OMB has issued guidance covering the obligation of funds in fiscal 2007 under the recently enacted full-year continuing resolution containing a moratorium on earmarks. The CR affects all government operations except those funded by the DHS and DoD appropriations bills, which were enacted last fall.
The joint resolution — which provides appropriations as a full-year CR, replacing the three shorter-term CRs enacted previously for the current fiscal year — states that any "language specifying an earmark in a committee report or statement of managers accompanying an appropriations act for fiscal 2006 shall have no legal effect with respect to funds appropriated" under the joint resolution.
According to OMB memo M-07-10, agencies funded by the CR should not obligate funds on the basis of earmarks contained in congressional reports or documents, or other written or oral communications regarding earmarks.
The memo is here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2007/m07-10.pdf
