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Week Ending June 4, 2004

S 2400 National Defense Authorization Act of 2005

BRIEF

   As calculated by the CBO the bill would authorize appropriations totaling $419 billion for fiscal year 2005 for the military functions of the Department of Defense (DOD) and would include spending for some Department of Energy (DOE) activities and for other purposes.

 The bill would set personnel strength for each of the active duty and reserves and would increase spending for discretionary defense programs from 2006 to 2009. The result being an increase in available troop strength.

Sponsor:

Vote: Bill is still being debated. Votes on amendment activity are in the Member section.

Cost to the taxpayer: The total cost of the bill is approximately $419 billion.

   CBO estimates that increasing spending from 2006 to 2009 would require additional appropriations of almost $12 billion over those four years.

   The bill does not include the $25 billion President Bush says he will need for Iraq in the near future.

MORE INFORMATION

The bill would change how disability retirement and survivor annuities would be calculated for certain reservists and allow selling assets from the National Defense Stockpile. CBO estimates that those provisions combined would reduce direct spending by $78 million over the 2005-2009 period, but then increase spending by $1 million over the 2005-2014 period.## All Rights Reserved.