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civilian employees; purchase of uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $750 for official reception 
and representation expenses; $24,000,000: Provided, That 
during the current fiscal year, the President may exempt 
this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, 
whenever the President deems such action to be necessary 
in the interest of national defense: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be ex-
pended for or in connection with the induction of any per-
son into the Armed Forces of the United States. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $1,499,000.
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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, $116,350,000, of which $73,000,000 shall 
not be available for obligation until October 1, 2006: Pro-
vided, That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind 
shall continue to be free: Provided further, That 6-day de-
livery and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less 
than the 1983 level: Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available to the Postal Service by this Act 
shall be used to implement any rule, regulation, or policy 
of charging any officer or employee of any State or local 
child support enforcement agency, or any individual par-
ticipating in a State or local program of child support en-
forcement, a fee for information requested or provided 
concerning an address of a postal customer: Provided fur-
ther, 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 2006. 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
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$48,998,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 
TITLE VIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 801. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2006 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts. 
SEC. 802. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 803. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 804. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures 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.
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SEC. 805. 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 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 806. 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-
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930. 
SEC. 807. 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, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his release from such service or 
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the 
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto.
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SEC. 808. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 809. None of the funds provided in this Act, 
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
or entities funded in this Act that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2005, or provided 
from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collec-
tion of fees and available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation 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 denied or restricted by 
the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a spe-
cific activity by either the House or Senate Committees 
on Appropriations for a different purpose; (5) augments 
existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of 
$2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is greater; (6) re-
duces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
$2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is greater; or (7) cre-
ates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, office, 
bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or de-
partment different from the budget justifications sub-
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mitted to the Committees on Appropriations or the table 
accompanying the statement of the managers accom-
panying this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior 
approval is received from the House and Senate Commit-
tees 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 to the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Rep-
resentatives to establish the baseline for application of re-
programming and transfer authorities for the current fis-
cal year: Provided further, That the report shall include: 
(1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column 
to display the President’s budget request, adjustments 
made by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, 
if appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level; (2) a de-
lineation in the table for each appropriation both by object 
class and program, project, and activity as detailed in the 
budget appendix for the respective appropriation; and (3) 
an identification of items of special congressional interest: 
Provided further, That the amount appropriated 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. 810. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances
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remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2006 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2006 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 811. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President 
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any 
official background investigation report on any individual, 
except when— 
(1) such individual has given his or her express 
written consent for such request not more than 6 
months prior to the date of such request and during 
the same presidential administration; or 
(2) such request is required due to extraor-
dinary circumstances involving national security. 
SEC. 812. The cost accounting standards promul-
gated under section 26 of the Office of Federal Procure-
ment Policy Act (Public Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422) 
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-
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eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 813. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made 
available to the Office pursuant to court approval. 
SEC. 814. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 815. The provision of section 815 shall not 
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 
result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 816. In order to promote Government access to 
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 
forth in the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.), 
shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Govern-
ment of information technology (as defined in section 
11101 of title 40, United States Code), that is a commer-
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cial item (as defined in section 4(12) of the Office of Fed-
eral Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
SEC. 817. None of the funds made available in the 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force— 
(1) the proposed rule relating to the determina-
tion that real estate brokerage is an activity that is 
financial in nature or incidental to a financial activ-
ity published in the Federal Register on January 3, 
2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 307 et seq.); or 
(2) the revision proposed in such rule to section 
1501.2 of title 12 of the Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
SEC. 818. Of the funds provided in title I of this Act 
under the heading, ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Transpor-
tation Planning, Research, and Development’’, $3,000,000 
shall be available for necessary expenses to reimburse 
fixed-based general aviation operators and the providers 
of general aviation ground support services at Ronald 
Reagan Washington National Airport, and airports within 
15 miles of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 
for financial losses incurred by these operators while such 
airports were closed due to the actions of the Federal Gov-
ernment following the terrorist attacks on the United 
States that occurred on September 11, 2001: Provided,
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That such funds shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That obligation and expenditure of these 
funds shall be made conditional upon full release of the 
United States Government for all claims arising from the 
closing of these general aviation facilities. 
SEC. 819. Section 640(c) of the Treasury and Gen-
eral Government Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
106–58; 2 U.S.C. 437g note), as amended by section 642 
of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations 
Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–67) and by section 639 of the 
Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2004 (Public Law 108–199), is amended 
by striking ‘‘December 31, 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem-
ber 31, 2008’’. 
TITLE IX—GENERAL PROVISIONS, 
GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 901. Funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act may be used to pay travel to the United States for 
the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases 
of death or life threatening illness of said employee. 
SEC. 902. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2006 shall obligate 
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
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cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the offi-
cers and employees of such department, agency, or instru-
mentality. 
SEC. 903. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor 
vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, 
and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at 
$8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be ex-
ceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, 
and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehi-
cles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this sec-
tion may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for elec-
tric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under 
the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section 
may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alter-
native fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law