As many as 3 percent of Reserve Component troops called up before Oct. 2003 had to be released later as undeployable for medical reasons. The Defense Department partly fixed this problem by arranging to screen reservists just before they are officially mobilized. The Senate Armed Services Committee went further by placing a provision in the fiscal 2006 national defense authorization bill requiring annual physical exams for all members of the Selected Reserve, to include identifying those who would be undeployable. The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has weighed in against the provision, citing a price tag of $600 million over five years, and asserting that the current law requiring a physical every five years is satisfactory. Congress will take up the authorization bill some time after Labor Day when it returns from recess.