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(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-
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
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(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-
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,
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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-
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
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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 
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.
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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 
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