12 months, is 
     sound and will lead to the most efficient and stable results 
     for recipients, administrators, owners and other 
     stakeholders. In the last three years, we have learned 
     through experience that basing voucher funding on outdated 
     information from a potentially unrepresentative three-month 
     period, leaves many housing agencies without the resources 
     needed to meet current commitments.
       In addition, the rigid funding formula of the past few 
     years have left current voucher holders vulnerable; minimized 
     the ability of PHAs to utilize the vouchers authorized by 
     Congress; exacerbated concerns that it is not prudent to lend 
     or invest private capital in affordable housing; reduced 
     housing choice for voucher holders; and inhibited new 
     construction and rehabilitation of additional low income 
     units.
       By allocating funding based on the realities of the local 
     marketplace, the Joint Resolution formula will avoid these 
     problems, and ensure that scarce federal resources are 
     directed where they are most needed to support current 
     commitments.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Denise B. Muha,
                                               Executive Director.

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger).
  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, this bill before us eliminates $3.1 billion 
that would support the plan, approved by this Congress, to reposition 
our military forces throughout the world, a plan that is integral to 
our strategy to win the war on terror.
  The cut in funding of over $3 billion has been termed devastating by 
Army officials. It eliminates the support for our military and their 
families, may I remind us, in a time of war.

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  Let me give you a specific example. Fourteen thousand troops and 
their families, including 4,000 children, are scheduled to reposition 
from Germany back to the States. Cutting funding for support for this 
plan leaves our senior military leaders with the Hobson's choice of 
either moving just a few units or moving our servicemembers and their 
families on the bases with inadequate infrastructure and training 
facilities.
  It prevents soldiers from having the type of training facilities they 
need to prepare for war. It will create an uncertainty about whether 
their children are able to attend adequate schools. It puts in jeopardy 
medical treatment facilities that our military members and their 
families deserve access to and can force our troops into temporary 
housing.
  Mr. Speaker, we are at war. Are we willing to cut support for those 
who fight this war? I say no, and I will vote ``no.'' This bill 
shortchanges our troops and their families and inhibits our ability to 
train and prepare our troops and our Nation for future attacks.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds.
  Mr. Speaker, it is not correct that we are cutting BRAC. We are 
increasing BRAC $1 billion above the existing levels in the continuing 
resolution under which we are operating today. We will deal with the 
additional requests for BRAC in the supplemental, and you can bet that 
they will get all of their money. But we are adding $1 billion to BRAC. 
We are not cutting.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hobson).
  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, we would not be in this unfortunate 
situation if our colleagues in the Senate had actually passed their 
bill. The House fulfilled its appropriation responsibilities; the other 
body did not.
  I have no problem with my majority colleague on the subcommittee, the 
distinguished chairman from Indiana. He has involved the minority in 
the process, treated us fairly, and attempted to protect our interests.
  Unfortunately, the ground rules established to this resolution 
disadvantage the House greatly in the negotiations with the Senate. The 
process adopted by the majority has undermined the ability of the 
subcommittee to negotiate a good CR and strip out Senate pork. There 
are a number of significant funding reductions that should have been 
taken in the CR that were not.
  Again, I have no fault with my chairman. He tried. But the Senate 
balked at even citing the need to protect ``important'' Senators.
  Let me offer a few examples. The fiscal year 2004 omnibus 
appropriation included a $50 million earmark in the DOE's science 
account for an indoor rain forest alongside the interstate highway in 
Iowa, which I opposed, and so did my ranking member at the time, now 
the chairman.
  The Department of Energy has been unable to execute this earmark 
because the sponsor has not produced the necessary non-Federal matching 
funds. Nearly $45 million remains unspent and unspendable.
  The House proposed to rescind this earmark, but the Senate refused to 
consider it. If ever there were a piece of low-hanging fruit ripe to be 
stripped out of the resolution, this is it. The 109th Congress had its 
infamous Bridge to Nowhere. The 110th Congress is now building its own 
legacy, starting with a $50 million ``roadside attraction'' in Iowa.
  In the NNSA weapons account, the House identified several sources of 
significant savings. The House proposed a total of $495 million of 
reductions from weapons activities, but the Senate again refused to 
accept this reduction because of perceived impact in New Mexico. The 
final CR contains only $94.5 million of reduction, leaving $400 million 
of savings untapped.
  In the fossil fuel account, 2006 funding in Energy included $49.7 
million for oil and gas research, which is funded at discretionary 
spending in fiscal year 2006, but which is now mandatory by the Energy 
Policy Act of 2005.
  The House proposed again, rightly, to eliminate this discretionary 
funding in the CR, which only duplicates the new mandatory funding. 
Instead, the Senate declared this account to be ``untouchable'' in the 
strong interest of a particular Senator in West Virginia.
  Given the House majority passed H.R. 6 to take away perceived 
windfall profits in the oil and gas industry, it is surprising that it 
would now allow the same industry to ``double dip'' in the CR.
  In summary, I would say again that the process being followed with 
this CR greatly disadvantages the House in our negotiations with the 
other body. Members should not delude themselves that we have stripped 
all of the pork from the CR. We have only succeeded in stripping out 
the House earmarks. Over in the other Chamber, it is, frankly, business 
as usual.
  We have had the opportunity to realize a half billion dollars of 
savings in energy and water portions of the CR and to apply those funds 
to other priority needs such as education, health care and law 
enforcement. I hope you all realize that in voting for this continuing 
resolution today means that you have decided that several hundred 
million of tax dollars will be better spent on welfare for the nuclear 
weapons labs than on these other pressing national needs.
  I encourage Members on both sides of the aisle to vote against this 
resolution and get rid of the pork.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds.
  Mr. Speaker, if ever there was a case of the pot calling the kettle 
black, we have just heard it.
  The gentleman is objecting because we were not able to go back 2 
years to excise from a previous appropriation the rain forest project 
which was put into your bill when you were chairman. We have eliminated 
all earmarks for today and tomorrow. We cannot be expected to correct 
all of your mistakes.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. There remain 9 minutes, 50 seconds for the 
gentleman from California and 9 minutes and 30 seconds for the 
gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston).
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member, Mr. Lewis, for 
the opportunity to speak on this bill.
  I oppose the bill; and the reason why, Mr. Speaker, is I think it is 
very important for our constituents to understand.
  Yes, there was a mandate in November as there had been a growing 
mandate throughout the year to get rid of earmarks. Now when my 
constituents supported the President's call to get rid of $18 billion 
worth of earmarks, what they thought he meant was reducing spending $18 
billion. They do not want earmarks eliminated for the sake of taking 
them out of the hands of elected people and putting them in the hands 
of non-elected bureaucrats, yet that is what this omnibus bill does.
  Now in the ag section, the total spending has gone from 100 to $150 
billion down. That sounds like a good savings, some of it. You can 
argue, where did the savings come from?

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  One thing that was eliminated, $70 million in environmental quality 
incentive program, $44 million for conservation security programs. 
These are programs that help farmers, and they have a cost share. It 
helps farmers plan on environmental repairs, keeping nutrients out of 
flowing into streams, safe environmental practices on dairies like 
building lagoons, things like that.
  The bill also eliminated $74 million in watershed and flood 
prevention, building small dams, and it eliminates $2 million from the 
USDA biomass program. Now at a time when we all want energy 
independence, eliminating the biomass program in the USDA doesn't make 
sense to me.
  Also it eliminates $11 million in food stamp funding for the 
employment and training portion of food stamps. All important things.
  But where does the money go? For one thing, it goes to the FDA 
bureaucrats. The FDA wanted about a $20 million increase. They get, 
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a $100 million increase, without a single committee hearing on it.
  Again, though, it is not just that the FDA is getting money. It is 
that the taxpayers aren't getting money. Earmarks have been eliminated, 
but the money does not go back to the taxpayers. It simply goes to the 
bureaucracy. And that is why I think we should recommit this bill 
because we can do a better job.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Visclosky), the chairman of the Energy and Water 
Subcommittee.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I would, first of all, like to thank 
Chairman Obey. Under his leadership, the Appropriations Committee, and 
this Congress, has moved quickly to bring resolution to the fiscal work 
left undone in the last Congress.
  I would also like to thank my partner, Dave Hobson, who just spoke a 
moment ago, and all of the members of the Energy and Water Subcommittee 
for their dedication and cooperation. And while I am at it, I would 
associate myself with the remarks of Mr. Hobson relative to the 
negotiations with the other body.
  I am disappointed that we are here today finishing a CR from last 
year. I would have liked my first role as the chairman of the Energy 
and Water Subcommittee to be focused on next year's responsibilities, 
instead of cleaning up the fiscal mess that was left to us.
  Mr. Speaker, most importantly, this bill provides $300 million to 
improve the Department of Energy's ability to proceed with vital 
renewable energy and conservation research and development. This will 
allow the Department of Energy to pursue more technologies that would 
hold promise for reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and the 
importation of foreign oil while supporting the growth of our economy.
  Given the energy crisis facing our Nation, and the implications it 
poses for our economy, our environment, and national security, these 
investments in energy research simply could not wait any longer.
  This measure also provides $200 million to bolster physical science 
research. This increase is a first step in a long overdue improvement 
in government support for research into physical sciences.
  Looking ahead, I hope to work with my partner, Mr. Hobson, as well as 
again, all of the members of the subcommittee. And I would indicate to 
my colleagues that I remain very concerned about the size of our 
weapons complex and the lack of progress being made to rationalize it 
in conformity to existing treaty agreements and current international 
circumstances.
  Given this, and several other major initiatives being proposed by the 
Department of Energy, coupled with its fundamental failure to bring 
major projects in on time, let alone under budget, I will ask for the 
subcommittee to carefully and judiciously examine all major initiatives 
being undertaken so that we may fulfill our responsibility as good 
stewards of the people's money.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to Mr. Wamp, 
the Appropriations Committee ranking member of the legislative branch.
  Mr. WAMP. Mr. Speaker, the first 100 hours is over. That was the easy 
part; softballs, for the most part, that you campaigned on and that 
many of us joined you on. But this is where the tough work of governing 
begins, really, and I don't want to join in the blame game because 
there is plenty to go around from last year and the Senate Republicans 
and this year in this bill.
  But as a 10-year member of the Appropriations Committee, I would ask 
the distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Committee to bring 
this legislation to the committee. Don't bring it straight to the 
floor. $463 billion worth of spending, and it is not a CR. It is not a 
clean CR. A lot of bells and whistles here.
  As a matter of fact, the distinguished chairman is known for carrying 
pencils in his coat pocket, and I wonder how many of those pencils he 
burned up putting this together. It was a lot of work. I commend you 
for this work. But it is a huge shift in priorities and it didn't come 
to the committee. So that is what I would ask is you go through the 
regular order and let's not do this again.
  And then let me ask you specifically about the legislative branch 
portion of this bill. Page 137, because our chief administrative 
officer, I understand, will have money in this CR to stand up a 
committee which is controversial, even on your own side, this proposed 
Select Committee for Climate Change. And I would yield the balance of 
my time to you, Mr. Chairman, to ask, is there money in the legislative 
branch portion of this bill to fund what is not an authorized committee 
yet, but the proposed committee, Select Committee for Climate Change?
  I yield to the chairman.
  Mr. OBEY. The answer is that there is money, there is adequate money 
to provide for that committee, if, in fact, it is created. But the 
formal action on creation has not yet taken place.
  Mr. WAMP. And reclaiming my time, the Katrina Select Committee on our 
side was roughly a $400,000 committee. My understanding, the authority 
under this bill for the Select Committee on Climate Change would be 
about three times that amount, $1.2 million. I think we need to go 
through the regular order there as well.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Weiner) for a colloquy.
  Mr. WEINER. As you know, Mr. Chairman, the President and the 
Republican Congress drastically cut funding for the highly successful 
COPS program. In 1999 Congress appropriated $1.2 billion for the COPS 
program, and funding has plummeted since. The President has zeroed out 
this program every year since taking office and Congress gave no 
funding for COPS in either fiscal year 2006, or in the House-passed 
SSJC bill for fiscal year 2007. While the Office of Justice Programs, 
Community Oriented Policing Services account referenced in section 
20901 of the continuing resolution today includes other worthy 
programs, is it your preference that the additional funding be used for 
enhancement grants which can be used to hire additional police?
  Mr. OBEY. My preference is that additional funding would be available 
for enhancement grants which can be used for hiring. But that final 
decision will be up to the administration.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, could I inquire as to how much 
time is remaining on each side?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Scott of Georgia). The gentleman from 
California (Mr. Lewis) has 5 minutes, 50 seconds. The gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) has 6\1/2\ minutes.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlelady from Virginia (Mrs. Drake).
  Mrs. DRAKE. Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing from the other side of the 
aisle that they support our troops. Yet, this CR removes $3 billion 
from our troops and their families. I offered an amendment to fix this 
and they refused.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds.
  I, once again, repeat, this bill does not cut BRAC. It adds $1 
billion to BRAC. The fiscal 2006 level was $1.5 billion. This bill will 
have $2.5 billion, and we will be adding more in the emergency 
supplemental.
  Mrs. DRAKE. Would the gentleman yield for a question?
  Mr. OBEY. With whatever time I have remaining of the 15 seconds.
  Mrs. DRAKE. Well, the article that I am reading, not just information 
that I have, is a continuing resolution released Monday night axes more 
than half of the money the Pentagon needs to meet its base realignment.
  Mr. OBEY. With all due respect, I don't live in the world of 
newspaper articles. We produced this bill. I know what is in it. I 
would hope the gentlewoman would also learn what is in it.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished majority 
leader, Mr. Hoyer.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate Mr. Obey, who was the 
ranking member in the last Congress, and who worked with Mr. Lewis to 
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to pass our appropriation bills and, in fact, we passed all but one of 
the appropriation bills. Unfortunately, we reported the Labor Health 
bill, which is the largest bill, other than the Defense bill, in June, 
and it failed to ever get to the floor of this House because it 
included minimum wage, and that was not favored by the majority.
  Now that we are in the majority, we are left with unfinished 
business. The gentlelady from Virginia mentions cutting something. We 
haven't cut anything. As a matter of fact, we have added $1 billion.
  If you had passed your appropriation bills, you may have been able to 
fund at appropriate levels. But you did not pass your appropriation 
bills. Yet, we hear on the floor today constant complaining from the 
other side of the aisle that they don't like the way we fixed their 
failures.
  Well, very frankly, I think the American public will. First of all, 
the American public will be pleased that we are acting, that we are 
moving on this legislation, which is, essentially, the funding of 9 
appropriation bills that failed to move through the House of 
Representatives and the Senate and to the President as they should 
have.
  Mr. Obey has worked very hard with Senator Byrd. I know Mr. Lewis' 
staff has been very engaged in this as well. I know the Senate staff 
has been engaged in it. And I am hopeful that this bill will not only 
pass this House with a very handy vote.
  There are many people in this House, on the Republican side of the 
aisle who asked to achieve exactly what Mr. Obey has achieved in this 
bill. He has taken care of the veterans. He has taken care of veterans 
health. He has taken care of, for the first time in 4 years, trying to 
get college students Pell Grants that will give them some additional 
help to fund their college costs. When we had that vote on the floor of 
this House, we had 124 Republicans join us in that vote. This is one 
additional step in trying to get college students a more affordable 
education.
  Mr. Obey has moved in a number of areas to make our investments more 
productive and a better return for the American people. And this bill 
will provide for getting last year's business done that was left 
undone, so that we can move on to have what Mr. Wamp wants, and I want, 
and Mr. Obey wants and Mr. Lewis wants. That is, full and open 
discussion of the bills in subcommittee, in the full committee and on 
this floor. I think that is what we will have.
  But ladies and gentlemen of this House, we need to complete last 
year's undone business. It wasn't our fault that it was not done. But 
whoever's fault it was, it is not useful to say that it is your fault 
or my fault or somebody else's fault. It is useful to say we need to 
move forward. We need to fund government services. We need to fund the 
priorities of the American people. That is what this continuing 
resolution does.
  I congratulate Mr. Obey, and I urge all of our colleagues to support 
this bill so we can finally, one-third of the way into the fiscal year, 
finally do what we should have done by September 30 of 2006.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, somewhat responding to the 
majority leader's comment, I can't help but be moved to say that he 
suggested directly that Mr. Obey had spent a good deal of time with the 
gentleman from the Senate, Mr. Byrd, the two Members involved in this 
bill, and beyond that, a good deal of contact with our staff. Beyond 
those two Members, let me say that this has been a very fine product. 
It is a staff, nonelected staffperson's piece of work that involves 
$463.5 billion of appropriations.
  I must say that it is important for me that the body know that I am 
committed to reducing the rate of growth of spending. $463.5 billion is 
a pretty significant rate of growth.

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  But in the meantime, as we go about reducing spending growth, I will 
also work in a bipartisan spirit to move our bill through the committee 
and on time and under budget.
  I will not, however, respond to either intimidation or any threats 
relative to the way we are handling the appropriations process. The 
Appropriations Committee will not become a small colony in the empire 
of this new leadership.
  We renew our commitment to bills produced by regular order that will 
serve as a credit to our committee, to the national interest, as well 
as to the people from our districts we pretend to serve.
  With that, the leader and I will work further together on this 
matter, but I am very concerned about the volume of staff direction 
here where in the final analysis the people know that they are not 
elected representatives of the House.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. I yield the gentleman (Mr. Hoyer) another minute.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman for his comments, but I want to say, 
first of all, when he talks about $463 billion, I read in the newspaper 
today where OMB was very pleased that we stayed within the caps imposed 
by the Republican-passed budget. We took the Republican-passed budget, 
we took those numbers, we stayed within those caps. That is exactly 
what you did, Mr. Lewis, when you were chairman of the committee 
because that was the direction from the Budget Committee. I am 
understanding that the White House even said that they were pleased 
with the fact that we stayed within the numbers when you talk about 
spending.
  Secondly, let me say that you and I both served on the Appropriations 
Committee for a long period of time. In recent years, of course, we 
have not passed all the appropriation bills in the calendar year, much 
less the fiscal year, and we would pass omnibus appropriation bills 
with hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars larger than this 
bill. One was passed January 31, the other was passed February 5. They 
were passed as conference reports with 1 hour of debate and no 
amendments, in which substantial legislative language had been added in 
conference and not vetted on this floor or in committee.
  I understand the gentleman's representations, but he and I have been 
here a long time and we have a long history of knowing what has 
transpired in the past. This is a process that was required by the 
failure of the last Congress to do its work. It has been done in a way 
that tries to get it done so that we can get on to do exactly what the 
gentleman wants for the 2008 bills, give them a full airing, full 
hearings. And I predict to my distinguished and very close friend, Mr. 
Lewis, we are going to have a lot more hearings as we did when we were 
in charge, we had more hearings than we have had.
  We are going to have oversight, and we are going to have careful 
scrutiny of the taxpayers' dollars. And I look forward to joining my 
friend in that process in the regular order. We are doing this so that 
we can get on to that process to do exactly what the gentleman suggests 
because it is the right thing to do. And I look forward to working with 
him on that process.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. OBEY. How much time do I have remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 4 minutes 
and 5 seconds.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I won't take the full 4 minutes. Let me simply 
say that it is necessary for the House to move forward with this 
legislation. It is easy to nitpick. It is interesting to me that the 
minority today has chosen to chastise us for decisions that we made not 
to go back 2 years and repeal some of the mistakes that the minority 
made when they were in the majority. They argue that we should have 
done that; they argue that we should have lived with a simple 
continuing resolution at '06 levels. If we do that, that would mean we 
would not have the added funding for veterans health care, we would not 
have the added funding for BRAC, we would not have the added funding 
for the National Institutes of Health; we would not be able to raise 
the Pell grant by $260 for the maximum grant; we would not have the 
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  I would ask Members to recognize that after a full year of the 
Republican minority not being able to produce and finish their work, it 
is time for us to finish their work so we can move on. The President is 
producing his new budget on February 5, which is next Monday. We need 
to clear the decks so we can deal with that afresh.
  I ask for an ``aye'' vote.
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express great concern 
over the decreased funding for the Drug Enforcement Administration 
(DEA) in the Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 2007. Specifically, 
I am concerned about the drastic cuts to the Mobile Enforcement Teams 
(MET) and the Regional Enforcement Teams (RET). The MET and RET teams 
are on the front line each and every day assisting state and local law 
enforcement agencies to combat the onslaught of drug trafficking. The 
MET program will be reduced by $30 million and the RET Program will be 
reduced by $9 million. The priorities in this bill do not represent the 
priorities of this Nation. How is it that $50 million can be set aside 
for a rainforest in Iowa in a so-called earmark-free continuing 
resolution, yet the DEA faces a massive reduction?
  The district I represent, California's Fourth Congressional District, 
will feel the effects of these cuts. In particular, Nevada County faces 
a tremendous battle with methamphetamines every day. Methamphetamines 
are becoming an epidemic in this country. This reduction in funding 
will not only hurt the efforts of law enforcement, but also everyone 
who lives in a neighborhood being overrun with drugs and drug 
traffickers. This is the wrong time to be cutting the federal 
government's primary tool to combat methamphetamine on a local level.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, today Congress is considering a long-term 
continuing appropriations bill to fund large portions of the Federal 
Government through the end of fiscal year 2007. This legislation is 
necessary because Congress did not complete the appropriations process 
last year.
  There are many reasons to support this bill. For example, the bill 
increases Pell Grant funding to make college more affordable, IDEA 
funding by $200 million to help our neediest students, and Head Start 
funding by $100 million to give our youngest kids the opportunity to 
learn. Funding for housing opportunities is increased by $1.4 billion. 
Without the increase HUD would be forced to deny approximately 220,000 
voucher renewals.
  The bill also boosts funding for local law enforcement by increasing 
funding for both the COPS program and the Byrne Justice Assistance 
Grants which directly impact funding for local law enforcement efforts.
  NASA aeronautics funding, vital to the Cleveland economy, was 
increased by $166 million over the president's budget request. 
Furthermore, the bill contained an extension of the layoff ban, and 
prevents the NASA Administrator from gutting NASA Glenn.
  I also support the $3.6 billion increase in veterans healthcare 
funding that provides service for an anticipated increase of at least 
325,000 patients and to meet rising healthcare costs. In the same vein, 
Defense Health Programs are increased by $1.2 billion to provide care 
for service members and their families--including treating service 
members wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Our Nation is facing a crisis in healthcare. The bill provides 
necessary relief for the Community Health Center to finance over 300 
new or expanded health centers, serving an estimated 1.2 million new 
patients. The bill boosts funding for the Ryan White CARE Grants, the 
National Institutes of Health and the Indian Health Service.
  The bill adds $1.3 billion to expand efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and 
TB. At the same time, $248 million was added to the Agency for 
International Development Malaria Programs to expand its bilateral 
global malaria initiative activities.
  The bill adds considerable funding for the protection of the 
environment by adding $197.1 million for the Clean Water State 
Revolving Fund. The revolving fund is distributed by formula and will 
fund additional water and wastewater infrastructure projects in every 
state, including Ohio.
  The bill adds $100 million to cover operational shortfalls for parks, 
refuges, forests and other public lands; including facilities in 
northeastern Ohio.
  The bill adds $1.5 billion for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy Resources program to accelerate research and development 
activities for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.
  Finally, the bill forces greater transparency in the activities of 
the World Bank, requiring them to report public disclosure of loan 
agreements between World Bank and its borrowers. This sunshine rule 
will help ensure the World Bank loans are not destructive to third 
world nations.
  Unfortunately, this bill includes over $6 billion in nuclear weapons 
funding that I oppose. I have voted against the Energy and Water 
Appropriations bill, which contains funding for nuclear weapons, since 
2002. I cannot bring myself to vote for any legislation that further 
endangers the world. I regret not being able to vote for all the 
positive aspects of this bill, but my conscience and my concerns about 
the threat which nuclear weapons pose to the world matter more.
  Furthermore, I am concerned about the potential loss of jobs in 
Cleveland relating to the BRAC process. I appreciate that the bill 
contains additional funds for the BRAC process. I urge the Committee on 
Appropriations to fully fund the BRAC process as soon as possible to 
ensure the additional DFAS jobs can be transferred to Cleveland as 
previously scheduled.
  Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.J. Res. 20, 
providing further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2007.
  I commend the Appropriations Committee for working in a bipartisan 
manner to construct a resolution that continues to fund the government 
for the remainder of the fiscal year. As Chairman of the Oversight 
Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, I am 
especially pleased to note that H.J. Res. 20 restores funding that is 
absolutely vital to conducting an accurate and cost-efficient 2010 
census.
  The funding in this bill will enable the Census Bureau to move 
forward with plans for the first-ever automated census in 2010. In 
addition to saving time and money, utilizing hand-held computers will 
improve accuracy and ensure the most precise enumeration possible of 
the American people. According to Preston Jay Waite, Associate Director 
for the Decennial Census, field trials have resulted in a 91 percent 
accuracy rate.
  As preparations for the 2010 Census proceed, active oversight will be 
important to ensure that all Americans are counted fairly. In 2000, the 
national census missed at least three million people--mostly the poor 
and minorities. I look forward to working with Ranking Member Michael 
Turner of Ohio and my other Subcommittee colleagues to conduct 
essential oversight needed to see that this never happens again.
  Mr. Speaker, the action we have taken today will guarantee that we 
don't retreat from the goal of using technology to improve the way we 
keep track of changes in our population. I thank my colleagues for 
passing this continuing resolution and will support efforts in the 
Senate to pass this legislation with the same commitment to adequately 
funding the 2010 Census.,
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.J. Res. 
20, which among other things avert the impeding budgetary train wreck 
left by the Republican-controlled 109th Congress. I want to pay 
particular tribute to Mr. Obey, the Chairman of the Appropriations 
Committee for his incredible work in fashioning this legislation that 
will enable us to put behind us the mess left by last Congress and get 
on to the important business of addressing the real and pressing needs 
of the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, last November millions of Americans went to the polls to 
register the strong disgust with the Republican dominated control of 
the legislative and executive branches of our Federal Government. 
Americans were fed up with a Republican Congress and its legacy of a 
culture of corruption, its failure to address the pressing needs of the 
American people, its unwillingness to provide effective oversight of 
the executive branch, its fiscal irresponsibility that resulted in 
record budget deficits and added trillions to the national debt, and 
its ability to complete one of the most basic tasks of the legislative 
branch: to pass the appropriations bills needed to fund the government. 
Is it any wonder that Americans were voting for a new way of doing the 
people's business when they elected the Democratic majorities in the 
House and Senate? I think not. We Democrats promised a new and better 
direction for America. And we have been delivering.
  Mr. Speaker, behold what we accomplished in less than the first 100 
legislative hours of our majority. We passed H.R. 1, which implements 
the recommendations of the 911 Commission; we passed H.R. 2, raising 
the minimum wage by $2.10 an hour over three years and providing a much 
needed raise to nearly 5 million workers; we passed H.R. 3, which will 
provide funding for embryonic stem cell research and provide hope for 
millions of Americans suffering from some of the most debilitating 
illnesses.
  But we did not stop there. We passed H.R. 4, which requires Medicaid 
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prescription drug prices for our seniors and disabled citizens; we 
passed H.R. 5, which will make college more affordable to middle and 
working class Americans by cutting the interest rate on federally 
insured student loans in half; and we passed H.R. 6, which is a 
substantial start in making this country more energy independent.
  And we accomplished all this, Mr. Speaker, after draining the swamp 
and ending the culture of corruption by adopting the strongest, 
toughest ethics and lobbying rules in history.
  Today, we clean up the fiscal mess left by the Republican-led 109th 
Congress. The last Congress abdicated its duty to be a faithful and 
responsible steward of the public fisc. They shirked their 
responsibility to establish the right priorities and make the right 
choices to serve the American people. They failed to pass nine of the 
eleven appropriations bills needed to sustain the operations of 
government for Fiscal Year 2007.
  Mr. Speaker, thanks to your superb leadership, and especially the 
extraordinary legislative craftsmanship of our remarkable Chairman of 
the Appropriations Committee, we rectify these Republican failures 
today. The Continuing Resolution we take up today, H.J. Res. 20, is not 
the ideal manner to fund the government and contains some provisions 
that each of us might not like, unlike the President's decision to 
escalate the war in Iraq, the choices reflected in H.J. Res. 20 
represent the best available alternatives out of a universe of worst 
choices. That is why, Mr. Speaker, I rise to offer my support for the 
Fiscal Year 2007 Continuing Resolution, and my appreciation to the 
leadership, the Chairman and members of the Committee, and for all my 
colleagues who join me in voting for H.J. Res. 20.
  Mr. Speaker, H.J. Res. 20, totals $463.5 billion, the amount 
remaining under the Republican budget resolution for the current fiscal 
year. Most programs are funded at FY 2006 levels with increases to 
cover the cost of pay increases. Of course, it was also necessary to 
make additions to maintain staffing levels, avoid furloughs, and 
generally meet increased costs or workloads for agencies, particularly 
the Department of Justice, the federal judiciary, the Social Security 
Administration, the FAA (including air traffic control), international 
peacekeeping operations, the Indian Health Service, the Food and Drug 
Administration, and the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service.
  But Mr. Speaker, because the new Democratic majority knows how to, 
and does not shirk from, choosing wisely and setting the right 
priorities, in this continuing resolution we were also able to provide 
significant new investments for high priority needs in many areas, 
including veterans healthcare and assistance, law enforcement, public 
health, housing and education, scientific research, energy 
independence, transportation, and the environment. Let me discuss 
briefly some of the more important and beneficial provisions.


                            veterans Affairs

  In the area of veterans healthcare, the resolution provides $32.3 
billion, an increase of $3.6 billion above the FY 2006 funding levels 
to provide service for the anticipated increase of at least 325,000 
veteran patients and to meet rising healthcare costs', especially of 
our returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. As President Lincoln 
reminded us 142 years ago, we have a moral obligation to care for him 
whom has born the battle, and for his widow and orphan. We are going to 
keep that commitment.
  We also provide $21.2 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion to provide 
care for service members and their families, including treating service 
members wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Mr. Speaker, we will never neglect the needs of those who proudly don 
the uniform in the defense of the United States. That is why the 
resolution provides $13.4 billion to fund the Basic Allowance for 
Housing, an increase of $500 million. This increased funding is needed 
to provide a down payment towards the funding shortfall caused by 
higher housing rates.


                   Public Safety and Law Enforcement

  In the vitally important area of public safety, law enforcement, and 
crime prevention, the resolution increases the funding for the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation by $216.6 million to fully fund 31,359 
positions, including 12,213 agents and 2,577 Intelligence Analysts--
doubling the number of Intelligence Analysts since September 11th. This 
amount also includes $100 million to proceed the FBI's plan to move 
from paper-based case management to electronic data sharing. The 
resolution also includes $147.4 million for counter-terrorism and 
intelligence infrastructure.
  Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, 
Terrorism, and Homeland Security, I know that investing in crime 
prevention programs is an effective use of the taxpayers' precious 
dollars. That is why I am pleased that the resolution provides $520 
million for Byrne Justice Assistance Formula Grants, an increase of 
$109 million, and $542 million for Community Oriented Policing Services 
(COPS), an increase of $70 million. Together these increases are the 
first step in reversing the drastic cuts to State and local law 
enforcement programs made since the Bush administration came into 
office in 2001. I will immediately make the request for the U.S. 
Justice Department to fund the new crime-prevention needs of Houston.
  Mr. Speaker, as we all know, education is destiny. The surest and 
most certain path to continued American prosperity lies in an educated 
citizenry. That is why I am especially pleased that for the first time 
in 4 years, the maximum Pell Grant has been increased, by $260 to 
$4,310. This long-overdue increase will help over 5.3 million students 
pay rising college expenses.
  The resolution also provides $10.7 billion for IDEA Part B State 
grants, an increase of $200 million to help school districts serve 6.9 
million children with disabilities and special needs. If we are going 
to be serious about leaving no child behind, then we must make sure to 
adequately fund special education.
  But there is more, Mr. Speaker. The resolution increases Title I K-12 
Grants by $125 million and provides more than 38,000 additional low-
income children performing below grade level with intensive reading and 
math instruction. Thus, we have begun to reverse the decline since 2005 
in Title 1 support for elementary and secondary schools at a time of 
record enrollments (55 million students in 2006) and pressures for more 
accountability from No Child Left Behind requirements.
  The resolution also contains $125 million targeted to the 6,700 
schools that failed to meet No Child Left Behind requirements in the 
2005-2006 school year, enabling them to implement improvement 
activities, such as teacher training, tutoring programs, and curriculum 
upgrades. According to the Department of Education, without this 
funding more than 80 percent of high-poverty districts would be unable 
to afford these improvements.
  The value and efficacy of Head Start is well known and long 
established. That is why it is so scandalous that the Bush 
Administration has cut this program by 11 percent in real dollars since 
2002. The resolution increases funding by $103.7 million to help 
prevent a drop in Head Start enrollments. The money the Department of 
Education will have will still allow for teacher incentive pay for 
Houston.


                         Public Health Programs

  The resolution provides $1.9 billion, an increase of $206.9 million 
to finance more than 300 critically need new or expanded health 
centers, serving an estimated 1.2 million new patients. We also 
increase Ryan White CARE Grants by $75.8 million to bring it to its 
authorized funding level of $1.2 billion.


                          Scientific Research

  One of the most important investments this nation can make to secure 
its long-term future is in the area of scientific research. As a long-
term member of the Science Committee, I am keenly aware that to keep 
ahead of our international competitors we cannot scrimp when it comes 
to expanding the Nation's intellectual capital and knowledge base. That 
is why the resolution wisely funds the National Institutes of Health at 
$28.9 billion, an increase of $619.5 million. This level of funding 
reverses a projected decline in new NIH research project awards and 
supports an additional 500 research project grants, 1,500 first time 
investigators, and expands funding for high risk and high impact 
research.
  The resolution also provides an additional $50 million in new funding 
for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) 
innovation programs for physical science research and lab support for 
nanotechnology and neutron research. Equally important, the resolution 
increases provides funding for the National Science Foundation in the 
amount of $4.7 billion, an increase of $335 million. This increase is a 
down-payment towards enhancing U.S. global competitiveness by investing 
in basic science research.
  Mr. Speaker, in an area close to my heart and important to my 
district, which is often referred to as the Energy Capital of the 
nation, the resolution increases funding to the Department of Energy's 
Office of Science by $200 million to support cutting edge research, 
including new energy technologies such as improved conversion of 
cellulosic biomass to biofuels. I also appreciate that the resolution 
increases funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy resources 
by $300 million which will enable us to accelerate research and 
development activities for renewable energy and energy efficiency 
programs. NASA and in particular the Johnson Space Center can be funded 
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Agency to avoid lost jobs and the stopping of important work. I will 
work for the continued work of NASA.


                     Housing and urban development

  Mr. Speaker, as Hurricane Katrina laid bare for all the world to see, 
affordable housing has for too long been a neglected priority in this 
country. The resolution makes a modest but useful stab at correcting 
this woeful situation. The Section 8 Tenant-Based Program is funded at 
$15.9 billion, an increase of $502 million, which will enable the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to renew 70,000 housing 
vouchers currently in use by individuals and families. The Section 8 
Project-Based Program is budgeted at $5.9 billion, an increase of $939 
million. This much needed increase will help HUD renew 157,000 housing 
vouchers currently in use by individuals and families.
  Although no one likes to live in public housing, we must remember 
that for millions of our fellow citizens they are their home and 
sanctuary. For too long they have been neglected, which has led to an 
accelerated state of disrepair. That is why it is encouraging to see 
that the resolution provides an extra increase $300 million to enable 
Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to address critical operating needs 
after last year's energy hikes saddled them with $287 million in 
unexpected utility costs. Although this increase is still $672 million 
short of the total estimated need of $4.5 billion, it will help to 
restore staff levels, maintenance activities, elderly service 
coordinators, security officers and equipment.
  Also Mr. Speaker, the resolution contains language changing the 
funding formula for the Section 8 Tenant-Based Program. The current 
formula is based on information from 2004 that is out of date and 
results in some Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) getting more money 
then they can spend while others have less than they need. The 
resolution corrects this problem by directing HUD to use the most 
recent 12-month leasing and cost data. Last week HUD announced that a 
similar provision would be included in their 2008 budget request to be 
implemented in 2009. By including the language now, 2007 funds will be 
put to their intended use--funding housing units for low-income 
families and individuals rather than sitting unspent.


                       Transportation Guarantees

  Next to human capital, few things are as important to the nation's 
economic future as is its physical infrastructure, especially its roads 
and bridges. That is why it is very good news that the federal aid 
highway program is fully funded at the level guaranteed in the SAFETEA-
LU Act by providing an obligation limitation of $39.1 billion for FY 
2007, $3.5 billion over the FY 2006 enacted level; and funding for 
Federal mass transit programs is increased by $470 million to $8.97 
billion to meet the transit funding guarantees as required by SAFETEA-
LU.


                             Global Health

  Mr. Speaker, America is a generous and compassionate Nation. That is 
why it is consistent with our values that the resolution increases 
Global HIV/AIDS funding by $1.3 billion to $4.5 billion. This increase 
will help to expand efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, and TB programs 
including in the 15 focus countries and the multilateral efforts 
through the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
  I am proud that the United States is doing more than its share in 
helping to eradicate malaria, which is still too often an unnecessarily 
fatal disease in too many parts of the world. The resolution funds the 
Agency for International Development's Malaria programs in the amount 
of $248 million, an increase of $149 million. This will allow U.S. AID 
to expand its bilateral global malaria initiative activities from the 
current 3 countries to 7. Country programs expand access to long-
lasting insecticide treated bed nets, promote and support effective 
malaria treatment through the use of proven combination therapies; and 
increase prevention efforts targeted to pregnant women.


                Moratorium on Directed Spending Projects

  Mr. Speaker, the continuing resolution explicitly eliminates directed 
spending projects (``earmarks'') for Fiscal Year 2007 and retains the 
moratorium on earmarking in place until a reformed process was put in 
place. Unfortunately, many worthy earmarks are not funded including the 
Boys and Girls Clubs, America's Promise, and the Thousand Points of 
Light Foundation. I know many of my colleagues are disappointed that 
the budgetary mismanagement by the Republican-controlled 109th Congress 
necessitated this draconian measure. In spite of this prohibition I 
will fight to secure funding for the TSU Lab School and other projects.
  But I take some consolation in Chairman Obey's assurance that 
earmarks included in this year's appropriations bills will be eligible 
for consideration in the 2008 process, subject to new standards for 
transparency and accountability and that the Committee and leadership 
will work to restore an accountable, above-board, transparent process 
for funding decisions and put an end to the abuses that have harmed the 
credibility of Congress.
  Although the resolution eliminates earmarks for the current fiscal 
year, I note Mr. Speaker, that the resolution will, however, continue 
to help State and local governments meet the needs of their communities 
by providing funding for grants through authorized discretionary and 
formula programs including Teacher Incentive Grants, Corps of Engineers 
programs, Military Construction, Department of Energy science programs, 
Agricultural Research Service operations, and the USDA Cooperative 
State Research, Education, and Extension Service.
  Mr. Speaker, perhaps the most compelling reason for supporting H. 
Res. 20 is that stated by Chairmen Obey and Byrd in their Joint 
Statement of December 13, with which I close:

       There is no good way out of the fiscal chaos left behind by 
     the outgoing Congress. Indeed, this joint resolution provides 
     the Administration far too much latitude in spending the 
     people's money. But that is a temporary price that we will 
     pay in order to give the President's new budget the attention 
     and oversight it deserves and requires, and so that we can 
     begin work right away at putting the people's priorities 
     front and center. We, in the new Congress, have a 
     responsibility to build the foundation for a better future. 
     We cannot begin that work until we fix the problems left 
     behind by the Republican Congress. So, we must turn the page 
     on the Republican failures and work together in the best 
     interests of the American people.

  Mr. Speaker, I urge all members to support H.J. Res. 20 so we can 
move forward and attend to real and pressing needs of the American 
people.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the continuing resolution.
  Today we are in this colossal mess because last year's Republican 
Congress failed to do its job.
  Instead of passing the necessary spending bills to fund our 
Government, Republicans decided they would rather pass the buck.
  Instead of owning up to their failure today, Republicans are crying 
foul! What hypocrisy, Mr. Speaker!
  Under Republican rule we have seen our country's finances literally 
flushed down the toilet. Our Nation's debt grew by over $3 trillion 
thanks to the Republicans. They passed massive tax cuts for the ultra 
rich. They got rid of common sense pay-as-you-go rules. And they 
started a completely unnecessary war in Iraq, whose true cost of nearly 
$450 billion, they have tried to hide from taxpayers.
  They had their chance to try and make amends last year, but they 
failed to act.
  Today Democrats are picking up the pieces and leading our country in 
a new, fiscally responsible, direction.
  This CR eliminates all earmarks, suspends the Congressional pay raise 
and provides critical increases to a number of important programs this 
year.
  In particular, I want to thank Chairman Obey and my colleagues on the 
appropriations committee for providing over $4.7 billion for our global 
AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs in FY07. This money will 
ensure the continued scale-up of these programs and will provide 
lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy to another 350,000 people this year.
  I am also very pleased that the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development (HUD) will receive an increase of $300 million for its 
public housing operating fund. This money will help the Oakland Housing 
Authority in my district to keep our public housing units open so that 
we can provide stable housing to thousands of low-income individuals 
and families who are in need.
  Additionally the $1.4 billion increase for Section 8 housing programs 
and the change in formula will provide housing assistance for a quarter 
of a million people and help California get its fair share of funding 
to reflect rising rental costs in our state.
  Although not perfect, today's CR sends a very powerful message that 
the Democratic Congress is strongly committed to helping those who are 
most vulnerable in a fiscally responsible manner.
  Although we have still got a long ways to go to re-order our Nation's 
priorities, this CR is the first step. I urge my colleagues to support 
it.
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the process 
used by the majority party to write and debate the bill under 
consideration today.
  Ranking minority members were not consulted on this legislation or 
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party's own members had no input in this process. Appropriations 
Committee Chairman David Obey instead directed his staff members to 
write major budget legislation behind closed doors without involving 
elected Members of Congress. It appears staff members of Senate 
Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Byrd conducted negotiations on 
behalf of the Senate.
  As reported in CongressDaily AM today, ``most of the negotiations 
were conducted by staff.'' This information came from Chairman Obey, 
who also said that Members of Congress only became involved in the 
negotiations ``when matters became difficult.'' Let me repeat that: 
Unelected congressional staff for Chairmen Obey and Byrd conducted 
negotiations on 9 of 11 major spending bills that make up the annual 
budget of the United States Government.
  Why do we have an Appropriations Committee if the committee members 
have no input in the appropriations process? I propose the next 
legislation this Congress should debate is a bill to dissolve the House 
Appropriations Committee. It is clearly unnecessary since major budget 
negotiations can be conducted by staff instead of elected Members. 
Apparently, the Appropriations Committee consists entirely of Chairman 
Obey, who can single-handedly dictate the legislative process and 
assign his staff to take the place of elected Members of Congress.
  Handing responsibilities for major budget negotiations to 
congressional staff for Chairmen Obey and Byrd is an abdication of 
responsibility. It also sets the stage for corruption on many levels. 
These staff-level negotiations were unknown to the public and the 
majority of elected Members. I am deeply concerned that damage and 
corruption to our laws will occur if Members of Congress are not 
thoroughly involved in the creation of legislation and knowledgable 
about the contents of bills brought to a vote.
  In addition, allowing only 1 hour of debate and no opportunity for 
amendments on major $463.5 billion legislation that Members had only 1 
day to review is further evidence of the majority party's lack of 
consideration for our system of government and the responsibilities of 
elected Members. I also wish Congress had completed the budget process 
last year, but this fact does not excuse the closed process used to 
write H.J. Res. 20 this week.
  I sincerely hope the majority party will begin including elected 
Members of Congress in the process of lawmaking, as the Constitution 
intended, and as the American people rightly expect. Our system of 
government of the people, for the people, and by the people depends 
upon our ability to work together to accomplish the business of the 
American people. I urge my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to 
join me in calling for a return to the regular committee process and 
more fair and open debate of legislation with opportunities to offer 
amendments.
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in reluctant support of H.J. Res. 20 
the Continuing Resolution for FY 2007. Mr. Speaker, this is not the 
bill that I or any of my colleagues wish we were voting on today. This 
bill eliminates all earmarks, some for worthy projects like job 
training, community-based healthcare, and boys and girls clubs. I had 
hoped that each of the eleven FY 07 appropriations bills would have 
passed separately into law last year, with proper funding increases to 
ensure that we are investing for the future. Unfortunately, the last 
Congress only passed two.
  The last Congress failed at this, and we are left now left to pass a 
continuing resolution for the rest of FY07 without the detailed fine-
tuning and funding increases the bills normally contain. The Republican 
failures on the budget created the worst budget mess since the 
Government shut down in 1996. It is no wonder that the debt has 
increased by more than $3 trillion since Republicans took control of 
the Government.
  The funding of scientific research is crucial to our competitiveness, 
economic well-being, and quality of life. Flat funding in the context 
of inflation is difficult for everyone, but it is particularly damaging 
to scientific enterprise. Scientific budget items must change 
dramatically each year as large projects with short lives are 
constructed, go into operation, and are replaced. This year would be a 
particularly bad time for flat funding in the sciences. We have new 
international commitments to energy research and new national projects 
that have completed construction and require operating budgets. We also 
have unprecedented and much-needed consensus to increase funding in the 
sciences to keep pace with our international peers. To this end, wrote 
with two others letters to the Appropriations Committee raising 
concerns about the impact of flat funding on the Department of Energy's 
Office of Science and on the National Science Foundation. These letters 
were signed by a sizeable fraction of the House, and I am pleased that 
the Appropriations Committee has addressed this matter, fully for the 
NSF and appreciably for the DOE Office of Science. I look forward to 
increased funding for research at NSF and for fusion energy in the FY 
08 appropriations.
  I would like to point out a few positive points in the bill. This 
bill provides for a $3.6 billion increase over last year's level for VA 
healthcare funding. I'm pleased that this increase will make it 
possible for us to provide services for an additional 325,000 patients 
in the VA medical system, and to meet rising healthcare costs as have 
more returning veterans than any time since the Vietnam era. I'm also 
pleased that the bill includes some $4 billion for our housing program 
for military families. These gains are important, but we have much more 
to do. As we begin looking at funding priorities for fiscal year 2008 
and beyond, I believe it is imperative that the Congress finally meet 
America's obligation to provide for full funding of our veterans' 
health care system. VA hospital and clinic administrators cannot 
provide consistent, quality services and proper continuity of care over 
time unless they know how much money they have to work with. The 
existing discretionary appropriations process for VA healthcare is not 
working, and only a move to mandatory funding can solve this chronic 
problem. I look forward to voting for such a proposal this year.
  The bill raises the maximum Pell grant award from $4,050 to $4,310. 
This increase, the first in 4 years, recognizes the essential role of 
the Pell grant program in improving access to higher education and as a 
critical component in comprehensive efforts to address college 
affordability. For years under Republican leadership, Congress all but 
ignored the growing college cost crisis that was preventing many 
qualified students from going to college. Now, in just the first month 
of this new Democratic Congress, the House has already voted 
overwhelmingly to cut interest rates on need-based Federal student 
loans. And we have another major step towards putting a college 
education within reach of every qualified student by boosting the Pell 
grant scholarship by $260.
  The bill also increases Title I school funding by $125 million, 
bringing total funding from $12.7 to $12.8 billion. The proposed 
increase would reverse the decline in Title I funding since 2005 and 
would allow additional reading and math services for some 38,000 
eligible children. I also support the proposed $125 million for the 
Title I school improvement fund. These funds, if passed would be 
targeted to the 6,700 schools designated as needing improvement under 
No Child Left Behind, thereby allowing them to implement professional 
development initiatives, tutoring programs, and other improvements 
designed to raise student achievement.
  The bill also spends $4.5 billion, an increase of $1.3 billion, to 
expand efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and TB programs, including in the 15 
focus countries and the multilateral efforts through the Global Fund to 
Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria. The bill also spends $248 million, an 
increase of $149 million, to allow the Agency to expand its bilateral 
global malaria initiative activities from the current three countries 
to seven.
  The chairman deserves ones thanks for negotiating a bill better than 
a traditional continuing resolution, which would have jeopardized 
American national security, resulted in thousands of layoffs, and cut 
off healthcare for members of the U.S. Armed Forces and veterans. For 
example, the Food Safety and Inspection Service would have faced a 
month of furloughs, resulting in the closure of 6,000 meat processing 
plants; the federal judiciary would have had to fire 2,500 workers; and 
the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and other research facilities would 
have had to stop projects and layoff scientists. I ask my colleagues to 
pass this bill so that we can begin the FY 08 appropriations and make 
more important investments in our future.
  Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of cleaning up the 
Republicans' mess. The previous Congress failed to pass 9 of 11 
appropriations bills, creating the worst budget mess since the 
Government shut down in 1996.
  Today's resolution is far from perfect. But while adhering to the 
spending limit in the Republican budget, it provides significant 
funding increases to several important programs.
  First, the continuing resolution for fiscal year 2007 provides 
housing assistance to 227,000 people through a $1.4 billion increase 
for section 8 housing programs. Second, it finances construction of 
hundreds of new community health centers and improvements to existing 
facilities. Third, today's bill increases funding for Head Start by 
$104 million to help prevent a drop in enrollments. Fourth, it raises 
the maximum Pell grant by $260, which will help more than 5.3 million 
students afford college.

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  It's time to get to work on the people's business. Cleaning up a mess 
is never fun, but because Republicans failed to take ``personal 
responsibility'' for this year's budget, it is necessary. I urge my 
colleagues to vote ``yes.''
  Mr. ORTIZ. Mr. Speaker, today is a day when being in the majority is 
about paying for the very long list of mistakes from the last 
(Republican) Congress that simply refused to pay the bills.
  Well, this Congress will not proceed down that road. Before we can 
begin the regular funding process, we have to pay the bills the last 
Congress ran up, then did not pay. That's where we are today. And it is 
a position none of us are happy about.
  There is a long list of items that should be in this CR that would 
have benefited the people in my south Texas Congressional district, but 
since the previous Congress could not be bothered to pay the bills, we 
will have to begin again to put these in our appropriations bills this 
year.
  Among the many items that will now go unfunded is an improvement to 
help speed up repair of helicopters coming home from and going back to 
Iraq and Afghanistan at the Corpus Christi Army Depot.
  The items that this CR is not funding are not the wasteful spending 
that characterized the last several Congresses. The items we are 
cutting here are important national priorities for the health, 
education and well being of our children and the less fortunate among 
us, as well as defense priorities for the Nation.
  Just this morning, I chaired my first Readiness Subcommittee 
hearing--a joint hearing with Tactical Air and Land Subcommittee--where 
we heard time and time again about how much more help the depots needed 
to repair the equipment our soldiers in the field need so very much.
  Not including the funding for helicopter repair at CCAD is part of 
the price we--as a nation--are paying for the disregard the previous 
Congress showed for the readiness of our troops, and for the 
disposition of the job Congress is elected to do.
  Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, there are many things that can be 
said against this continuing resolution, as the House has heard during 
today's debate. But after all those things have been said, I am 
convinced the only responsible choice is to vote for it--and I will do 
so.
  In fact, it was the failure of responsibility on the part of last 
year's Republican leadership in Congress that brought us to where we 
find ourselves today. If they had done their job of developing and 
enacting the legislation to fund the essential functions of government, 
it would not be necessary for us to be acting now to make up for their 
failures.
  In fairness, much of the blame rests with the Republican-led Senate. 
While the House last year did pass all but one of the regular 
appropriations bills, only two of those bills ever received a final 
vote in the other body--and only those two were enacted into law.
  But even here in the House, the Republican leadership never even 
brought to the floor the bill to fund the Departments of Labor and 
Health and Human Services--not before the election, evidently because 
they did not want to have to discuss it during their campaigns, but not 
even in the lame-duck session last year.
  Given the situation the resulted from their predecessors' failure, 
Chairman Obey and his colleagues on the Appropriations Committee 
decided that the best way to proceed was to bring forward this long-
term continuing resolution, intended to complete action on 
appropriations for the remainder of this fiscal year, and then to begin 
work on the appropriations bills for the fiscal year that lies ahead.
  I support that decision, and I will support this continuing 
resolution.
  There are parts of it that I think fall short of what should be done 
in a number of areas. But there are other parts that I strongly 
support, including the provision that withholds any increase in the pay 
of Members of Congress--something that I think is overdue.
  More than a year ago--in October of 2005--I urged the House's 
conferees to agree to a Senate amendment to the fiscal year 2006 
appropriations bill that would have withheld a cost of living raise for 
Members of Congress. I regret that my plea was in vain, because I think 
we should be prepared to do our part when our country is at war, our 
homeland security must be improved, and the federal budget remains deep 
in deficit.
  Withholding a congressional pay raise will make only a small change 
in the budget because the amount involved is minor compared with other 
expenditures. However, I think it is an appropriate first step for 
Members of Congress to forego this increase in our pay, and I am glad 
this legislation will have that effect.
  I also am very pleased that the resolution includes $300 million in 
additional funding for the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, EERE, programs. My colleague Representative 
Perlmutter and I worked hard to get this funding included in the 
legislation, and I intend to work closely with our colleagues in 
Congress and with the Department of Energy to ensure that the research 
programs carried out at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, in 
Colorado benefit from a good deal of those funds.
  Despite the importance of NREL's work, flat or decreased funding for 
NREL in recent years--coupled with earmarks and inflationary cost 
increases--has effectively reduced the funding for renewable energy 
research, which has led to a continuing struggle for needed resources 
and great instability at the lab. This in turn has severely affected 
the lab's ability to develop new technologies and continue the United 
States' leadership in renewable energy technologies. The boost for EERE 
funding in this bill could go a long way toward helping NREL regain its 
critical momentum.
  The parts of the legislation dealing with defense and national 
security include increased funding for defense health programs, for 
basic allowance for housing, and for two important Department of Energy 
nonproliferation programs--the International Nuclear Material 
Protection and Cooperation program, which secures weapons-grade nuclear 
materials in the former Soviet States, and the Global Threat Reduction 
Initiative, which secures high-risk nuclear material around the world.
  It also includes $2.5 billion for implementation of a round of 
military base closures authorized in 2005. While the $2.5 billion is an 
increase from the funding provided for fiscal year 2006, it will still 
leaves us $3.1 billion short of meeting our Base Realignment and 
Closure, BRAC, commitments and nearly $1 billion short of the funds 
needed for military construction projects. Since the Army links its 
military construction and troop movement plans to BRAC implementation, 
this shortfall could have broad impacts on the rotation and return of 
troops and the building of new brigades.
  It has been indicated that additional needs for BRAC and military 
housing will be addressed in the supplemental war spending bill we will 
soon consider in Congress. I hope that will be the case, and will work 
to achieve that result as well as to ensure that the Defense Department 
takes into account Colorado priorities as it makes the hard choices 
about which military construction projects to fund.
  I also am pleased that Chairman Obey and his colleagues recognized 
the importance of science programs across different agencies, allowing 
for increases at the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the 
National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, NIST.
  However, I am greatly concerned about the impact this resolution 
could have on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
NOAA.
  In my district, NOAA operates the Earth System Research Laboratory, 
which has the largest concentration of NOAA research staff in the 
Nation--300--as well as the largest concentration of university staff 
funded by NOAA research, for a total of 1,000 Federal and contract 
employees. NOAA's programs in Boulder include the Space Environment 
Center, which provides essential space weather forecasting services; 
the NOAA Profiler Network, which gathers key weather information for a 
range of other agencies, including the Departments of Defense and 
Transportation; and the National Geophysical Data Center, the world's 
largest archive of geophysical data on observations of earth from 
space.
  Funding for NOAA under previous continuing-resolution levels saw 
significant decreases, so I am pleased that overall the agency will see 
a return to the funding levels provided for fiscal year 2006. However, 
it is unclear how this will be distributed, and so there is a 
possibility that many important programs will not be adequately funded. 
I believe that we will have to work to address these issues when we 
consider the appropriation bills for fiscal year 2008.
  NIST also has a significant presence in Colorado. The NIST facilities 
at Boulder have contributed to great scientific advances, but these 
facilities are now over fifty years old and have not been well 
maintained. Many environmental factors such as the humidity and 
vibrations from traffic can affect the quality of research performed in 
the NIST labs. Scientists have difficulty conducting cutting edge 
research in labs that have leaking roofs. NIST has included building 
renovations as a priority in past budgets, yet the final budgets have 
included so many earmarks that the agency's needs have not been met. 
The absence of similar earmarks from this resolution means that NIST 
may finally be able to address some of its most dire needs, including 
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the Boulder facilities. I will work to ensure that much of the nearly 
$60 million in the NIST construction budget will be dedicated to 
renovating these facilities.
  The appropriators had many tough choices to make with regards to 
funding the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. 
Balancing the needs of the different NASA programs is critical and I 
appreciate that the appropriators realized that congressional intent 
needs to be clear and specific to ensure that no one program is 
completely devastated by funding cuts. While I am pleased that the 
decline in aeronautics research funding will be halted, I am also 
concerned about the cuts to the science and exploration programs, as 
well as to the space operations. It is not yet clear how NASA will 
accommodate these cuts. NASA is important to the Nation, and I will 
continue to push for adequate funding from my position as chairman of 
the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Science and 
Technology Committee.
  Education is vital to our country's youth and our economic future and 
I am pleased that the appropriators have provided several important 
programs with funding increases that will help keep our country strong. 
These include increases above the fiscal 2006 funding levels for Pell 
Grants, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, and Head 
Start. Furthermore, the appropriators made a step in the right 
direction by increasing funding in Title I of the No Child Left Behind 
Act, NCLB.
  And I am pleased that by this resolution the Federal-aid highway 
program, in the Federal Highway Administration, is fully funded at the 
level guaranteed in the Safe, Accountable Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, SAFETEA-LU, with an 
obligation limitation of $39.1 billion for fiscal 2007, $3.5 billion 
over the fiscal 2006 enacted level.
  So, in conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I think Chairman Obey and his 
colleagues deserve the thanks of the House for the work they have done 
to clear away the rubble left by the Republican leadership last year 
and to replace it with a firm foundation on which to build in the 
future. Adoption of this resolution will write an end to last year's 
sorry story and take the first step on a better, more responsible 
approach to carrying out our duties as legislators. I urge approval of 
the joint resolution.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the resolution before 
the House.
  Few will take any great satisfaction with the manner in which the 
Congress is at last completing the budget process for 2007. This work 
was supposed to have been completed 4 months ago. It is important for 
everyone to understand how we got to this point and why we are forced 
to take the extraordinary step of approving a continuing resolution to 
fund nearly every domestic program for the balance of this fiscal year.
  We are here today because the Republican majority that controlled the 
House last year failed to do its work. Last May, they voted for a 
budget resolution that was so unrealistic that not even they could find 
a way to live within it. As a direct result after 8 months, the former 
majority was able to complete action on just 2 of the 11 regular 
appropriations bills. Then, in early December, the outgoing leaders of 
the House and Senate decided to punt on the remaining funding bills, 
pass a stopgap spending bill to keep the Government operating through 
February 15, adjourn the Congress, and leave town.
  So now it is up to the new Congress to clean up this budgetary mess 
as best we can, and that's what the bill before the House does. It is 
an imperfect solution. There are any number of programs that deserve a 
lot more funding than we are able to give them here today. We are still 
constrained by the overall funding levels adopted in last year's budget 
resolution, a budget that not a single Democrat voted for. At the same 
time, I am glad that the measure we are considering today manages to 
increase funding in a number of priority areas, especially veterans 
health care, medical care for U.S. troops wounded in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, the Federal highway program, medical research at the 
National Institutes of Health as well as some key education programs. I 
also applaud the decision to put a moratorium on Members' earmarks 
until a reformed process is put in place to provide an accountable and 
transparent process for funding these projects.
  Even so, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have 
gotten up to complain that we should have done better. They want less 
spending in some areas and more spending in others. After sitting on 
their hands for 8 months last year, they now object to the procedure 
we're using to clean up the mess they made. It is unfortunate that the 
people who are complaining the loudest today were unwilling to convince 
their own leadership to make these spending decisions last year by 
passing the individual funding bills on time and getting them to the 
President for his signature.
  The reality is that we are already 4 months into fiscal year 2007. 
There isn't time to spend another month or two debating spending bills 
that should have been completed last September. The agencies and the 
States have waited long enough for Congress to act, and the President 
is submitting his 2008 budget request to us next week. It's time for 
Congress to complete this work.
  Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in reluctant support of House 
Joint Resolution 20 to fund the essential services of the Federal 
Government through September 20 of this year.
  On November 7, the American people voted to fire the former 
Republican majority for gross mismanagement of the Nation's finances 
and woeful neglect of the priorities of the American people. This 
imperfect legislation is necessary to clean up the mess the former 
majority left behind.
  Mr. Speaker, the former Republican majority passed only 2 of the 11 
bills necessary to fund the discretionary accounts of the Federal 
Government. Failing to pass their obligatory legislation by October 1, 
2006, the former majority passed a stopgap measure to keep the 
Government functioning when they adjourned the 109th Congress. Our new 
Democratic majority was left with the unfinished business of the fiscal 
year 2007 appropriations legislation. Today marks the 123rd day since 
the start of fiscal year 2007, and the President's 2008 budget request 
is scheduled to be delivered to this Congress on Monday. Now is the 
time to finish last year's work, so we can move on to the essential 
work at hand to deliver a new direction for the American people.
  Although I am disappointed that funding priorities for our districts 
were left out of this bill, it is important to note several important 
improvements this bill makes over previous year's appropriations. For 
example, H.J. Res. 20 will raise the maximum Pell grant award from 
$4,050 to $4,310, the first increase in 4 years of this critical effort 
to make college more affordable for working families. The bill 
increases special education funding under the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, by $200 million. This Continuing 
Resolution will increase low-income public schools' Title I funding by 
$125 million and thereby reverse the decline in Title I education 
funding. Even with these increases, Federal investment in education 
continues to lag far behind the levels needed to create a first-class 
school system for the 21st century, and I look forward to working to 
address these shortfalls in the fiscal year 2008 appropriations 
legislation.
  I am concerned about the military construction projects left out of 
this legislation, and I want Congress to work on a bipartisan basis to 
address this problem in the fiscal year 2007 supplemental 
appropriations legislation. This bill includes an important increase of 
$3.6 billion for veterans health care to meet the needs of an 
additional 325,000 patients, and it increases funding for health care 
services at the Department of Defense by $1.2 billion, including 
treating soldiers wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. The CR 
also increases funding for the basic allowance for military housing by 
$500 million. Finally, the bill increases funding for intelligence 
analysts at the FBI that are critical to protect the American people 
from the terrorist threat as well as increasing funding for COPS local 
law enforcement.
  Mr. Speaker, as a new member of the House Budget Committee, I have 
learned over the past several weeks that the budget mess created by the 
former majority is far worse than the American people know. It will 
take a lot of hard work to restore order to our Nation's books. H.J. 
Res. 20 is the first necessary if unpleasant step in that vital effort. 
I urge my colleagues to join me in voting for this legislation.
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my 
opposition to the Democrats' omnibus spending bill. The text of this 
legislation that would spend more than $463.5 billion in taxpayer 
dollars was first distributed to the minority less than 48 hours ago 
and will be debated for only one hour. In October the Democrats 
promised the American people increased transparency and accountability, 
but apparently, these promises are hard to keep in January.
  While there are billions of dollars being spent without oversight or 
accountability, the omnibus also includes a provision that will alter 
the formula for distributing Section 8 housing funds. The current 
formula bases funding on an average of funding levels for May, June and 
July of 2004 with adjustments for inflation.
  The altered formula contained in the omnibus bill will base funding 
levels on the previous twelve months funding, accounting for inflation. 
The formula change will cut significant amounts of funding for more 
than half of our nation's public housing authorities.

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  The formula change would result in a decrease in funding for three of 
the four major public housing authorities in my District. The Covington 
Housing Authority would lose $197,321, the Ashland Public Housing 
Authority would lose $75,578, and the Maysville Housing Authority would 
see a loss of $71,274, which is 23.4 percent of its operating budget. 
These housing authorities provide critical services to my constituents 
and an unexpected funding cut like this will only worsen the already 
poorly funded public housing system.
  Changing the formula for Section 8 is a topic that deserves debate, 
but the formula included in the Democrats' omnibus spending bill has 
yet to see the light of day in either the House Financial Services 
Committee or, until now, on the House floor. Changing the formula 
midway through the year without debate or discussion is an unwise move 
and would wreak havoc on our public housing system.
  Contrary to claims made by Democratic leaders, it has been discovered 
that this bill contains numerous hidden earmarks that Democrats 
apparently hoped to ram through the House without debate. It is in the 
interest of the American people that we ask our colleagues across the 
aisle what else is buried in the 135 pages of this bill that will harm 
real people in our districts without ever having been debated in this 
House?
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, this omnibus appropriations bill we 
consider on the floor today is not a typical Continuing Resolution, but 
changes funding levels and re-prioritizes projects from prior years. 
This CR is the longest in recent history. Most of them are 1-2 pages. 
This is 137 pages. Some of these changes are controversial as well as 
complicated, and I feel that the whole House would have benefited from 
a thorough appraisal of these proposals, a vigorous committee process, 
so that all Members would have been fully apprised of the nuances and 
we could pass a wellthought out, carefully crafted omnibus spending 
bill. However, I was pleased that the crafters of this bill saw fit to 
include funding levels for Veterans' Affairs that come close to what 
the House Republicans passed in the last Congress, and funding levels 
close to the Administration's request. However, they should be higher. 
I do lament that the priorities of the current leadership to continue 
funding ineffective and wasteful programs have limited the amount of 
available funds that could improve the quality of life for our brave 
veterans even more.
  For example, this bill does not eliminate 28 earmarks totaling $70 
million, including the famed $50 million Rainforest in Iowa project. 
That $50 million could instead have been allocated to improving 
adaptive housing for disabled veterans. This bill also funds assistance 
to Independent States of the former Soviet Union at a level that is $11 
million above the Administration's request. Had this bill been 
considered in Committees, we may have been able to determine that this 
$11 million excess may be better spent on rehabilitation programs for 
blind veterans. Finally, instead of allocating $316 million for 
``Corporation for National and Community Service, Domestic Volunteer 
Service Programs,'' which includes funds to pay people to volunteer in 
the Americorps program. We could have used some of that money to 
increase the medical care for spinal cord injured veterans, or 
increasing benefits for survivors of service members who have 
sacrificed and given their lives in this Global War on Terror, 
defending the safety and freedom enjoyed by all of us back here in the 
States. This CR also breaks the Nation's obligation to provide soldiers 
and families adequate quality of life--affects the all volunteer force 
and unravels the Army's synchronized stationing and BRAC plan.
  Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.J. Res. 20, 
the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 
2007. I commend Chairman Obey and our House Leadership for bringing 
this Joint Resolution to the floor. While a Resolution such as this is 
not the ideal way to fund Government programs, the failure of the last 
Congress to complete its work left us with no viable alternative. In a 
very limited amount of time, the Appropriations Committee has done 
yeoman's work to bring the FY 2007 appropriations cycle to a close in 
the Resolution that is before us today.
  Many difficult choices had to be made in this Joint Resolution. I am 
pleased that one of those choices was to fund highway, transit, and 
highway safety programs at the levels guaranteed by the Safe, 
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy 
for Users (SAFETEA-LU). Under H.J. Res. 20, highway programs will be 
funded at $38.962 billion, an increase of $3.411 billion over FY 2006 
enacted levels; transit programs will be funded at $8.975 billion, an 
increase of $470 million over FY 2006; motor carrier safety programs 
will be funded at $520.5 million, an increase of $30 million over FY 
2006; and highway safety programs will be funded at $821 million, an 
increase of $14 million over FY 2006.
  These programs are funded by highway user revenues that have been 
deposited into the Highway Trust Fund, where they are held in trust for 
the purpose of meeting our surface transportation infrastructure needs. 
These needs are reaching crisis proportions. Congestion has worsened 
dramatically in recent years. In 2003, traffic congestion cost 
motorists $63.1 billion in terms of wasted time and fuel.
  In addition to meeting our infrastructure investment needs, the 
highway and transit funding levels set by this Joint Resolution will 
create an additional 192,000 family-wage construction jobs.
  I would also like to mention one aviation-related matter. Under the 
previous Continuing Resolution, there was a technical anomaly that had 
the effect of reducing the amount of Airport Improvement Program 
contract authority well below the intended program level. I am pleased 
that H.J. Res. 20 corrects this anomaly, and further, ensures that the 
full amount of contract authority that is authorized for the Airport 
Improvement Program in FY 2007 remains available. This will set the 
stage for a successful reauthorization of Federal aviation programs 
later this year, and I thank the Appropriations Committee for their 
assistance in this matter.
  All too often, long-term investments in our nation's infrastructure 
are short-changed in the face of the more immediate need to fund day-
to-day operations. This Joint Resolution avoids such a short-sighted 
approach. Instead, it takes a longer-term view and recognizes the far-
reaching effects transportation infrastructure investments have on our 
nation's economy, our competitiveness in the world marketplace, and the 
quality of life in our communities. Again, I applaud Chairman Obey and 
House Leadership for recognizing the value of fully funding highway and 
transit programs, and I urge my colleagues to support the Joint 
Resolution.

 COMPARISON OF DISTRIBUTION OF FY 2007 HIGHWAY FUNDING UNDER H.J. RES. 20 (SAFETEA-LU LEVELS) AND A FREEZE AT FY
                                          2006 ENACTED FUNDING LEVELS*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Estimated FY 2007    Estimated FY 2007   Increase in highway
              State                  based on FY 2006   based on H. J. Res.   funds under H. J.      Job gains
                                      enacted level              20                Res. 20
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama..........................          548,699,954          600,869,788           52,169,834           2,478
Alaska...........................          250,266,768          270,731,918           20,465,150             972
Arizona..........................          538,528,974          593,277,405           54,748,431           2,601
Arkansas.........................          347,184,100          381,949,909           34,765,809           1,651
California.......................        2,408,038,182        2,680,526,468          272,488,286          12,943
Colorado.........................          360,141,090          400,663,892           40,522,802           1,925
Connecticut......................          366,382,281          402,325,874           35,943,593           1,707
Delaware.........................          109,353,384          121,131,724           11,778,340             559
District of Columbia.............          111,043,293          123,804,359           12,761,066             606
Florida..........................        1,406,290,504        1,544,927,499          138,636,995           6,585
Georgia..........................          969,691,811        1,067,010,791           97,318,980           4,623
Hawaii...........................          115,267,040          127,596,268           12,329,228             586
Idaho............................          203,333,283          222,829,360           19,496,077             926
Illinois.........................          910,387,767        1,010,811,302          100,423,535           4,770
Indiana..........................          704,288,252          775,353,318           71,065,066           3,376
Iowa.............................          295,143,803          330,589,700           35,445,897           1,684
Kansas...........................          278,297,493          309,772,956           31,475,463           1,495
Kentucky.........................          472,046,550          520,949,132           48,902,582           2,323
Louisiana........................          428,615,786          474,862,364           46,246,578           2,197
Maine............................          122,527,132          136,355,671           13,828,539             657
Maryland.........................          441,365,185          490,032,577           48,667,392           2,312
Massachusetts....................          451,909,116          501,926,732           50,017,616           2,376
Michigan.........................          821,004,265          909,761,902           88,757,637           4,216

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Minnesota........................          437,257,769          485,442,279           48,184,510           2,289
Mississippi......................          329,837,415          367,059,847           37,222,432           1,768
Missouri.........................          645,399,673          711,268,494           65,868,821           3,129
Montana..........................          262,635,121          287,386,573           24,751,452           1,176
Nebraska.........................          201,576,731          223,867,736           22,291,005           1,059
Nevada...........................          189,509,480          210,350,302           20,840,822             990
New Hampshire....................          124,655,305          137,769,576           13,114,271             623
New Jersey.......................          742,676,203          822,265,394           79,589,191           3,780
New Mexico.......................          263,313,362          290,194,749           26,881,387           1,277
New York.........................        1,235,368,254        1,366,155,757          130,787,503           6,212
North Carolina...................          790,657,686          872,183,722           81,526,036           3,872
North Dakota.....................          170,820,553          189,098,718           18,278,165             868
Ohio.............................        1,003,336,242        1,109,710,100          106,373,858           5,053
Oklahoma.........................          417,430,679          459,904,524           42,473,845           2,018
Oregon...........................          312,842,891          347,410,836           34,567,945           1,642
Pennsylvania.....................        1,231,575,368        1,357,719,130          126,143,762           5,992
Rhode Island.....................          138,243,095          154,154,462           15,911,367             756
South Carolina...................          463,551,501          511,384,433           47,832,932           2,272
South Dakota.....................          183,777,294          202,845,805           19,068,511             906
Tennessee........................          608,526,292          672,761,834           64,235,542           3,051
Texas............................        2,336,793,323        2,574,558,747          237,765,424          11,294
Utah.............................          198,304,703          220,645,255           22,340,552           1,061
Vermont..........................          116,195,870          129,379,891           13,184,021             626
Virginia.........................          752,517,077          830,852,486           78,335,409           3,721
Washington.......................          464,963,105          519,595,013           54,631,908           2,595
West Virginia....................          297,110,356          325,592,845           28,482,489           1,353
Wisconsin........................          535,232,750          586,036,437           50,803,687           2,413
Wyoming..........................          187,339,698          207,256,184           19,916,486             946
    State Total..................       27,301,253,809       30,170,912,038        2,869,658,229         136,309
Allocated Programs...............        8,249,534,225        8,794,320,215          544,785,990          25,877
        Grand Total..............       35,550,788,034       38,965,232,253        3,414,444,219         162,186
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Prepared by Transportation Committee Staff based on information provided by the Federal Highway Administration
  (FHWA).
Pursuant to FHWA estimates, the table assumes that $1 billion of federal highway program investment creates or
  sustains 47,500 jobs.


 COMPARISON OF DISTRIBUTION OF FY 2007 TRANSIT FUNDING UNDER H.J. RES. 20 (SAFETEA-LU LEVELS) AND A FREEZE AT FY
                                          2006 ENACTED FUNDING LEVELS*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                    Estimated FY 2007    Estimated FY 2007   Increase in transit
                      State                          based on FY 2006    based on H.J. Res.    funds under H.J.
                                                      enacted level              20                Res. 20
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama..........................................           34,196,079           35,917,557            1,721,478
Alaska...........................................           40,664,169           43,684,864            3,020,695
American Samoa...................................              363,526              378,709               15,183
Arizona..........................................           70,874,803           74,566,555            3,691,752
Arkansas.........................................           20,595,782           21,624,106            1,028,325
California.......................................          860,977,967          909,011,398           48,033,431
Colorado.........................................           68,133,405           71,734,965            3,601,560
Connecticut......................................          111,473,570          116,161,350            4,687,780
Delaware.........................................           12,343,553           12,964,684              621,131
District of Columbia.............................          133,885,672          143,436,741            9,551,069
Florida..........................................          243,852,407          257,204,462           13,352,054
Georgia..........................................          122,588,444          129,936,520            7,348,076
Guam.............................................              826,259              860,325               34,067
Hawaii...........................................           29,830,942           31,400,084            1,569,142
Idaho............................................           12,817,986           13,451,401              633,415
Illinois.........................................          398,577,515          416,783,541           18,206,026
Indiana..........................................           66,046,492           69,315,270            3,268,778
Iowa.............................................           25,968,993           27,268,158            1,299,165
Kansas...........................................           21,426,288           22,494,657            1,068,369
Kentucky.........................................           34,144,499           35,861,830            1,717,331
Louisiana........................................           48,410,251           50,782,933            2,372,682
Maine............................................           10,575,926           11,097,740              521,814
Maryland.........................................          138,222,300          145,473,348            7,251,048
Massachusetts....................................          254,271,639          266,324,153           12,052,514
Michigan.........................................           97,312,254          102,276,279            4,964,026
Minnesota........................................           71,558,372           75,538,579            3,980,208
Mississippi......................................           18,738,808           19,670,220              931,412
Missouri.........................................           61,239,190           64,470,702            3,231,511
Montana..........................................           10,551,605           11,063,093              511,487
N. Mariana Islands...............................              947,400              992,767               45,367
Nebraska.........................................           15,919,675           16,710,183              790,507
Nevada...........................................           32,042,239           33,656,870            1,614,630
New Hampshire....................................           10,102,458           10,578,619              476,161
New Jersey.......................................          400,436,239          419,100,009           18,663,771
New Mexico.......................................           19,119,184           20,069,956              950,771
New York.........................................        1,034,549,971        1,082,343,021           47,793,050
North Carolina...................................           71,964,676           75,614,146            3,649,470
North Dakota.....................................            7,931,785            8,318,217              386,432
Ohio.............................................          139,489,673          146,321,569            6,831,896
Oklahoma.........................................           27,609,464           28,993,943            1,384,479
Oregon...........................................           58,396,279           61,754,430            3,358,151
Pennsylvania.....................................          292,172,210          304,365,432           12,193,221
Puerto Rico......................................           61,813,245           65,063,169            3,249,924
Rhode Island.....................................           20,017,356           21,037,377            1,020,021
South Carolina...................................           30,039,096           31,551,605            1,512,509
South Dakota.....................................            7,979,266            8,366,497              387,232
Tennessee........................................           50,312,876           52,887,946            2,575,071
Texas............................................          275,785,086          200,572,826           14,787,739
Utah.............................................           37,117,405           38,989,277            1,871,872
Vermont..........................................            4,741,909            4,970,440              228,531
Virgin Islands...................................            1,075,588            1,124,292               48,704
Virginia.........................................           96,647,748          102,361,435            5,713,687
Washington.......................................          146,151,127          154,794,791            8,643,665
West Virginia....................................           16,647,112           17,618,937              971,825
Wisconsin........................................           58,738,414           61,751,045            3,012,631
Wyoming..........................................            6,369,396            6,673,663              304,268
                                                  --------------------------------------------------------------
    State Subtotal...............................        5,944,585,574        6,247,336,688          302,751,114
Oversight........................................           42,456,256           44,626,313            2,170,057
    Total........................................        5,987,041,830        6,291,963,001          304,921,171
Tribal Transit Program...........................            7,920,000           10,000,000            2,080,000
National RTAP....................................            1,152,360            1,212,000               59,640
    Grand Total..................................        5,996,114,190        6,303,175,001         307,060,811
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*Amounts shown above include total formula apportionments for non-urbanized formula (sec. 5311), state planning,
  metropolitan planning, elderly & disabled program (sec. 5310), new freedom, job access and reverse commute
  (JARC), rural transportation assistance program (RTAP), fixed guideway modernization, and urbanized area
  formula (sec. 5307) programs.


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  Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this massive 
$463 billion dollar spending bill because it fails four critical tests: 
the accountability test, the common sense test, the compassion test, 
and most of all--the smell test.
  Hatched behind close doors by the chairmen of the House and Senate 
appropriations committees with no input from Members or their 
constituents, H.J. Res. 20 levels a devastating blow against New 
Mexicans and their communities. Our most vulnerable low-income 
residents will pay the heaviest price.
  As Deputy Ranking Member of the Housing and Community Opportunity 
Subcommittee, I wish to point out that the Majority's arbitrary choices 
are ripping nearly one million dollars away from the public housing 
authorities in my district and the people they serve; including 
$272,428 from the Las Cruces Housing Authority; $158,355 from the Dona 
Ana Housing Authority; $30,461 from the Gallup Housing Authority; 
$40,717 from the Truth or Consequences Housing Authority; $15,076 from 
the Bernalillo Housing Authority, $43,596 from the Los Lunas Housing 
Authority; and a combined total of $416,173 from the Region V and 
Region II Housing Authorities.
  A Section 8 voucher manager of one of my District's housing 
authorities described these drastic cuts as comparable to losing an 
entire month's worth of vouchers to the poor and needy families she 
serves. Another New Mexico housing authority representative stated that 
100 families per month could lose access to vouchers in the region that 
housing authority serves.
  The Majority's carelessly slung meat cleaver doesn't stop there. H.J. 
Res. 20 strips critical funding from the restoration of the Our Lady of 
Guadalupe Mission; essential economic development funding for a 
Business Park in Anthony-Berino; and desperately needed emergency 
ambulance services for the citizens of the Village of Columbus.
  Two weeks ago, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and I announced 
our bipartisan determination to fight the dangerous scourge of 
methamphetamine use, production, and distribution in our state. 
Tragically, the Majority's ill-considered cuts will slash funding for 
the Drug Enforcement Administration Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET) by 
$30 million and 134 agents and Regional Enforcement Teams (RET) by $9 
million and 23 agents. Our local and state law enforcement officers 
depend upon the MET and RET initiatives as two of their most effective 
tools in this fight. Many officers in my district have told me that 
even at current levels, MET funding is insufficient.
  Perhaps the Majority's leadership has decided this battle isn't worth 
fighting. A few moments with the individuals and families whose lives 
this evil drug has destroyed might change their minds. But they don't 
seem to have the time to stop and think about how their choices will 
affect the safety of real people.
  H.J. Res. 20 also reduces the funding associated with the Base 
Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) process by nearly $4 billion, 
causing delays in the scheduled repositioning of the 1st Armored 
Division from Germany to Fort Bliss and the Air Force Special 
Operations Command from overseas to Cannon Air Force Base. The 
Majority's decision not only perpetuates inefficient overseas bases; it 
severely impacts the painstaking community development plans devised by 
cities like Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Clovis in New Mexico.
  Last, but certainly not least given the Majority's lip service in 
support of supplemental and alternative energy technologies, H.J. Res. 
20 shreds funding for promising initiatives in this area. Consider, for 
example, a letter I submit for the Record from Karl Gawell of the 
Geothermal Energy Association. Mr. Gawell states that this legislation 
``will be a serious setback for efforts in the House and Senate to 
restore the DOE geothermal research program.''
  I have worked with Mr. Gawell to explore opportunities for expanded 
geothermal energy development in Southern New Mexico and I take his 
concerns very seriously. I hope that my colleagues will, too.
  Mr. Speaker, as one who remains committed to vigorously fighting 
wasteful spending, I understand--and share--the Majority's desire to 
eliminate unnecessary earmarks. A rushed and ham-handed bill designed 
for appearances isn't the right way to do it. My constituents deserve 
the chance to have their voices heard--an opportunity which the normal 
process of public hearings is designed to provide.
  Certainly, H.J. Res. 20 contains positive elements, such as the 
significant increase it provides in funding for veterans. I wish I 
could vote yes for that reason alone--but I cannot support a bill that 
inflicts so much pain on so many New Mexicans in an indiscriminate and 
slipshod manner.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in casting a ``no'' vote.

                                Geothermal Energy Association,

                                 Washington, DC, January 30, 2007.
       Dear Representative: I am writing to express our serious 
     concern about the direction being set by the FY 07 
     Appropriations bill, H.J. Res. 20, that the House will be 
     considered tomorrow. This bill will be a serious setback for 
     efforts in the House and Senate to restore the DOE geothermal 
     research program.
       While the bill includes a generic $300 million increase in 
     funding for renewable energy, it allows the Secretary of 
     Energy to distribute those funds. Meanwhile, we are told that 
     the base for funding will be the Administration's FY 07 
     request, which for geothermal energy was ZERO!
       The House adopted an amendment last year to the Energy and 
     Water Appropriations Bill sponsored by Representative 
     Millender-McDonald appropriating $5 million for geothermal 
     research in FY 07, and the Senate Appropriations Bill as 
     reported by Subcommittee and Committee would have restored 
     the entire $23.5 million geothermal program.
       There is simply no justification for terminating geothermal 
     energy research at the Department of Energy. Recent studies 
     by the National Research Council, the Western Governors 
     Association Clean Energy Task Force, and MIT all support 
     expanding geothermal research funding to develop the 
     technology necessary to utilize this vast, untapped domestic 
     renewable energy resource.
       We urge the House to take action to address this tragic 
     situation as it considers the FY 07 Appropriations bill and 
     ensure continued funding for DOE's geothermal research 
     efforts.
           Sincerely,
                                                      Karl Gawell,
                                               Executive Director.

  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker. I rise today to express my support for the 
final passage of H.J. Res. 20, a joint funding resolution to provide 
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2007. Let me be clear, 
although we have been able to take care of some of the most significant 
shortfalls, this is not a perfect funding resolution. This is also not 
the process that we would have preferred, because, as we all know, the 
funding for fiscal year 2007 should have been completed during the 
109th session of Congress under the Republican majority.
  With respect to the agencies included within the jurisdiction of the 
Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, a bi-partisan 
attempt was made to address the most pressing needs. For example:
  SBA disaster loans will receive $114 million for administrative 
costs.
  SBA Salaries and expenses will receive an additional $17.7 million.
  The District of Columbia will receive additional funds for public 
safety programs and $20 million for public transportation.
  Treasury will receive an additional $26.6 million for high-priority 
anti-terror and financial intelligence analyst activities.
  Judiciary will receive an additional $179.1 million to avoid 
furloughs and support critical functions.
  OPM Retirement Systems Modernization will receive $13 million.
  National Archives will receive $7.7 million in additional funding for 
the Electronic Records Archive and $3 million for repairs relating to 
the flooding of Archives headquarters.
  Many important language provisions were also included in this 
resolution such as a continuation of resources to help rural 
communities, schools, and libraries afford telecommunications and 
information services. Without this language, funding would have to be 
cut or Universal Service fees would have to increase.
  I was disappointed that we were unable to address the serious issue 
of privatized debt collection by the Internal Revenue Service, a 
practice that many Members have raised objections to continuing. I had 
also hoped to be able to address the HAVA funding that some states, 
including New York, may lose because of their inability to secure 
voting machines within the designated time frame. In addition, language 
provisions enacted in previous appropriations bills placing 
restrictions on how the District of Columbia is able to spend its own 
budget are, unfortunately, continued in this resolution.
  However, I do intend to vote in favor of this Continuing Resolution. 
As I stated earlier, it is not perfect, but it is the best that we 
could do with the funds that we had. Beyond the immediate Financial 
Services agency issues, there was an attempt to write a resolution that 
addressed our nation's highest priority needs. Veterans Healthcare will 
receive $32.3 billion, which is an increase of $3.6 billion above the 
2006 funding level. Defense Health Programs will receive $21.2 billion, 
an increase of $1.2

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billion to provide care for our service members and their families. 
Providing health care for our veterans and military personnel is the 
right thing to do. Significant numbers of our veterans are now 
returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and we have an obligation to 
provide funding for their health care needs.
  I was pleased that additional funding was provided for Pell grants. 
This increased funding will help over 5.3 million of our students help 
to pay for ever increasing college costs. This Continuing Resolution 
also provided additional dollars for Head Start, a program that has 
proven its effectiveness. The National Institutes of Health received 
additional funds to support 500 more research project grants.
  Our community health centers were allocated an increase of $206.9 
million to allow for the expansion or creation of over 300 health 
centers. These centers provide important health care services 
throughout the United States, and this funding will be utilized for 
priority health care needs. Ryan White CARE grants were increased to 
bring them to the authorized level. Finally, this resolution addresses 
important section 8 and public housing needs in our communities. All of 
these budget increases are a part of a carefully crafted resolution 
that attempts to address some of our nation's greatest needs.
  I would urge my colleagues to vote in favor of H.J. Res 20 so that it 
can go to the Senate and we can complete our work before our current 
resolution expires on February 15th. We will be receiving the 
President's 2008 budget next week, and as a Congress it is time to move 
forward and work on the 2008 funding needs for our government.
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that it is in the best 
interest of the country to play the blame game on how we reached the 
current appropriations situation. The fact of the matter is that the 
109th Congress did not get its work done on time, and we are here today 
to correct that problem. Before we vote on this bill, I feel compelled 
to make a couple of observations. First and foremost, I want to thank 
Mr. Obey and his staff for the hard work that they have put into this 
bill. Mr. Obey faced an enormous task, and I believe that no matter how 
hard he tried, it would be impossible to address all of the funding 
needs.
  However, I am concerned that despite all the rhetoric that the 
majority would work with the minority in crafting legislation, this 
bill was put together in the back room by the House and Senate 
majority, with little to no input from the minority. In addition, when 
discussing the nature of the CR, the majority stressed that this bill 
would not contain any earmarks. Yet, after negotiations were completed 
between the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, it appears that 
this bill will continue to fund a limited number of earmarks championed 
by the Senate. While these earmarks are technical in nature, and the 
case can be made that they should not be considered earmarks, the fact 
of the matter is that they are earmarks, and I believe that it is wrong 
for us to stand up and claim that this bill does not contain earmarks 
when it does.
  Given that we are operating under a closed rule, and that it us 
unlikely that the Senate will remove their earmarks, I am resigned to 
the fact that it is unlikely that we will have an opportunity to change 
this legislation. Had we operated under regular order, I believe that a 
bipartisan Appropriations committee could have crafted a more balanced 
bill, which I would have been willing to support.
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of my constituents in the 
small rural town of Mendota, California.
  I thank my friends Chairman Obey and Ranking Member Lewis, and 
Chairman Mollohan and Ranking Member Wolf for their hard work and 
specifically for including sufficient funding to complete the 
construction of the Mendota Federal Correction Institution.
  Crowding at Federal medium-security facilities currently is 37 
percent over capacity.
  The Federal Bureau of Prisons expects 7,500 new Federal inmates 
annually.
  Once constructed, Mendota would provide 1,552 beds to help address 
the growing demand.
  The BOP has spent $100 million to complete 40 percent of a prison in 
Mendota.
  With this bill, the Federal Government is stepping up to a commitment 
that was made to California and Mendota by providing enough funds to 
complete the prison.
  Mendota, is a city with an 18.6 percent unemployment rate and 42 
percent living below the poverty line.
  The prison will provide good jobs and a major boost to a very 
depressed local economy.
  Again, thank you to my colleagues, completing Mendota is a sign that 
our new majority is committed to responsible governance.
  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the 
Continuing Resolution and commend my colleagues in moving forward from 
the budgetary crisis left to us the 109th ``Do-Nothing'' Congress. I 
especially commend Chairman Obey for the overall balance and fairness 
reflected in this CR given the difficult choices confronting him and 
the leadership in tackling such a complex fiscal policy challenge. I am 
pleased to see that key areas such as Veterans and Defense Health, 
Homeland Security, Transportation, Education and Social Security will 
be provided modest increases in funding to keep pace with inflation.
  However, I am concerned that not fully funding BRAC will likely delay 
some projects--for example in my district, Fort Benning may not have 
the ability to undertake the new construction projects planned in 
conjunction with the growth resulting from the BRAC process.
  Additionally, I recognize the explosion of congressional earmarks in 
recent years which funded special interest projects and promulgated 
negative perceptions about this legislative body. But the complete 
omission of earmarks on this year's CR is disconcerting. I am 
supportive of the process knowing that my district, which is among the 
poorest in the country, has benefited tremendously from earmarks. 
Specifically in my district, previously House-approved projects that 
stand to lose in the CR include funding for: hospitals; water 
management systems; family counseling and youth mentoring; cancer 
education and early detection; upgrading sewer systems; and the list 
goes on.
  In many cases, the earmark process has provided an important vehicle 
for Members of Congress to direct much needed federal support to very 
worthy projects and organizations which otherwise would be ignored.
  We must not throw the ``baby out with the bathwater.'' Moving 
forward, I pledge to work closely with the leadership on real and 
effective reforms especially in regards to transparency, efficiency, 
accountability, and ethics.
  Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on the FY 2007 
Continuing Resolution.
  I am pleased to see that the Appropriations Committee followed the 
President's recommendations with the American Competitiveness 
Initiative by increasing funds to physical sciences research. The 
funding that we put into basic research at the National Science 
Foundation and the Departments of Energy and Commerce will pave the way 
for innovative breakthroughs. I am hopeful that the Senate will also 
prioritize these important science initiatives so that we can ensure 
that America remains globally competitive well into the future.
  While many science accounts are adequately supported, the NASA 
account is not. H.J. Res. 20 reduces NASA's planned FY 2007 funding by 
$545.3 million. Most of the savings come from the Exploration Systems 
account, the program that funds development of the next space vehicle. 
As this Congress understands, we need to retire the Space Shuttle in 
2010 and introduce its successor shortly thereafter. The more we cut 
this budget item, the longer our nation must wait for continued manned 
access to space. At a time when countries like China and India are 
challenging America in outer space, we need to remain leaders in this 
field. We cannot do that if Congress does not adequately fund our 
ventures into space.
  I am also disappointed that the Space Shuttle and International Space 
Station as well as the Space Science and Aeronautics programs are also 
underfunded.
  It is for these reasons that I introduced an amendment yesterday to 
restore funding to NASA. Unfortunately, the Rules Committee did not 
accept any amendments to this bill, and Congress will not have the 
opportunity to vote on this important program. In the last Congress, we 
voted to support the Vision for Space Exploration and return to the 
Moon. If we are to live up to that promise, then we need to follow 
through with adequate appropriations. We also need to give our current 
programs the best chance to succeed.
  I will work with Chairman Bart Gordon and the appropriators to ensure 
that the Fiscal Year 2008 budget will adequately address our Nation's 
space and aeronautics needs.
  Mr. BAIRD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss an issue of 
importance to my congressional district in Southwest Washington.
  The White Pass Ski Area is located in the majestic Cascade Mountains 
in the Gifford Pinchot and Wenatchee National Forests. The area is 
commonly referred to by skiers as ``the jewel of the Pacific 
Northwest'' for its breathtaking views of Mt. Rainer and exciting 
skiing opportunities. The area, which provides critical tourism revenue 
to the surrounding rural communities, is now looking to expand to 
provide greater opportunities to skiers in the Pacific Northwest.

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  The Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984 added over 23,000 acres 
of land to the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area and removed from wilderness 
designation 800 acres adjacent to the White Pass Ski Area as having 
``significant potential for ski development'' and urging the Secretary 
of Agriculture to ``utilize this potential, in accordance with 
applicable laws, rules and regulations.''
  The Gifford Pinchot National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan 
allocated the 800-acre area that Congress had withdrawn from the 
Wilderness Area back in 1984 to Developed Recreation in recognition of 
the intent of Congress. However, the LRMP concurrently inventoried as 
roadless the same 800-acre area.
  It is well-understood that it was congressional intent to permit 
expansion of the White Pass Ski Area. I would like to submit for the 
record a letter signed by all living Members of the 1984 congressional 
delegation, stating that it was their intent to provide for the 
expansion of White Pass Ski Area. In a February 3, 2004 letter, the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture also confirmed this congressional 
intent, stating: ``We agree that the intent of Congress was clearly to 
allow for ski area development in the Hogback Basin.''
  The Fiscal Year 2007 Interior Appropriations Bill that passed the 
House in May of last year included important information clarifying 
congressional intent to permit expansion of White Pass Ski Area. The 
language stated:
  The Committee notes that the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984 
removed from wilderness designation 800 acres of land adjacent to the 
White Pass Ski Area in Washington State for potential ski development. 
The Committee notes that the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Land and 
Resource Management Plan allocated the 800-acre area as Developed 
Recreation to allow for ski area expansion, while concurrently 
inventorying the same land as roadless to reflect its current physical 
character. The Committee recognizes that it was the intent of Congress 
to permit ski area expansion into this 800-acre area and urges the 
Secretary of Agriculture, once the Environmental Impact Statement for 
the White Pass Ski Area's Master Development Plan is properly 
completed, to move forward expeditiously in approving the expansion 
plans in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
  Unfortunately, the Continuing Resolution that we are going to pass 
today does not include any report language, including the language 
clarifying congressional intent as it relates to White Pass Ski Area.
  I wanted to bring this issue to the attention of my colleagues and 
highlight the fact that the House Appropriations Committee was prepared 
and willing to clarify congressional intent, and that the full House 
approved that clarification by voting for the Fiscal Year 2007 Interior 
Appropriations Bill in May. In keeping with this, I urge the Secretary 
of Agriculture to move forward expeditiously in approving the expansion 
plans in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations--
once the Environmental Impact Statement is properly completed.

                                                     July 7, 2005.
     Mike Johanns,
     Secretary of Agriculture,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Secretary Johanns: As members of the 1984 Washington 
     Congressional delegation, we are writing to express our 
     collective dismay over an injustice that has continued over 
     the past 21 years.
       Over two decades ago, we succeeded in passing through the 
     Congress the Washington Wilderness Act of 1984 (Washington 
     Wilderness Act; P.L. 98-339). This legislation added 23,000 
     acres of wilderness along and near Highway 12, while removing 
     from wilderness designation 800 acres that are adjacent to 
     the White Pass Ski Area. As reported language stated, 
     legislation removed the 800 acres from wilderness so the 
     Secretary of Agriculture could evaluate its ``significant 
     potential for ski area development.''
       Now, twenty one years after passage of this Act, the White 
     Pass Ski Area remains mired down in its third attempt at 
     completing an Environmental Impact Study to add these acres. 
     Something has gone terribly wrong.
       The White Pass Ski Area, which began operations in 1952, is 
     located at the crest of the Cascade Mountains in south-
     central Washington State within the boundaries of the 
     Wenatchee-Okanagan and Gifford Pinchot National Forests. 
     Plans for expansion of the White Pass Ski Area were first 
     initiated in the late 1950's and included the Hogback Basin.
       In 1961, the White Pass Company submitted to the Forest 
     Service a survey and formal request for additional expansion 
     area on the north slope of Hogback Mountain, and requested it 
     not be incorporated within the anticipated wilderness 
     boundary. The Forest Service concurred with the proposed 
     boundary adjustments.
       However, these discussions were not brought forward during 
     Congressional evaluation of the proposed wilderness 
     legislation. The Wilderness Act of 1964 (PL 88-577) 
     subsequently incorporated the Goat Rocs Wild Area, including 
     most of Hogback Basin, into the National Wilderness 
     Preservation System as the Goat Rocks Wilderness. Despite the 
     incorporation of the proposed expansion area into the Goat 
     Rocks Wilderness, discussions concerning White Pass expansion 
     plans and the need for a boundary adjustment continued over 
     the next 20 years.
       In the early 1980's supporters of the ski area approached 
     Congress to lobby for a wilderness boundary adjustment during 
     the days preceding passage of the 1984 Washington Wilderness 
     Act. Environmental interests were concerned with the 
     precedent created by adjusting the Wilderness boundary, but 
     ``agreed with the expansion of downhill skiing opportunities 
     in exchange for significant expansion of Goat Rocks . . .'' 
     (Sid Morrison letter to Supervisor O'Neal April 17, 1989).
       The purpose of the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act were to 
     ``(1) designate certain National Forest System lands in the 
     state of Washington as components of the National Wilderness 
     Preservation System, . . . and (2) insure that certain other 
     National Forest System lands in the State of Washington be 
     available for non-wilderness multiple uses.'' (PL 98-336, Sec 
     2(b)(1 and 2) Through the 1984 legislation, some 23,000 acres 
     of land were added to the Goat Rocks Wilderness while 800 
     acres were released from the wilderness area (refer to Goat 
     Rocks Add. West Side map #WA-W-109, March 1984).
       The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Report 
     (98-461) describing the legislation and its objectives 
     provides further explanation of the wilderness release 
     language in the Act. ``As reported, S. 837 would add 
     approximately 23,143 acres to the existing Goat Rocks 
     Wilderness established by Congress in 1964. In addition, some 
     800 acres would be deleted from the existing wilderness. The 
     800 acres deleted from the existing Goat Rocks Wilderness 
     Area have significant potential for ski development and 
     should be managed by the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize 
     this potential, in accordance with applicable laws, rules and 
     regulations (Senate Rpt. 98-461, page 10).''
       The dilemma is that, because of multiple land use 
     designations for the proposed expansion area, in combination 
     with other procedural issues, efforts to approve expansion 
     plans have been repeatedly thwarted. The conflicting, 
     confusing and uncertain status of the subject lands needs 
     addressing.
       The need for administrative action with respect to the 
     White Pass Ski Area expansion project is evident from the 40-
     year history of expansion attempts. Maintaining this area in 
     a non-developed recreation status is not consistent with the 
     intent of Congress. Over the past 21 years, various actions 
     have continually frustrated the intent of Congress to allow 
     for the potential expansion of White Pass Ski Area.
       In order to prevent the failure of a third attempt to 
     resolve the expansion need, White Pass is committed to 
     complete another NEPA analysis. Based on findings from the 
     analysis, we the undersigned strongly urge the current 
     Washington Congressional delegation and the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to provide a vehicle for the White Pass Company 
     to expand into Hogback Basin without further delay and the 
     threat of costly appeals and judicial reviews.
       We hope that you will agree that the conflicting, confusing 
     and uncertain status of the subject lands deserve your 
     thoughtful clarification, correction and resolution.
           Sincerely,
         Sid Morrison, U.S. Congressman 4th District, Mike Lowry, 
           Governor, U.S. Congressman, 7th District, Slade Gorton, 
           U.S. Senator, Al Swift, U.S. Congressman 2nd District, 
           Don Bonker, U.S. Congressman 3rd District, Norm Dicks, 
           U.S. Congressman 6th District, Dan Evans, U.S. Senator, 
           Governor, Tom Foley, U.S. Congressman 5th District.

  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, at the conclusion of the 109th Congress, 
Republicans adjourned for the year without completing work on 9 of the 
11 budget bills that fund the operations of the federal government. 
Completion of the federal government's annual budget is one of 
Congress' most critical tasks, but even though several months have gone 
by since the beginning of the fiscal year, only 2 of the 11 bills for 
fiscal year 2007--Defense and Homeland Security Appropriations--have 
been signed into law.
  This failure to complete Congress' most basic task--to pay the 
country's bills--has left newly elected leaders of the House and the 
Senate with no choice but to make tough choices with regard to the 
fiscal year 2007 budget.
  Since October 2006, the federal government has been operating on the 
basis of a temporary measure known as a continuing resolution. This 
resolution is set to expire on February 15, 2007, and unless Congress 
approves funding for federal programs covering Agriculture; Commerce, 
Justice, and Science;

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Energy and Water; Foreign Operations; Interior and the Environment; 
Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education; Legislative Branch; 
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Transportation, 
Treasury, and Housing, federal government operations in these areas 
will cease.
  Over the past weeks, House leaders have been writing legislation that 
would ensure the federal government remains operational through fiscal 
year 2007. Today, the House is considering H.J. Res. 20, a joint 
resolution that will keep the federal government open and require most 
federal programs to operate under tight budget constraints. While 
modest increases were allotted to some of America's high priority 
items, such as veterans' and military health care, law enforcement, and 
education, the bill cuts over 60 federal programs and rescinds 
unobligated balances on many other programs to pay for them. Further, 
the bill explicitly eliminates special funding provisions, commonly 
referred to as ``earmarks.''
  H.J. Res. 20 is not a perfect bill, and I am concerned about how it 
might impact some federal programs that are important to Missouri 
residents. Despite my concerns, I have concluded that it is in our 
nation's best interest to quickly approve this appropriations package 
and focus our attention toward the President's fiscal year 2008 budget 
and the President's anticipated supplemental appropriations request for 
military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I commend Congressman Obey 
for drafting such complex legislation that makes the best of a bad 
situation.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the 
funding recommendations for accounts under the jurisdiction of the 
Defense Subcommittee.
  The House approved the conference report on the Defense 
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007 on September 26th, 2006 by a 
vote of 394 to 22, and the President signed the bill into law on 
September 29th. However, several important accounts that were 
previously within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Military 
Quality of Life have been transferred back to the Defense Subcommittee, 
and therefore are addressed in this continuing resolution.
  Two of the most important of these are the Basic Allowance of Housing 
for our active duty members of the military, and the Defense Health 
Program.
  I am pleased this continuing resolution provides the minimum funding 
level necessary for both these activities. This legislation provides an 
increase of $500 million for Basic Allowance for House above the fiscal 
year 2006 enacted level, and an increase of $1.2 billion for the 
Defense Health Program.
  However, we need to recognize that both programs will need additional 
funds during the rest of this fiscal year. Rates for Basic Allowance 
for Housing were increased late last year following the normal survey 
of market housing rates. This has created a shortfall of $1.4 billion.
  In addition, due to inflationary increases in health care costs and 
an Administration proposal for an increase in insurance co-payments 
that was not approved by the Congress, the Defense Health Program faces 
an additional shortfall of at least $700 million.
  We must address these funding shortfalls later this year. Our highest 
priority in the Defense budget should be for the well-being of our 
military personnel, and I know my Subcommittee chairman shares my 
concerns. This continuing resolution is just a first step toward 
meeting that responsibility in fiscal year 2007.
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as we consider this important 
legislation to highlight several matters of critical importance within 
the funding allocations for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, NASA.
  Over past years several of my colleagues and I have worked hard to 
ensure that NASA fulfills its commitment to its science mission, as 
well as its commitment to the excellent men and women who daily carry 
out NASA's cutting-edge missions. In particular, I want to acknowledge 
and pay tribute to my constituents at NASA Ames Research Center, one of 
the world's premier research facilities located in my district in 
California's Silicon Valley.
  As we pass this continuing resolution, which we are forced to do by 
the inaction of the previous majority leadership, it is important that 
NASA recognize and adhere to the clear intent expressed by both the 
House and Senate under H.R. 5672, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007, and the 
accompanying committee reports--House Report 109-520 and Senate Report 
109-280. I would like to highlight some important points from these 
bills.
  Within the House-passed version of H.R. 5672, Congress included the 
following points:
  Recognizing the disproportionate reduction proposed by NASA to its 
research and analysis budget, a recommended $50 million increase was 
included.
  Following NASA's misguided attempt to discontinue funding the 
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA project, the 
House concluded that should NASA's internal review of the program 
result in a recommended continuation of the program, NASA should 
accordingly reallocate funds to SOFIA.
  Building on the priorities expressed by the House, the Senate 
Appropriations Committee subsequently included the following high-
priority points:
  In addressing NASA's management of the SOFIA project, Senate 
Appropriators stated:
  ``The budget request eliminates funding for the SOFIA mission in 
fiscal year 2007. Since the budget was released, NASA has completed a 
review of its decision and has concluded that there are no scientific 
or technical reasons for canceling the mission . . . This calls into 
question the credibility of the science directorate in making budget 
decisions and determining scientific priorities.
  ``The Committee expects NASA to come up with a plan to fund the SOFIA 
mission in 2007 from within available funds through a reprogramming 
request subject to section 505 of this act. In determining the funding 
strategy for this program, the Committee directs NASA to follow the 
recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences Decadal survey in 
Astronomy and Astrophysics when setting mission and budget priorities. 
Missions that are ranked higher in the surveys should be given priority 
over missions that are ranked lower in priority with launch dates.''
  To ensure the protection of NASA's critical workforce, the current 
moratorium on involuntary reductions in force, RIF, was extended from 
its current expiration date of March 2007 until the end of fiscal year 
2008.
  These provisions are unequivocal and must be honored by NASA as such. 
In particular, given Congress's stated and clear questioning of NASA's 
guidance of the SOFIA project to date, NASA should refrain from making 
significant changes to SOFIA without Congress first having the 
opportunity to review their proposals.
  Additionally, it is critical that the existing prohibition on the 
transfer of funds between major accounts is observed consistent with 
the NASA Authorization Act of 2005. The reprogramming of funds across 
accounts has in the past been used to change funding allocations within 
NASA in ways that counter the legislative intent of Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, NASA and its institutional capabilities are a critical 
component of our Nation's high-technology research and development 
infrastructure and must be protected for the sake of our future 
innovative capability. Ensuring these provisions passed by the Congress 
are honored as part of this fiscal year 2007 funding process will 
ensure NASA's continued excellence.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend your work 
on the Continuing Resolution. Republicans set up a colossal budget 
failure and created the worst budget mess since the government shut 
down in 1996. I know you had no choice but to attempt to make lemonade 
out of the lemons that were left for us.
  With this behind us, we will be able to work together to really meet 
America's needs. While I am happy that this legislation included 
increases in the maximum Pell grant, veterans' health care, funding for 
Community Health Centers, and the NIH, there are some areas that remain 
in critical need of additional funding. Much has been neglected over 
the last few years by the Republicans and will require further 
attention this Congress. In fact, I could stand here all night 
discussing the specifics. Don't worry, Mr. Speaker, instead I will 
focus on one area in particular, teacher incentive grants.
  Chicago Public Schools, in collaboration with the National Institute 
for Excellence in Teaching (NIET), were awarded a 5-year grant under 
the Teacher Incentive Fund in FY 2006. Chicago Public Schools were one 
of 16 grantees awarded funding under the new TIF program to develop a 
program for performance-based teacher pay, specifically targeting high-
need schools. This particular grant award totals $27,336,693 over 5 
years.
  The first year of funding for the Chicago award totals $131,273. The 
second year continuation grant is proposed at $4,055,600. This funding 
is scheduled to be awarded in the fall of 2007 and I would like to make 
certain that Chicago's schools receive this funding. I am sure that we 
will be able to work together in the coming months to ensure that this 
is the case.
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 20, 
the Joint Funding Resolution that will complete action on the remainder 
of the fiscal year 2007 appropriations bills. This measure is not 
perfect, but it addresses the most urgent funding needs of federal 
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budget constraints imposed by the previous Congress.
  We are fixing this funding problem today because the former 
Republican leadership in the House and Senate failed to complete nine 
of the 11 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2007 before the 109th 
Congress adjourned in December 2006. The funding resolution we are 
voting on today will finally give federal programs a blueprint for 
their spending until September 30, 2007; however, it is not an ideal 
solution. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have rightly 
talked about challenges faced by certain programs that will see no 
increase over fiscal year 2006 levels. I cannot help but wonder where 
their concerns were when they controlled the fate of those programs 
last year?
  The Democratic leadership faced many hard decisions in funding the 
remainder of the appropriations bills, and my colleagues rose to the 
occasion. This endeavor required a careful analysis of many important 
programs, as well as a great deal of compromise. To start, this measure 
does not contain any earmarks or a cost-of-living pay increase for 
Members of Congress. I wholeheartedly agree that any congressional pay 
increase should not be passed until the minimum wage increase passes 
Congress. We all must move forward together. That is also why I am 
pleased that this measure will increase Section 8 funding, which will 
help renew vouchers for individuals and families that cannot afford 
exorbitant housing prices on their own.
  I am proud that my colleagues were able to increase funds for other 
high priority needs as well, such as veterans and military health care. 
We must make sure that service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan 
have the services they require, as well as anticipate the increasing 
number of returning veterans who have earned their promised benefits. 
This measure will also fund an increase in programs for the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, as well as local law enforcement programs, 
such as the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, which 
are critical to keeping our communities safe. At both the state and 
federal level, our work on intelligence and security must not be 
threatened by a lack of resources.
  The funding resolution will also increase the maximum amount of a 
Pell grant so that more than 5.3 million students can help pay rising 
college expenses. I am especially pleased that this increase, the first 
in 4 years, will strengthen a program first introduced by an esteemed 
Rhode Islander, Senator Claiborne Pell. This measure also helps the 
youngest and most vulnerable group of students in our country by 
increasing Head Start funding to prevent a drop in enrollments.
  Finally, this resolution also highlights areas where we need to move 
our country forward like health care and energy security. We are 
providing increased funding for community health centers, as well as 
scientific research; both the National Institutes of Health and the 
National Science Foundation will be funded over last year's level. The 
Department of Energy will also receive additional resources for 
research and development activities for renewable energy and energy 
efficiency programs.
  After completion of H.J. Res 20, I look forward to working toward 
timely passage of a Fiscal Year 2008 budget that provides the necessary 
funding for some of our nation's most critical programs. The Democratic 
leadership has reinstated the pay-as-you-go budget rule, so that new 
spending has to be offset by a decrease in spending elsewhere in the 
budget. This promise was made last year, when we told the voters that 
we would bring this Congress in a new direction and demand fiscal 
responsibility. The measure we pass today, as well as the work we will 
do in the coming months, will show Americans that this Congress can be 
responsive to the public, enhance support for federal programs vital to 
our working families, and be careful stewards of taxpayer dollars.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this continuing 
resolution and want to thank the Chairman, Mr. Obey, for his leadership 
and that of his staff. Indeed, in the last few weeks alone, I think we 
have seen more leadership and more courage than we saw at any time in 
the last 6 years. You made hard choices--unpopular choices. But you 
took the first steps toward restoring fiscal discipline and order to a 
process that for too long had been broken.
  And so, Mr. Obey, I want to thank you--for reminding us that our 
first obligation is not to the special interests, but to the American 
people. To the business of governing responsibly. I am honored to call 
you my Chairman.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is only being considered for one reason and 
one reason alone--and that is because when the Republican majority left 
town last year they did so without passing a single domestic 
appropriations bill. No funding for health care. No funding for our 
veterans or our seniors. That is what the taxpayers' hard-earned 
dollars got them last year--nothing.
  And so, I would say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle--
you had your chance to make this an open, transparent, functioning 
process. You had your opportunity to crack down on earmarks and special 
interests. You had that opportunity last year--for the last 6 years. 
And you squandered it and left a mess.
  This bill is but the first few steps Democrats are taking toward 
cleaning up the mess left by the previous majority. It is by no means a 
perfect process. We are under no illusions. But by suspending this 
institution's broken earmark process, we have an opportunity to look 
toward next year with some optimism. Indeed, we used this opportunity 
to strengthen our capacity to respond to the needs of the public and 
restore funding to a few key priorities that had for too long been 
neglected by the previous majority.
  This is true in area after area--first and foremost, with respect to 
our troops. Under this bill, men and women wounded in action in Iraq 
and Afghanistan will receive the health care they need, as will 325,000 
additional veterans. We have restored some funding for Head Start and 
early childhood education, for special education and for Pell Grants 
which will help 5.3 million students pay for college. And by providing 
an additional $125 million for the President's underfunded, undermanned 
No Child Left Behind program, we can begin to help 6,700 underachieving 
schools turn around. So, too, are we restoring funding to the National 
Institutes of Health, which the previous majority cut for the first 
time in 36 years. This bill supports an additional 500 research project 
grants, 1,500 first-time investigators, and expands funding for high 
risk and high impact research--the future of medicine.
  As the chair of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, I am 
pleased we were able to hold the line on rural development programs 
which provide assistance for rural utilities systems, business 
development, community facilities and housing--programs that otherwise 
would have seen draconian cuts under the President's FY07 request. We 
provide $65 million to help us counter the avian flu threat. And having 
been alarmed by breakdowns in our food safety and drug safety processes 
these last few years--from Vioxx to spinach--I am pleased we were able 
to provide some increases in this bill to help us begin to restore 
public confidence in these areas--at the USDA and FDA.
  Indeed, Mr. Speaker, with this bill, we are sending the same message 
to the American people about their Congress. And so, I want to again 
commend my friend and chairman, Mr. Obey, for doing remarkable work 
under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. It is time to put 
the public interest before the special interests. And with this bill, 
we take the first steps necessary to doing that. It is about time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 116, the joint resolution is considered 
read and the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the joint 
resolution.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, and was read the third time.


         Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Lewis of California

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit 
with instructions at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the joint 
resolution?
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Yes, I am opposed to the bill in its present 
form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Lewis of California moves to recommit the joint 
     resolution, H. J. Res. 20, to the Committee on Appropriations 
     with instructions to report the same back to the House 
     forthwith with the following amendments:
       On page 26, line 2, strike ``$3,902,556,000'' and insert 
     $3,977,556,000''.
       On page 26, line 6, strike ``$3,726,778,000'' and insert 
     ``$3,926,778,000''.
       On page 33, line 5, strike $6,275,103,000'' and insert 
     ``$5,875,103,000''.
       On page 33, line 5, strike ``and'' and on line 6, before 
     the period, insert the following:
       ``; and `Fossil Energy Research and Development', 
     $542,314,000''.
       On page 39, after line 24, insert the following new 
     sections:
       ``Sec. 20327. Notwithstanding section 101, the level for 
     `Independent Agencies, Denali Commission' shall be 
     $2,500,000.

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       ``Sec. 20328. Of the funds appropriated under section 130 
     of division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 
     (Public Law 108-199) under the heading `Department of Energy, 
     Energy Programs, Science', as amended by section 315 of the 
     Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public 
     Law 109-103) for the Iowa Environmental and Education project 
     in Coralville, Iowa, $44,569,000 is hereby deobligated and 
     rescinded.
       On page 54, line 18, strike ``$2,670,730,000'' and insert 
     ``$2,663,855,000''.
        On page 62, line 3, strike ``$6,883,586,000'' and insert 
     ``$6,844,303,000''.
       On page 64, after line 13, insert the following:
       ``(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
     the twelfth proviso under the heading `Health Resources and 
     Services Administration, Health Resources and Services' in 
     the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations 
     Act, 2006 shall not apply to funds appropriated by this 
     division.
       On page 79, after line 2, insert the following:
       ``Sec. 20646. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     division, section 105 of the Departments of Labor, Health and 
     Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-149) shall not apply 
     to funds appropriated by this division.
       On page 84, line 17, strike ``$2,013,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$2,053,017,000''.
       On page 85, line 23. strike ``$579,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$594,991,000''.
       On page 85, line 24, strike ``$671,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$676,829,000''.
       On page 86, line 2, strike ``$505,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$509,126,000''.
       On page 86, line 3, strike ``$1,168,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,183,138,000''.
       On page 86, line 4 strike ``$750,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$755,071,000''.
       On page 90, line 13, strike ``$1,737,412,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,787,412,000''.

  Mr. LEWIS of California (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask 
unanimous consent that the motion be considered as read and printed in 
the Record.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
California is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, the legislation before us is 
intended to eliminate earmarks to fund a variety of important Federal 
programs. In spite of those best intentions, however, a close reading 
of the bill revealed that earmarks were, in fact, left in.
  Additionally, a number of critical programs affecting new law 
enforcement, military construction and military families have been 
shortchanged. In an effort to live up to the spirit of what this bill 
intended, my motion to recommit would eliminate nearly $600 million in 
earmarks, other unnecessary spending, and also use those funds to fully 
fund the Drug Enforcement Administration's effort to combat 
methamphetamines and other illicit drugs, restore critically needed 
funds to military construction and military family housing accounts, 
and reduce the Federal deficit.
  Specifically, this motion would accomplish the following:
  First, rescind the remaining $44.6 million from the Senate's rain 
forest in Iowa earmark, eliminate $94 million unnecessary and 
unrequested funding for the Denali Commission, funding that is nothing 
more than a thinly-disguised Senate earmark for Alaska. Eliminate $400 
million of ongoing earmarks from the NNSA weapons activity accounts. 
Eliminate $49.7 million of spending in DOE's fossil energy account, 
spending that duplicates mandatory funding by the Energy Policy Act of 
2005.
  My motion would distribute these savings in the following manner:
  First, $50 million for the DEA's efforts to combat meth and other 
illicit drugs; $275 million for basic allowance for housing; $86 
million for critically needed military construction and family housing; 
$178 million for deficit reduction.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues, both Republicans and 
Democrats, to live up to the spirit of this legislation by voting to 
eliminate earmarks and put those funds to better use by combating meth, 
supporting our military families and reducing the deficit.
  I urge a strong bipartisan vote on this motion to recommit.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield whatever time may remain to Mr. Pearce of New 
Mexico.
  Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the Republican motion to 
recommit.
  Last year, I held nearly 40 town hall meetings across New Mexico 
talking to our local communities about combating methamphetamine use in 
our towns. Twenty of these meetings were in schools with our school 
kids, and we found that five times the national average of kids in New 
Mexico are addicted to methamphetamines, up to 15 percent of our 
elementary and high school students are already addicted.
  Two weeks ago, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and I announced 
our bipartisan determination to fight the dangerous scourge of 
methamphetamine use, production and distribution in our State. 
Tragically, the majority's ill-considered cuts will slash funding for 
the Drug Enforcement Administration Mobile Enforcement Teams, the MET 
teams, by $30 million and 134 agents, and Region Enforcement Teams, the 
RETs, by $9 million and 23 agents.
  Our local and State law enforcement officers depend on the MET and 
RET initiative as two of the most effective tools in this fight. Many 
officers in my district have told me that even at current level of 
funding, MET is insufficient.
  Perhaps the majority leadership has decided battles against illegal 
drugs are not worth fighting. A few moments with the individuals and 
families who I met with in my 20 school meetings and 19 additional town 
hall meetings might change their minds. But we did not seem to have 
time to consider the people and the effects on the lives of kids in the 
real America that we face today. We were explained, well, maybe we made 
a few mistakes. Do tell. We made mistakes that affect the lives of the 
young people of this Nation and the heart and the soul of this country.
  I urge my colleagues to support this motion to recommit. Work with us 
to protect and defend the families of New Mexico and all of America.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 30 seconds remaining.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the fact is that this is simply a nit-picking 
motion which, if adopted, would kill our chances of passing this 
resolution in the United States Senate and result in us living on an 
'06 continuing resolution, which would deny us the ability to provide 
additional funds for veterans health care, for education, for veterans 
housing and the like.
  I would point out, this resolution already adds $500 million to the 
basic allowance for housing. This CR already increases family housing 
construction by $210 million and funds military construction at the 
level of the President's request that have been authorized.
  This motion would eliminate the weapons research account that has 
been of some controversy today. I would point out, we have already cut 
that account by $94 million. I doubt that the House wants to eliminate 
that nuclear weapons research.
  I would also say that in a new found and sudden burst of false piety, 
we are now being chastised because we did not reach back and eliminate 
an item that was approved 2 years ago for the State of Iowa by the 
majority. In fact, the gentleman who was chairman of the committee when 
that item was approved is none other than the gentleman offering the 
motion right now.
  I don't mind clearing up the mistakes for last year, of the 
gentleman, I do mind being asked to go back 2 years to clear up your 
mistakes. That is asking too much, even for us.
  Secondly, I would say that some of us may not like the Denali 
Commission, but it is a perfectly authorized program. And as much as I 
might like to see a project like that in my district, I don't have one, 
neither does the gentleman. I think it is illegitimate for us to single 
out one legitimate program for elimination that would require us, I

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think in the interest of fairness, to go back and look at hundreds of 
other programs that have been approved in the past. So I urge a ``no'' 
vote.

                              {time}  1515

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clauses 8 and 9 of rule XX, this 
15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute 
votes on passage of House Joint Resolution 20, if ordered, and the 
motion to suspend the rules and agree to House Concurrent Resolution 5.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 196, 
nays 228, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 71]

                               YEAS--196

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--228

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Alexander
     Buyer
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Gilchrest
     Hastert
     Higgins
     Lantos
     McDermott
     Norwood
     Paul
     Slaughter

                              {time}  1541

  Messrs. MOLLOHAN, GENE GREEN of Texas, STUPAK and HARE changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. KUHL of New York changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 71, I arrived at the door 
when the vote was called. I was detained at the office. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``nay.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 286, 
noes 140, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 72]

                               AYES--286

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bono
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Butterfield
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castle
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fossella
     Frank (MA)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Gordon
     Graves
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jindal
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     King (NY)

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     Kirk
     Klein (FL)
     Kuhl (NY)
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Platts
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (MI)
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shays
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walsh (NY)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--140

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barton (TX)
     Bilbray
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Brady (TX)
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Carter
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Deal (GA)
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Hall (TX)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jordan
     Kanjorski
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Alexander
     Buyer
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Gilchrest
     Hastert
     Higgins
     McDermott
     Norwood
     Paul

                              {time}  1550

  So the joint resolution was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________