H.R.5385 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007109th Congress (2005-2006)

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12/06/2006 Message on Senate action sent to the House.

12/06/2006 Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Hutchison; Burns; Craig; DeWine; Brownback; Allard; McConnell; Cochran; Stevens; Feinstein; Inouye; Johnson; Landrieu; Byrd; Murray; Leahy; Harkin. (consideration: CR S11269-11270)

11/15/2006 S.Amdt.5125 Amendment SA 5125 previously agreed to, was modified by Unanimous Consent. (text as further modified: CR S10975)

11/15/2006 S.Amdt.5128 Amendment SA 5128, previously agreed to, was further modified by Unanimous Consent. (text as further modified: CR S10975)

11/14/2006 Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text: CR 11/16/2006 S11087-11095)

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5143 Amendment SA 5143 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5143 Amendment SA 5143 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Allen. (consideration: CR S10904) To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5146 Amendment SA 5146 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5146 Amendment SA 5146 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Cochran. (consideration: CR S10903-10904; text: CR S10904) To provide that of the amount appropriated or otherwise made available by chapter 7 of title I of the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriation to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 for Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps, and available for the replacement of a Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, $13,400,000 may be available for the construction of an additional Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at such center.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5138 Amendment SA 5138 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10903)

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5138 Amendment SA 5138 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Obama. (consideration: CR S10903) To require a report on the costs of the Comprehensive Service Programs for homeless veterans.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5130 Amendment SA 5130 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10903)

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5130 Amendment SA 5130 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Thune. (consideration: CR S10903) To require the business plan of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 for the implementation of a Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Wagner, South Dakota, to include an evaluation and an analysis of the prospect of colocating such clinic with the Wagner Indian Health Service unit in Wagner, South Dakota.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5128 Amendment SA 5128 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10903)

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5141 Amendment SA 5141 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5141 Amendment SA 5141 proposed by Senator Hutchison. (consideration: CR S10902-10903; text: CR S10903) To amend the amount of a military construction project.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5135 Amendment SA 5135 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5135 Amendment SA 5135 proposed by Senator Hutchison. (consideration: CR S10902; text: CR S10902) To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs to continue major medical facility projects and leases which have funds previously appropriated.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5129 Amendment SA 5129 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5129 Amendment SA 5129 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Craig. (consideration: CR S10902; text: CR S10902) To increase to $10,000,000 the threshold for major medical facility projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5127 Amendment SA 5127 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5127 Amendment SA 5127 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Feinstein. (consideration: CR S10902; text: CR S10902) To require a report on actions taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to test veterans for vestibular damage.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5126 Amendment SA 5126 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5126 Amendment SA 5126 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Feinstein. (consideration: CR S10902; text: CR S10902) To repeal the requirement for the Secretary of the Interior to cease the plan to exterminate the deer and elk population on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, California.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5131 Amendment SA 5131 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S10902)

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5131 Amendment SA 5131 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Thune. (consideration: CR S10901-10902) To increase by $750,000 the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for Military Construction, Air Force and available for the Air Force Financial Management Center, and to provide an offset.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5125 Amendment SA 5125 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5125 Amendment SA 5125 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Reed. (consideration: CR S10901; text: CR S10901) To provide that, of the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps, $3,410,000 shall be available for the replacement of a vehicle bridge at Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island, and to provide an offset.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5122 Amendment SA 5122 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5122 Amendment SA 5122 proposed by Senator Hutchison for Senator Stevens. (consideration: CR S10901; text: CR S10901) To provide that, of the amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this title for Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Army, $7,500,000 may be available for the lease of not more than 300 additional housing units in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5144 Proposed amendment SA 5144 withdrawn in Senate.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5144 Point of order withdrawn in Senate with respect to amendment SA 5144.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5142 Amendment SA 5142 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5142 Amendment SA 5142 proposed by Senator Kerry. (consideration: CR S10898-10900; text: CR S10899) To make available $18,000,000 for the provision of additional mental health services through Vet Centers to veterans who served in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5123 Amendment SA 5123 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5123 Amendment SA 5123 proposed by Senator Collins. (consideration: CR S10895-10897; text: CR S10895) To extend the Office of the Inspector General for Iraq until 80 percent of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund has been expended.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5144 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 5144 (the section within the amendment regarding an emergency designation) made in Senate.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5144 Point of order that an emergency designation within the amendment violates the CBA raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 5144.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5144 Amendment SA 5144 proposed by Senator Conrad. (consideration: CR S10889-10895, S10897-10898, S10900-10901) To provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance.

11/14/2006 S.Amdt.5128 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10889, S10903)

11/14/2006 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10889-10908)

11/13/2006 S.Amdt.5128 Amendment SA 5128 proposed by Senator Akaka. (consideration: CR S10856-10859; text: CR S10856) To propose a substitute.

11/13/2006 The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.

11/13/2006 Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S10848-10854; text of Title I as reported in Senate: CR S10848-10850; text of Title II as reported in Senate: CR S10850-10853; text of Title III as reported in Senate: CR S10853-10854; text of Title IV as reported in Senate: CR S10854)

07/20/2006 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 525.

07/20/2006 Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Hutchison with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 109-286.

07/20/2006 Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

07/18/2006 Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

05/22/2006 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

05/19/2006 The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 5385.

05/19/2006 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

05/19/2006 On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 395 - 0 (Roll no. 176).

05/19/2006 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H2943)

05/19/2006 The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5385.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.862 On agreeing to the Blumenauer amendment (A001) Failed by recorded vote: 151 - 247 (Roll no. 175).

05/19/2006 UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of an amendment which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.870 On agreeing to the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment (A009) Failed by voice vote.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.870 Amendment (A009) offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee (TX). (consideration: CR H2940-2941; text: CR H2940)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.869 By unanimous consent, the Tiahrt amendment was withdrawn.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Tiahrt amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.869 Amendment (A008) offered by Mr. Tiahrt. (consideration: CR H2940; text: CR H2940)

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 60, line 15 and ending on page 60, line 20 violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funds for Military Construction, Army Reserve. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 60, line 6 and ending on page 60, line 11 violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funding for Military Construction, National Guard. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 59, line 22 and ending on page 60, line 2, violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funds for Military Construction, Defense-Wide. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 59, line 13, and ending on page 59, line 18 violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funds for Military Construction, Air Force. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 59, line 4 and ending on page 59, line 9 violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funds for Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 Mr. Hensarling raised a point of order against the content of the measure. The proviso beginning on page 58, line 20, and ending on page 58 line 25 violates the Budget Act. Subsequently, Mr. Walsh insisted that the point of order lie against the entire paragraph which provides additional funds for Military Construction, Army. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.868 Mr. Walsh raised a point of order against the Obey amendment (A007). Mr. Walsh stated that the Obey amendment sought to change existing law and consitituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Obey amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.868 Amendment (A007) offered by Mr. Obey. (consideration: CR H2930-2931; text: CR H2930-2931)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.867 By unanimous consent, the Lynch amendment was withdrawn.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Lynch amendment under the five-minute rule, pending a reservation of a point of order.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.867 Amendment (A006) offered by Mr. Lynch. (consideration: CR H2930; text: CR H2930)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.866 Mr. Walsh raised a point of order against the Moore (WI) amendment (A005). Mr. Walsh stated that the Moore (WI) amendment violated the Budget Act. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Moore (WI) amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.866 Amendment (A005) offered by Ms. Moore (WI). (consideration: CR H2927-2929; text: CR H2927)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.865 Mr. Walsh raised a point of order against the Farr amendment (A004). Mr. Walsh stated that the Farr amendment sought to change existing law and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Farr amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.865 Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. Farr. (consideration: CR H2925-2926; text: CR H2925)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.864 Mr. Walsh raised a point of order against the Edwards amendment (A003). Mr. Walsh stated that the amendment sought to change existing law and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Edwards (TX) amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.864 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Edwards. (consideration: CR H2922; text: CR H2922)

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.863 By unanimous consent, the DeLauro amendment was withdrawn.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the DeLauro amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.863 Amendment (A002) offered by Ms. DeLauro. (consideration: CR H2920-2921; text: CR H2920)

05/19/2006 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Blumenauer amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Blumenauer demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.

05/19/2006 DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Blumenauer amendment under the five-minute rule.

05/19/2006 H.Amdt.862 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Blumenauer. (consideration: CR H2918-2920, H2942-2943; text: CR H2918)

05/19/2006 GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 5385.

05/19/2006 House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 821 and Rule XVIII.

05/19/2006 The Speaker designated the Honorable John Shimkus to act as Chairman of the Committee.

05/19/2006 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5385 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.

05/19/2006 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 821. (consideration: CR H2902-2943; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H2917, H2918, H2920, H2921-2922, H2922-2924; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H2924-2925, H2926-2927, H2929-2930; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H2930; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H2931, H2936, H2938; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H2939-2943)

05/19/2006 Rule H. Res. 821 passed House.

05/18/2006 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 821 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5385 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.

05/16/2006 Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Appropriations, H. Rept. 109-464, Part II.

05/15/2006 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 256.

05/15/2006 The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-464, by Mr. Walsh.