[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 14, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H4487-H4488]
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. 2862

                  Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 22: At the end of the bill (preceding the 
     short title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 8__. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     under the heading ``Office of Justice Programs--justice 
     Assistance'' may be used to fund State or local anti-drug 
     task forces that do not collect, and make publicly available, 
     data as to the racial distribution of convictions made as a 
     result of their operation.

                               H.R. 2862

                  Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 23: At the end of the bill (preceding the 
     short title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 8__. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to facilitate the issuance of affirmances by single 
     members of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) without an 
     accompanying opinion.

                               H.R. 2862

                  Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 24: Page 55, line 5, after the dollar amount 
     insert ``(increased by $50,100,000)''.
       Page 82, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $50,100,000)''.

                               H.R. 2862

                  Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 25: At the end of the bill (preceding the 
     short title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 8__. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     under the heading ``State and Local Law Enforcement 
     Assistance'' may be used to assist the patrol of borders of 
     the United States except as authorized by law.

                               H.R. 2862

                   Offered By: Mr. Moran of Virginia

       Amendment No. 26: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS


 Limitation on use of funds to license export of centerfire 50 caliber 
                                 rifles

       Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to pay administrative expenses or compensate an 
     officer or employee of the United States in connection with 
     licensing the export of a nonautomatic or semiautomatic rifle 
     capable of firing a center-fire cartridge in 50 caliber, .50 
     BMG caliber, any other variant of 50 caliber, or any metric 
     equivalent of such calibers, to a country that is not a 
     member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or a 
     major non-NATO ally for purposes of section 517 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

                               H.R. 2862

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 27: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 8__. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by increasing the amount made available for ``Office 
     of Justice Programs--community Oriented Policing Services'', 
     and by reducing the amount made available for ``National 
     Science Foundation--research and Related Activities'', by 
     $147,053,848 and $147,053,848, respectively.

                               H.R. 2862

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 28: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title), the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 801. (a) For expenses necessary for enforcing 
     subsections (a) and (b) of section 642 of the Illegal 
     Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
     (8 U.S.C. 1373), $1,000,000.
       (b) The amount otherwise provided in this Act for 
     ``DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE--Legal Activities--salaries and 
     expenses, general legal activities'' is hereby reduced by 
     $1,000,000.

                               H.R. 2862

                         Offered By: Mr. Otter

       Amendment No. 29: Page 108, after line 7, insert the 
     following:

 TITLE VIII--LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO DELAY NOTICE OF SEARCH WARRANTS

       Sec. 801. Section 3103a of title 18, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``may have an adverse 
     result (as defined in section 2705)'' and inserting ``will 
     endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result 
     in flight from prosecution or the intimidation of a potential 
     witness, or result in the destruction of or tampering with 
     the evidence sought under the warrant''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a reasonable period'' 
     and all that follows and inserting ``seven calendar days, 
     which period, upon application of the Attorney General, the 
     Deputy Attorney General, or an Associate Attorney General, 
     may thereafter be extended by the court for additional 
     periods of up to 21 calendar days each if the court finds, 
     for each application, reasonable cause to believe that notice 
     of the execution of the warrant will endanger the life or 
     physical safety of an individual, result in flight from 
     prosecution, or result in the destruction of or tampering 
     with the evidence sought under the warrant.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Reports.--(1) On a semiannual basis, the Attorney 
     General shall transmit to Congress and make public a report 
     concerning all requests for delays of notice, and for 
     extensions of delays of notice, with respect to warrants 
     under subsection (b).
       ``(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall include, with 
     respect to the preceding six-month period--
       ``(A) the total number of requests for delays of notice 
     with respect to warrants under subsection (b);
       ``(B) the total number of such requests granted or denied; 
     and
       ``(C) for each request for delayed notice that was granted, 
     the total number of applications for extensions of the delay 
     of notice

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     and the total number of such extensions granted or denied.''.

                               H.R. 2862

                         Offered By: Mr. Baird

       Amendment No. 30: Page 12, line 3, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 26, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 40, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2862

                   Offered By: Mr. Moran of Virginia

       Amendment No. 31: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

               TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS


 Limitation on use of funds to license export of centerfire 50 caliber 
                                 rifles

       Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to pay administrative expenses or compensate an 
     officer or employee of the United States in connection with 
     licensing the export of a nonautomatic or semiautomatic rifle 
     capable of firing a center-fire cartridge in 50 caliber, .50 
     BMG caliber, any other variant of 50 caliber, or any metric 
     equivalent of such calibers, to a country other than Belgium, 
     Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, 
     France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, 
     Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, 
     Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United 
     Kingdom, Australia, Argentina, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Japan, 
     Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, New Zealand, Philippines, the 
     Republic of Korea, or Thailand.

                               H.R. 2862

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 32: Page 22, line 21, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 23, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 81, line 19, after both dollar amounts, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2862

                        Offered By: Mr. Hayworth

       Amendment No. 33: Page 65, line 20, after the dollar amount 
     insert the following: ``(reduced by $218,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2863

                        Offered By: Mr. Kucinich

       Amendment No. 2: In title IV, under ``Research, 
     Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army'', insert after the 
     dollar amount the following: ``(decreased by $15,000,000) 
     (increased by $15,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2863

                       Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer

       Amendment No. 3: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:

                 TITLE X--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 10001. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used for the transfer, render, or return of any person 
     who is imprisoned, detained, or otherwise held in the custody 
     of a department, agency, or official of the United States 
     Government, or any contractor of any such department or 
     agency, to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, 
     Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, or 
     Uzbekistan.

                               H.R. 2863

                        Offered By: Mr. DeFazio

       Amendment No. 4: Page 117, after line 5, insert the 
     following title:

                 TITLE X--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 10___. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used to initiate military operations that--
       (1) are against any country other than a country against 
     which military operations were being carried out as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act; and
       (2) are not authorized by Congress pursuant to Article I, 
     Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.

                               H.R. 2863

                        Offered By: Mr. DeFazio

       Amendment No. 5: Page 117, after line 5, insert the 
     following title:

                 TITLE X--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 10___. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used to carry out military operations that were not in 
     progress as of the date of the enactment of this Act and are 
     not authorized pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the 
     Constitution of the United States or pursuant to the laws of 
     the United States.