Number: RL32422
Title: The Administrations FY2005 Request for $25 Billion for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: Precedents, Options, and Congressional Action
Authors: Stephen Daggett and Amy Belasco, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: This report (1) briefly reviews the Administrations request for flexibility in the $25 billion contingent emergency reserve fund that it has requested for FY2005; (2) discusses options Congress has to provide flexible funding for military operations based on precedents discussed in more detail later in the report; (3) reviews standard peacetime procedures governing reprogramming of defense funds as a benchmark against which to assess flexibility Congress has often provided for wartime or contingency operations; and (4) reviews congressional responses to Administration requests for funding flexibility from the first Persian Gulf War in 1990 through post-9/11 wartime appropriations to date.
Pages: 39
Date: July 22, 2004