[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21172-21179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MR. OBEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE 
 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, REGARDING THE AMENDMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF 
          REPRESENTATIVES TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2638

       Following is an explanation of the amendment of the House 
     of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 
     2638, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
     2008, including disclosure of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
       Section 4 of the House amendment specifies that this 
     explanatory statement shall have the same effect with respect 
     to the allocation of funds and implementation of this 
     Continuing Appropriations Act as if it were a joint 
     explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
       The House amendment strikes the text of the Senate 
     amendment and inserts language continuing appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2009, making emergency supplemental 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2008, and covering 3 regular 
     fiscal year 2009 appropriations bills, each in a separate 
     division, as follows:
       Division A--Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009;
       Division B--Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 2008;
       Division C--Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009
       Division D--Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
     Act, 2009;
       Division E--Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 
     Appropriations Act, 2009;
       Section 1 of the bill provides that the bill as a whole may 
     be referred to as the Consolidated Security, Disaster 
     Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. Section 
     3 states that, unless expressly provided otherwise, any 
     reference to ``this Act'' or ``this joint resolution'' 
     contained in any division of the bill shall be treated as 
     referring only to the provisions of that division.
       In the following explanations, the legislation resulting 
     from the House amendment is generally referred to simply as 
     the ``bill''.

         DIVISION A--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2009

       Division A provides continuing appropriations for all 
     agencies and activities that would be covered by the regular 
     fiscal year 2009 appropriations bills, until enactment of the 
     applicable regular appropriations bill or until March 6, 
     2009, whichever occurs first.

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Neither the legislative text of division A nor the 
     accompanying explanatory statement contains any congressional 
     earmarks, congressionally directed spending items, limited 
     tax benefits or limited tariff benefits (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively).

 DIVISION B--DISASTER RELIEF AND RECOVERY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 
                               ACT, 2008

       Division B makes emergency supplemental appropriations for 
     relief and recovery from hurricanes, floods, and other 
     disasters. The following table summarizes the appropriations 
     made by this division:

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   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Following is a list of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively) included in the bill or this explanatory 
     statement, along with the name of each Senator, House Member, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to 
     the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. 
     Neither the bill nor the explanatory statement contains any 
     limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in 
     the applicable House and Senate rules.

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                                                                            DIVISION B--DISASTER RELIEF AND RECOVERY
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            Agency                          Account                                         Project                                   Amount                        Requester(s)
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Corps of Engineers              Construction                    Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, LA                                  $700,000,000  The President; Landrieu, Mary L.; Vitter,
                                                                                                                                                    David
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Corps of Engineers              Construction                    West Bank and Vicinity, LA                                           $350,000,000  The President; Landrieu, Mary L.; Vitter,
                                                                                                                                                    David
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Corps of Engineers              Construction                    Southeast Louisiana Urban Drainage, LA                               $450,000,000  The President; Landrieu, Mary L.; Vitter,
                                                                                                                                                    David
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FEMA                            General Provision               Concerning flood insurance rate maps in certain areas in MO                        Durbin, Richard; Costello, Jerry; Shimkus,
                                                                 and IL                                                                             John
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FEMA                            General Provision               Communications System, MS                                                          Cochran, Thad
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GSA                             Federal Buildings Fund          Cedar Rapids Courthouse, IA                                          $182,000,000  Harkin, Tom; Grassley, Chuck; Loebsack, Dave
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