[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 27, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H5241-H5242]
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. 4461

                     Offered By: Mr. Brown of Ohio

       Amendment No. 37: Insert before the short title the 
     following title:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the amounts made available in this Act 
     for the Food and Drug Administration may be expended to 
     approve any application for a new drug submitted by an entity 
     that does not agree to publicly disclose, on a quarterly 
     basis during the patent life of the drug, the average price 
     charged by the manufacturer for the most common dosage of the 
     drug (expressed as total revenues divided by total units 
     sold) in each country that is a member of the Organisation 
     for Economic Co-operation and Development.

                               H.R. 4461

                     Offered By: Mr. Brown of Ohio

       Amendment No. 38: Page 58, line 4, insert after the colon 
     the following: ``Provided further, That $3,000,000 may be for 
     activities carried out pursuant to section 512 of the Federal 
     Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to new animal 
     drugs, in addition to the amounts otherwise available under 
     this heading for such activities:''.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. DeFazio

       Amendment No. 39: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     not more than $28,684,000 of the funds made available in this 
     Act may be used for Wildlife Services Program operations 
     under the heading ``Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service'', and none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act for Wildlife Services Program 
     operations to carry out the first section of the Act of March 
     2, 1931 (7 U.S.C. 426), may be used to conduct campaigns for 
     the destruction of wild animals for the purpose of protecting 
     stock.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. DeFazio

       Amendment No. 40: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     not more than $35,636,999 of the funds made available in this 
     Act may be used for Wildlife Services Program operations 
     under the heading ``Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service'', and none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act for Wildlife Services Program 
     operations to carry out the first section of the Act of March 
     2, 1931 (7 U.S.C. 426), may be used to conduct campaigns for 
     the destruction of wild animals for the purpose of protecting 
     stock.

                               H.R. 4461

                      Offered By: Mr. Knollenberg

       Amendment No. 41: Strike Section 734 and insert as Section 
     734:
       None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to 
     propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for 
     the purpose of implementation, or in preparation for 
     implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on 
     December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, at the Third Conference 
     of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on 
     Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate 
     for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article 
     II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, 
     and which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25 
     of the Protocol; Provided further, the limitation established 
     in this section shall not apply to any activity otherwise 
     specifically authorized by law.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. Kucinich

       Amendment No. 42: Page 58, line 4, insert after the colon 
     the following: ``Provided further, That $500,000 is available 
     for the purpose of drafting guidance for industry on how to 
     assess genetically engineered food products for allergenicity 
     until a predictive testing methodology is developed, and 
     reporting to the Congress on the status of the guidance by 
     September 1, 2001; for the purpose of making it a high agency 
     priority to develop a predictive testing methodology for 
     potential food allergens in genetically engineered foods; and 
     for the purpose of reporting to the Congress by April 30, 
     2001, on research being conducted by the Food and Drug 
     Administration and other Federal agencies concerning both the 
     basic science of food allergy and testing methodology for 
     food allergens, including a prioritized description of 
     research needed to develop a predictive testing methodology 
     for the allergenicity of proteins added to foods via genetic 
     engineering and what steps the Food and Drug Administration 
     is taking or plans to take to address these needs:''.

                               H.R. 4461

                   Offered By: Mr. Miller of Florida

       Amendment No. 43: Page 31, after line 5, insert the 
     following:


                   purchases of raw or refined sugar

       For fiscal year 2001, the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     shall not expend more than

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     $54,000,000 for purchases of raw or refined sugar from 
     sugarcane or sugar beets.

                               H.R. 4461

                   Offered By: Mr. Miller of Florida

       Amendment No. 44: Page 10, line 23, insert ``(reduced by 
     $54,000,000)'' after ``$850,384,000''.
       Page 19, line 4, insert ``(increased by $20,000,000)'' 
     after ``$470,000,000''.
       Page 32, line 8, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)'' after 
     ``$676,812,000''.
       Page 34, line 8, insert ``(increased by $3,500,000)'' after 
     ``$83,423,000''.
       Page 36, line 13, insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)'' 
     after ``$41,015,000''.
       Page 37, line 10, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)'' 
     after ``$775,837,000''.
       Page 37, line 11, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)'' 
     after ``$33,150,000''.
       Page 50, line 11, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000)'' 
     after ``$4,067,000,000''.
       Page 51, line 2, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)'' after 
     ``$6,000,000''.
       Page 51, line 21, insert ``(increased by $1,500,000)'' 
     after ``$21,231,933,000''.

                               H.R. 4461

                   Offered By: Mr. Miller of Florida

       Amendment No. 45: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act to the Department of Agriculture may be 
     used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who issue, 
     under section 156 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 7272), any nonrecourse loans to sugar beet or sugar 
     cane processors.

                               H.R. 4461

                   Offered By: Mr. Miller of Florida

       Amendment No. 46: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act to the Department of Agriculture may be 
     used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel in fiscal 
     year 2001 to store, maintain, market, transport, donate, or 
     otherwise dispose of raw or refined sugar that has been 
     purchased by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation in excess of quantity of raw or refined 
     sugar so purchased during fiscal year 1999.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Royce

       Amendment No. 47: Page 96, after line 7, insert the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

     SEC. 901. ACROSS-THE-BOARD PERCENTAGE REDUCTION.

       Each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by 
     this Act that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by a provision of law is hereby reduced by one 
     percent.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanford

       Amendment No. 48: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act to the Department of Agriculture may be 
     used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who make 
     payments to producers of wool and mohair under section 204(d) 
     of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanford

       Amendment No. 49: Page 13, line 17, insert after the dollar 
     amount the following: ``(reduced by $14,406,000)''.
       Page 13, line 24, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(reduced by $14,406,000)''.

                               H.R. 4733

                    Offered By: Ms. Brown of Florida

       Amendment No. 13: Page 33, after line 2, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 311. The Secretary of Energy shall expeditiously 
     conduct a program of research into alternative energy 
     resources capable of mitigating United States dependence on 
     foreign oil, and shall promote the use by the Federal 
     Government, and the development and use by the private 
     sector, of any alternative energy resource the Secretary 
     considers a proven resource that is not cost-prohibitive.

                               H.R. 4733

                          Offered By: Mr. Camp

       Amendment No. 14: Page 33, after line 2, insert the 
     following new section;
       Sec. 311. Upon the requests of an oil company incorporated 
     in the United States, or at the discretion of the Secretary 
     of Energy, the Secretary may enter into an arrangement with 
     such company under which the company receives petroleum 
     product from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in exchange for 
     a commitment to replace an equal amount of petroleum product 
     into the Strategic Petroleum within 1 year after the date of 
     withdrawal.

                               H.R. 4733

                         Offered By: Mr. Hansen

       Amendment No. 15: Page 39, after line 19, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 607. No funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
     expended for the purpose of processing, granting, or 
     otherwise moving forward a license, permit, or other 
     authorization or permission for the interim storage of spent 
     nuclear fuel, low-level radioactive waste, or high-level 
     radioactive waste on any reservation lands of the Skull 
     Valley Band of Goshute Indians.

                               H.R. 4733

                          Offered By: Mr. Ney

       Amendment No. 16: Page 20, line 8, after the dollar amount 
     insert ``(reduced by $3,000,000)''.
       Page 20, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $3,000,000)''.
       Page 33, line 13, after the dollar amount insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 4733

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 17: Page 39, after line 19, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 607. None of the funds provided by this Act may be 
     used for travel expenses incurred by the Secretary of Energy 
     or the Deputy Secretary of Energy before January 20, 2001, 
     other than for official business conducted before the 
     Congress.