President Barack Obama did not submit a detailed appropriations request during the first weeks of his administration. Instead, he forwarded the outline of a budget request, stating In the little more than a month my Administration has had in office, we have not had the time to fully execute all the budget reforms that are needed, and to which I am fully committed. Those will come in the months ahead, and next year's budget process will look much different. Detailed information on the FY2010 Department of Defense (DOD) request was released on May 7, 2009. Representative Chet Edwards (TX/17), chair of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, reported an original measure, H.R. 3082 ( H.Rept. 111-188 ), to the House on June 26, 2009. The bill was placed on the Union Calendar (Calendar No. 101). The House Committee on Rules reported H.Res. 622 , for consideration of H.R. 3082 , on July 9, allowing one hour of general debate. The rule was passed on July 10, and the bill was brought to the floor for consideration ( Congressional Record pp. H7976-H7983). Following floor debate ( CR pp. H7983-H7991), the measure passed on the Yeas and Nays: 415-3 (Roll No. 529). Senator Tim Johnson (South Dakota), chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, introduced an original measure, S. 1407 ( S.Rept. 111-40 ), to the Senate on July 7, 2009, where it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders (Calendar No. 100). H.R. 3082 was received in the Senate on July 13, 2009, where it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders (Calendar No. 16). The bill was laid before the Senate on November 5, 2009 ( CR pp. S11187-S11191). The Senate debated the bill on November 6 ( CR pp. S11239-S11245), November 9 ( CR pp. S11265-S11273, and S11283-S11284), November 10 ( CR pp. S11313-S11334), November 16 ( CR pp. S11362-S11378), and November 17 ( CR pp. S11403-S11411), passing it on November 17 by Yea-Nay vote: 100-0 (Record Vote No. 348). On December 8, 2009, H.R. 3082 , along with appropriations bills for Transportation-HUD, Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services, Labor-HHS, and State-Foreign Operations, was included in the conference report for H.R. 3288 , the 2010 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill retitled as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010. H.R. 3082 became Div. E of that report, H.Rept. 111-366 . The House adopted the conference report on December 10 by the Yeas and Nays, 221-202-1 (Roll No. 949). The Senate began consideration of the H.R. 3082 conference report the same day, along with an accompanying cloture motion. Floor action continued through December 13, including a point of order invoking Rule XXVIII (the rule was waived by Yea-Nay vote: 60-36, Record Vote No. 372), the invocation of cloture (Yea-Nay vote: 60-34, Record Vote No. 373), and final agreement to the conference report by Yea-Nay vote: 57-35 (Record Vote No. 374). The passed bill was presented to the President on December 15, 2009, who it signed into law the next day as P.L. 111-117 . The conference report accompanying the enacted bill specifies that The language and allocations set forth in H.Rept. 111-188 and S.Rept. 111-40 should be complied with unless specifically addressed to the contrary in the conference agreement and this explanatory statement. Report language included by the House, which is not changed by the report of the Senate or this explanatory statement, and Senate report language, which is not changed by this explanatory statement is approved by the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. This explanatory statement, while repeating some report language for emphasis, does not intend to negate the language referred to above unless expressly provided herein. In cases where the House or the Senate have directed the submission of a report, said report is to be submitted to both Houses of Congress. Detailed, appropriations account-level data on the appropriations bills, including enacted amounts for prior years, are displayed in Table 4 (Department of Veterans Affairs), Table 6 (Related Agencies), and Table A -1 (Military Construction and Family Housing). Representative Ike Skelton (MO/04) introduced H.R. 2647 , the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010, on June 2, 2009, when it was referred to the House Committee on Armed Services (HASC). The committee reported the bill ( H.Rept. 111-166 ) on June 16. The House began consideration on June 24 and passed it on June 25, 2009. The bill was received in the Senate on July 6 and placed on the Legislative Calendar (No. 96). The Senate's version of the bill, S. 1390 , was introduced to that chamber by the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services (SASC), Senator Carl Levin (MI), as an original measure on July 2, 2009. The Senate began consideration of the bill on July 14. Senator Harry Reid (NV), the Majority Leader, introduced a cloture motion on July 22 and passed it, as amended, on July 23, 2009, by Yea-Nay vote (87-7, Record Vote No. 242). On July 23, the Senate took up consideration of H.R. 2647 , struck all after its Enabling Clause, and substituted the debate-amended language of S. 1390 . The Senate then passed the amended H.R. 2647 by Unanimous Consent, insisted on its amendment, and requested a conference. The House took up the amended bill on October 6, 2009, when Representative Skelton moved that the chamber disagree to the amendment and agree to a conference. The motion carried by voice vote. Representative J. Randy Forbes moved that the conferees be instructed on a provision regarding the Matthew Shephard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. After one hour of debate, the motion failed by the Yeas and Nays, 178-234 (Roll No. 754). Conferees filed the conference report ( H.Rept. 111-288 ) in the House on October 7. Representative Skelton brought up the report for floor consideration on October 8. After one hour of debate, Representative Buck McKeon moved that report be recommitted with instructions to the conference committee. The motion was defeated by the Yeas and Nays (208-216, Roll No. 769). The House agreed to the conference report by a recorded vote of 281-146 (Roll No. 770). The Senate took up the conference report on October 20. A cloture motion was filed the same day. Cloture on the conference report was invoked by the Senate on October 22 by a Yea-Nay vote of 64-35 (Record Vote No. 326). The chamber agreed to the conference report by Yea-Nay vote (68-29) on the same day (Record Vote No. 327). Congress cleared the bill for the White House on October 22, 2009. It was presented to the President on October 26 and signed by him on October 28, becoming P.L. 111-84 . Table 1 and Table 2 track the progress of the appropriations and authorization acts, respectively. Military C onstruction accounts provide funds for new construction, construction improvements, planning and design, and host nation support of active and reserve military forces and DOD agencies. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program (NSIP) is the U.S. contribution to defray the costs of construction (airfields, fuel pipelines, military headquarters, etc.) needed to support major NATO commands. Family housing accounts fund new construction, construction improvements, federal government costs for family housing privatization, maintenance and repair, furnishings, management, services, utilities, and other expenses incurred in providing suitable accommodation for military personnel and their families where needed. The DOD Housing Improvement Fund is the vehicle by which funds, both directly appropriated and transferred from other accounts, support military housing privatization. The Homeowners Assistance Fund aids federal personnel stationed at or near an installation scheduled for closure or realignment who are unable to sell their homes by allowing the Secretary of Defense to subsidize the sale or to purchase homes outright. The Chemical Demilitarization Construction, Defense-Wide , account provides for the design and construction of disposal facilities required for the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles. The Base Realignment and Closure Account 1990 funds the remaining environmental remediation requirements (including the disposal of unexploded ordnance) arising from the first four base realignment and closure (BRAC) rounds (1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995). The Base Realignment and Closure Account 2005 provides funding for the military construction, relocation, and environmental requirements of the implementation of both the 2005 BRAC round and the DOD Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy/Global Defense Posture Realignment (military construction only). Funding of the various accounts included under Title I (Department of Defense) is listed in Appendix A to this report.