[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 169 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                         June 19, 1997.
    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker 
may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the House resolved into the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. The 
first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against 
consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the 
bill and the amendments made in order by this resolution and shall not exceed 
two hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on National Security. After general debate the bill 
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.
    Sec. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on National Security now printed in the 
bill. The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered 
as read. All points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute are waived.
    (b) No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute 
shall be in order except the amendments printed in the report of the Committee 
on Rules accompanying this resolution and amendments en bloc described in 
section 3 of this resolution.
    (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution, each amendment 
printed in the report of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only in the 
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the 
report, shall be considered as read, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. Unless 
otherwise specified in the report, each amendment printed in the report shall be 
debatable for ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent and shall not be subject to amendment (except that the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on National Security each may offer one 
pro forma amendment for the purpose of further debate on any pending amendment).
    (d) All points of order against amendments printed in the report of the 
Committee on Rules and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this 
resolution are waived.
    (e) Consideration of the first two amendments in part 1 of the report of the 
Committee on Rules shall begin with an additional period of general debate, 
which shall be confined to the subject of United States forces in Bosnia and 
shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on National Security.
    Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the Committee 
on National Security or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of 
amendments printed in part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules not earlier 
disposed of or germane modifications of any such amendment. Amendments en bloc 
offered pursuant to this section shall be considered as read (except that 
modifications shall be reported), shall be debatable for twenty minutes equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on National Security or their designees, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in 
the House or in the Committee of the Whole. For the purpose of inclusion in such 
amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike may 
be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amendment to the text originally 
proposed to be stricken. The original proponent of an amendment included in such 
amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record 
immediately before the disposition of the amendment en bloc.
    Sec. 4. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a 
time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a 
recorded vote on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time 
for electronic voting on any postponed question that follows another electronic 
vote without intervening business, provided that the minimum time for electronic 
voting on the first in any series of questions shall be fifteen minutes.
    Sec. 5. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may recognize for 
consideration of any amendment printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
out of the order printed, but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the 
Committee on National Security or a designee announces from the floor a request 
to that effect.
    Sec. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the 
Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as 
may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any 
amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. The previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage 
without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions.
    Sec. 7. House Resolutions 161, 162, and 165 are laid on the table.
    Sec. 8. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the 
amendment numbered 7 in part 1 of House Report 105-137 may be offered in the 
following modified form, shall be debatable for 90 minutes equally divided and 
controlled by Representative Dellums of California or his designee and an 
opponent, and shall otherwise be considered as though printed in House Report 
105-137:
    At the end of title I (page 23, before line 7), insert the following new 
sections:

SEC. 123. B-2 AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.

    (a) Prohibition of Additional Aircraft.--None of the amount appropriated 
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 103(1) may be 
obligated for advanced procurement of B-2 aircraft beyond the 21 deployable 
aircraft authorized by law before the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Production Line Curtailment.--None of the amount appropriated pursuant 
to the authorization of appropriations in section 103(1) may be obligated for 
reestablishment of the production line for B-2 aircraft. The Secretary of the 
Air Force may use up to $21,800,000 of funds available for the B-2 aircraft 
program for curtailment of the B-2 production line.
    (c) Funding Reduction.--The amount provided in section 103(1) for 
procurement of aircraft for the Air Force is hereby reduced by $331,200,000.

SEC. 124. INCREASE IN AMOUNT FOR GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT.

    The amount provided in section 105 for procurement of equipment for the 
reserve components is hereby increased by $331,200,000.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the amendment 
numbered 15 in part 2 of House Report 105-137 may be offered in the following 
modified form, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled 
by Representative Frank of Massachusetts or his designee and an opponent, and 
shall otherwise be considered as though printed in House Report 105-137:
    At the end of title XII (page 379, after line 19), insert the following new 
section:

SEC. 1205. LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS FOR COST OF NATO EXPANSION.

    (a) The amount spent by the United States as its share of the total cost to 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization member nations of the admission of new member 
nations to the North American Treaty Organization may not exceed 10 percent of 
the cost of expansion or a total of $2,000,000,000, whichever is less, for 
fiscal years 1998 through 2010.
    ``(b) If at any time during the period specified in subsection (a), the 
United States' share of the total cost of expanding the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization exceeds 10 percent, no further United States funds may be expended 
for the costs of such expansion until that percentage is reduced to below 10 
percent.''.
    (c) The following amendment may be offered by Representative Everett of 
Alabama or his designee, shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and 
controlled by Representative Everett or his designee and an opponent, and shall 
be in order as though printed as the last amendment in part 1 of House Report 
105-137:
    Strike out sections 332 through 335 (page 68, line 10 through page 77, line 
21).
    (d) The following amendment may be offered by Representative Weldon of 
Pennsylvania or his designee and shall be in order as though printed as the 
penultimate amendment in part 2 of House Report 105-137:
    At the end of title XII (page 379, after line 19), insert the following new 
section:

SEC. ________. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NEED FOR RUSSIAN OPENNESS ON THE YAMANTAU 
              MOUNTAIN PROJECT.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The United States and Russia have been working in the post-Cold 
        War era to establish a new strategic relationship based on cooperation 
        and openness between the two nations.
            (2) This effort to establish a new strategic relationship has 
        resulted in the conclusion or agreement in principle on a number of far-
        reaching agreements, including START I, II, and III, a revision in the 
        Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and a series of other agreements 
        (such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Chemical Weapons 
        Convention), designed to further reduce bilateral threats and limit the 
        proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
            (3) These far-reaching agreements were based on the understanding 
        between the United States and Russia that there would be a good faith 
        effort on both sides to comply with the letter and spirit of the 
        agreements, that both sides would end their Cold War competition, and 
        that neither side would seek to gain or maintain unilateral strategic 
        advantage over the other.
            (4) Reports indicate that Russia has been pursuing construction of a 
        massive underground facility of unknown purpose at Yamantau Mountain and 
        the city of Mezhgorye (formerly the settlements of Beloretsk-15 and 
        Beloretsk-16) that is designed to survive a nuclear war and appears to 
        exceed reasonable defense requirements.
            (5) The Yamantau Mountain project does not appear to be consistent 
        with the lowering of strategic threats, openness, and cooperation that 
        is the basis of the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the 
        United States and Russia.
            (6) Russia appears to have engaged in a campaign to deliberately 
        conceal and mislead the United States about the purpose of the Yamantau 
        Mountain project, as shown by the following:
                    (A) General and Bashkortostan, People's Deputy Leonid 
                Akimovich Tsirkunov, commandant of Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-
                16, stated in 1991 and 1992 that the purpose of the construction 
                there was to build a mining and ore-processing complex, but 
                later claimed that it was an underground warehouse for food and 
                clothing.
                    (B) M. Z. Shakiorov, a former communist official in the 
                region, alleged in 1992 that the Yamantau Mountain facility was 
                to become a shelter for the Russian national leadership in case 
                of nuclear war.
                    (C) Sources of the Segodnya newspaper in 1996 claimed that 
                the Yamantau Mountain project was associated with the so-called 
                ``Dead Hand'' nuclear retaliatory command and control system for 
                strategic missiles.
                    (D) Then Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces 
                General Igor Sergeyev denied that the facility was associated 
                with nuclear forces.
                    (E) R. Zhukov, a Deputy in the State Assembly, in 1996 
                claimed that the Yamantau Mountain facility belonged to ``atomic 
                scientists'' and posed a serious environmental hazard.
                    (F) Russia's 1997 federal budget lists the project as a 
                closed territory containing installations of the Ministry of 
                Defense, while First Deputy Defense Minister Andrey Kokoshin 
                recently stated that the Ministry of Defense has nothing to do 
                with the project.
            (7) Continued cooperation and progress on forging a new strategic 
        relationship between the United States and Russia requires that both 
        nations make transparent to one another major projects underway or plans 
        under consideration that could alter the strategic balance sought in 
        arms control agreements or otherwise be construed by the other side as 
        an important new potential threat.
            (8) The United States has allowed senior Russian military and 
        government officials to have access to key strategic facilities of the 
        United States by providing tours of the North American Air Defense 
        (NORAD) command at Cheyenne Mountain and the United States Strategic 
        Command (STRACOM) headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, among other sites, 
        and by providing extensive briefings on the operations of those 
        facilities.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--In light of the findings in subsection (a), it is 
the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Russian government should provide to the United States a 
        written explanation on the principal and secondary purposes of the 
        Yamantau Mountain project, specifically identifying the intended end 
        user and explaining the heavy investment in that project;
            (2) the Russian government should allow a United States delegation, 
        including officials of the executive branch, Members of Congress, and 
        United States experts on underground facilities, to have access to the 
        Yamantau Mountain project to inspect the facility and all rail-served 
        buildings in the southern and northern settlements located near 
        Yamantau; and
            (3) the Russian government should direct senior officials 
        responsible for the Yamantau Mountain project to explain to such a 
        United States delegation the purpose and operational concept of all 
        completed and planned underground facilities at Yamantau Mountain in 
        sufficient detail (including through the use of drawings and diagrams) 
        to support a high-confidence judgment by the United States delegation 
        that the design is consistent with the official explanations.
    (e) The following amendment may be offered by Representative Traficant of 
Ohio or his designee and shall be in order as though printed as the last 
amendment in part 2 of House Report 105-137:
    At the end of subtitle C of title X (page 326, after line 6), insert the 
following new section:

SEC. 1032. ASSIGNMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL TO ASSIST IMMIGRATION 
              AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND CUSTOMS SERVICE.

    (a) Assignment Authority of Secretary of Defense.--Chapter 18 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 374 the following new 
section:
``Sec. 374a. Assignment of personnel to assist border patrol and control
    ``(a) Assignment Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense may assign up to 
10,000 Department of Defense personnel at any one time to assist--
            ``(1) the Immigration and Naturalization Service in preventing the 
        entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens into the 
        United States; and
            ``(2) the United States Customs Service in the inspection of cargo, 
        vehicles, and aircraft at points of entry into the United States.
    ``(b) Request for Assignment.--The assignment of Department of Defense 
personnel under subsection (a) may only occur--
            ``(1) at the request of the Attorney General, in the case of an 
        assignment to the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and
            ``(2) at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the case 
        of an assignment to the United States Customs Service.
    ``(c) Reimbursement Requirement.--Section 377 of this title shall apply in 
the case of Department of Defense personnel assigned under subsection (a).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of such 
chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 374 the 
following new item:

    ``374a. Assignment of personnel to assist border patrol and 
                                control.''.
    Sec. 9. Notwithstanding section 2(e) of this resolution, the additional 
period of general debate on the subject of United States forces in Bosnia shall 
precede the offering of amendments numbered 8 and 9 in part 1 of the report of 
the Committee on Rules rather than the amendments numbered 1 and 2 in part 1 of 
the report.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.