On December 30, 2005, President Bush signed the FY2006 Department of Defense appropriations bill ( P.L. 109-148 ), which included a one percent across-the-board rescission of non-emergency federal discretionary funding for FY2006. This bill also provided supplemental funding to several federal agencies to respond to the consequences of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, including $2.8 billion for the Department of Transportation, $11.9 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, $38 million for the General Services Administration, and $18 million for the Judiciary. On November 30, 2005, President Bush signed H.R. 3058 into law ( P.L. 109-115 ). The bill was passed by Congress on November 18. The bill provided $137.6 billion in net budgetary resources, less than either the House or Senate versions, but $4.1 billion (3.0%) more than the FY2005 enacted level and $7.3 billion (5.6%) more than the Administration requested. On November 2, 2005, the House Committee on Appropriations published a revised suballocation of budget allocations for FY2006 ( H.Rept. 109-264 ). Among the changes made by this report were a reduction in the suballocation ("302(b) allocation") for the House Appropriations Committee Transportation-Treasury-HUD-The Judiciary-DC Subcommittee. The revised suballocation for discretionary budget authority was $65.9 billion, $1 billion less than the previous suballocation (and $1 billion less than the discretionary funding level in the House-passed version of H.R. 3058 , the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill). On October 20, 2005, the Senate passed H.R. 3058 , the FY2006 Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill. The Senate added the text of S. 1446 , the Senate's FY2006 appropriations bill for the District of Columbia, to the bill, and approved an overall funding level of $141.6 billion, 6% more than provided in FY2005 and 9% more than the Administration request. The Senate bill includes provisions that would restrict outsourcing of federal work and ease restrictions on agricultural exports to Cuba. On June 30, 2005, the House passed H.R. 3058 , the FY2006 Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill. The House approved an overall funding level of $139.1 billion, a 6% increase over comparable FY2005 funding and a 7% increase over the Administration's request. The House approved the Appropriations Committee's recommendations to provide the same pay raise (3.1%) to federal civilian workers as that requested for uniformed military personnel for calendar year 2006, and to ease restrictions on U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba. The House approved several amendments to the bill, including ones increasing funding for Amtrak and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and restricting outsourcing of federal work. The President's FY2006 request for the programs covered by this appropriations bill was $126.1 billion. This was $1.6 billion (1%) below the FY2005 enacted level of $127.7 billion (after a 0.83% rescission). The FY2006 request included cuts from the FY2005 funding level for the Department of Housing and Urban Development ($2.8 billion, a 9% reduction) and the Department of Transportation ($1.4 billion, a 2% reduction). The FY2006 request for the Executive Office of the President was $300 million less than the FY2005 figure; that reduction was largely due to the proposed transfer of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program ($227 million in FY2005) from the Executive Office of the President to the Department of Justice, and to an FY2005 supplemental appropriation of $70 million to the Executive Office of the President ( P.L. 108-324 ) for unanticipated needs (for hurricane disaster relief assistance through the American Red Cross). The President's FY2006 budget request proposals included: zeroing out of funding for Amtrak, the provider of intercity passenger rail service, which received $1.2 billion in FY2005; reducing funding for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) to $3.0 billion, $600 million below its 'guaranteed' authorization level, which would make the entire appropriations bill subject to a point of order. The proposed level is also below the AIP formula threshold of $3.2 billion, which could result in a halving of most AIP formula distributions; eliminating the community and economic development programs under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), along with those of several other agencies, and replace them with a new program administered by the Department of Commerce. The proposed funding for the new program is $1.9 billion (34%) less than the aggregate FY2005 funding for the programs proposed for elimination (reduced from $5.6 billion for FY2005 to $3.7 billion for FY2006); reducing the funding for housing for disabled persons under HUD by $118 million (50%), from $238 million for FY2005 to $120 million for FY2006; eliminating the annual $29 million payment to the United States Postal Service for revenue forgone, as well as the absence of any funding requested for Postal Service security measures. Neither the House nor the Senate supported most of these proposed changes. The House-passed version of H.R. 3058 , the FY2006 Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill, provided $140.0 billion, $6.5 billion (5%) over comparable FY2005 enacted levels and $9.7 billion (7%) over the Administration's request. The bill generally reflected the House Committee on Appropriations recommendations, including the overall funding level; the House did approve amendments increasing Amtrak's FY2006 funding from $550 million to almost $1.2 billion, delete the House Committee's provision barring federal assistance for Amtrak's routes whose subsidy per passenger exceeds $30, and approve amendments increasing funding for several programs within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The White House objected to several provisions in the bill, and issued a veto threat against a provision easing a restriction on agricultural exports to Cuba. The Senate-passed version of H.R. 3058 , to which was added S. 1446 , the FY2006 appropriations bill for the District of Columbia, provided $142.0 billion. The bill generally reflected the Senate Committee on Appropriations recommendations, including the overall funding level; among the amendments approved by the Senate were amendments deleting Senate Appropriations Committee provisions which restricted Amtrak service and allowed Amtrak to charge commuter authorities for track access, and an amendment limiting the use of eminent domain powers by public authorities for economic development projects that result in primarily private gain. The White House objected to several provisions in the bill, and issued veto threats against some of them. The conference version of H.R. 3058 was passed by the House on November 18, and by the Senate on November 21, 2005. It was signed into law on November 30, 2005 ( P.L. 109-115 ). The conference bill provided $137.6 billion in net budgetary resources. This was $2.4 billion less than the House bill and $4.4 billion less than the Senate bill, but $4.1 billion (3.0%) more than the FY2005 enacted level and $7.3 billion (5.6%) more than the Administration requested. The largest increases went to HUD ($2.1 billion over FY2005 funding and $4.8 billion more than requested) and DOT ($1.0 billion over FY2005 funding and $2.4 billion more than requested). Conferees included directives to Amtrak (the Administration had threatened to veto the bill if it provided funding for Amtrak in the absence of any reform measures) and language that limits outsourcing of federal jobs performed by more than ten people unless the savings would exceed the lesser of 10% of or $10 million. Conferees did not include provisions passed by both chambers easing restrictions on agricultural exports to Cuba, which had elicited veto threats from the Administration. Conferees also did not include House language that would have prohibited the use of federal or D.C. funds to enforce certain gun laws in the District of Columbia. Conferees added language prohibiting the use of funds in this bill for projects using eminent domain to acquire land for projects that primarily benefit private entities. Conferees also added language that amended provisions in the recently-passed surface transportation reauthorization legislation (SAFETEA-LU, P.L. 109-59 ) regulating household moving companies. SAFETEA-LU allowed state consumer protection agencies to enforce federal laws regulating moving companies; conferees added language limiting the ability of state agencies to enforce these laws (the limitation would expire after one year). In early 2005, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations reorganized their subcommittee structures. The House Committee on Appropriations reduced its number of subcommittees to ten. This change combined the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies subcommittee with the District of Columbia subcommittee; to the resulting subcommittee, jurisdiction over appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Judiciary as well as several additional independent agencies was also added. The Senate Committee on Appropriations reduced its number of subcommittees to twelve.