request (1) In general The President may include, in the budget of the Department of the Treasury for a fiscal year (as submitted to Congress with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code), a unified request for funding of all operations under this section conducted by all of the departments and agencies represented on the Committee. (2) Form of budget request A unified request under paragraph (1) shall be detailed and include the amounts and staffing levels requested for each department or agency represented on the Committee to carry out the functions of that department or agency under this section. . (b) Annual spending plan Not later than 90 days following the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations and Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a detailed spending plan to expeditiously meet the requirements of subsections (b), (l), and (m) of section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by this Act, including estimated expenditures and staffing levels required by operations of the Committee for not less than the following fiscal year at each of the Committee’s member agencies. (c) Waiver The chairperson may waive the reporting requirement under subsection (b) with respect to a fiscal year for which a unified budget request described under section 721(p) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 has been submitted. (d) Special hiring authority Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 ( 50 U.S.C. 4565 ), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following: (q) Special hiring authority The heads of the departments and agencies represented on the Committee may appoint, without regard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 3318 of title 5, United States Code, candidates directly