[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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             VA-HUD APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995

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                      MURKOWSKI AMENDMENT NO. 2450

  Mr. MURKOWSKI proposed an amendment to the bill (H.R. 4624) making 
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1995, and for other purposes; as follows:

       On page 13, line 4, after the colon, insert the following: 
     ``Provided further, That no funds provided under this head 
     may be used for the construction of acute care, inpatient 
     hospital capacity:''.
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                  REID (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 2451

  Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. Bryan, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Simpson) 
proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 4624, supra; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following new section:
       Sec.   . None of the funds made available in this Act to 
     the Department of Housing and Urban Development may be used 
     to provide any individual assistance or benefit to any 
     individual or entity in the United States unless the Federal 
     entity or official to which the funds are made available 
     takes reasonable actions to determine whether the individual 
     is in a lawful immigration status in the United States: 
     Provided, That in no case may a Federal entity, official, or 
     agent of any Federal entity or official discriminate against 
     any individual with respect to filing, inquiry, or 
     adjudication of an application for funding made available in 
     this Act on the basis of race, color, creed, handicap, 
     religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status or form of 
     lawful immigration status: Provided further, That for 
     purposes of this section, the term ``individual assistance or 
     benefit'' does not include search and rescue, emergency 
     medical care, emergency mass care, emergency shelter, 
     clearance of roads and construction of temporary bridges 
     necessary to the performance of emergency tasks and essential 
     community services, warning of further risks or hazards, 
     dissemination of public information and assistance regarding 
     health and safety measures, the provision on an emergency 
     basis of food, water, medicine, and other essential needs, 
     including movement of supplies or persons, or reduction of 
     immediate threats to life, property, and public health and 
     safety: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of this section, a homeless individual may, for a 
     period not to exceed 45 days, receive assistance from funds 
     made available under this Act to assist homeless individuals 
     pursuant to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, 
     regardless of the immigration status of such individual.
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                  COHEN (AND MACK) AMENDMENT NO. 2452

  Mr. COHEN (for himself and Mr. Mack) proposed an amendment to the 
bill H.R. 4624, supra; as follows:

       Sec.   . On page 18, line 19, strike ``$10,600,000,000'' 
     and insert ``$10,250,000,000''.
       On page 20, line 8, strike all after the comma, and all 
     through line 11 before the semicolon.
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               LAUTENBERG (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 2453

  Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, Mr. Packwood, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Murray, 
Mr. DeConcini, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Bradley, and Ms. Mikulski) proposed 
an amendment to the bill H.R. 4624, supra; as follows:

       On page 91, between lines 9 and 10, insert the following:
       Sec. 518. It is sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the murders of a doctor, his escort, and the wounding 
     of another escort outside a reproductive health clinic in 
     Pensacola, Florida, on July 29, 1994, were reprehensible acts 
     of violence and terrorism;
       (2) the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms 
     should undertake all enforcement and investigative activities 
     under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and any 
     other applicable laws, that are necessary to ensure the 
     safety of women seeking reproductive health services, their 
     doctors, and escorts and clinic workers and to demonstrate to 
     future potential perpetrators of such violence that these 
     laws will be strongly enforced nationwide;
       (3) The Attorney General should utilize the full extent of 
     her authority to provide adequate protection to women 
     obtaining reproductive health services, their doctors, and 
     escorts and clinic workers; and
       (4) all investigative and law enforcement activities 
     undertaken by the Government in accordance with this section 
     should be conducted in a manner that is fully consistent with 
     the first amendment to the Constitution.
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                 SMITH (AND McCAIN) AMENDMENT NO. 2454

  Mr. SMITH (for himself and Mr. McCain) proposed an amendment to the 
bill H.R. 4624, supra; as follows:

       On page 22, line 21, strike ``That'' and all that follows 
     through the period on line 25 and insert the following: 
     ``That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     $130,000,000 shall be used for grants to States and units of 
     general local government and for related expenses, not 
     otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out a 
     community development grants program as authorized by title I 
     of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.''.

                        SMITH AMENDMENT NO. 2455

  Mr. SMITH proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 4624, supra; as 
follows:

       In the pending committee amendment, strike all after 
     ``and,'', and insert the following: ``Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, $500,000,000 made 
     available under this heading in Public Law 103-124, and 
     earmarked not to become available until May 31, 1994, which 
     date was extended to September 30, 1994, in Public Law 103-
     211, shall be available immediately for capitalization grants 
     for State revolving funds to support water infrastructure 
     financing, and to carry out the purposes of the Federal Water 
     Pollution Control Act, (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and the Water 
     Quality Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-4; 101 Stat. 7):''.
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                      MIKULSKI AMENDMENT NO. 2456

  Ms. MIKULSKI proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 4624, supra; as 
follows:

       On page 13, line 11, add the following: ``: Provided 
     further, That of the amount provided under this heading, 
     $7,100,000 shall be for design of a new medical center/
     nursing home in Brevard County, Florida and $6,900,000 shall 
     be for the Orlando, Florida, satellite outpatient clinic''.
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                        BROWN AMENDMENT NO. 2457

  Ms. MIKULSKI (for Mr. Brown) proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 
4624, supra; as follows:

       Insert at page 62, between line 13 and line 14:


    sense of the senate regarding the environmental self-evaluation 
                               privilege

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
       (1) The intended effect of environmental protection 
     statutes passed over the past three decades is to improve and 
     protect the natural and human environment.
       (2) The President's National Performance Review concluded 
     that the environmental laws and regulations implemented over 
     the past decade have led to significant improvements in 
     environmental quality.
       (3) The National Performance Review further concludes that 
     many of these laws, however, place a very real cost burden on 
     local governments. Localities now struggle to comply with new 
     requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource 
     Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean 
     Air Act, and Superfund, with little or no prospect of 
     significant increases in federal grants and only limited 
     availability of loans in the future.
       (4) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates 
     that, by the year 2000, local governments will need to spend 
     nearly $44 billion annually to meet existing requirements.
       (5) The National Performance Review states: ``With the 
     opportunity to `reinvent' the way EPA works with state and 
     local governments, EPA has a chance to significantly increase 
     the effectiveness of our nation's environmental programs.
       (6) The National Performance Review acknowledged that there 
     are numerous examples where the failure of EPA to devise 
     better ways to protect the environment affordably may result 
     in just the opposite of the intended effect.
       (7) To further the goals of protecting and improving the 
     natural and human environment, the States of Oregon, Indiana, 
     Kentucky and Colorado have passed laws establishing an 
     ``environmental self-evaluation privilege.''
       (8) The EPA is currently considering modifying its existing 
     environmental auditing policy.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--
       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) The National Performance Review is correct in stating 
     that EPA must recognize that increased regulatory flexibility 
     offers tremendous opportunity for positive institutional 
     change at federal, state and local levels.
       (2) EPA must take advantage of these opportunities by 
     finding ways to allow flexibility without compromising 
     fairness, accountability and, above all, performance.
       (3) The EPA should seriously consider the ``environmental 
     self-evaluation privilege,'' as enacted into law by the 
     States of Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky and Colorado, as a low-
     cost opportunity to increase performance toward the intended 
     effect of environmental protection statutes to improve and 
     protect the natural and human environment.
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                        HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 2458

  Mr. HELMS proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 4624, supra; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, add the following:

     ``SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE NEED TO PROTECT 
                   THE CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF THE SENATE.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
       (1) The GATT Treaty provides for the entry of the United 
     States into the World Trade Organization, which may have a 
     major, permanent adverse impact on American sovereignty.
       (2) The GATT Treaty binds the United States to a permanent 
     international trade organization for decades to come.
       (3) In the World Trade Organization, the United States will 
     have only 1 out of 117 votes and will lose the veto power it 
     had in the GATT Organization that the World Trade 
     Organization replaces.
       (4) Under the GATT Treaty, the United States will pay 20% 
     of the budget of the World Trade Organization, but will have 
     less than 1% of the voting power.
       (5) The World Trade Organization has the potential of 
     overriding domestic U.S. law.
       (6) Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution provides 
     that the President has the ``Power, by and with the Advice 
     and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-
     thirds of the Senators present concur''.
       (7) Despite the dictate of section 2 of Article II of the 
     Constitution, the GATT Treaty is scheduled to be considered 
     by the Senate under ``fast-track'' procedures, as an 
     executive agreement.
       (8) Under the ``fast-track'' rules, Senators are prohibited 
     from amending the agreement and debate is limited to 20 hours 
     on the Senate floor.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that:
       (1) The leadership of the Senate should protect the rights 
     and prerogatives of the Senate and insist that the GATT 
     agreement be submitted as a Treaty as stipulated by the U.S. 
     Constitution, and
       (2) an extension of the ``fast track'' should not be 
     included in any implementing legislation for the GATT 
     Treaty.''.

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