National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
H.R. 5122, also known as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, was a bill passed in the United States Congress on September 29, 2006 and signed by United States President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006, becoming Public Law 109–364. The House vote was 396 ayes with 31 nays and 5 present not voting; the Senate vote was 96 ayes, with 0 nays and 4 not voting. H.R. 5122 includes:
- $10,876,609,000 allocated to the U.S. Army
- $17,383,857,000 allocated to the U.S. Navy
- $24,235,951,000 allocated to the U.S. Air Force
- $21,111,559,000 allocated to Defense-wide activities
- Expansion of the President's power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act, and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization when public order has been lost and the state and its constituted authorities cannot enforce the law ;
- The elimination of the position of the as of October 1, 2007, currently held by Republican lawyer Stuart Bowen, which is in charge of auditing expenditures in Iraq, transitioning Inspector General responsibilities to the Inspector General offices in the departments of State and Defense, now that the Coalition Provisional Authority is dissolved and Iraq is now a sovereign nation.
- A sunset date of September 30, 2012, which was later repealed.
Amendment to Section 1076 of the law
In 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 struck much of the existing text in section 1076. The revised section of the law, section 1068 had one amended section had multiple parts with the same exact text. These sections read as follows:These all were later amended in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, reinstating the presidential powers as were found in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007