The Administration requested a total budget authority of $67.551 billion in budget authority for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) for FY2010. This amounts to a $6.904 billion, or 11.1% increase over the $60.79 billion enacted for FY2009 (not including funding included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, P.L. 111-5 ). The Administration's proposal included $13.789 billion for Commerce, $27.074 billon for Justice, $25.737 billion for Science, and $950.9 million for related agencies. On June 12, 2009, the House Appropriations Committee reported the FY2010 CJS appropriations bill ( H.R. 2847 ). The House passed H.R. 2847 on June 18, 2009. The House-passed bill included a total of $67.695 billion for CJS, 11.4% more than the total appropriated for FY2009 and 0.2% more than the Administration's FY2010 request. On June 25, 2009, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported H.R. 2847 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. The Senate passed its version of H.R. 2847 on November 5, 2009. The Senate-passed version of H.R. 2847 would have provided a total of $67.953 billion for CJS. The proposed amount would have represented a 11.8% increase over what was appropriated for FY2009. The Senate-passed amount would have been a 0.6% increase over the Administration's request, and it would have been 0.4% more than what was included in the House-passed bill. The Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 ( P.L. 111-32 ), was signed into law by President Obama on June 24, 2009. The Supplemental Appropriations Act provided a total of $205.1 million for CJS departments and agencies. Of this amount, $40.0 million was for the Department of Commerce and $165.1 million was for the Department of Justice (DOJ). On December 8, 2009, a conference committee met to resolve differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions of Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appropriations bill ( H.R. 3288 ). The version of H.R. 3288 reported by the conference committee—now entitled the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010—included six of the seven FY2010 appropriations bills that had not yet been signed into law. On December 16, 2009, President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 ( P.L. 111-117 , hereafter, "the act") into law. The act includes a total of $68.705 billion for CJS, an amount that is 13.0% more than the FY2009-enacted amount, 1.7% more than the Administration's request, 1.5% more than the House-passed amount, and 1.1% more than the Senate-passed amount. On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( P.L. 111-5 ; ARRA). The amounts appropriated by Congress in the ARRA are in addition to the amounts appropriated in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 ( P.L. 111-8 ) (described above). The ARRA included $15.922 billion for CJS departments and agencies. For Commerce, the ARRA provided $7.916 billion, for Justice, the ARRA provided $4.002 billion, and for science agencies, the ARRA provided $4.004 billion. This report uses the House report to accompany H.R. 2847 ( H.Rept. 111-149 ) and the text of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 ( P.L. 111-32 ), as the source for the FY2009-enacted and the FY2010-requested amounts, and it uses the Senate report to accompany H.R. 2847 ( S.Rept. 111-34 ) as the source for the amounts in the House-passed bill. The Senate-passed version of H.R. 2847 is used as the source for the Senate-passed amounts. The joint explanatory statement to accompany the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-117, H.Rept. 111-366), is the source for the FY2010 enacted amounts. The Administration requested a total of $67.551 billion in budget authority for CJS for FY2010. This amounts to a $6.094 billion, or 11.1%, increase over the $60.79 billion enacted for FY2009 (not including and funding included in the ARRA). The Administration's proposal included $13.789 billion for Commerce, $27.074 billon for Justice, $25.737 billion for Science, and $950.9 million for related agencies. The House-passed bill would have provided a total of $67.695 billion for CJS for FY2010, which would have been 11.4% more than the amount appropriated for FY2009 and 0.2% more than the Administration's request. This amount included $13.841 billion for Commerce, $27.751 billion for Justice, $25.147 billion for Science, and $956.2 million for related agencies. The Senate-passed bill would have provided a total of $67.953 billion for CJS for FY2010, which would have been 11.8% more than what was appropriated for FY2009, 0.6% more than the Administration's request, and 0.4% more than the House-recommended amount. The proposed funding would have included $14.043 billion for Commerce, $27.385 billion for Justice, $25.609 billion for Science, and $916.0 million for related agencies. The act includes a total of $68.705 billion for CJS, an amount that is 13.0% more than the FY2009-enacted amount, 1.7% more than the Administration's request, 1.5% more than the House-passed amount, and 1.1% more than the Senate-passed amount. The act provides $14.035 billion for Commerce, $28.078 billion for Justice, $25.658 billion for Science, and $934.8 million for related agencies. Congress could have considered the following FY2010 appropriations issues concerning the Department of Commerce: funding and overseeing the implementation of the 2010 decennial census; whether to have funded proposed increases for programs under the Economic Development Administration to assist distressed areas affected by unemployment as a result of the recession; the ability of U.S. trade agencies and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to fight intellectual property infringement abroad; the efficacy of U.S. trade agency enforcement of U.S. trade remedy laws against unfair foreign competition; whether to have provided the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with the authority to use all the fees it collects in a fiscal year; supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) climate research, endangered species recovery, and fisheries management; and whether to have funded NOAA's satellite programs to enhance environmental and weather data and information. There are several issues Congress could have considered when determining the appropriate level of funding for DOJ agencies and bureaus. Those issues include the following: continued oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) transformation and the redirection of a larger share of its resources away from traditional crime and towards combating domestic and international terrorism; limitations on the use of funds for anticipated DOJ administrative costs related to transferring Guantánamo detainees before closing the facility; increased funding to improve law enforcement's capacity to combat the trafficking of illicit drugs and firearms along the southwest border; increased funding for investigating and prosecuting mortgage and financial fraud; whether to have eliminated funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP); increased funding for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in light of its recent reporting that BOP facilities were operating at 36% over rated capacity at the end of 2008 and they project that facilities will be 37% over rated capacity at the end of 2009; and whether to have fully funded the re-entry programs authorized by the Second Chance Act of 2007. Among the issues facing science agencies that Congress could have addressed in the FY2010 appropriations process were: whether to have funded research and related activities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Energy Office of Science at the levels authorized in the America COMPETES Act ( P.L. 110-69 ) and endorsed in the FY2010 joint budget resolution ( S.Con.Res. 13 ) ; whether to have increased funding to the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to support two additional associate directors, the President's Open Government Initiative, and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; whether to have funded climate change and clean energy research that has been requested in the NSF FY2010 budget request; whether to have funded NSF's work under the National Nanotechnology Initiative directed at understanding and exploiting the unique properties of matter that can emerge at the nanoscale, as well as toward understanding and addressing nanotechnology-related environmental, health, and safety concerns; and determining the future direction of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) human spaceflight program. For the past few years this has been guided by the Vision for Space Exploration, announced by President Bush in 2004 and endorsed by Congress in the 2005 and 2008 NASA authorization acts ( P.L. 109-155 and P.L. 110-422 ).