[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S7784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997

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                 KERRY (AND McCAIN) AMENDMENT NO. 4451

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by them to the bill, S. 1894, supra; as 
follows:

       On page 88, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following:
       Sec. 8099. Of the total amount appropriated under title II, 
     $20,000,000 shall be available subject to authorization, 
     until expended, for payments to Vietnamese commandos captured 
     and incarcerated by North Vietnam after having entered the 
     Democratic Republic of Vietnam pursuant to operations under a 
     Vietnam era operation plan known as ``OPLAN 34A'', or its 
     predecessor, and to Vietnamese operatives captured and 
     incarcerated by North Vietnamese forces while participating 
     in operations in Laos or along the Lao-Vietnamese border 
     pursuant to ``OPLAN 35'', who died in captivity or who 
     remained in captivity after 1973, and who have not received 
     payment from the United States for the period spent in 
     captivity.
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                  BOND (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 4452

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. BOND (for himself, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Lott) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by them to the bill, S. 1894, supra; as 
follows:

       On page 88, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following:
       Sec. 8099. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
     be obligated or expended--
       (1) to reduce the number of units of special operations 
     forces of the Army National Guard during fiscal year 1997;
       (2) to reduce the authorized strength of any such unit 
     below the strength authorized for the unit as of September 
     30, 1996; or
       (3) to apply any administratively imposed limitation on the 
     assigned strength of any such unit at less than the strength 
     authorized for that unit as of September 30, 1996.

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