[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 103 (Monday, July 14, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9312-S9316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2004
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
proceed to the consideration of H.R. 2658, which the clerk will report.
The bill clerk read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 2658) making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and
for other purposes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The distinguished Senator from Alaska is
recognized.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, it is my privilege and honor once again
to present to the Senate the Defense appropriations bill for fiscal
year 2004. This bill reflects a bipartisan approach that Senator Inouye
and I have tried to maintain during the time we have served together on
the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. It is always a great pleasure
for me to work with him and with his staff member Charlie Houy. We
believe we have a bill that will meet the approval of the Senate with
very few amendments.
This bill was reported out of the full Appropriations Committee on
July 9 by a unanimous vote; 29 Senators voted in favor of it and no
Senator objected to it. We have sought to recommend a balanced bill to
the Senate. We believe it addresses the key requirements for readiness,
quality of life, and the reconstitution of our military force.
While we are debating this bill on the floor today, there are
hundreds of thousands of men and women in uniform forward deployed and
serving our country abroad. They are performing superbly and we are
proud of what they are accomplishing.
The Department of Defense now faces three critical and often
competing challenges:
First, conducting simultaneous combat and near-combat operations in
numerous theaters at the same time--Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and
Kosovo, to name a few. We have forces spread throughout the world,
deployed in more areas and in more strange circumstances than at any
time in the history of this country;
Secondly, keeping the readiness of this force at high levels, ready
to respond when called upon to carry out the global war on terrorism,
is another great challenge;
Lastly, transforming the Department to meet future challenges. We
must ensure that our military forces are ready to meet whatever lies
ahead as we move through the 21st century.
Transformation is necessary to ensure that U.S. forces continue to
operate from a position of overwhelming military advantage.
Transformed forces are also essential for deterring conflict,
dissuading adversaries, and assuring others of our commitment to a
peaceful world.
This bill Senator Inouye and I present today reflects a prudent
balance among all three of these challenges. It recommends $368.6
billion in discretionary budget authority programs for the Department
of Defense. This is $3.2 billion below the President's request but
within our 302(b) allocations for the Defense subcommittee.
As the Senate will recall, we completed action on a $62.6 billion
Iraq supplemental appropriations bill for the Department of Defense in
mid-April. This bill rescinds $3.157 billion of those supplemental
funds that are not currently required by the Department.
This measure is fully consistent with both the objectives of the
administration and the Senate-passed 2004 National Defense
authorization bill.
It honors the commitments we have to our Armed Forces. It helps
ensure that they will continue to have good leadership, first-rate
training, modernized equipment, and quality infrastructure. It also
fully funds key readiness programs critical to the global war on
terrorism.
These recommendations will make continued progress in supporting our
military personnel, their families, and modernizing the force. As
always, those are our first priorities.
In highlighting several of the key initiatives, I note the following:
This bill funds an average military pay raise of 4.15 percent and
provides $210 million to fund increases in family separation allowances
and imminent danger pay.
It does not recommend consolidation of Guard and Reserve personnel
appropriations with their respective active component appropriations.
For the Army, it is additional funding for their transformation
initiative--the Stryker brigade combat teams.
For the Navy, additional submarine refuelings, advance procurement of
LPD-23, and fully funding the last increment of the LHD-8.
For the Air Force, it is fully funding the C-17 aircraft and funding
acquisition of 22 F-22 Raptor aircraft.
In light of the contributions of the Guard and Reserve forces and
deployments to the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq, this bill adds $700
million of nondesignated equipment funding--specifically for the
Reserve components.
The proposal before the Senate funds the President's request for
missile defense.
Finally, let me once again thank my cochairman, Senator Inouye, for
his support and friendship and invaluable counsel on this bill. I urge
the Chair to recognize him for any statement he wishes to make.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii is recognized.
Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I rise to express my very strong support
for this measure. The committee has produced a bipartisan bill which
reflects well on the committee and on the Senate.
It has often been said that foreign policy debates should stop at the
water's edge. This bill holds true to that principle. This bill
provides for our Nation's defense without letting politics drive the
recommendations.
I commend our chairman, the Senator from Alaska, for the bill being
brought to the Senate this afternoon. This important measure provides
the spending necessary for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2004.
The total in the bill is about $369 billion, as noted by the chairman.
It is $3.2 billion below the amount requested by the President, but it
is the same as the subcommittee's 302(b) allocation.
Mr. President, I don't intend to reiterate all of the details the
chairman has outlined. Suffice it to say that the bill fully funds our
military personnel programs, including the authorized pay raise. It
provides sufficient funding to meet our readiness requirements for the
coming year, and it also increases funding for DOD's critical
transformation programs.
I wish to inform all of my colleagues that consistent with the
administration's request, no funds are included in this bill for the
ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A portion of the fiscal year 2003 supplemental funds provided this
year will remain available in the coming year to help offset these
needs. But I believe it
[[Page S9313]]
should be made clear that an additional supplemental funding will most
likely be required in the next fiscal year. Only a dramatic improvement
in the situation in Iraq and in Afghanistan would obviate the need for
additional funding for these purposes.
I want to offer my personal thanks to the chairman for increasing
funding in support of the Army's Stryker brigades and the C-17. These
two programs are critical to the military's transformation plans. The
added funding will greatly assist DOD in meeting its goals.
The Chairman has presented us with a very good bill, and I encourage
all of you to support it wholeheartedly.
I wish to join my chairman and the Members of the Senate in extending
our gratitude and admiration for the men and women who are serving us
this day. I hope this measure in some small way will indicate to them
our gratitude and our great admiration.
I thank the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
Mr. REID. Mr. President, the managers of this bill, of course, are
two of the most talented and experienced men who serve in the Senate
and who have ever served here, and their cooperation and partnership in
moving this bill through the Senate in years past has been legendary. I
am sure this year will be no different.
The work that has been done in the Defense Subcommittee has created a
lot of jobs. There is no question about that. It is one of the bright
spots in the economic pattern of our country. As a result of what is
going on in defense, jobs have been created. But it is not that way
throughout most of the economy. Most of the economy is in dire
jeopardy, suffering all kinds of problems. I know we all wish the news
about unemployment would get better, but it keeps getting worse. That
is unfortunate.
Late last week, the Labor Department released some of the worst news
we have had in a long time as relates to the economy. The number of
U.S. workers filing for unemployment benefits rose to a 20-year high,
439,000. Since President George Bush took office, we have lost more
than 3.1 million jobs--it is quickly approaching 3.2 million jobs--in
the private sector.
Unemployment overall jumped last month to 6.4 percent. That does not
include those who have given up hope and stopped looking for work and
are not included in the 6.4 percent. If we counted all the people
chronically unemployed, people who simply cannot find a full-time job,
the total unemployment rate would be almost 11 percent. Even worse, we
find that the unemployment rate for African Americans, Hispanics, and
Asians is higher, and for teenagers who look for summer jobs to help
pay for expenses during the school year, the job is especially bleak.
In Nevada, we have just in the lower figure--that is the 6.4 percent;
that is those who are not chronically unemployed--some 55,000 people
who cannot find work. People want work. They know the American dream
begins with a good job. It begins with owning a home. It begins with
giving your children a good education and building a better community.
But all this starts with a good job.
I have on this chart what has happened since this President has taken
office. During the Clinton administration, some 23 million new jobs
were created. In this administration, we have a President, for the
first time since we have been keeping numbers, who in multiyears has
lost jobs. As I indicated, we are approaching 3.2 million.
On this chart, we can see that when he took office, there were 5.9
million unemployed Americans. Now there are 9.4 million. It is easy to
talk about numbers and percentages. Every one of these numbers is made
up of people who are looking for work.
I was talking to the junior Senator from Washington. It is hard to
comprehend these numbers, but Boeing laid off 35,000 people at once.
All at once, 35,000 people got blue slips. We are laying off people all
the time.
As I have indicated, we have in Nevada tens of thousands of people
who cannot find work, and Nevada has a better unemployment record than
a lot of places.
Each person who makes up these numbers is someone who was working for
Boeing, who was working someplace, and is willing to work anyplace, but
cannot find a job.
You can look at a doctor's chart and find out what is wrong with a
patient. I think we need to look at this chart and recognize that this
patient, the American economy, is in deep trouble. We have people who
simply need a job.
The President has not prescribed anything I know of to increase
employment other than tax cuts. If tax cuts had been the answer to
solve the problems in the economy, the first go-round of tax cuts would
have been just the thing.
It did not work; so what does he do? He comes back and says: We are
going to have this economy running well; we are going to cut taxes some
more. He cut taxes some more.
We had a surplus when this President took office when the
unemployment numbers were below 6 percent. We had a situation where we
had a surplus over 10 years of more than $7 trillion. That surplus is
gone. It is zero. This year, we will have the largest deficit in the
history of the world. It will be around $600 billion. We see the
printed figures in newspapers and commentary on television. It is over
$400 billion, approaching $500 billion. Of course, that does not take
into consideration the fact that the Social Security surpluses are
placed in there to mask the overall deficit.
The President said: Things were not so good when I got the economy.
You cannot pass the buck, as President Truman said.
The buck stops at his office. What we have found is massive
unemployment. We have hemorrhaging of the economy. We find that some of
this is related to the war on terrorism--we realize that--about 20 to
25 percent of it. The rest is just bad economic policy.
What the President inherited was an incredible record of job growth.
I repeat what I said a moment ago, 23 million new jobs in 8 years.
Every one of those new jobs was another door of opportunity opening.
Every one of these job losses is a door of opportunity closing. Every
time a job has disappeared, the American dream has slipped from another
family's grasp.
What should we do? I think it is clear what has been going on has not
worked. We tried the tax cut route once, and it did not work. We tried
it again, and it is still not working. We are all against taxes. It
would be great if no one had to pay taxes. In fact, people would rather
have a strong, vibrant economy than have these tax cuts, of course,
that go to those people who are better off in our economy, the so-
called elite.
Let's do something different. I would expect if things are going so
bad, maybe we should have another round of tax cuts. I am afraid that
is what we are going to hear from this administration. Instead of more
tax breaks for the elite, who have plenty, we need to do something to
create jobs for those who cannot find work.
Prior to September 11, I had a program called the American Marshall
Plan. It was a program where we would spend money in the public sector
creating jobs--water systems, sewer systems, bridges, roads, dams.
Every State of the Union has massive projects on the drawing board that
we cannot fund. The Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, of which
I am ranking member and Senator Domenici is now the chairman--I was the
chairman a short time ago--we have hundreds of water projects we have
authorized and for which we cannot pay. There are hundreds of them.
Should we deauthorize them? These are not water projects just to make
people feel good. They are flood projects. They are massive projects.
I traveled to the State of Washington with Senator Cantwell to look
at the Hanford Project. They call it the Hanford reservation where
nuclear projects have taken place since World War II. They have some
tremendous problems with nuclear waste. I traveled there. I traveled
also to Yakima, WA, and met with a group of people, Democrats and
Republicans, about a public works project they believe would be so
important. It would help the Columbia River. It would help the Yakima
River. It would help growth in that area in many different ways. We can
authorize another water project, one that is badly needed. We have to
figure a way to pay for these projects, expend money for these
projects.
[[Page S9314]]
For every billion dollars we spend on a public works project, whether
it is highways, putting in a sewer system in a State, city, or county,
we create 47,000 high-paying jobs, jobs where people will buy
refrigerators, furniture, cars, and homes. Those 47,000 jobs create
more jobs. It seems if we spend a few billions doing that rather than
just tax cuts that have not created any jobs we would be so much better
off.
The average school in America is approaching 50 years of age. Then
there are places such as Clark County, Nevada where we have to build as
many as 18 new schools a year just to keep up with the growth. We need
help building these schools. We need help on roads, bridges.
There was an article last week in the newspapers about 40 percent of
all bridges in the United States are in a state of disrepair. We have
some bridges we have had to stop people from traveling over. Some
schoolbuses let the kids out and let the kids walk across the bridges,
and they climb back on the bus when they get on the other side because
the bridges are in such a state of disrepair.
There are broken water pipes. I held a hearing prior to September 11.
There were mayors of the city of Atlanta, Las Vegas--I am trying to
think of the other cities around the country. Atlanta, I have that
stuck in my mind because it was such a terrible situation. In fact, the
mayor said, I am looking forward to my term ending because then I will
not have to wake up every morning wondering if the water system is
broken down. It is old, dilapidated, decayed. To do their water system
is going to cost billions of dollars.
Some of the water pipes in existence in Washington, DC, are 150 years
old. One wonders if there are leaks and problems. Of course there are.
I will not go through all the other mayors who appeared but there are
significant problems. We need to help them. We can do that with public
works dollars. It has to be done some time anyway. Why not do it now to
help stimulate this economy? We can create new jobs by promoting new
technologies and producing energy from renewable nonpolluting sources.
Those will not only create jobs, they will help us achieve energy
independence. We can save existing jobs by helping our financially
burdened States so they do not have to raise taxes on working families
or small businesses.
I think it speaks volumes if we look around the country. I spoke
today to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. The legislature is
having trouble determining how they are going to fund all the things
that are required to be done in the State of Pennsylvania. The Governor
is waiting for the legislature to determine how they are going to do
that.
In the State of Nevada, the Governor of the State of Nevada had to
call three or four special sessions of the State legislature to try to
figure out a way to fund the budget they had passed. They could not do
it. The Governor filed a lawsuit with the Nevada Supreme Court and the
court ruled as to how the legislature is going to fund the money. What
a crazy way to do business.
The reason the States and local governments are having all of these
problems is the Federal Government has backed off on many commitments
that we have had. We have passed on burdens to the States, unfunded
mandates, in education and in homeland security. The States are paying
for this, local governments are paying for this, and that is why we
find 47 of the 50 States in deep financial trouble.
The king of financial troubles, of course, is the State of
California, with a deficit of some $35 billion. The tiny State of
Nevada had a deficit of a billion dollars. There is a constitutional
requirement in Nevada that they have to balance the budget. Therefore
the Supreme Court had to get into that.
We can reverse this awful trend. We can save the jobs we have and
help create new ones but we have to be willing to do something
different than what is going on now.
I, again, applaud my two friends and mentors, role models, who are
managing this bill. I am confident that if we have a bill that has
their fingerprints on it, it is something that is good for the national
security of this country and I am sure in a reasonably short period of
time this bill will become law.
As I indicated in my conversations this morning with the majority
leader and the chairman of the committee, I know several people who
want to speak on this issue. I do not see a lot of amendments but there
will be some amendments on this legislation in an attempt to make it
better than what it is. I look forward to working with my two friends
to move this legislation along as quickly as possible.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
Amendment No. 1217
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, there is a substitute amendment at the
desk and I ask for its consideration. For the information of all
Senators, the amendment is the text of the Senate-reported bill.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The bill clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens] proposes an amendment
numbered 1217.
(The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text
of Amendments.'')
Mr. STEVENS. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up
to 15 minutes as if in morning business.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Without objection, it is so ordered.
(The remarks of Mr. Alexander are found in today's Record under
``Morning Business.'')
Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I rise in support of S. 1382, the
Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2004, as
reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
I commend the distinguished chairman and the ranking member for
bringing the Senate a carefully crafted spending bill within the
Subcommittee's 302(b) allocation and consistent with the discretionary
spending cap for 2004.
The pending bill provides $369.2 billion in budget authority and
$389.9 billion in outlays in fiscal year 2004 for the Department of
Defense. Of these totals, $528 million is for mandatory programs.
The bill provides $368.637 billion in discretionary budget authority,
$25 billion less than the subcommittee's 302(b) allocation. The bill
provides $389.371 billion in discretionary outlays, $16 million below
the 302(b) allocation. Pursuant to an agreement with the
administration, the bill provides $3.062 billion less budget authority
than was in the President's Defense budget request. These funds were
shifted to other nondefense spending bills.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a table displaying the
Budget Committee scoring of the bill be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in
the Record, as follows:
S. 1382, DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, 2004, SPENDING COMPARISONS, SENATE-REPORTED BILL
[Fiscal Year 2004 (in millions of dollars)]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
General
purpose Mandatory Total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Senate-reported bill:
Budget authority............................................ 368.637 528 369,165
Outlays..................................................... 389,371 528 389,899
Senate 302(b) allocation:
Budget authority............................................ 368,662 528 369,190
Outlays..................................................... 389,387 528 389,915
[[Page S9315]]
2003 level:
Budget authority............................................ 426,621 393 427,014
Outlays..................................................... 393,835 393 394,228
President's request:
Budget authority............................................ 371,699 528 372,227
Outlays..................................................... 393,220 528 393,748
House-passed bill:
Budget authority............................................ 368,662 528 369,190
Outlays..................................................... 388,836 528 389,364
SENATE-REPORTED BILL COMPARED TO:
Senate 302(b) allocation:
Budget authority............................................ (25) .............. (25)
Outlays..................................................... (16) .............. (16)
2003 level:
Budget authority............................................ (57,984) 135 (57,849)
Outlays..................................................... (4,464) 135 (4,329)
President's request:
Budget authority............................................ (3,062) .............. (3,062
Outlays..................................................... (3,849) .............. (3,849)
House-passed bill:
Budget authority............................................ (25) .............. (25)
Outlays..................................................... 535 .............. 535
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Totals adjusted for consistency with scorekeeping
conventions.
Prepared by SBC Majority Staff, 7/10/2003.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chambliss). The Senator from Alaska.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, just before I left the floor, I asked
that the substitute amendment, which is the text of the Senate-reported
bill, be reported. I now ask unanimous consent that the Senate adopt
this amendment, make it original text for the purpose of further
amendment, and the usual boilerplate language that goes along with
that. But I would like to proceed at that point, and I do have Senator
Byrd's concurrence on this at this time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Without objection, it is so ordered.
The amendment (No. 1217) was agreed to.
Mr. STEVENS. I yield the floor.
Mr. President, I understand the Senator from New Mexico wishes some
time.
Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up
to 20 minutes as in morning business.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
(The remarks of Mr. Bingaman are printed in today's Record under
``Morning Business.'')
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I have now served with 11 Directors of
Intelligence during my tenure as a Senator. I think I have known each
of them personally. In fact, my roots in connection with the
intelligence process go back to World War II when I flew an OSS plane
into China frequently, and I have had a great deal of interest in the
CIA and its operations.
I have learned in that timespan that intelligence--good
intelligence--is essential to force projection and protection of our
Nation. Unfortunately, we cannot publish a list of the numerous
occasions in which men and women in the intelligence community have
literally saved the lives of U.S. military and civilian personnel.
Sometimes I wish we could tell the whole story. It would put into
better perspective the few mistakes the intelligence community
sometimes makes.
However, mistakes in interpreting intelligence data can and will be
made. The CIA has not often admitted blame for serious mistakes. Taking
responsibility has not been their strong suit in the past, and I have
not always been happy with the information the CIA has produced.
In working with the intelligence chief, George Tenet, to fully
disclose information we have needed to determine proper funding levels
in our Appropriations Committee for programs and projects he oversees,
I can assure the Senate he has always been fair, just, and open with
us.
Mr. Tenet is responsible for the accuracy of intelligence information
his agency provides to the President and the Congress, and he has now
acknowledged the CIA's error in interpreting data relating to the
President's State of the Union comment about Iraq.
For this I think he should be commended, and that is why I have come
to the floor: to commend him for his action. Few in this town often
take the clear path to acknowledge error. The intelligence and defense
committees are rightly investigating the events leading up to this
mistake, but I am hopeful that as the Congress and the executive branch
proceed to determine how this mistake occurred, all realize that those
of us who work with him on a daily basis, including the President,
trust and rely on George Tenet and are ready to defend him as a good
man and excellent DCI and a man of intelligence, honesty, and candor.
Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I have been conferring with our staff,
with Senator Inouye's staff, and with Senator Inouye. We request any
Member who wants to present an amendment for inclusion in a managers'
package to disclose that amendment to us by 3 tomorrow afternoon. We
make that request because we do have the necessity of having full
disclosure of what is in that package. It is often easier to handle
some of these very small amendments that move money from one place to
another or have a particular interest for one post or one military
establishment or another, and we prefer to handle it in the way of
offering those as one series of amendments in a managers' package if we
can.
We cannot do that unless people come forward and contact us. We have
knowledge of several Members who have small amendments of that type,
and we wish them to know at this time that in order to get this package
cleared in advance with Senator McCain and others we want to have those
disclosed to us by 3 tomorrow or the Members will be compelled to offer
the amendments individually.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Amendments Nos. 1224, 1225, 1226, and 1227 En Bloc
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk for
Senator Inhofe to make available from amounts available for research,
development, test and evaluation, Air Force, $4 million for cost-
effective composite materials for manned and unmanned flight
structures.
I also send to the desk an amendment for Senator Dodd to increase the
[[Page S9316]]
amount of Army RDT&E funds available for the broad area unmanned
responsive resupply operations aircraft program.
I also send an amendment to the desk by Senator Snowe to set aside
Navy operation maintenance funds for the Navy Pilot Human Resources
Call Center in Cutler, ME.
I also send an amendment to the desk for Senator Breaux to make
available from amounts available for research, development, test and
evaluation, Navy, $4 million for Navy integrated manufacturing
development.
I ask unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is
so ordered.
The clerk will report.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens], for other Senators,
proposes amendments numbered 1224 through 1227 en bloc.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
amendments be agreed to en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The amendments were agreed to en bloc, as follows:
amendment no. 1224
(Purpose: To make available from amounts available for Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force, $4,000,000 for cost
effective composite materials for manned and unmanned flight
structures)
Insert after section 8123 the following:
Sec. 8124. Of the amount appropriated by title IV of this
Act under the heading ``Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation, Air Force'', up to $4,000,000 may be available
for cost effective composite materials for manned and
unmanned flight structures (PE#0602103F).
amendment no. 1225
(Purpose: To increase the amount of Army RDT&E funds available for the
Broad Area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations (BURRO) aircraft
program (PE 0603003A)
On page 120, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
Sec. 8124. Of the total amount appropriated by title IV
under the heading ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army'', up to $3,000,000 may be used for the
Broad Area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations aircraft
program.
amendment no. 1226
(Purpose: To set aside Navy operation and maintenance funds for the
Navy Pilot Human Resources Call Center, Cutler, Maine)
On page 120, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
Sec. 8124. Of the total amount appropriated by title II
under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' for
civilian manpower and personnel management, up to $1,500,000
may be used for Navy Pilot Human Resources Call Center,
Cutler, Maine.
amendment no. 1227
(Purpose: To make available from amounts available for Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, $4,000,000 for Navy Integrated
Manufacturing Development)
Insert after section 8123 the following:
Sec. 8124. Of the amount appropriated by title IV of this
Act under the heading ``Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation, Navy'', up to $4,000,000 may be available for
Navy Integrated Manufacturing Development.
Mr. STEVENS. I move to reconsider the vote.
Mr. INOUYE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, this is an example of some of the
amendments that we are trying to process as quickly as possible. They
have been referred to Members involved, including Senator McCain. They
have been cleared for action. I urge Members of the Senate to come
forward if they have such amendments so we might be able to dispose of
them this afternoon.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Unanimous Consent Agreement--Executive Calendar
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, for the leader, I ask unanimous consent
that at 5:30 today the Senate proceed to executive session and an
immediate vote on the confirmation of Calendar No. 293, Samuel Der-
Yeghiayan, of Illinois to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern
District of Illinois, without further intervening action or debate;
provided further that immediately following that vote, Calendar No.
292, Robert Brack, to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of New
Mexico, be confirmed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the
table. Finally, I ask unanimous consent that following that action, the
President be immediately notified of the Senate's action and the Senate
resume legislative session.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Mr. REID. Reserving the right to object, I believe this will be the
137th and 138th judge we have approved of President Bush, and only two
have been opposed. I have no objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. STEVENS. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. REID. Mr. President, a few minutes ago I misspoke in my
reservation of objection. I indicated that it was the 137th judge we
would approve. It is 135. The first one would be 134. The second would
be 135. I exaggerated by two. I want that stricken from the record. I
didn't exaggerate. I simply made a calculation that was wrong. We have
approved 135 judges for President Bush, and we have stopped two. The
record is 135 to 2.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ensign). Without objection, it is so
ordered.
____________________