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increase in production rates above those sustained with fiscal year 
2005 funds; or (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of 
any project, activity, operation, or organization (defined as any 
project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program element, and 
subprogram within a program element, and for any investment 
items defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity within an 
appropriation account and an R–1 line item that includes a program 
element and subprogram element within an appropriation account) 
for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not avail-
able during fiscal year 2005. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense 
shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance 
procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement 
unless specifically appropriated later. 
(c) Notwithstanding this section, the Secretary of Defense may, 
following notification of the congressional defense committees, ini-
tiate projects or activities required to be undertaken for force protec-
tion purposes using funds made available from the Iraq Freedom 
Fund. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available 
to the extent and in the manner that would be provided by the 
pertinent appropriations Act. 
SEC. 104. No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to initiate or resume 
any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other 
authority were not available during fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant 
to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures 
incurred for any project or activity during the period for which 
funds or authority for such project or activity are available under 
this joint resolution. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint resolution 
or in the applicable appropriations Act, appropriations and funds 
made available and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolu-
tion shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs: 
(1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any project 
or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) the enactment 
into law of the applicable appropriations Act by both Houses without 
any provision for such project or activity; or (3) November 18, 
2005. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, 
or authorization is contained is enacted into law. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations and funds made available by or 
authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution may be used 
without regard to the time limitations for submission and approval 
of apportionments set forth in section 1513 of title 31, United 
States Code, but nothing in this joint resolution may be construed 
to waive any other provision of law governing the apportionment 
of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, except section 106, for those programs that had high 
initial rates of operation or complete distribution of fiscal year 
2005 appropriations at the beginning of that fiscal year because 
of distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees
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or others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal year 2006 shall 
not be made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs 
funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding 
prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This joint resolution shall be implemented so that 
only the most limited funding action of that permitted in the joint 
resolution shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of 
projects and activities. 
SEC. 111. No provision that is included in an appropriations 
Act listed in section 101(a), but that was not included in the 
applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005 and by its terms 
is applicable to more than one appropriation, fund, or authority, 
shall be applicable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided 
in this joint resolution. 
SEC. 112. No provision that is included in an appropriations 
Act listed in section 101(a), and that makes the availability of 
any appropriation provided therein dependent upon the enactment 
of additional authorizing or other legislation, shall be effective 
before the date set forth in section 106(3). 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this joint resolution may 
be obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public 
Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 
SEC. 114. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory payments 
whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for 
fiscal year 2005, and for activities under the Food Stamp Act 
of 1977, activities shall be continued at the rate to maintain pro-
gram levels under current law, under the authority and conditions 
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005, 
to be continued through the date specified in section 106(3) of 
this joint resolution. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106 of this joint resolution, funds 
shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due 
on or about November 1, 2005, and December 1, 2005, may continue 
to be made. 
SEC. 115. The provisions of, and amendments made by, sections 
1011, 1012, 1013, 1023, and 1026 of Public Law 109–13 shall 
continue in effect, notwithstanding the fiscal year limitation in 
section 1011 and the provisions of sections 1012(i), 1013(e), 1023(c), 
and 1026(e) of that Public Law, through the earlier of: (1) the 
date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution; or (2) with 
respect to any such section of Public Law 109–13, the date of 
the enactment into law of legislation that supersedes the provisions 
of, or the amendments made by, that section. 
SEC. 116. The authorities provided by section 1306 of Public 
Law 107–314 shall continue in effect through the date specified 
in section 106(3) of this joint resolution or the date of the enactment 
into law of a defense authorization Act for fiscal year 2006, which-
ever is earlier. 
SEC. 117. Section 6 of Public Law 107–57, as amended, shall 
be applied by substituting the date specified in section 106 of 
this joint resolution for ‘‘October 1, 2005’’, and sections 508 and 
512 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447, division D),
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as made applicable to fiscal year 2006 by the provisions of this 
joint resolution, shall not apply with respect to Pakistan through 
the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 118. (a) Funds provided in section 101 of this joint resolu-
tion for ‘‘Social Security Administration, Limitation on Administra-
tive Expenses’’ may be used to complete the processing of appeals 
received prior to July 1, 2005, under sections 1852 and 1869 of 
the Social Security Act, notwithstanding section 931(b) of Public 
Law 108–173. 
(b) The Commissioner of Social Security may enter into a 
reimbursable agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to process, during fiscal year 2006, appeals received after 
June 30, 2005, and prior to October 1, 2005. 
SEC. 119. For the purposes of section 101 of this joint resolution, 
amounts obligated in fiscal year 2005 from funding provided in 
section 1015 of Public Law 108–173 shall be deemed to have been 
provided in an applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 120. Notwithstanding section 101 of this joint resolution, 
amounts are provided for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices, Office of the Secretary, Medicare Appeals’’ at a rate for oper-
ations not exceeding the rate set forth for such account in title 
II of H.R. 3010 of the 109th Congress, as passed by the House 
of Representatives. 
SEC. 121. Section 1015(b) of Public Law 108–173 is amended 
by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’. 
SEC. 122. The authority provided by section 2011 of title 38, 
United States Code, shall continue in effect through the date speci-
fied in section 106(3) of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 123. The authority provided by section 2808 of Public 
Law 108–136, as amended by section 2810 of Public Law 108–
375, shall continue in effect through the date specified in section 
106(3) of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 124. The amendment made by section 1022 of Public 
Law 109–13 shall continue in effect through the date specified 
in section 106(3) of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 125. Funds appropriated by section 101 of this joint resolu-
tion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may 
be obligated in the account and budget structure set forth in the 
pertinent Acts specified in section 101(a)(8). 
SEC. 126. Funds appropriated by section 101 of this joint resolu-
tion for ‘‘National Science Foundation, Research and Related Activi-
ties’’ may be used for Arctic and Antarctic icebreaking maintenance 
and operations. 
SEC. 127. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, except section 106, the District of Columbia may expend 
local funds for programs and activities under the heading ‘‘District 
of Columbia Funds’’ at the rate set forth for such programs and 
activities under title V of H.R. 3058, One Hundred Ninth Congress, 
as passed by the House of Representatives, and in addition, funds 
under ‘‘District of Columbia Funds, Enterprise and Other Funds, 
Capital Outlay’’ as included in the Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed 
Budget and Financial Plan submitted to the Congress by the District 
of Columbia on June 6, 2005. 
(b) Section 2302 of Public Law 108–11, as amended by section 
336 of Public Law 108–335 shall be applied by substituting the 
date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution for ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2005’’.
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SEC. 128. The provisions of title II of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11311 et seq.) shall continue 
in effect, notwithstanding section 209 of such Act, through the 
earlier of: (1) the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint 
resolution; or (2) the date of the enactment into law of an authoriza-
tion Act relating to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. 
SEC. 129. Notwithstanding section 101 of this joint resolution, 
amounts are provided for ‘‘Department of Transportation, Federal 
Transit Administration, Administrative Expenses’’ at a rate for 
operations not exceeding the total of budgetary resources made 
available for obligation for fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 130. Section 403(f) of Public Law 103–356 (31 U.S.C. 
501 note) shall be applied by substituting the date specified in 
section 106(3) of this joint resolution for ‘‘October 1, 2005’’. 
SEC. 131. Amounts made available by this joint resolution 
for the Department of Defense that are related to amounts provided 
in title IX of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006, 
as passed by the House, or related to amounts designated as emer-
gency requirements in previous defense appropriations Acts or 
supplemental appropriations Acts, are designated as appropriations 
for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism 
pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006, except 
that amounts so designated under this section shall not exceed 
$50,000,000,000.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.