[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H5436-H5437]
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. Burton of Indiana

       Amendment No. 50: Insert before the short title the 
     following title:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. With respect to serving as a member of a Federal 
     advisory committee that has responsibilities regarding 
     vaccines, no scientist, physician, or other individual who is 
     a member or prospective member of such a committee may be 
     granted a waiver from conflict-of-interest rules that are 
     applicable to such service.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 51: Page 96, after line 4, insert the 
     following:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to award any new 
     allocations under the market access program or to pay the 
     salaries of personnel to award such allocations.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 52: Strike section 741.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Hayes

       Amendment No. 53: Page 12, strike lines 12 through 15.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Hayes

       Amendment No. 54: Page 15, strike lines 5 through 8.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Hayes

       Amendment No. 55: Page 31, after line 5, insert the 
     following:

                        Administrative Provision

       Any limitation established in this title on funds to carry 
     out research related to the production, processing, or 
     marketing of tobacco or tobacco products shall not apply to 
     research on the medical, biotechnological, food and drug, and 
     industrial uses of tobacco and tobacco products.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. Hinchey

       Amendment No. 56: Page 72, lines 18 and 19, strike ``Town 
     of Harris'' and insert ``Town of Thompson''.

                               H.R. 4461

                  Offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 57: Page 10, line 23, insert after the 
     aggregate dollar amount the following: ``(reduced by 
     $6,800,000)''.
       Page 13, line 17, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 13, line 23, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 15, line 22, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(increased by $2,800,000)''.
       Page 17, line 5, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(increased by $2,800,000)''.

                               H.R. 4461

                      Offered By: Mr. Knollenberg

       Amendment No. 58: 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 
     authorized by law.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mrs. Lowey

       Amendment No. 59: Page 10, line 23, insert after the dollar 
     amount the following: ``(increased by $8,600,000), of which 
     $8,600,000 shall be available for research regarding the 
     cause of the commercial fishery failure in the Long Island 
     Sound lobster fishery''.
       Page 85, after line 15, insert the following new section:
       Sec. 753. In addition to funds otherwise appropriated or 
     made available by this Act, there is appropriated to the 
     Secretary to make available to the State of New York and to 
     the State of Connecticut, for persons that have incurred 
     losses as a result of the commercial fishery failure in the 
     Long Island Sound lobster fishery, $9,500,000 and $9,500,000, 
     respectively.

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                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Payne

       Amendment No. 60: Page 91, line 11, strike ``or''.
       Page 91, line 25, strike the period and insert ``; or''.
       Page 91, after line 25, insert the following:
       (3) against Sudan.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Payne

       Amendment No. 61: At the end of the bill (preceding the 
     short title) insert the following:


                 operation lifeline sudan (ols) program

       Sec. ____. The Administrator of the United States Agency 
     for International Development shall take appropriate action 
     to reform the Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) program so that 
     humanitarian assistance operations under the program function 
     properly.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Reyes

       Amendment No. 62: Page 53, beginning line 25, strike ``: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall 
     be available to carry out a Colonias initiative without the 
     prior approval of the Committee on Appropriations''.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Reyes

       Amendment No. 63: Page 85, after line 15, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. ____. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the total amount provided under the 
     heading ``Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service'' (to be 
     derived from amounts for Wildlife Services Program 
     operations) and by increasing the total amount provided under 
     the heading ``food program administration'', by $5,000,000.

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mr. Sherman

       Amendment No. 64: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section, preceding the short title (page 96, after line 
     4), the following new title:

                TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to allow the importation into the United States of 
     any agricultural or fishery product that is the growth, 
     product, or manufacture of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

                               H.R. 4461

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 65: Page 19, line 4, insert after the first 
     dollar amount the following: ``(reduced by $15,510)''.