Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Resolution, 2021

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Resolution, 2021

This joint resolution provides $1 billion in supplemental appropriations for the Department of Defense to assist the government of Israel with the acquisition, enhancement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 54 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 54

  Making an emergency supplemental appropriation for the fiscal year 
 ending September 30, 2021, to provide funding to Israel for the Iron 
       Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2021

  Mr. McCarthy (for himself, Mr. Scalise, Ms. Granger, Mr. Rogers of 
  Alabama, and Mr. McCaul) submitted the following joint resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition 
    to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Making an emergency supplemental appropriation for the fiscal year 
 ending September 30, 2021, to provide funding to Israel for the Iron 
       Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sum is 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for 
other purposes, namely:

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

                       Operation and Maintenance

                operation and maintenance, defense-wide

     For an additional amount, $1,000,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2023, which shall be for the Secretary of Defense 
to provide to the Government of Israel for the acquisition, 
enhancement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome defense 
system to counter short-range rocket threats: Provided, That nothing 
under this heading may be construed to apply to previously appropriated 
funds for the procurement of Iron Dome: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i)).
     This resolution may be cited as the ``Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Resolution, 2021''.
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