H.R.1585 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, a view all titles (28)

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  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, a as amended by house.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of as introduced.
  • Short: Maritime Administration Authorities Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Short: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal as introduced.
  • Short: Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act as passed senate.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal ye as introduced.
  • Short: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act as passed senate.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of as amended by house.
  • Short: Help for Military Children Affected by War Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. as amended by house.
  • Short: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Short: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as introduced.
  • Short: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as introduced.
  • Short: National Guard Empowerment Act as reported to house.
  • Short: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as reported to house.
  • Short: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as reported to house.
  • Short: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed house.
  • Short: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed house.
  • Short: Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Short: National Reservist Enterprise Transition and Sustainability Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activit as amended by house.
  • Short: National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007 as passed senate.
  • Short: National Guard Empowerment Act as passed house.
  • Short: Justice for Marines and Other Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act as passed senate.

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05/16/07
URGENT ACTION: VOTE ON IRAN AMENDMENT TODAY

Late last night, the House Rules Committee issued a list of amendments approved for floor debate on HR 1585, the fiscal year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization Act. The DeFazio-Paul-Hinchey-Lee amendment was included in the list ...

05/16/07
Important House Votes on Iraq Bases and Iran War in Next 24 Hours

These votes will come as part of the debate on the defense authorization bill (HR 1585), which the House will complete action on in the next two days. The votes on these amendments could come at any time today or tomorrow (Wednesday or ...

05/16/07
House Committee Passes FY08 Defense Authorization

The House Armed Services Committee Friday passed its version of the FY 2008 Defense Authorization bill (HR 1585). The authorization includes increases for Army and Navy basic research and keeps Air Force basic research funding level. ...

05/16/07
White House opposes pay hike for troops - so much for 'supporting ...

Under the bill, HR 1585, the pay gap would be reduced to 1.4 percent after the Jan. 1, 2012, pay increase. Bush budget officials said the administration “strongly opposes” both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, ...

Source: Blue Chips
05/16/07
Action: Votes on Iraq Bases and Iran War in Next 24 Hours

These votes will come as part of the debate on the defense authorization bill (HR 1585), which the House will complete action on in the next two days. The votes on these amendments could come at any time today or tomorrow (Wednesday or ...

05/16/07
Chris Hellman: Analysis of HASC action on FY2008 Defense ...

The House Armed Services Committee completed its markup of HR 1585, the FY’08 Defense Authorization bill, on May 9. The bill includes $503.8 billion for the Department of Defense and the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of ...

05/16/07
• Take Action — Votes on Iraq Bases and Iran War in Next 24 Hours

These votes will come as part of the debate on the defense authorization bill (HR 1585), which the House will complete action on in the next two days. The votes on these amendments could come at any time today or tomorrow (Wednesday or ...

05/16/07
Defense mega bill hits House floor

By my reckoning (the FY07 continuing res HJ Res 20 aside), the first really big bill to come to the House floor arrives today: HR 1585, the defense authorization bill. Right now, according to the floor summary, they're adjourning after ...

Source: MyDD
05/16/07
White House: 3.5 Percent Pay Hike Unnecessary

Under the bill, HR 1585, the pay gap would be reduced to 1.4 percent after the Jan. 1, 2012, pay increase. Bush budget officials said the administration “strongly opposes” both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, ...

05/16/07
ON THE FLOOR: Defense Authorization Bill in the House

Debate in the House on HR 1585, the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2008, begins this morning at 10 am and will conclude tomorrow. Among the amendments made in order yesterday by the House Rules Committee and to be considered ...

05/15/07
THERE GOES OUR MONEY AGAIN

..> May 14, 2007 In this MegaVote for Missouri's 9th Congressional District: Recent Congressional Votes - [ *] Senate: Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments [ *] House: Budget Resolution, FY2008 [ *] House: Student Loan Sunshine Act [ *] Hou

05/15/07
Upcoming Votes

National Defense Authorization Act, FY2008 - HR1585 This House bill would set defense spending priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Water Resources Development Act - HR1495 The Senate is set t...

05/15/07
Franks: Missle defense cuts “an 800-million-dollar mistake in the ...

While HR 1585 meets many of the needs of our valiant men and women in uniform, I remain very concerned about the severe funding cuts it would make in critical missile-defense programs. I offered three amendments that would restore ...

05/15/07
Bill Action: Scheduled for Debate: H.Res. 403: Providing for ...

This bill has been added to a schedule of legislation to be considered for debate, or has been recommended by a committee to be considered. [This event matched these monitors: Active Legislation ]

05/14/07
HR 1585, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year ...

Duncan Hunter (R-CA), ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, successfully offered an amendment to HR 1585, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, prohibiting the Pentagon from purchasing goods or ...

05/14/07
HR 1585 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

HR 1585 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.

05/13/07
$244M in military construction for Guam

In addition, HR 1585 includes a provision that authorizes TRICARE recipients requiring non-emergency specialty medical care not available in Guam to have a higher priority than retirees currently have for Space-A or space available ...

05/13/07
Pregnancy Counselling Services To Contact 40000 Homes -

California Chronicle, CA - 3 hours agoDuncan Hunter (R-CA), ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, successfully offered an amendment to HR 1585, the National Defense ...Source: news.google.comLet's be wary of ...

05/13/07
Re: HR 1585

Quote from: Mwsinron on Today at 01:14:12 PM. Why would the DoD only ask for 3% vs the Committee recommending 3.5% ? Politics. DoD is probably pulling a number closer to someone's estimate of the ECI while Congre...

05/13/07
HR 1585

This week the full House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the FY2008 Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1585) retaining all the provisions above and adding many more. The committee's action kicks off a flurry of defense bill ...

05/13/07
HASC Approves FY2008 Defense Authorization Act

The House Armed Services Committee Wednesday completed its full markup of HR 1585, the Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008 and approved the bill by a unanimous vote of 58-0. The bill authorizes $503.8 billion in funding for the ...

05/13/07
Re: HR 1585

Quote from: Mwsinron on Today at 12:57:57 PM. Well at least the raise is a bit more than inflation. I think the goal is to link military pay raises to the ECI, not the CPI. But that seems to be more of a minimum th...

05/13/07
HR 1585, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year ...

HR 1585 would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2007....

05/13/07
HR 1585

This week the full House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the FY2008 Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1585) retaining all the provisions above and adding many more. The committee's action kicks off a flurry of defense bill ...

05/12/07
Contractor News

Contractor News by susie dow Sat May 12, 2007 at 03:03:52 PM EST Monday, May 14 10am-12 noon, ... Committee passed the FY08 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R.1585. An overview of the bill can be found in the PDF

05/12/07
Iraq: beware the defense authorization bill!

What our friend had done was to get hold of the defense authorization bill HR 1585 (as reported out by HASC) - he picked the 1MB PDF version, rather than the regular HTML version on THOMAS - scooted down to §1501ff and read ...

Source: MyDD
05/10/07
Breaking San Onofre news

Even better news came today when the bill, HR 1585, passed the House Armed Services Committee with the Davis amendment intact! It may yet be possible to save San Onofre! See the LA Times story here, and read the two latest installment ...

05/10/07
Kline offers emergency troop funding amendment

Congressman John Kline, R-MN, introduced an amendment late Wednesday to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (HR 1585) approving a “clean” supplemental funding bill and preventing Congress from cutting off or restricting funding ...

05/09/07
HUNTER SUCCESSFULLY OFFERS SHIPYARD WORKERS AMENDMENT

Washington, DC – Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, successfully offered an amendment to HR 1585, the FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act, ensuring American shipyards hire ...

05/08/07
Committee Hearing: House Armed Services

HR 1585 : To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes. [This event matched these monitors: ...

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