IA 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 68 
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2006, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 
Mr. LEWIS of California introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2006, 
and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora-
tions, and other organizational units of Government for 
fiscal year 2006, and for other purposes, namely:
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SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary 
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005 for con-
tinuing projects or activities (including the costs of direct 
loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise specifi-
cally provided for in this joint resolution, that were con-
ducted in fiscal year 2005, and for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority would be available in the fol-
lowing appropriations Acts: 
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2006. 
(2) The Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2006. 
(3) The Energy and Water Development Appro-
priations Act, 2006. 
(4) The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (in 
the House of Representatives), or the Department of 
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2006 (in the Senate). 
(5) The Department of Homeland Security Ap-
propriations Act, 2006.
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(6) The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2006. 
(7) The Military Quality of Life and Veterans 
Affairs Appropriations Act, 2006 (in the House of 
Representatives), or the Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2006 (in the Senate). 
(8) The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (in the 
House of Representatives), or the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2006 (in the Senate). 
(9) The Transportation, Treasury, Housing and 
Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of 
Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2006 (in the House of Representatives), or the 
Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2006 (in the Senate) and the Dis-
trict of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2006 (in the 
Senate). 
(b) Whenever the amount that would be made avail-
able or the authority that would be granted for a project 
or activity under an Act listed in subsection (a) as passed
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by the House of Representatives as of October 1, 2005, 
is the same as the amount or authority that would be 
available or granted under the same or other pertinent Act 
as passed by the Senate as of October 1, 2005— 
(1) the project or activity shall be continued at 
a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate 
or the rate permitted by the actions of the House 
and the Senate, whichever is lower, and under the 
authority and conditions provided in applicable ap-
propriations Acts for fiscal year 2005; or 
(2) if no amount or authority is made available 
or granted for the project or activity by the actions 
of the House and the Senate, the project or activity 
shall not be continued. 
(c) Whenever the amount that would be made avail-
able or the authority that would be granted for a project 
or activity under an Act listed in subsection (a) as passed 
by the House of Representatives as of October 1, 2005, 
is different from the amount or authority that would be 
available or granted under the same or other pertinent Act 
as passed by the Senate as of October 1, 2005— 
(1) the project or activity shall be continued at 
a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate 
or the rate permitted by the action of the House or 
the Senate, whichever is lowest, and under the au-
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thority and conditions provided in applicable appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2005; or 
(2) if the project or activity is included in the 
pertinent Act of only one of the Houses, the project 
or activity shall be continued under the appropria-
tion, fund, or authority granted by the one House, 
but at a rate for operations not exceeding the cur-
rent rate or the rate permitted by the action of the 
one House, whichever is lower, and under the au-
thority and conditions provided in applicable appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2005. 
(d) Whenever the pertinent Act covering a project or 
activity has been passed by only the House of Representa-
tives as of October 1, 2005— 
(1) the project or activity shall be continued 
under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted 
by the House, at a rate for operations not exceeding 
the current rate or the rate permitted by the action 
of the House, whichever is lower, and under the au-
thority and conditions provided in applicable appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2005; or 
(2) if the project or activity is funded in appli-
cable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2005 and 
not included in the pertinent Act of the House as of 
October 1, 2005, the project or activity shall be con-
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tinued under the appropriation, fund, or authority 
granted by applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal 
year 2005 at a rate for operations not exceeding the 
current rate and under the authority and conditions 
provided in applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal 
year 2005. 
SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made avail-
able or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the 
Department of Defense shall be used for (1) the new pro-
duction of items not funded for production in fiscal year 
2005 or prior years; (2) the 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 invest-
ment 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 with-
in an appropriation account) for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal 
year 2005. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or au-
thority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Depart-
ment of Defense shall be used to initiate multi-year pro-
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curements utilizing advance procurement funding for eco-
nomic order quantity procurement unless specifically ap-
propriated later. 
(c) Notwithstanding this section, the Secretary of De-
fense may, following notification of the congressional de-
fense committees, initiate projects or activities required to 
be undertaken for force protection 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 ap-
propriations, funds, or other authority were not available 
during fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga-
tions 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, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted 
pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until
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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 authorization whenever a bill in which such appli-
cable 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 pro-
grams that had high initial rates of operation or complete 
distribution of fiscal year 2005 appropriations at the be-
ginning of that fiscal year because of distributions of fund-
ing to States, foreign countries, grantees or others, similar
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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 per-
mitted 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 appro-
priations 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 appro-
priations Act listed in section 101(a), and that makes the 
availability of any appropriation provided therein depend-
ent 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
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U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization 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 appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2005, and for activities under 
the Food Stamp Act of 1977, activities shall be continued 
at the rate to maintain program levels under current law, 
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005, to be contin-
ued through the date specified in section 106(3) of this 
joint resolution. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106 of this joint resolu-
tion, funds shall be available and obligations for manda-
tory 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 re-
spect to any such section of Public Law 109–13, the date
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of the enactment into law of legislation that supersedes 
the provisions of, or the amendments made by, that sec-
tion. 
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 author-
ization Act for fiscal year 2006, whichever is earlier. 
SEC. 117. Section 6 of Public Law 107–57, as 
amended, shall be applied by substituting the date speci-
fied in section 106 of this joint resolution for ‘‘October 
1, 2005’’, and sections 508 and 512 of the Foreign Oper-
ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447, div. D), as 
made applicable to fiscal year 2006 by the provisions of 
this joint resolution, shall not apply with respect to Paki-
stan through the date specified in section 106(3) of this 
joint resolution. 
SEC. 118. (a) Funds provided in section 101 of this 
joint resolution for ‘‘Social Security Administration-Limi-
tation on Administrative Expenses’’ may be used to com-
plete 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.