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H.R.2638
Title: Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Price, David E. [NC-4] (introduced 6/8/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.RES.473, H.RES.1488, S.1644
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 110-329 [GPO: Text, PDF]
House Reports: 110-181
Note: A House Appropriations committee print presents the final legislative text and explanatory statement. 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. Emergency FY09 appropriations for LIHEAP and advanced technology vehicle manufacturing loans are also included. Division B provides $22.9 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for relief and recovery from hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters. Division C provides $487.7 billion in FY09 funding for the Department of Defense. Division D provides $40 billion in FY09 funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Division E provides $72.9 billion in FY09 funding for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.

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SUMMARY AS OF:
9/27/2008--Public Law. (There are 2 other summaries)

Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 - Division A: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009 - Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009 - (Sec. 101) Makes continuing appropriations for FY2009 for continuing projects or activities that were conducted in FY2008, and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in the following appropriations Acts of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008: (the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008): (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; (2) the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; (3) the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; (4) the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2008; (5) the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; (6) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; (7) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008; (8) the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008; and (9) the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008.

(Sec. 102) Requires rates for operations for such projects and activities to be calculated without regard to amounts designated in the applicable appropriations Acts for FY2008 as emergency requirements or necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to any budget resolution, with specified exceptions for: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration; (2) the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (3) the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service operations; and (4) the Department of State, Administration of Foreign Affairs, diplomatic and consular programs, and embassy security, construction, and maintenance.

(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this Act until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for projects or activities provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2009 without any provision for such projects or activities; or (3) March 6, 2009.

(Sec. 111) Continues through March 6, 2009, certain activities for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for FY2008, and for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.

(Sec. 112) Authorizes apportionment of amounts made available under this Act for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs. Prohibits the use of such authority, however, until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses.

(Sec. 114) Provides amounts at a specified rate for operations to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Food and Nutrition Service, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and (2) the Rural Housing Service, the Rental Assistance Program.

(Sec. 116) Suspends through March 6, 2009, a required transfer of funds under the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, for the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Program.

(Sec. 117) Provides amounts for the Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account for the cost of unsubsidized guaranteed loans for borrowers under the Guaranteed Rural Housing Loan Program, at the rate necessary to maintain the same principal amount of loan guarantee commitments as made in FY2008.

(Sec. 119) Provides amounts for the Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Commodity Assistance Program at a specified rate for operations, with a specified portion earmarked for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.

(Sec. 120) Provides amounts for the Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census for periodic censuses and programs at a specified rate for operations. Allows the use of funds for additional promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.

(Sec. 121) Authorizes the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce to expend funds available under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 for additional administrative expenses of the digital-to-analog converter box program at a rate of up to $180 million through March 6, 2009.

(Sec. 122) Provides amounts at a specified rate for operations for: (1) the Department of Justice, Federal Prison System; and (2) the Department of Justice, General Administration, Detention Trustees.

(Sec. 124) Permits obligation of amounts provided for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the account and budget structure set forth in S. 3182 (110th Congress), the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

(Sec. 125) Amends the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act to extend from July 1, 2012, to January 1, 2016, the date before which federal payments for work or services necessary to meet U.S. obligations under the Agreement Concerning Cooperation on the Civil International Space Station are excluded from the calculation of extraordinary payments in connection with the International Space Station.

(Sec. 126) Provides additional amounts for the Department of Justice, General Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses at a specified rate for operations to reimburse the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for salaries and expenses associated with the federal observer program under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

(Sec. 127) Extends through March 6, 2009, authority for Appalachian regional development.

(Sec. 128) Prohibits derivation from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund of any amounts provided under this Division for the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil for inland waterway major rehabilitation projects.

(Sec. 129) Appropriates funds for FY2009 to the Department of Energy, for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program Account for the cost of direct loans as authorized by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Limits total commitments for direct loans using such funds to $25 billion.

Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 with respect to the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program.

Requires loans made by the Secretary of Energy (Secretary throughout this section) to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers for advanced vehicles manufacturing facilities in the United States to be made through the Federal Financing Bank, with the full faith and credit of the federal government on the principal and interest. Requires the full credit subsidy to be paid by the Secretary using appropriated funds.

Modifies the Secretary's requirement to issue regulations regarding automobile manufacturer eligibility requirements for such loans to direct the Secretary, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to promulgate an interim final rule establishing regulations necessary to administer such loans.

Authorizes the Secretary to use direct hiring authority to appoint such professional and administrative personnel for the incentive program.

(Sec. 130) Provides additional FY2009 amounts to the Department of Energy for weatherization assistance.

(Sec. 131) Provides additional amounts to the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Taxpayer Services to meet the requirements of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 132) Provides additional amounts to the Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration for e-mail restoration activities at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 133) Provides amounts to the Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration, Presidential Transition Administrative Support to carry out the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 134) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities as provided under title IV of S. 3260 (110th Congress), as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations, at a specified rate set forth in the Fiscal Year 2009 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District on June 9, 2008.

(Sec. 135) Provides amounts for a direct federal payment for emergency planning and security costs in the District of Columbia, at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 136) Provides an additional amount to the Federal Communications Commission for consumer education associated with the transition to digital television on February 17, 2009, at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 137) Provides amounts to the General Services Administration to carry out the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 138) Provides amounts to the General Services Administration, Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presidents to provide certain services and facilities to the Presidents-Elect and Vice-Presidents-Elect at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 139) Requires the limitation on gross obligations applicable with respect to the National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2008 to be the amount authorized by the Federal Credit Union Act (a total face value not to exceed twelve times the subscribed capital stock and surplus of the Central Liquidity Facility).

(Sec. 140) Provides amounts for both the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service, to be derived by transfer from the Postal Service Fund.

(Sec. 142) Requires an annual and locality-based comparability pay increase for FY2009 of 3.9% for federal employees, including civilian employees of the Department of Homeland Security.

(Sec. 143) Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend through March 6, 2009, specified pilot programs of employment eligibility confirmation.

(Sec. 144) Continues through March 6, 2009, the requirement in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 that the Secretaries of State and of Homeland Security set aside 3,000 alien investor (EB-5) visas annually for 15 years for aliens (and spouses and children) eligible for admission under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

(Sec. 145) Extends through March 6, 2009, the national flood insurance program and a specified increased maximum amount the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may borrow for the program, with the President's approval, from the Secretary of the Treasury under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.

(Sec. 146) Extends through March 6, 2009, specified authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950.

(Sec. 147) Extends through March 6, 2009, the authority of the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to pilot test agency-wide joint permitting and leasing programs.

(Sec. 148) Extends through March 6, 2009, the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to permit the State Forester of Utah to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services on National Forest System lands in Utah.

(Sec. 149) Continues through March 6, 2009, the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate the conveyance of U.S. Forest Service administrative sites.

(Sec. 150) Continues through March 6, 2009, the authority of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (where National Forest System lands are involved) to renew expired, transferred, or waived grazing permits or leases.

(Sec. 151) Provides additional amounts, at a specified rate for operations, to the Department of the Interior, National Park Service for security and visitor safety activities related to the Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies.

(Sec. 152) Provides that amounts provided by this Act shall not be affected by specified provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, namely prohibitions against: (1) the expenditure by the Department of the Interior of certain funds to conduct offshore preleasing, leasing, and related activities in specified areas of the west coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the North Atlantic; (2) oil and natural gas preleasing, and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas; and (3) the use of funds to prepare or publish final regulations regarding a commercial leasing program for oil shale (and tar sands) resources on public lands or to conduct an oil shale lease sale.

(Sec. 153) Makes amounts provided for implementation of the Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park available instead to the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out immediately Alternative 3.2.2.a to U.S. Highway 41 (the Tamiami Trail).

(Sec. 154) Continues through March 6, 2009, authorized activities under title II (relief from injury caused by import competition) of the Trade Act of 1974 for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for workers, firms, and alternative TAA program for older workers.

(Sec. 155) Appropriates specified funds in lieu of the amount otherwise provided by section 101 for the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance account to make payments under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, to remain available throughout FY2009. Earmarks funds for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grants under the Act, including for leverage resources and emergency requirements.

Designates specified funds as an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs.

(Sec. 156) Provides amounts for the Corporation for National and Community Service to carry out the Civilian Community Corps program under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 at a specified rate for operations.

(Sec. 157) Makes amounts provided by this Act for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, General Departmental Management also available for funding the National Commission on Children and Disasters.

(Sec. 158) Provides amounts for the Department of Education, Student Financial Assistance at a specified rate for operations. Earmarks funds for the Pell Grants Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Prohibits through March 6, 2009, any ratable increase or decrease in appropriations for Pell Grants.

(Sec. 159) Makes specified appropriations for payment to the heirs-at-law of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a former Representative from Ohio.

(Sec. 160) Makes appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration, Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund for payments to eligible persons who served in the Philippines during World War II.

Designates such amount as an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs.

(Sec. 161) Continues through March 6, 2009, the authority of federal agency heads under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to provide allowances, benefits, and gratuities to employees and assignees on official duty in Iraq or Afghanistan comparable to those provided by the Secretary of State to members of the Foreign Service.

(Sec. 162) Continues through March 6, 2009, the authority of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) under the the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) issue investment insurance and guaranties to eligible investors; and (2) make certain direct loans.

(Sec. 163) Earmarks certain funds appropriated for the Other Bilateral Economic Assistance, Department of the Treasury, Debt Restructuring in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 for use to assist Liberia in buying back its commercial debt through the Debt Reduction Facility of the International Development Association.

(Sec. 164) Exempts amounts provided by this Act from a specified limitation on administrative expenses for migration and refugee assistance.

(Sec. 165) Deems a specified increase in funds for Military Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, Foreign Military Financing Program, which shall apply to the $2.55 billion made available for assistance to Israel in FY2009 for procurement in Israel of defense articles and defense services, including research and development.

(Sec. 166) Provides amounts for the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration at a specified rate for operations, with a specified portion earmarked for aviation safety activities.

(Sec. 167) Requires amounts provided for the Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration to include amounts necessary to satisfy the salaries and benefits of employees of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

(Sec. 168) Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to obligate funds provided by this Act at a rate necessary to renew, in a timely manner, all section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts.

(Sec. 169) Extends through March 6, 2009, certain demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants to public housing agencies (PHAs) under the United States Housing Act of 1937.

(Sec. 170) Extends through March 6, 2009, HUD authority to insure and enter into commitments to insure home equity conversion mortgages (HECMs) for elderly homeowners under the National Housing Act (NHA).

(Sec. 171) Places a ceiling through March 6, 2009, on the loan principal of commitments to guarantee loans insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.

(Sec. 172) Permits the transfer of certain funds to the Working Capital Fund for information technology needs for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

(Sec. 173) Requires amounts provided for the National Transportation Safety Board to include amounts necessary to make lease payments due in FY2009 only, on an obligation incurred in 2001 under a capital lease.

(Sec. 174) Continues the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness through the earlier of: (1) March 6, 2009; or (2) the enactment of an authorization Act relating to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

Division B: Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 - Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and recovery for FY2008.

Title I: Relief and Recovery from Natural Disasters - Chapter 1: Agriculture and Rural Development - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Office of Inspector General; (2) the Agricultural Research Service; (3) the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (4) the Natural Resources Conservation Service; (5) the Farm Service Agency; and (6) Rural Development Programs.

(Sec. 10101) Establishes the Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund in the Treasury to provide additional amounts to the Secretary of Agriculture for authorized activities of the Rural Development Mission Area (RDMA) agencies in areas affected by a disaster.

Allows the Secretary to waive limitations on population, income, or cost-sharing otherwise applicable to an activity or project for which amounts in the Fund will be obligated.

(Sec. 10102) Declares that a specified waiver of the Paperwork Reduction Act and certain requirements for administrative procedural notice and comment in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 shall apply in implementing the supplemental agricultural disaster assistance program under such Act.

Chapter 2: Commerce and Science - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Economic Development Administration; (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and (3) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Chapter 3: Energy and Water Development - Department of Defense - Civil - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for : (1) the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers for construction expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters; (2) the Mississippi River and Tributaries for recovery from natural disasters; (3) navigation channel dredging and project repair; and (4) flood control and coastal emergencies.

Chapter 4: Financial Services and General Government - Independent Agencies - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the General Services Administration (GSA) for: (1) real property activities, the Federal Buildings Fund, and construction and acquisition; and (2) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General.

Chapter 5: Homeland Security - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for: (1) the Coast Guard; and (2) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief.

(Sec. 10501) Rescinds additional FEMA funds earmarked for disaster relief to Mississippi for Hurricane Katrina.

Appropriates such rescinded funds to FEMA state and local programs for a grant to Mississippi for an interoperable communications system required in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(Sec. 10502) Appropriates funds to the DHS Secretary, to remain available through FY2009, for reimbursement to the American Red Cross for disaster relief and recovery expenditures and emergency services provided in the United States associated with hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring in 2008. Requires the Comptroller General to audit the use of such funds.

(Sec. 10503) Prohibits FEMA from beginning the statutory appeals process required under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 in the city of St. Louis, St. Charles and St. Louis counties in Missouri, and Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair counties in Illinois until preliminary flood insurance rate maps initiated before October 1, 2008 are completed and released for public review, preliminary base flood elevations are published in the Federal Register, and the second required local newspaper publication of such base flood elevations is made for such areas.

Chapter 6: Interior and Environment - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management for wildland fire management; and (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for construction.

Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service for: (1) capital improvements and maintenance; and (2) wildland fire management.

Chapter 7: Health and Human Services and Education - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Administration for Children and Families Social Services Block Grant program.

Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Education for: (1) school improvement programs; and (2) higher education disaster relief.

(Sec. 10701) Amends the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006, with respect to elementary and secondary education hurricane relief, to extend through FY2009 the authority of the Secretary of Education, in providing any grant or other assistance to entities in states in which a major disaster was declared relating to Hurricane Katrina or Rita, to waive or modify requirements relating to: (1) maintenance of effort; (2) use of federal funds to supplement, not supplant, non-federal funds; or (3) any non-federal share or capital contribution required to match federal funds.

Applies the Secretary's extended waiver authority to major disaster areas affected by natural disasters in 2008.

(Sec. 10702) Requires the Secretary, with respect to funds made available for academic year 2009-2010 to an institution of higher education (IHE) located in an area affected by a 2008 natural disaster, to waive the requirement that a participating IHE provide a non-federal share or a capital contribution to match federal funds provided under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Chapter 8: Military Construction - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to DOD for military construction by the Army National Guard.

Chapter 9: Department of State and Foreign Operations - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of State for the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico for construction.

Chapter 10: Transportation and Housing and Urban Development - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to: (1) the Department of Transportation (DOT) for the Federal Highway Administration for federal-aid highways and the Emergency Relief Program, and the Federal Railroad Administration for railroad rehabilitation and repair; and (2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for tenant-based rental assistance in public and Indian housing, and community planning and development.

(Sec. 11001) Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to extend through May 15, 2009, the Secretary of Transportation's authority to: (1) waive the federal matching share requirements for federal transit assistance programs (including the federal matching share requirements contained in existing federal assistance grant agreements) for recipients of such assistance directly affected by Hurricane Katrina; and (2) allow such recipients to use such assistance for operating assistance, notwithstanding the terms and conditions contained in existing federal assistance grant agreements.

(Sec. 11002) Authorizes the HUD Secretary to transfer from one project to another, at project owner request, any project-based assistance contract in its entirety entered into pursuant to section 8 (public housing rental assistance) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (and any use restriction on the project).

(Sec. 11003) Amends the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 to extend through calendar 2009 the authority of the HUD Secretary to permit a public housing agency (PHA) to combine assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 to facilitate the use of funds to assist families in Louisiana and Mississippi who were receiving housing assistance immediately before the 2005 hurricanes and were displaced from their housing by them.

Title II: Other Supplemental Appropriations - Chapter 1: State and Foreign Operations - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of State for: (1) the Office of Inspector General; and (2) bilateral economic assistance.

Chapter 2: Agriculture - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture for the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

Title III: General Provisions - (Sec. 30002) Designates each amount in this Act as an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs.

(Sec. 30003) Declares that, unless otherwise expressly provided, each amount in this Act is a supplemental appropriation for FY2008 or, if enacted after September 30, 2008, for FY2009.

Division C: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY2009 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.

Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY2009 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) environmental restoration for the military departments, the Department of Defense (DOD), and at formerly used defense sites; (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (4) cooperative threat reduction.

Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY2009 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY2009 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; and (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund.

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Health Program; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General.

Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.

Title VIII: General Provisions - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.

(Sec. 8007) Requires a report from DOD to the congressional defense committees to establish the baseline for application of FY2009 reprogramming and transfer authorities.

(Sec. 8011) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for the SSN Virginia class submarine.

(Sec. 8013) Prohibits, during FY2009, the management by end-strengths of DOD civilian personnel.

(Sec. 8024) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.

(Sec. 8026) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2009 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2009 funds. Reduces by $84 million the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.

(Sec. 8027) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.

(Sec. 8030) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2009.

(Sec. 8032) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.

(Sec. 8037) Makes specified DOD O&M funds available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.

(Sec. 8038) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.

(Sec. 8042) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.

(Sec. 8047) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.

(Sec. 8051) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.

(Sec. 8058) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.

(Sec. 8059) Prohibits funds from being used to approve or license the sale of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.

(Sec. 8060) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.

(Sec. 8061) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a training program of any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).

(Sec. 8067) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.

(Sec. 8068) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.

(Sec. 8069) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.

(Sec. 8075) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental and medical equipment to Indian Health Service facilities and federally-qualified health centers.

(Sec. 8076) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the Israeli Cooperative Programs, including producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.

(Sec. 8077) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.

(Sec. 8082) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry.

(Sec. 8083) Appropriates funds for assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled.

(Sec. 8084) Appropriates funds to DOD for 12 specified grants by the Secretary.

(Sec. 8085) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and ammunition resupply capability in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to deliver five pre-production systems by the end of 2008, and three by the end of 2009.

(Sec. 8086) Requires the FY2010 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.

(Sec. 8087) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.

(Sec. 8090) Prohibits the availability of funds for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.

(Sec. 8091) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.

(Sec. 8096) Earmarks funds for the operations and development of training and technology for the Joint Interagency Training and Education Center and affiliated Center for National Response at the Memorial Tunnel, and certain related homeland defense/security training purposes.

(Sec. 8099) Earmarks funds to enable the U.S. Pacific Command to execute humanitarian assistance activities and the payment of costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.

(Sec. 8101) Reduces by specified amounts the total amounts appropriated in titles II, III, and IV of this Division, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions.

(Sec. 8104) Directs the Secretary to create a major force program category for space for DOD's future years defense program.

(Sec. 8106) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) establish any military installation or base for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq; or (2) exercise U.S. control over any oil resource of Iraq.

(Sec. 8108) Prohibits the use of funds in contravention of specified laws or regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

(Sec. 8110) Requires the Secretary to maintain on the DOD Internet website homepage a direct link to the Internet website of the DOD's Office of Inspector General.

(Sec. 8111) Requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to report to the intelligence committees on establishing the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for FY2009. Limits the availability of National Intelligence Program funds until such report is submitted.

(Sec. 8112) Requires the DNI to submit annually to Congress a future-years intelligence program reflecting estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations.

(Sec. 8114) Directs DOD to continue to report on a monthly basis incremental contingency operations costs for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

(Sec. 8115) Establishes the Horsham Joint Interagency Installation in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the Secretary of the Air Force certain lands, easements, and facilities at NASJRB Willow Grove, including an airfield to be known as Pitcairn-Willow Grove Field. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania all transferred lands, easements, and facilities, for use by the Installation.

(Sec. 8116) Appropriates funds for the use of special pay for members whose period of obligated service is extended, or whose eligibility for retirement is suspended, due to the President's authority to extend such service or suspend such retirement (commonly referred to as stop-loss authority). Prohibits such special pay from exceeding $500 per month. Directs the Secretary, before obligating or expending any funds for such purpose, to submit to the appropriations committees a plan for the provision of such pay.

(Sec. 8117) Suspends the running of any statute of limitations on certain offenses against the United States when Congress has enacted a specific authorization for the use of Armed Forces, as described under the War Powers Resolution. Extends such suspension for five (currently, three) years after the termination of such hostilities, or by congressional concurrent resolution.

(Sec. 8118) Amends the USEC Privatization Act to state that it is the policy of the United States to support the continued downblending of highly enriched uranium of weapons origin in the Russian Federation in order to protect essential U.S. security interests with respect to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. Provides specific U.S. import limits, for 2008 and thereafter and prior to the completion of the Russian HEU (highly enriched uranium) Agreement (the Agreement), of low-enriched uranium. Provides specific limits, for 2014 and thereafter and following completion of the Agreement, of low-enriched uranium produced in the Russian Federation. Allows for additional imports of low-enriched uranium over such limits if the Russian Federation agrees (by way of a bilateral agreement with the United States) to downblend an additional 300 metric tons of highly enriched uranium after the completion of the Agreement. Limits to 120,000 kilograms the amount of low-enriched uranium that may be imported in any year.

Provides a limited waiver of the import restrictions when the Secretaries of Energy and State jointly determine that: (1) failure of completion of the Agreement is beyond the control and without the fault of the government of the Russian Federation; and (2) that government has made reasonable efforts to avoid and mitigate the effects of such failure. Prohibits the waiver from taking effect until 180 days after congressional notification.

Directs the Secretary of: (1) Commerce to periodically adjust the import limits; and (2) Energy to provide incentive adjustments to such limits by the percentage increase (or decrease) in the amount of uranium loaded into U.S. nuclear power reactors in the most recent three-year period. Allows the Secretary of Commerce to adjust such limits upon: (1) determination that the available supplies of low-enriched uranium and the available stockpiles of uranium of the Department of Energy are insufficient to meet demand; and (2) notification of Congress 45 days in advance of the adjustment.

Authorizes the downblending of highly enriched uranium not of weapons origin if the Secretary of Energy determines that such uranium poses a risk to U.S. national security.

Terminates the import restrictions on December 31, 2020.

Requires the Secretary of: (1) Energy to verify the origin, quantity, and uranium-235 content of the downblended highly enriched uranium; and (2) Commerce to be responsible for enforcing the import limits.

(Sec. 8119) Reduces by $859 million the total amount appropriated in title II of this Division, to reflect excess cash balances in DOD Working Capital Funds.

Division D: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009 - Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2009 for executive management, analysis and operations, and the Offices of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and the Inspector General.

Title II: Security, Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for automation modernization, customs and border protection fencing, infrastructure, and technology, and air and marine interdiction, operations, maintenance, and procurement, and construction; (2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including for identifying and removing aliens convicted of a crime once they are judged deportable, the Federal Protective Service, automation modernization, and construction; (3) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for aviation security (including screening operations and explosives detection systems), surface transportation security, the Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing, transportation security support, and Federal Air Marshals; (4) the Coast Guard, including for environmental compliance and restoration, reserve training, acquisition, construction, and improvements, alteration of bridges, research, development, test, and evaluation, and retired pay; and (5) the U.S. Secret Service, including for acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses.

Prohibits obligation of certain funds available for the Integrated Deepwater Systems program until congressional appropriations committees receive an expenditure plan directly from the Coast Guard meeting specified criteria.

Title III: Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate, including for infrastructure protection and information security programs and activities, the United States Visitors and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Project (US-VISIT), and the Office of Health Affairs; and (2) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including for grants for state and local programs, firefighter assistance, and emergency management performance, the radiological emergency preparedness program, the U.S. Fire Administration, disaster relief and the disaster assistance direct loan program account, the Flood Map Modernization Fund, the National Flood Insurance Fund, the National Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund, and the emergency food and shelter program. Rescinds specified funds for Cerro Grande fire claims.

Title IV: Research and Development, Training, and Services - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including funding for the E-Verify program to assist U.S. employers with maintaining a legal workforce; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, including for acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses; (3) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, including for research, development, acquisition, and operations; and (4) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, including for research, development, testing, evaluation, and operations and for systems acquisition and deployment.

Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Sets forth limitations and prohibitions on the availability, use, reprogramming, or transfer of funds for specified programs and activities under this Act.

(Sec. 507) Designates the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board to lead the federal law enforcement training accreditation process. Requires the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to schedule basic or advanced law enforcement training at all four training facilities under the Center's control to ensure that these centers are operated at the highest capacity throughout the fiscal year.

(Sec. 512) Prohibits: (1) the obligation of funds for deployment or implementation of the Secure Flight program or other follow on or successor passenger prescreening program on other than a test basis until the Secretary has certified and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that prescribed conditions have been met; and (2) use, during the testing phase, of information gathered from passengers, foreign or domestic air carriers, or reservation systems to screen aviation passengers or to delay or deny boarding to such passengers, except where passenger names are matched to a government watch list.

(Sec. 513) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to amend the oath of allegiance required under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

(Sec. 514) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to process or approve a competition under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 for services provided as of June 1, 2004, by employees of CIS who are known as Immigration Information Officers, Contact Representatives, or Investigative Assistants.

(Sec. 515) Directs the Secretary to research, develop, and procure new technologies to inspect and screen air cargo carried on passenger aircraft at the earliest date possible. Requires existing checked baggage explosive detection equipment and screeners to be used to the greatest extent practicable at each airport until the new technologies are available. Requires TSA to report to the Appropriations Committees on air cargo inspection statistics by airport and air carrier. Requires incremental quarterly increases in the screening of such cargo. Provides that any funds appropriated or transferred to TSA "Aviation Security," "Administration," and "Transportation Security Support" for FY2004-FY2007 that are recovered or deobligated shall be available only for procurement and installation of explosive detection systems for air cargo, baggage, and checkpoint screening systems, subject to notification.

(Sec. 522) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) for deployment or operation of a DHS human resources management system in ; (2) in FY2009 to enforce provisions of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 regarding the prohibition on air passengers carrying butane lighters unless the Assistant Secretary (TSA) reverses the determination of July 19, 2007, that butane lighters are not a significant threat to civil aviation security; (3) to destroy or put out to pasture any horse or other equine belonging to the federal government that has become unfit for service unless the trainer or handler is first given the option to take possession of the equine through an adoption program that has safeguards against slaughter and inhumane treatment; or (4) to conduct, or implement the results of, a competition under OMB Circular A-76 for activities performed with respect to the Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center.

(Sec. 535) Prohibits the use of CBP funds to prevent an individual from importing a prescription drug from Canada if: (1) such individual is not in the business of importing a prescription drug; and (2) such drug complies with specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and is not a controlled substance or a biological product. Makes this section applicable only to individuals transporting on their person a personal-use quantity of the prescription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply.

(Sec. 538) Prohibits the use of funds for planning, testing, piloting, or developing a national identification card.

(Sec. 539) Requires the FEMA Administrator, within 30 days after the President determines whether to declare a major disaster because of an event and any appeal is completed, to submit to specified congressional committees a report that summarizes damage assessment information used in that determination.

(Sec. 540) Authorizes the liquidation of the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility at Plum Island, New York. Allows the proceeds of the sale to be used to offset the costs of the Facility and certain expenses related to the sale.

(Sec. 543) Directs the Secretary to establish a process to ensure that an alien applying for recurrent training in the operation of any aircraft is properly identified and has not, since the time of any prior threat assessment, become a risk to aviation or national security. Allows the Secretary to charge reasonable fees for providing credentialing and background investigations for aliens in connection with such process.

(Sec. 546) Directs the President to provide single payments for eligible costs under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to police and fire stations and criminal justice facilities that were damaged by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita in 2005. Prohibits the President from reducing the amount of assistance provided to a local government under that Act more than once for each such type of facility.

(Sec. 547) Makes funds available for grants to states pursuant to the REAL ID Act of 2005, as well as sums to develop an information sharing and verification capability to support implementation of that Act.

(Sec. 548) Directs FEMA to reimburse Jones and Harrison Counties, Mississippi, under the Stafford Act for unreimbursed costs relating to debris removal incurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

(Sec. 549) Rescinds unobligated balances of prior year appropriations made available for TSA, with exceptions.

Division E: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 - Title I: Department of Defense - Appropriates funds for FY2009 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force (military departments), DOD, the Army and Air National Guard, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force reserves; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (3) family housing and related operation and maintenance for the military departments and DOD; (4) the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund; (5) the Homeowners Assistance Fund; (6) chemical demilitarization construction; and (7) the Department of Defense Base Closure Accounts of 1990 and 2005.

Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this title and in other military construction appropriations Acts.

(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction costs are anticipated to exceed $100,000.

(Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriations committees on actions taken by DOD and the Department of State to encourage other members of NATO, Japan, South Korea, and U.S. allies bordering the Arabian Sea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States.

(Sec. 121) Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, at least 60 days prior to issuing any solicitation for a contract with the private sector for military family housing, to notify the appropriations committees of any guarantees (including the making of mortgage or rental payments) proposed to be made to the private party in the event of: (1) the closure or realignment of the installation for which the housing is provided; (2) a reduction in force of units stationed at such installation; or (3) the extended deployment overseas of units stationed at such installation.

(Sec. 122) Authorizes the transfer of DOD funds for expenses associated with the Homeowners Assistance Program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966.

(Sec. 125) Places specified restrictions and limitations on the obligation or expenditure of funds made available in this title or in any other military construction appropriations Act to carry out a military construction, land acquisition, or family housing project at or for a military installation approved for closure, or for supporting a function that has been approved for realignment to another installation, in 2005 under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.

(Sec. 127) Prohibits the use of funds for any action related to or promoting the expansion of the boundaries or size of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado.

(Sec. 129) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to transfer specified funds to the American Battle Monuments Commission to conduct an engineering study on the restoration of the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-La-Coquette, France.

(Sec. 130) Rescinds specified DOD family housing construction funds.

(Sec. 131) Appropriates funds for the construction of: (1) Air National Guard fire stations; and (2) facilities consistent with Army National Guard emerging requirements.

Title II: Department of Veterans Affairs - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) veterans' benefits programs; (2) readjustment benefits; (3) veterans insurance and indemnities; (4) the Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund; (5) the Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program; (6) the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program; (7) guaranteed transitional housing loans for homeless veterans; (8) the Veterans Health Administration (including for medical and prosthetic research); (9) the National Cemetery Administration; (10) general operating expenses; (11) information technology systems; (12) the Office of the Inspector General; (13) construction for major and minor projects; and (14) grants for the construction of state extended care facilities and veterans cemeteries.

Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this title.

(Sec. 210) Makes funds from this title available to reimburse expenses of the Office of Resolution Management and the Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication, within specified limits.

(Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to allow veterans eligible under existing VA medical care requirements and who reside in Alaska to obtain medical services from facilities supported by the Indian Health Service or tribal organizations.

(Sec. 218) Prohibits the VA from using funds available in this or any other Act to replace the current system by which the Veterans Integrated Service Networks select and contract for diabetes monitoring supplies and equipment.

(Sec. 220) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to the appropriations committees on the financial status of the Veterans Health Administration.

(Sec. 224) Extends through FY2009: (1) specified per diem copayments in connection with the provision of VA hospital and nursing home care; and (2) the right to recovery from third-party insurers in connection with VA treatment for non-service-connected disabilities.

(Sec. 226) Requires the VA to continue research into Gulf War Illness at levels not less than those made available in FY2008, within available funds contained in this Act.

(Sec. 227) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $5 million to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support increased training of psychologists skilled in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and related disorders. Requires the Secretary to notify Congress of each transfer.

(Sec. 229) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a major medical facility lease in FY2009 to implement the recommendations outlined in the August, 2007 study of south Texas veterans' inpatient and specialty outpatient health care needs.

(Sec. 232) Prohibits VA funds from being used during FY2009 to adjust the rates of deductibles charged in connection with the beneficiary travel program.

(Sec. 233) Continues through January 31, 2009, VA authority to: (1) conduct recovery audits of contracts for the non-VA care of veterans; and (2) obtain income verification information from the Secretary of the Treasury or the Commissioner of Social Security in connection with needs-based veterans' benefits.

Title III: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (3) cemeterial expenses, Army; and (4) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.

Title IV: General Provisions - Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this Act.

(Sec. 409) Prohibits funds from being used for any project or program named for an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of Congress.

MAJOR ACTIONS: pe°

6/8/2007	Introduced in House
6/8/2007	The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 110-181, by Mr. Price (NC).
6/15/2007	Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 268 - 150 (Roll no. 491).
7/26/2007	Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay. 89 - 4. Record Vote Number: 282.
9/24/2008	Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 370 - 58, 1 Present (Roll no. 632).
9/27/2008	Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill by Yea-Nay. 78 - 12. Record Vote Number: 208.
9/27/2008	Cleared for White House.
9/29/2008	Presented to President.
9/30/2008	Signed by President.
9/30/2008	Became Public Law No: 110-329 [Text, PDF]

ALL ACTIONS:

6/8/2007 4:21pm:: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 110-181, by Mr. Price (NC).
6/8/2007 4:21pm:: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 106.
6/11/2007 6:32pm:: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 473 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2638 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.
6/12/2007 2:40pm:: Rule H. Res. 473 passed House.
6/12/2007 2:59pm:: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 473. (consideration: CR H6260-6317; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H6275, CR 6/14/2007 H6429; text of Title II as reported in House: CR 6/14/2007 H6429, H6434, H6443, H6446, H6448, H6449-6450, H6452, H6453; text of Title III as reported in House: CR 6/15/2007 H6453, H6454-6455, H6456-6457; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR 6/15/2007 H6457-6460)
6/12/2007 2:59pm:: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2638 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.
6/12/2007 2:59pm:: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 473 and Rule XVIII.
6/12/2007 2:59pm:: The Speaker designated the Honorable Barney Frank to act as Chairman of the Committee.
6/12/2007 3:00pm:: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2638.
6/12/2007 3:56pm:: H.AMDT.251 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Crowley. (consideration: CR H6275-6277; text: CR H6275-6276)
Amendment increases funding for the high-threat, high-density urban area program by $50 million.
6/12/2007 3:57pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Crowley amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 4:09pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Crowley amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Crowley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/12/2007 4:10pm:: H.AMDT.252 Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Campbell (CA). (consideration: CR H6277-6280, H6296-6297; text: CR H6277)
Amendment sought to reduce funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $9,961,000.
6/12/2007 4:11pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Campbell amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 4:41pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/12/2007 4:41pm:: H.AMDT.253 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Kucinich. (consideration: CR H6280-6281; text: CR H6280)
An amendment to reduce the appropriation for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management of the Department of Homeland Security by $500,000 and increase appropriation for FEMA by $500,000.
6/12/2007 4:42pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Kucinich amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 4:50pm:: H.AMDT.253 By unanimous consent, the Kucinich amendment was withdrawn.
6/12/2007 4:51pm:: H.AMDT.254 Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. Reichert. (consideration: CR H6281-6284, H6297; text: CR H6281)
Amendment increases funding, by offset, for analysis operations under the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence function by $10 million.
6/12/2007 4:51pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Reichert amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 5:09pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Reichert amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Reichert demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/12/2007 5:14pm:: H.AMDT.255 Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. King (IA). (consideration: CR H6284-6291, H6297-6298; text: CR H6284)
Amendment reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $79,000.
6/12/2007 5:14pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the King of Iowa amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 6:29pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the King of Iowa amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Price of Georgia demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/12/2007 6:29pm:: H.AMDT.256 Amendment (A006) offered by Mr. Lamborn. (consideration: CR H6291-6295, H6298-6299; text: CR H6291)
Amendment reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $300,000.
6/12/2007 6:30pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Lamborn amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 7:10pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Lamborn amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Pence demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/12/2007 7:34pm:: H.AMDT.251 On agreeing to the Crowley amendment (A001) Agreed to by recorded vote: 244 - 174 (Roll no. 453).
6/12/2007 7:41pm:: H.AMDT.252 On agreeing to the Campbell (CA) amendment (A002) Failed by recorded vote: 201 - 221 (Roll no. 454).
6/12/2007 7:49pm:: H.AMDT.254 On agreeing to the Reichert amendment (A004) Agreed to by recorded vote: 218 - 205 (Roll no. 455).
6/12/2007 7:55pm:: H.AMDT.255 On agreeing to the King (IA) amendment (A005) Agreed to by recorded vote: 379 - 45 (Roll no. 456).
6/12/2007 8:01pm:: H.AMDT.256 On agreeing to the Lamborn amendment (A006) Agreed to by recorded vote: 381 - 41 (Roll no. 457).
6/12/2007 8:03pm:: H.AMDT.257 Amendment (A007) offered by Ms. Foxx. (consideration: CR H6299-6308; text: CR H6299)
Amendment reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $1,241,000.
6/12/2007 8:03pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Foxx amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 9:42pm:: H.AMDT.258 Amendment (A008) offered by Mr. McHenry to the Foxx amendment (A007). (consideration: CR H6308-6311; text: CR H6308)
Amendment to the Foxx amendment (A007) sought to reduce funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $8,961,000.
6/12/2007 9:42pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the McHenry amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/12/2007 10:11pm:: Mr. Blunt moved that the committee rise.
6/12/2007 10:34pm:: On motion that the committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 190 - 221 (Roll no. 458).
6/12/2007 10:43pm:: Mr. Gingrey moved that the committee rise.
6/12/2007 10:59pm:: On motion that the committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 189 - 218 (Roll no. 459).
6/12/2007 11:08pm:: Mr. Bachus moved that the committee rise.
6/12/2007 11:27pm:: On motion that the committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 187 - 220, 1 Present (Roll no. 460).
6/12/2007 11:39pm:: Mr. Shadegg moved that the committee rise.
6/12/2007 11:56pm:: On motion that the committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 188 - 216 (Roll no. 461).
6/13/2007 12:13am:: Mr. McCotter moved that the committee rise.
6/13/2007 12:30am:: On motion that the committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 188 - 216 (Roll no. 462).
6/13/2007 12:30am:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole continued with debate on the pending amendments under the five-minute rule.
6/13/2007 12:44am:: Mr. Boehner moved that the Committee rise.
6/13/2007 1:00am:: On motion that the Committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 187 - 213 (Roll no. 463).
6/13/2007 1:02am:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole continued with debate on the pending amendments under the five-minute rule.
6/13/2007 1:21am:: Mr. Roskam moved that the Committee rise.
6/13/2007 1:38am:: On motion that the Committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 189 - 214 (Roll no. 464).
6/13/2007 1:38am:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on pending amendments under the five-minute rule.
6/13/2007 1:49am:: Mr. Flake moved that the Committee rise.
6/13/2007 2:06am:: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by recorded vote: 312 - 82, 1 Present (Roll no. 465).
6/13/2007 2:07am:: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2638 as unfinished business.
6/13/2007 11:19am:: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6319-6327, H6347-6394)
6/13/2007 11:20am:: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
6/13/2007 3:18pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the McHenry amendment to the Foxx amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. McHenry demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/13/2007 3:19pm:: H.AMDT.259 Amendment (A009) offered by Ms. Fallin. (consideration: CR 6373-6384; text: CR H6373)
Amendment reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management by $138,000.
6/13/2007 3:20pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Fallin amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/13/2007 5:00pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Fallin amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Garrett of New Jersey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
6/13/2007 5:02pm:: H.AMDT.260 Amendment (A010) offered by Mrs. Drake. (consideration: CR H6384-6394; text: CR H6384)
Amendment increases funding, by offset, for the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by $9,100,000.
6/13/2007 5:02pm:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Drake amendment under the five-minute rule.
6/13/2007 6:32pm:: Mr. Obey moved that the committee rise.
6/13/2007 6:33pm:: On motion that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
6/13/2007 6:33pm:: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2638 as unfinished business.
6/14/2007 7:25pm:: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Obey asked unanimous consent that the Appropriations committee be permitted to file supplemental reports to accompany H.R. 2641 and H.R. 2643; also, during further consideration of H.R. 2638 in the Committee of the Whole pursuant to House Resolution 473, the pending amendment offered by Mrs. Drake shall be debatable for an additional 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent and notwithstanding clause 11 of rule 18, no further amendments to the bill may be offered except those contained in a list submitted to the desk. Agreed to without objection.
6/14/2007 8:41pm:: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6419-6441, CR 6/15/2007 H6443-6474)
6/14/2007 8:41pm:: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
6/14/2007 8:44pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with further debate on the Drake amendment.
6/14/2007 8:56pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Drake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Drake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 8:57pm:: H.AMDT.261 Amendment (A011) offered by Mr. King (NY). (consideration: CR H6421-6423; text: CR H6421)
Amendment increases funding for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office by $40 million.
6/14/2007 8:58pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the King (NY) amendment.
6/14/2007 9:11pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the King of New York amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. King of New York demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 9:12pm:: H.AMDT.262 Amendment (A012) offered by Ms. Brown-Waite, Ginny. (consideration: CR H6423-6424; text: CR H6423)
Amendment increases funding (by transfer) for the border security fencing, infrastructure, and technology account by $89,125,000.
6/14/2007 9:13pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the Brown-Waite amendment.
6/14/2007 9:22pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Brown-Waite of Florida amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 9:22pm:: H.AMDT.263 Amendment (A013) offered by Mr. Burgess. (consideration: CR H6424-6426; text: CR H6425)
Amendment increases funding (by transfer) for the Transportation Threat Assessment account by $15 million.
6/14/2007 9:23pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes on the Burgess amendment.
6/14/2007 9:28pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Burgess amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Burgess demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 9:31pm:: H.AMDT.264 Amendment (A014) offered by Mr. Ferguson. (consideration: CR H6426; text: CR H6426)
Amendment increases funding for the buffer zone protection program by $50 million.
6/14/2007 9:32pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes on the Ferguson amendment.
6/14/2007 9:37pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Ferguson amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Ferguson demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 9:39pm:: H.AMDT.265 Amendment (A015) offered by Mr. McHenry. (consideration: CR H6426-6428; text: CR H6426-6427)
Amendment sought to increase funding, by offset, for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services by $30 million.
6/14/2007 9:40pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the McHenry amendment.
6/14/2007 9:51pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the McHenry amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. McHenry demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 9:52pm:: H.AMDT.266 Amendment (A016) offered by Ms. Brown, Corrine. (consideration: CR H6428; text: CR H6428)
Amendment increases funding for the FEMA management and administration account by $1 million.
6/14/2007 9:53pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the Corrine Brown (FL) amendment.
6/14/2007 9:57pm:: H.AMDT.266 On agreeing to the Brown, Corrine amendment (A016) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/14/2007 9:57pm:: H.AMDT.267 Amendment (A017) offered by Ms. Brown, Corrine. (consideration: CR H6428-6429; text: CR H6428)
Amendment increases funding, by offset, to the Office of the Inspector General Operating Expenses account by $500,000.
6/14/2007 9:59pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the Corrine Brown (FL) amendment no. 17.
6/14/2007 10:01pm:: H.AMDT.267 On agreeing to the Brown, Corrine amendment (A017) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/14/2007 10:02pm:: H.AMDT.268 Amendment (A018) offered by Mr. Pearce. (consideration: CR H6429-6431; text: CR H6429)
Amendment sought to increase funding, by offset, for the United States Customs and Border Protection Salaries and Expenses account by $125 million.
6/14/2007 10:03pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes on the Pearce amendment.
6/14/2007 10:13pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Pearce amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Price of North Carolina demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 10:14pm:: H.AMDT.269 Amendment (A019) offered by Mr. King (IA). (consideration: CR H6431-6432; text: CR H6431)
Amendment reduces and then increases the amount appropriated for Security, Enforcement, and Investigations by $1 million.
6/14/2007 10:14pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the King of Iowa amendment.
6/14/2007 10:24pm:: H.AMDT.269 On agreeing to the King (IA) amendment (A019) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/14/2007 10:29pm:: H.AMDT.270 Amendment (A021) offered by Mr. Shays. (consideration: CR H6432-6433; text: CR H6432-6433)
Amendment appropriates $100,000 to allow the Department of Homeland Security and the International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, to share counterterrorism and stolen and lost travel document information.
6/14/2007 10:29pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Shays amendment.
6/14/2007 10:32pm:: H.AMDT.270 On agreeing to the Shays amendment (A021) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/14/2007 10:32pm:: H.AMDT.271 Amendment (A022) offered by Mr. Kuhl (NY). (consideration: CR H6433; text: CR H6433)
An amendment numbered 114 printed in the Congressional Record to instruct the Comptroller General of the United States and the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study concerning the land and sea travlers of the Western Hemisphere Travel Implementation Act.
6/14/2007 10:33pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Kuhl amendment #114 pending reservation of a point of order.
6/14/2007 10:35pm:: H.AMDT.271 By unanimous consent, the Kuhl (NY) amendment was withdrawn.
6/14/2007 10:35pm:: H.AMDT.272 Amendment (A023) offered by Mr. Kuhl (NY). (consideration: CR H6433-6434; text: CR H6433)
An amendment numbered 115 printed in the Congressional Record to instruct the Comptroller General of the United States and the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study at the Northern Border.
6/14/2007 10:35pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committe of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Kuhl amendment #115 pending reservation of a point of order.
6/14/2007 10:38pm:: H.AMDT.272 By unanimous consent, the Kuhl (NY) amendment was withdrawn.
6/14/2007 10:38pm:: H.AMDT.273 Amendment (A024) offered by Mr. Carter. (consideration: CR H6434-6436; text: CR H6434)
Amendment sought to strike language regarding border fencing requirements under the Border Security, Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology heading.
6/14/2007 10:39pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Carter amendment.
6/14/2007 10:58pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Carter amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Carter demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 10:59pm:: H.AMDT.274 Amendment (A026) offered by Mr. Conaway. (consideration: CR H6436; text: CR H6436)
Amendment reduces and then increases the amount appropriated for Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology by $5 million.
6/14/2007 11:03pm:: H.AMDT.274 On agreeing to the Conaway amendment (A026) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/14/2007 11:03pm:: H.AMDT.276 Amendment (A027) offered by Mr. Souder.
An amendment numbered 106 printed in the Congressional Record to strike the provision that no aircraft be made available under $100,000,000 and may not be obligated until Congress receives a report.
6/14/2007 11:03pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Souder amendment.
6/14/2007 11:09pm:: H.AMDT.276 By unanimous consent, the Souder amendment was withdrawn. (consideration: CR 6/15/2007 H6443-6444; text: CR 6/15/2007 H6444)
6/14/2007 11:09pm:: H.AMDT.277 Amendment (A028) offered by Mr. McCaul (TX). (consideration: CR 6/15/2007 H6444-6446; text: CR 6/15/2007 H6444)
Amendment sought to strike language that prohibits the use of funds for additional unmanned aerial vehicles until the Customs and Border Patrol informs the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that their use is cost-effective.
6/14/2007 11:10pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McCaul amendment.
6/14/2007 11:23pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the McCaul amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. McCaul demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 11:24pm:: H.AMDT.278 Amendment (A029) offered by Mr. King (IA). (consideration: CR 6/15/2007 H6446-6447; text: CR 6/15/2007 H6446)
Amendment reduces and then increases funding for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Salaries and Expenses account by $5 million.
6/14/2007 11:25pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the King (IA) amendment.
6/14/2007 11:35pm:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the King (IA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. King (IA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/14/2007 11:36pm:: H.AMDT.279 Amendment (A030) offered by Mr. Souder. (consideration: CR 6/15/2007 H6448-6449; text: CR 6/15/2007 H6448)
An amendment numbered 107 printed in the Congressional Record to reduce the operation and maintenance expenses of the Coast Guard by $21,500,000, and increase the acquisition, construction, and improvements of aids to navigation, shore, facilities, vessels, and aircraft equipment by $29,500,000.
6/14/2007 11:37pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Souder amendment.
6/14/2007 11:46pm:: H.AMDT.279 By unanimous consent, the Souder amendment was withdrawn.
6/14/2007 11:47pm:: H.AMDT.280 Amendment (A031) offered by Mr. Bilbray. (consideration: CR 6/15/2007 H6450-6452; text: CR 6/15/2007 H6450)
Amendment sought to increase funding for REAL ID grants by $150 million.
6/14/2007 11:47pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Bilbray amendment.
6/15/2007 12:02am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Bilbray amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Bilbray demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 12:02am:: H.AMDT.281 Amendment (A032) offered by Mr. Dent. (consideration: CR H6452-6453; text: CR H6452)
Amendment provides $853,690,000 for the protective missions of the Secret Service.
6/15/2007 12:03am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dent amendment.
6/15/2007 12:07am:: H.AMDT.281 On agreeing to the Dent amendment (A032) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 12:08am:: H.AMDT.282 Amendment (A033) offered by Mr. Jindal. (consideration: CR H6453-6454; text: CR H6453)
An amendment numbered 97 printed in the Congressional Record to reduce appropriation for the management and administration department of FEMA by $5,000,000, and increase the appropriation amount for the disaster relief department by $5,000,000.
6/15/2007 12:08am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jindal amendment.
6/15/2007 12:15am:: H.AMDT.282 By unanimous consent, the Jindal amendment was withdrawn.
6/15/2007 12:16am:: H.AMDT.283 Amendment (A034) offered by Mr. Davis (KY). (consideration: CR H6455-6456; text: CR H6455)
An amendment to increase the funding (by transfer) for commercial equipment direct assistance grants.
6/15/2007 12:17am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Davis (KY) amendment.
6/15/2007 12:27am:: H.AMDT.283 By unanimous consent, the Davis (KY) amendment was withdrawn.
6/15/2007 12:29am:: H.AMDT.284 Amendment (A035) offered by Mr. McCaul (TX). (consideration: CR H6460-6461, H6490-6491; text: CR H6460)
Amendment sought to strike section 531 which prohibits funds in the bill from being used for the development of the MAX-HR project.
6/15/2007 12:29am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McCaul amendment.
6/15/2007 12:33am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the McCaul amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. McCaul demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 12:34am:: H.AMDT.285 Amendment (A036) offered by Mr. Thompson (MS). (consideration: CR H6461; text: CR H6461)
Amendment deletes language pertaining to the awarding of contracts to small businesses.
6/15/2007 12:34am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Thompson (MS) amendment.
6/15/2007 12:36am:: H.AMDT.285 On agreeing to the Thompson (MS) amendment (A036) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 12:36am:: H.AMDT.286 Amendment (A037) offered by Ms. Brown, Corrine. (consideration: CR H6461; text: CR H6461)
An amendment numbered 18 printed in the Congressional Record to allow the Orlando International Airport and the Miami International Airport to implement a pilot program to screen airport workers who enter or re-enter secure airport space.
6/15/2007 12:36am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Corinne Brown (FL) amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
6/15/2007 12:42am:: H.AMDT.286 By unanimous consent, the Brown, Corrine amendment was withdrawn.
6/15/2007 12:43am:: H.AMDT.287 Amendment (A038) offered by Mr. Rogers (KY). (consideration: CR H6461-6462, H6491-6492; text: CR H6461-6462)
An amendment to prohibit that none of the funds in this Act be used to recruit or hire more than 45,000 full-time equivalent airport screeners.
6/15/2007 12:43am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment.
6/15/2007 12:53am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Rogers (KY) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 12:53am:: H.AMDT.288 Amendment (A039) offered by Mr. Ellsworth. (consideration: CR H6462-6463; text: CR H6463)
An amendment numbered 30 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit funds to be used to award Contractors federal contracts who owe Federal Tax debt.
6/15/2007 12:53am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ellsworth amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
6/15/2007 12:58am:: H.AMDT.288 By unanimous consent, the Ellsworth amendment was withdrawn.
6/15/2007 12:59am:: H.AMDT.289 Amendment (A040) offered by Mr. Deal (GA). (consideration: CR H6463-6464; text: CR H6463)
An amendment to prohibit funds in this Act to be used to destroy any horse or mule belonging to the United States that has become unfit for service.
6/15/2007 12:59am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Deal amendment.
6/15/2007 1:00am:: H.AMDT.289 On agreeing to the Deal (GA) amendment (A040) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 1:00am:: H.AMDT.290 Amendment (A041) offered by Mr. Poe. (consideration: CR H6464-6465, H6492; text: CR H6464)
An amendment to prohibit funds to be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan that permits travel into the United States from foreign countries using any document other than a passport.
6/15/2007 1:01am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Poe amendment.
6/15/2007 1:09am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Poe amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Poe demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 1:09am:: H.AMDT.291 Amendment (A042) offered by Mr. LaTourette. (consideration: CR H6465-6466, H6492-6493; text: CR H6465)
Amendment prohibits funds in the bill from being used to implement a plan before June 1, 2009, to comply with language in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 which requires all who enter the U.S. to have passports or equally valid identification.
6/15/2007 1:09am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the LaTourette amendment.
6/15/2007 1:16am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the LaTourette amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. LaTourette demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 1:17am:: H.AMDT.292 Amendment (A043) offered by Mr. Tancredo. (consideration: CR H6466-6467, H6493-6494; text: CR H6466)
An amendment to prohibit funds of this Act to carry out the visa waiver program.
6/15/2007 1:17am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tancredo amendment.
6/15/2007 1:27am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tancredo amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Tancredo demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 1:28am:: H.AMDT.293 Amendment (A044) offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee (TX). (consideration: CR H6467-6468; text: CR H6467)
Amendment requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a classified report describing the security vulnerabilities of the Nation's pipelines and oil refineries to Congress no later than 120 days after the enactment of this Act.
6/15/2007 1:28am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment.
6/15/2007 1:33am:: H.AMDT.293 On agreeing to the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment (A044) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 1:34am:: H.AMDT.294 Amendment (A045) offered by Mr. Tancredo. (consideration: CR H6468-6469, H6494-6495; text: CR H6468)
Amendment prevents State and local governments who refuse to share information with Federal immigration authorities from obtaining Federal funds under this bill.
6/15/2007 1:34am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tancredo amendment.
6/15/2007 1:47am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tancredo amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Tancredo demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 1:47am:: H.AMDT.295 Amendment (A046) offered by Mr. Royce. (consideration: CR H6469-6471, H6495; text: CR H6469)
An amendment to prohibit funds made available for customs and border protection fencing, infrastructure, and technology from being used for anything but at least two layers of reinforced fencing and roads.
6/15/2007 1:47am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Royce amendment.
6/15/2007 2:00am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Royce amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Royce demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 2:00am:: H.AMDT.296 Amendment (A047) offered by Mr. Forbes. (consideration: CR H6471-6472, H6495-6496; text: CR H6471)
Amendment bars funds made available in the bill from being used to extend temporary protected status for nationals of a country beyond the original period of not more than 18 months.
6/15/2007 2:00am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Forbes amendment.
6/15/2007 2:11am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Forbes amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Forbes demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 2:12am:: H.AMDT.297 Amendment (A048) offered by Mr. Rogers (KY). (consideration: CR H6472-6473, H6496-6497; text: CR H6472)
Amendment sought to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement section 536 relating to Davis-Bacon provisions.
6/15/2007 2:12am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment.
6/15/2007 2:17am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Rogers (KY) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 2:18am:: H.AMDT.298 Amendment (A049) offered by Mr. Rogers (KY). (consideration: CR H6473-6474, H6497; text; CR H6473)
An amendment to reduce funding for the Department of Homeland Security by 5.7 percent over the next year.
6/15/2007 2:18am:: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment #1.
6/15/2007 2:28am:: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Rogers (KY) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Rogers (KY) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
6/15/2007 2:28am:: Mr. Price (NC) moved that the Committee rise.
6/15/2007 2:28am:: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 2:28am:: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2638 as unfinished business.
6/15/2007 9:09am:: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6480-6518)
6/15/2007 9:09am:: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
6/15/2007 9:10am:: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceeding had been postponed.
6/15/2007 9:40am:: H.AMDT.258 On agreeing to the McHenry amendment (A008) Failed by recorded vote: 108 - 300 (Roll no. 466). (consideration: CR H6480-6481)
6/15/2007 9:45am:: H.AMDT.257 On agreeing to the Foxx amendment (A007) Agreed to by recorded vote: 216 - 198 (Roll no. 467). (consideration: CR H6481-6482)
6/15/2007 9:50am:: H.AMDT.259 On agreeing to the Fallin amendment (A009) Agreed to by recorded vote: 248 - 168 (Roll no. 468). (consideration: CR H6482)
6/15/2007 9:53am:: H.AMDT.260 On agreeing to the Drake amendment (A010) Agreed to by recorded vote: 286 - 127 (Roll no. 469). (consideration: CR H6482-6483)
6/15/2007 9:57am:: H.AMDT.261 On agreeing to the King (NY) amendment (A011) Agreed to by recorded vote: 282 - 137 (Roll no. 470). (consideration: CR H6483-6484)
6/15/2007 10:01am:: H.AMDT.262 On agreeing to the Brown-Waite, Ginny amendment (A012) Agreed to by recorded vote: 241 - 179 (Roll no. 471). (consideration: CR H6484)
6/15/2007 10:06am:: H.AMDT.263 On agreeing to the Burgess amendment (A013) Agreed to by recorded vote: 251 - 171 (Roll no. 472). (consideration: CR H6485)
6/15/2007 10:11am:: H.AMDT.264 On agreeing to the Ferguson amendment Agreed to by recorded vote: 239 - 183 (Roll No. 473). (consideration: CR H6485-6486)
6/15/2007 10:15am:: H.AMDT.265 On agreeing to the McHenry amendment (A015) Failed by recorded vote: 207 - 214 (Roll no. 474). (consideration: CR H6486-6487)
6/15/2007 10:19am:: H.AMDT.268 On agreeing to the Pearce amendment (A018) Failed by recorded vote: 96 - 327 (Roll no. 475). (consideration: CR H6487)
6/15/2007 10:24am:: H.AMDT.273 On agreeing to the Carter amendment (A024) Failed by recorded vote: 190 - 233 (Roll no. 476). (consideration: CR H6488)
6/15/2007 10:28am:: H.AMDT.277 On agreeing to the McCaul (TX) amendment (A028) Failed by recorded vote: 192 - 232 (Roll no. 477). (consideration: CR H6488-6489)
6/15/2007 10:32am:: H.AMDT.278 On agreeing to the King (IA) amendment (A029) Agreed to by recorded vote: 228 - 195 (Roll no. 478). (consideration: CR H6489-6490)
6/15/2007 10:35am:: H.AMDT.280 On agreeing to the Bilbray amendment (A031) Failed by recorded vote: 155 - 268 (Roll no. 479). (consideration: CR H6490)
6/15/2007 10:38am:: H.AMDT.284 On agreeing to the McCaul (TX) amendment (A035) Failed by recorded vote: 184 - 238 (Roll no. 480).
6/15/2007 10:42am:: H.AMDT.287 On agreeing to the Rogers (KY) amendment (A038) Failed by recorded vote: 168 - 255 (Roll no. 481).
6/15/2007 10:46am:: H.AMDT.290 On agreeing to the Poe amendment (A041) Failed by recorded vote: 89 - 331 (Roll no. 482).
6/15/2007 10:54am:: H.AMDT.291 On agreeing to the LaTourette amendment (A042) Agreed to by recorded vote: 379 - 45 (Roll no. 483).
6/15/2007 10:59am:: H.AMDT.292 On agreeing to the Tancredo amendment (A043) Failed by recorded vote: 76 - 347 (Roll no. 484).
6/15/2007 11:03am:: H.AMDT.294 On agreeing to the Tancredo amendment (A045) Agreed to by recorded vote: 234 - 189 (Roll no. 485).
6/15/2007 11:07am:: H.AMDT.295 On agreeing to the Royce amendment (A046) Failed by recorded vote: 149 - 272 (Roll no. 486).
6/15/2007 11:11am:: H.AMDT.296 On agreeing to the Forbes amendment (A047) Failed by recorded vote: 123 - 298 (Roll no. 487).
6/15/2007 11:14am:: H.AMDT.297 On agreeing to the Rogers (KY) amendment (A048) Failed by recorded vote: 145 - 277 (Roll no. 488).
6/15/2007 11:19am:: H.AMDT.298 On agreeing to the Rogers (KY) amendment (A049) Failed by recorded vote: 178 - 243 (Roll no. 489).
6/15/2007 11:19am:: H.AMDT.299 Amendment (A050) offered by Mr. Price (NC). (consideration: CR H6497-6498; text: CR H6498)
Amendment allocates $5 million to FEMA's Firefighter Assistance Grants, specifically for the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Program.
6/15/2007 11:19am:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Price (NC) amendment.
6/15/2007 11:22am:: H.AMDT.299 On agreeing to the Price (NC) amendment (A050) Agreed to by voice vote.
6/15/2007 11:22am:: H.AMDT.300 Amendment (A051) offered by Mr. Obey. (consideration: CR H6498; text: CR H6498)
6/15/2007 11:22am:: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Obey amendment, pending reservation of a point of order.
6/15/2007 11:22am:: H.AMDT.300 Mr. Rogers (KY) raised a point of order against the Obey amendment (A051). Mr. Rogers (KY) stated that the amendment seeks to change existing law and constitutes legislation in an appropriation bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
6/15/2007 11:24am:: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2638.
6/15/2007 11:25am:: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6516)
6/15/2007 11:26am:: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Hoyer asked unanimous consent that during all proceedings today on H.R. 2642, the Chair be authorized to reduce to two minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any question that otherwise could be subjected to five-minute voting under clause 8 or 9 of rule 20 or under clause 6 of rule 18 and that during proceedings in the House today on both H.R. 2638 and H.R. 2642, the Chair be authorized to reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on even the first votes in a series.
6/15/2007 11:27am:: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
6/15/2007 11:28am:: Mr. Lewis (CA) moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations. (consideration: CR H6516-6517; text: CR H6516)
6/15/2007 11:28am:: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lewis(CA) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to provide the funds necessary for the construction of at least 2 layers of reinforced fencing, the installtion of additional physical barrier, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors pursuant to section 102(b)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1986 and make adjustments in such other accounts in the ibll as may by necessary to comply with the Subcommittee's 302(b) allocations.
6/15/2007 11:32am:: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H6516)
6/15/2007 11:38am:: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 200 - 217 (Roll no. 490).
6/15/2007 11:47am:: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 268 - 150 (Roll no. 491).
6/15/2007 11:47am:: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
6/15/2007 11:47am:: The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 2638.
6/18/2007:: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 206.
7/18/2007:: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S9436-9437)
7/18/2007:: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9436; text: CR S9436)
7/18/2007:: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
7/20/2007:: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.
7/24/2007:: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9811-9819, S9823-9824)
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2383 Amendment SA 2383 proposed by Senator Byrd. (consideration: CR S9812-9817)
In the nature of a substitute.
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2384 Amendment SA 2384 proposed by Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9817, S9823; text: CR S9817)
To allow for expanded uses of funding allocated to Louisiana under the hazard mitigation program while preserving the goals of the program to reduce future damage from disasters through mitigation.
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2384 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 2384.
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2384 Amendment SA 2384 ruled out of order by the chair.
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2388 Amendment SA 2388 proposed by Senator Bingaman to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9823-9824; text: CR S9823)
To provide financial aid to local law enforcement officials along the Nation's borders, and for other purposes.
7/24/2007:: S.AMDT.2388 Amendment SA 2388 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/25/2007:: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9869-9910)
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2383 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9869)
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2412 Amendment SA 2412 proposed by Senator Graham to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9871-9873)
To ensure control over the United States borders and strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2415 Amendment SA 2415 proposed by Senator Gregg to Amendment SA 2412. (consideration: CR S9873-9875; text: CR S9873)
To change the enactment date.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2412 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 2412.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2412 Amendment SA 2412 ruled non-germane by the chair.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2412 Ruling of the Chair sustained by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 44. Record Vote Number: 277.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2415 SA 2415 fell when amendment SA 2412 ruled non-germane.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2468 Amendment SA 2468 proposed by Senator Landrieu to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9900-9903; text: CR S9900)
To state the policy of the United States Government on the foremost objective of the United States in the Global War on Terror and in protecting the United States Homeland and to appropriate additional sums for that purpose.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2444 Amendment SA 2444 proposed by Senator Grassley to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9903-9905; text: CR S9903)
To provide that none of the funds made available under this Act may be expended until the Secretary of Homeland Security certifies to Congress that all new hires by the Department of Homeland Security are verified through the basic pilot program authorized under section 401 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 or may be available to enter into a contract with a person, employer, or other entity that does not participate in the such basic pilot program.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2405 Amendment SA 2405 proposed by Senator Cochran for Senator Alexander to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9886-9900, S9905; text: CR S9905)
To make $300,000,000 available for grants to States to carry out the REAL ID Act of 2005.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2416 Amendment SA 2416 proposed by Senator Schumer to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9905-9906; text: CR S9905-9906)
To evaluate identification card technologies to determine the most appropriate technology for ensuring the optimal security, efficiency, privacy, and cost of passport cards.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2461 Amendment SA 2461 proposed by Senator Schumer to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9906; text: CR S9906)
To increase the amount provided for aviation security direction and enforcement.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2447 Amendment SA 2447 proposed by Senator Schumer to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9906; text: CR S9906)
To reserve $40,000,000 of the amounts appropriated for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to support the implementation of the Securing the Cities initiative at the level requested in the President's budget.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2448 Amendment SA 2448 proposed by Senator Schumer to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9906-9907; text: CR S9906-9907)
To increase the domestic supply of nurses and physical therapists, and for other purposes.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2462 Amendment SA 2462 proposed by Senator Dole to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9907; text: CR S9907)
To require that not less than $5,400,000 of the amount appropriated to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement be used to facilitate agreements described in section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2449 Amendment SA 2449 proposed by Senator Dole to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9907; text: CR S9907)
To set aside $75,000,000 of the funds appropriated for training, exercise, technical assistance, and other programs under the heading State and local programs for training consistent with section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2476 Amendment SA 2476 proposed by Senator Cochran for Senator Grassley to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9907-9908; text: CR S9907-9908)
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish reasonable regulations relating to stored quantities of propane.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2386 Amendment SA 2386 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Feinstein to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9908; text: CR S9908)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to make technical corrections to the new border tunnels and passage offense.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2386 Amendment SA 2386 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2387 Amendment SA 2387 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Feinstein to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9908)
To prohibit sexual abuse of prisoners held in custody at the direction of or under an agreement with the Federal Government.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2387 Amendment SA 2387 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S9908)
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2430 Amendment SA 2430 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Cornyn to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9908-9909; text: CR S9908)
To provide for the control and management of Arundo donax, commonly known as "Carrizo cane."
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2430 Amendment SA 2430 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2425 Amendment SA 2425 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator McCaskill to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9909)
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish and maintain on the website of the Department of Homeland Security a link to the website for the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2425 Amendment SA 2425 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S9909)
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2390 Amendment SA 2390 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Clinton to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S9909)
To require that all contracts of the Department of Homeland Security that provide award fees link such fees to successful acquisition outcomes.
7/25/2007:: S.AMDT.2390 Amendment SA 2390 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S9909)
7/26/2007:: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058-10115)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2383 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10115)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2405 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10078-10083; text as modified: CR S10078)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2416 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2444 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2447 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2448 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10072-10074)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2449 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10091)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2461 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2462 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10083, S10091)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2468 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10077-10078)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2476 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2480 Amendment SA 2480 proposed by Senator Graham to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10058-10064; text: CR S10059)
To ensure control over the United States borders and strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2480 Amendment SA 2480 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 89 - 1. Record Vote Number: 278.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2488 Amendment SA 2488 proposed by Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10067, S10070; text: CR S10067)
To prohibit U.S. Customs and Border Protection or any agency or office within the Department of Homeland Security from preventing an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug importing an FDA-approved prescription drug from Canada.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2496 Amendment SA 2496 proposed by Senator Cochran to Amendment SA 2488. (consideration: CR S10067-10068, S10070, S10072, S10089-10090; text: CR S10067)
To prohibit the use of funds relative to United States Customs and Border Protection.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2505 Amendment SA 2505 proposed by Senator Dorgan to Amendment SA 2468. (consideration: CR S10068, S10074, S10078-10083; text: CR S10068; text as modified: CR S10078)
Relating to bringing Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda to justice.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2448 Proposed amendment SA 2448 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2505 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 2505.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2505 Amendment SA 2505 ruled out of order by the chair.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2468 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 2468.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2468 Amendment SA 2468 ruled out of order by the chair.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2405 Motion to table amendment SA 2405 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 44. Record Vote Number: 279.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2444 Amendment SA 2444 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2416 Proposed amendment SA 2416 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2461 Amendment SA 2461 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10083)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2447 Amendment SA 2447 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2476 Proposed amendment SA 2476 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2503 Amendment SA 2503 proposed by Senator Martinez to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10085-10086; text: CR S10085)
To require the issuance and use of social security cards with biometric identifiers for the establishment of employment authorization and identity.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2503 Proposed amendment SA 2503 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2413 Amendment SA 2413 proposed by Senator Martinez to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10086; text: CR S10086)
To require that all funds for State and local programs be allocated based on risk.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2413 Proposed amendment SA 2413 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2496 Proposed amendment SA 2496 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2488 Amendment SA 2488 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10070)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2462 Amendment SA 2462 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2449 Proposed amendment SA 2449 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2481 Amendment SA 2481 proposed by Senator DeMint to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10091, S10113-10115; text: CR S10091)
To prohibit the use of funds to remove offenses from the list of criminal offenses disqualifying individuals from receiving TWIC cards.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2516 Amendment SA 2516 proposed by Senator Salazar to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10091-10092, S10100, S10104-10105; text: CR S10091-10092)
Relative to border security requirements for land and maritime borders of the United States.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2498 Amendment SA 2498 proposed by Senator Sanders to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10092-10093, S10098-10099; text: CR S10092)
To prohibit funds made available in this Act from being used to implement a rule or regulation related to certain petitions for aliens to perform temporary labor in the United States.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2407 Amendment SA 2407 proposed by Senator Lieberman to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10093-10095, S10096-10098; text: CR S10093)
To provide funds for the Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2442 Amendment SA 2442 proposed by Senator Coburn to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10095-10096, S10100; text: CR S10095-10096)
To prohibit funding for no-bid earmarks.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2525 Amendment SA 2525 proposed by Senator Landrieu to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10096, S10101; text: CR S10096)
To require regional evacuation and sheltering plans.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2407 Amendment SA 2407 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2498 Amendment SA 2498 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 43. Record Vote Number: 280.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2481 Amendment SA 2481 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 93 - 1. Record Vote Number: 281.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2442 Amendment SA 2442 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2518 Amendment SA 2518 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Kyl to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10100, S10105)
To set aside $60,000,000 of the overall amount appropriated for border security, interior enforcement, and employment verification to be used for employment verification improvements.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2518 Amendment SA 2518 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10100)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2516 Amendment SA 2516 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10100; text as further modified: CR S10104-10105)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2527 Amendment SA 2527 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Landrieu to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10101; text: CR S10101)
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to authorize an in-lieu contribution to the Peebles School.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2527 Amendment SA 2527 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2525 Proposed amendment SA 2525 withdrawn in Senate.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2469 Amendment SA 2469 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Cochran to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10101; text: CR S10101)
To provide that certain hazard mitigation projects shall not be subject to any precertification requirements.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2469 Amendment SA 2469 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2499 Amendment SA 2499 proposed by Senator Murray to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10101)
To make funds available to procure commercially available technology in order to expand and improve the risk-based approach of the Department of Homeland Security to target and inspect cargo containers under the Secure Freight Initiative and the Global Trade Exchange and to provide an offset.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2499 Amendment SA 2499 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10101)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2475 Amendment SA 2475 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Stevens to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10101)
To develop and implement a Model Ports of Entry program
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2475 Amendment SA 2475 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10101)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2513 Amendment SA 2513 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Lieberman to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10101-10102; text: CR S10101-10102)
To require a national strategy and report on closed circuit television systems.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2513 Amendment SA 2513 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2502 Amendment SA 2502 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Pryor to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10102)
To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to regulate the sale of ammonium nitrate to prevent and deter the acquisition of ammonium nitrate by terrorists, and for other purposes.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2502 Amendment SA 2502 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2514 Amendment SA 2514 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Cantwell to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10102; text: CR S10102)
To prevent procurement of any additional major assets until completion of an Alternatives Analysis, and to prevent the use of funds contained in this act for procurement of a third National Security Cutter until completion of an Alternatives Analysis.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2514 Amendment SA 2514 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2391 Amendment SA 2391 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Cantwell to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10102; text: CR S10102)
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy and funding plan to implement the recommendations regarding the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference on H.R. 5441 (109th Congress), the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2391 Amendment SA 2391 agreed to in Senate by Voice.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2466 Amendment SA 2466 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Hutchison to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10102-10103; text: CR S10102-10103)
To provide local officials and the Secretary of Homeland Security greater involvement in decisions regarding the location of border fencing.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2466 Amendment SA 2466 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2484 Amendment SA 2484 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Gregg to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10103; text: CR S10103)
To provide for greater accountability in grant and contract administration.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2484 Amendment SA 2484 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2486 Amendment SA 2486 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Collins to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10103; text: CR S10103)
To require an appropriate amount of funding for the Office of Bombing Prevention.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2486 Amendment SA 2486 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2497 Amendment SA 2497 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Byrd to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10083-10085, S10103; text: CR S10103)
To establish a wild horse and burro adoption program at the Department of Homeland Security.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2497 Amendment SA 2497 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2404 Amendment SA 2404 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Martinez to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10086-10089, S10103-10104)
To establish an international registered traveler program.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2404 Amendment SA 2404 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S10103-10104)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2478 Amendment SA 2478 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Akaka to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10104; text: CR S10104)
To provide for a report on the Performance Accountability and Standards System of the Transportation Security Administration.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2478 Amendment SA 2478 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2516 Amendment SA 2516, previously agreed to, was modified further by Unanimous Consent. (text as further modified: CR S10104-10105)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2518 Amendment 2518, previously agreed to, was further modified by Unanimous Consent. (text as further modified: CR S10105)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2438 Amendment SA 2438 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Clinton to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10105)
To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study on shared border management.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2438 Amendment SA 2438 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2432 Amendment SA 2432 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Cornyn to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10105)
To increase the authorized level for the border relief grant program from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2432 Amendment SA 2432 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2451 Amendment SA 2451 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Sessions to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10105-10106)
To conduct a study to determine whether fencing on the southern border can be constructed for less than an average of $3,200,000 per mile.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2451 Amendment SA 2451 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2495 Amendment SA 2495 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Isakson to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10106)
To restore the credibility of the Federal Government by taking action to enforce immigration laws, to request the President to submit a request to Congress for supplemental appropriations on immigration, and for other purposes.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2495 Amendment SA 2495 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2500 Amendment SA 2500 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Boxer to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To require United States Customs and Border Protection to provide information to Congress about the training of its personnel to effectively assist the Food and Drug Administration in monitoring our Nation's food supply.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2500 Amendment SA 2500 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10106)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2507 Amendment SA 2507 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Feingold to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10106)
To require a study on the implementation of the voluntary provision of emergency services program.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2507 Amendment SA 2507 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2477 Amendment SA 2477 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Kerry to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10106)
To require the Government Accountability Office to report on the Department's risk-based grant programs.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2477 Amendment SA 2477 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2519 Amendment SA 2519 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Obama to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10106-10107)
To provide that one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5 million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee owes no past due Federal tax liability.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2519 Amendment SA 2519 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2439 Amendment SA 2439 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Nelson FL to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10107)
To resolve the differences between the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program administered by the Transportation Security Administration and existing State transportation facility access control programs.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2439 Amendment SA 2439 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2406 Amendment SA 2406 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Baucus to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10107)
To prohibit the use of funds for planning, testing, piloting, or developing a national identification card.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2406 Amendment SA 2406 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2417 Amendment SA 2417 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Salazar to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To clarify that the preparation and implementation of community wildfire protection plans is a fire prevention program.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2417 Amendment SA 2417 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as mofified: CR S10107)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2504 Amendment SA 2504 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Levin to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10107)
To express the sense of Congress regarding to need to appropriate sufficient funds to increase the number of border patrol officers and agents protecting the northern border pursuant to prior authorizations.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2504 Amendment SA 2504 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2421 Amendment SA 2421 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Domenici to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To authorize appropriations for border and transportation security personnel and technology, and for other purposes.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2421 Amendment SA 2421 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10107-10108)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2422 Amendment SA 2422 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Domenici to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10108)
To conduct a study to improve radio communications for law enforcement officers operating along the international borders of the United States.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2422 Amendment SA 2422 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2526 Amendment SA 2526 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Collins to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10108)
To provide that certain funds shall be made available to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for the fraud risk assessment relating to the H-1B program is submitted to Congress.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2526 Amendment SA 2526 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2445 Amendment SA 2445 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Graham to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To require a report on interagency operational centers for port security.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2445 Amendment SA 2445 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10108)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2465 Amendment SA 2465 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Dodd to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To increase the amount provided for firefighter assistance, and to provide offsets.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2465 Amendment SA 2465 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10108)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2508 Amendment SA 2508 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Lieberman to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10108-10109)
To provide funds to modernize the National Fire Incident Reporting System and to encourage the presence of State and local fire department representatives at the National Operations Center.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2508 Amendment SA 2508 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2509 Amendment SA 2509 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator McCaskill to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10109)
To mitigate the health risks posed by hazardous chemicals in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2509 Amendment SA 2509 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2463 Amendment SA 2463 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Kerry to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10109)
To apply basic contracting laws to the Transportation Security Administration.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2463 Amendment SA 2463 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2490 Amendment SA 2490 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Menendez to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10109)
To provide for a report on regional boundaries for Urban Area Security Initiative regions.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2490 Amendment SA 2490 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2521 Amendment SA 2521 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Roberts to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10109)
To provide for special rules relating to assistance concerning the Greensburg, Kansas, tornado.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2521 Amendment SA 2521 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2467 Amendment SA 2467 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Coburn to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To authorize the release of data used to determine eligibility for assistance under title IV of the Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2467 Amendment SA 2467 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10110)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2474 Amendment SA 2474 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Clinton to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To ensure that the Federal Protective Service has adequate personnel.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2474 Amendment SA 2474 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10110)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2522 Amendment SA 2522 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Feinstein to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110)
To include the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University as a member institution if the Secretary of Homeland Security establishes a National Transportation Security Center of Excellence.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2522 Amendment SA 2522 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10110)
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2524 Amendment SA 2524 proposed by Senator Murray for Senator Coleman to Amendment SA 2383. (consideration: CR S10105-10110; text: CR S10110)
To provide funding for security associated with the national party conventions.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2524 Amendment SA 2524 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
7/26/2007:: S.AMDT.2383 Amendment SA 2383 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
7/26/2007:: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay. 89 - 4. Record Vote Number: 282. (text: CR 8/1/2007 S10660-10676)
7/26/2007:: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Byrd; Inouye; Leahy; Mikulski; Kohl; Murray; Landrieu; Lautenberg; Nelson NE; Cochran; Gregg; Stevens; Specter; Domenici; Shelby; Craig; Alexander.
8/1/2007:: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
9/24/2008 2:13pm:: Mr. Obey moved that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H9231-9305)
9/24/2008 2:13pm:: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1488, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Obey motion to agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2638 with an amendment.
9/24/2008 3:19pm:: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H9305)
9/24/2008 3:48pm:: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 370 - 58, 1 Present (Roll no. 632). (text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H9248-9289)
9/24/2008 3:48pm:: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
9/25/2008:: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
9/26/2008:: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9621-9622)
9/26/2008:: Motion to concur in House amendment to Senate amendment to the bill with an amendment (SA 5660) made in Senate.
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5660 Amendment SA 5660 proposed by Senator Reid. (consideration: CR S9622; text: CR S9622)
To establish the enactment date.
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5661 Amendment SA 5661 proposed by Senator Reid to Amendment SA 5660. (consideration: CR S9622)
Of a perfecting nature.
9/26/2008:: Cloture motion on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment (considered filed on Sept. 25, 2008, pursuant to the order of Sept. 25, 2008) presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9622; text: CR S9622)
9/26/2008:: Senate vitiated previous action on H.R. 2638 by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9850)
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5660 Proposed amendment SA 5660 withdrawn in Senate.
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5661 Fell when SA 5660 withdrawn.
9/26/2008:: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9850)
9/26/2008:: Cloture motion on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment (considered filed on Sept. 25, 2008, pursuant to the order of Sept. 25, 2008) presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9850; text: CR S9850)
9/26/2008:: Motion to concur in House amendment to Senate amendment to the bill with an amendment (SA 5670) made in Senate.
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5670 Amendment SA 5670 proposed by Senator Whitehouse for Senator Reid. (consideration: CR S9850; text: CR S9850)
To establish the enactment date.
9/26/2008:: S.AMDT.5671 Amendment SA 5671 proposed by Senator Whitehouse for Senator Reid to Amendment SA 5670. (consideration: CR S9850-9851; text: CR S9851)
Of a perfecting nature.
9/27/2008:: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9883-9897, S9901-9966)
9/27/2008:: S.AMDT.5670 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9886)
9/27/2008:: S.AMDT.5671 Considered by Senate.
9/27/2008:: Cloture on the motion to concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to the bill invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 83 - 12. Record Vote Number: 207. (consideration: CR S9883; text: CR S9883)
9/27/2008:: Motion to concur in House amendment to Senate amendment to the bill with an amendment (SA 5670) fell post cloture.
9/27/2008:: S.AMDT.5670 Proposed amendment SA 5670 withdrawn in Senate.
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