[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 95 (Monday, July 12, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H5536-H5537]
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. 4766

                         Offered By: Mr. Terry

       Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

                TITLE __--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary of the Associate Director for 
     Animal Health Policy and Operations at the Center for 
     Veterinary Medicine of the Food and Drug Administration.

                               H.R. 4766

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to carry out section 203 of 
     the Agriculture Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) or to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a market 
     program under such section.

                               H.R. 4766

                         Offered By: Mr. Hefley

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

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       Sec. __. Total appropriations made in this Act (other than 
     appropriations required to be made by a provision of law) are 
     hereby reduced by $167,720,000.

                               H.R. 4766

                          Offered By: Mr. Baca

       Amendment No. 9: In title I, under the heading ``Common 
     Computing Environment'', insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(reduced by $3,500,000)''.
       In title I, under the heading ``Office of the Assistant 
     Secretary for Civil Rights'', insert after the dollar amount 
     the following: ``(increased by $250,000)''.
       In title I, under the headings ``Cooperative State 
     Research, Education, and Extension Service-research and 
     education activities'', insert after the first dollar amount, 
     and after the dollar amount relating to Hispanic-serving 
     Institutions, the following: ``(increased by $1,500,000)''.
       In title I, under the headings ``Cooperative State 
     Research, Education, and Extension Service-extension 
     activities'', insert after the first dollar amount, and after 
     the dollar amount relating to Indian reservation agents, the 
     following: ``(increased by $1,000,000)''.
       In title I, under the headings ``Cooperative State 
     Research, Education, and Extension Service-outreach for 
     socially disadvantaged farmers'', insert after the dollar 
     amount the following: ``(increased by $750,000)''.

                               H.R. 4766

                         Offered By: Ms. Kaptur

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) insert the following:
       Sec.__. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
     used to provide credits or credit guarantees for agricultural 
     commodities provided for use in Iraq in violation of 
     subsection (e) or (f) of section 202 of the Agricultural 
     Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5622).

                               H.R. 4766

                        Offered By: Mrs. Maloney

       Amendment No. 11: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following 
     section:
       Sec. 759. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to restrict to prescription use a contraceptive that 
     is determined to be safe and effective for use without the 
     supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to administer 
     prescription drugs under section 503(b) of the Federal Food, 
     Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

                               H.R. 4766

                         Offered By: Mr. Tiahrt

       Amendment No. 12: Add at the end (before the short title) 
     the following new section:
       Sec. 7__. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay for the official travel of employees of the 
     Department of Agriculture whose station of duty is at the 
     Washington D.C. headquarters of the Department until the 
     Secretary of Agriculture certifies to Congress that the 
     Secretary has implemented a voluntary program under which 
     beef slaughtering establishments may acquire and use rapid 
     screen testing kits to test beef carcasses for the presence 
     of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

                               H.R. 4766

                       Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer

       Amendment No. 13: Page 8, line 6, after the first dollar 
     amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $1,200,000) 
     (increased by $1,200,000)''.

                               H.R. 4766

                           Offered By: Mr. Wu

       Amendment No. 14: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the amount made available for 
     ``Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments'', 
     and increasing the amount made available for ``Animal and 
     Plan Health Inspection Service--Salaries and Expenses'', by 
     $500,000.