[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 54 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4597-S4599]
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                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 591. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, and Mrs. Boxer) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of chapter 3 of subtitle E of title I, add the 
     following:

     SEC. __. ALAMEDA HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR.

       Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
     Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032) is amended by 
     striking paragraph (34) and inserting the following:
       ``(34) The Alameda Corridor-East and Southwest Passage, 
     California. The Alameda Corridor East is generally described 
     as the corridor from East Los Angeles (terminus of Alameda 
     Corridor) through Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and 
     Riverside Counties, to termini at Barstow in San Bernardino 
     County and Coachella in Riverside County. The Southwest 
     Passage shall follow Interstate route 10 from San Bernardino 
     to the Arizona State line.''.
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  SA 592. Mr. BOND proposed an amendment to amendment SA 567 proposed 
by Mr. Inhofe to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; as follows:

       Beginning on page 287, strike line 5 and all that follows 
     through the matter following line 25 on page 290.

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  SA 593. Mr. THUNE (for himself, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Thomas) proposed 
an amendment to amendment SA 567 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill 
H.R. 3, Reserved; as follows:

       On page 230, strike lines 6 through 15 and insert ``Section 
     109 of''.
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  SA 594. Mr. GREGG (for Mr. Isakson) proposed an amendment to 
amendment SA 567 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; 
as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 18__. APPROVAL AND FUNDING FOR CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION 
                   PROJECTS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     receipt by the Secretary of a construction authorization 
     request from the State of Georgia, Department of 
     Transportation for project STP-189-1(15)CT 3 in Gwinnett 
     County, Georgia, the Secretary shall--
       (1) approve the project; and
       (2) reserve such Federal funds available to the Secretary 
     as are necessary for the project.
       (b) Conformity Determination.--
       (1) In general.--Approval, funding, and implementation of 
     the project referred to in subsection (a) shall not be 
     subject to the requirements of part 93 of title 40, Code of 
     Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).
       (2) Regional emissions.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), all 
     subsequent regional emissions analysis required by section 
     93.118 or 93.119 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
     successor regulations), shall include the project.
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  SA 595. Mr. OBAMA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title V insert the following:

     SEC. __. INCENTIVES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL 
                   REFUELING STATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Subpart B of part IV of subchapter A of 
     chapter 1 (relating to foreign tax credit, etc.) is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 30B. ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLE REFUELING PROPERTY 
                   CREDIT.

       ``(a) Credit Allowed.--There shall be allowed as a credit 
     against the tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year 
     an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid or incurred 
     by the taxpayer during the taxable year for the installation 
     of qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.
       ``(b) Limitation.--
       ``(1) In general.--The credit allowed under subsection 
     (a)--
       ``(A) with respect to any retail alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property, shall not exceed $30,000, and
       ``(B) with respect to any residential alternative fuel 
     vehicle refueling property, shall not exceed $1,000.
       ``(2) Phaseout.--
       ``(A) In general.--In the case of any qualified alternative 
     fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service after 
     December 31, 2010, the limit otherwise applicable under 
     paragraph (1) shall be reduced by--
       ``(i) 25 percent in the case of any alternative fuel 
     vehicle refueling property placed in service in calendar year 
     2011, and
       ``(ii) 50 percent in the case of any alternative fuel 
     vehicle refueling property placed in service in calendar year 
     2012.
       ``(c) Year Credit Allowed.--The credit allowed under 
     subsection (a) shall be allowed in the taxable year in which 
     the qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property is 
     placed in service by the taxpayer.
       ``(d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       ``(1) Qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling 
     property.--The term `qualified alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property' has the same meaning given for clean-fuel 
     vehicle refueling property by section 179A(d), but only with 
     respect to any fuel at least 85 percent of the volume of 
     which consists of ethanol.
       ``(2) Residential alternative fuel vehicle refueling 
     property.--The term `residential alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property' means qualified alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property which is installed on property which is 
     used as the principal residence (within the meaning of 
     section 121) of the taxpayer.
       ``(3) Retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.--
     The term `retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property' 
     means qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property 
     which is installed on property (other than property described 
     in paragraph (2)) used in a trade or business of the 
     taxpayer.
       ``(e) Application With Other Credits.--The credit allowed 
     under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed 
     the excess (if any) of--
       ``(1) the regular tax for the taxable year reduced by the 
     sum of the credits allowable under subpart A and sections 27, 
     29, and 30, over
       ``(2) the tentative minimum tax for the taxable year.
       ``(f) Basis Reduction.--For purposes of this title, the 
     basis of any property shall be reduced by the portion of the 
     cost of such property taken into account under subsection 
     (a).
       ``(g) No Double Benefit.--No deduction shall be allowed 
     under section 179A with respect to any property with respect 
     to which a credit is allowed under subsection (a).
       ``(h) Refueling Property Installed for Tax-exempt 
     Entities.--In the case of qualified alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property installed on property owned or used by an 
     entity exempt from tax under this chapter, the person which 
     installs such refueling property for the entity shall be 
     treated as the taxpayer with respect to the refueling 
     property for purposes of this section (and such refueling 
     property shall be treated as retail alternative fuel vehicle 
     refueling property) and the credit shall be allowed to such 
     person, but only if the person clearly discloses to the 
     entity in any installation contract the specific amount of 
     the credit allowable under this section.
       ``(i) Carryforward Allowed.--
       ``(1) In general.--If the credit amount allowable under 
     subsection (a) for a taxable year exceeds the amount of the 
     limitation under subsection (e) for such taxable year 
     (referred to as the `unused credit year' in this subsection), 
     such excess shall be allowed as a credit carryforward for 
     each of the 20 taxable years following the unused credit 
     year.
       ``(2) Rules.--Rules similar to the rules of section 39 
     shall apply with respect to the credit carryforward under 
     paragraph (1).
       ``(j) Special Rules.--Rules similar to the rules of 
     paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 179A(e) shall apply.
       ``(k) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe such 
     regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
     section.
       ``(l) Termination.--This section shall not apply to any 
     property placed in service after December 31, 2013.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 1016(a) is amended by striking ``and'' at the 
     end of paragraph (30), by striking the period at the end of 
     paragraph (31) and inserting ``, and'', and by adding at the 
     end the following new paragraph:
       ``(32) to the extent provided in section 30B(f).''.
       (2) Section 55(c)(2) is amended by inserting ``30B(e),'' 
     after ``30(b)(3),''.
       (3) The table of sections for subpart B of part IV of 
     subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 30A the following new item:

``Sec. 30B. Alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit.''.

       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to property placed in service after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, in taxable years ending after such 
     date.
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  SA 596. Mr. FRIST (for Mr. Allen) proposed an amendment to the 
resolution S. Res. 82, urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to 
the European Union's wide-ranging list of terrorist organizations; as 
follows:

       Strike the preamble and insert the following:
       Whereas Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based radical organization 
     with terrorist cells based in Europe, Africa, North America, 
     South America, Asia, and elsewhere, receiving financial, 
     training, weapons, and political and organizational aid from 
     Iran and Syria;
       Whereas Hezbollah has led a 23-year global campaign of 
     terror targeting United States, German, French, British, 
     Italian, Israeli, Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabian, Argentinean, Thai, 
     Singaporean, and Russian civilians, among others;
       Whereas Hezbollah has been suspected of numerous terrorist 
     acts against United States citizens, including the suicide 
     truck bombing of the United States Embassy and Marine 
     Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in October 1983, and the Embassy 
     annex in Beirut in September 1984;
       Whereas the French unit of the Multinational Force in 
     Beirut was also targeted in the attack of October 1983, in 
     which 241 United States soldiers and 58 French paratroopers 
     were killed;
       Whereas Hezbollah has attacked Israeli and Jewish targets 
     in South America in the mid-1990s, including the Israeli 
     Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 1992, and the 
     AMIA Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in July 1994;
       Whereas Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for 
     kidnappings of United States and Israeli civilians and 
     French, British, German, and Russian diplomats, among others;
       Whereas even after the Government of Israel's complied with 
     United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 (March 19, 
     1978) by withdrawing from Lebanon, Hezbollah has continued to 
     carry out attacks against Israel and its citizens;
       Whereas Hezbollah has expanded its operations in the West 
     Bank and Gaza Strip, providing training, financing, and 
     weapons to Palestinian terrorist organizations on the 
     European Union terrorist list, including the Al Aqsa Martyrs 
     Brigade, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 
     Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine according to 
     the 2005 State Department Report on Terrorism arid other 
     testimony;
       Whereas according to the same report in March 2004, 
     Hezbollah and Hamas signed an agreement to increase joint 
     terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and 
     Hezbollah instigated, financed, and played a role in 
     implementing a significant number of Palestinian terrorist 
     attacks against Israeli targets;
       Whereas the European Union agreed by consensus to classify 
     Hamas as a terrorist

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     organization for purposes of prohibiting funding from the 
     European Union to Hamas;
       Whereas the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty 
     Restoration Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) urges the 
     Government of Lebanon to assert the sovereignty of the 
     Lebanese state over all of its territory and to evict all 
     terrorist and foreign forces from southern Lebanon, including 
     Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards;
       Whereas, although the European Union has included Imad 
     Fayiz Mughniyah, a key operations and intelligence officer of 
     Hezbollah, on its terrorist list, it has not included his 
     organization on the list;
       Whereas the United States, Canada, and Australia have all 
     classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and the 
     United Kingdom has placed the Hezbollah External Security 
     Organization on its terrorist list;
       Whereas leaders of Hezbollah have made statements 
     denouncing any distinction between its ``political and 
     military'' operations, such as Hezbollah's representative in 
     the Lebanese Parliament, Mohammad Raad, who stated in 2001, 
     that ``Hezbollah is a military resistance party, and it is 
     our task to fight the occupation of our land. . . . There is 
     no separation between politics and resistance.'';
       Whereas in a book recently published by the deputy 
     secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, entitled 
     ``Hezbollah--the Approach, the Experience, the Future'', 
     Qassem writes ``Hezbollah is a jihad organization whose aim, 
     first and foremost, is jihad against the Zionist enemy, while 
     the political, pure and sensible effort can serve as a prop 
     and a means of support for jihad'';
       Whereas United Nations Security Council resolution 1559 
     (September 2, 2004), jointly sponsored by the United States 
     and France, calls upon all remaining foreign forces to 
     withdraw from Lebanon and for the disbanding and disarmament 
     of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias;
       Whereas in December 2004, the Department of State placed 
     Al-Manar, Hezbollah's satellite television network, on the 
     Terrorist Exclusion List, and in December 2004, the French 
     Council of State banned the broadcasting of Al-Manar in 
     France;
       Whereas France, Germany, and Great Britain, with the 
     support of the High Representative of the European Union, 
     have created a working group with Iran to discuss regional 
     security concerns, including the influence of terror 
     perpetuated by Hezbollah and other extremist organizations; 
     and
       Whereas cooperation between the United States and the 
     European Union regarding efforts to combat international 
     terrorism is essential to the promotion of global security 
     and peace: Now, therefore, be it

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