[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 104 (Wednesday, July 21, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H6200-H6201]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 1074

                        Offered By: Mr. Hoeffel

       Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill add the following:

     SEC.  . INFORMATION REGARDING OFFSETTING SUBSIDIES.

       In addition to the information required under section 4, 
     the President shall include in each accounting statement 
     under that section an analysis of the extent to which the 
     costs imposed on incorporated entities by Federal regulatory 
     programs are offset by subsidies given to those entities by 
     the Federal Government, including subsidies in the form of 
     grants, preferential loans, preferential tax treatment, 
     federally funded research, or use of Federal facilities, 
     assets, or public lands at less than market value. The 
     analysis shall--
       (1) identify such subsidies;
       (2) analyze the costs and benefits of such subsidies; and
       (3) be sufficiently specific to--
       (A) account for the amounts of subsidies provided to the 
     entities; and
       (B) identify the entities that receive such subsidies.

     SEC.  . TAXPAYER PROTECTIONS.

       (a) Limitation on Expenditures.--
       (1) In general.--The aggregate amount expended by the 
     Director and agencies each fiscal year to carry out this Act 
     may not exceed $1,000,000.
       (2) Limitation on applicaiton.--Paragraph (1) shall not 
     apply to any expenditure for any analysis or data generation 
     that is required under any other law, regulation, or 
     Executive Order and used to fulfill the requirements of this 
     Act.
       (b) Sunset.--This Act shall have no force or effect after 
     the expiration of the four-year-period beginning on the date 
     of the enactment of this Act.

                               H.R. 1074

                        Offered By: Mr. McIntosh

       Amendment No. 2: Page 4, line 17, strike ``President'' and 
     insert ``Director''.

                               H.R. 1074

                        Offered By: Mr. McIntosh

       Amendment No. 3: Page 7, beginning at line 5, strike ``and 
     economic growth'' and insert ``economic growth, public 
     health, public safety, the environment, consumer protection, 
     equal opportunity, and other public policy goals''.

                               H.R. 1074

                        Offered By: Mr. McIntosh

       Amendment No. 4: At the end of the bill add the following:

     SEC.  . SPECIAL RULES RELATING TO CERTAIN FEDERAL BANKING 
                   AGENCIES AND MONETARY POLICY.

       (a) Transfer of Authority and Duties of Director.--The head 
     of each Federal banking agency (as that term is defined in 
     section 3(z) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 
     1813(z)) and the National Credit Union Administration, and 
     not the Director, shall exercise all authority and carry out 
     all duties otherwise vested under this Act in the Director 
     with respect to that agency, other than the authority and 
     duty to submit accounting statements and reports under 
     section 4(a). The head of each such agency shall submit to 
     the Director all estimates and other information required by 
     this Act to be included in such statements and reports with 
     respect to that agency.
       (b) Exclusion of Monetary Policy.--No provision of this Act 
     shall apply to any matter relating to monetary policy that is 
     proposed or promulgated by the Board of Governors of the 
     Federal Reserve System or the Federal Open Market Committee.

                               H.R. 2561

                    Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia

       Amendment No. 1. At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. ------. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to provide assistance 
     to the practice of witchcraft or Wicca, as defined by the 
     encyclopedia of American Religious, on any military 
     installation or vessel.

                               H.R. 2561

                    Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia

       Amendment No. 2. At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. ------. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to promulgate or 
     implement final regulations under paragraph (7) of section 
     3(b) of Public Law 95-341 (popularly known as the American 
     Indian Religious Freedom Act) (42 U.S.C. 1996a(b)) with 
     respect to the use of peyote by members of the Armed Forces.

                               H.R. 2561

                    Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia

       Amendment No. 3. At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. ------. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used to purchase--
       (1) goods manufactured by, or goods that include components 
     manufactured by, Zvezda-Strela, a subsidiary of Zvezda-Strela 
     (such as STRELA Production Association), a company that is 
     controlled by Zvezda-Strela, or the Spetstekhnika Joint Stock 
     Company;
       (2) goods marketed by SPETSTEKHNIKA;
       (3) goods manufactured by, or goods that include components 
     manufactured by, a company other than Zvezda-Strela in 
     partnership or otherwise in association with Zvezda-Strela; 
     or
       (4) any product manufactured by the ZVEZDA Design Bureau 
     located in Kalingrad-BR or another location in Russia.

                               H.R. 2561

                    Offered By: Mr. Barr of Georgia

       Amendment No. 4: In the paragraph in title IV under the 
     heading ``Research Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air 
     Force'', insert after the dollar amount the following: 
     ``(increased by $1) (reduced by $1)''.

                               H.R. 2561

                      Offered By: Mr. Blagojevich

       Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec.  . None of the funds provided in this Act may be used 
     to transfer to the Talon Manufacturing Company ammunition 
     held by the Department of Defense that has a center-fire 
     cartridge and a United States military nomenclature 
     designation of ``armor penetrator'', ``armor piercing (AP)'', 
     ``armor piercing incendiary (API)'', or ``armor-piercing 
     incendiary-tracer (API-T)''.

                               H.R. 2561

                      Offered By: Mr. Blagojevich

       Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec.  . None of the funds provided in this Act may be used 
     to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammunition held by 
     the Department of Defense that has a center-fire cartridge 
     and a United States military no-menclature designation of 
     ``armor penetrator'', ``armor piercing (AP)'', ``armor 
     piercing incendiary (API)'', or ``armor-piercing incendiary-
     tracer (API-T)''.

                               H.R. 2561

                        Offered By: Mr. Kucinich

       Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to procure a munition of a type referred to as a 
     ``cluster bomb'' (also known as ``combined effects 
     munitions'', ``CBU munitions'', ``sensor-fused weapons'', 
     ``area-impact munitions'', ``anti-personnel bomblets'', 
     ``anti-material bomblets'', and ``anti-armor bomblets'').

                               H.R. 2561

                        Offered By: Mr. Kucinich

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. __. (a) The Comptroller General, the Director of the 
     Congressional Budget Office, and the Director of the 
     Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress 
     shall conduct such studies as appropriate and within their 
     respective capabilities to assist Congress in evaluating the 
     air campaign conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization (NATO) against the Federal Republic of 
     Yugoslavia during Operation Allied Force in 1999. Those 
     studies shall, at a minimum, identify the following matters:
       (1) The damage that the NATO plan for the air campaign 
     identified as necessary.
       (2) The reasons why that damage was identified as being 
     necessary.
       (3) The military forces that the plan required and the 
     extent to which those forces were committed.
       (4) The extent to which the air campaign achieved the 
     desired level of damage.
       (5) The extent to which the damage caused by the air 
     campaign had the predicted effects in terms of reducing 
     capabilities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Kosovo.
       (6) The extent to which the damage caused by the air 
     campaign had the predicted effects in terms of undermining 
     command and control capabilities of the ruling regime of the 
     Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
       (7) The role of the bombing in obtaining the agreement of 
     the regime of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the 
     Military Technical Agreement of June 10, 1999.
       (8) Any other factors that led to the decision by the 
     regime of the Federal Republic to

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     the Military Technical Agreement of June 10, 1999.
       (b) The studies under subsection (a) shall be submitted to 
     Congress not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (c) All data that would be declassified in the course of 
     the studies under subsection (a) shall be electronically 
     published on the Internet, and statistical data shall be 
     electronically published in spreadsheet form, for use by the 
     public, academicians, and nongovernmental organizations.

                               H.R. 2561

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 9: Page 30, after line 12, insert the 
     following:
       In addition, for procurement of F-22 aircraft, 
     $1,852,075,000, to be derived by transfer from unobligated 
     amounts appropriated to the Overseas Contingency Operations 
     Transfer Fund in chapter 3 of title II of Public Law 106-31, 
     and to remain available for obligation until September 20, 
     2002.