National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016

Full title	An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Acronym	NDAA 2016
Introduced in	114th United States Congress
Introduced on	April 13, 2015
Sponsored by	Rep. William McClellan Thornberry (R, TX-13)
Number of Co-Sponsors	1
Agencies affected	Executive Office of the President, United States Department of Defense
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 1735 by Rep. William McClellan Thornberry (R, TX-13) on April 13, 2015 Committee consideration by: United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate Committee on Armed Services Passed the House on May 15, 2015 (Yeas: 269; Nays: 151) Passed the Senate on June 18, 2015 (Yeas: 71; Nays: 25) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on October 1, 2015 (Yeas: 270; Nays: 156) with further amendment Senate agreed to House amendment on October 7, 2015 (Yeas: 70; Nays: 27) Vetoed by President Barack Obama on October 22, 2015

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (H.R. 1735; NDAA 2016) is a United States purposed federal bill which specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for Fiscal Year 2016. The law authorizes the $515 billion in spending for national defense and an additional $89.2 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund (OCO), for a total of $604.2 billion for the Fiscal Year 2016.^[1]

Role of the bill

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.^[2]

Bill vetoed

On September 30, 2015, President Barack Obama threatened to veto the NDAA 2016. The reason for the veto threat by the Obama administration was that the bill bypassed the Budget Control Act of 2011 spending caps by allocating nearly $90 billion to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, designating routine spending as an emergency war expenses exempted from the caps.^[3] On October 22, 2015, Obama vetoed the bill.^[4]

See also

• List of bills in the 114th United States Congress
• National Defense Authorization Act

External links

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Portal:Acts of the United States Congresses/Acts of the 114th United States Congress

General tracking of the bill:

• H.R. 1735

References