[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H3423-H3433]
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  AMENDING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961 AND ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the 
bill (H.R. 3121) to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the 
Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and 
security assistance provisions under those acts, to authorize the 
transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries, and for other 
purposes, as amended.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                               H.R. 3121

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Table of contents.

                TITLE I--DEFENSE AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE

               Chapter 1--Military And Related Assistance

Sec. 101. Terms of loans under the Foreign Military Financing program.
Sec. 102. Additional requirements under the Foreign Military Financing 
              program.
Sec. 103. Drawdown special authorities.
Sec. 104. Transfer of excess defense articles.
Sec. 105. Excess defense articles for certain European countries.

        Chapter 2--International Military Education and Training

Sec. 111. Assistance for Indonesia.
Sec. 112. Additional requirements.

                  Chapter 3--Antiterrorism Assistance

Sec. 121. Antiterrorism training assistance.
Sec. 122. Research and development expenses.

                Chapter 4--Narcotics Control Assistance

Sec. 131. Additional requirements.
Sec. 132. Notification requirement.
Sec. 133. Waiver of restrictions for narcotics-related economic 
              assistance.

                      Chapter 5--Other Provisions

Sec. 141. Standardization of congressional review procedures for arms 
              transfers.
Sec. 142. Standardization of third country transfers of defense 
              articles.
Sec. 143. Increased standardization, rationalization, and 
              interoperability of assistance and sales programs.
Sec. 144. Definition of significant military equipment.
Sec. 145. Elimination of annual reporting requirement relating to the 
              Special Defense Acquisition Fund.
Sec. 146. Cost of leased defense articles that have been lost or 
              destroyed.
Sec. 147. Designation of major non-NATO allies.
Sec. 148. Certification thresholds.
Sec. 149. Depleted uranium ammunition.
Sec. 150. End-use monitoring of defense articles and defense services.
Sec. 151. Brokering activities relating to commercial sales of defense 
              articles and services.
Sec. 152. Return and exchanges of defense articles previously 
              transferred pursuant to the arms export control act.
Sec. 153. National security interest determination to waive 
              reimbursement of depreciation for leased defense 
              articles.
Sec. 154. Eligibility of Panama under Arms Export Control Act.

    TITLE II--TRANSFER OF NAVAL VESSELS TO CERTAIN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Sec. 201. Authority to transfer naval vessels.
Sec. 202. Costs of transfers.
Sec. 203. Expiration of authority.
Sec. 204. Repair and refurbishment of vessels in United States 
              shipyards.
                TITLE I--DEFENSE AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE

               CHAPTER 1--MILITARY AND RELATED ASSISTANCE

     SEC. 101. TERMS OF LOANS UNDER THE FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 31(c) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2771(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c) Loans available under section 23 shall be provided at 
     rates of interest that are not less than the current average 
     market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the 
     United States of comparable maturities.''.

     SEC. 102. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE FOREIGN MILITARY 
                   FINANCING PROGRAM.

       (a) Audit of Certain Private Firms.--Section 23 of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new subsection:
       ``(f) For each fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense, as 
     requested by the Director of the Defense Security Assistance 
     Agency, shall conduct audits on a nonreimbursable basis of 
     private firms that have entered into contracts with foreign 
     governments under which defense articles, defense services, 
     or design and construction services are to be procured by 
     such firms for such governments from financing under this 
     section.''.
       (b) Notification Requirement With Respect to Cash Flow 
     Financing.--Section 23 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), as 
     amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(g)(1) For each country and international organization 
     that has been approved for cash flow financing under this 
     section, any letter of offer and acceptance or other purchase 
     agreement, or any amendment thereto, for a procurement of 
     defense articles, defense services, or design and 
     construction services in excess of $100,000,000 that is to be 
     financed in whole or in part with funds made available under 
     this Act or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall be 
     submitted to the congressional committees specified in 
     section 634A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in 
     accordance with the procedures applicable to reprogramming 
     notifications under that section.
       ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term `cash flow 
     financing' has the meaning given such term in the second 
     subsection (d) of section 25.''.
       (c) Limitations on Use of Funds for Direct Commercial 
     Contracts.--Section 23 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), as 
     amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(h) Of the amounts made available for a fiscal year to 
     carry out this section, not more than $100,000,000 for such 
     fiscal year may be made available for countries other than 
     Israel and Egypt for the purpose of financing the procurement 
     of defense articles, defense services, and design and 
     construction services that are not sold by the United States 
     Government under this Act.''.
       (d) Annual Estimate and Justification for Sales Program.--
     Section 25(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2765(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking the ``and'' at the end of paragraph (11);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (12) as paragraph (13); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (11) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(12)(A) a detailed accounting of all articles, services, 
     credits, guarantees, or any other form of assistance 
     furnished by the United States to each country and 
     international organization, including payments to the United 
     Nations, during the preceding fiscal year for the detection 
     and clearance of

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     landmines, including activities relating to the furnishing of 
     education, training, and technical assistance for the 
     detection and clearance of landmines; and
       ``(B) for each provision of law making funds available or 
     authorizing appropriations for demining activities described 
     in subparagraph (A), an analysis and description of the 
     objectives and activities undertaken during the preceding 
     fiscal year, including the number of personnel involved in 
     performing such activities; and''.

     SEC. 103. DRAWDOWN SPECIAL AUTHORITIES.

       (a) Unforeseen Emergency Drawdown.--Section 506(a)(1) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318(a)(1)) is 
     amended by striking ``$75,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$100,000,000''.
       (b) Additional Drawdown.--Section 506 of such Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2318) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)(A), by striking ``defense articles 
     from the stocks'' and all that follows and inserting the 
     following: ``articles and services from the inventory and 
     resources of any agency of the United States Government and 
     military education and training from the Department of 
     Defense, the President may direct the drawdown of such 
     articles, services, and military education and training--
       ``(i) for the purposes and under the authorities of--
       ``(I) chapter 8 of part I (relating to international 
     narcotics control assistance);
       ``(II) chapter 9 of part I (relating to international 
     disaster assistance); or
       ``(III) the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962; 
     or
       ``(ii) for the purpose of providing such articles, 
     services, and military education and training to Vietnam, 
     Cambodia, and Laos as the President determines are 
     necessary--
       ``(I) to support cooperative efforts to locate and 
     repatriate members of the United States Armed Forces and 
     civilians employed directly or indirectly by the United 
     States Government who remain unaccounted for from the Vietnam 
     War; and
       ``(II) to ensure the safety of United States Government 
     personnel engaged in such cooperative efforts and to support 
     Department of Defense-sponsored humanitarian projects 
     associated with such efforts.'';
       (2) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking ``$75,000,000'' 
     and all that follows and inserting ``$150,000,000 in any 
     fiscal year of such articles, services, and military 
     education and training may be provided pursuant to 
     subparagraph (A) of this paragraph--
       ``(i) not more than $75,000,000 of which may be provided 
     from the drawdown from the inventory and resources of the 
     Department of Defense;
       ``(ii) not more than $75,000,000 of which may be provided 
     pursuant to clause (i)(I) of such subparagraph; and
       ``(iii) not more than $15,000,000 of which may be provided 
     to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos pursuant to clause (ii) of 
     such subparagraph.''; and
       (3) in subsection (b)(1), by adding at the end the 
     following: ``In the case of drawdowns authorized by 
     subclauses (I) and (III) of subsection (a)(2)(A)(i), 
     notifications shall be provided to those committees at least 
     15 days in advance of the drawdowns in accordance with the 
     procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications under 
     section 634A.''.
       (c) Notice to Congress of Exercise of Special 
     Authorities.--Section 652 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2411) is 
     amended by striking ``prior to the date'' and inserting 
     ``before''.

     SEC. 104. TRANSFER OF EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES.

       (a) In General.--Section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 516. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES.

       ``(a) Authorization.--The President is authorized to 
     transfer excess defense articles under this section to 
     countries for which receipt of such articles was justified 
     pursuant to the annual congressional presentation documents 
     for military assistance programs, or for programs under 
     chapter 8 of part I of this Act, submitted under section 
     634 of this Act, or for which receipt of such articles was 
     separately justified to the Congress, for the fiscal year 
     in which the transfer is authorized.
       ``(b) Limitations on Transfers.--The President may transfer 
     excess defense articles under this section only if--
       ``(1) such articles are drawn from existing stocks of the 
     Department of Defense;
       ``(2) funds available to the Department of Defense for the 
     procurement of defense equipment are not expended in 
     connection with the transfer;
       ``(3) the transfer of such articles will not have an 
     adverse impact on the military readiness of the United 
     States;
       ``(4) with respect to a proposed transfer of such articles 
     on a grant basis, such a transfer is preferable to a transfer 
     on a sales basis, after taking into account the potential 
     proceeds from, and likelihood of, such sales, and the 
     comparative foreign policy benefits that may accrue to the 
     United States as the result of a transfer on either a grant 
     or sales basis;
       ``(5) the President determines that the transfer of such 
     articles will not have an adverse impact on the national 
     technology and industrial base and, particularly, will not 
     reduce the opportunities of entities in the national 
     technology and industrial base to sell new or used equipment 
     to the countries to which such articles are transferred; and
       ``(6) the transfer of such articles is consistent with the 
     policy framework for the Eastern Mediterranean established 
     under section 620C of this Act.
       ``(c) Terms of Transfers.--
       ``(1) No cost to recipient country.--Excess defense 
     articles may be transferred under this section without cost 
     to the recipient country.
       ``(2) Priority.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the delivery of excess defense articles under this 
     section to member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization (NATO) on the southern and southeastern flank of 
     NATO and to major non-NATO allies on such southern and 
     southeastern flank shall be given priority to the maximum 
     extent feasible over the delivery of such excess defense 
     articles to other countries.
       ``(d) Waiver of Requirement for Reimbursement of Department 
     of Defense Expenses.--Section 632(d) shall not apply with 
     respect to transfers of excess defense articles (including 
     transportation and related costs) under this section.
       ``(e) Transportation and Related Costs.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
     funds available to the Department of Defense may not be 
     expended for crating, packing, handling, and transportation 
     of excess defense articles transferred under the authority of 
     this section.
       ``(2) Exception.--The President may provide for the 
     transportation of excess defense articles without charge to a 
     country for the costs of such transportation if--
       ``(A) it is determined that it is in the national interest 
     of the United States to do so;
       ``(B) the recipient is a developing country receiving less 
     than $10,000,000 of assistance under chapter 5 of part II of 
     this Act (relating to international military education and 
     training) or section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2763; relating to the Foreign Military Financing 
     program) in the fiscal year in which the transportation is 
     provided;
       ``(C) the total weight of the transfer does not exceed 
     25,000 pounds; and
       ``(D) such transportation is accomplished on a space 
     available basis.
       ``(f) Advance Notification to Congress for Transfer of 
     Certain Excess Defense Articles.--
       ``(1) In general.--The President may not transfer excess 
     defense articles that are significant military equipment (as 
     defined in section 47(9) of the Arms Export Control Act) or 
     excess defense articles valued (in terms of original 
     acquisition cost) at $7,000,000 or more, under this section 
     or under the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) 
     until 15 days after the date on which the President has 
     provided notice of the proposed transfer to the congressional 
     committees specified in section 634A(a) in accordance with 
     procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications under 
     that section.
       ``(2) Contents.--Such notification shall include--
       ``(A) a statement outlining the purposes for which the 
     article is being provided to the country, including whether 
     such article has been previously provided to such country;
       ``(B) an assessment of the impact of the transfer on the 
     military readiness of the United States;
       ``(C) an assessment of the impact of the transfer on the 
     national technology and industrial base and, particularly, 
     the impact on opportunities of entities in the national 
     technology and industrial base to sell new or used equipment 
     to the countries to which such articles are to be 
     transferred; and
       ``(D) a statement describing the current value of such 
     article and the value of such article at acquisition.
       ``(g) Aggregate Annual Limitation.--
       ``(1) In general.--The aggregate value of excess defense 
     articles transferred to countries under this section in any 
     fiscal year may not exceed $350,000,000.
       ``(2) Effective date.--The limitation contained in 
     paragraph (1) shall apply only with respect to fiscal years 
     beginning after fiscal year 1996.
       ``(h) Congressional Presentation Documents.--Documents 
     described in subsection (a) justifying the transfer of excess 
     defense articles shall include an explanation of the general 
     purposes of providing excess defense articles as well as a 
     table which provides an aggregate annual total of transfers 
     of excess defense articles in the preceding year by country 
     in terms of offers and actual deliveries and in terms of 
     acquisition cost and current value. Such table shall indicate 
     whether such excess defense articles were provided on a grant 
     or sale basis.
       ``(i) Excess Coast Guard Property.--For purposes of this 
     section, the term `excess defense articles' shall be deemed 
     to include excess property of the Coast Guard, and the term 
     `Department of Defense' shall be deemed, with respect to such 
     excess property, to include the Coast Guard.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Arms export control act.--Section 21(k) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761(k)) is amended by striking 
     ``the President shall'' and all that follows and inserting 
     the following: ``the President shall determine that the sale 
     of such articles will not have an adverse impact on the 
     national technology and industrial base and, particularly, 
     will not reduce the opportunities of entities in the national 
     technology and industrial base to sell new or used equipment 
     to the countries to which such articles are transferred.''.

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       (2) Repeals.--The following provisions of law are hereby 
     repealed:
       (A) Section 502A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2303).
       (B) Sections 517 through 520 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321k through 2321n).
       (C) Section 31(d) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2771(d)).

     SEC. 105. EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES FOR CERTAIN EUROPEAN 
                   COUNTRIES.

       Notwithstanding section 516(e) of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, during each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997, 
     funds available to the Department of Defense may be expended 
     for crating, packing, handling, and transportation of excess 
     defense articles transferred under the authority of section 
     516 of such Act to countries that are eligible to participate 
     in the Partnership for Peace and that are eligible for 
     assistance under the Support for East European Democracy 
     (SEED) Act of 1989.

        CHAPTER 2--INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING

     SEC. 111. ASSISTANCE FOR INDONESIA.

       Funds made available for fiscal years 1996 and 1997 to 
     carry out chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.) may be obligated for 
     Indonesia only for expanded military and education training 
     that meets the requirements of clauses (i) through (iv) of 
     the second sentence of section 541 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2347).

     SEC. 112. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) General Authority.--Section 541 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347) is amended in the 
     second sentence in the matter preceding clause (i) by 
     inserting ``and individuals who are not members of the 
     government'' after ``legislators''.
       (b) Exchange Training.--Section 544 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2347c) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``In carrying out this chapter'' and 
     inserting ``(a) In carrying out this chapter''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) The President may provide for the attendance of 
     foreign military and civilian defense personnel at flight 
     training schools and programs (including test pilot schools) 
     in the United States without charge, and without charge to 
     funds available to carry out this chapter (notwithstanding 
     section 632(d) of this Act), if such attendance is pursuant 
     to an agreement providing for the exchange of students on a 
     one-for-one basis each fiscal year between those United 
     States flight training schools and programs (including test 
     pilot schools) and comparable flight training schools and 
     programs of foreign countries.''.
       (c) Assistance for Certain High-Income Foreign Countries.--
       (1) Amendment to the foreign assistance act of 1961.--
     Chapter 5 of part II of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 546. PROHIBITION ON GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN HIGH 
                   INCOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

       ``(a) In General.--None of the funds made available for a 
     fiscal year for assistance under this chapter may be made 
     available for assistance on a grant basis for any of the 
     high-income foreign countries described in subsection (b) for 
     military education and training of military and related 
     civilian personnel of such country.
       ``(b) High-Income Foreign Countries Described.--The high-
     income foreign countries described in this subsection are 
     Austria, Finland, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and 
     Spain.''.
       (2) Amendment to the arms export control act.--Section 
     21(a)(1)(C) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761) 
     is amended by inserting ``or to any high-income foreign 
     country (as described in that chapter)'' after ``Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961''.

                  CHAPTER 3--ANTITERRORISM ASSISTANCE

     SEC. 121. ANTITERRORISM TRAINING ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 571 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2349aa) is amended by striking ``Subject 
     to the provisions of this chapter'' and inserting 
     ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law that restricts 
     assistance to foreign countries (other than sections 502B and 
     620A of this Act)''.
       (b) Limitations.--Section 573 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2349aa-2) is amended--
       (1) in the heading, by striking ``Specific Authorities 
     and'';
       (2) by striking subsection (a);
       (3) by redesignating subsections (b) through (f) as 
     subsections (a) through (e), respectively; and
       (4) in subsection (c) (as redesignated)--
       (A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2);
       (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
     paragraphs (1) through (3), respectively; and
       (C) by amending paragraph (2) (as redesignated) to read as 
     follows:
       ``(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), funds made 
     available to carry out this chapter shall not be made 
     available for the procurement of weapons and ammunition.
       ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to small arms and 
     ammunition in categories I and III of the United States 
     Munitions List that are integrally and directly related to 
     antiterrorism training provided under this chapter if, at 
     least 15 days before obligating those funds, the President 
     notifies the appropriate congressional committees specified 
     in section 634A of this Act in accordance with the procedures 
     applicable to reprogramming notifications under such section.
       ``(C) The value (in terms of original acquisition cost) of 
     all equipment and commodities provided under this chapter in 
     any fiscal year may not exceed 25 percent of the funds made 
     available to carry out this chapter for that fiscal year.''.
       (c) Annual Report.--Section 574 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2349aa-3) is hereby repealed.
       (d) Technical Corrections.--Section 575 (22 U.S.C. 2349aa-
     4) and section 576 (22 U.S.C. 2349aa-5) of such Act are 
     redesignated as sections 574 and 575, respectively.

     SEC. 122. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES.

       Funds made available for fiscal years 1996 and 1997 to 
     carry out chapter 8 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2349aa et seq.; relating to antiterrorism 
     assistance) may be made available to the Technical Support 
     Working Group of the Department of State for research and 
     development expenses related to contraband detection 
     technologies or for field demonstrations of such technologies 
     (whether such field demonstrations take place in the United 
     States or outside the United States).

                CHAPTER 4--NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE

     SEC. 131. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Policy and General Authorities.--Section 481(a) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act (22 U.S.C. 2291(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (F) as 
     subparagraphs (E) through (G), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(D) International criminal activities, particularly 
     international narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and 
     corruption, endanger political and economic stability and 
     democratic development, and assistance for the prevention and 
     suppression of international criminal activities should be a 
     priority for the United States.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (4), by adding before the period at the 
     end the following: ``, or for other anticrime purposes''.
       (b) Contributions and Reimbursement.--Section 482(c) of 
     that Act (22 U.S.C. 2291a(c)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``Contribution by Recipient Country.--To'' 
     and inserting ``Contributions and Reimbursement.--(1) To''; 
     and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(2)(A) The President is authorized to accept 
     contributions from foreign governments to carry out the 
     purposes of this chapter. Such contributions shall be 
     deposited as an offsetting collection to the applicable 
     appropriation account and may be used under the same terms 
     and conditions as funds appropriated pursuant to this 
     chapter.
       ``(B) At the time of submission of the annual congressional 
     presentation documents required by section 634(a), the 
     President shall provide a detailed report on any 
     contributions received in the preceding fiscal year, the 
     amount of such contributions, and the purposes for which such 
     contributions were used.
       ``(3) The President is authorized to provide assistance 
     under this chapter on a reimbursable basis. Such 
     reimbursements shall be deposited as an offsetting collection 
     to the applicable appropriation and may be used under the 
     same terms and conditions as funds appropriated pursuant to 
     this chapter.''.
       (c) Implementation of Law Enforcement Assistance.--Section 
     482 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2291a) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new subsections:
       ``(f) Treatment of Funds.--Funds transferred to and 
     consolidated with funds appropriated pursuant to this chapter 
     may be made available on such terms and conditions as are 
     applicable to funds appropriated pursuant to this chapter. 
     Funds so transferred or consolidated shall be apportioned 
     directly to the bureau within the Department of State 
     responsible for administering this chapter.
       ``(g) Excess Property.--For purposes of this chapter, the 
     Secretary of State may use the authority of section 608, 
     without regard to the restrictions of such section, to 
     receive nonlethal excess property from any agency of the 
     United States Government for the purpose of providing such 
     property to a foreign government under the same terms and 
     conditions as funds authorized to be appropriated for the 
     purposes of this chapter.''.

     SEC. 132. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.

       (a) In General.--The authority of section 1003(d) of the 
     National Narcotics Control Leadership Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 
     1502(d)) may be exercised with respect to funds authorized to 
     be appropriated pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) and with respect to the 
     personnel of the Department of State only to the extent that 
     the appropriate congressional committees have been notified 
     15 days in advance in accordance with the reprogramming 
     procedures applicable under section 634A of that Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2394).
       (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on International Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.

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     SEC. 133. WAIVER OF RESTRICTIONS FOR NARCOTICS-RELATED 
                   ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.

       For each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997, narcotics-
     related assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) may be provided 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law that restricts 
     assistance to foreign countries (other than section 490(e) or 
     section 502B of that Act (22 U.S.C. 2291j(e) and 2304)) if, 
     at least 15 days before obligating funds for such assistance, 
     the President notifies the appropriate congressional 
     committees (as defined in section 481(e) of that Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2291(e))) in accordance with the procedures applicable 
     to reprogramming notifications under section 634A of that Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2394).

                      CHAPTER 5--OTHER PROVISIONS

     SEC. 141. STANDARDIZATION OF CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PROCEDURES 
                   FOR ARMS TRANSFERS.

       (a) Third Country Transfers Under FMS Sales.--Section 
     3(d)(2) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2753(d)(2)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``, as provided for in 
     sections 36(b)(2) and 36(b)(3) of this Act'';
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``law'' and inserting 
     ``joint resolution''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) If the President states in his certification under 
     subparagraph (A) or (B) that an emergency exists which 
     requires that consent to the proposed transfer become 
     effective immediately in the national security interests of 
     the United States, thus waiving the requirements of that 
     subparagraph, the President shall set forth in the 
     certification a detailed justification for his determination, 
     including a description of the emergency circumstances which 
     necessitate immediate consent to the transfer and a 
     discussion of the national security interests involved.
       ``(D)(i) Any joint resolution under this paragraph shall be 
     considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of 
     section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and 
     Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
       ``(ii) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and 
     enactment of joint resolutions under this paragraph, a motion 
     to proceed to the consideration of any such joint resolution 
     after it has been reported by the appropriate committee shall 
     be treated as highly privileged in the House of 
     Representatives.''.
       (b) Third Country Transfers Under Commercial Sales.--
     Section 3(d)(3) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2753(d)(3)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(3)'';
       (2) in the first sentence--
       (A) by striking ``at least 30 calendar days''; and
       (B) by striking ``report'' and inserting ``certification''; 
     and
       (3) by striking the last sentence and inserting the 
     following: ``Such certification shall be submitted--
       ``(i) at least 15 calendar days before such consent is 
     given in the case of a transfer to a country which is a 
     member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or 
     Australia, Japan, or New Zealand; and
       ``(ii) at least 30 calendar days before such consent is 
     given in the case of a transfer to any other country,

     unless the President states in his certification that an 
     emergency exists which requires that consent to the proposed 
     transfer become effective immediately in the national 
     security interests of the United States. If the President 
     states in his certification that such an emergency exists 
     (thus waiving the requirements of clause (i) or (ii), as the 
     case may be, and of subparagraph (B)) the President shall set 
     forth in the certification a detailed justification for his 
     determination, including a description of the emergency 
     circumstances which necessitate that consent to the proposed 
     transfer become effective immediately and a discussion of the 
     national security interests involved.
       ``(B) Consent to a transfer subject to subparagraph (A) 
     shall become effective after the end of the 15-day or 30-day 
     period specified in subparagraph (A)(i) or (ii), as the case 
     may be, only if the Congress does not enact, within that 
     period, a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed transfer.
       ``(C)(i) Any joint resolution under this paragraph shall be 
     considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of 
     section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and 
     Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
       ``(ii) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and 
     enactment of joint resolutions under this paragraph, a motion 
     to proceed to the consideration of any such joint resolution 
     after it has been reported by the appropriate committee shall 
     be treated as highly privileged in the House of 
     Representatives.''.
       (c) Commercial Sales.--Section 36(c)(2) of such Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2776(c)(2)) is amended by amending subparagraphs (A) 
     and (B) to read as follows:
       ``(A) in the case of a license for an export to the North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization, any member country of that 
     Organization or Australia, Japan, or New Zealand, shall not 
     be issued until at least 15 calendar days after the Congress 
     receives such certification, and shall not be issued then if 
     the Congress, within that 15-day period, enacts a joint 
     resolution prohibiting the proposed export; and
       ``(B) in the case of any other license, shall not be issued 
     until at least 30 calendar days after the Congress receives 
     such certification, and shall not be issued then if the 
     Congress, within that 30-day period, enacts a joint 
     resolution prohibiting the proposed export.''.
       (d) Commercial Manufacturing Agreements.--Section 36(d) of 
     such Act (22 U.S.C. 2776(d)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(d)'';
       (2) by striking ``for or in a country not a member of the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) A certification under this subsection shall be 
     submitted--
       ``(A) at least 15 days before approval is given in the case 
     of an agreement for or in a country which is a member of the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization or Australia, Japan, or 
     New Zealand; and
       ``(B) at least 30 days before approval is given in the case 
     of an agreement for or in any other country;

     unless the President states in his certification that an 
     emergency exists which requires the immediate approval of the 
     agreement in the national security interests of the United 
     States.
       ``(3) If the President states in his certification that an 
     emergency exists which requires the immediate approval of the 
     agreement in the national security interests of the United 
     States, thus waiving the requirements of paragraph (4), he 
     shall set forth in the certification a detailed justification 
     for his determination, including a description of the 
     emergency circumstances which necessitate the immediate 
     approval of the agreement and a discussion of the national 
     security interests involved.
       ``(4) Approval for an agreement subject to paragraph (1) 
     may not be given under section 38 if the Congress, within the 
     15-day or 30-day period specified in paragraph (2)(A) or (B), 
     as the case may be, enacts a joint resolution prohibiting 
     such approval.
       ``(5)(A) Any joint resolution under paragraph (4) shall be 
     considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of 
     section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and 
     Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
       ``(B) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and 
     enactment of joint resolutions under paragraph (4), a motion 
     to proceed to the consideration of any such joint resolution 
     after it has been reported by the appropriate committee shall 
     be treated as highly privileged in the House of 
     Representatives.''.
       (e) Government-to-Government Leases.--
       (1) Congressional review period.--Section 62 of such Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2796a) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``Not less than 30 days 
     before'' and inserting ``Before'';
       (B) in subsection (b)--
       (i) by striking ``determines, and immediately reports to 
     the Congress'' and inserting ``states in his certification''; 
     and
       (ii) by adding at the end of the subsection the following: 
     ``If the President states in his certification that such an 
     emergency exists, he shall set forth in the certification a 
     detailed justification for his determination, including a 
     description of the emergency circumstances which necessitate 
     that the lease be entered into immediately and a discussion 
     of the national security interests involved.''; and
       (C) by adding at the end of the section the following:
       ``(c) The certification required by subsection (a) shall be 
     transmitted--
       ``(1) not less than 15 calendar days before the agreement 
     is entered into or renewed in the case of an agreement with 
     the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, any member country of 
     that Organization or Australia, Japan, or New Zealand; and
       ``(2) not less than 30 calendar days before the agreement 
     is entered into or renewed in the case of an agreement with 
     any other organization or country.''.
       (2) Congressional disapproval.--Section 63(a) of such Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2796b(a)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``(a)(1)'' and inserting ``(a)'';
       (B) by striking out the ``30 calendar days after receiving 
     the certification with respect to that proposed agreement 
     pursuant to section 62(a),'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
     ``the 15-day or 30-day period specified in section 62(c) (1) 
     or (2), as the case may be,''; and
       (C) by striking paragraph (2).
       (f) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     apply with respect to certifications required to be submitted 
     on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 142. STANDARDIZATION OF THIRD COUNTRY TRANSFERS OF 
                   DEFENSE ARTICLES.

       Section 3 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2753) 
     is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(b) The consent of the President under paragraph (2) of 
     subsection (a) or under paragraph (1) of section 505(a) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (as it relates to 
     subparagraph (B) of such paragraph) shall not be required for 
     the transfer by a foreign country or international 
     organization of defense articles sold by the United States 
     under this Act if--
       ``(1) such articles constitute components incorporated into 
     foreign defense articles;
       ``(2) the recipient is the government of a member country 
     of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Government of 
     Australia, the Government of Japan, or the Government of New 
     Zealand;
       ``(3) the recipient is not a country designated under 
     section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;

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       ``(4) the United States-origin components are not--
       ``(A) significant military equipment (as defined in section 
     47(9));
       ``(B) defense articles for which notification to Congress 
     is required under section 36(b); and
       ``(C) identified by regulation as Missile Technology 
     Control Regime items; and
       ``(5) the foreign country or international organization 
     provides notification of the transfer of the defense articles 
     to the United States Government not later than 30 days after 
     the date of such transfer.''.

     SEC. 143. INCREASED STANDARDIZATION, RATIONALIZATION, AND 
                   INTEROPERABILITY OF ASSISTANCE AND SALES 
                   PROGRAMS.

       Paragraph (6) of section 515(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321i(a)(6)) is amended by striking 
     ``among members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and 
     with the Armed Forces of Japan, Australia, and New Zealand''.

     SEC. 144. DEFINITION OF SIGNIFICANT MILITARY EQUIPMENT.

       Section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(9) `significant military equipment' means articles--
       ``(A) for which special export controls are warranted 
     because of the capacity of such articles for substantial 
     military utility or capability; and
       ``(B) identified on the United States Munitions List.''.

     SEC. 145. ELIMINATION OF ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT 
                   RELATING TO THE SPECIAL DEFENSE ACQUISITION 
                   FUND.

       (a) In General.--Section 53 of the Arms Export Control Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2795b) is hereby repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 51(a)(4) of such Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2795(a)(4)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(a)''; and
       (2) by striking subparagraph (B).

     SEC. 146. COST OF LEASED DEFENSE ARTICLES THAT HAVE BEEN LOST 
                   OR DESTROYED.

       Section 61(a)(4) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2796(a)(4)) is amended by striking ``and the replacement 
     cost'' and all that follows and inserting the following: 
     ``and, if the articles are lost or destroyed while leased--
       ``(A) in the event the United States intends to replace the 
     articles
     lost or destroyed, the replacement cost (less any 
     depreciation in the value) of the articles; or
       ``(B) in the event the United States does not intend to 
     replace the articles lost or destroyed, an amount not less 
     than the actual value (less any depreciation in the value) 
     specified in the lease agreement.''.

     SEC. 147. DESIGNATION OF MAJOR NON-NATO ALLIES.

       (a) Designation.--
       (1) Notice to congress.--Chapter 2 of part II of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2311 et seq.), as 
     amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 517. DESIGNATION OF MAJOR NON-NATO ALLIES.

       ``(a) Notice to Congress.--The President shall notify the 
     Congress in writing at least 30 days before--
       ``(1) designating a country as a major non-NATO ally for 
     purposes of this Act and the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2751 et seq.); or
       ``(2) terminating such a designation.
       ``(b) Initial Designations.--Australia, Egypt, Israel, 
     Japan, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand shall be deemed 
     to have been so designated by the President as of the 
     effective date of this section, and the President is not 
     required to notify the Congress of such designation of those 
     countries.''.
       (2) Definition.--Section 644 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2403) 
     is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(q) `Major non-NATO ally' means a country which is 
     designated in accordance with section 517 as a major non-NATO 
     ally for purposes of this Act and the Arms Export Control Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.).''.
       (3) Existing definitions.--(A) The last sentence of section 
     21(g) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761(g)) is 
     repealed.
       (B) Section 65(d) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2796d(d)) is 
     amended--
       (i) by striking ``or major non-NATO''; and
       (ii) by striking out ``or a'' and all that follows through 
     ``Code''.
       (b) Cooperative Training Agreements.--Section 21(g) of the 
     Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761(g)) is amended in the 
     first sentence by striking ``similar agreements'' and all 
     that follows through ``other countries'' and inserting 
     ``similar agreements with countries''.

     SEC. 148. CERTIFICATION THRESHOLDS.

       (a) Increase in Dollar Thresholds.--The Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 3(d) (22 U.S.C. 2753(d))--
       (A) in paragraphs (1) and (3), by striking ``$14,000,000'' 
     each place it appears and inserting ``$25,000,000''; and
       (B) in paragraphs (1) and (3), by striking ``$50,000,000'' 
     each place it appears and inserting ``$75,000,000'';
       (2) in section 36 (22 U.S.C. 2776)--
       (A) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(5)(C), and (c)(1), by 
     striking ``$14,000,000'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``$25,000,000'';
       (B) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(5)(C), and (c)(1), by 
     striking ``$50,000,000'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``$75,000,000''; and
       (C) in subsections (b)(1) and (b)(5)(C), by striking 
     ``$200,000,000'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``$300,000,000''; and
       (3) in section 63(a) (22 U.S.C. 2796b(a))--
       (A) by striking ``$14,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$25,000,000''; and
       (B) by striking ``$50,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$75,000,000''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     apply with respect to certifications submitted on or after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 149. DEPLETED URANIUM AMMUNITION.

       Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2370 et seq.), as amended by this Act, is further 
     amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 620G. DEPLETED URANIUM AMMUNITION.

       ``(a) Prohibition.--Except as provided in subsection (b), 
     none of the funds made available to carry out this Act or any 
     other Act may be made available to facilitate in any way the 
     sale of M-833 antitank shells or any comparable antitank 
     shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to 
     any country other than--
       ``(1) a country that is a member of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization;
       ``(2) a country that has been designated as a major non-
     NATO ally (as defined in section 644(q)); or
       ``(3) Taiwan.
       ``(b) Exception.--The prohibition contained in subsection 
     (a) shall not apply with respect to the use of funds to 
     facilitate the sale of antitank shells to a country if the 
     President determines that to do so is in the national 
     security interest of the United States.''.

     SEC. 150. END-USE MONITORING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES AND DEFENSE 
                   SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--The Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2751 et seq.) is amended by inserting after chapter 3 the 
     following new chapter:

   ``CHAPTER 3A--END-USE MONITORING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES AND DEFENSE 
                                SERVICES

     ``SEC. 40A. END-USE MONITORING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES AND 
                   DEFENSE SERVICES.

       ``(a) Establishment of Monitoring Program.--
       ``(1) In general.--In order to improve accountability with 
     respect to defense articles and defense services sold, 
     leased, or exported under this Act or the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), the President shall 
     establish a program which provides for the end-use monitoring 
     of such articles and services.
       ``(2) Requirements of program.--To the extent practicable, 
     such program--
       ``(A) shall provide for the end-use monitoring of defense 
     articles and defense services in accordance with the 
     standards that apply for identifying high-risk exports for 
     regular end-use verification developed under section 38(g)(7) 
     of this Act (commonly referred to as the `Blue Lantern' 
     program); and
       ``(B) shall be designed to provide reasonable assurance 
     that--
       ``(i) the recipient is complying with the requirements 
     imposed by the United States Government with respect to use, 
     transfers, and security of defense articles and defense 
     services; and
       ``(ii) such articles and services are being used for the 
     purposes for which they are provided.
       ``(b) Conduct of Program.--In carrying out the program 
     established under subsection (a), the President shall ensure 
     that the program--
       ``(1) provides for the end-use verification of defense 
     articles and defense services that incorporate sensitive 
     technology, defense articles and defense services that are 
     particularly vulnerable to diversion or other misuse, or 
     defense articles or defense services whose diversion or other 
     misuse could have significant consequences; and
       ``(2) prevents the diversion (through reverse engineering 
     or other means) of technology incorporated in defense 
     articles.
       ``(c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 6 months after 
     the date of the enactment of this section, and annually 
     thereafter as a part of the annual congressional presentation 
     documents submitted under section 634 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, the President shall transmit to the 
     Congress a report describing the actions taken to implement 
     this section, including a detailed accounting of the costs 
     and number of personnel associated with the monitoring 
     program.
       ``(d) Third Country Transfers.--For purposes of this 
     section, defense articles and defense services sold, leased, 
     or exported under this Act or the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) includes defense articles and 
     defense services that are transferred to a third country or 
     other third party.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--Section 40A of the Arms Export Control 
     Act, as added by subsection (a), applies with respect to 
     defense articles and defense services provided before or 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 151. BROKERING ACTIVITIES RELATING TO COMMERCIAL SALES 
                   OF DEFENSE ARTICLES AND SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--Section 38(b)(1)(A) of the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(A)) is amended--

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       (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``As prescribed in 
     regulations'' and inserting ``(i) As prescribed in 
     regulations''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(ii)(I) As prescribed in regulations issued under this 
     section, every person (other than an officer or employee of 
     the United States Government acting in official capacity) who 
     engages in the business of brokering activities with respect 
     to the manufacture, export, import, or transfer of any 
     defense article or defense service designated by the 
     President under subsection (a)(1), or in the business of 
     brokering activities with respect to the manufacture, export, 
     import, or transfer of any foreign defense article or defense 
     service (as defined in subclause (IV)), shall register with 
     the United States Government agency charged with the 
     administration of this section, and shall pay a registration 
     fee which shall be prescribed by such regulations.
       ``(II) Such brokering activities shall include the 
     financing, transportation, freight forwarding, or taking of 
     any other action that facilitates the manufacture, export, or 
     import of a defense article or defense service.
       ``(III) No person may engage in the business of brokering 
     activities described in subclause (I) without a license, 
     issued in accordance with this Act, except that no license 
     shall be required for such activities undertaken by or for an 
     agency of the United States Government--
       ``(aa) for use by an agency of the United States 
     Government; or
       ``(bb) for carrying out any foreign assistance or sales 
     program authorized by law and subject to the control of the 
     President by other means.
       ``(IV) For purposes of this clause, the term `foreign 
     defense article or defense service' includes any non-United 
     States defense article or defense service of a nature 
     described on the United States Munitions List regardless of 
     whether such article or service is of United States origin or 
     whether such article or service contains United States origin 
     components.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--Section 38(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act, as added by subsection (a), shall apply 
     with respect to brokering activities engaged in beginning on 
     or after 120 days after the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 152. RETURN AND EXCHANGES OF DEFENSE ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY 
                   TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO THE ARMS EXPORT CONTROL 
                   ACT.

       (a) Repair of Defense Articles.--Section 21 of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new subsection:
       ``(l) Repair of Defense Articles.--
       ``(1) In general.--The President may acquire a repairable 
     defense article from a foreign country or international 
     organization if such defense article--
       ``(A) previously was transferred to such country or 
     organization under this Act;
       ``(B) is not an end item; and
       ``(C) will be exchanged for a defense article of the same 
     type that is in the stocks of the Department of Defense.
       ``(2) Limitation.--The President may exercise the authority 
     provided in paragraph (1) only to the extent that the 
     Department of Defense--
       ``(A)(i) has a requirement for the defense article being 
     returned; and
       ``(ii) has available sufficient funds authorized and 
     appropriated for such purpose; or
       ``(B)(i) is accepting the return of the defense article for 
     subsequent transfer to another foreign government or 
     international organization pursuant to a letter of offer and 
     acceptance implemented in accordance with this Act; and
       ``(ii) has available sufficient funds provided by or on 
     behalf of such other foreign government or international 
     organization pursuant to a letter of offer and acceptance 
     implemented in accordance with this Act.
       ``(3) Requirement.--(A) The foreign government or 
     international organization receiving a new or repaired 
     defense article in exchange for a repairable defense article 
     pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, upon the acceptance by the 
     United States Government of the repairable defense article 
     being returned, be charged the total cost associated with the 
     repair and replacement transaction.
       ``(B) The total cost charged pursuant to subparagraph (A) 
     shall be the same as that charged the United States Armed 
     Forces for a similar repair and replacement transaction, plus 
     an administrative surcharge in accordance with subsection 
     (e)(1)(A) of this section.
       ``(4) Relationship to certain other provisions of law.--The 
     authority of the President to accept the return of a 
     repairable defense article as provided in subsection (a) 
     shall not be subject to chapter 137 of title 10, United 
     States Code, or any other provision of law relating to the 
     conclusion of contracts.''.
       (b) Return of Defense Articles.--Section 21 of such Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2761), as amended by this Act, is further amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(m) Return of Defense Articles.--
       ``(1) In general.--The President may accept the return of a 
     defense article from a foreign country or international 
     organization if such defense article--
       ``(A) previously was transferred to such country or 
     organization under this Act;
       ``(B) is not significant military equipment (as defined in 
     section 47(9) of this Act); and
       ``(C) is in fully functioning condition without need of 
     repair or rehabilitation.
       ``(2) Limitation.--The President may exercise the authority 
     provided in paragraph (1) only to the extent that the 
     Department of Defense--
       ``(A)(i) has a requirement for the defense article being 
     returned; and
       ``(ii) has available sufficient funds authorized and 
     appropriated for such purpose; or
       ``(B)(i) is accepting the return of the defense article for 
     subsequent transfer to another foreign government or 
     international organization pursuant to a letter of offer and 
     acceptance implemented in accordance with this Act; and
       ``(ii) has available sufficient funds provided by or on 
     behalf of such other foreign government or international 
     organization pursuant to a letter of offer and acceptance 
     implemented in accordance with this Act.
       ``(3) Credit for transaction.--Upon acquisition and 
     acceptance by the United States Government of a defense 
     article under paragraph (1), the appropriate Foreign Military 
     Sales account of the provider shall be credited to reflect 
     the transaction.
       ``(4) Relationship to certain other provisions of law.--The 
     authority of the President to accept the return of a defense 
     article as provided in paragraph (1) shall not be subject to 
     chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, or any other 
     provision of law relating to the conclusion of 
     contracts.''.
       (c) Regulations.--Under the direction of the President, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall promulgate regulations to 
     implement subsections (l) and (m) of section 21 of the Arms 
     Export Control Act, as added by this section.

     SEC. 153. NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST DETERMINATION TO WAIVE 
                   REIMBURSEMENT OF DEPRECIATION FOR LEASED 
                   DEFENSE ARTICLES.

       (a) In General.--Section 61(a) of the Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2796(a)) is amended--
       (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``, or to any 
     defense article which has passed three-quarters of its normal 
     service life''; and
       (2) by inserting after the second sentence the following 
     new sentence: ``The President may waive the requirement of 
     paragraph (4) for reimbursement of depreciation for any 
     defense article which has passed three-quarters of its normal 
     service life if the President determines that to do so is 
     important to the national security interest of the United 
     States.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The third sentence of section 61(a) of 
     the Arms Export Control Act, as added by subsection (a)(2), 
     shall apply only with respect to a defense article leased on 
     or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 154. ELIGIBILITY OF PANAMA UNDER ARMS EXPORT CONTROL 
                   ACT.

       The Government of the Republic of Panama shall be eligible 
     to purchase defense articles and defense services under the 
     Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), except as 
     otherwise specifically provided by law.
    TITLE II--TRANSFER OF NAVAL VESSELS TO CERTAIN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

     SEC. 201. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER NAVAL VESSELS.

       (a) Egypt.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to 
     transfer to the Government of Egypt the ``OLIVER HAZARD PERRY 
     CLASS'' frigate GALLERY. Such transfer shall be on a sales 
     basis under section 21 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2761; relating to the foreign military sales program).
       (b) Mexico.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to 
     transfer to the Government of Mexico the ``KNOX'' class 
     frigates STEIN (FF 1065) and MARVIN SHIELDS (FF 1066). Such 
     transfers shall be on a sales basis under section 21 of the 
     Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761; relating to the 
     foreign military sales program).
       (c) New Zealand.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized 
     to transfer to the Government of New Zealand the ``STALWART'' 
     class ocean surveillance ship TENACIOUS. Such transfer shall 
     be on a sales basis under section 21 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761; relating to the foreign military 
     sales program).
       (d) Portugal.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to 
     transfer to the Government of Portugal the ``STALWART'' class 
     ocean surveillance ship AUDACIOUS. Such transfer shall be on 
     a grant basis under section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j; relating to transfers of excess 
     defense articles).
       (e) Taiwan.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to 
     transfer to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative 
     Office in the United States (which is the Taiwan 
     instrumentality designated pursuant to section 10(a) of the 
     Taiwan Relations Act) the following:
       (1) The ``KNOX'' class frigates AYLWIN (FF 1081), PHARRIS 
     (FF 1094), and VALDEZ (FF 1096). Such transfers shall be on a 
     sales basis under section 21 of the Arms Export Control Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2761; relating to the foreign military sales 
     program).
       (2) The ``NEWPORT'' class tank landing ship NEWPORT (LST 
     1179). Such transfer shall be on a lease basis under section 
     61 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2796).
       (f) Thailand.--The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to 
     transfer to the Government of Thailand the ``KNOX'' class 
     frigate OUELLET (FF 1077). Such transfer shall be on a sales 
     basis under section 21 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2761; relating to the foreign military sales program).

     SEC. 202. COSTS OF TRANSFERS.

       Any expense of the United States in connection with a 
     transfer authorized by this title shall be charged to the 
     recipient.

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     SEC. 203. EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY.

       The authority granted by section 201 shall expire at the 
     end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 204. REPAIR AND REFURBISHMENT OF VESSELS IN UNITED 
                   STATES SHIPYARDS.

       The Secretary of the Navy shall require, to the maximum 
     extent possible, as a condition of a transfer of a vessel 
     under this title, that the country to which the vessel is 
     transferred have such repair or refurbishment of the vessel 
     as is needed, before the vessel joins the naval forces of 
     that country, performed at a shipyard located in the United 
     States, including a United States Navy shipyard.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Gilman] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Lantos] will 
each be recognized for 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman].
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to bring this legislation to 
the floor of the House at this time.
  The purpose of title I of this bill is to amend authorities under the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control 
Act to revise and consolidate defense and security assistance 
authorities, in particular by updating policy and statutory 
authorities.
  The genesis of this effort began nearly 7 years ago, with H.R. 2655, 
the International Cooperation Act of 1989. Subsequent legislation by 
the then Committee on Foreign Affairs, including H.R. 2508, the 
International Cooperation Act of 1991, and later bills, continued our 
efforts to amend and update these important authorities.
  On June 8, 1995, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1561, the 
American Overseas Interest Act of 1995, by a vote of 222 to 192. Title 
XXXI of division C, the Foreign Aid Reduction Act of 1995, was 
dedicated to defense and security assistance provisions. On March 12, 
1996, the House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 1561 by a vote 
of 226 to 172. The conference report, though, did not include 
provisions from division C of the House-passed bill.
  This legislation, H.R. 3121, continues the effort by our Committee on 
International Relations to amend the Foreign Assistance Act and the 
Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to defense and security 
assistance provisions under those acts. The provisions included in 
title I of this bill are nearly identical to title XXXI of H.R. 1561, 
are the product of bipartisan effort and cooperation, and enjoy the 
strong support of the Departments of State and Defense.
  Central to consideration of this bill is the committee's view that 
this legislation fulfills its responsibility as an authorizing 
committee. Specifically, this legislation codifies in permanent law 
authorizing language which has been too long carried on annual 
appropriations measures.
  The purpose of title II of this bill is to authorize the transfer of 
naval vessels to certain foreign nations pursuant to the 
administration's request of January 29, 1996, Title II of this bill 
authorizes the transfer of 10 naval vessels, 8 sales, 1 by lease and 1 
by grant, to the following nations: to Egypt, to Mexico, to New 
Zealand, to Portugal, to Taiwan, and to Thailand.
  According to our Department of Defense, the Chief of Naval Operations 
has certified that these naval vessels are not essential to the defense 
of our own Nation.
  As detailed above, the United States plans to transfer eight naval 
vessels by sale, pursuant to section 21 of the Arms Export Control Act. 
One of the vessels will be transferred as a lease, pursuant to chapter 
6 of the Arms Export Control Act, and one of the vessels will be 
transferred as a grant pursuant to section 519 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.
  The United States will incur no cost for the transfer of the naval 
vessels under this legislation. The foreign recipients will be 
responsible for all costs associated with the transfer of the vessels, 
including maintenance, repairs, training and fleet turnover costs. Any 
expenses incurred in connection with these transfers will be charged to 
the foreign recipients.
  Through the sale of these naval vessels, this legislation will 
generate $72 million in revenue for the U.S. Treasury. In addition, 
through repair and reactivation work, through service contracts, 
ammunition sales, and savings generated from avoidance of storage and 
deactivation costs, our Navy estimates that the legislation will 
generate an additional $525 million in revenue for the U.S. Treasury 
and for private U.S. firms.
  I commend this bill to the House and I ask my colleagues for their 
support.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, first I would like to commend the distinguished chairman 
of our committee for his leadership on this bill and on so many other 
matters. I rise in strong support of this resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to my good friend and distinguished 
colleague, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank].
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from 
California, and I want to join in congratulating his leadership, along 
with the gentleman from New York in the previous resolution on the 
Holocaust.
  In general, this is good legislation. As someone who represents a 
large number of Portuguese-Americans who are proud of the very strong, 
thriving relationship between our two democratic nations, I am pleased 
to see through the efforts of my colleagues the needs of the Portuguese 
Navy have been in part accommodated.
  But I am severely disappointed that this legislation continues a 
pattern of rewarding the Government of Indonesia, which continues to 
engage in some of the most oppressive and racist activities in the 
world in their maltreatment of the people of East Timor. Indonesia's 
record in East Timor is one of the great moral failings in the world, 
and unfortunately it is a further moral failing that the rest of the 
world stands back and allows the people of East Timor to be so 
oppressed.
  I understand that this is military and educational training. 
Theoretically just for civilians, in ways it is supposed to help. But 
you know when you are in East Timor being oppressed, when you are being 
killed or imprisoned by this brutal regime, the fact the people doing 
the killing and the Indonesians are a little better educated in civic 
values than they otherwise might have been is no consolation. I regret 
very much that this legislation continues that practice.
  Last year I offered an amendment to strike from the foreign 
operations appropriations bill all aid to Indonesia. The Committee on 
Rules did not allow it. I want to announce now that I and others intend 
to insist this time on our right to at least vote on that. It is bad 
enough that this Congress goes along with rewarding the brutal actions 
of the Government of Indonesia, but to deny us even a chance to vote 
for it implicates our own procedures in that unfortunate aspect, 
although obviously murder is a lot worse than our being able to vote. I 
am sorry it is not included here, and I pledge we will do everything we 
can to end the practice of rewarding the Indonesian Government until 
and unless it stops its brutalization of the people of East Timor.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Rhode Island [Mr. Kennedy], my good friend and 
distinguished colleague.
  Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. Mr. Speaker, I would like to concur with 
my colleague from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank], in that this bill should 
not be on the Suspension Calendar as it relates to the inclusion of an 
enhancement for Indonesia for the same reasons my colleagues just 
spoke.
  Indonesia has proven itself to be someone with no respect and regard 
for the human rights of the East Timorese in the application of their 
Government in East Timor. They have systematically used their 
Government to oppose the East Timorese. They have terrorized, 
brutalized, they have killed demonstrators in broad daylight in front 
of international cameras. They will go to no end to show that they are 
not worthy of the recognition that this enhancement gives them.
  The whole idea of the enhancement is to say, ``Well, we will work 
with you.''

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                              {time}  1415

  But understand, we will work to support democratic efforts. But if 
there are no democratic efforts being undertaken, it is a little 
presumptuous for us to think that simply by our recognition of East 
Timor through this enhanced IMET that we are going to replace what is 
not there. That is the problem with enhanced IMET.
  My former colleague, Congressman Ron Machtly, was successful in 
revoking IMET. It was a good thing that this Congress recognized it. 
Nothing has changed. Indonesia still oppresses these Timorese, and that 
is why this is not the time for us to be renewing IMET. That is why, 
Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman can obviously tell, there are people 
like myself, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Pelosi], the 
gentlewoman from New York [Mrs. Lowey], and others, the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Frank], who know this is not an issue where we 
should be debating it on a Suspension Calendar. We have no problem 
debating this as a bill on the floor itself, and that is the way it 
should come before us.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill contains provisions, as the gentleman from New 
York said, which we all support. I would be the first to commend the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] for the inclusion of the 
hydrographic vessel that goes to Portugal. But that is the proper role 
for a suspension bill. The IMET is not. So while I support that 
endeavor that the gentleman has put into the bill, this I have to 
object to.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
New York [Mrs. Lowey].
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
provision in this bill that authorizes international military education 
and training [IMET] assistance for Indonesia.
  In 1992, we voted to end all IMET assistance for Indonesia because of 
that country's abysmal human rights record and their continued 
oppression of the people of East Timor. Despite the lack of improvement 
in Indonesia's human rights record, and the opposition of myself and 
many of my colleagues, a modified IMET program was approved for 
Indonesia in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act for fiscal year 
1996.
  When this provision was added to the foreign aid bill last year, we 
said we would monitor the human rights situation in Indonesia very 
carefully and act accordingly this year. Well, the State Department's 
Country Report on Indonesia was released last month, and according to 
the report, ``The government continued to commit serious human rights 
abuses.''
  So what do we do a month after this report came out? We attempt to 
slip reauthorization of IMET for Indonesia into a supposedly 
noncontroversial bill that is being considered on the Suspension 
Calendar. This is an unacceptable way to legislate.
  Mr. Speaker, in the past we have debated this issue extensively. Last 
year, I offered an amendment to the foreign aid bill to prohibit this 
assistance from going to Indonesia. There is significant opposition in 
Congress to Indonesian IMET. That doesn't sound noncontroversial to me.
  A month ago, the State Department said that in Indonesia ``reports of 
extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and torture of those in custody 
by security forces increased.'' Not decreased. Not stayed the same. 
Increased. Should we really be authorizing IMET assistance for this 
government now when they have not addressed these critical human rights 
issues? I don't think so.
  Indonesia's policy in East Timor is about the oppression of people 
who oppose Indonesia's right to torture, kill, and repress the people 
of East Timor. It is about the 200,000 Timorese who have been 
slaughtered since the Indonesian occupation in 1975--200,000 killed out 
of a total population of 700,000. It is about genocide.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not a noncontroversial issue, and should never 
have been brought up under suspension.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Kansas [Mr. Brownback], a member of our committee.
  (Mr. BROWNBACK asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. Speaker, let me begin by congratulating Chairman 
Gilman for the hard work he and his staff have put into reforming the 
defense and security assistance provisions incorporated in H.R. 3121.
  I think H.R. 3121 represents a common sense approach to advancing our 
foreign policy goals of promoting global security, ensuring the 
security of U.S. citizens and U.S. allies around the world, and 
encouraging democracy. However, the bill achieves these goals while 
effectively reducing the amount of excess defense articles that will be 
transferred to our allies on a grant or no-cost lease basis.
  We need to use the grant and no-cost lease options sparingly so that 
these programs recover as much money for the taxpayers as possible. 
H.R. 3121 will force the Defense Department to drastically reduce the 
number of no-cost leases and grants that are used to transfer excess 
defense articles to our allies. The bill creates the national security 
interest determination that the President will have to invoke in order 
to provide a no-cost lease for excess defense articles.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3121 also requires the Pentagon to evaluate whether 
excess defense articles should be transferred on a grant basis or on a 
sale basis, depending upon what the potential proceeds would be from a 
sale, what the likelihood of selling a defense article would be, and 
what the foreign policy benefits of a transfer would be. Mr. Speaker, I 
simply add that in this time of budgetary constraint and austerity, I 
think this is a very good measure that we move forward with that, we 
say to the Defense Department and we say to the administration, if you 
are going to give away these ships, if you are going to give away these 
airplanes, you better have a darn good reason to do it, because we are 
broke and we need to be able to recognize and get as much funding as we 
possibly can and have as much restraint here as possible.
  That is in the bill, and I commend Chairman Gilman for inserting it.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BROWNBACK. I yield to the gentleman from Nebraska.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for focusing on the 
changes and the reforms that are a part of this bill. The gentleman has 
been active as well as Chairman Gilman and the ranking member.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BROWNBACK. I yield to the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I just want to commend the gentleman from 
Kansas for his astute observations, analysis of the bill. He has been a 
sound critic of the prior procedures that we have utilized in 
transferring this equipment, and as a result of his efforts, a good 
reform has come about. I thank the gentleman for his efforts.
  Mr. BROWNBACK. I thank the gentleman very much.
  Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 5 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to commend Chairman Gilman for his leadership on 
this bill. He has proceeded in a very constructive and bipartisan way. 
The first part of the bill, an amendment of security assistance 
authorities in the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control 
Act, has indeed been developed on a bipartisan basis under Chairman 
Gilman's leadership. He has already spoken in some detail about the 
bill, and I do not want to repeat his presentation.
  Mr. Speaker, I just want to speak to two issues that have come up by 
our colleagues. One is expanded IMET for Indonesia. The issue of 
expanded IMET for Indonesia is troubling to some Members of this House. 
The administration strongly supports the provision in this bill which 
exactly tracks the Foreign Operations Act for this fiscal year. The 
bill would not allow IMET assistance for traditional purposes. There 
would be no lethal training.
  This bill allows military education and training in Indonesia only 
for very specific purposes: To foster greater respect for and 
understanding of the principle of civilian control of the military, to 
improve military justice in accordance with internationally recognized 
human rights, and to improve counternarcotics cooperation. The purpose 
of this so-called expanded IMET is solely to give the United States a 
better handle in trying to alter the behavior of the Indonesian 
Government and

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the military which, of course, is the strongest, most influential 
institution in the country.
  Second, Members interested in arms control have raised questions 
about this bill, as well. I believe this bill will help improve 
Congress' oversight of the arms export control process. The bill gives 
the Congress an additional 20 days' advance notification of arms export 
commercial licenses and coproduction agreements. It will give Congress 
the same window on these transactions as it now has on government-to-
government sales.
  For the first time, it will give the Congress the ability to offer 
resolutions of disapproval on third-country transfers and on 
coproduction agreements. For the first time, the Congress will require 
the executive branch to establish a comprehensive end-use monitoring 
system on government-to-government arms transfers. For the first time, 
Congress will put a genuine meaningful cap, $350 million, on the 
transfer of excess defense articles in a fiscal year. The existing 
ceiling, $250 million, has just too many loopholes in it.
  Mr. Speaker, it is correct that this bill raises thresholds on arms 
notifications, for example, from $14 million to $25 million on arms 
sales. The last time thresholds were raised was 1981. So this change is 
basically in response to inflation.
  According to the Department of Defense, this change in the past year 
would have resulted only in some four or five fewer notifications to 
Congress per year out of a few hundred, I might say, each year, and all 
of them to NATO countries.
  The bill eliminates grants of international military education and 
training for wealthy countries. The bill gives the administration more 
flexibility in the use of limited assistance funds through increases in 
drawdown authorities and changes in the authorities on antinarcotics 
and antiterrorism assistance programs. For example, this bill will 
enable the President to use assistance funds to work with Israel on 
research and development efforts to combat terrorism.
  Mr. Speaker, I also want to commend the chairman, Mr. Gilman, and the 
administration, particularly the Navy, on the second part of the bill 
on naval ship transfers. The Navy has heard the message about the 
committee's opposition to large numbers of grant ships transfers. The 
bill before us returns to the traditional pattern of ship transfers. 
Eight ships in this package are sales, one is a lease, and one to 
Portugal is a grant. Portugal, of course, is a NATO ally since the 
beginning of NATO, has provided the United States access to facilities 
since the 1940's, and last year renewed that access agreement in the 
Azores.
  This package also includes the sale of three 1970 vintage Knox-class 
frigates to Taiwan and the lease of one transport ship to Taiwan. This 
is part of our longstanding policy under the Taiwan Relations Act to 
provide defense articles to Taiwan. I strongly support these ship 
transfers.
  Mr. Speaker, I strongly support the overall bill. I urge the adoption 
of H.R. 3121.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Indiana 
for his supporting remarks.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Tennessee [Mr. Clement].
  Mr. CLEMENT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Lantos] very much for yielding the time.
  Mr. Speaker, today we face an international drug problem. Few of us 
would deny this fact; fewer would stand by idly as the problem grows 
worse.
  I rise in support of H.R. 3121, Technical Amendments to Foreign 
Assistance and Arms Export Control Acts. I wish to thank Chairman 
Gilman and ranking member Hamilton of the International Relations 
Committee for their dedicated effort to bring this bill to the floor. I 
wish to also thank them for adding, at my request, necessary exceptions 
for Panama to receive foreign military sales to combat the 
international drug problem.
  Ambassador and former Congressman Bill Hughes recently alerted me of 
the importance for the Panamanian public forces to receive United 
States military assistance. This is not an attempt on our part to 
rebuild the Panamanian military, but merely an avenue through which we 
can halt illegal drug trafficking. Costa Rica, for example, is 
permitted such funding. We are discovering that when a country acquires 
the tools to fend off this addictive disease, the cure is always within 
reach.
  I want to thank my colleagues for their support of this exception and 
this bill. It is another step toward continuing and escalating our war 
against drugs.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his concern about 
the war against drugs and for making certain that this waiver was 
inserted in the measure. We thank him for his support of the measure.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1430

  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield 3 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from San Francisco, CA [Ms. Pelosi] my neighbor, friend, 
and distinguished colleague.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Lantos] for yielding this time to me and for his leadership on issues, 
international issues as well as others, that come before this House. I 
have great respect for the chair of the committee, the gentleman from 
New York [Mr. Gilman], and our ranking member, the gentleman from 
Indiana [Mr. Hamilton].
  I rise today to express concern about a couple of the provisions of 
this legislation, H.R. 3121. I do not believe that the bill before us 
should be on suspension calendar because it covers a great deal of 
territory and with a minimal amount of debate and consideration on the 
floor.
  My two concerns, one I share with many of my colleagues, is about the 
enhanced IMET to Indonesia for 1996-97 and my concern about arms 
control. I listened very attentively to the remarks of the ranking 
member, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton], and appreciate the 
assurances he has given about the increased ceiling in terms of the 
weapons, the sale, amount of the weapon sales, and the increased 
discretion given to Congress to intervene in those sales, and I accept 
his explanation, and I look forward to getting more information that is 
contained in the bill.
  But I would, for the record, like to express concern about the 
international military and education training for Indonesia for 1996 
and 1997. Our colleagues have said that this legislation tracks the 
Committee on Foreign Operations legislation. Well, it does for 1996.
  Many of us on the committee, and I serve on the Foreign Operations 
Subcommittee, do not think that Indonesia should be getting any IMET. 
We recognize that there are those who believe that this enhanced IMET 
for the purposes of fostering civilian control in the role of an army 
and a more democratic country, et cetera, I do not know if I have 
defined Indonesia that way, but nonetheless this IMET, enhanced IMET, 
could be useful. And in that spirit of cooperation we accepted the 
compromise proposed graciously by our chairman, the gentleman from 
Alabama [Mr. Callahan], with the understanding that it was only for 
1996 and the program would be carefully monitored. We accepted the 
compromise but remain convinced nonetheless that Indonesia should not 
receive IMET funds.
  Now we see before us, in the bill before us, extending the IMET for 
1997 despite the fact the record shows continuing serious human rights 
abuses by the armed forces in Indonesia that several of our colleagues 
referenced specifically in East Timor. We will continue the debate on 
this important issue as the Committee on Foreign Operations considers 
fiscal year 1997.
  I mentioned my concerns about the arms sales and think there could be 
dangerous consequences, but, as I say, accept the explanation extended 
by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton]. While the notification 
process may be considered cumbersome by some in the bureaucracy, 
congressional oversight helps insure that the taxpayer dollars are well 
spent.

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  Again, I am concerned the bill was placed on suspension calendar with 
little information to many Members. Passage of the bill does not 
reflect wholehearted support for some of the provisions it contains; I 
guess that is a rule of life around here. But I do want to very 
strongly convey to our chairman that this does not track the foreign 
ops bill for 1996-97. The foreign ops bill only gave enhanced IMET for 
1996, and I hope that the gentleman would join with us in monitoring 
how that enhanced IMET funding is spent.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the 
gentlewoman from Oregon [Ms. Furse].
  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker I rise because of concerns I have to H.R. 
3121, amending the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control 
Act.
  This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It unnecessarily costs the 
taxpayers more money and it moves us toward less accountability of arms 
transfers.
  At a time when we are working so hard to balance the Federal budget, 
it does not make sense to do as this bill does. For the first time, it 
would require U.S. taxpayers to pay the costs of shipping the excess 
defense articles we're giving away to other countries.
  In a world where our own soldiers are at risk from the very weapons 
exported by the United States, we should not be promoting increased 
exports in the ways that this bill does. This bill eliminates 
congressionally mandated language to ensure that foreign recipient 
countries use the equipment as intended. That includes, for example, 
the requirement that excess defense articles transferred for 
counternarcotics purposes be used primarily for counternarcotics 
purposes and not for counterinsurgency.
  This bill strips Congress of its ability to gauge the human rights 
situation and to determine if the assistance is likely to be used in 
abuses. We must be more creative than that in determining ways for our 
Nation's workers to have jobs. We cannot come to rely on arms exports 
to such an extent that we ignore human rights.
  This is a controversial bill, Mr. Speaker. I object to the process 
that was used in bringing it to the floor on the suspension calendar 
and I object to its content. I urge my colleagues to reject H.R. 3121.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the 
gentlewoman from Georgia [Ms. McKinney].
  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, as a mother and a woman of conscience, I 
am concerned about U.S. transfers of arms around the world and the 
impact that those transfers will have 10-15 years down the road, 
particularly on my son and the other young people of America.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express concern about portions of H.R. 
3121 that would reduce congressional oversight on arms sales to foreign 
countries.
  Current law governing congressional oversight of arms sales is 
already feeble--this bill only makes a bad situation worse. On numerous 
occasions, our soldiers have been sent into war situations where they 
have had to face hostile forces armed with American supplied weapons.
  I am sure everyone recalls Panama, Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti where our 
fighting men and women were sniped at and killed by weapons we supplied 
to those countries before they turned belligerent.
  Mr. Speaker, while there are provisions in this bill which I strongly 
support--such as Narcotics control, refugee assistance, and POW/MIA 
recovery efforts--I cannot in good conscience allow this bill to breeze 
through this body without careful deliberation.

  Every year, the weapons we sell overseas are used against innocent 
civilians, refugees, political dissidents, and, yes, American soldiers. 
As the legislative branch, we have the right and responsibility to 
oversee the transfer of weapons to foreign governments.
  This does not mean we cannot supply our allies with the tools to 
defend themselves, it simply means that we should provide a sobering 
second thought when the administration is about approve the transfer of 
lethal American weapons into the hands of foreign governments.
  This bill, Mr. Speaker, would increase the threshold at which 
Congress must be notified for arms sales, from $200 to $300 million. 
That means the administration would be able to sell $100 million more 
in guns overseas before Congress must be notified.
  Moreover, the bill authorizes the resumption of international 
military and education training for the Government of Indonesia. Mr. 
Speaker, it is well known that Indonesia has an atrocious human rights 
record, especially with regards to the people of East Timor.
  For those of my colleagues who aren't aware, the people of East Timor 
have been subjected to near-genocide, simply because of their 
opposition to the multinational mining interests who want to 
expropriate their minerals.
  Mr. Speaker, measures such as these should not be dealt with so 
lightly under the suspension calendar, and Congress should not be so 
willing to hand over its limited oversight authority to the 
administration.
  While I want to support the good measures in this bill Mr. Speaker, I 
am afraid that my conscience will not let me vote for a bill that will 
reduce congressional oversight with respect to the sale of weapons. 
Moreover, I cannot support a bill which will authorizes the use of 
American tax dollars to train the repressive military of Indonesia.
  As a mother and as a woman of conscience, I urge my colleagues to 
oppose this regrettably tainted bill.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from 
Nebraska [Mr. Bereuter], the distinguished chairman of our Subcommittee 
on Asia and the Pacific.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding me this 
time.
  I would say to my colleagues, the gentleman from Massachusetts, the 
gentleman from Rhode Island, the gentlewoman from New York, and the 
gentlewoman from California, if it is not absolutely clear, we are not 
authorizing IMET for Indonesia. We are authorizing E-IMET, or extended 
IMET, and not, as one of the gentleman said, enhanced IMET. And, even 
``extended IMET'' really does not convey what the program is, for it is 
quite different than the original IMET program. The Extended IMET 
program is the kind of program exactly designed to be used in a country 
like Indonesia where we do have some human rights concerns which are in 
part related to East Timor.
  Now, let me say first of all that the enhanced IMET program, or E-
IMET, is strongly supported by the administration. If you listen to 
CINCPAC sources, as people in the State Department, the Defense 
Department generally and other parts of the administration, it is clear 
that this administration, the previous administration, are supportive 
of extending the ``Enhanced IMET'' program to Indonesia. It moves us 
closer to a positive defense relationship with Indonesia, and, more 
importantly, it is specifically geared, as the gentleman from Indiana 
[Mr. Hamilton] said, to dealing with a country that has human rights 
problems that trouble us a great deal. The E-IMET program is to foster 
greater respect for the principles of civilian control of the military. 
It is to improve military justice and military codes of conduct in 
accordance with internationally recognized human rights. It is to 
contribute to responsible defense resource management. It is to 
contribute to cooperation between the military and local police in the 
area of counternarcotics.
  This is the full scope of the E-IMET program. It is very different 
than the IMET program, about which objections have been expressed here 
today.
  Now, let me say that I, despite the fact that I believe that 
Indonesia is playing a very important role in Southeast Asia, that it 
is strategically located and is a country that has played the key, 
positive role in trying to resolve the Spratley Islands dispute in the 
waters off Southeast Asia, despite that, I would not be able to suggest 
to my colleagues that we ought to approve the traditional IMET 
authorization. But there is this to be said for what is happening in 
Indonesia:
  There are substantial signs of greater judicial independence, there 
is NGO activism in the last 12 months, there is a human rights 
commission that has been established, primarily because of outside 
interests, the human rights community, and the United States of 
America. Human rights practices remain certainly imperfect, but the E-
IMET program is specifically designed primarily to push Indonesia and 
other countries toward better human rights practices.
  So I think that, in fact, our colleagues should feel very good about 
authorizing ``Enhanced IMET'' program for Indonesia. And by the way, it 
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identical to the existing law in the foreign operations appropriation 
bill as well as the authorization bills passed by both the House and 
the Senate.
  I understand a couple of my colleagues--the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut, the gentleman from Florida--might like to engage in a 
colloquy here. Is that correct?
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida if he wishes to 
engage in this discussion.
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I had not intended to be in the debate on this 
particular issue until I heard the questions of what I consider to be 
tremendous exaggerations as to what is going on in East Timor. I had 
the privilege of visiting East Timor for several days just a few months 
ago, along with Congressman Johnson and the gentleman from Texas, Mr. 
Archer. We saw firsthand the fact that there are not these huge 
breaches of human rights, and we did not see these breaches of human 
rights as referred to.
  As a matter of fact, one of our Members went and spoke to a Catholic 
priest, and, by the way, most of Indonesia is Muslim, this is mostly 
Catholic. As a matter of fact, there is the second largest statue of 
Jesus in the entire world being constructed--in process of being 
constructed--in East Timor.
  I went to a Catholic priest who actually favored independence, but he 
verified the fact that the human rights record was certainly improving 
and that he did not see these tremendous violations of human rights.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson].
  Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. I think it ought to be also in the 
record that the government of East Timor is a Timoran, well respected 
by the people of that island, and Indonesia has a way of sharing the 
benefits of mining and timber throughout the islands of Indonesia. So 
development money is coming in, and not only are they beginning to deal 
with the terrible economic problems of this island, but they are 
beginning also to deal constructively with the human rights issues.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida, the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut, the gentleman from Nebraska for 
straightening out some of the background on East Timor and the IMET 
Program.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. 
Manzullo], a member of our committee.
  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, this is an interesting bill, and I rise in 
full support of it, H.R. 3132.
  The last title, title 2, that appears on page 50, represents an 
incredible set of events that took place in our Committee on 
International Relations several months ago. I raised the concern 
several months ago, along with the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. 
Brownback] that a request of an admiral would come before the committee 
on a relatively routine, in his mind, and in the past a routine, 
procedure of simply asking the House of Representatives to give away 
ships.
  As I sat there and listened to the admiral talking about giving away 
these ships, it dawned on me--why is the United States in the business 
of giving away ships when, in fact, we can simply sell these or lease 
them, and at that point the particular bill was pulled. The people who 
were working on it decided that perhaps we should do something 
different, and as a result of that, there was a committee hearing held 
March 21, 1996, before the Committee on International Relations and 
this time this particular bill was before our committee, and that is to 
sell ships or to lease them to Egypt, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, 
Taiwan, and Thailand, and I asked the person from the Department of 
Defense, the fact that they are now requesting a sale or lease of the 
ships, is this in direct response to the inquiry that Mr. Brownback and 
I had over our consternation that our country was giving away excess 
ships. And the answer by Mr. Caines was, ``Very much, sir.''
  He said, ``We have understood what the committee and the Congress 
have said, and therefore you will see that in that package, which I 
believe includes a total of 10 ships, there is only one grant, sir. 
There are eight sales and one lease.''
  This particular bill brings in revenues to the U.S. Government in 
excess of one-half billion dollars, and what this amounts to is that 
the U.S. Navy has now changed its policy so that henceforth any excess 
ships are not routinely given away, they are now sold or leased to our 
trading partners overseas.
  This is a good bill. It is a revenue generator. It is going to make a 
lot of money for this country, and it is good, sound foreign policy.
  So I would encourage my colleagues wholeheartedly to support the 
passage of H.R. 3132.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his supporting 
comments.
  Mr. Speaker, I believe that this has been a good, sound debate on the 
bill. I am pleased that many of our colleagues have had an opportunity 
to participate. I thank the gentleman from California [Mr. Lantos] for 
his supporting remarks.
  This bill does make important changes in defense and security 
assistance authorities, and I am calling on my colleagues to support 
the measure.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the importance of the issues that 
the House of Representatives is addressing today as it considers H.R. 
3121.
  However, I must object to certain provisions of H.R. 3121 and the 
manner in which it has been brought before the House. This measure 
authorizes enhanced International Military and Education Training 
[IMET] for Indonesia, which is committing flagrant human rights abuses 
against the people of East Timor.
  More than 20 years ago, Indonesian troops invaded the small country 
of East Timor, beginning a storm of violent occupation and repression 
that continues today. I believe that we must stand with the East 
Timorese against these unconscionable acts, and I am concerned that by 
providing enhanced IMET to Indonesia, we may send a dangerous message 
to the leaders of that nation.
  In addition, by bringing H.R. 3121 to the floor under suspension of 
the rules, we will not have a full and open debate on IMET and 
Indonesia's aggression against the East Timorese. The suspension 
calendar should be reserved for non-controversial legislation. In my 
opinion, H.R. 3121 does not meet this test.
  I regret that this afternoon, the House is not giving these issues 
the attention they deserve. In the months to come, I will continue to 
work to assist the long-suffering people of East Timor, and I urge my 
colleagues to join me in this effort.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, while I support the majority of the 
provisions in H.R. 3121, which makes various technical amendments to 
the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act, I strongly 
oppose the section which authorizes the resumption of International 
Military and Education Training [IMET] funds for Indonesia.
  I have been protesting the human rights abuses in East Timor for some 
time now. Last December marked the 20th anniversary of Indonesian 
invasion of East Timor. Recently, the situation on the ground there has 
been getting worse not better. It is sobering to reflect that over the 
last 20 years at least 100,000 and perhaps more than 200,000 people 
have been killed out of a population of less than 700,000. While the 
vast majority of these deaths took place before 1980, harsh repression 
continues. The world witnessed this first hand when the 1991 Santa Cruz 
massacre in which the Indonesian military killed over 200 unarmed 
individuals was recorded by journalists.
  Congress banned IMET funding for Indonesia to protest human rights 
abuses in East Timor. The situation has not improved and the U.S. 
Congress should not change this policy. It is my hope that we can 
prevent the funding of IMET for Indonesia in the appropriations 
process.

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  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Camp). The question is on the motion 
offered by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] that the House 
suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3121, as amended.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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