On Thursday, May 24, 2007, the House and Senate approved a compromise on H.R. 2206 , a bill providing $120 billion in supplemental appropriations for FY2007. The President signed the bill into law, P.L. 110-28 , on May 25, 2007. The bill does not set deadlines for withdrawing troops from Iraq, but it does establish political and security benchmarks for progress by the Iraqi government, and it makes the provision of most new economic assistance to Iraq conditional on achieving specific goals. In all, H.R. 2206 / P.L. 110-28 provides $120.0 billion in new funding. Most of that amount, $99.4 billion, is for the Department of defense, of which $94.7 billion is for military operations, $1.6 billion for military construction, and $3.1 billion for military base realignment and closure. The bill also provides $6.1 billion for international affairs, including assistance to Iraq and Afghanistan. And the bill provides $14.5 billion for domestic programs, including $6.3 billion for hurricane relief, $2.9 billion more than the Administration requested; $3.0 billion for agricultural disaster assistance; $1.8 billion for veteran's health programs; $1.1 billion for homeland security measures; $393 million for state children's health insurance program shortfalls; $465 million for fire fighting; $425 million for secure rural school; and $510 million for a variety of smaller programs. The final bill does not provide funds for pandemic flu preparedness or low income energy assistance that were included in earlier measures. H.R. 2206 is the second FY2007 supplemental appropriations bill sent to the President. The first bill was H.R. 1591 , which provided $124.2 billion in supplemental funding and established two alternative timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. Congress formally presented the bill to the President on May 1, and, that evening, he vetoed it. On May 2, by a vote of 222-203, with approval of 2/3 required, the House failed to override the veto. Ultimately, as the President had originally requested, Congress approved FY2007 supplemental funding for military operations in Iraq and elsewhere without establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq. But this appears likely to be only the first round of an ongoing battle over the issue. H.R. 2206 / P.L. 110-28 establishes eighteen political and security benchmarks for the Iraqi government, and it requires the President to report on progress in Iraq in July and again in September. The House rule on H.R. 2206 , H.Res. 438 , also provides for a future vote on a the text of H.R. 2451 , a bill requiring the withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Iraq by June 30, 2008, when the House considers supplemental appropriations for FY2008. The House Appropriations Committee tentatively plans to bring up a defense supplemental for FY2008 in September. On February 5, 2007, the Administration requested $103 billion in supplemental appropriations for FY2007 of which $93.4 billion was for the Department of Defense and $6.0 billion for international affairs. The Administration also requested $3.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund for ongoing Katrina relief measures. Earlier, in January, the Administration requested authority to transfer $195 million in unobligated balances to liquidate unfunded obligations of funds by the Transportation Security Administration. Congress considered these and additional funding proposals in action on supplemental appropriations bills for FY2007. The main elements of the Administration's supplemental requests included: $93.4 billion for the Department of Defense to finance military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and counter-terrorism operations elsewhere through the remainder of FY2007; to cover costs of the "surge" of additional troops to Iraq and of an additional carrier to the Persian Gulf; to repair and replace equipment lost or worn out in current operations; to add equipment to fill recently identified war-fighting needs; to add and upgrade equipment to improve current and future war-on-terrorism capabilities; and to begin to finance facility improvements and some other costs associated with Army and Marine Corps plans to add 92,000 active duty troops to the force over the next several years; $4.8 billion for foreign operations, including $2,347.8 million for security and reconstruction assistance to Iraq; $721 million for assistance to Afghanistan; $362 million for activities in Sudan, mainly for humanitarian and peacekeeping support in the Darfur region; $586 million for reconstruction and security assistance to Lebanon; $279 million for assistance to Kosovo in support of a UN-led process to determine the region's status; $367 million for various other humanitarian assistance activities; $161 million for avian flu prevention measures; and $102 million for migration and refugee assistance in a number of areas; $1.2 billion for Department of State and International Broadcasting programs, of which $824 million was for the U.S. mission and other activities in Iraq and $200 million was for U.S. contributions for international peacekeeping in Lebanon and Timor Leste; $3.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund to support on-going Katrina recovery measures through December 2007, including housing assistance and grants for public infrastructure repair in the Gulf Coast; and a transfer of $195 million in unobligated balances to resolve insufficiently funded Transportation Security Administration (TSA) contract and grant obligations incurred during FY2002 and FY2003. Congress also considered additions of unrequested funds for agricultural disaster relief, child health insurance, avian flu preparedness, homeland security, and other purposes. Table 1 below provides an overview of the request and of the main elements of funding provided in the first, vetoed conference agreement on H.R. 1591 and in the final compromise version of the second supplemental, H.R. 2206 . Congress took up the Administration's FY2007 supplemental appropriations requests initially in March, when the House and Senate passed somewhat different versions of H.R. 1591 , a bill providing, in the House, $124.3 billion and, in the Senate, $121.7 billion in supplemental funds. The House and Senate reached a conference agreement on H.R. 1591 at the end of April, but the President vetoed the bill when it was formally presented on May 1. Subsequently, on May 10, the House approved two bills, H.R. 2206 and H.R. 2207 , that, together provided $123.3 billion in supplemental funding. H.R. 2206 divided funding for military operations into two pieces. The bill made $42.8 billion available immediately and without conditions. The bill also approved $52.8 billion for military operations, but, before those funds could be used, it required, by mid-July, a Presidential report on progress in Iraq and subsequent congressional approval of a resolution of approval to release the funds. The President promised to veto that bill, as well. Rather than confront a Presidential veto again, the House, followed by the Senate, approved a revised version of H.R. 2206 on May 24, which the President then signed into law. Table 2 provides a brief overview of major policy provision in (1) the vetoed conference agreement on H.R. 1591 , the initial FY2007 supplemental appropriations bill that the President rejected on May 1; (2) the May 10, House-passed supplemental package, comprised of the initial version of H.R. 2206 and a second bill, H.R. 2207 ; and (3) the final, enacted FY2007 supplemental appropriations bill, H.R. 2206 . Following Table 2 , this report provides brief highlights of key provisions of these three, main alternatives supplemental appropriations measures that Congress considered. The House approved its version of H.R. 1591 , providing supplemental appropriations for FY2007, on March 23, and the Senate approved its version of the bill on March 29. House and Senate negotiators a conference agreement on the bill on April 23. The House approved the conference agreement on April 24 and the Senate on April 25. Congress formally conveyed the bill to the President on May 1, and he vetoed the bill the same day. On major policy issues, highlights of the bill include— Iraq troop redeployment: The conference agreement requires the President, first, to determine by July 1, 2007, whether the Iraqi government has met specific security and political benchmarks. If the President does not report that Iraq has achieved the goals, the bill directs the Secretary of Defense to begin redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 1, 2007, with a goal of completing the redeployment within 180 days (i.e., by the end of December, 2007). If the President determines that Iraq has met the benchmarks, the bill requires redeployment to begin by October 1, 2007, with a goal of completing the redeployment within 180 days from then (i.e., by the end of March, 2008). The end-dates for withdrawal are not binding. After redeployment, the bill permits U.S. troops to be deployed in Iraq only to protect U.S. citizens and facilities; for customary diplomatic purposes; for targeted, limited-duration missions against global terrorist organizations; and to train and equip Iraqi security forces. Military readiness standards: The bill includes House-passed provisions requiring that the President either certify that military units have achieved goals for unit readiness and time between deployments before being deployed or waive the requirement. Conditions on economic aid to Iraq : The agreement prohibits obligation of half the aid provided to Iraq by the bill in the Economic Support Fund (ESF) and International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) accounts until Iraq meets political benchmarks and commits $10 billion to reconstruction.