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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rent-
al of conference rooms, and the employment of experts and 
consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code) of the United States Interagency Council on Home-
lessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title II 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amend-
ed, $2,000,000. 
Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act, as amended, is amended in section 209 by striking 
‘‘2006’’ and inserting ‘‘2007’’. 
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue 
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub-
sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United States 
Code, $108,915,000, of which $79,915,000 shall not be 
available for obligation until October 1, 2007: Provided, 
That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind shall 
continue to be free: Provided further, That 6-day delivery 
and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than 
the 1983 level: Provided further, That none of the funds
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made available to the Postal Service by this Act shall be 
used to implement any rule, regulation, or policy of charg-
ing any officer or employee of any State or local child sup-
port enforcement agency, or any individual participating 
in a State or local program of child support enforcement, 
a fee for information requested or provided concerning an 
address of a postal customer: Provided further, That none 
of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate 
or close small rural and other small post offices in fiscal 
year 2007. 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$47,110,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2007 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts. 
SEC. 702. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the
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expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings fund-
ed in this Act. 
SEC. 703. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fis-
cal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 704. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through procurement 
contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing 
law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law. 
SEC. 705. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-
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icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
SEC. 707. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly 
held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces 
of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his 
period of active military or naval service, and has within 
90 days after his release from such service or from hos-
pitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not 
more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his 
former position and has been certified by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties 
of his former position and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 708. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act 
may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that 
in expending the assistance the entity will comply with sec-
tions 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 
10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’). 
SEC. 709. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any per-
son or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy 
American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 710. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous
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appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in fiscal year 2007, or provided from any accounts in the 
Treasury derived by the collection of fees and available to 
the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: 
(1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, 
project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel for any 
program, project, or activity for which funds have been de-
nied or restricted by the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds 
directed for a specific activity by either the House or Senate 
Committees on Appropriations for a different purpose; (5) 
augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess 
of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; (6) reduces 
existing programs, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or 
10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) creates, reorganizes, or 
restructures a branch, division, office, bureau, board, com-
mission, agency, administration, or department different 
from the budget justifications submitted to the Committees 
on Appropriations or the table accompanying the statement 
of the managers accompanying this Act, whichever is more 
detailed, unless prior approval is received from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That 
not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report
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to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of 
the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report 
shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation with a sep-
arate column to display the President’s budget request, ad-
justments made by Congress, adjustments due to enacted re-
scissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level; 
(2) a delineation in the table for each appropriation both 
by object class and program, project, and activity as de-
tailed in the budget appendix for the respective appropria-
tion; and (3) an identification of items of special congres-
sional interest: Provided further, That the amount appro-
priated or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency 
shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
the required date that the report has not been submitted 
to the Congress. 
SEC. 711. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
maining available at the end of fiscal year 2007 from ap-
propriations made available for salaries and expenses for 
fiscal year 2007 in this Act, shall remain available through 
September 30, 2008, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to 
the Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the