Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 is a $1.5 trillion

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. The bill was passed by Congress on March 14, 2022. The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 15, 2022. The law includes $13.6 billion in aid to

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as part of the United States' response to the

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One important point of debate for the bill involved how much defense versus non-defense spending would be increased; Republican "leaders demanded equal levels of growth in the two areas." Compared to FY2021, the final bill raised defense spending by 5.6% to $782 billion, and other discretionary funding by 6.7% to $730 billion. Due to lack of agreement on how much to grant out of the $22.5 billion requested for the ongoing

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, all funding in that area was dropped to allow the bill to pass quickly. The government said this endangered COVID-related testing, treatment, vaccination, international vaccine distribution, and preparedness for future COVID variants.

The bill includes a reauthorization of the

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, which had lapsed in 2019. The bill "includes a ban on the use of any maps by the

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and its foreign operations that 'inaccurately' depict

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as part of

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." The bill amends the definition of the term “tobacco product” under the

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to define a

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as “any product made or derived from tobacco or containing

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from any source, that is intended for human consumption." Making electronic vapor products that contain synthetic nicotine subject to

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(FDA) regulation. The law becomes effective on April 14, 2022, and manufacturers will have until May 14, 2022 to either submit a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to the FDA for each of their electronic vapor products that contain synthetic nicotine or stop marketing those products in the marketplace. Manufacturers that do submit a PMTA to the FDA by the May 14, 2022 deadline can continue marketing their products until July 13, 2022, after which time the products must be removed from retail stores unless the FDA has issued a PMTA marketing authorization order by the July 13, 2022 deadline date. The bill also includes $4.5 million to fund the

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, resulting in White House interns being paid for the first time. This was done following years of controversy surrounding the issue. built upon the earlier concerning reporting to and reporting from the

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, requiring quarterly classified reporting to Congress beginning no later than 13 June 2022. In July 2022 the

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(AARO) was (re-)established.

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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022PDFdetails
as amended in the

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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022PDF
as enacted in the US Statutes at Large
C-SPAN video of President Biden signing Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 into law

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