[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H5572-H5575]
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                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:
                               H.R. 1561

                        Offered By: Mr. Andrews

       Amendment No. 79: Add the following at the end of Division 
     A:

           TITLE VI--OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

     SEC. 601. ABOLITION OF OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 
                   CORPORATION.

       (a) Abolition.--The Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
     is abolished, effective October 1, 1995.
       (b) Administration of Existing Obligations.--The Secretary 
     of State shall carry out the functions performed on September 
     30, 1995, by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation only 
     for purposes of administering insurance, reinsurance, 
     financing, and other contracts or agreements issued or 
     entered into by the Corporation that are effective on October 
     1, 1995. Such functions shall terminate when all such 
     insurance, reinsurance, financing, and other contracts or 
     agreements expire.
       (c) Termination of Provisions.--Title IV of chapter 2 of 
     part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2191 
     and following) shall cease to be effective on October 1, 
     1995, except that such title shall continue in effect with 
     respect to the functions performed by the Secretary of State 
     under subsection (b).
       (d) Termination of Affairs.--The Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall take the necessary steps to 
     terminate the affairs of the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation.

                               H.R. 1561

                        Offered By: Mr. Bilbray

       Amendment No. 80: Page 100, line 10, strike ``$12,472,000'' 
     and insert ``$21,958,000''.
       At the end of the bill, add the following:

                   DIVISION D--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

                      TITLE XLI--FOREIGN BUILDINGS

     SEC. 4001. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       Notwithstanding section 2101(a)(4), there are authorized to 
     be appropriated for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of 
     Buildings Abroad'', $367,274,000 for the fiscal year 1997.

                               H.R. 1561

                   Offered By: Mr. Burton of Indiana

       Amendment No. 81: In paragraph (1) of section 3309(b) 
     (relating to the future of the United States military 
     presence in Panama)--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), strike ``a 
     new base rights'' and insert ``an''; and
       (2) strike subparagraph (B) and insert the following new 
     subparagraph:
       (B) to ensure that the United States will be able to act 
     after December 31, 1999, to maintain the security of the 
     Panama Canal and guarantee its regular operation; and
                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Burton

       Amendment No. 82: In paragraph (1) of section 3309(b) 
     (relating to the future of the United States military 
     presence in Panama)--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), strike ``a 
     new base rights'' and insert ``an''; and
       (2) strike subparagraph (B) and insert the following new 
     subparagraph:
       (B) to ensure that the United States will be able to act 
     after December 31, 1999, to maintain the security of the 
     Panama Canal and guarantee its regular operation, consistent 
     with the Panama Canal Treaty, the Treaty Concerning the 
     Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal, and 
     the resolutions of ratification thereto; and

                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 83: At the end of the bill, add the 
     following:

                   DIVISION D--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

               TITLE XLI--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

     SEC. 4101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Foreign Military Financing Program.--Notwithstanding 
     section 3101 of this Act, there are authorized to be 
     appropriated for grant assistance under section 23 of the 
     Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) and for the subsidy 
     cost, as defined in section 502(5) of the Federal Credit 
     Reform Act of 1990, of direct loans under such section--
       (1) $3,274,440,000 for fiscal year 1996; and
       (2) $3,216,020,000 for fiscal year 1997.
       (b) Economic Support Assistance.--Notwithstanding section 
     3201 of this Act, section 532(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346a(a)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
     President to carry out the purposes of this chapter 
     $2,346,378,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $2,238,478,000 for 
     fiscal year 1997.''.
       (c) Development Fund for Africa.--Notwithstanding paragraph 
     (2) of section 3221(a) of this Act, there are authorized to 
     be appropriated $649,214,000 for fiscal year 1996 and 
     $634,214,000 for fiscal year 1997 to carry out chapter 10 of 
     part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2293 
     et seq.).
                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Filner

       Amendment No. 84: In section 2103(1)(A), strike 
     ``$12,472,000'' and insert ``$19,372,000''.
       In section 2103(4), strike ``$13,202,000'' and insert 
     ``$6,302,000''.

                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Gilman

       Amendment No. 85: Strike subsection 505(e) and insert the 
     following:
       ``Section 505(e) Authority Subject to Express 
     Appropriation. The authority to make voluntary separation 
     incentive payments which is provided under this section shall 
     be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent or in 
     such amounts as provided in advance for that express purpose 
     in appropriation Act.''

                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Gilman

       Amendment No. 86: After section 510, insert the following 
     new section:

     SEC. 511. TRANSFER OF FUNCTION.

       Any determination as to whether a transfer of function, 
     carried out under this Act, constitutes a transfer of 
     function for purposes of subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 
     5, United States Code, shall be made without regard to 
     whether or not the function involved is identical to 
     functions already being performed by the receiving agency.

                               H.R. 1561

                        Offered By: Mr. Hamilton

       Amendment No. 87: On page 286 after line 19, amend the 
     subsection ``(e)'' which would be added to Section 222 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, by adding at the end a new 
     sentence as follows:
       ``The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to 
     guaranties which have been issued for the benefit of the 
     Republic of South Africa.''
                               H.R. 1561

                        Offered By: Mr. Hamilton

       Amendment No. 88: At the end of the bill add the following 
     new chapter:

                  CHAPTER XXXVI--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

     SEC. 3601. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATIONS.

       (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, except 
     for sections 2101(a)(3), 2101(a)(5), 2101(a)(6), 2102(e)(1), 
     2104(a), 2106(2), 2106(3)(B), 2106(3)(C), 2106(3)(D), 
     2106(3)(E), 2106(6), 2106(7), 3141, 3151, 3161, the following 
     amounts are authorized to be appropriated for the specified 
     programs and activities:
       (1) $1,748,438,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for ``Diplomatic and Consular Programs'' of the 
     Department of State.
       (2) $372,480,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Salaries and Expenses'' of the Department of State.
       (3) $421,760,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad''.
       (4) $24,250,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Office of the Inspector General'' of the Department of 
     State.
       (5) $15,465,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Payment to the American Institute in Taiwan''.
       (6) $8,579,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``protection of Foreign Missions and Officials''.
       (7) $934,057,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Contributions to International Organizations''.
       (8) $425,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Voluntary Contributions to International 
     Organizations''.
       (9) $533,304,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Contributions for International Peacekeeping 
     Activities''.
       (10) $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for the Department of State to carry out section 551 of 
     Public Law 87-195.
       (11) $13,858,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
     States and Mexico; Salaries and Expenses''.
       (12) $10,393,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
     States and Mexico; Construction''.
       (13) $740,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
     States and Canada''.
       (14) $3,550,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``International Joint Commission''.
       (15) $14,669,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``International Fisheries Commissions''.
       (16) $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for ``Asia Foundation''.
       (17) $496,002,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for the purposes of section 2106(1) of this Act.
       (18) $130,799,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for the purposes of section 2106(3)(A) of this Act.
       (19) $119,536,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for the purposes of section 2106(3)(F) of this Act. 
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       (20) $395,340,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for the purposes of section 2106(5) of this Act.
       (21) $85,919,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for the purposes of section 2106(5) of this Act.
       (22) $4,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for the purposes of section 2106(8) of this Act.
       (23) $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for the purposes of section 2106(9) of this Act.
       (24) $76,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     to carry out the purposes of the Arms Control and Disarmament 
     Act.
       (25) $3,351,910,000 for grant assistance under section 23 
     of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) and for the 
     subsidy costs, as defined in section 502(5) of the Federal 
     Credit Reform Act of 1990, of direct loans under such 
     section.
       (26) $2,504,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 to carry out chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961.
       (27) $1,300,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 to carry out sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151a through 2151d).
       (28) $802,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 to carry out programs under chapter 11 of part I of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2295 et seq.).
       (29) $788,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 to carry out programs under chapter 11 of Part I of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
      U.S.C. 2295 et seq.).
       (30) $480,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the 
     Baltic states under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) and the Support for East European 
     Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989.
       (31) $31,760,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     to carry out section 401 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1969 (22 U.S.C. 290f).
       (32) $17,405,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     to carry out the African Development Foundation Act (22 
     U.S.C. 290h et seq.).
       (33) $529,027,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 
     1997 for necessary operating expenses of the agency primarily 
     responsible for administering part I of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (other than the office of the 
     inspector general of such agency).
       (34) $39,118,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for necessary operating expenses of the office of the 
     inspector general of the agency primarily responsible for 
     administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
       (35) $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
     for the provision of agricultural commodities under title III 
     of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
     1954 (7 U.S.C. 1727 et seq.).''
       (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect 
     sections 3103, 3104, 3202, and 3203 of this Act.

     SEC. 3602. AGGREGATE AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the aggregate 
     authorization of appropriations provided for in this Act 
     shall not exceed $16,505,843,000 for fiscal years 1996 and 
     $15,395,362,000 for fiscal year 1997.
                               H.R. 1561

                          Offered By: Mr. Hoke

       Amendment No. 89: Page 289, add the following after line 26 
     and redesignate the succeeding chapter accordingly:

           CHAPTER 8--OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

     SEC. 3275. SUBSIDY COST OF OPIC PROGRAMS.

       Section 235(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2195(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(C) The subsidy cost of the investment guaranties and 
     direct loan programs under subsections (b) and (c) of section 
     234 may not exceed $79,000,000 for fiscal year 1996. The 
     subsidy cost of such programs shall not be separately 
     designated for the independent states of the former Soviet 
     Union, or for any other particular country or group of 
     countries, but shall be combined for all countries. The 
     standards in effect on May 15, 1995, for determining for 
     which projects the Corporation should provide guaranties and 
     loans in countries other than the independent states of the 
     former Soviet Union shall apply to projects in all countries. 
     No net subsidy cost of the investment guaranties and direct 
     loan programs may be incurred after September 30, 1998.''.

     SEC. 3276. STUDY ON PRIVATIZATION.

       (a) Study and Report.--The Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation shall conduct a study on privatizing the 
     activities of the Corporation and, not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, submit to the 
     Congress a report on the study.
       (b) Contents of Report.--In the report submitted under 
     subsection (a), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
     shall set forth the necessary steps to transfer to the 
     private sector all the evidences of ownership of the 
     Corporation with respect to the activities of the 
     Corporation, whether through the sale of the Corporation's 
     stock, contracts, leases, or other agreements or rights, or 
     otherwise. The process of privatization described in the 
     preceding sentence shall be prudent and orderly, shall 
     maximize the value to United States taxpayers, shall proceed 
     as quickly as market conditions permit, through a limited 
     transition period, and shall be completed by a date certain. 
     The report shall outline a privatization plan which, at a 
     minimum--
       (1) specifies the date certain for completion of the 
     privatization process that begins not later than 1 year after 
     the report is submitted;
       (2) ensures that any transitional United States Government 
     support before the completion of the privatization process 
     involves no net cost to the United States Government;
       (3) provides for the sale or other transfer of the existing 
     portfolio and reserves of the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation; and
       (4) retains, during the transition period, the agreements 
     entered into with foreign countries under section 237(a) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

     SEC. 3277. REPEAL.

       Effective on the date certain that is specified under 
     section 3276(b)(1), title IV of chapter 2 of part I of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is repealed, and any reference 
     in any other law to the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation shall cease to be effective.
                               H.R. 1561

                      Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee

       Amendment No. 90: on page 260, line 24, strike 
     ``$2,000,000'' and insert in lieu thereof ``$2,500,000''.

                               H.R. 1561

                      Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee

       Amendment No. 91: on page 265, line 10, strike 
     ``$5,000,000'' and insert in lieu thereof ``$6,500,000''.

                               H.R. 1561

                          Offered By: Mr. Mica

       Amendment No. 92: page 75, lines 6 through 22, and insert 
     the following:

     separates from service with the agency during the period 
     beginning on the date on which the offer is made for a 
     voluntary separation incentive payment under this section and 
     the last day of the second quarter of the fiscal year in 
     which the offer is made.
       (d) Period of Authority.--The head of an agency shall have 
     authority to authorize payment of voluntary separation 
     incentive payments under this section for a 60-day period 
     beginning on the 61st day after the date on which the 
     President transmits to the appropriate congressional 
     committees the applicable reorganization plan for the agency 
     under section 221, 321, or 421.

                               H.R. 1561

                          Offered By: Mr. Mica

       Amendment No. 93:

     SEC. 2106. UNITED STATES INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND 
                   CULTURAL PROGRAMS.

       Page 105, strike lines 20 through 23.

     SEC. 3212. MICRO- AND SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CREDITS.

       Page 260, line 24, strike ``$2,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$2,800,000''.
                               H.R. 1561

                        Offered By: Mrs. Morella

       Amendment No. 94: Page 196, after line 2, insert the 
     followng new section:

     SEC. 2712. REGARDING THE GUATEMALAN PEACE PROCESS AND THE 
                   NEED FOR GREATER PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN 
                   GUATEMALA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Formal negotiations to bring an end to the 34-year 
     armed conflict in Guatemala and to establish conditions for 
     democracy in Guatemala were resumed in January 1994 under 
     United Nations mediation between the Government of Guatemala 
     and the armed opposition, the Guatemalan National 
     Revolutionary Union (URNG).
       (2) These negotiations have resulted in the signing of a 
     series of landmark accords on human rights, the establishment 
     of a Commission for the Historical Clarification of Human 
     Rights Violations, the resettlement of displaced populations, 
     indigenous rights and identity, and other issues, and are 
     expected to lead to the signing of further accords and a 
     final comprehensive accord in the near future.
       (3) The government and the Guatemalan National 
     Revolutionary Union (URNG) agreed in the human rights accord 
     signed on March 29, 1994, that ``[t]he Government shall not 
     sponsor the adoption of legislative or any other type of 
     measures designed to prevent the prosecution and punishment 
     of persons responsible for human rights violations''.
       (4) The United Nations Mission for the Verification of 
     Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the 
     Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala 
     (MINUGUA) established under the Global Human Rights Accord to 
     monitor compliance with that agreement began operations 
     across Guatemala in November 1994 and released its first 
     report in March 1995.
       (5) MINUGUA reports that in Guatemala there have been 
     numerous violations of the right to life, and that the vast 
     majority of cases involving death have not been adequately 
     investigated or resolved by the competent Guatemalan 
     authorities.
       (6) MINUGUA reports that the Guatemalan Government has not 
     adequately guaranteed the right to be free from torture or 
     other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and that no 
     information exists to demonstrate that such cases in which 
     the involvement of military and police officers has been 
     verified have been investigated in depth or that the guilty 
     parties have been prosecuted.
       (7) MINUGUA reports that Guatemala has made no progress in 
     the investigation of [[Page H5574]] criminal acts alleged to 
     constitute human rights violations, and that specific actions 
     and inquiries which could and should have been undertaken 
     promptly were not carried out.
       (8) MINUGUA has observed numerous, persistent serious human 
     rights violations to which, in nearly every case, there has 
     been no response from competent Guatemalan authorities.
       (9) Systematic human rights violations are committed with 
     impunity against Guatemalan civilians, especially members of 
     the indigenous population, by members of government security 
     forces and by the Civil Self-Defense Patrols acting under 
     their authority.
       (10) Human rights abuses that endanger and intimidate 
     judicial authorities, human rights activists, and public 
     figures continue to occur, such as the killing of Guatemala's 
     Constitutional Court President Epaminondas Gonzalez Dubon on 
     April 1, 1994, civil patrollers firing on a group of peaceful
      human rights demonstrators in Colotenango on August 3, 1993, 
     the killing of former presidential candidate Jorge Carpio 
     Nicolle on July 3, 1993, the killing of Chimaltenango 
     district court judge Edgar Ramiro Elias Ogaldez on August 
     20, 1994, the kidnapping on August 29, 1994, of police 
     agent Miguel Manolo Pacheco, who was assigned to protect 
     appeals court judge Maria Eugenia Villasenor, and the 
     October 14, 1994, murder of police agent Cesar Augusto 
     Medina.
       (11) The Organization of American States has found that the 
     Civil Self-Defense Patrols are a ``source of human rights 
     violations'' and should be ``disbanded or reorganized''.
       (12) The Organization of American States has found that in 
     Guatemala there have been serious ``cases of arbitrary 
     arrest, illegitimate deprivation of liberty, isolation, and 
     torture and execution without trial'' of individuals, 
     including Efrain Bamaca, the husband of United States citizen 
     Jennifer Harbury, and other members of the Guatemalan 
     National Revolutionary Union who are held by various 
     government security forces.
       (13) The Organization of American States has determined 
     that the Communities of Populations in Resistance, which have 
     been harassed and attacked by government armed forces and the 
     Civil Self-Defense Patrols, are civilian communities.
       (14) The Organization of American States has called on the 
     Government of Guatemala to ``take a clear stand on the grave 
     problems that obstruct the full observance of human rights, 
     set well defined goals, and schedule policies for attaining 
     them''.
       (15) The security of repatriated refugees in Guatemala and 
     of internally displaced civilians, including the Communities 
     of Populations in Resistance, remains at risk due to 
     continued military intimidation and harassment, and their 
     reintegration into Guatemalan society has been hampered by 
     inadequate access to land and other productive resources.
       (16) There has been insufficient progress in bringing to 
     justice all of those responsible for the murders of United 
     States citizens Michael DeVine, Griffin Davis, and Nicholas 
     Blake, the abduction and torture of United States citizen 
     Dianna Ortiz, the attempted murder of United States citizen 
     Meredith Larson, the murder of guerrilla comandante Efrain 
     Bamaca Velazquez (the husband of United States citizen 
     Jennifer Harbury), and the murders of the following 
     Guatemalan citizens: anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, 
     politician Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Constitutional Court 
     President Epaminondas Gonzalez Dubon, and victims of the 
     Colotenango massacre perpetrated by Civil Self-Defense 
     Patrols.
       (17) Recent reports and congressional hearings have 
     established that United States agencies hold information 
     concerning the role of individual Guatemalan military 
     officers in several human rights cases in which the United 
     States and the Congress have expressed longstanding concern, 
     including the cases of Michael DeVine and Efrain Bamaca.
       (18) Eyewitness testimony presented to the Inter-American 
     Commission on Human Rights has implicated nine Guatemalan 
     military officers in the clandestine detention and torture of 
     Efrain Bamaca.
       (19) The United States Embassy and Honduras threatened to 
     revoke the visas of all possible witnesses to the December 
     1994 shooting of an American citizen in Tegucigalpa when they 
     refused to provide information on the crime.
       (20) Congressional hearings have established that covert 
     actions taken by the Central Intelligence Agency were in 
     direct contradiction of officially articulated United States 
     policy toward Guatemala.
       (21) Guatemala has failed to extradite Colonel Carlos Rene 
     Ochoa Ruiz, under indictment in Tampa for drug-trafficking, 
     in spite of the official request from the United States 
     Government.
       (22) The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union has 
     engaged in violations of the laws of war, including the 
     assassination of military commissioner Teofilo Lopez 
     Castillo, firing on a bus filled with civilians which ran a 
     roadblock in Chupol, and the recruitment of child soldiers.
       (23) MINUGUA has called on the URNG to stop the 
     destruction, and threatened destruction, of installations on 
     rural estates, to refrain from sabotaging electric power 
     pylons, and to prevent retaliatory attacks against civilian 
     persons or property.
       (b) Declaration of Congress.--The Congress--
       (1) commends the President of Guatemala, Ramiro de Leon 
     Carpio, and the leaders of the Guatemalan National 
     Revolutionary Union for establishing a framework for formal 
     negotiations, and for reaching agreement on several important 
     accords in these negotiations, which, under the mediation of 
     the United Nations, are designed to bring an end to more than 
     30 years of internal armed conflict and set Guatemala on the 
     road to democracy;
       (2) commends the leaders of the various segments of 
     civilian society for their role in articulating the concerns 
     of all sectors of Guatemalan society and for bringing 
     critical issues onto the agenda of the peace negotiations;
       (3) calls on President de Leon Carpio and all parties in 
     the negotiation process to proceed in the spirit of the Oslo 
     Accords to achieve peace by political means, to the end that 
     a final, binding, and verifiable agreement will be attained 
     at the earliest possible date;
       (4) calls on the Group of Friends of the peace negotiations 
     (Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Norway, and the United 
     States) to continue and intensify their support of the peace 
     negotiations through diplomatic initiatives and dialogue with 
     all parties;
       (5) calls on President de Leon Carpio to immediately 
     develop a measurable and substantive plan to end grave human 
     rights abuses, in compliance with internationally recognized 
     human rights standards, Guatemala's national Constitution, 
     and the recommendations of MINUGUA, the United Nations 
     Independent Human Rights Expert for Guatemala, and the Inter-
     American Commission on Human Rights, a part of the 
     Organization of the American States;
       (6) calls on President de Leon Carpio, as a sign of good 
     faith and a contribution to peace, to immediately disband the 
     Civil Self-Defense Patrols, which are one of the major 
     sources of human rights violations in Guatemala, and to 
     cancel plans to convert these patrols to ``Peace and 
     Development Committees'';
       (7) calls on the Guatemalan Government to ensure that any 
     amnesty promulgated to allow the URNG to be reintegrated as a 
     political party cover only crimes against the state and not 
     human rights violations;
       (8) calls on President de Leon Carpio to ensure the safety 
     and complete return and reintegration of Guatemalan refugees 
     in Mexico, in full compliance with the Accord of the 
     Permanent Commissions of the Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico 
     and the Government of the Republic of Guatemala, signed in 
     Guatemala on October 8, 1992, that determines the conditions 
     and understandings under which certain Guatemalan refugees 
     may be repatriated;
       (9) calls on President de Leon Carpio to recognize the 
     civilian character of the Communities of
      Populations in Resistance, ensuring their security and their 
     right to peaceful integration into Guatemalan society with 
     the full exercise of rights and liberties guaranteed under 
     Guatemala's national Constitution;
       (10) calls on the United States executive branch to 
     allocate sufficient funding for a transition to peace fund 
     for Guatemala, which should include all of the military aid 
     frozen in the pipeline since 1990 and should be supplemented 
     with additional resources, to be used to finance the United 
     Nations Verification Mission and to implement other peace 
     accord implementation programs as they are determined;
       (11) calls on the executive branch of the United States 
     Government to undertake every effort to assure that no 
     foreign assistance provided to the Government of Guatemala is 
     made available to ``Peace and Development Committees'' which 
     have been created from transformed civil patrols;
       (12) calls on the executive branch of the United States 
     Government to condition all assistance to Guatemala, with the 
     exception of humanitarian assistance, development assistance, 
     and Administration of Justice assistance, on--
       (A) full compliance with MINUGUA recommendations and the 
     recommended precautionary measures of the Inter-American 
     Commission on Human Rights, including resolution of concerns 
     involving clandestine prisons;
       (B) progress in the continuation of the peace process;
       (C) substantive improvement in the protection of human 
     rights;
       (D) the dissolution of the Civil Self-Defense Patrols;
       (E) the guaranteed safety of refugees, returnees, and the 
     internally displaced;
       (F) verifiable resolution of the DeVine, Ortiz, Davis, 
     Blake, Larson, Bamaca, Mack, Carpio, Gonzalez Dubon, Elias 
     Ogaldez, Pacheco, Medina, and Colotenango cases;
       (G) the strengthening of the various segments of civilian 
     society, which are essential to the establishment of genuine 
     democracy in Guatemala; and
       (H) extradition of Guatemalan Colonel Carlos Rene Ochoa 
     Ruiz;
       (13) urges the executive branch, in its efforts to achieve 
     the goals listed in paragraph 12, to also consider 
     termination of Caminos Fuertes civic action program, and the 
     licensing of private arms sales and the sale of excess 
     defense articles;
       (14) calls on the executive branch to immediately suspend 
     the visas of any Guatemalan military officer implicated in 
     human rights abuses, drug-trafficking, and other crimes until 
     these cases have been adjudicated to the satisfaction of the 
     Secretary of State; [[Page H5575]] 
       (15) calls on the executive branch to permanently cancel 
     the visas of Guatemalan military officers implicated in human 
     rights violations or other criminal activity if the judicial 
     process related to such activity is disrupted by threats or 
     acts of intimidation against police investigators, 
     prosecutors, judges, witnesses, or their families;
       (16) calls on the executive branch to permanently cancel 
     the visas of Guatemalan military officers and those of their 
     immediate family if the threats or acts in section 15 are 
     carried out;
       (17) calls on the executive branch to comply as fully and 
     as expeditiously as possible with freedom of information act 
     requests dealing with human rights cases in Guatemala, 
     beginning with those that
      have already been filed by Jennifer Harbury and Dianna 
     Ortiz;
       (18) calls on the Administration to support the work of the 
     Commission on the Clarification of the Past by moving to 
     review for declassification in an expedited manner all United 
     States Government records pertaining to human rights 
     violations in Guatemala; and
       (19) calls on the administration to assure that no covert 
     action undertaken in Guatemala contradicts publicly stated 
     policy unless the President signs a finding authorizing such 
     activity and fully informs the appropriate congressional 
     committees of the action authorized and the reasons for the 
     authorization.

                               H.R. 1561

                         Offered By: Mr. Roemer

       Amendment No. 95: In paragraph (3) of section 3221(a) 
     (relating to authorization of appropriations for development 
     assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet 
     Union), strike ``$643,000,000'' and insert ``$578,000,000''.

                               H.R. 1561

                       Offered By: Mrs. Schroeder

       Amendment No. 96: At the appropriate place, insert the 
     following:
       Whereas, female genital mutilation is a violation of 
     women's basic human rights; and
       Whereas, female genital mutilation constitutes a major 
     health risk to women, with lifelong physical and 
     psychological consequences; and
       Whereas, female genital mutilation should not be condoned 
     by any government;
       It is the sense of Congress that:
       The President seek to end the practice of female genital 
     mutilation worldwide through the active cooperation and 
     participation of governments in whose nations female genital 
     mutilation takes place. Steps to end the practice of female 
     genital mutilation shall include:
       (1) encouraging nations to establish clear policies against 
     female genital mutilation, and enforcing existing laws which 
     prohibit it; and
       (2) assisting nations in creating culturally appropriate 
     outreach programs that include education and counseling about 
     the dangers of female genital mutilation for women and men of 
     all ages; and
       (3) ensuring that all appropriate programs in which the 
     U.S. participates includes a component pertaining to female 
     genital mutilation, so as to ensure consistency across the 
     spectrum of health and child related programs conducted in 
     any country in which female genital mutilation is known to be 
     a problem.
                               H.R. 1561

                     Offered By: Mr. Smith of Texas

       Amendment No. 97: In section 2252 (relating to persecution 
     for resistance to coercive population control methods)--
       (1) insert ``(a) Defintion of Refugee.--'' before 
     ``Section''; and
       (2) add at the end the following new subsection:
       (b) Numerical Limitation on Asylum.--Section 208 of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this 
     Act, for any fiscal year not more than 2,000 aliens may be 
     granted asylum on the basis of a determination pursuant to 
     the third sentence of section 101(a)(42) (relating to 
     persecution for resistance to coercive population control 
     methods).''.

                               H.R. 1561

                       Offered By: Mr. Traficant

       Amendment No. 98: At the end of title XXVII (relating to 
     congressional statements), add the following new section:

     SEC. 2712. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING SYRIAN OCCUPATION 
                   OF LEBANON.

       It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) the Government of Syria should honor the Taif Agreement 
     and withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon;
       (2) the United States should take every action feasible 
     through the United Nations to encourage the Government of 
     Syria to withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon not later 
     than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act; 
     and
       (3) the Secretary of State should report to the Congress, 
     not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, as to the actions the United States has taken to 
     effect a withdrawal of all Syrian troops from Lebanon.
                               H.R. 1561

                       Offered By: Mr. Traficant

       Amendment No. 99: At the end of chapter 2 of title XXXIV of 
     division C (relating to special authorities and other 
     provisions of foreign assistance authorizations), add the 
     following new section:

     SEC. 3420. LIMITATION ON PROCUREMENT OUTSIDE THE UNITED 
                   STATES.

       Funds made available for assistance for fiscal years 1996 
     and 1997 under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, for which 
     amounts are authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal 
     years, may be used for procurement outside the United States 
     or less developed countries only if--
       (1) such funds are used for the procurement of commodities 
     or services, or defense articles or defense services, 
     produced in the country in which the assistance is to be 
     provided, except that this paragraph only applies if 
     procurement in that country would cost less than procurement 
     in the United States or less developed countries;
       (2) the provision of such assistance requires commodities 
     or services, or defense articles or defense services, of a 
     type that are not produced in, and available for purchase 
     from, the United States, less developed countries, or the 
     country in which the assistance is to be provided;
       (3) the Congress has specifically authorized procurement 
     outside the United States or less developed countries; or
       (4) the President determines on a case-by-case basis that 
     procurement outside the United States or less developed 
     countries would result in the more efficient use of United 
     States foreign assistance resources.

                               H.R. 1561

                          Offered By: Mr. Wamp

       Amendment No. 100: Strike subsection (a) of section 3204 
     (relating to funding for the International Fund for Ireland).
       Strike section 3221 (relating to authorization of 
     appropriations for development assistance authorities).