Soon after the 111 th Congress convened, it began drafting H.R. 1 , the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, generally referred to as the "economic stimulus" bill. On January 28, the House passed a version of the bill which would have provided, in Title III, $4.9 billion for accounts funded by the regular FY2009 DOD appropriations provided by Division D of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2009, generally referred to as the "continuing resolution," which President George W. Bush signed into law on September 30, 2008. The House version of the economic stimulus bill also provided in Title X of the economic stimulus bill $6.0 billion for accounts funded by the regular military construction appropriations provided by Division E of the continuing resolution. The Senate passed an amended version of H.R. 1 on February 10, which would have provided an additional $3.7 billion for DOD accounts other than military construction in FY2009 and 3.4 billion for military construction. House-Senate conferees on the economic stimulus bill agreed February 10 on a compromise version that added $4.6 billion to the non-construction DOD accounts and funded by the FY2009 Defense Appropriations Act and $2.9 billion for military construction accounts(see Table 1 ). The House and Senate each adopted the conference report on H.R. 1 on February 13, 2009, with the House approving it by a vote of 246-183 and the Senate approving it by a vote of 60-38. Provisions of H.R. 1 relevant to accounts funded in the FY2009 defense appropriations bill are analyzed in pp, 3-5, below. (Provisions of the economic stimulus relevant to military construction accounts are analyzed in CRS Report RL34558, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations , by [author name scrubbed], [author name scrubbed], and [author name scrubbed] (pdf).) The balance of this report analyzes the FY2009 defense appropriations bill that was incorporated into the FY2009 Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance and Continuing Appropriations Act ( P.L. 110-329 ), which the President signed September 30, 2008. That bill provided $477.6 billion in discretionary defense appropriations for the so-called "base budget" of the Department of Defense, that is, for regular operations other than combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee had marked up its version of the FY2009 Defense Appropriations Bill on July 30, recommending a total of $477.6 billion, which the panel said was $4 billion less than the President requested for that bill. The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee marked up its version of the appropriations Bill on September 10, also recommending $477.6 billion. Neither chamber held full committee markups of a FY2009 defense appropriations bill, and neither chamber considered a defense appropriations bill on the floor. Instead, a compromise version of the two subcommittee bills—in effect, a conference agreement on FY2009 defense appropriations—was negotiated informally by members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees and was incorporated into the FY2009 continuing resolution, along with full-year versions of the FY2009 homeland security and military construction/veterans affairs appropriations bills. The bill was passed by the House September 24, 2008 and by the Senate September 27, 2008 and was signed by the President September 30 (See Table A-2 in the Appendix to this report.). Together with defense funds appropriated in other acts for military construction and emergency war costs and the permanent appropriation for accrual payments to the Tricare for Life fund for military retirees, the defense appropriations act brought the total for DOD appropriations in FY2009 to $578.9 billion, as of December 31, 2008 (see Table 1 ). In a related action, the President signed into law on October 14, 2008 the FY2009 defense authorization bill ( S. 3001 ) authorizing $611.1 billion for national defense, including $68.6 billion for war-related programs (see Table A-1 in the Appendix to this report). The House had passed its version of the FY2009 defense authorization bill ( H.R. 5658 ) on May 22, 2008, by a vote of 384-23. The House version of the bill authorized $612.4 billion, including $542.4 billion for national defense-related activities of DOD and other federal agencies and an additional $70 billion for costs related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. On April 30, the Senate Armed Services Committee marked up its version of the FY2009 authorization bill, which it reported to the floor on May 12 as S. 3001 . It also authorized the appropriation of $612.5 billion in new budget authority for national security programs, including $542.5 billion for the base budget and an additional $70 billion allowance for war-related costs. Controversies over various issues—including a provision that would incorporate into the legislation hundreds of earmarks listed in the committee's report on the bill and an unrelated dispute over offshore oil drilling—delayed Senate action on the measure until September 8. Because of the controversy over the earmarks provision, the Senate acted on only four of the several dozen amendments to the bill that were proposed before it passed the bill on September 17, 2008 by a vote of 88-8. Another result of the earmark dispute was that the Senate did not request a conference with the House to reconcile the two versions of the defense bill. Instead, members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees negotiated informally a final version of the bill authorizing $611.1 billion, a reduction of $1.4 billion from the Administration's request as re-estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. All but a very small amount of the authorization bill's reduction was taken from the $70 billion requested for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. On September 24, the House passed the compromise version of the authorization bill as an amended version of the Senate-passed S. 3001 . The bill was passed by a vote of 392-39 under suspension of the rules, a procedure which did not permit amendments but which required approval by a two-thirds vote. The Senate passed the amended version of S. 3001 by voice vote on September 27, thus clearing the measure for the President who signed it on October 14, 2008. Since neither the defense authorization bill nor the defense appropriations bill was the result of a formal conference committee, neither was accompanied by a traditional conference report. However, explanatory statements associated with the compromise version of each measure, fleshing out the details of the final legislation, were published in the Congressional Record . H.R. 1 , the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the "economic stimulus," added $4.6 billion to DOD accounts funded in the regular FY2009 defense appropriations bill enacted September 30, 2008 as Division D of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2009. The additional DOD funds provided by the economic stimulus bill were aimed largely at programs that would serve one of two goals. A total of $4.24 billion was for maintenance of DOD facilities of which $400 million is for medical facilities, $153.5 million is for renovation of barracks, and the remaining $3.69 billion is for repair and maintenance of other facilities and for projects that would improve the energy efficiency of DOD facilities. An additional $300 million is for research and development projects that would improve DOD's energy efficiency. Representative David R. Obey, chair of the House Committee on Appropriations, introduced the bill on January 26, 2009, three weeks after the 111 th Congress convened. Following referral to the Committees on Appropriations and Budget, the bill was brought up for consideration on the floor on January 27 ( Congressional Record , pp. H557-H583, H620-H749). After debate and amendment, H.R. 1 was passed by the Yeas and Nays, 244-188 (Roll no. 46). As passed by the House, the bill would have added $4.9 billion to the DOD accounts funded by the regular FY2009 Defense Appropriations Act that comprised Division D of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2009. (see Table 2 ) The Senate received the economic stimulus bill on January 29. It was laid before the Senate by Unanimous Consent on February 2, when Sen. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, proposed on behalf of Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to amend H.R. 1 by substituting the text of S. 336 , the chamber's own version of the bill ( Congressional Record S 1237-S1243, S1266-S1273). The Senate adopted several floor amendments before passing the bill Feb. 10 by a vote of 61-37. As passed by the Senate, the bill would have added $3.7 billion to the accounts funded by the regular FY2009 DOD appropriations act. (see Table 2 ) A conference report on the economic stimulus bill, adopted by both the House and the Senate on February 13, 2009 increased accounts funded by the regular FY2009 DOD appropriations bill by a total of $4.6 billion. President Obama signed the bill into law on February 17, 2009. (see Table 2 ) On February 4, 2008, the Administration released its federal budget request for FY2009 which included $606.8 billion in discretionary budget authority for national defense.