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in support of a contingency operation; 
and 
‘‘(bb) service on active duty in 
support of such operation. 
‘‘(4) No employee may take more than a total of 
12 workweeks of leave under paragraphs (1) and (3) 
during any 12-month period.’’. 
(b) SCHEDULE.—Section 6382(b)(1) of such title is 
amended by inserting after the second sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Leave under subsection (a)(3) may be taken inter-
mittently or on a reduced leave schedule.’’. 
(c) SUBSTITUTION OF PAID LEAVE.—Section 6382(d) 
of such title is amended by inserting ‘‘or subsection (a)(3)’’ 
after ‘‘subsection (a)(1)’’. 
(d) NOTICE.—Section 6382(e) of such title is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) An employee who intends to take leave 
under subsection (a)(3) shall provide such notice to 
the employing agency as is practicable.’’. 
(e) CERTIFICATION.—Section 6383 of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) An employing agency may require that a request 
for leave under section 6382(a)(3) be supported by a certifi-
cation issued at such time and in such manner as the Office 
of Personnel Management may by regulation prescribe.’’.
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TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
MEDICAL CARE 
For an additional amount for medical care and related 
activities under this heading for fiscal year 2004, 
$1,300,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISION, THIS ACT 
SEC. 5001. Not later than 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter until 
December 31, 2007, the President shall submit to each Mem-
ber of Congress a report on the projected total costs of 
United States operations in Iraq, including military oper-
ations and reconstruction efforts, through fiscal year 2008. 
The President shall include in each report after the initial 
report an explanation of any change in the total projected 
costs since the previous report. 
SEC. 5002. The amounts provided in this Act are des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 502 of H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress). 
SEC. 5003. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be obligated or expended by the head of an execu-
tive agency for payments under any contract or other agree-
ment described in subsection (b) that is not entered into 
with full and open competition unless, not later than 30
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days after the date on which the contract or other agreement 
is entered into, such official—
(1) submits a report on the contract or other 
agreement to the Committees on Armed Services, on 
Governmental Affairs, and on Appropriations of the 
Senate, and the Committees on Armed Services, on 
Government Reform, and on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(2) publishes such report in the Federal Register 
and the Commerce Business Daily. 
(b) This section applies to any contract or other agree-
ment in excess of $1,000,000 that is entered into with any 
public or private sector entity for any of the following pur-
poses: 
(1) To build or rebuild physical infrastructure of 
Iraq. 
(2) To establish or reestablish a political or soci-
etal institution of Iraq. 
(3) To provide products or services to the people 
of Iraq. 
(4) To perform personnel support services in 
Iraq, including related construction and procurement 
of products, in support of members of the Armed 
Forces and United States civilian personnel.
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(c) The report on a contract or other agreement of an 
executive agency under subsection (a) shall include the fol-
lowing information: 
(1) The amount of the contract or other agree-
ment. 
(2) A brief discussion of the scope of the contract 
or other agreement. 
(3) A discussion of how the executive agency 
identified, and solicited offers from, potential contrac-
tors to perform the contract, together with a list of the 
potential contractors that were issued solicitations for 
the offers. 
(4) The justification and approval documents on 
which was based the determination to use procedures 
other than procedures that provide for full and open 
competition. 
(d) The limitation on use of funds in subsection (a) 
shall not apply in the case of any contract or other agree-
ment entered into by the head of an executive agency for 
which such official—
(1) either—
(A) withholds from publication and disclo-
sure as described in such subsection any docu-
ment or other collection of information that is 
classified for restricted access in accordance with
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an Executive order in the interest of national de-
fense or foreign policy; or 
(B) redacts any part so classified that is in 
a document or other collection of information not 
so classified before publication and disclosure of 
the document or other information as described 
in such subsection; and 
(2) transmits an unredacted version of the docu-
ment or other collection of information, respectively, 
to the chairman and ranking member of each of the 
Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Appro-
priations of the Senate, the Committees on Govern-
ment Reform and on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives, and the committees that the head of 
such executive agency determines has legislative juris-
diction for the operations of such executive agency to 
which the document or other collection of information 
relates. 
(e)(1)(A) In the case of any contract or other agree-
ment for which the Secretary of Defense determines that it 
is necessary to do so in the national security interests of 
the United States, the Secretary may waive the limitation 
in subsection (a), but only on a case-by-case basis. 
(B) For each contract or other agreement for which 
the Secretary of Defense grants a waiver under this para-
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graph, the Secretary shall submit a notification of the con-
tract or other agreement and the grant of the waiver, to-
gether with a discussion of the justification for the waiver, 
to the committees of Congress named in subsection (a)(1). 
(2)(A) In the case of any contract or other agreement 
for which the Director of Central Intelligence determines 
that it is necessary to do so in the national security inter-
ests of the United States related to intelligence, the Director 
may waive the limitation in subsection (a), but only on 
a case-by-case basis. 
(B) For each contract or other agreement for which 
the Director of Central Intelligence grants a waiver under 
this paragraph, the Director shall submit a notification of 
the contract or other agreement and of the grant of the waiv-
er, together with a discussion of the justification for the 
waiver, to the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and to the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Appropria-
tions, and the Committee on Governmental Reform of the 
House of Representatives. 
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affect-
ing obligations to disclose United States Government infor-
mation under any other provision of law. 
(g) In this section—
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(1) the term ‘‘full and open competition’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 4 of the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403); 
(2) the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code, and includes the Coalition Provisional 
Authority for Iraq; and 
(3) the term ‘‘Coalition Provisional Authority 
for Iraq’’ means the entity charged by the President 
with directing reconstruction efforts in Iraq. 
SEC. 5004. (a) Congress finds that—
(1) Israel is a strategic ally of the United States 
in the Middle East; 
(2) Israel recognizes the benefits of a democratic 
form of government; 
(3) the policies and activities of the Government 
of Iraq under the Saddam Hussein regime contrib-
uted to security concerns in the Middle East, espe-
cially for Israel; 
(4) the Arab Liberation Front was established by 
Iraqi Baathists, and supported by Saddam Hussein; 
(5) the Government of Iraq under the Saddam 
Hussein regime assisted the Arab Liberation Front in 
distributing grants to the families of suicide bombers;