Because no regular military construction/veterans affairs appropriations were enacted before the end of FY2010, Congress sought to pass legislation to continue funding for operations into FY2011. The vehicle chosen was an appropriations bill that had made its way partially through the legislative process during the first session of the 111 th Congress. H.R. 3081 , the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2010, had been passed by the House on July 9, 2009. The Senate received the bill on July 13, but it had lain dormant on the chamber's Legislative Calendar (General Orders, Calendar No. 107) ever since. On September 24, 2010, the Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (NV) moved to consider the bill and sent to the desk a cloture motion ( Congressional Record S7454). The Senate invoked cloture on the motion to proceed by Yea-Nay vote (84-14, Record Vote No. 243, CR S7585) on September 28. On September 29, the Senate amended the bill, renamed it as the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, and passed it by Yea-Nay vote (69-30, Record Vote No. 247). The House took up the appropriate rule ( H.Res. 1682 ) late that same evening, passed the rule, and moved to accept the Senate amendments. The House agreed to the amendments early on September 30 by recorded vote (228-194, Roll No. 564), making funds available through December 3, 2010. The measure appropriated funds, according to Sec. 101, in such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2010 and under the authority and conditions provided in such Acts, for continuing projects or activities ... that are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Act, that were conducted in fiscal year 2010, and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available .... Nevertheless, Sec. 104 of the bill added Except as otherwise provided ..., no appropriation of funds made available or authority granted ... shall be used to initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal year 2010. The impact this will have on military construction projects requested by the President for FY2011 appears to depend on whether an individual project is a standard military construction project or a construction required to implement a recommendation of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission. Standard military construction projects are both individually appropriated for in the various military construction accounts and individually authorized in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, and the necessary authorization legislation has not yet been enacted for FY2011. Therefore, standard construction projects for which no appropriation of funds or authority was available in 2010 may not be initiated under the Continuing Appropriations Act. Nevertheless, funding for BRAC 2005 implementation is appropriated at the account, not the project, level, and both authority and appropriations funds for that activity were available during FY2010. Sec. 135 of the bill reduced the amounts available to the BRAC 2005 from the rate available for FY2010 (where $7.95 billion had been appropriated) to an annual rate of operations of $2.35 billion, the amount requested for FY2011 by the President and recommended by both appropriations committees. President Barack Obama submitted a detailed appropriations request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 on February 1, 2010. In it, he requested $18.7 billion in new budget authority for regular military construction and military family housing construction and operation, plus an additional $1.3 billion for construction in support of ongoing military contingency operations overseas, primarily in Afghanistan. The committees on appropriations subsequently recommended to their respective chambers that Congress appropriate funds equal to the president's request, though each committee's allocation of funds among the various subaccounts differed in detail. 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. 3615 ( S.Rept. 111-226 ), to the Senate on July 19, 2010, where it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders (Calendar No. 469). 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. 5822 ( H.Rept. 111-559 ), to the House on July 22, 2010. The bill was placed on the Union Calendar (Calendar No. 320). The House Committee on Rules met on July 27 to draft a rule for the consideration of H.R. 5822 . The Rules Committee adopted a structured rule ( H.Res. 1559 ) the same day, submitting H.Rept. 111-570 . The House passed the rule on July 28 and took up the bill, considering a total of 14 amendments. Of these, eleven were adopted before passing the amended bill on the Yeas and Nays (411-62, CR H6228-H6235, Roll No. 482). 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) and Table A -2 (Overseas Contingency Operations Military Construction). Representative Ike Skelton (MO/04) introduced H.R. 5136 , the National Defense Authorization Act for 2011, on April 26, 2010, when it was referred to the House Committee on Armed Services (HASC). The committee referred parts of the bill, including the authorization request for the FY2011 military construction appropriation, to its various subcommittees on May 11 and reported the bill ( H.Rept. 111-491 ) on May 21. The House took up the bill on May 27, adopted several amendments, and passed an amended version on recorded vote (Roll No. 336) on May 28, 2010. The bill was received in the Senate on June 9 and placed on the Legislative Calendar under General Orders (No. 423). On June 24, the Senate, at the other chamber's request ( H.Res. 1467 ), returned the papers to the House by Unanimous Consent. H.R. 5136 was again received in the Senate on June 28 and placed on the Legislative Calendar under General Orders (No. 447). The Senate's version of the defense authorization bill, S. 3454 , 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 June 4, 2010 ( S.Rept. 111-201 ). The measure was placed on the Legislative Calendar under General Orders (No. 414). Table 1 and Table 2 track the progress of the appropriations and authorization acts, respectively. The remainder of this report is organized in parallel with the appropriations bills. The military construction appropriations account includes a number of appropriations subaccounts: Military Construction 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 a common fund in which all NATO members participate 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 DOD provides the seed money, both directly appropriated and transferred from other accounts, needed to initiate public-private arrangements for the privatization of military housing. 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, as required under international treaty. 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) and Title IV (Overseas Contingency Construction) is listed in Appendix A to this report. Congressional committees with jurisdiction over military construction appropriations and appropriation authorizations require the Secretary of Defense to justify in detail the construction projects requested for the upcoming fiscal year. In addition, in order to anticipate upcoming construction requirements, Congress requires the Secretary to regularly project its future budget plans and to review its national defense strategy. One important document in that planning process is the statutorily mandated Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Congress has required DOD to periodically reassess its strategic objectives and potential military threats to national defense. The Department published its fourth such exercise, the 2010 QDR, in February 2010.