H.R.1 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)

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  • Short: Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 as introduced.
  • Short: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 as introduced.
  • Official: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. as introduced.

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Harold Rogers

R-KY

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Latest Vote

Result: Amendment Rejected - March 09, 2011

Roll call number 37 (Amendment number S.Amdt.149) in the Senate

Question: On the Amendment (Inouye Amdt. No. 149)

Amendment purpose: In the nature of a substitute.

Required percentage of 'Aye' votes: 3/5 (60%)
Percentage of 'aye' votes: 42%
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This is the House Republicans' bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. It would cut a total of $61 billion in discretionary spending below 2010 levels. It also includes dozens of controversial policy riders that would do things like block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases and defund Planned Parenthood.
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2/11/2011--Introduced.Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 - Appropriates funds for FY2011 to the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance, including for the United States Court of Appea
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2/11/2011--Introduced.Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 - Appropriates funds for FY2011 to the Department of Defense (DOD) for:
(1) military personnel;
(2) operation and maintenance, including for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, environmental restoration, overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid, former Soviet Union cooperative threat reduction, and the DOD Acquisition Workforce Development Fund;
(3) procurement, including for aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, National Guard and Reserve equipment, and purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950;
(4) research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E);
(5) Defense Working Capital Funds and the National Defense Sealift Fund;
(6) the Defense Health Program;
(7) chemical agents and munitions destruction;
(8) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities;
(9) the Office of the Inspector General;
(10) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund;
(11) the Intelligence Community Management Account; and
(12) overseas contingency operations, including military, reserve, and National Guard personnel, operation and maintenance, the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund, the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund, the Iraq Security Forces Fund, procurement, the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle Fund, RDT&E, and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund. Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts. Makes continuing appropriations for FY2011. Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2010 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in:
(1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-80);
(2) the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-85);
(3) the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-83);
(4) the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (division A of P.L. 111-88);
(5) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 (division A of P.L. 111-68);
(6) the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L 111-117);
(7) chapter 1 of title I of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-212) that addresses guaranteed loans in the rural housing insurance fund (except for the Secretary of Agriculture's authority to waive certain fees for very low- and low income borrowers); and
(8) the United States Patent and Trademark Office Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-224) for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Provides funding under this division through FY2011. Authorizes continuation of other specified activities (including activities for entitlements and other mandatory payments) through such fiscal year. Bars any language specifying an earmark in an appropriations Act for FY2010, or in a committee report or joint explanatory statement accompanying such an Act, from having legal effect with respect to funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer of, or release to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions of, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who:
(1) is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces; and
(2) is or was held by DOD on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Establishes the level of funding for specified agricultural and rural development programs, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and related agencies programs. Establishes the level of funding for the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and for science and related agencies. Authorizes, restricts, or prohibits specified uses of appropriated funds in the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, with respect to funds appropriated by this Act. Establishes the level of funding for:
(1) energy and water development, and related agencies;
(2) financial services and general government;
(3) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and
(4) the Department of the Interior, the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. Requires specified federal departments and agencies to report to congressional appropriations committees on a spending, expenditure, or operating plan for FY2011 at a detail level below the account level. Establishes the level of funding for:
(1) the Departments of Labor, of Health and Human Services (HHS), of Education, and related agencies;
(2) the legislative branch; and
(3) DOD military construction, Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA), and related agencies. Establishes the level of funding for:
(1) the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs; and
(2) the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and related agencies. Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.Rescinds and/or reduces specified funds from or within various accounts. Rescinds all unobligated balances remaining available as of February 11, 2011, of the discretionary appropriations provided by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2000. Excludes from such requirement funds appropriated or otherwise made available to Offices of Inspector General and the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board by such division A. Specifies the amounts by which each applicable allocation of new budget authority made by the Committee on Appropriations exceeds the amount of related proposed new budget authority (thereby establishing a spending reduction account).

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