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This report provides an overview of actions taken by Congress to provide FY2010 appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS). 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. On June 25, 2009 the Senate Appropriations Committee reported H.R. 2847 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. This report uses the House report to accompany H.R. 2847 (H.Rept. 111-149) 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 and the Senate committee-reported versions of H.R. 2847. The Administration requested a total budget authority of $67.551 billion in budget authority for CJS departments for FY2010. This amounts to a $7.045 billion, or 11.6% increase over the $60.506 billion enacted for FY2009. The Administration's proposal includes $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 recommends a total of $67.695 billion for CJS, 11.9% more than the total appropriated for FY2009 and 0.2% more than the Administration's FY2010 request. The Senate Committee-reported version of H.R. 2847 would provide a total of $67.953 billion for CJS. The proposed amount would represent a 12.3% increase over what was appropriated for FY2009. The Senate committee-reported amount would be a 0.6% increase over the Administration's request, and it would be 0.4% more than what was included in the House-passed bill. On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5; Stimulus act). The amounts appropriated by Congress in the Stimulus act are in addition to the amounts appropriated in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (P.L. 111-8) (described above). In this act, Congress appropriated $15.922 billion for CJS departments and agencies. For Commerce, the act provided $7.916 billion, for Justice, the act provided $4.002 billion, and for science agencies, the act provided $4.004 billion. The Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (P.L. 111-32), was signed into law by President Obama on June 24, 2009. The act provides a total of $205.1 million for CJS departments and agencies. Of this amount, $40.0 million is for the Department of Commerce and $165.1 million is for the Department of Justice. The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-68), was signed into law by President Obama on September 30, 2009. Division B of the act, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010, allows all departments and agencies that receive appropriations under the CJS bill--with the exception of the Census Bureau, which was funded at an annualized rate of $7.066 billion--to continue funding their operations at FY2009 levels until October 31, 2010, or until the FY2010 CJS bill is signed into law. This report will updated to reflect congressional action.

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