[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 73 (Friday, June 9, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H3647-H3704]
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      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2007

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 851 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 5522.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 5522) making appropriations for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, and for other purposes, with Mr. Thornberry in the 
chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Thursday, June 
8, 2006, the amendment by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) had 
been disposed of and the bill had been read through page 14, line 3.
  Pursuant to the order of House of that day, no further amendment to 
the bill may be offered except those specified in the previous order of 
the House of that day, which is at the desk.
  The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                         Transition Initiatives

       For necessary expenses for international disaster 
     rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance pursuant to 
     section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $40,000,000, to remain available until expended, to support 
     transition to democracy and to long-term development of 
     countries in crisis: Provided, That such support may include 
     assistance to develop, strengthen, or preserve democratic 
     institutions and processes, revitalize basic infrastructure, 
     and foster the peaceful resolution of conflict: Provided 
     further, That the United States Agency for International 
     Development shall submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations at least 5 days prior to beginning a new 
     program of assistance: Provided further, That if the 
     President determines that it is important to the national 
     interests of the United States to provide transition 
     assistance in excess of the amount appropriated under this 
     heading, up to $15,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this 
     Act to carry out the provisions of part I of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 may be used for purposes of this 
     heading and under the authorities applicable to funds 
     appropriated under this heading:  Provided further, That 
     funds made available pursuant to the previous proviso shall 
     be made available subject to prior consultation with the 
     Committees on Appropriations.

                      Development Credit Authority


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees provided 
     by the United States Agency for International Development, as 
     authorized by sections 256 and 635 of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, up to $21,000,000 may be derived by transfer 
     from funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of 
     such Act and under the heading ``Assistance for Eastern 
     Europe and the Baltic States'': Provided, That such funds 
     shall be made available only for micro and small enterprise 
     programs, urban programs, and other programs which further 
     the purposes of part I of the Act: Provided further, That 
     such costs, including the cost of modifying such direct and 
     guaranteed loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided 
     further, That funds made available by this paragraph may be 
     used for the cost of modifying any such guaranteed loans 
     under this Act or prior Acts, and funds used for such costs 
     shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of 
     the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 
     provisions of section 107A(d) (relating to general provisions 
     applicable to the Development Credit Authority) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as contained in section 306 
     of H.R. 1486 as reported by the House Committee on 
     International Relations on May 9, 1997, shall be applicable 
     to direct loans and loan guarantees provided under this 
     heading: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
     subsidize total loan principal, any portion of which is to be 
     guaranteed, of up to $700,000,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
     credit programs administered by the United States Agency for 
     International Development, $8,400,000, which may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for 
     International Development: Provided, That funds made 
     available under this heading shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2009.

     Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund

       For payment to the ``Foreign Service Retirement and 
     Disability Fund'', as authorized by the Foreign Service Act 
     of 1980, $38,700,000.

   Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for International 
                              Development

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $646,000,000, of which up to $25,000,000 may remain available 
     until September 30, 2008: Provided, That none of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading and under the heading 
     ``Capital Investment Fund'' may be made available to finance 
     the construction (including architect and engineering 
     services), purchase, or long-term lease of offices for use by 
     the United States Agency for International Development, 
     unless the Administrator has identified such proposed 
     construction (including architect and engineering services), 
     purchase, or long-

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     term lease of offices in a report submitted to the Committees 
     on Appropriations at least 15 days prior to the obligation of 
     these funds for such purposes: Provided further, That the 
     previous proviso shall not apply where the total cost of 
     construction (including architect and engineering services), 
     purchase, or long-term lease of offices does not exceed 
     $1,000,000: Provided further, That contracts or agreements 
     entered into with funds appropriated under this heading may 
     entail commitments for the expenditure of such funds through 
     fiscal year 2008: Provided further, That none of the funds in 
     this Act may be used to open a new overseas mission of the 
     United States Agency for International Development without 
     the prior written notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations: Provided further, That the authority of 
     sections 610 and 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     may be exercised by the Secretary of State to transfer funds 
     appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of part I of such Act to 
     ``Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for 
     International Development'' in accordance with the provisions 
     of those sections: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act or any prior Act making 
     appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, or 
     related programs may be used by the United States Agency for 
     International Development for the rent of buildings and space 
     in buildings in the United States pursuant to the authority 
     of section 636(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: 
     Provided further, That the previous proviso shall not apply 
     to any lease, agreement, or other instrument executed for the 
     purpose of maintaining United States Agency for International 
     Development continuity of operations and to the cost of 
     terminating the domestic lease executed on September 30, 
     2005.

 Capital Investment Fund of the United States Agency for International 
                              Development

       For necessary expenses for overseas construction and 
     related costs, and for the procurement and enhancement of 
     information technology and related capital investments, 
     pursuant to section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, $105,300,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That this amount is in addition to funds otherwise 
     available for such purposes: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated under this heading shall be available for 
     obligation only pursuant to the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     not to exceed $89,000,000 may be made available for the 
     purposes of implementing the Capital Security Cost Sharing 
     Program.

United States Agency for International Development Office of Inspector 
                                General

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $39,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008, 
     which sum shall be available for the Office of the Inspector 
     General of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.

                  Other Bilateral Economic Assistance

                         Economic Support Fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapter 4 of part II, $2,650,740,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2008: Provided, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not less than $120,000,000 
     shall be available only for Israel, which sum shall be 
     available on a grant basis as a cash transfer and shall be 
     disbursed within 30 days of the enactment of this Act: 
     Provided further, That not less than $455,000,000 shall be 
     available only for Egypt, which sum shall be provided on a 
     grant basis, and of which sum cash transfer assistance shall 
     be provided with the understanding that Egypt will undertake 
     significant economic and political reforms which are 
     additional to those which were undertaken in previous fiscal 
     years: Provided further, That with respect to the provision 
     of assistance for Egypt for democracy and governance 
     activities, the organizations implementing such assistance 
     and the specific nature of that assistance shall not be 
     subject to the prior approval by the Government of Egypt: 
     Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading for assistance for Egypt, not less than $135,000,000 
     shall be made available for project assistance, of which not 
     less than $50,000,000 shall be made available for democracy, 
     human rights and governance programs and not less than 
     $50,000,000 shall be used for education programs: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading 
     for assistance for Egypt for economic reform activities, 
     $200,000,000 shall be withheld from obligation until the 
     Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees 
     on Appropriations that Egypt has met the calendar year 2005 
     benchmarks accompanying the ``Financial Sector Reform 
     Memorandum of Understanding'' dated March 20, 2005: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     $135,000,000 is available only to carry out programs in 
     Colombia and may be transferred to ``Development Assistance'' 
     to continue programs administered by the United States Agency 
     for International Development: Provided further, That 
     $15,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading 
     should be made available for Cyprus to be used only for 
     scholarships, administrative support of the scholarship 
     program, bicommunal projects, and measures aimed at 
     reunification of the island and designed to reduce tensions 
     and promote peace and cooperation between the two communities 
     on Cyprus: Provided further, That in exercising the authority 
     to provide cash transfer assistance for Israel, the President 
     shall ensure that the level of such assistance does not cause 
     an adverse impact on the total level of nonmilitary exports 
     from the United States to such country and that Israel enters 
     into a side letter agreement in an amount proportional to the 
     fiscal year 1999 agreement: Provided further, That of the 
     funds appropriated under this heading, not less than 
     $250,500,000 should be made available only for assistance for 
     Jordan: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading may be made available for assistance for 
     the West Bank and Gaza: Provided further, That $35,500,000 of 
     the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made 
     available for assistance for Lebanon, of which not less than 
     $6,000,000 should be made available for scholarships and 
     direct support of American educational institutions in 
     Lebanon: Provided further, That not more than $225,000,000 of 
     the funds made available for assistance for Afghanistan under 
     this heading may be obligated for such assistance until the 
     Secretary of State certifies to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that the Government of Afghanistan at both the 
     national and local level is cooperating fully with United 
     States funded poppy eradication and interdiction efforts in 
     Afghanistan: Provided further, That such report shall include 
     an analysis of the steps being taken by the Government of 
     Afghanistan, at the national and local level, to cooperate 
     fully with United States funded poppy eradication and 
     interdiction efforts in Afghanistan: Provided further, That 
     of the funds appropriated under this heading that are 
     available for assistance for the Democratic Republic of 
     Timor-Leste, up to $1,000,000 may be available for 
     administrative expenses of the United States Agency for 
     International Development: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
     appropriated under this heading may be made available for 
     programs and activities for the Central Highlands of Vietnam: 
     Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading 
     that are made available for a Middle East Financing Facility, 
     Middle East Enterprise Fund, or any other similar entity in 
     the Middle East shall be subject to the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.

  Mr. KOLBE (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent 
that the remainder of the bill through page 23, line 7 be considered as 
read, printed in the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                     International Fund for Ireland

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapter 4 of part II of teh Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $10,800,000, which shall be available for the United States 
     contribution to the International Fund for Ireland and shall 
     be made available in accordance with the provisions of the 
     Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-
     415): Provided, That such amount shall be expended at the 
     minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for projects 
     and activities: Provided further, That funds made available 
     under this heading shall remain available until September 30, 
     2008.


      Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida

  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 2 offered by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of 
     Florida:
       Page 23, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced to $0)''.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman reserves a point of order against the 
amendment.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the gentlewoman 
from Florida (Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, Ronald Reagan had a 
wonderful statement, and that was, if you want to live forever become a 
Government program because they never, ever go away.
  When the British and Iraq governments established the International 
Fund for Ireland in 1986, as part of the Anglo-Irish Accord, Ireland's 
per capita gross domestic product was relatively low. It certainly was 
a very good program.
  Since then, Ireland has grown at a pace more rapid even than ours, 
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known as the Celtic Tiger. Today, Ireland's GDP is on par with the 
United States, and its unemployment rate is 4.7 percent. Yet we still 
continue want to appropriate $10 million for the International Fund for 
Ireland.
  In a decade of increasing deficits, the United States must stop 
sending money to programs that are not necessary. Actually, most 
recently they used some of our money for the Chef Development Program 
and the construction of a 3,000 foot cafe, and also to help fund the 
World Toilet Summit. So obviously we have got to stop flushing away 
some of this money.
  I have spoken to several individuals who were very, very involved in 
establishing this fund and feel very, very strongly about the fund. And 
I have assurances from the Representative from New York (Mr. Walsh) 
along with several others that the funding for this is going to be 
reduced in further appropriations.
  I had thought that one of them would be here for a colloquy. And I 
had told the great Mr. Walsh from New York, as well as others, that I 
would withdraw this amendment with the assurance that future funding 
would be reduced and eliminated over the next few years.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask for unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Florida?
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I object for the purposes of claiming the 
time in opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. Objection is heard. The gentlewoman reserves the 
balance of her time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my point of order on the 
amendment and I would allow Mr. Crowley to claim the time in 
opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman withdraws his reservation of a point of 
order.
  The gentleman from New York claims the time in opposition to the 
amendment and is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) 
for withdrawing the point and allowing for this discussion.
  Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that gentlewoman from Florida has the 
right to bring this amendment to the floor. But what I am concerned 
about is possibly, and I do not know enough about the gentlewoman's 
involvement in the peace process as it pertains to Northern Ireland.
  And, yes, it is quite true that the Republic of Ireland is having an 
incredibly strong economy and it is the Celtic Tiger, it is doing 
remarkably well. But this is not about the south of Ireland, or the 
Republic of Ireland, this is about the Northern Irish peace process.
  As you so point out, created in 1986, under the Irish Peace 
Agreement, the IFI has been a fund that has helped develop businesses 
within Northern Ireland and attract business to Northern Ireland that 
is supported by both Unionists and Nationalists in the north of 
Ireland.
  Because Ireland is doing well, it does not mean that all parts of 
Ireland are doing well. In particular, in those areas where the 
communities are interfaced, amongst the Protestant and Catholics, 
Nationalists and Unionists communities where there is still tremendous 
strife, a lack of opportunity for growth, for young people within the 
north of Ireland.
  And symbolically this is America's involvement in this peace process, 
one of the most successful peace processes in modern history. This is 
still an ongoing process, though. The government has not devolved back 
to the north of Ireland. People are not involved in a real Democratic 
society there.
  To withdrew this money with the understanding that this money is in a 
phase-out program right now, I think is unfair. And to point to one 
particular aspect of this as the reason or the cause to do that, the 
World Toilet Summit, well, quite frankly, I think are people who may be 
interested in purchasing toilets, the creation of toilets.
  If that is something that is drawing tourism and is drawing industry 
to the north of Ireland, who are we to criticize? So be it. Using it as 
a catch phrase, I think is unfortunate, because it trivializes what has 
been taking place over the last decade in both Republican and 
Democratic administrations, and that is the advancement of 
opportunities for peace in the north of Ireland.
  So with that, I am happy that the gentlewoman is going to withdraw 
this amendment. I hope that she learns more about even the toilet 
summit. I am not so sure she is all that familiar with that. I know I 
am not. Nor do I have the authority to speak on it.
  But I am glad that she is going to withdraw this, and I hope in the 
future that we have the opportunity for more discussion prior to such 
amendments coming to the floor.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I certainly thank the gentleman from New York for this 
opportunity to exchange views. I would encourage him to look into the 
World Toilet Summit.
  Americans are tired of money being flushing down the toilet. I am 
delighted that the program is going to be phased out, and also very 
happy that the economy of Ireland has improved. There is no better way 
to have peace than to have prosperity.
  The fact that general economy of Ireland has improved certainly is a 
very great benefit to that part of the world. Mr. Chairman, I withdrew 
this with the information that the program is being phased out in 
future years.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Florida?
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I object.
  The CHAIRMAN. Objection is heard.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman from Massachusetts 
the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 30 
seconds.
  Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from 
New York for yielding me time.
  Mr. Chairman, this discussion is ill-considered and ill-advised. At a 
time when America foreign policy is under question everywhere across 
the globe, this is a remarkable achievement for our State Department 
and for Members of Congress.
  In fact, the American role has been indefensible in bringing about a 
new day. This has had brought support cross Congress and across 
America, reminding ourselves that the European Union participates, 
Australia participates, and sectarian murders have almost been gone. We 
are down to a couple of small issues.
  But the Good Friday Agreement is the way forward, and America and 
Members of this Congress can take great satisfaction in this 
achievement. It has worked extraordinarily well.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I ask for unanimous 
consent to withdraw this amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Florida?
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the right to object.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey reserves the right to 
object.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman from 
Florida yield?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman from Florida withdraws her unanimous 
consent request, and is recognized.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from New Jersey.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, let me just say, I appreciate 
the gentlewoman's willingness to withdraw this amendment.
  I, like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, have worked 
for years going back to the creation of the International Fund for 
Ireland in the 1980s on providing funding and direction for the IFI. I 
have visited its projects and witnessed the cross community 
cooperation. As a direct result of the IFI and U.S. support for the 
fund, we have seen tremendous job creation. I would agree, in the 
Republic of Ireland there has been a significant growth, economic 
recovery, particularly in the Dublin area, not necessarily in western 
Ireland, but certainly in the Dublin area.

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  But in Northern Ireland, in Belfast, and in the counties in the 
north, there remains serious problems, problems that fuel social 
unrest. One of the things that I find so encouraging is that, we have 
worked well with the leaders of the IFI. They are on a glide path to 
ending foreign support for this program. But they are doing so in a way 
that encourages police corporation and sustains good programs. They did 
it frankly directly at our request.

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  The remaining problem is that the Catholics and the Protestants still 
haven't collaborated enough where prejudices have broken down. There 
are 5,700 projects that have been funded under the IFI, and I am glad 
the gentlewoman is withdrawing her amendment.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak on behalf of 
the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) and I am pleased that the 
gentlelady from Florida has withdrawn the amendment to eliminate it's 
funding.
  The International Fund for Ireland is widely recognized for creating 
comprehensive programs that have helped promote peace and 
reconciliation in the north of Ireland and the border counties in the 
Republic of Ireland.
  Twenty years ago the U.S. Congress, with overwhelming bi-partisan 
support, passed the Anglo-Irish Support Act of 1986. This landmark 
legislation created the means for the U.S. to contribute to the IFI--a 
Fund established by the Irish and British governments to promote 
economic development and peace in Northern Ireland. The Fund receives 
support from the United States, EU, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. 
it's been a most effective way for the international community to help 
end the terrible war raging in Northern Ireland.
  Four U.S. Presidents and 10 Congresses have endorsed the efforts of 
the IFI. At the joint hearing I held this March--the eleventh I have 
convened on the peace process in Northern Ireland--U.S. Special Envoy 
for Northern Ireland Ambassador Mitchell Reiss strongly praised the 
outstanding work being done by the IFI, and urged continued support for 
it.
  Since the inception of the IFI, the United States has contributed 
nearly $460 million and the results have been remarkable. As of 2004, 
the IFI has created nearly 38,000 direct jobs, and 18,000 indirect 
ones. In the 1990s Northern Ireland's GDP increased 53 percent, 
employment increased 17 percent and unemployment fell by 40 percent. 
Eighty percent of these investments have been in disadvantaged areas. 
The IFI has contributed to over 5,700 projects in Northern Ireland and 
the bordering counties of the Republic of Ireland and has provided 
17,000 young people from cross-community areas with jobs. This is a 
tangible success in our struggle to end the conditions of despair and 
hopelessness which are the breeding grounds for terrorism.
  Earlier in this Congress, and also in the 108th Congress, the House 
passed my legislation (H.R. 2601 and H.R. 1208 respectively) 
reauthorizing the program at more than $20 million and urging the Fund 
to shift its focus from primarily economic programs to those that have 
a greater emphasis on peace and reconciliation.
  I am pleased to say, the Fund has responded. This year they released 
a Strategic Framework of Action 2006-2010 which strongly emphasizes 
cross community and reconciliation programs. The strategic plan also 
puts in place an exit strategy in which the Fund will wind down its 
reliance on international support. With this strategic plan in place, 
we cannot falter on our commitment. We are near to lasting peace in 
Ireland, but this is no time to falter in our efforts or rest on our 
laurels.
  Much remains to be done as Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahem has 
said, ``The next five years will be vital to ensure a lasting legacy 
for the Fund and for 25 years of international engagement with the 
peace process. . . . Once again the United States has demonstrated the 
importance of its relationship with Ireland and of our efforts to bring 
the peace process to a conclusion.'' Among the most important work it 
is doing now, in response to urgent requests from this Congress, are 
programs that enhance relations between the police and the communities 
they serve and promote human rights training for police. Without our 
continued funding, it will be near impossible for the IFI to do this 
vital work for lasting peace and finish the work it has begun.
  As IFI Chairman Rooney has stated, ``(The Appropriation Committee's) 
recommendation is a real vote of confidence in the young people and 
communities which benefit from the programs of the IFI. These programs 
address the root causes of conflict in our society: economic and social 
disadvantage, sectarianism and marginalisation. With a contribution of 
this level (i.e., $10.8 million) we can continue to target the areas of 
greatest need and ensure the goals we set ourselves. . . . The goodwill 
and support of the American people will be critical to our efforts. I 
would like to thank the many friends of Ireland in Congress for their 
continued generosity.''
  Now is not the time for the United States to pull the plug on our 
support for this successful peace and reconciliation program; such a 
move would have a dramatic impact on programs that emphasize 
reconciliation among school children and young adults. The IFI has 
developed its own exist strategy enabling a thoughtful transition to 
self-reliant cross-community and social advancement. It is a good 
strategy and one that deserves our support until the end.
  Mrs. McCARTHY. Mr. Chairman, I oppose this amendment which would 
eliminate funding for the IFI.
  The violence in Ireland has devastated families and too many men, 
women and children have lost their lives.
  The road to peace has been a long one with many bumps in that road.
  But, Mr. Chairman, we are making progress.
  By all indications we are on the verge of peace, which is nice for a 
change.
  Now is not the time to cut this important funding, as it has been 
critical in the peace efforts and it is still needed particularly in 
places like Belfast.
  Cutting U.S. funding now would send a message that the IFI is not 
internationally supported.
  It is important that the people in Ireland who are working toward 
peace know that they have the support of the United States in these 
efforts.
  I understand that my colleague will offer and withdraw this 
amendment.
  Having said that, I strongly oppose this amendment and will oppose 
any future similar efforts.
   Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to an 
amendment offered by Representative Ginny Brown-Waite to H.R. 5522, the 
Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. The proposed amendment would 
effectively cut $10.8 million in funding for the International Fund for 
Ireland from the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for FY 2007.
  The Fund was created by the Irish and British governments 20 years 
ago to foster economic and social advancement and to encourage 
dialogue, contact, and reconciliation between unionists and 
nationalists throughout Ireland. The Fund appropriates its money to 
address the root causes of deprivation in the most vulnerable regions 
by using shared economic concerns as a platform for regeneration and 
cross-community activity.
  If the Fund was dissolved, its pioneering work with children and 
youth throughout the North and border counties would end just as there 
is progress towards the implementation of the Good Friday Accords. A 
termination of U.S. funding would undermine the perception of the IFI 
as an internationally supported body and may impede its ability to 
secure funding elsewhere.
  The IFI has been integral in the progress towards peace and 
prosperity throughout Ireland, acting in good faith to employ 
successful measures to alleviate areas of disadvantage. It is with our 
help that the IFI can continue to achieve these praiseworthy goals in 
the future.
  I hope my colleagues join me in opposition to this amendment so that 
together, we can move towards peace and prosperity for all of Ireland.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Again, Mr. Chairman, I ask 
unanimous consent to withdraw this amendment with the proviso that 
future amounts for this program will be reduced. It is obviously a 
great success, and at this point we want to make sure Ronald Reagan's 
prediction wasn't right and that future funding will be reduced.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn.
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

          Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States

       (a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Support for East 
     European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989, $227,900,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2008, which shall be 
     available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     assistance and for related programs for Eastern Europe and 
     the Baltic States.

  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I rise to strike the last word, and yield 
to my distinguished member of the subcommittee, Mr. Fattah.
  Mr. FATTAH. I want to thank the gentlewoman from New York, and I want 
to thank and congratulate the chairman. I wanted to submit for the 
Record letters from the Secretary General of the U.N., the Ambassador 
for the European Union, and from Prime Minister Tony Blair in support 
of a Safe Blood for Africa Initiative

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that the chairman and the ranking woman from New York have agreed to 
insert into the report that will accompany this bill which has to do 
with an initiative to make healthier the blood supply throughout sub-
Saharan Africa. It has the potential of saving millions of lives, and 
these letters illustrate international support for it. So for Secretary 
Kofi Annan and Tony Blair and the European Union, I want to submit 
these letters for the Record.

                                        The Secretary-General,

                                                     May 30, 2006.
     Hon. Chaka Fattah,
     Congressman, House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Congressman Fattah, Thank you for your important 
     efforts in support of improving the blood supply in Africa. 
     The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses an unprecedented threat to human 
     security and development in the continent. The epidemic 
     demands an exceptional response and your Initiative on Safe 
     Blood will play an invaluable role in benefiting the lives of 
     millions of Africans.
       I commend your leadership on this issue and look forward to 
     hearing more about it in the weeks and months ahead.
           Yours sincerely,
     Kofi A. Annan.
                                  ____

         European Union, Delegation of the European Commission,
                                     Washington, DC, May 15, 2006.
     Hon. Chaka Fattah,
     Member of Congress,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Fattah, I very much enjoyed the discussion we had 
     on 9th March in your offices on various issues of common 
     concern and in particular on how best to help Africa reach 
     the Millennium Development Goals in the Health Sector. I 
     consider that your Safe Blood Initiative is a very timely and 
     important effort towards these goals, and I would be glad to 
     support you in this.
       The European Commission, as you know, is committed to 
     working in partnership with the United States and the 
     international community to reach the Millennium Development 
     Goals, three of which relate directly or indirectly to 
     health. In external action, our policy tackles the three 
     infectious diseases related to poverty, namely, HIV/AIDS, 
     Malaria and Tuberculosis.
       The Commission's Action plan in this area emphasizes the 
     need to strengthen country health systems and to support 
     country led strategies. At global level, the Action Plan 
     focuses on affordability, strengthening regulatory capacity, 
     and the need to work in partnership. We support and work 
     closely with other private partners such as the Global 
     Initiative for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
       We are partners with the United States in the fight against 
     contagious diseases and participate in the Global Fund for 
     AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFHTM). To date, the 
     Commission has pledged a total of = 522 million for the Fund, 
     covering the period of 2001-2006 of which = 432 million have 
     already been disbursed.
       We see your Initiative to protect the safety of blood in 
     Africa as closely related to the fight of contagious 
     diseases. In fact, we advocate that blood safety should be an 
     integral part of any national strategy for HIV/AIDS 
     prevention, as well as a standard component of national 
     health policies. We believe that blood safety should be 
     addressed as part of efforts to strengthen the national 
     health systems, and that specific action to reduce the risk 
     of HIV transmission should include financing for 
     strengthening systems for blood safety.
       I trust that you will receive congressional support for 
     your very crucial Initiative. It is my hope that this will 
     raise awareness of the wider health system issues and that 
     Africa--and the world as a whole--will be a safer place as a 
     result.
           Sincerely yours,
                                                       John Bruton
     Ambassador.
                                  ____



                                           The Prime Minister,

                                           London, March 31, 2006.
       Dear Mr. Fattah, Thank you for your letter of 1 March about 
     the Fattah initiative on Safe Blood.
       During 2005, G8 leaders agreed to a set of commitments 
     which should have a real impact on poverty in Africa and 
     across the world. I believe it is vital to assist African 
     countries to strengthen their health services--and this 
     includes the provision of safe blood, integrated with 
     comprehensive national HIV prevention strategies. We are 
     committed to playing our part and have committed K1.5 billion 
     over the next three years to tackling HIV and AIDS across the 
     world.
       The Department for International Development (DFID) takes 
     the lead on this and other overseas development issues. I 
     have asked the Secretary of State for International 
     Development to ensure DFID officials follow up with you to 
     discuss further and gain a better understanding of your 
     initiative.
       I wish you well with your efforts.
           Yours sincerely,
                                                       Tony Blair.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 32, line 20 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 32, line 20 is as 
follows:

       (b) Funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
     considered to be economic assistance under the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for purposes of making available the 
     administrative authorities contained in that Act for the use 
     of economic assistance.
       (c) The provisions of section 529 of this Act shall apply 
     to funds appropriated under this heading: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act, 
     including provisions in this subsection regarding the 
     application of section 529 of this Act, local currencies 
     generated by, or converted from, funds appropriated by this 
     Act and by previous appropriations Acts and made available 
     for the economic revitalization program in Bosnia may be used 
     in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States to carry out the 
     provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the SEED 
     Act.
       (d) The President is authorized to withhold funds 
     appropriated under this heading made available for economic 
     revitalization programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, if he 
     determines and certifies to the Committees on Appropriations 
     that the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has not 
     complied with article III of annex 1-A of the General 
     Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
     concerning the withdrawal of foreign forces, and that 
     intelligence cooperation on training, investigations, and 
     related activities between state sponsors of terrorism and 
     terrorist organizations and Bosnian officials has not been 
     terminated.

    Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

       (a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapters 11 and 12 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 and the FREEDOM Support Act, for assistance for the 
     Independent States of the former Soviet Union and for related 
     programs, $371,280,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2008: Provided, That the provisions of such chapters 
     shall apply to funds appropriated by this paragraph: Provided 
     further, That funds made available for the Southern Caucasus 
     region may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, for confidence-building measures and other activities in 
     furtherance of the peaceful resolution of the regional 
     conflicts, especially those in the vicinity of Abkhazia and 
     Nagorno-Karabagh: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, funds appropriated under this heading 
     in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for foreign 
     operations, export financing, and related programs, that are 
     made available pursuant to the provisions of section 807 of 
     Public Law 102-511 shall be subject to a 6 percent ceiling on 
     administrative expenses.
       (b) Of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less 
     than $41,000,000 should be made available, in addition to 
     funds otherwise available for such purposes, for assistance 
     for child survival, environmental and reproductive health, 
     and to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious 
     diseases, and for related activities.
       (c)(1) Of the funds appropriated under this heading that 
     are allocated for assistance for the Government of the 
     Russian Federation, 60 percent shall be withheld from 
     obligation until the President determines and certifies in 
     writing to the Committees on Appropriations that the 
     Government of the Russian Federation--
       (A) has terminated implementation of arrangements to 
     provide Iran with technical expertise, training, technology, 
     or equipment necessary to develop a nuclear reactor, related 
     nuclear research facilities or programs, or ballistic missile 
     capability; and
       (B) is providing full access to international non-
     government organizations providing humanitarian relief to 
     refugees and internally displaced persons in Chechnya.
       (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to--
       (A) assistance to combat infectious diseases, child 
     survival activities, or assistance for victims of trafficking 
     in persons; and
       (B) activities authorized under title V (Nonproliferation 
     and Disarmament Programs and Activities) of the FREEDOM 
     Support Act.
       (d) Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act shall not apply 
     to--
       (1) activities to support democracy or assistance under 
     title V of the FREEDOM Support Act and section 1424 of Public 
     Law 104-201 or non-proliferation assistance;
       (2) any assistance provided by the Trade and Development 
     Agency under section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961;
       (3) any activity carried out by a member of the United 
     States and Foreign Commercial Service while acting within his 
     or her official capacity;
       (4) any insurance, reinsurance, guarantee or other 
     assistance provided by the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation under title IV of chapter 2 of part I of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;
       (5) any financing provided under the Export-Import Bank Act 
     of 1945; or
       (6) humanitarian assistance.

                    Trade Capacity Enhancement Fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of

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     1961 for the enhancement of trade capacity in foreign 
     countries, $522,000,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2008: Provided, That these funds shall be available to 
     the Director of Trade Capacity Enhancement to be used only 
     for enhancing trade capacity, most especially to assist a 
     country in efforts to qualify for, implement and benefit from 
     free trade agreements with the United States: Provided 
     further, That in order to accomplish the purposes provided 
     herein, funds appropriated under this heading may be 
     transferred to and merged with funds appropriated by this Act 
     under the headings ``Development Assistance'', ``Economic 
     Support Fund'', ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the 
     Baltic States'', ``Assistance to Independent States of the 
     Former Soviet Union'', and ``Andean Counterdrug Initiative'': 
     Provided further, That any such transfers shall be subject to 
     the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations: Provided further, That funds appropriated 
     under this heading are in addition to funds otherwise 
     available for such purposes.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                       Inter-American Foundation

       For necessary expenses to carry out the functions of the 
     Inter-American Foundation in accordance with the provisions 
     of section 401 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969, 
     $19,268,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008.

                     African Development Foundation

       For necessary expenses to carry out title V of the 
     International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 
     1980, Public Law 96-533, $22,726,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2008: Provided, That funds made available 
     to grantees may be invested pending expenditure for project 
     purposes when authorized by the Board of Directors of the 
     Foundation: Provided further, That interest earned shall be 
     used only for the purposes for which the grant was made: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding section 505(a)(2) of 
     the African Development Foundation Act, (1) in exceptional 
     circumstances the Board of Directors of the Foundation may 
     waive the $250,000 limitation contained in that section with 
     respect to a project and (2) a project may exceed the 
     limitation by up to $10,000 if the increase is due solely to 
     foreign currency fluctuation: Provided further, That the 
     Foundation shall provide a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations after each time such authority is exercised.

                              Peace Corps


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), including the purchase of not 
     to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for administrative 
     purposes for use outside of the United States, $324,587,000, 
     to remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, That 
     none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
     used to pay for abortions: Provided further, That the 
     Director may transfer to the Foreign Currency Fluctuations 
     Account, as authorized by 22 U.S.C. 2515, an amount not to 
     exceed $2,000,000: Provided further, That funds transferred 
     pursuant to the previous proviso may not be derived from 
     amounts made available for Peace Corps overseas operations.

                    Millennium Challenge Corporation

       For necessary expenses for the ``Millennium Challenge 
     Corporation'', $2,000,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading, up to $95,000,000 may be available for 
     administrative expenses of the Millennium Challenge 
     Corporation: Provided further, That up to 10 percent of the 
     funds appropriated under this heading may be made available 
     to carry out the purposes of section 616 of the Millennium 
     Challenge Act of 2003 for candidate countries for fiscal year 
     2007: Provided further, That none of the funds available to 
     carry out section 616 of such Act may be made available until 
     the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge 
     Corporation provides a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations listing the candidate countries that will be 
     receiving assistance under section 616 of such Act, the level 
     of assistance proposed for each such country, a description 
     of the proposed programs, projects and activities, and the 
     implementing agency or agencies of the United States 
     Government: Provided further, That section 605(e)(4) of the 
     Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 shall apply to funds 
     appropriated under this heading: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated under this heading may be made available for a 
     Millennium Challenge Compact entered into pursuant to section 
     609 of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 only if such 
     Compact obligates, or contains a commitment to obligate 
     subject to the availability of funds and the mutual agreement 
     of the parties to the Compact to proceed, the entire amount 
     of the United States Government funding anticipated for the 
     duration of the Compact.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                       Global HIV/AIDS Initiative

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the prevention, treatment, 
     and control of, and research on, HIV/AIDS, including 
     administrative expenses of the Office of the Global AIDS 
     Coordinator, $2,772,500,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $244,500,000 shall be made available, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for the 
     United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and 
     Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-25) for a United States 
     contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis 
     and Malaria, and shall be expended at the minimum rate 
     necessary to make timely payment for projects and activities: 
     Provided, That up to 5 percent of the aggregate amount of 
     funds made available to the Global Fund in fiscal year 2007 
     may be made available to the Office of the United States 
     Global AIDS Coordinator for technical assistance related to 
     the activities of the Global Fund.

  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

          International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

       For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $703,600,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2009: Provided, That during 
     fiscal year 2007, the Department of State may also use the 
     authority of section 608 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, without regard to its restrictions, to receive excess 
     property from an agency of the United States Government for 
     the purpose of providing it to a foreign country under 
     chapter 8 of part I of that Act subject to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That the Secretary of State shall provide 
     to the Committees on Appropriations not later than 45 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act and prior to the 
     initial obligation of funds appropriated under this heading, 
     a report on the proposed uses of all funds under this heading 
     on a country-by-country basis for each proposed program, 
     project, or activity: Provided further, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not less than $16,250,000 
     shall be made available for training programs and activities 
     of the International Law Enforcement Academies: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     $26,100,000 shall be made available to carry out programs in 
     Colombia: Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading shall be made available for 
     demand reduction programs: Provided further, That of the 
     funds appropriated under this heading, not more than 
     $33,484,000 may be available for administrative expenses.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. Hooley

  Ms. HOOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Ms. Hooley:
       Page 32, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by 
     $10,000,000)''.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Hooley) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Oregon.
  Ms. HOOLEY. Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, communities 
across this country are facing an increasing problem with 
methamphetamine, a drug that is cheap, easy to make, and gives addicts 
an intense longlasting high, but one that destroys their brains, causes 
them to abuse and neglect their children, and can lead to paranoid acts 
of violence. And while we have taken action to cut off pseudoephedrine 
sales to the mom and pop meth labs, the vast majority of meth consumed 
in this country is made in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. by Mexican 
drug cartels. My amendment would help address this issue by designating 
$10 million in the international narcotics control and law enforcement 
for counter-methamphetamine efforts in Mexico.
  International narcotics control and law enforcement is funded in this 
bill at $703 million, a $231 million increase over last year's funding. 
While the overall account is adequately funded within this program, the 
committee report designates only $40 million for Mexico, with the money 
being spread among a number of narcotic control and law enforcement 
efforts, including strengthening the northern border infrastructure and 
fighting drug and weapons smuggling.
  The amendment simply increases funding for international narcotics 
control and law enforcement by $10 million and immediately reduces it 
again. The intent of the amendment is to redirect these funds to the 
designation for Mexico, devoting the $10 million specifically toward 
the counter of methamphetamine efforts. The money should not come from 
any other already designated account within international narcotics and 
law enforcement, but from those funds which have not yet been allocated 
either through the legislative language or committee report. We must 
provide the State Department with additional resources so

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they can better stem the rising influx of methamphetamines produced by 
these Mexican drug cartels. My amendment would ensure that the State 
Department devotes its resources specifically toward stemming the 
rising influx of methamphetamine produced by these Mexican drug 
cartels.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Ms. HOOLEY. I yield to the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. KOLBE. The gentlewoman from Oregon has described this precisely. 
We all recognize that methamphetamine is a terrible problem. I 
represent a border district in a border State; we have a terrible 
problem with that with Mexico. The gentlewoman has described this 
amendment accurately, in that while it increases and decreases the same 
time, it does not change the structure of any of the accounts or any of 
the programs; and, therefore, I am willing to accept this amendment.
  Ms. HOOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Hooley).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                     Andean Counterdrug Initiative

       For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to support counterdrug 
     activities in the Andean region of South America, 
     $506,850,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009: 
     Provided, That in fiscal year 2007, funds available to the 
     Department of State for assistance to the Government of 
     Colombia shall be available to support a unified campaign 
     against narcotics trafficking, against activities by 
     organizations designated as terrorist organizations such as 
     the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the 
     National Liberation Army (ELN), and the United Self-Defense 
     Forces of Colombia (AUC), and to take actions to protect 
     human health and welfare in emergency circumstances, 
     including undertaking rescue operations: Provided further, 
     That this authority shall cease to be effective if the 
     Secretary of State has credible evidence that the Colombian 
     Armed Forces are not conducting vigorous operations to 
     restore government authority and respect for human rights in 
     areas under the effective control of paramilitary and 
     guerrilla organizations: Provided further, That the President 
     shall ensure that if any helicopter procured with funds under 
     this heading is used to aid or abet the operations of any 
     illegal self-defense group or illegal security cooperative, 
     such helicopter shall be immediately returned to the United 
     States: Provided further, That the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development, shall provide to the 
     Committees on Appropriations not later than 45 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act and prior to the initial 
     obligation of funds appropriated under this heading, a report 
     on the proposed uses of all funds under this heading on a 
     country-by-country basis for each proposed program, project, 
     or activity: Provided further, That funds made available in 
     this Act for demobilization/reintegration of members of 
     foreign terrorist organizations in Colombia shall be subject 
     to prior consultation with, and the regular notification 
     procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
     further, That section 482(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 shall not apply to funds appropriated under this 
     heading: Provided further, That assistance provided with 
     funds appropriated under this heading that is made available 
     notwithstanding section 482(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 shall be made available subject to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading that are available for alternative development/
     institution building, not less than $85,400,000 shall be 
     apportioned directly to the United States Agency for 
     International Development: Provided further, That with 
     respect to funds apportioned to the United States Agency for 
     International Development under the previous proviso, the 
     responsibility for policy decisions for the use of such 
     funds, including what activities will be funded and the 
     amount of funds that will be provided for each of those 
     activities, shall be the responsibility of the Director of 
     Foreign Assistance in consultation with the Assistant 
     Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law 
     Enforcement Affairs: Provided further, That no United States 
     Armed Forces personnel or United States civilian contractor 
     employed by the United States will participate in any combat 
     operation in connection with assistance made available by 
     this Act for Colombia: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated under this heading that are made available for 
     assistance for the Bolivian military may be made available 
     for such purposes only if the Secretary of State certifies 
     that the Bolivian military is respecting human rights, and 
     civilian judicial authorities are investigating and 
     prosecuting, with the military's cooperation, military 
     personnel who have been implicated in gross violations of 
     human rights: Provided further, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not more than $18,060,000 
     may be available for administrative expenses of the 
     Department of State, and not more than $7,800,000 may be 
     available, in addition to amounts otherwise available for 
     such purposes, for administrative expenses of the United 
     States Agency for International Development.


                Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. McGovern

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 7 offered by Mr. McGovern:
       In the item relating to ``Andean Counterdrug Initiative'' 
     (page __, line __), after the aggregate dollar amount, insert 
     the following: ``(reduced by $30,000,000)''.
       In the item relating to ``United States Emergency Refugee 
     and Migration Assistance Fund'' (page __, line __), after the 
     dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by 
     $30,000,000)''.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) and a Member opposed each 
will control 30 minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in opposition to 
the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona will control the time in 
opposition.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 4 minutes.
  Mr. Chairman, this is a very straightforward amendment. It increases 
funding by $30 million for the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration 
Assistance Fund, and it decreases the Andean Counter Drug Initiative by 
the same amount. The reduction in the ACI account should come from 
eradication and military related aid above the President's request 
level. It is my understanding from figures provided by the Foreign 
Operations Subcommittee that, under the ACI, the President requested 
$506.2 million for Colombia; the committee provided $545.2 million for 
all these categories of aid. So even after this amount is reduced by 
$30 million, aid for Colombia requested by the President would still 
total $515.2 million, or $9 million above the President's fiscal year 
2007 request.
  Mr. Chairman, I have been on this House floor before expressing my 
concerns about our policy in Colombia. The drug eradication policy, to 
be blunt, has been a miserable failure. The Colombian military 
continues to commit heinous acts with impunity.
  Now, I know that some of my esteemed colleagues who oppose this 
amendment will once again come to the House floor with their charts and 
graphs and arrows pointing this way and that, but no matter how you 
slice and dice it, the bottom line is that after 6 years and $4.7 
billion for Colombia, we are exactly where we started out as far as 
drug cultivation is concerned. The same amount of coca is being grown 
today in Colombia as in 1999. And this isn't Jim McGovern just saying 
this; this fact comes from our own Office of Narcotics Control and Drug 
Policy. It is their figures, their findings, their conclusion; the 
State Department backs them up on this. $4.7 billion.
  As the committee report accompanying this bill states so eloquently 
on page 62: after a massive increase in fumigation from 47,000 hectares 
at the start of Plan Colombia to today when we fumigated 138,775 
hectares last year, we have accomplished zilch, Mr. Chairman. Coca 
cultivation in Columbia is at the same level or maybe slightly above 
from where it was when we started.
  On Monday, Mr. Chairman, headlines in the newspapers informed us that 
a Colombian military unit murdered in a deliberate cold-blooded ambush 
one of the most successful U.S.-trained antidrug units in Colombia. 
Yesterday the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee froze $30 million in 
military aid because it was so enraged over these murders and the State 
Department's recent human rights certification.
  Mr. Chairman, we have to respond to this. This House has to respond, 
and this is the moment to do so. We are not undermining President Uribe 
by adopting this amendment. Colombia will still receive more than what 
the President of the United States of America

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asked for in fiscal year 2007. But we can send a powerful message to 
the Colombian Armed Forces that we won't keep writing blank checks, we 
won't keep turning a blind eye, we aren't a cheap date you can take 
advantage of.
  Mr. Chairman, we have the opportunity to do some real good with this 
amendment. We can fund the President's request for U.S. Emergency 
Refugee and Migration Assistance fund. The fund currently stands at its 
lowest balance in over a decade. The State Department generally draws 
down between $60 million and $70 million in ERMA funds each year. There 
are just too many unexpected emergencies happening around the world. 
Without the increase provided by the amendment, we could be threatening 
the life-saving assistance that can mean the difference of life and 
death to persons caught in tragic violence or natural disaster. Whether 
we are looking at an increasingly explosive border between Chad and 
Sudan to preventing food aid pipeline breaks in Kenya and Uganda, to 
being able to respond quickly to victims of earthquakes or volcanoes, 
this fund is one of the President's most effective tools. With this 
amendment we can give the President what he has requested and needs for 
Colombia and ACI, and we can give him what he asked for and needs to 
meet emergency refugee crises. And at the same time, Mr. Chairman, and 
for the first time, we can send a powerful message to the Colombian 
military that our pockets and our patience are wearing thin.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in the strongest possible opposition 
to this amendment offered by the gentleman. There are few things in 
this hemisphere that are more important for us than the Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative. In our effort to try and fight drugs abroad we 
can fight drugs here at home.
  The gentleman has suggested this money would go to the International 
Refugee and Migration account, and we believe we have funded that in a 
fair and reasonable way and will have accounted for the needs of that 
account.
  Let me tell you why my concern is more not that we couldn't use more 
money in ERMA; my concern here is taking this money out of the Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative. Let me tell you why I think this is the wrong 
thing to do at this time.
  We have rewarded in this bill good performers and taken action 
against those who have not done so well. As I described in my opening 
statement, we have restructured the accounts that go to Colombia. They 
are an important strategic partner in the region, and our bill 
recognizes that by normalizing how we fund Colombia. We move funds for 
the Colombia Alternative Development programs to the ESF account and to 
the other accounts; we have moved funds for Colombia rule of law to the 
INCLE account, the narcotics account. These are the accounts we use to 
fund similar activities for all of our other strategic partners.
  So we have basically said to Colombia, you have graduated. It is time 
for you to become a strategic partner and for our funding of foreign 
assistance to fall into normal categories.
  I firmly believe that, contrary to what the gentleman said, that 
Colombia stands as the most successful model of democracy in this 
region. It is not without its problems, but I think it has made 
enormous and positive strides in recent years. With our support it has 
been transformed into a much more secure democratic and economically 
prosperous country.
  So why do I say that? How do I measure the success that we have had? 
Well, we have got more than 200,000 acres of legal crops that have been 
planted, 64,000 farm families provided legal farming options, coca 
eradication through spraying has gone from 47,000 hectares of the first 
year of Plan Colombian to 138,000 last year, and manual eradication 
also increased substantially. An additional 1,600 hectares of poppies 
were eradicated in the year 2005. We have regained Colombian 
sovereignty over most of the air space, and that has led to a 56 
percent decrease in suspected trafficker flights. The drug flow by air 
to the United States has dropped by about 7 percent. Kidnappings are 
down 51 percent. Homicides are down 13 percent. All 1,098 Colombian 
municipalities have a permanent government presence. These are just 
some of the measures of the things that we have done that I think are 
very significant.
  The bill from which this would take funds also rewards Peru by 
increasing the funds allocated it by $10.5 million. And I did this 
because we have decreased over the years the funds to Peru and we have 
experienced the balloon effect of having drug production move from one 
part of the region to another part, and that is why we have proposed a 
$7 million increase to Peru's interdiction and eradication program. The 
last thing in the world we should be doing right now is making a 
reduction in these overall accounts.
  On the other hand, we have reduced some of the funds provided to 
Bolivia. We have reduced the President's request by 44 percent. Of 
course, that request was drafted very early in this year before the 
problems that we are seeing with the current government in Bolivia have 
occurred. There, the eradication efforts have gone absolutely the wrong 
direction, from an historic high in 1999 of 17,000 hectares of coca 
eradicated, to a goal in 2006 of only 5,000; and they are not on track 
to even meet that very reduced goal in Bolivia.
  And so those are just some of the reasons why we are, as I said, 
trying to reward those who are doing the right thing in the region, but 
also make sure that our money is not used inappropriately in countries 
that are not doing the right thing.

                              {time}  0945

  So these are just some of the reasons why I think that this amendment 
would be absolutely the wrong signal at the wrong time and could be the 
best possible message that we could send to drug traffickers to reduce 
this Andean counterdrug initiative by the amount that the amendment 
calls for. I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds.
  Mr. Chairman, my colleague is absolutely right, eradication has 
dramatically increased in Colombia, but it has achieved absolutely 
nothing. There is even more coca in Colombia today than there was in 
Plan Colombia's first year. We have gone from 336,000 acres in 2000 to 
355,000 acres, and that is actually a 6 percent increase. How is that 
success?
  When Plan Colombia started, it was supposed to decrease coca growing 
by 50 percent over 5 years. That is what we were promised. Well, $4.7 
billion later, we have a 6 percent increase over 5 years the amount of 
coca being grown in Colombia.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Farr) who is a Colombian expert and who was also a Peace Corps 
volunteer in Colombia.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for yielding.
  I rise in strong support of the McGovern amendment and in incredibly 
strong appreciation for the great job that Chairman Kolbe does on this 
committee. I do not think there is anybody that knows these issues 
better than he does, but I am just in disagreement with the approach 
here, and I do not think it is Mr. Kolbe's approach. It is the 
administration's approach and it comes under Plan Colombia.
  The problem that we have, and as I say, I am speaking from some 
experience having lived in Colombia several years as a Peace Corps 
volunteer in the 1960s, is if you do not deal with people on the 
ground, who are struggling with the culture of poverty, you cannot wipe 
out an agricultural crop by just bombing it. You wipe it out by 
creating economic opportunities that are alternatives to coca growing. 
You do not have to retain as much money as you can get from growing 
coca, because what you do is you build infrastructure, school and 
health care, and just like this community, most people will do things 
as long as people will have a better life, as long as there are 
resources there.
  I think what America fails to look at, whether it is in Iraq or other 
areas, is how poorly we do at developing post-country capacity, and 
that is what this amendment is all about. It is the use of money to 
better build host country capacity to sustain themselves other than 
having to grow illicit crops.
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alternatives, and when they did, they were very successful with it, but 
we are not putting enough effort into it.
  Colombia is a huge country. It is the second most biodiverse country 
in the planet. It can grow just about anything. You just have to put 
energy and get people access to places to grow, and in this case, 
because we are not doing enough in the alternative, they are going to 
go into growing more coca, as Mr. McGovern's pointed out.
  After 6 years of sustained, robust U.S. assistance, 40 percent of the 
Colombians still remain underemployed in a formal Colombian economy.
  So I rise in strong support because I think this is moving money to 
what we really need to invest in which is investing in host country 
capacity.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica), one of the members of the Drug Task 
Force.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding me time on this.
  I have worked on this issue for a number of years in Congress. I have 
seen failed policies and I have seen successful policies. The worst 
thing we could do today would be to cut the funds to Colombia. What a 
horrible message we would send. Let me just describe what is taking 
place, the policy of failure, the policy of success.
  I chaired the Criminal Justice, Drug Policy Subcommittee. That was 
one of the responsibilities Speaker Hastert had before I inherited it 
from him. He chaired the National Security Subcommittee that had that 
responsibility. We did everything we could during the Clinton 
administration to get resources to Colombia. The liberals did 
everything they could to keep resources going to Colombia. The policy 
was a policy of failure. It was a policy of death and destruction. 
Thousands of people were slaughtered while the liberals in Congress and 
the administration denied aid to Colombia. Policemen were killed by the 
thousands. Members of the legislature, members of the Cabinet, people 
on the street, villages were wiped out because they did not want to 
send the necessary aid to Colombia.
  President Bush, thank God for President Bush and his action and his 
policy of success. He took a policy of success. He put the resources 
there. The murders are down dramatically. The last speaker spoke about 
creating economic opportunity. How can you create economic opportunity 
or economic activity when there is slaughter and chaos in the streets?
  I went down with President Pastrana, and he wanted to sing Kumbayah 
with the terrorists and the leftists, and that approach did not work. 
People continued to get slaughtered, and the drugs came into this 
country in unprecedented amounts.
  Ask DEA about drugs, about heroin. At the beginning of the Clinton 
administration, you know how much heroin was produced in Colombia? 
Zero. Look at it now, and look at it over the past years. It flooded 
into our streets and killed our children and our most productive 
citizens and those with potential in this country by the thousands and 
has left thousands being destroyed in Colombia.
  This is a horrible amendment. It would be a horrible step backwards 
to bring drugs into this country to stop a policy, and now we have been 
blessed not only with a President with strong determination and a good, 
successful policy in this country, but one in that country who just got 
reelected, and to cut his legs out from under him at this juncture, 
when he has experienced success, not only have we stopped the killings 
and the murders and the slaughters there and stopped people from dying 
in our streets, the economy has dramatically increased, almost doubled 
in Colombia since Presidents Bush and Uribe's policies have taken 
place.
  This would be a step backward. This is a step towards death, 
destruction and drugs coming into our country. I have had it with the 
liberals who allowed this to happen and let thousands of people go to 
their deaths in Colombia, who allowed drugs to proliferate in that 
country and create and finance narco-terrorism which destroyed some of 
that region and thousands of lives there and thousands of lives here.
  If we pass that amendment, it is a horrible step back. I cannot tell 
you how important this amendment is, not only to the lives in Colombia, 
but to the lives of the young men and women and those in this country 
that have been victims. I urge people to vote this down in huge 
numbers.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I will insert in the Record at this point an article that recently 
appeared in the Financial Times entitled, ``Colombia `most dangerous' 
place for trade unionists'' in the world.

                [From the Financial Times, June 6, 2006]

         Colombia ``Most Dangerous'' Place for Trade Unionists

                         (By Frances Williams)

       Colombia remains the most dangerous place on earth to be a 
     trade unionist, with 70 people killed there last year for 
     union activities.
       In addition, 260 Colombian trade unionists received death 
     threats ``in a climate of continuing impunity for the 
     assassins, according to the annual survey released today by 
     the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
       Right-wing paramilitary groups and the state security 
     forces have been blamed for most of the violence in Colombia. 
     The ICFTU also records slayings in Brazil and Honduras, and a 
     ``pervasive climate of violence and fear'' in Guatemala.
       Worldwide, a total of 115 people were murdered for 
     defending workers' rights in 2005, more than 1,600 were 
     subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 were arrested. 
     Apart from Colombia, the report highlights violence and 
     repression in Iraq, Iran, El Salvador, Djibouti, China, 
     Cambodia, Guatemala, Zimbabwe and Burma.
       Though the death toll was down from 145 in 2004, almost 
     entirely due to fewer killings in Colombia, ``we are 
     nevertheless witnessing increasingly severe violence and 
     hostility against working people who stand up for their 
     rights,'' said Guy Ryder, ICFTU general secretary.
       Even in the industrialised world workers' rights are 
     frequently violated or eroded, the report says. The Bush 
     administration is accused of encouraging ``union-busting'' 
     through measures via its National Labour Relations Board to 
     reduce the influence of trade unions.
       The ICFTU also notes aggressive publicity campaigns in the 
     US aimed at weakening workers' trust in trade unions.
       Australia is criticised for a wave of anti-union laws that 
     it said would deprive most workers of protection from unfair 
     dismissal.
       Publication of the report by Brussels-based ICFTU, whose 
     233 affiliated organisations represent 145m workers, is timed 
     to coincide with the annual conference of the International 
     Labour Organisation now underway in Geneva.
       The conference is expected to condemn Belarus for 
     persistent interference in trade union affairs and to 
     consider action against Burma for its refusal to end forced 
     labour.
       In Asia, violence against trade unionists by police and 
     security forces was documented last year in Burma, South 
     Korea, India, Cambodia and China, where dozens of trade union 
     activists continue to be incarcerated.
       In the Middle East, 13 union representatives were 
     assassinated in Iraq and there were reports of torture and 
     violence against strikers in Iran. In several other countries 
     trade unions are outlawed or severely restricted.
       In Africa, the report singles out Djibouti and Zimbabwe, 
     where the trade union movements suffer constant harassment by 
     the government of President Robert Mugabe.

  Mr. Chairman, I would also insert in the Record an article that I 
referred to earlier that appeared in the Boston Globe about how 
``Colombia says soldiers killed antidrug police.'' That Colombia's 
military unit assassinated a U.S.-trained, elite antinarcotics team at 
the bidding of the drug mafia 2 weeks ago. And what is the response of 
this House? Nothing. The United States Senate froze $30 million in 
military aid because they were so outraged that the Colombian military, 
who we finance, went out and killed in cold blood this anti-drug police 
unit.
  Mr. Chairman, we need to send a strong signal that we are not a cheap 
date, that we are watching, that we care and we demand accountability.

                 [From the Boston Globe, June 6, 2006]

             Colombia Says Soldiers Killed Antidrug Police


         authorities probe colonel for link to major trafficker

                      (By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan)

       Bogota.--Suspicions that a Colombian military unit 
     assassinated a US-trained, elite antinarcotics team at the 
     bidding of the drug mafia two weeks ago have proven true, 
     officials say, in a case that has badly shaken public 
     confidence in the military.
       On May 22, 10 of the country's most successful antidrug 
     police were killed by a military platoon in the outskirts of 
     Jamundi, an area under the influence of narco-traffickers 195 
     miles southwest of the capital, near Cali.
       Two military officers and six soldiers were arrested 
     Thursday on the basis of incriminating cellphone text 
     messages and crimescene evidence that investigators say

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     prove the eight men planned the killings. The suspects insist 
     the shootings were a ``friendly fire'' mistake.
       ``This was not a mistake, this was a crime; this was a 
     deliberate decision, a criminal decision,'' Attorney General 
     Mario Iguaran said last week. ``They were doing the bidding 
     of a drug trafficker.''
       Authorities are investigating bank accounts allegedly 
     containing $44,000 belonging to Army Colonel Bayron Carvajal, 
     the most senior officer arrested, as well as his alleged 
     links to Omar Garcia Varela, according to Colombian newspaper 
     El Tiempo. Varela is accused of being right-hand man of drug 
     boss Diego Montoya, one of the United States' 10 most-wanted 
     narcotraffickers, who is believed to control properties and 
     drug laboratories near the site of fatal attack. The United 
     States has offered $5 million for information leading to 
     Montoya's capture.
       Questions remain in the Jamundi case about the extent of 
     alleged collusion with drug traffickers within the armed 
     forces, and how high up it may go. The arrests came days 
     after the US State Department certified Colombia's human 
     rights record, ensuring the flow of most US military aid to 
     this country. Last year, Congress withheld some military 
     assistance on worries that the Colombian government, which 
     has waged a nearly decade-long campaign against drug 
     corruption, was ignoring extrajudicial killings or 
     cooperation between the military and right-wing death squads.
       The Jamundi case has sparked a national outcry that has 
     reached up to President Alvaro Uribe, but Uribe on Friday 
     said he was not ready to oust generals to hold them 
     responsible for the killings. The best way to restore 
     military credibility, he said, would be to clarify events and 
     impose sanctions on the guilty.
       Among the most damning evidence against the arrested 
     soldiers are text messages allegedly sent by Carvajal on the 
     day of the killing to the lieutenant and sergeant in charge 
     of the platoon.
       ``Pull back the ambush. . . . Everything is set for 
     tonight,'' read one message leaked by authorities to El 
     Tiempo and the newsmagazine Semana.
       That afternoon, Carvajal sent another message, the media 
     reported: ``Get ready for the group to come with the chicken 
     so you can get it.''
       ``Chicken'' was the nickname of civilian informant Luis 
     Eduardo Betancur, who was leading police to a suspected 440-
     pound stash of cocaine. Betancur was also a registered 
     informant of Carvajal, authorities say. He was found shot in 
     the neck, with his balaclava removed, investigators say.
       Eight of the 10 police killed were shot in the back, and 
     ``the crime scene was contaminated before investigators 
     arrived,'' said an investigative official yesterday who spoke 
     on condition of anonymity. Investigators suspect soldiers may 
     have fired shots from the police officers' weapons after they 
     died, in an effort to make it look like there was a 
     confrontation, El Tiempo reported.
       Fewer than half of the soldiers in the 28-man platoon fired 
     at the police. Witnesses interviewed by telephone from 
     Jamundi say the police identified themselves during the 
     attack and begged the soldiers not to shoot.
       More than half of the shots fired originated from a 
     military sniper who was hidden from view, said an 
     investigative official.
       When colleagues of the slain police arrived at the scene to 
     investigate, another text message allegedly demanded to know 
     why they had been allowed to pass a military roadblock.
       The police unit had been trained by the Drug Enforcement 
     Administration and was responsible for more than 200 arrests 
     of drug traffickers, including 23 wanted for extradition to 
     the United States.

  Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. 
Schakowsky), who is an expert on Colombian's eradication policy.
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the 
bipartisan McGovern amendment which I am also proud to cosponsor.
  That passionate speech against liberals and against this piece of 
legislation might be interesting, but it is absolutely wrong. The fact 
that we have spent billions and billions of dollars in Colombia, and 
the gentleman talked about success and failure, and all of the 
evidence, the objective evidence, shows that this policy of fumigation 
and drug eradication unfortunately has been an abject failure. As far 
as ending violence in Colombia, I want to just give a couple of facts 
that the gentleman from Massachusetts mentioned.
  On May 22 of this year, soldiers of the Army's Third Brigade killed 
10 members of Colombia's most elite police unit against narco-
trafficking, trained by the DEA, in what evidence shows was a 
premeditated ambush. The police unit members who were killed had 
captured 205 drug traffickers, 23 of whom had been sent to the United 
States for trial. Armed Forces chief Mario Montoya initially called the 
killings a case of friendly fire.
  On June 1, two officers and six soldiers were arrested for the 
massacre. Colombian Attorney General Mario Iguaran said in announcing 
the arrests: ``It was not a mistake. It was an ambush planned as a 
favor to the drug traffickers.'' The Army officers apparently were 
working for the mafia.
  The International Committee of the Red Cross found that 13.6 percent 
increase in forced disappearances between 2004 and 2005. According to 
CODHES, the Colombian nongovernment organization that maintains data on 
forced displacement, the number of people forced from their homes by 
violence increased by 8 percent from 2004 to 2005.
  But you know what, we are not really having a debate about that 
because the modest offsets that we are talking about still leaves the 
accounts for drug eradication at $9 million above the President's 
request, but let us look at how that money has been spent.
  In Colombia and in the Andean region, as I said, the U.S. has 
invested billions of dollars, hundreds of millions year after year of 
our taxpayers dollars, and what have we gotten? Plan Colombia was 
supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 
50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control 
results are meager at best. If you look at the U.S. government data, 
our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much 
cocaine in the United States as there was 6 years ago.
  But I want to get back to the point. What we are trying to do is to 
have a commonsense and compassionate effort to produce modest 
additional resources to help President Bush alleviate some of the 
world's most dire humanitarian crises. There is a lot that happens 
around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we 
cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when 
we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can 
help. That is what this is about.
  I have travelled to places like Colombia and places where people are 
suffering. We are asking for a modest amount of money to be transferred 
out of this account, and the simple choice is should we overfund our 
efforts in Colombia by a lot or a little or should we do all we can to 
maximize the President's power to help the powerless suffering as a 
result of genocide and other crises.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
respond to what the gentlewoman from Illinois said.

                              {time}  1000

  First of all, with regard to the accounts. It is true that the total 
amount in here for Colombia is above where the President requested. But 
in the ACI, that is absolutely not true.
  I would just remind the gentlewoman from Illinois that the amount we 
have in this bill is $384 million. If you cut another $30 million, you 
would be at $354. The President requested $506 million for the ACI 
account. So the gentlewoman is absolutely incorrect in stating the 
amount that goes for the ACI. She just had her figures incorrect 
because she wasn't aware, I think, of the restructuring that we have 
done of this account.
  Now, I want to just respond to what she was saying about the failures 
that we have had. I would stipulate to the gentlewoman from Illinois 
that our eradication programs have not been as good as we would like. 
She is wrong about the interdiction. We are having success with the 
interdiction. And we are having success with the interdiction because 
we have a president down there that is committed to making it work, 
committed to making Colombians more secure, and committed to providing 
people with economic well-being in the country.
  Now, do bad things happen still? Yes. There are still too many 
homicides and there are still too many kidnappings. Sadly, we know our 
own troops have sometimes strayed and done things wrong. We know in our 
own cities that police departments sometimes stray and do things that 
are not right. But things are getting better in Colombia. There is more 
security in Colombia. There are fewer homicides. There are fewer 
kidnappings. The presence of the government in municipalities, of 
police in municipalities has increased. Roads are open and commerce is 
moving again in the country.
  What a time to send a signal to them that we are going to cut them; 
that we

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are going to say you are not successful. What we have done in this bill 
is to restructure the accounts so that much of the aid now flows 
through traditional accounts of the Economic Support Fund, the 
Development Assistance, the INCLE funds, and those kinds of accounts. 
And we are saying to Colombia, you are a strategic partner. We believe 
that you are succeeding and we are going to put the aid, as we do with 
other countries, in these kinds of categories.
  But this is not the time to be cutting the funding for drug 
interdiction. And I hope this body will reject this amendment very 
soundly.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, we are very much committed to Colombia 
and committed to success, but the fact of the matter is that after $4.7 
billion there is even more coca in Colombia today than there was in 
Plan Colombia's first year. We want success. We want to achieve 
results. We just don't want to go along because we don't want to admit 
that maybe we can improve this policy.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished ranking 
Democrat on the House Committee on Armed Services (Mr. Skelton).
  Mr. SKELTON. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I might point out, 
Mr. Chairman, that I take a back seat to no one regarding fighting the 
scourge of illegal drugs. And being a former prosecuting attorney, I 
know full well the scourge of that problem.
  However, Mr. Chairman, the American taxpayers have spent over $4.7 
billion on the Andean Counterdrug Initiative since the year 2000. 
Despite that commitment, the production in that country is higher now 
than ever. We need to ensure we are spending money wisely. We must 
ensure we are addressing the root causes of the drug problem in 
Colombia.
  Let me point out that the committee provides $545 million for this 
program and we are diverting, by way of this amendment, a very good 
amendment, only $30 million, which, by the way, if you subtract 
carefully, still leaves more than the President recommended for this 
program.
  I am glad that we have been able to support President Uribe and the 
Colombian military against guerrilla groups, but I still question the 
stability of our military efforts in that country. And I think we are 
also working our special operation forces very, very hard during this 
time of war elsewhere.
  It has been a long time since the House Armed Services Committee has 
seriously focused any attention on the security changes in Latin 
America. We ought to take our congressional oversight role seriously. 
We should hold hearings, give full consideration to American policy in 
this critical part of the world. If we are not careful, the gathering 
storm in Latin America could come back to bite us in years to come.
  This amendment, which I support, sends a clear message to Colombian 
and other Andean countries that while the American people will support 
their governments to a point, the financial assistance is not unlimited 
and should not go unchecked. Colombia must decrease coca production and 
better account for human rights concerns.
  This amendment transfers $30 million out of the Andean Counterdrug 
Initiative account to humanitarian assistance in the Sudan and in 
Darfur, which is highly needed and necessary, in my opinion, and it 
still leaves more money than what the President recommended for this 
antidrug program in the Andean area.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, what is the time remaining on both sides?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona has 18\1/2\ minutes 
remaining, the gentleman from Massachusetts has 16 minutes remaining.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Tom Davis).
  Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to any 
attempts to cut funding for the Andean Counterdrug Initiative. 
President Uribe's reelection to a historic second term reaffirms the 
Colombian people's commitment to his program of democratic security and 
the war on drugs. His popularity among Colombians illustrates how 
important the struggle against narcoterrorism is and it helps measure 
success over the last few years.
  Under Uribe's leadership, Colombians finally have the courage to 
fight back against the FARC and the drug traffickers. And as the rest 
of the continent is moving away from the United States, Colombia 
remains our staunchest ally in South America. We need to reaffirm, not 
dismantle, our commitment to this program, to the people of Colombia, 
and to American citizens who want illegal drugs off their streets.
  I have led several congressional delegations to Colombia during my 
time as chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and I can say 
firsthand that our significant investment is paying dividends. 
Together, with the strong commitments of the Uribe administration and 
historic levels of support from the Colombian people, U.S. involvement 
in Colombia is beginning to hit narcoterrorism where it hurts.
  Mr. Chairman, how can we cut funding when we are seeing tremendous 
results in illegal crop eradication and record reductions in coca 
productions and the destruction of drug labs? Coca eradication through 
spraying have gone from 47,000 hectares the first year of Plan Colombia 
to 138,000 last year. As a result of ACI funding, we are seeing 
unprecedented levels of drug interdictions. Drug flow to the U.S. has 
dropped by 7 percent, making American streets safer for our youth. 
Progress like this would not be possible under the amendment.
  The Colombian Government is reestablishing state presence in areas of 
the country that for decades have lacked it. All 1,098 Colombian 
municipalities now have a permanent presence thanks to President 
Uribe's fearless efforts. Criminals who have remained at bay for years 
are being captured and extradited to the U.S. for prosecution. Colombia 
has extradited over 300 Colombian citizens to the U.S. since August of 
2002, mostly on narcotics-related charges. How can we justify pulling 
the plug on the ACI funding when we are seeing record numbers of 
extraditions to the U.S. of FARC and drug cartel members?
  Over 30,000 paramilitaries have now been demobilized since President 
Uribe took office. Thousands of weapons and rounds of ammunition have 
been surrendered. The demobilization and reincorporation of illegal 
armed groups is part of a peace process that is providing stability to 
the entire Andean region. Colombians are finally beginning to feel safe 
and secure in their own country. Kidnappings are down by 51 percent and 
the murder rate has dropped to 13 percent.
  Mr. Chairman, Plan Colombia is working. I have seen firsthand the 
devastation that drug production and trafficking has on Colombia. To 
those who question our investment, I would ask them to visit, as I 
have, Colombian soldiers who have lost their limbs or eyesight or 
sustained permanent disability in their battle to return peace to their 
nation and to keep drugs off American streets.
  I would also ask them to visit Barrio Nelson Mandela, a USAID-
sponsored facility for internally displaced people who have been forced 
from their homes by drug traffickers and guerrillas. This facility 
showed me how work on behalf of Colombia's millions of internally 
displaced people is offering suffering men, women, and children a 
second chance at a violence-free and productive life.
  On a trip to Colombia last year, I accompanied the Colombian National 
Police to a manual eradication site in the Andean mountains and helped 
them pull the coca crop from the mountainous terrain that helicopters 
can't reach. These are dedicated people who literally risk their lives 
to destroy the drug trade and rid their country of drugs and violence.
  My travels to Colombia have shown me just how critical U.S. 
assistance is to their government. With such promising results over the 
last 5 years, we have to sustain this momentum, not wipe it out. Of 
course obstacles remain. The progress is slower than we would like it 
to be. But now is not the time to turn our backs on this battle that is 
so intrinsically tied to the war on terrorism and the scourge of 
illegal drug use.
  The Uribe administration, reelected with 62 percent of the vote last 
week, needs U.S. assistance to improve mobility, intelligence, and 
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no mistake, Colombia today is doing its share. Spending on security 
forces has increased under President Uribe and continues in his second 
term. We simply cannot afford for President Uribe to fail in this 
heroic effort to rid his country of the narcoterrorist threat, nor 
would Colombians understand such a step if this amendment prevails. 
Full funding of the Andean Counterdrug Initiative for FY 2007 is 
critical to sustaining our success in Colombia.
  It is simple, Mr. Chairman. Now is not the time to turn our backs on 
the progress we are making against narcoterrorism in Colombia. We can't 
win this war on drugs and drug-supported terrorism without the proper 
tools and resources. And the message this sends to our allies would be 
devastating.
  I ask my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the McGovern amendment.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I think it is important to put this 
debate in perspective. Nobody is talking about the dismantling our 
support for Colombia. Nobody is talking about withdrawing all of our 
support to Colombia. What we are talking about is sending the 
appropriate message at this appropriate time.
  I will agree with the gentleman that fumigation has never been 
higher. But the problem is that there is even more coca in Colombia 
today than there was in Plan Colombia's first year. So maybe we need to 
rethink our strategy. Maybe it is not working. I think any reasonable 
person who looks at the statistics, provided by our own government, 
would come to that conclusion.
  I will agree with the gentleman that President Uribe deserves credit 
for lowering the number of kidnappings in Colombia. But I am not 
prepared to give him a pat on the back in the face of what just 
happened, where U.S.-funded Colombian military soldiers went out and 
killed in cold blood antinarcotic policemen who are dedicated to 
combating drugs in Colombia.
  What kind of message are we sending when we respond to that by doing 
nothing, by saying you have to continue to get everything that you 
expect? The United States Senate understands what is at stake. They 
froze $30 million in military aid in response to that. We need to send 
a signal too: we are not a cheap date. We want to support you, but we 
want there to be accountability. We want an end to the violence. We 
want the military not to be above the law.
  Having said that, Mr. Chairman, I yield at this time 2\1/2\ minutes 
to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, let me thank the gentleman for yielding and 
also just thank you for your strong advocacy for human rights, global 
refugees on so many fronts.
  I am pleased to be a cosponsor of this effort. This amendment simply 
provides an additional $30 million to the Emergency Refugee and 
Migration Assistance Account, and it still includes, and I have to 
reiterate, it still includes $515 million for Colombia, and it is still 
$9 million more than the President's 2007 request for Colombia.
  To my colleague Mr. Mica and his comments with regard to liberals, 
and I do not know if you said you were tired of liberals or fed up with 
liberals, but let me just say to you that if helping our country 
respond quickly and flexibly to humanitarian disasters, if rethinking a 
policy and making sure that we are trying to really reduce the 
kidnappings and violence in Colombia, if that is what we are trying to 
do, then I am very proud, I am very proud to be a liberal.
  In recent years, ERMA was used to help drought-ridden Somalis and 
provide refugee aid to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the 
Congo. In Sudan, where more than 3.4 million people are displaced, 
urgent needs are there for ERMA funding. The funding need is very 
clear.
  After Sudan, Colombia has the largest number of internally displaced 
persons. Estimates range from 2 to 3.6 million individuals. Less than a 
third of Colombia's IDPs receive emergency assistance, and many, many 
have to wait months to receive that emergency aid. And let me tell you, 
of those traditionally marginalized Afro Colombians and indigenous 
communities, these individuals, these communities have been 
disproportionately affected.
  In Burundi, 2.2 million people, including refugees and returnees, 
need immediate aid to cope with malnourishment and disease. In Northern 
Uganda, there are more than 1.8 million internally displaced persons 
desperately in need of assistance.

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  These statistics just really touch the surface of an expanding global 
refugee crisis.
  Due to the critical need, the account reached its lowest point in a 
decade. We can and we must do more to help global victims of violence 
cope with the loss of everything that they know and love. Even if the 
additional $30 million that this amendment provides only allows ERMA to 
ensure food deliveries to helpless refugees, countless lives will be 
saved. Innumerable people will feel the goodwill and support of the 
United States.
  This is about helping persons who have been stripped of family, 
friends, homes, and their basic protections. Today we need to stand by 
the victims of violence by supporting this amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the very distinguished 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) who has certainly been at the 
forefront of this issue.
  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to revise and 
extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the gentleman 
for yielding.
  I cannot understand why anybody would want to start cutting funding 
to Colombia for the war against terror. It would be a terrible mistake 
to do that right now. President Uribe was just reelected. He is doing 
everything possible to stop the drug cartels from sending drugs to the 
United States and other parts of the world. After just being reelected 
and meeting with many of us in Costa Rica a few weeks ago, for us to 
start cutting funding when they need more resources to fight the war 
against drugs is absolutely insane, in my opinion.
  The Speaker of the House is very aware of this issue. He just worked 
with me to get three additional platform aircraft to police the drugs 
coming through the Caribbean. If we didn't have those resources, the 
drug cartels would have a free rein to go through the Caribbean. We 
need additional helicopters and there is additional money in there for 
that. And for us to start cutting that right now would give the drug 
cartels all kinds of reasons to invest more money to start expanding 
the drug operation down there.
  In addition, let me say that we have talked about these 11 policemen 
who were murdered by the Colombian military. I am confident, and I have 
talked to President Uribe about this, they are going to investigate 
this thoroughly. And if there are military personnel that actually did 
the killing, and we believe that is the case, they will be brought to 
justice. And no money, none of this money is going to go to any 
military unit that is involved in any activity like this.
  So the bottom line is it is extremely important if we believe in 
keeping drugs off the streets of America that this fight continue. And 
to start cutting back dramatically and sending this money someplace 
else because of budgetary constraints is the wrong thing to do.
  Visitors from across this country will tell you the number one issue 
facing this country is the drug problem, and the drugs which are 
killing our kids and ruining their lives.
  This is a very important issue, and it must not take a back seat to 
any other issue. We must make sure that the resources to continue the 
war against drugs are given to the people that need it. Colombia is in 
the forefront, and President Uribe has done an outstanding job, and he 
needs all of the help he can get and we need to give it to him.
  I rise in very strong opposition to the proposed cut in narco-
terrorism fighting assistance to our good friend and ally Colombia, 
especially so, at this critical point in the global war on terror.
  While the amendment's author wants to talk about more and more coca, 
he doesn't want to talk about the more than a half dozen helicopters 
the Committee has wisely provided the new means for the world renowned 
Colombian National Police (CNP) anti-drug unit to use to take on the 
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freed up at least 10 more helicopters to be used by the Colombian Army 
for drug interdiction and additional eradication to take on the new 
coca challenge as well. That is a total of 16 more helicopters for the 
drug fight.
  We found the coca in more remote areas of Colombia where the narco-
terrorists flee our joint aerial eradication. This new helicopter 
allocation will permit us to go after that new crop. They may well soon 
run out of places to hide if we do our job right. We cannot cut and run 
now.
  In addition, I note also little reference by the gentleman from 
Massachusetts to opium and heroin and the progress and lives saved from 
our eradication and other efforts against that even more deadly and 
addictive drug (14 percent more addictive) from nearby Colombia. Until 
we went after the heroin at the source in Colombia, South American 
heroin was spreading rapidly across America from New York, Baltimore, 
Boston and other areas on the East Coast, on into places like Chicago 
in the Midwest, and further west.
  There was a major breakup in December 2005 of a Colombian heroin ring 
in the Boston, Lawrence, Lynn, and Everett Massachusetts area by our 
DEA and local police with the cooperation of the Colombian National 
Police (CNP), who benefit from Plan Colombia aid. We cannot and ought 
not end those law enforcement efforts as well in places like the Boston 
area.
  Prices have risen by 30 percent and purity has fallen 22 percent from 
2003 to 2004 in the once deadly heroin from Colombia according to ONDCP 
data released this past November.
  Young lives have been saved and many overdoses avoided here because 
of our eradication and other Plan Colombia efforts against South 
American heroin.
  Unlike cocaine, which you can interdict in the multiton loads, heroin 
comes in concealed, one deadly kilo at a time in shoes, cloths, or 
baggage, and is nearly impossible to interdict after it leaves 
Colombia. Either spray it, or you will find it on the streets and 
communities of America taking lives and creating havoc. We have done 
this with South American heroin. The critics are silent on that part of 
Plan Colombia and the success we have witnessed.
  ``Just say no'' to this ill-advised and unproductive cut in aid for 
Colombia, a key strategic partner in the global war on terrorism in our 
own backyard and around the globe, including in Afghanistan where the 
Colombian National Police will soon be helping train the Afghan anti-
drug units.
  We owe them, and our kids as well, a Stay-the-Course Approach. Vote 
``no.''
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Facts are stubborn things, and maybe I haven't been clear in this 
debate, but when the opposition here talks about we are cutting aid to 
Colombia, that is not true.
  The bottom line is we are providing Colombia everything that the 
President of the United States has requested, plus $9 million more. 
That is not cutting Colombia. That is not walking away from the drug 
war.
  What we are frustrated with is the billions that we are spending are 
not accomplishing the goals we were promised. We are concerned there 
could continue to be gross human rights violations by the Colombian 
military. We want to send a signal and strengthen President Uribe's 
hands in helping to bring those military men to justice who committed 
those terrible murders against those police officers. We also want to 
call attention to the fact that all of this money that we have been 
sending down there has done nothing to reduce the amount of coca 
cultivation and growth in that country.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California 
(Ms. Zoe Lofgren), the co-chair of the Refugee Caucus.
  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. Chairman, not only as the co-chair 
of the Refugee Caucus, but as a member of the Immigration Border 
Security and Claims Subcommittee, which has oversight over U.S. refugee 
programs, I am a strong supporter and, indeed, cosponsor of this 
amendment.
  Members have said they would like to give a message to Colombia. 
Well, I would like to send a message to the refugees who are sitting in 
camps in Darfur who have been notified that their pathetic rations have 
been cut in half to the point where they do not have enough food to 
actually survive. I would like to focus in on where the funds are 
going.
  The ERMA account is authorized, has a permanent level of 
authorization of $100 million. So this amendment, which would put ERMA 
at $60 million, would only bring ERMA to 60 percent of the authorized 
level. It is worth noting that we are at $24 million today in the ERMA 
account. That is the lowest level at this point in the fiscal year over 
a decade, and because a drawdown is in the works, our refugee program 
is going to start the new fiscal year with close to zero funds.
  It has been noted by others that the funds to Colombia are not being 
slashed, they are being authorized at above what the President has 
requested. But we need to take a look at what not funding refugee 
programs does not only for the people who are suffering, but for 
stability in the world.
  We know if refugee situations completely get out of control, that we 
create little pockets of instability around the world that can then 
form areas where al Qaeda can move in and organize terrorist training 
camps. So to form an argument that somehow funding our moral obligation 
to the refugees of the world is also adverse to our security interests 
is a false analysis.
  I was struck about 2 years ago when the Darfur crisis really hit the 
public consciousness. We had an ad hoc meeting, and it was liberals and 
conservatives. And I thought this is a unique situation where Members 
of this body who ordinarily do not agree on anything have come together 
out of a sense of moral obligation to refugees around the world. I 
would hope that that morality that led us to stand together facing the 
Darfur situation will join us once again when this vote comes up, to 
take a stand for morality and to help those who are helpless around the 
world who are refugees that we, as moral people, owe a debt to.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I just want to respond to one thing that the gentlewoman said before 
I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas. I just want to 
respond to what she said about the Migration and Refugee account and 
Darfur. She made a reference to the fact that food rations in Darfur 
might be cut in half. We have provided in the fiscal year 2006, the 
current year's bill, we have $320 million for Darfur for food programs. 
When the United Nations said they might still have to cut the rations 
in half, the President, out of Public Law 480, pledged another $200 
million. That is $520 million that the United States has pledged for 
food in Darfur. You know what the next largest country is? Libya at $4 
million.
  So I hardly think the United States has been delinquent in the amount 
of money that we have provided in Darfur.
  Meanwhile, we have problems in our own hemisphere and we have 
problems on our own streets. We have problems in our schools and in our 
families with drugs that run rampant in our society. We do have an 
obligation to ourselves to try to prevent that from happening. We have 
a partner in Colombia that is attempting to do that.
  This amendment is a signal to that partner that we do not believe his 
country should be a partner in our attack on drugs in this country. 
This would be the wrong thing for us to do at this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. 
Boozman).
  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I am a member of the Committee on 
International Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Human Rights, 
and I have great sympathy for what you are trying to accomplish in the 
sense that I think the Emergency Refugee Migration Assistance fund does 
a great job.
  On the other hand, as a member of the Speaker's drug task force, and 
very active in the war against drugs, this is not the vehicle to do 
this in. I have had an opportunity to go to Colombia and see the 
progress that is being made. I very strongly oppose the McGovern 
amendment. I have had an opportunity to visit with the police and the 
armed services in Colombia, and they are doing a good job and 
tremendous progress is being made.
  We had an opportunity to go out on a mock drug expedition where we 
went out in the cigar boats and saw firsthand how they go after the 
drug traffickers. Probably 2 hours after we left, they actually 
captured a boat that had several hundred pounds of illegal drugs on it. 
So they are doing a good job.
  Again, I very strongly disagree that the money needs to be reduced.
  In regard to the Colombian police situation, as we know on May 22, 
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members of the Colombian Judicial Police force, known as the DIJIN, 
were murdered by members of the Colombian army. These brave police 
officers were investigating a drug trafficking incident when they were 
captured and shot execution-style by army soldiers.
  Since the incident, the Uribe government has moved quickly to launch 
an aggressive independent inquiry by the attorney general's office in 
Colombia. Because of these actions and because of the fact that 
Colombians are doing the right thing in this instance, we need to vote 
``no'' on this amendment.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I want to put in perspective what this amendment is 
trying to do. As I understand the situation, this bill raises the 
eradication funds in Colombia by $30 million. It also cuts $103 million 
from refugees.
  All Mr. McGovern is trying to do is to take that $30 million increase 
that the committee has provided for eradication in Colombia and move it 
back into an account that has already been cut by almost three times as 
much as the amount of money he is trying to put back in the refugee 
account.
  I remember when Bill Lehman from Florida used to take this floor 
every year. There was no better human being I have ever met in this 
place than Bill Lehman, and he used to routinely remind us that there 
is no more miserable person in the world than a refugee. They live in 
often abominable conditions, and they have nowhere to turn.
  We have Members in this House who will engage in all kinds of 
meaningless gestures when it comes to Darfur. They will sign onto a 
letter to the President, and they will sign onto a bill that they know 
is going nowhere, and then they will put out their press releases 
posing for political holy pictures on how much they care about refugees 
and how much they care about Darfur. And yet what they do doesn't 
produce one plugged nickel.
  If you want to do something real for those wretched creatures, you 
will do what Mr. McGovern is trying to do: You will add this tiny 
little dollop of money back to the refugee account.
  I mean, if you want a perfect example of money that isn't working, 
it's money that is spent on eradication.

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  I remember when we had a huge fight under the Reagan administration 
about how we were going to pull money into eradication and 
interdiction. And then I had one of the people in charge of the program 
come to me silently and say, ``Don't believe what we are saying. We 
only interdict 2 percent of the drugs.''
  I thought conservatives routinely gave liberals lectures about 
looking at the effectiveness of programs. Well, I can tell you right 
now, we are not being effective when you have to cut half the food 
rations for refugees in Darfur. We are not being very effective in 
meeting our obligations there.
  So I would suggest if anybody thinks we are harming the program in 
Colombia, all we are doing is saying return that budget request to the 
same level that was requested by that well-known liberal leftist, 
George W. Bush. That is all this amendment is doing. I would urge its 
adoption.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I want to just correct, for the record, a couple of comments that the 
gentleman from Wisconsin made for whom I have the greatest respect. He 
talked about a $107 million cut in these accounts. Let me just make it 
clear what we are really talking about. There is an $82 million 
reduction in the migration refugee assistance account. That $82 
million, however, has nothing to do with refugees abroad. That is for 
admissions to the United States. And the numbers, 55,000 persons that 
are coming in, are exactly the same as last year. So we are continuing 
the program exactly as we have it.
  I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. OBEY. I thank the gentleman, and he is my good friend. But the 
fact is that the refugee count is being cut.
  Mr. KOLBE. I am trying to explain what it is.
  Mr. OBEY. I understand you are saying it is in a different pocket, 
but the overall account is being cut, right?
  Mr. KOLBE. It is not the money, however, that goes to assist refugees 
overseas. It is admissions.
  Mr. OBEY. This House thought of it yesterday that we wouldn't do 
anything about them, didn't they? This House denied the funds for 
fixing that problem yesterday, didn't they?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, the point that I am 
trying to make is that it is the processing of refugees inside of 
United States. We are not talking about people who are in camps 
overseas, who might not have food, might not have sanitation. That is 
not what is being cut.
  The other account that is being cut $25 million is the ERMA account. 
And that is because they have a carryover of about 15 million. The 30 
million that we have provided here brings them up to 45 million, and 
that is the average of what they have spent. It is an emergency 
drawdown account and they have spent that amount each year. So we are 
adequately covering the migration, the refugee and migration issues in 
our bill.
  I yield once more to the gentleman.
  Mr. OBEY. I thank the gentleman. I would simply say the fact is, you 
don't just have to look at what this bill does today on this amendment. 
You have to look at the whole and what it did yesterday on the Egypt 
amendment, coupled with what it is doing here today, and that means we 
have shortchanged those refugees.
  Mr. KOLBE. And reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, I would say that 
yes, we are looking at it on the whole, and I believe that on the whole 
we are adequately covering these accounts.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I just want to alert the Members that there is broad support for this 
amendment. The support ranges from the American Refugee Committee to 
Amnesty International to the International Crisis Group, International 
Rescue Committee, the Jesuit Conference, Mercy Corps, Refugees 
International, the Steel Workers, the United Methodist Church. I could 
go on and on and on.

       Support for this amendment ranges from--The American 
     Refugee Committee, Amnesty International, The International 
     Crisis Group, International Rescue Committee, The Jesuit 
     Conference, Mercy Corps,
       To--Refugees International, The Steelworkers, The United 
     Methodist Church.
                                  ____

       Dear Congressman McGovern: We are writing to express our 
     strong support for your efforts to increase funding for the 
     Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) account 
     during floor consideration of the Fiscal Year 2007 Foreign 
     Operations Appropriations bill.
       The ERMA account, managed by the State Department's Bureau 
     of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), is one of two 
     refugee assistance accounts that help the United States meet 
     its national interests by protecting and assisting refugees 
     and internally displaced persons who have been victims of 
     persecution and conflict. ERMA funding supports programs that 
     relieve explosive international tensions and set an example 
     for the rest of the world. In addition to helping address 
     unexpected refugee and displacement crises, ERMA supports 
     humanitarian agencies on the front lines of both new and 
     longstanding crises around the world--stretching from Iraq 
     and Sudan to Colombia and Haiti. Recent ERMA drawdowns have 
     responded to the Pakistan earthquake; refugee repatriation in 
     Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo; the 
     humanitarian crises in Somalia; and breakdowns in the food 
     pipeline for refugees in Africa and elsewhere.
       The ERMA balance currently stands at $24 million--the 
     lowest level in a decade. PRM generally draws down between 
     $60 million and $70 million in ERMA funding annually and 
     requires a beginning-year balance of between $70 million and 
     $100 million to have the flexibility needed to respond 
     quickly to emergencies.
       It is therefore difficult for us to understand the severe 
     cuts in the ERMA, as well as other humanitarian accounts, 
     being recommended by the House Appropriations Committee. The 
     Committee's reduction of ERMA funding--to a level of 28 
     percent below the President's FY 07 request--comes at a time 
     when PRM is struggling to cope with serious budgetary 
     constraints. These cuts, which also have impacted the 
     Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, threaten the 
     life-saving assistance provided to persons caught in the 
     tragic violence of Sudan, Colombia, and other conflict-
     affected areas.
       We urge the House of Representatives to restore funding for 
     these critical humanitarian programs and strongly support 
     your efforts on the House floor to address the cuts in the 
     ERMA account.
           Sincerely,
       Air Serv International.
       American Jewish World Service.
       American Refugee Committee.
       Catholic Relief Services.
       Episcopal Migration Ministries.

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       Ethiopian Community Development Council.
       Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
       Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
       International Catholic Migration Commission.
       International Rescue Committee.
       Jesuit Refugee Service/USA.
       Kurdish Human Rights Watch. Inc.
       Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
       Mercy Corps.
       National Peace Corps Association.
       Oxfam America.
       Refugees International.
       Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.
       U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
       Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
       World Relief.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Leach).
  Mr. LEACH. Mr. Chairman, at issue in this case are Colombia 
priorities, but in a different sense than is usually assumed. The 
priority debate today is not about whether stemming the drug trade is 
appropriate, but the methodology of going about it.
  Quasi-military approaches fit war scenarios. Civil war is more 
problematic; criminal activities even more so. My concern is that when 
America becomes intertwined in internal conflicts, we change the nature 
of the ongoing struggle, as well as the motivation of various 
combatants. We become implicitly accountable for a panoply of policies 
of any side we back and, accordingly, answerable to the people for that 
side's allegiance or lack thereof to social fairness and sometimes the 
rule of law itself.
  In this context, wouldn't it be better to limit our military 
involvement in this struggling, divided country and focus efforts on 
replenishing the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance program? 
This assistance program allows the President to respond quickly to 
urgent, often unexpected, crises throughout the world. For instance, it 
is this program that the President tapped last year to provide 
assistance to the victims of the Pakistani earthquake.
  Mr. Chairman, I support this amendment and I respect very much the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for enlightened leadership 
on a whole host of issues. But I don't support the amendment out of a 
conviction it is an answer to a real dilemma between both the Colombian 
and American people, but out of a belief that a military emphasis of 
this kind carries many counterproductive consequences.
  There is no track record that this program has been particularly 
helpful, and some indications that the results have been 
disadvantageous to the United States. So I would argue that there are 
better uses for these very scarce resources.
  And I would suggest again that when we think about realism in world 
affairs, the test is effectiveness. Here the effectiveness that the 
United States has exhibited in compassion for refugees is far more 
apparent than the tests that might be applied to this particular 
program based on any past record.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I am the last remaining speaker on my 
side. I don't know whether you have any other speakers.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, if you will close on your side and yield 
back, I will close on our side.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, let me just kind of go over a few things 
here. First of all, on the issue that somehow we are withdrawing from 
our support for Colombia, let me remind my colleagues that the 
President of the United States asked for $506.2 million. The committee 
provided $545.2 million. My amendment would reduce that to $515.2 
million, or $9 million above the President's request for Colombia. So 
we are not doing anything here to walk away from Colombia.
  Secondly, on the issue of human rights, the United Nations High 
Commissioner for Human Rights reported this year that more grave 
violations of human rights were committed directly by Colombia's 
military forces than in the past. The ICRC has recorded a 13.6 percent 
increase in disappearances. The number of people forced from their 
homes by violence increased by 8 percent over the past year.
  I introduced into the Record earlier, and I will remind my colleagues 
about an article that appeared in the Financial Times. The headlines, 
Colombia, The Most Dangerous Place For Trade Unionists. And I also 
inserted into the Record, and I will remind my colleagues about this 
article that appeared in a number of newspapers that the Colombian 
military units assassinated U.S. trained antinarcotics teams at the 
bidding of the drug mafia. So in some areas, there is improvement, but 
Colombia is still near the top of any human rights watch list.
  Let me, again, make one other point that I have made repeatedly here. 
We have invested $4.7 million in Colombia. We were promised that coca 
cultivation would be cut by 50 percent by the proponents of this. The 
bottom line is, according to this chart, that has not happened. In 
fact, coca cultivation has actually increased in Colombia.
  I agree with my friend from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) when he says the 
conservatives are supposed to, they don't want to eliminate waste and 
demand more efficiency in government. Well, by any measure, this has 
not been an efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
  So, Mr. Chairman, in conclusion, let me just say that we have heard 
the arguments on the other side. Massive increases in fumigation, 
overwhelming support for President Uribe, kidnappings down, cities and 
highways safer. Well, Mr. Chairman, that is all true. But massive 
increases in fumigation have not led to any reduction in coca 
cultivation. Overwhelming popular support for President Uribe has not 
resulted in even a dent in the impunity enjoyed by military officers 
tied to drug lords, mafia kings, paramilitaries and who carry out 
violent human rights crimes and other criminal acts. Kidnappings are 
down, but assassinations, disappearances and death threats against 
labor, religious indigenous Afro-Colombian and other community leaders 
is skyrocketing according to the United Nations High Commissioner on 
Human Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross and every 
other reputable human rights organization in the world. And if cities 
and highways are safer, the rural country side is as dangerous, 
violent, bloody and as perilous as ever.
  We can do something good with this amendment. We can do something 
right. We can provide the President with a little more than he asked 
for, both for refugee emergencies and for Colombia. So I would urge my 
colleagues to support the McGovern-Leach-Payne-Lofgren-McCollum-
Grijalva-Schakowsky-Lee amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona has 4 minutes remaining.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I won't take the time, but I yield myself 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chairman, I think we have had a thorough debate on this. I will 
be very quick in my close here simply to say this is the wrong policy 
and the wrong message at the wrong time. This is not what we need to be 
doing with Colombia. This is not what we need to be doing on drug 
interdiction. We need to be saying to this country which has stood 
strong, to this country which has been courageous in its efforts to 
provide security for its own citizens, to provide for drug eradication, 
to provide for drug interdiction, we need to say to this country, to 
its leadership, to its president who was just elected by the largest 
margin in modern history in Colombia, we need to say to them, we stand 
with you. We support you in your efforts, because what you are doing in 
Colombia is on behalf also of the American citizens in the United 
States that we can save our children from drugs. This is not the time 
to send the signal that we do not believe that Colombia is doing what 
it needs to be doing.
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the McGovern 
amendment. Not only will this amendment hurt kids and families in the 
United States, but it makes the futures of kids and families in 
Colombia less secure.
  Drug trafficking is a tough problem. I am not going to admit that it 
is not a tough problem. Rape is a tough problem. Child abuse is a tough 
problem. Spouse abuse is a tough problem, but we do not give up our 
efforts; we do not give in because we have not seen a drop in spouse 
abuse or child abuse.
  Just like the others, the drug trafficking problem is difficult. Our 
policies, however, have pushed the narcoterrorists out into the jungle, 
away from the streets of Bogota where

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they used to assassinate elected officials. Because of the steadfast 
assistance provided by the American people to the people of Colombia, 
we have seen a tremendous drop in kidnappings (down 51 percent last 
year) and a dramatic drop in murders (down 13 percent). Overall 
terrorist attacks were down by 21 percent. The number of Internally 
Displaced Persons (IDPs) was down by 15 percent.
  The fact is that now, for the first time in modern history, every one 
of the 1,098 municipalities has an elected official. Why? Because they 
are not worried about being murdered anymore.
  Due to the improved security situation in Colombia, law enforcement 
and military personnel are able to broaden their reach in the country. 
This puts pressure on the operations of the narcotraffickers, exposing 
their operations and coca fields.
  Increasing the reach of law enforcement is part of the reason why we 
have a better understanding this year on the extent of coca 
cultivation. Cultivation declined 8% in those areas surveyed both in 
2004 and 2005, from 114,100 hectares in 2004 to 105,400 in 2005. 
Cultivation fell in nearly all growing areas where aerial eradication 
was employed, Putumayo being a key exception. But in those areas where 
no spraying takes place, cultivation increased. Growers are reacting to 
intense spray operations and are moving to non-sprayed on low-spray 
areas.
  Critics of our drug policies in Colombia are correct in stating that 
the coca crop estimate is 26% higher than it was last year. True 
enough. But this was due to a substantial expansion of the survey area 
by 81%. As we expected, more fields were discovered in remote areas 
uncontrolled by the government or areas where spraying is prohibited 
(e.g. buffer zone along Ecuador border or national parks). The lesson, 
however, is that spraying works. Where there was not spraying there was 
an increase in coca; where spraying occurs, cultivation is declining.
  Let me conclude with this. This is not a Colombian problem; it is our 
problem. It is our addictions and Europe's addictions that have 
terrorized this 200-year-old democracy. Because drug abuse continues in 
America, Colombia has had 30,000 police killed. As our colleague Joe 
Crowley wrote to us earlier this year, ``Plan Colombia has been a 
foreign policy success for the USA and a domestic security success for 
Colombia. Started by President Clinton and continued by President Bush, 
Plan Colombia has made measurable progress in Colombia's security, as 
seen through decreases in violence, murders and kidnappings, as well as 
the eradication of drug crops.''
  We need to stand behind the Colombia people. I ask, my colleagues to 
vote down the McGovern amendment.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the 
McGovern, Leach, Payne, Lofgren, McCollum Amendment that increases 
funding by $30 million for the U.S. Emergency Refugee & Migration 
Assistance Fund (ERMA). It will meet this additional expense by 
reducing funding for Plan Colombia by $30 million.
  ERMA helps the United States respond rapidly to humanitarian 
disasters around the world. Unfortunately, as we have seen a number of 
humanitarian disasters recently such as the ongoing genocide in the 
Darfur region of the Sudan this funding is desperately needed. ERMA 
funds have been used to meet the needs of victims of the October 2005 
earthquake in Pakistan, address the humanitarian crisis in the West 
Bank and Gaza, help stave off widespread starvation in drought-stricken 
Somalia, and aid refugee repatriation and reintegration in Burundi and 
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A $30 million increase in ERMA 
funding will greatly assist some of the poorest and most vulnerable 
individuals in the world today--displaced refugees.
  In contrast, we have spent nearly $5 billion since 2000 on coca 
eradication in the Andes. This year we will over $800 million on the 
Colombia government's coca eradication efforts with 80% of this funding 
going to the Colombian military. Despite this enormous outlay of money, 
coca cultivation in the Andes has only increased over the last six 
years. Furthermore, the Colombian government and military have the 
dubious distinction of having among the worst human rights records in 
the world.
  I am proud to support the McGovern, Leach, Payne, Lofgren, McCollum 
Amendment and encourage a ``yes'' vote.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the McGovern 
amendment. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia. I know first hand 
that Colombians, if given the skills and opportunities, can develop a 
sustainable economy in rural areas. They don't need a continual hand-
out.
  That is why I am very appreciative to the Chairman for increasing 
funding for alternative development and institution building in 
Colombia. These tools will help Colombians help themselves. Alternative 
development programs lay the ground work for sustainable development 
and an economy based on legal crops.
  Alternative development programs have enabled Colombian farmers to 
grow more specialty coffee, supported the growth of agricultural 
cooperatives, increased market access and taught marketing promotion to 
small growers. For the last six years under Plan Colombia I, and now 
with this installment of Plan Colombia: II, over 80% of US assistance 
goes toward military/police and aerial fumigation and only 20% goes 
toward economic and social assistance.
  This is not a winning solution for peace and sustainable development 
in Colombia. After 6 years of sustained and robust US assistance, 40% 
of Colombians remained underemployed in the Colombian formal economy. I 
suggest we need a new paradigm for Colombia, one that brings greater 
parity between economic and military assistance that will enable a 
legal economy to flourish in rural Colombia.
  The McGovern amendment recognizes this gross imbalance and shifts $30 
million from, the Andean Counterdrug Initiative to the Emergency 
Migration and Refugee Account.
  Data from the ONDCP proves that our drug fumigation policy is not 
working. If Plan Colombia I had been successful, the street price of 
cocaine would have skyrocketed, and purity would have decreased. The 
opposite has happened.
  The McGovern amendment recognizes this flawed policy, and redirects a 
modest amount--$30 million out of a $384 million allocation--to an 
account that is desperately underfunded. ERMA provides funding for 
emergency humanitarian needs such as water, shelter and medical care 
for refugees under siege in places like Darfur, Congo, and Northern 
Uganda. The McGovern rights an egregious wrong on both accounts. I urge 
my colleagues to support the McGovern amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern).
  The question was taken; and the chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be 
postponed.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 60, line 18 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 60, line 18 is as 
follows:

                    Migration and Refugee Assistance

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to 
     enable the Secretary of State to provide, as authorized by 
     law, a contribution to the International Committee of the Red 
     Cross, assistance to refugees, including contributions to the 
     International Organization for Migration and the United 
     Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and other activities 
     to meet refugee and migration needs; salaries and expenses of 
     personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service 
     Act of 1980; allowances as authorized by sections 5921 
     through 5925 of title 5, United States Code; purchase and 
     hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized 
     by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $750,206,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That not more 
     than $23,000,000 may be available for administrative 
     expenses: Provided further, That not less than $40,000,000 of 
     the funds made available under this heading shall be made 
     available for refugees from the former Soviet Union and 
     Eastern Europe and other refugees resettling in Israel: 
     Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading 
     may be made available for a headquarters contribution to the 
     International Committee of the Red Cross only if the 
     Secretary of State determines (and so reports to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress) that the Magen David Adom 
     Society of Israel is not being denied participation in the 
     activities of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent 
     Movement.

     United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 
     1962, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), $30,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

    Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs

       For necessary expenses for nonproliferation, anti-
     terrorism, demining and related programs and activities, 
     $425,010,000, to carry out the provisions of chapter 8 of 
     part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for anti-
     terrorism assistance, chapter 9 of part II of

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     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 504 of the 
     FREEDOM Support Act, section 23 of the Arms Export Control 
     Act or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for demining 
     activities, the clearance of unexploded ordnance, the 
     destruction of small arms, and related activities, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
     activities implemented through nongovernmental and 
     international organizations, and section 301 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for a voluntary contribution to the 
     International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and for a United 
     States contribution to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban 
     Treaty Preparatory Commission: Provided, That of this amount 
     not to exceed $38,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended, may be made available for the Nonproliferation and 
     Disarmament Fund, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     to promote bilateral and multilateral activities relating to 
     nonproliferation and disarmament: Provided further, That such 
     funds may also be used for such countries other than the 
     Independent States of the former Soviet Union and 
     international organizations when it is in the national 
     security interest of the United States to do so: Provided 
     further, That funds appropriated under this heading may be 
     made available for the International Atomic Energy Agency 
     only if the Secretary of State determines (and so reports to 
     the Congress) that Israel is not being denied its right to 
     participate in the activities of that Agency: Provided 
     further, That of the funds made available for demining and 
     related activities, not to exceed $700,000, in addition to 
     funds otherwise available for such purposes, may be used for 
     administrative expenses related to the operation and 
     management of the demining program: Provided further, That 
     funds appropriated under this heading that are available for 
     ``Anti-terrorism Assistance'' and ``Export Control and Border 
     Security'' shall remain available until September 30, 2008.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

               International Affairs Technical Assistance

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $23,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009, 
     which shall be available notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law that restricts assistance to foreign countries.

                           Debt Restructuring

       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying loans and loan 
     guarantees, as the President may determine, for which funds 
     have been appropriated or otherwise made available for 
     programs within the International Affairs Budget Function 
     150, including the cost of selling, reducing, or canceling 
     amounts owed to the United States as a result of concessional 
     loans made to eligible countries, pursuant to parts IV and V 
     of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of modifying 
     concessional credit agreements with least developed 
     countries, as authorized under section 411 of the 
     Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as 
     amended, of concessional loans, guarantees and credit 
     agreements, as authorized under section 572 of the Foreign 
     Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100-461), and of 
     canceling amounts owed, as a result of loans or guarantees 
     made pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, by 
     countries that are eligible for debt reduction pursuant to 
     title V of H.R. 3425 as enacted into law by section 
     1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-113, $20,000,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2009: Provided, That not less 
     than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading 
     shall be made available to carry out the provisions of part V 
     of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That 
     amounts paid to the HIPC Trust Fund may be used only to fund 
     debt reduction under the enhanced HIPC initiative by--
       (1) the Inter-American Development Bank;
       (2) the African Development Fund;
       (3) the African Development Bank; and
       (4) the Central American Bank for Economic Integration:
     Provided further, That funds may not be paid to the HIPC 
     Trust Fund for the benefit of any country if the Secretary of 
     State has credible evidence that the government of such 
     country is engaged in a consistent pattern of gross 
     violations of internationally recognized human rights or in 
     military or civil conflict that undermines its ability to 
     develop and implement measures to alleviate poverty and to 
     devote adequate human and financial resources to that end: 
     Provided further, That on the basis of final appropriations, 
     the Secretary of the Treasury shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations concerning which countries and 
     international financial institutions are expected to benefit 
     from a United States contribution to the HIPC Trust Fund 
     during the fiscal year: Provided further, That the Secretary 
     of the Treasury shall inform the Committees on Appropriations 
     not less than 15 days in advance of the signature of an 
     agreement by the United States to make payments to the HIPC 
     Trust Fund of amounts for such countries and institutions: 
     Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may 
     disburse funds designated for debt reduction through the HIPC 
     Trust Fund only for the benefit of countries that--
       (1) have committed, for a period of 24 months, not to 
     accept new market-rate loans from the international financial 
     institution receiving debt repayment as a result of such 
     disbursement, other than loans made by such institutions to 
     export-oriented commercial projects that generate foreign 
     exchange which are generally referred to as ``enclave'' 
     loans; and
       (2) have documented and demonstrated their commitment to 
     redirect their budgetary resources from international debt 
     repayments to programs to alleviate poverty and promote 
     economic growth that are additional to or expand upon those 
     previously available for such purposes:

     Provided further, That any limitation of subsection (e) of 
     section 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
     Assistance Act of 1954 shall not apply to funds appropriated 
     under this heading: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     made available under this heading in this or any other 
     appropriations Act shall be made available for Sudan or Burma 
     unless the Secretary of the Treasury determines and notifies 
     the Committees on Appropriations that a democratically 
     elected government has taken office.

                     TITLE III--MILITARY ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

             International Military Education and Training

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $88,000,000, of which up to $3,000,000 may remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That the civilian personnel for 
     whom military education and training may be provided under 
     this heading may include civilians who are not members of a 
     government whose participation would contribute to improved 
     civil-military relations, civilian control of the military, 
     or respect for human rights.

                   Foreign Military Financing Program


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For expenses necessary for grants to enable the President 
     to carry out the provisions of section 23 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act, $4,454,900,000: Provided, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not less than $2,340,000,000 
     shall be available for grants only for Israel, and not less 
     than $1,300,000,000 shall be made available for grants only 
     for Egypt: Provided further, That the funds appropriated by 
     this paragraph for Israel shall be disbursed within 30 days 
     of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That to the 
     extent that the Government of Israel requests that funds be 
     used for such purposes, grants made available for Israel by 
     this paragraph shall, as agreed by Israel and the United 
     States, be available for advanced weapons systems, of which 
     not less than $610,000,000 shall be available for the 
     procurement in Israel of defense articles and defense 
     services, including research and development: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated by this paragraph, 
     $216,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for 
     Jordan: Provided further, That funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this paragraph shall be 
     nonrepayable notwithstanding any requirement in section 23 of 
     the Arms Export Control Act: Provided further, That funds 
     made available under this paragraph shall be obligated upon 
     apportionment in accordance with paragraph (5)(C) of title 
     31, United States Code, section 1501(a).
       None of the funds made available under this heading shall 
     be available to finance the procurement of defense articles, 
     defense services, or design and construction services that 
     are not sold by the United States Government under the Arms 
     Export Control Act unless the foreign country proposing to 
     make such procurements has first signed an agreement with the 
     United States Government specifying the conditions under 
     which such procurements may be financed with such funds: 
     Provided, That all country and funding level increases in 
     allocations shall be submitted through the regular 
     notification procedures of section 515 of this Act: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading shall be available for assistance for Sudan and 
     Guatemala: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading may be made available for 
     assistance for Haiti except pursuant to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That funds made available under this 
     heading may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, for demining, the clearance of unexploded ordnance, and 
     related activities, and may include activities implemented 
     through nongovernmental and international organizations: 
     Provided further, That only those countries for which 
     assistance was justified for the ``Foreign Military Sales 
     Financing Program'' in the fiscal year 1989 congressional 
     presentation for security assistance programs may utilize 
     funds made available under this heading for procurement of 
     defense articles, defense services or design and construction 
     services that are not sold by the United States Government 
     under the Arms Export Control Act: Provided further, That 
     funds appropriated under this heading shall be expended at 
     the minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for defense 
     articles and services: Provided further, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, $90,000,000 shall be 
     available for Colombia and that within these funds, the 
     Department of Defense should ensure sufficient resources are 
     provided for the acquisition of additional aircraft for the 
     Colombian Navy's maritime surveillance mission: Provided 
     further, That

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     not more than $42,500,000 of the funds appropriated under 
     this heading may be obligated for necessary expenses, 
     including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
     replacement only for use outside of the United States, for 
     the general costs of administering military assistance and 
     sales: Provided further, That not more than $359,000,000 of 
     funds realized pursuant to section 21(e)(1)(A) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act may be obligated for expenses incurred by 
     the Department of Defense during fiscal year 2007 pursuant to 
     section 43(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, except that 
     this limitation may be exceeded only through the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That foreign military financing program 
     funds estimated to be outlayed for Egypt during fiscal year 
     2007 shall be transferred to an interest bearing account for 
     Egypt in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York within 30 days 
     of enactment of this Act.

                        Peacekeeping Operations

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 551 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $170,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading shall be obligated or expended except as 
     provided through the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.

               TITLE IV--MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

                  International Financial Institutions

                      Global Environment Facility

       For the United States contribution for the Global 
     Environment Facility, $56,250,000 to the International Bank 
     for Reconstruction and Development as trustee for the Global 
     Environment Facility (GEF), by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
     to remain available until expended.

       Contribution to the International Development Association

       For payment to the International Development Association by 
     the Secretary of the Treasury, $950,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

Contribution to the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment 
                                  Fund

       For payment to the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral 
     Investment Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the 
     United States contribution to the fund, $23,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

               Contribution to the Asian Development Fund

       For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury to the increase in resources of the Asian 
     Development Fund, as authorized by the Asian Development Bank 
     Act, as amended, $115,250,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

              Contribution to the African Development Bank

       For payment to the African Development Bank by the 
     Secretary of the Treasury, $5,018,000, for the United States 
     paid-in share of the increase in capital stock, to remain 
     available until expended.

              Limitation on Callable Capital Subscriptions

       The United States Governor of the African Development Bank 
     may subscribe without fiscal year limitation for the callable 
     capital portion of the United States share of such capital 
     stock in an amount not to exceed $78,622,000.

              Contribution to the African Development Fund

       For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury to the increase in resources of the African 
     Development Fund, $135,700,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

  Contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development

       For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury to increase the resources of the International Fund 
     for Agricultural Development, $18,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                International Organizations and Programs

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and of 
     section 2 of the United Nations Environment Program 
     Participation Act of 1973, $327,570,000: Provided, That none 
     of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made 
     available to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): 
     Provided further, That section 307(a) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act shall not apply to contributions to the United 
     Nations Democracy Fund.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS


  compensation for united states executive directors to international 
                         financial institutions

       Sec. 501. (a) No funds appropriated by this Act may be made 
     as payment to any international financial institution while 
     the United States Executive Director to such institution is 
     compensated by the institution at a rate which, together with 
     whatever compensation such Director receives from the United 
     States, is in excess of the rate provided for an individual 
     occupying a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule 
     under section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, or while 
     any alternate United States Director to such institution is 
     compensated by the institution at a rate in excess of the 
     rate provided for an individual occupying a position at level 
     V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, 
     United States Code.
       (b) For purposes of this section ``international financial 
     institutions'' are: the International Bank for Reconstruction 
     and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the 
     Asian Development Bank, the Asian Development Fund, the 
     African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the 
     International Monetary Fund, the North American Development 
     Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development.


   restrictions on voluntary contributions to united nations agencies

       Sec. 502. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     made available to pay any voluntary contribution of the 
     United States to the United Nations (including the United 
     Nations Development Program) if the United Nations implements 
     or imposes any taxation on any United States persons.


                    limitation on residence expenses

       Sec. 503. Of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $100,500 shall be for 
     official residence expenses of the United States Agency for 
     International Development during the current fiscal year: 
     Provided, That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure 
     that, to the maximum extent possible, United States-owned 
     foreign currencies are utilized in lieu of dollars.


                      unobligated balances report

       Sec. 504. Any Department or Agency to which funds are 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act shall 
     provide to the Committees on Appropriations a quarterly 
     accounting by program, project, and activity of the funds 
     received by such Department or Agency in this fiscal year or 
     any previous fiscal year that remain unobligated and 
     unexpended.


               limitation on representational allowances

       Sec. 505. Of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $250,000 shall be 
     available for representation and entertainment allowances, of 
     which not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for 
     entertainment allowances, for the United States Agency for 
     International Development during the current fiscal year: 
     Provided, That no such entertainment funds may be used for 
     the purposes listed in section 548 of this Act: Provided 
     further, That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure 
     that, to the maximum extent possible, United States-owned 
     foreign currencies are utilized in lieu of dollars: Provided 
     further, That of the funds made available by this Act for 
     general costs of administering military assistance and sales 
     under the heading ``Foreign Military Financing Program'', not 
     to exceed $4,000 shall be available for entertainment 
     expenses and not to exceed $130,000 shall be available for 
     representation allowances: Provided further, That of the 
     funds made available by this Act under the heading 
     ``International Military Education and Training'', not to 
     exceed $55,000 shall be available for entertainment 
     allowances: Provided further, That of the funds made 
     available by this Act for the Inter-American Foundation, not 
     to exceed $2,000 shall be available for entertainment and 
     representation allowances: Provided further, That of the 
     funds made available by this Act for the Peace Corps, not to 
     exceed a total of $4,000 shall be available for entertainment 
     expenses: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
     by this Act under the heading ``Trade and Development 
     Agency'', not to exceed $4,000 shall be available for 
     representation and entertainment allowances: Provided 
     further, That of the funds made available by this Act under 
     the heading ``Millennium Challenge Corporation'', not to 
     exceed $115,000 shall be available for representation and 
     entertainment allowances.


          prohibition on taxation of united states assistance

       Sec. 506. (a) Prohibition on Taxation.--None of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act may be made available to provide 
     assistance for a foreign country under a new bilateral 
     agreement governing the terms and conditions under which such 
     assistance is to be provided unless such agreement includes a 
     provision stating that assistance provided by the United 
     States shall be exempt from taxation, or reimbursed, by the 
     foreign government, and the Secretary of State shall 
     expeditiously seek to negotiate amendments to existing 
     bilateral agreements, as necessary, to conform with this 
     requirement.
       (b) Reimbursement of Foreign Taxes.--An amount equivalent 
     to 200 percent of the total taxes assessed during fiscal year 
     2007 on funds appropriated by this Act by a foreign 
     government or entity against commodities financed under 
     United States assistance programs for which funds are 
     appropriated by this Act, either directly or through 
     grantees, contractors and subcontractors shall be withheld 
     from obligation from funds appropriated for assistance for 
     fiscal year 2008 and allocated for the central government of 
     such country and for the West Bank and Gaza Program to the 
     extent that the Secretary of State certifies and reports in 
     writing to the Committees on Appropriations that such taxes 
     have not been reimbursed to the Government of the United 
     States.
       (c) De Minimis Exception.--Foreign taxes of a de minimis 
     nature shall not be subject to the provisions of subsection 
     (b).

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       (d) Reprogramming of Funds.--Funds withheld from obligation 
     for each country or entity pursuant to subsection (b) shall 
     be reprogrammed for assistance to countries which do not 
     assess taxes on United States assistance or which have an 
     effective arrangement that is providing substantial 
     reimbursement of such taxes.
       (e) Determinations.--
       (1) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any 
     country or entity the Secretary of State determines--
       (A) does not assess taxes on United States assistance or 
     which has an effective arrangement that is providing 
     substantial reimbursement of such taxes; or
       (B) the foreign policy interests of the United States 
     outweigh the policy of this section to ensure that United 
     States assistance is not subject to taxation.
       (2) The Secretary of State shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days prior to 
     exercising the authority of this subsection with regard to 
     any country or entity.
       (f) Implementation.--The Secretary of State shall issue 
     rules, regulations, or policy guidance, as appropriate, to 
     implement the prohibition against the taxation of assistance 
     contained in this section.
       (g) Definitions.--As used in this section--
       (1) the terms ``taxes'' and ``taxation'' refer to value 
     added taxes and customs duties imposed on commodities 
     financed with United States assistance for programs for which 
     funds are appropriated by this Act; and
       (2) the term ``bilateral agreement'' refers to a framework 
     bilateral agreement between the Government of the United 
     States and the government of the country receiving assistance 
     that describes the privileges and immunities applicable to 
     United States foreign assistance for such country generally, 
     or an individual agreement between the Government of the 
     United States and such government that describes, among other 
     things, the treatment for tax purposes that will be accorded 
     the United States assistance provided under that agreement.


        prohibition against direct funding for certain countries

       Sec. 507. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended 
     to finance directly any assistance or reparations to Cuba, 
     Libya, North Korea, Iran, or Syria: Provided, That for 
     purposes of this section, the prohibition on obligations or 
     expenditures shall include direct loans, credits, insurance 
     and guarantees of the Export-Import Bank or its agents: 
     Provided further, That for purposes of this section, the 
     prohibition shall not include activities of the Overseas 
     Private Investment Corporation in Libya: Provided further, 
     That the prohibition shall not include direct loans, credits, 
     insurance and guarantees made available by the Export-Import 
     Bank or its agents for or in Libya.


                             military coups

       Sec. 508. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended 
     to finance directly any assistance to the government of any 
     country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by 
     military coup or decree: Provided, That assistance may be 
     resumed to such government if the President determines and 
     certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that subsequent 
     to the termination of assistance a democratically elected 
     government has taken office: Provided further, That the 
     provisions of this section shall not apply to assistance to 
     promote democratic elections or public participation in 
     democratic processes: Provided further, That funds made 
     available pursuant to the previous provisos shall be subject 
     to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                               transfers

       Sec. 509. (a)(1) Limitation on Transfers Between 
     Agencies.--None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality 
     of the United States Government, except pursuant to a 
     transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act 
     or any other appropriation Act.
       (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in addition to transfers 
     made by, or authorized elsewhere in, this Act, funds 
     appropriated by this Act to carry out the purposes of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be allocated or 
     transferred to agencies of the United States Government 
     pursuant to the provisions of sections 109, 610, and 632 of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
       (b) Transfers Between Accounts.--None of the funds made 
     available by this Act may be obligated under an appropriation 
     account to which they were not appropriated, except for 
     transfers specifically provided for in this Act, unless the 
     President, not less than 5 days prior to the exercise of any 
     authority contained in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to 
     transfer funds, consults with and provides a written policy 
     justification to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate.
       (c) Audit of Inter-Agency Transfers.--Any agreement for the 
     transfer or allocation of funds appropriated by this Act, or 
     prior Acts, entered into between the United States Agency for 
     International Development and another agency of the United 
     States Government under the authority of section 632(a) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or any comparable 
     provision of law, shall expressly provide that the Office of 
     the Inspector General for the agency receiving the transfer 
     or allocation of such funds shall perform periodic program 
     and financial audits of the use of such funds: Provided, That 
     funds transferred under such authority may be made available 
     for the cost of such audits.


                 commercial leasing of defense articles

       Sec. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
     subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations, the authority of section 23(a) 
     of the Arms Export Control Act may be used to provide 
     financing to Israel, Egypt and NATO and major non-NATO allies 
     for the procurement by leasing (including leasing with an 
     option to purchase) of defense articles from United States 
     commercial suppliers, not including Major Defense Equipment 
     (other than helicopters and other types of aircraft having 
     possible civilian application), if the President determines 
     that there are compelling foreign policy or national security 
     reasons for those defense articles being provided by 
     commercial lease rather than by government-to-government sale 
     under such Act.


                         availability of funds

       Sec. 511. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation after the 
     expiration of the current fiscal year unless expressly so 
     provided in this Act: Provided, That funds appropriated for 
     the purposes of chapters 1, 8, 11, and 12 of part I, section 
     667, chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 of part II of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, section 23 of the Arms Export Control 
     Act, and funds provided under the heading ``Assistance for 
     Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'', shall remain 
     available for an additional 4 years from the date on which 
     the availability of such funds would otherwise have expired, 
     if such funds are initially obligated before the expiration 
     of their respective periods of availability contained in this 
     Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of this Act, any funds made available for the 
     purposes of chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which are allocated or 
     obligated for cash disbursements in order to address balance 
     of payments or economic policy reform objectives, shall 
     remain available until expended.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order that the number 
``5'' on page 60, line 4 is not in order because it violates clause 2 
of rule XXI which prohibits legislation in an appropriations bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does any Member wish to be heard on the point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, regrettably, I would concede the point of 
order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman concedes the point of order, the point of 
order is sustained, and that provision of the bill is stricken.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 74, line 11 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 74, line 11 is as 
follows:


            limitation on assistance to countries in default

       Sec. 512. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be used to furnish assistance to the government of 
     any country which is in default during a period in excess of 
     1 calendar year in payment to the United States of principal 
     or interest on any loan made to the government of such 
     country by the United States pursuant to a program for which 
     funds are appropriated under this Act unless the President 
     determines, following consultations with the Committees on 
     Appropriations, that assistance to such country is in the 
     national interest of the United States.


                           commerce and trade

       Sec. 513. (a) None of the funds appropriated or made 
     available pursuant to this Act for direct assistance and none 
     of the funds otherwise made available pursuant to this Act to 
     the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation shall be obligated or expended to finance any 
     loan, any assistance or any other financial commitments for 
     establishing or expanding production of any commodity for 
     export by any country other than the United States, if the 
     commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets at the 
     time the resulting productive capacity is expected to become 
     operative and if the assistance will cause substantial injury 
     to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing 
     commodity: Provided, That such prohibition shall not apply to 
     the Export-Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board of 
     Directors the benefits to industry and employment in the 
     United States are likely to outweigh the injury to United 
     States producers of the same, similar, or competing 
     commodity, and the Chairman of the Board so notifies the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       (b) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act 
     to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961

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     shall be available for any testing or breeding feasibility 
     study, variety improvement or introduction, consultancy, 
     publication, conference, or training in connection with the 
     growth or production in a foreign country of an agricultural 
     commodity for export which would compete with a similar 
     commodity grown or produced in the United States: Provided, 
     That this subsection shall not prohibit--
       (1) activities designed to increase food security in 
     developing countries where such activities will not have a 
     significant impact on the export of agricultural commodities 
     of the United States; or
       (2) research activities intended primarily to benefit 
     American producers.


                          surplus commodities

       Sec. 514. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
     United States Executive Directors of the International Bank 
     for Reconstruction and Development, the International 
     Development Association, the International Finance 
     Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the 
     International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the 
     Inter-American Investment Corporation, the North American 
     Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development, the African Development Bank, and the African 
     Development Fund to use the voice and vote of the United 
     States to oppose any assistance by these institutions, using 
     funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, 
     for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral 
     for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and if the 
     assistance will cause substantial injury to United States 
     producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity.

          Reprogramming Notifications and Transfer Guidelines

       Sec. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
     or in prior Acts making appropriations for foreign 
     operations, export financing, and related programs, from any 
     accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the 
     collection of currency reflows or other offsetting 
     collections, or made available by transfer, may be used to 
     finance an activity, program, or project specifically denied 
     funding by Congress in this Act.
       (b) None of the funds made available in this Act or in 
     prior Acts making appropriations for foreign operations, 
     export financing, and related programs, from any accounts in 
     the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection 
     of currency reflows or other offsetting collections, or made 
     available by transfer, may be used to initiate a new or 
     terminate an existing activity, program, or project not 
     previously justified without prior notification of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       (c) For the purposes of providing the executive branch with 
     the necessary administrative flexibility, none of the funds 
     made available under this Act for ``Child Survival and Health 
     Programs Fund'', ``Development Assistance'', ``International 
     Organizations and Programs'', ``Trade and Development 
     Agency'', ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement'', ``Andean Counterdrug Initiative'', 
     ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'', 
     ``Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
     Union'', ``Economic Support Fund'', ``Global HIV/AIDS 
     Initiative'', ``Peacekeeping Operations'', ``Capital 
     Investment Fund'', ``Operating Expenses of the United States 
     Agency for International Development'', ``Operating Expenses 
     of the United States Agency for International Development 
     Office of Inspector General'', ``Nonproliferation, Anti-
     terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'', ``Millennium 
     Challenge Corporation'' (by country only), ``Foreign Military 
     Financing Program'', ``International Military Education and 
     Training'', ``Peace Corps'', and ``Migration and Refugee 
     Assistance'', shall be available for obligation for 
     activities, programs, projects, type of materiel assistance, 
     countries, or other operations not justified or in excess of 
     the amount justified to the Committees on Appropriations for 
     obligation under any of these specific headings unless the 
     Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are 
     notified 15 days in advance: Provided, That the President 
     shall not enter into any commitment of funds appropriated for 
     the purposes of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act for 
     the provision of major defense equipment, other than 
     conventional ammunition, or other major defense items defined 
     to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat vehicles, not 
     previously justified to Congress or 20 percent in excess of 
     the quantities justified to Congress unless the Committees on 
     Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of such 
     commitment: Provided further, That this paragraph shall not 
     apply to any reprogramming for an activity, program, or 
     project for which funds are appropriated under title II or 
     title III of this Act of less than 10 percent of the amount 
     previously justified to the Congress for obligation for such 
     activity, program, or project for the current fiscal year.
       (d) The requirements of this section or any similar 
     provision of this Act or any other Act, including any prior 
     Act requiring notification in accordance with the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, 
     may be waived if failure to do so would pose a substantial 
     risk to human health or welfare: Provided, That in case of 
     any such waiver, notification to the Congress, or the 
     appropriate congressional committees, shall be provided as 
     early as practicable, but in no event later than 3 days after 
     taking the action to which such notification requirement was 
     applicable, in the context of the circumstances necessitating 
     such waiver: Provided further, That any notification provided 
     pursuant to such a waiver shall contain an explanation of the 
     emergency circumstances.


limitation on availability of funds for international organizations and 
                                programs

       Sec. 516. Subject to the regular notification procedures of 
     the Committees on Appropriations, funds appropriated under 
     this Act or any previously enacted Act making appropriations 
     for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
     programs, which are returned or not made available for 
     organizations and programs because of the implementation of 
     section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2008.


             independent states of the former soviet union

       Sec. 517. (a) None of the funds appropriated under the 
     heading ``Assistance for the Independent States of the Former 
     Soviet Union'' shall be made available for assistance for a 
     government of an Independent State of the former Soviet Union 
     if that government directs any action in violation of the 
     territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other 
     Independent State of the former Soviet Union, such as those 
     violations included in the Helsinki Final Act: Provided, That 
     such funds may be made available without regard to the 
     restriction in this subsection if the President determines 
     that to do so is in the national security interest of the 
     United States.
       (b) None of the funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
     Union'' shall be made available for any state to enhance its 
     military capability: Provided, That this restriction does not 
     apply to demilitarization, demining or nonproliferation 
     programs.
       (c) Funds appropriated under the heading ``Assistance for 
     the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union'' for the 
     Russian Federation, Armenia, and Uzbekistan shall be subject 
     to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       (d) Funds made available in this Act for assistance for the 
     Independent States of the former Soviet Union shall be 
     subject to the provisions of section 117 (relating to 
     environment and natural resources) of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961.
       (e) In issuing new task orders, entering into contracts, or 
     making grants, with funds appropriated in this Act or prior 
     appropriations Acts under the heading ``Assistance for the 
     Independent States of the Former Soviet Union'' and under 
     comparable headings in prior appropriations Acts, for 
     projects or activities that have as one of their primary 
     purposes the fostering of private sector development, the 
     Coordinator for United States Assistance to Europe and 
     Eurasia and the implementing agency shall encourage the 
     participation of and give significant weight to contractors 
     and grantees who propose investing a significant amount of 
     their own resources (including volunteer services and in-kind 
     contributions) in such projects and activities.


   prohibition on funding for abortions and involuntary sterilization

       Sec. 518. None of the funds made available to carry out 
     part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may 
     be used to pay for the performance of abortions as a method 
     of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to 
     practice abortions. None of the funds made available to carry 
     out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 
     may be used to pay for the performance of involuntary 
     sterilization as a method of family planning or to coerce or 
     provide any financial incentive to any person to undergo 
     sterilizations. None of the funds made available to carry out 
     part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may 
     be used to pay for any biomedical research which relates in 
     whole or in part, to methods of, or the performance of, 
     abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family 
     planning. None of the funds made available to carry out part 
     I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be 
     obligated or expended for any country or organization if the 
     President certifies that the use of these funds by any such 
     country or organization would violate any of the above 
     provisions related to abortions and involuntary 
     sterilizations.


                 export financing transfer authorities

       Sec. 519. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
     other than for administrative expenses made available for 
     fiscal year 2007, for programs under title I of this Act may 
     be transferred between such appropriations for use for any of 
     the purposes, programs, and activities for which the funds in 
     such receiving account may be used, but no such 
     appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 
     shall be increased by more than 25 percent by any such 
     transfer: Provided, That the exercise of such authority shall 
     be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.


                   special notification requirements

       Sec. 520. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
     be obligated or expended for assistance for Liberia, Serbia, 
     Sudan, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, or Cambodia except as provided 
     through the regular notification procedures of the Committees 
     on Appropriations.

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              definition of program, project, and activity

       Sec. 521. For the purpose of this Act ``program, project, 
     and activity'' shall be defined at the appropriations Act 
     account level and shall include all appropriations and 
     authorizations Acts earmarks, ceilings, and limitations with 
     the exception that for the following accounts: Economic 
     Support Fund and Foreign Military Financing Program, 
     ``program, project, and activity'' shall also be considered 
     to include country, regional, and central program level 
     funding within each such account; for the development 
     assistance accounts of the United States Agency for 
     International Development ``program, project, and activity'' 
     shall also be considered to include central, country, 
     regional, and program level funding, either as: (1) justified 
     to the Congress; or (2) allocated by the executive branch in 
     accordance with a report, to be provided to the Committees on 
     Appropriations within 30 days of the enactment of this Act, 
     as required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961.


                  child survival and health activities

       Sec. 522. Up to $13,500,000 of the funds made available by 
     this Act for assistance under the heading ``Child Survival 
     and Health Programs Fund'', may be used to reimburse United 
     States Government agencies, agencies of State governments, 
     institutions of higher learning, and private and voluntary 
     organizations for the full cost of individuals (including for 
     the personal services of such individuals) detailed or 
     assigned to, or contracted by, as the case may be, the United 
     States Agency for International Development for the purpose 
     of carrying out activities under that heading: Provided, That 
     up to $3,500,000 of the funds made available by this Act for 
     assistance under the heading ``Development Assistance'' may 
     be used to reimburse such agencies, institutions, and 
     organizations for such costs of such individuals carrying out 
     other development assistance activities: Provided further, 
     That funds appropriated by titles II and III of this Act that 
     are made available for assistance for child survival 
     activities or disease programs including activities relating 
     to research on, and the prevention, treatment and control of, 
     HIV/AIDS may be made available notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law except for the provisions under the heading 
     ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' and the United 
     States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 
     Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 711; 22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), as 
     amended.


                              afghanistan

       Sec. 523. Of the funds appropriated by titles II and III of 
     this Act, not less than $931,400,000 should be made available 
     for humanitarian, reconstruction, and related assistance for 
     Afghanistan: Provided, That of the funds made available 
     pursuant to this section, $3,000,000 should be made available 
     for reforestation activities: Provided further, That funds 
     made available pursuant to the previous proviso should be 
     matched, to the maximum extent possible, with contributions 
     from American and Afghan businesses: Provided further, That 
     of the funds allocated for assistance for Afghanistan from 
     this Act and other Acts making appropriations for foreign 
     operations, export financing, and related programs for fiscal 
     year 2007, not less than $50,000,000 should be made available 
     to support programs that directly address the needs of Afghan 
     women and girls.


                notification on excess defense equipment

       Sec. 524. Prior to providing excess Department of Defense 
     articles in accordance with section 516(a) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, the Department of Defense shall 
     notify the Committees on Appropriations to the same extent 
     and under the same conditions as are other committees 
     pursuant to subsection (f) of that section: Provided, That 
     before issuing a letter of offer to sell excess defense 
     articles under the Arms Export Control Act, the Department of 
     Defense shall notify the Committees on Appropriations in 
     accordance with the regular notification procedures of such 
     Committees if such defense articles are significant military 
     equipment (as defined in section 47(9) of the Arms Export 
     Control Act) or are valued (in terms of original acquisition 
     cost) at $7,000,000 or more, or if notification is required 
     elsewhere in this Act for the use of appropriated funds for 
     specific countries that would receive such excess defense 
     articles: Provided further, That such Committees shall also 
     be informed of the original acquisition cost of such defense 
     articles.

          Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

       Sec. 525. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     Act, 25 percent of the funds that are appropriated by this 
     Act for a contribution to support the Global Fund to Fight 
     AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ``Global Fund'') shall be 
     withheld from obligation to the Global Fund until the 
     Secretary of State certifies to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that the Global Fund--
       (1) has clear progress indicators upon which to determine 
     the release of incremental disbursements;
       (2) is releasing such incremental disbursements only if 
     progress is being made based on those indicators; and
       (3) is providing support and oversight to country-level 
     entities, such as country coordinating mechanisms, principal 
     recipients, and local Fund agents, to enable them to fulfill 
     their mandates.
       (b) The Secretary of State may waive subsection (a) if the 
     Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that such waiver is important to the national 
     interest of the United States.


                       Human Rights and Democracy

       Sec. 526. (a) Not less than $27,000,000 of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act under the heading ``Economic Support 
     Fund'' should be allocated for the Human Rights and Democracy 
     Fund: Provided, That up to $1,200,000 of such funds may be 
     used for the Reagan/Fascell Democracy Fellows program.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the language 
on page 74, line 6 through 11 is not in order because it violates 
clause 2 of rule XXI which prohibits legislation in an appropriations 
bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does any Member wish to be heard on the point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I regret to say that I would concede the 
point of order and that these funds for the Reagan/Fascell Democracy 
fellows program would be stricken.
  The CHAIRMAN. The point of order is conceded and is sustained and 
section 526 of the bill is stricken.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 87, line 13 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 87, line 13 is as 
follows:


       Prohibition on bilateral assistance to terrorist countries

       Sec. 527. (a) Funds appropriated for bilateral assistance 
     under any heading of this Act and funds appropriated under 
     any such heading in a provision of law enacted prior to the 
     enactment of this Act, shall not be made available to any 
     country which the President determines--
       (1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or 
     group which has committed an act of international terrorism; 
     or
       (2) otherwise supports international terrorism.
       (b) The President may waive the application of subsection 
     (a) to a country if the President determines that national 
     security or humanitarian reasons justify such waiver. The 
     President shall publish each waiver in the Federal Register 
     and, at least 15 days before the waiver takes effect, shall 
     notify the Committees on Appropriations of the waiver 
     (including the justification for the waiver) in accordance 
     with the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                          debt-for-development

       Sec. 528. In order to enhance the continued participation 
     of nongovernmental organizations in debt-for-development and 
     debt-for-nature exchanges, a nongovernmental organization 
     which is a grantee or contractor of the United States Agency 
     for International Development may place in interest bearing 
     accounts local currencies which accrue to that organization 
     as a result of economic assistance provided under title II of 
     this Act and, subject to the regular notification procedures 
     of the Committees on Appropriations, any interest earned on 
     such investment shall be used for the purpose for which the 
     assistance was provided to that organization.


                           separate accounts

       Sec. 529. (a) Separate Accounts for Local Currencies.--
       (1) If assistance is furnished to the government of a 
     foreign country under chapters 1 and 10 of part I or chapter 
     4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 under 
     agreements which result in the generation of local currencies 
     of that country, the Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development shall--
       (A) require that local currencies be deposited in a 
     separate account established by that government;
       (B) enter into an agreement with that government which sets 
     forth--
       (i) the amount of the local currencies to be generated; and
       (ii) the terms and conditions under which the currencies so 
     deposited may be utilized, consistent with this section; and
       (C) establish by agreement with that government the 
     responsibilities of the United States Agency for 
     International Development and that government to monitor and 
     account for deposits into and disbursements from the separate 
     account.
       (2) Uses of local currencies.--As may be agreed upon with 
     the foreign government, local currencies deposited in a 
     separate account pursuant to subsection (a), or an equivalent 
     amount of local currencies, shall be used only--
       (A) to carry out chapter 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of 
     part II (as the case may be), for such purposes as--
       (i) project and sector assistance activities; or
       (ii) debt and deficit financing; or
       (B) for the administrative requirements of the United 
     States Government.

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       (3) Programming accountability.--The United States Agency 
     for International Development shall take all necessary steps 
     to ensure that the equivalent of the local currencies 
     disbursed pursuant to subsection (a)(2)(A) from the separate 
     account established pursuant to subsection (a)(1) are used 
     for the purposes agreed upon pursuant to subsection (a)(2).
       (4) Termination of assistance programs.--Upon termination 
     of assistance to a country under chapter 1 or 10 of part I or 
     chapter 4 of part II (as the case may be), any unencumbered 
     balances of funds which remain in a separate account 
     established pursuant to subsection (a) shall be disposed of 
     for such purposes as may be agreed to by the government of 
     that country and the United States Government.
       (5) Reporting requirement.--The Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development shall report on 
     an annual basis as part of the justification documents 
     submitted to the Committees on Appropriations on the use of 
     local currencies for the administrative requirements of the 
     United States Government as authorized in subsection 
     (a)(2)(B), and such report shall include the amount of local 
     currency (and United States dollar equivalent) used and/or to 
     be used for such purpose in each applicable country.
       (b) Separate Accounts for Cash Transfers.--
       (1) If assistance is made available to the government of a 
     foreign country, under chapter 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 
     of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as cash 
     transfer assistance or as nonproject sector assistance, that 
     country shall be required to maintain such funds in a 
     separate account and not commingle them with any other funds.
       (2) Applicability of other provisions of law.--Such funds 
     may be obligated and expended notwithstanding provisions of 
     law which are inconsistent with the nature of this assistance 
     including provisions which are referenced in the Joint 
     Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference 
     accompanying House Joint Resolution 648 (House Report No. 98-
     1159).
       (3) Notification.--At least 15 days prior to obligating any 
     such cash transfer or nonproject sector assistance, the 
     President shall submit a notification through the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, 
     which shall include a detailed description of how the funds 
     proposed to be made available will be used, with a discussion 
     of the United States interests that will be served by the 
     assistance (including, as appropriate, a description of the 
     economic policy reforms that will be promoted by such 
     assistance).
       (4) Exemption.--Nonproject sector assistance funds may be 
     exempt from the requirements of subsection (b)(1) only 
     through the notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                      enterprise fund restrictions

       Sec. 530. (a) Prior to the distribution of any assets 
     resulting from any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of 
     an Enterprise Fund, in whole or in part, the President shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations, in accordance 
     with the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations, a plan for the distribution of the assets of 
     the Enterprise Fund.
       (b) Funds made available by this Act for Enterprise Funds 
     shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make 
     timely payment for projects and activities.

          financial market assistance in transition countries

       Sec. 531. Of the funds appropriated in Title II of this 
     Act, not less than $40,000,000 should be made available for 
     building capital markets and financial systems in countries 
     in transistion, of which not less than $20,000,000 should be 
     designated for not-for-profit organizations that mobilize 
     volunteers with experience in the financial sector.


authorities for the peace corps, inter-american foundation and african 
                         development foundation

       Sec. 532. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, 
     provisions of this or any other Act, including provisions 
     contained in prior Acts authorizing or making appropriations 
     for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
     programs, shall not be construed to prohibit activities 
     authorized by or conducted under the Peace Corps Act, the 
     Inter-American Foundation Act or the African Development 
     Foundation Act. The agency shall promptly report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations whenever it is conducting 
     activities or is proposing to conduct activities in a country 
     for which assistance is prohibited.


                  impact on jobs in the united states

       Sec. 533. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated or expended to provide--
       (1) any financial incentive to a business enterprise 
     currently located in the United States for the purpose of 
     inducing such an enterprise to relocate outside the United 
     States if such incentive or inducement is likely to reduce 
     the number of employees of such business enterprise in the 
     United States because United States production is being 
     replaced by such enterprise outside the United States; or
       (2) assistance for any program, project, or activity that 
     contributes to the violation of internationally recognized 
     workers rights, as defined in section 507(4) of the Trade Act 
     of 1974, of workers in the recipient country, including any 
     designated zone or area in that country: Provided, That the 
     application of section 507(4)(D) and (E) of such Act should 
     be commensurate with the level of development of the 
     recipient country and sector, and shall not preclude 
     assistance for the informal sector in such country, micro and 
     small-scale enterprise, and smallholder agriculture.


                          special authorities

       Sec. 534. (a) Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, 
     Montenegro, Victims of War, Displaced Children, and Displaced 
     Burmese.--Funds appropriated by this Act that are made 
     available for assistance for Afghanistan may be made 
     available notwithstanding section 512 of this Act or any 
     similar provision of law and section 660 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, and funds appropriated in titles I 
     and II of this Act that are made available for Iraq, Lebanon, 
     Montenegro, Pakistan, and for victims of war, displaced 
     children, and displaced Burmese, and to assist victims of 
     trafficking in persons and, subject to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, 
     to combat such trafficking, may be made available 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law.
       (b) Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity Conservation 
     Activities.--Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the 
     provisions of sections 103 through 106, and chapter 4 of part 
     II, of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be used, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose 
     of supporting tropical forestry and biodiversity conservation 
     activities and energy programs aimed at reducing greenhouse 
     gas emissions: Provided, That such assistance shall be 
     subject to sections 116, 502B, and 620A of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961.
       (c) Personal Services Contractors.--Funds appropriated by 
     this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I, chapter 4 of part 
     II, and section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     and title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
     Assistance Act of 1954, may be used by the United States 
     Agency for International Development to employ up to 25 
     personal services contractors in the United States, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose 
     of providing direct, interim support for new or expanded 
     overseas programs and activities managed by the agency until 
     permanent direct hire personnel are hired and trained: 
     Provided, That not more than 10 of such contractors shall be 
     assigned to any bureau or office: Provided further, That such 
     funds appropriated to carry out title II of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, may be made 
     available only for personal services contractors assigned to 
     the Office of Food for Peace.
       (d)(1) Waiver.--The President may waive the provisions of 
     section 1003 of Public Law 100-204 if the President 
     determines and certifies in writing to the Speaker of the 
     House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the 
     Senate that it is important to the national security 
     interests of the United States.
       (2) Period of Application of Waiver.--Any waiver pursuant 
     to paragraph (1) shall be effective for no more than a period 
     of 6 months at a time and shall not apply beyond 12 months 
     after the enactment of this Act.
       (e) Small Business.--In entering into multiple award 
     indefinite-quantity contracts with funds appropriated by this 
     Act, the United States Agency for International Development 
     may provide an exception to the fair opportunity process for 
     placing task orders under such contracts when the order is 
     placed with any category of small or small disadvantaged 
     business.
       (f) Reconstituting Civilian Police Authority.--In providing 
     assistance with funds appropriated by this Act under section 
     660(b)(6) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, support for 
     a nation emerging from instability may be deemed to mean 
     support for regional, district, municipal, or other sub-
     national entity emerging from instability, as well as a 
     nation emerging from instability.
       (g) World Food Program.--Of the funds managed by the Bureau 
     for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance of the 
     United States Agency for International Development, from this 
     or any other Act, not less than $10,000,000 shall be made 
     available as a general contribution to the World Food 
     Program, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
       (h) Unified Campaign.--Funds transferred pursuant to the 
     authority contained in the fifth proviso under the heading 
     ``Foreign Military Financing Program'' in division E of 
     Public Law 108-7 may be made available for helicopters, 
     training, and other assistance for the Colombian Armed Forces 
     for such things as pipeline security and interdiction, 
     notwithstanding the limitation to security for the Cano Limon 
     pipeline in such proviso.
       (i) Extension of Authority.--
       (1) With respect to funds appropriated by this Act that are 
     available for assistance for Pakistan, the President may 
     waive the prohibition on assistance contained in section 508 
     of this Act subject to the requirements contained in section 
     1(b) of Public Law 107-57, as amended, for a determination 
     and certification, and consultation, by the President prior 
     to the exercise of such waiver authority.
       (2) Section 512 of this Act and section 620(q) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply with respect 
     to assistance for Pakistan from funds appropriated by this 
     Act.

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       (3) Notwithstanding the date contained in section 6 of 
     Public Law 107-57, as amended, the provisions of sections 2 
     and 4 of that Act shall remain in effect through the current 
     fiscal year.
       (j) Middle East Foundation.--Of the funds appropriated by 
     this Act under the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' that are 
     available for the Middle East Partnership Initiative, up to 
     $35,000,000 may be made available, including as an endowment, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law and following 
     consultations with the Committees on Appropriations, to 
     establish and operate a Middle East Foundation, or any other 
     similar entity, whose purposes include to support democracy, 
     governance, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as 
     private enterprise development in the Middle East region: 
     Provided, That such funds may be made available to the 
     Foundation only to the extent that the Foundation has 
     commitments from sources other than the United States 
     Government to at least match the funds provided under the 
     authority of this subsection: Provided further, That 
     provisions contained in section 201 of the Support for East 
     European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (excluding the 
     authorizations of appropriations provided in subsection (b) 
     of that section) shall be deemed to apply to any such 
     foundation or similar entity referred to under this 
     subsection, and to funds made available to such entity, in 
     order to enable it to provide assistance for purposes of this 
     section: Provided further, That prior to the initial 
     obligation of funds for any such foundation or similar entity 
     pursuant to the authorities of this subsection, other than 
     for administrative support, the Secretary of State shall take 
     steps to ensure, on an ongoing basis, that any such funds 
     made available pursuant to such authorities are not provided 
     to or through any individual or group that the management of 
     the foundation or similar entity knows or has reason to 
     believe, advocates, plans, sponsors, or otherwise engages in 
     terrorist activities: Provided further, That section 530 of 
     this Act shall apply to any such foundation or similar entity 
     established pursuant to this subsection: Provided further, 
     That the authority of the Foundation, or any similar entity, 
     to provide assistance shall cease to be effective on 
     September 30, 2010.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the language 
on page 86, line 10 after ``law,'' through the word ``region'' on line 
11, is not in order because it violates clause 2 of rule XXI which 
prohibits legislation in an appropriations bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to be heard on the 
point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, regrettably, I concede the point of order 
with regard to the private enterprise development fund in the Middle 
East.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman concedes the point of order. The point of 
order is sustained. That portion of the bill is stricken.

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  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 91, line 17 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 91, line 17 is as 
follows:


                     arab league boycott of israel

       Sec. 535. It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) the Arab League boycott of Israel, and the secondary 
     boycott of American firms that have commercial ties with 
     Israel, is an impediment to peace in the region and to United 
     States investment and trade in the Middle East and North 
     Africa;
       (2) the Arab League boycott, which was regrettably 
     reinstated in 1997, should be immediately and publicly 
     terminated, and the Central Office for the Boycott of Israel 
     immediately disbanded;
       (3) all Arab League states should normalize relations with 
     their neighbor Israel;
       (4) the President and the Secretary of State should 
     continue to vigorously oppose the Arab League boycott of 
     Israel and find concrete steps to demonstrate that opposition 
     by, for example, taking into consideration the participation 
     of any recipient country in the boycott when determining to 
     sell weapons to said country; and
       (5) the President should report to Congress annually on 
     specific steps being taken by the United States to encourage 
     Arab League states to normalize their relations with Israel 
     to bring about the termination of the Arab League boycott of 
     Israel, including those to encourage allies and trading 
     partners of the United States to enact laws prohibiting 
     businesses from complying with the boycott and penalizing 
     businesses that do comply.


                       eligibility for assistance

       Sec. 536. (a) Assistance Through Nongovernmental 
     Organizations.--Restrictions contained in this or any other 
     Act with respect to assistance for a country shall not be 
     construed to restrict assistance in support of programs of 
     nongovernmental organizations from funds appropriated by this 
     Act to carry out the provisions of chapters 1, 10, 11, and 12 
     of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, and from funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'': 
     Provided, That before using the authority of this subsection 
     to furnish assistance in support of programs of 
     nongovernmental organizations, the President shall notify the 
     Committees on Appropriations under the regular notification 
     procedures of those committees, including a description of 
     the program to be assisted, the assistance to be provided, 
     and the reasons for furnishing such assistance: Provided 
     further, That nothing in this subsection shall be construed 
     to alter any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion 
     or involuntary sterilizations contained in this or any other 
     Act.
       (b) Public Law 480.--During fiscal year 2007, restrictions 
     contained in this or any other Act with respect to assistance 
     for a country shall not be construed to restrict assistance 
     under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act 
     of 1954: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated to 
     carry out title I of such Act and made available pursuant to 
     this subsection may be obligated or expended except as 
     provided through the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       (c) Exception.--This section shall not apply--
       (1) with respect to section 620A of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 or any comparable provision of law prohibiting 
     assistance to countries that support international terrorism; 
     or
       (2) with respect to section 116 of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 or any comparable provision of law prohibiting 
     assistance to the government of a country that violates 
     internationally recognized human rights.


                         reservations of funds

       Sec. 537. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act which are 
     specifically designated may be reprogrammed for other 
     programs within the same account notwithstanding the 
     designation if compliance with the designation is made 
     impossible by operation of any provision of this or any other 
     Act: Provided, That any such reprogramming shall be subject 
     to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations: Provided further, That assistance that is 
     reprogrammed pursuant to this subsection shall be made 
     available under the same terms and conditions as originally 
     provided.
       (b) In addition to the authority contained in subsection 
     (a), the original period of availability of funds 
     appropriated by this Act and administered by the United 
     States Agency for International Development that are 
     specifically designated for particular programs or activities 
     by this or any other Act shall be extended for an additional 
     fiscal year if the Administrator of such agency determines 
     and reports promptly to the Committees on Appropriations that 
     the termination of assistance to a country or a significant 
     change in circumstances makes it unlikely that such 
     designated funds can be obligated during the original period 
     of availability: Provided, That such designated funds that 
     are continued available for an additional fiscal year shall 
     be obligated only for the purpose of such designation.


                 Ceilings and Designated Funding Levels

       Sec. 538. Ceilings and specifically designated funding 
     levels contained in this Act shall not be applicable to funds 
     or authorities appropriated or otherwise made available by 
     any subsequent Act unless such Act specifically so directs: 
     Provided, That specifically designated funding levels or 
     minimum funding requirements contained in any other Act shall 
     not be applicable to funds appropriated by this Act.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the language 
on page 91, line 14 after the word ``directs'' through line 17 is not 
in order because it violates clause 2 of rule XXI which prohibits 
legislation in an appropriations bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to be heard on the 
point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I concede the point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The point of order is conceded and sustained. That 
portion of the bill is therefore stricken.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent the remainder of the 
bill through page 121, line 15 be considered as read, printed in the 
Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 121, line 15 is as 
follows:


                 prohibition on publicity or propaganda

       Sec. 539. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within 
     the United States not authorized before the date of the

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     enactment of this Act by the Congress: Provided, That not to 
     exceed $25,000 may be made available to carry out the 
     provisions of section 316 of Public Law 96-533.


           prohibition of payments to united nations members

       Sec. 540. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, may be used to pay in whole or in part any 
     assessments, arrearages, or dues of any member of the United 
     Nations or, from funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
     chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     the costs for participation of another country's delegation 
     at international conferences held under the auspices of 
     multilateral or international organizations.


              nongovernmental organizations--documentation

       Sec. 541. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act shall be available to a nongovernmental 
     organization which fails to provide upon timely request any 
     document, file, or record necessary to the auditing 
     requirements of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.


  prohibition on assistance to foreign governments that export lethal 
   military equipment to countries supporting international terrorism

       Sec. 542. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be available to any foreign 
     government which provides lethal military equipment to a 
     country the government of which the Secretary of State has 
     determined is a terrorist government for purposes of section 
     6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979. The 
     prohibition under this section with respect to a foreign 
     government shall terminate 12 months after that government 
     ceases to provide such military equipment. This section 
     applies with respect to lethal military equipment provided 
     under a contract entered into after October 1, 1997.
       (b) Assistance restricted by subsection (a) or any other 
     similar provision of law, may be furnished if the President 
     determines that furnishing such assistance is important to 
     the national interests of the United States.
       (c) Whenever the waiver authority of subsection (b) is 
     exercised, the President shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report with respect to the 
     furnishing of such assistance. Any such report shall include 
     a detailed explanation of the assistance to be provided, 
     including the estimated dollar amount of such assistance, and 
     an explanation of how the assistance furthers United States 
     national interests.


  withholding of assistance for parking fines and real property taxes 
                       owed by foreign countries

       Sec. 543. (a) Subject to subsection (c), of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act that are made available for 
     assistance for a foreign country, an amount equal to 110 
     percent of the total amount of the unpaid fully adjudicated 
     parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes owed by 
     the central government of such country shall be withheld from 
     obligation for assistance for the central government of such 
     country until the Secretary of State submits a certification 
     to the appropriate congressional committees stating that such 
     parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes are 
     fully paid.
       (b) Funds withheld from obligation pursuant to subsection 
     (a) may be made available for other programs or activities 
     funded by this Act, after consultation with and subject to 
     the regular notification procedures of the appropriate 
     congressional committees, provided that no such funds shall 
     be made available for assistance for the central government 
     of a foreign country that has not paid the total amount of 
     the fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties and unpaid 
     property taxes owed by such country.
       (c) Subsection (a) shall not include amounts that have been 
     withheld under any other provision of law.
       (d)(1) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements 
     set forth in subsection (a) with respect to parking fines and 
     penalties no sooner than 60 days from the date of enactment 
     of this Act, or at any time with respect to a particular 
     country, if the Secretary determines that it is in the 
     national interests of the United States to do so.
       (2) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements set 
     forth in subsection (a) with respect to the unpaid property 
     taxes if the Secretary of State determines that it is in the 
     national interests of the United States to do so.
       (e) Not later than 6 months after the initial exercise of 
     the waiver authority in subsection (d), the Secretary of 
     State, after consultations with the City of New York, shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
     describing a strategy, including a timetable and steps 
     currently being taken, to collect the parking fines and 
     penalties and unpaid property taxes and interest owed by 
     nations receiving foreign assistance under this Act.
       (f) In this section:
       (1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
       (2) The term ``fully adjudicated'' includes circumstances 
     in which the person to whom the vehicle is registered--
       (A)(i) has not responded to the parking violation summons; 
     or
       (ii) has not followed the appropriate adjudication 
     procedure to challenge the summons; and
       (B) the period of time for payment of or challenge to the 
     summons has lapsed.
       (3) The term ``parking fines and penalties'' means parking 
     fines and penalties--
       (A) owed to--
       (i) the District of Columbia; or
       (ii) New York, New York; and
       (B) incurred during the period April 1, 1997, through 
     September 30, 2006.
       (4) The term ``unpaid property taxes'' means the amount of 
     unpaid taxes and interest determined to be owed by a foreign 
     country on real property in the District of Columbia or New 
     York, New York in a court order or judgment entered against 
     such country by a court of the United States or any State or 
     subdivision thereof.


    limitation on assistance for the plo for the west bank and gaza

       Sec. 544. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation 
     Organization (PLO) for the West Bank and Gaza unless the 
     President has exercised the authority under section 604(a) of 
     the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1995 (title VI of 
     Public Law 104-107) or any other legislation to suspend or 
     make inapplicable section 307 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 and that suspension is still in effect: Provided, 
     That if the President fails to make the certification under 
     section 604(b)(2) of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act 
     of 1995 or to suspend the prohibition under other 
     legislation, funds appropriated by this Act may not be 
     obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation 
     Organization for the West Bank and Gaza.


                     war crimes tribunals drawdown

       Sec. 545. If the President determines that doing so will 
     contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide 
     or other violations of international humanitarian law, the 
     President may direct a drawdown pursuant to section 552(c) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of up to $30,000,000 of 
     commodities and services for the United Nations War Crimes 
     Tribunal established with regard to the former Yugoslavia by 
     the United Nations Security Council or such other tribunals 
     or commissions as the Council may establish or authorize to 
     deal with such violations, without regard to the ceiling 
     limitation contained in paragraph (2) thereof: Provided, That 
     the determination required under this section shall be in 
     lieu of any determinations otherwise required under section 
     552(c): Provided further, That the drawdown made under this 
     section for any tribunal shall not be construed as an 
     endorsement or precedent for the establishment of any 
     standing or permanent international criminal tribunal or 
     court: Provided further, That funds made available for 
     tribunals other than Yugoslavia, Rwanda, or the Special Court 
     for Sierra Leone shall be made available subject to the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                               landmines

       Sec. 546. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     demining equipment available to the United States Agency for 
     International Development and the Department of State and 
     used in support of the clearance of landmines and unexploded 
     ordnance for humanitarian purposes may be disposed of on a 
     grant basis in foreign countries, subject to such terms and 
     conditions as the President may prescribe.


           restrictions concerning the palestinian authority

       Sec. 547. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated or expended to create in any part of Jerusalem a 
     new office of any department or agency of the United States 
     Government for the purpose of conducting official United 
     States Government business with the Palestinian Authority 
     over Gaza and Jericho or any successor Palestinian governing 
     entity provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of 
     Principles: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply 
     to the acquisition of additional space for the existing 
     Consulate General in Jerusalem: Provided further, That 
     meetings between officers and employees of the United States 
     and officials of the Palestinian Authority, or any successor 
     Palestinian governing entity provided for in the Israel-PLO 
     Declaration of Principles, for the purpose of conducting 
     official United States Government business with such 
     authority should continue to take place in locations other 
     than Jerusalem. As has been true in the past, officers and 
     employees of the United States Government may continue to 
     meet in Jerusalem on other subjects with Palestinians 
     (including those who now occupy positions in the Palestinian 
     Authority), have social contacts, and have incidental 
     discussions.


               prohibition of payment of certain expenses

       Sec. 548. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act under the heading ``International 
     Military Education and Training'' or ``Foreign Military 
     Financing Program'' for Informational Program activities or 
     under the headings ``Child Survival and Health Programs 
     Fund'', ``Development Assistance'', and ``Economic Support 
     Fund'' may be obligated or expended to pay for--
       (1) alcoholic beverages; or
       (2) entertainment expenses for activities that are 
     substantially of a recreational character, including but not 
     limited to entrance fees at sporting events, theatrical and 
     musical productions, and amusement parks.

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                                 Haiti

       Sec. 549. (a) The Government of Haiti shall be eligible to 
     purchase defense articles and services under the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), for the Coast Guard.
       (b) None of the funds made available in this Act under the 
     heading ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement'' may be used to transfer excess weapons, 
     ammunition or other lethal property of an agency of the 
     United States Government to the Government of Haiti for use 
     by the Haitian National Police until the Secretary of State 
     certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that: (1) the 
     United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has carried out 
     the vetting of the senior levels of the Haitian National 
     Police and has ensured that those credibly alleged to have 
     committed serious crimes, including drug trafficking and 
     human rights violations, have been suspended; and (2) the 
     Haitian National Government is cooperating in a reform and 
     restructuring plan for the Haitian National Police and the 
     reform of the judicial system as called for in United Nations 
     Security Council Resolution 1608 adopted on June 22, 2005.


         limitation on assistance to the palestinian authority

       Sec. 550. (a) Prohibition of Funds.--None of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of 
     chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     may be obligated or expended with respect to providing funds 
     to the Palestinian Authority.
       (b) Waiver.--The prohibition included in subsection (a) 
     shall not apply if the President certifies in writing to the 
     Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro 
     tempore of the Senate that waiving such prohibition is 
     important to the national security interests of the United 
     States.
       (c) Period of Application of Waiver.--Any waiver pursuant 
     to subsection (b) shall be effective for no more than a 
     period of 6 months at a time and shall not apply beyond 12 
     months after the enactment of this Act.
       (d) Report.--Whenever the waiver authority pursuant to 
     subsection (b) is exercised, the President shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing the 
     steps the Palestinian Authority has taken to arrest 
     terrorists, confiscate weapons and dismantle the terrorist 
     infrastructure. The report shall also include a description 
     of how funds will be spent and the accounting procedures in 
     place to ensure that they are properly disbursed.


              limitation on assistance to security forces

       Sec. 551. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be provided to any unit of the security forces of a foreign 
     country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that 
     such unit has committed gross violations of human rights, 
     unless the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees 
     on Appropriations that the government of such country is 
     taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of 
     the security forces unit to justice: Provided, That nothing 
     in this section shall be construed to withhold funds made 
     available by this Act from any unit of the security forces of 
     a foreign country not credibly alleged to be involved in 
     gross violations of human rights: Provided further, That in 
     the event that funds are withheld from any unit pursuant to 
     this section, the Secretary of State shall promptly inform 
     the foreign government of the basis for such action and 
     shall, to the maximum extent practicable, assist the foreign 
     government in taking effective measures to bring the 
     responsible members of the security forces to justice.


                    foreign military training report

       Sec. 552. The annual foreign military training report 
     required by section 656 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     shall be submitted by the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Secretary of State to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate by the date specified 
     in that section.


                       authorization requirement

       Sec. 553. Funds appropriated by this Act, except funds 
     appropriated under the headings ``Trade and Development 
     Agency'', ``Overseas Private Investment Corporation'', and 
     ``Global HIV/AIDS Initiative'', may be obligated and expended 
     notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91-672 and section 
     15 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956.


                                cambodia

       Sec. 554. The Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the 
     United States executive directors of the international 
     financial institutions to use the voice and vote of the 
     United States to oppose loans to the Central Government of 
     Cambodia, except loans to meet basic human needs.


                         palestinian statehood

       Sec. 555. (a) Limitation on Assistance.--None of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act may be provided to support a 
     Palestinian state unless the Secretary of State determines 
     and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees 
     that--
       (1) a new leadership of a Palestinian governing entity has 
     been democratically elected through credible and competitive 
     elections;
       (2) the elected governing entity of a new Palestinian 
     state--
       (A) has demonstrated a firm commitment to peaceful co-
     existence with the State of Israel;
       (B) is taking appropriate measures to counter terrorism and 
     terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza, including the 
     dismantling of terrorist infrastructures;
       (C) is establishing a new Palestinian security entity that 
     is cooperative with appropriate Israeli and other appropriate 
     security organizations; and
       (3) the Palestinian Authority (or the governing body of a 
     new Palestinian state) is working with other countries in the 
     region to vigorously pursue efforts to establish a just, 
     lasting, and comprehensive peace in the Middle East that will 
     enable Israel and an independent Palestinian state to exist 
     within the context of full and normal relationships, which 
     should include--
       (A) termination of all claims or states of belligerency;
       (B) respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, 
     territorial integrity, and political independence of every 
     state in the area through measures including the 
     establishment of demilitarized zones;
       (C) their right to live in peace within secure and 
     recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
       (D) freedom of navigation through international waterways 
     in the area; and
       (E) a framework for achieving a just settlement of the 
     refugee problem.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the newly-elected governing entity should enact a 
     constitution assuring the rule of law, an independent 
     judiciary, and respect for human rights for its citizens, and 
     should enact other laws and regulations assuring transparent 
     and accountable governance.
       (c) Waiver.--The President may waive subsection (a) if he 
     determines that it is vital to the national security 
     interests of the United States to do so.
       (d) Exemption.--The restriction in subsection (a) shall not 
     apply to assistance intended to help reform the Palestinian 
     Authority and affiliated institutions, or a newly-elected 
     governing entity, in order to help meet the requirements of 
     subsection (a), consistent with the provisions of section 550 
     of this Act (``Limitation on Assistance to the Palestinian 
     Authority'').


                                colombia

       Sec. 556. (a) Determination and Certification Required.--
     Funds appropriated by this Act that are available for 
     assistance for the Colombian Armed Forces, may be made 
     available as follows:
       (1) Up to 75 percent of such funds may be obligated prior 
     to a determination and certification by the Secretary of 
     State pursuant to paragraph (2).
       (2) Up to 12.5 percent of such funds may be obligated only 
     after the Secretary of State certifies and reports to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that:
       (A) The Commander General of the Colombian Armed Forces is 
     suspending from the Armed Forces those members, of whatever 
     rank who, according to the Minister of Defense or the 
     Procuraduria General de la Nacion, have been credibly alleged 
     to have committed gross violations of human rights, including 
     extra-judicial killings, or to have aided or abetted 
     paramilitary organizations.
       (B) The Colombian Government is vigorously investigating 
     and prosecuting those members of the Colombian Armed Forces, 
     of whatever rank, who have been credibly alleged to have 
     committed gross violations of human rights, including extra-
     judicial killings, or to have aided or abetted paramilitary 
     organizations, and is promptly punishing those members of the 
     Colombian Armed Forces found to have committed such 
     violations of human rights or to have aided or abetted 
     paramilitary organizations.
       (C) The Colombian Armed Forces have made substantial 
     progress in cooperating with civilian prosecutors and 
     judicial authorities in such cases (including providing 
     requested information, such as the identity of persons 
     suspended from the Armed Forces and the nature and cause of 
     the suspension, and access to witnesses, relevant military 
     documents, and other requested information).
       (D) The Colombian Armed Forces have made substantial 
     progress in severing links (including denying access to 
     military intelligence, vehicles, and other equipment or 
     supplies, and ceasing other forms of active or tacit 
     cooperation) at the command, battalion, and brigade levels, 
     with paramilitary organizations, especially in regions where 
     these organizations have a significant presence.
       (E) The Colombian Government is dismantling paramilitary 
     leadership and financial networks by arresting commanders and 
     financial backers, especially in regions where these networks 
     have a significant presence.
       (F) The Colombian Government is taking effective steps to 
     ensure that the Colombian Armed Forces are not violating the 
     land and property rights of Colombia's indigenous 
     communities.
       (3) The balance of such funds may be obligated after July 
     31, 2007, if the Secretary of State certifies and reports to 
     the appropriate congressional committees, after such date, 
     that the Colombian Armed Forces are continuing to meet the 
     conditions contained in paragraph (2) and are conducting 
     vigorous operations to restore government authority and 
     respect for human rights in areas under the effective control 
     of paramilitary and guerrilla organizations.
       (b) Congressional Notification.--Funds made available by 
     this Act for the Colombian Armed Forces shall be subject to 
     the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.

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       (c) Consultative Process.--Not later than 60 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter 
     until September 30, 2008, the Secretary of State shall 
     consult with internationally recognized human rights 
     organizations regarding progress in meeting the conditions 
     contained in subsection (a).
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Aided or abetted.--The term ``aided or abetted'' means 
     to provide any support to paramilitary groups, including 
     taking actions which allow, facilitate, or otherwise foster 
     the activities of such groups.
       (2) Paramilitary groups.--The term ``paramilitary groups'' 
     means illegal self-defense groups and illegal security 
     cooperatives.


                          illegal armed group

       Sec. 557. (a) Denial of Visas to Supporters of Colombian 
     Illegal Armed Groups.--Subject to subsection (b), the 
     Secretary of State shall not issue a visa to any alien who 
     the Secretary determines, based on credible evidence--
       (1) has willfully provided any support to the Revolutionary 
     Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army 
     (ELN), or the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), 
     including taking actions or failing to take actions which 
     allow, facilitate, or otherwise foster the activities of such 
     groups; or
       (2) has committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise 
     participated in the commission of gross violations of human 
     rights, including extra-judicial killings, in Colombia.
       (b) Waiver.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the 
     Secretary of State determines and certifies to the 
     appropriate congressional committees, on a case-by-case 
     basis, that the issuance of a visa to the alien is necessary 
     to support the peace process in Colombia or for urgent 
     humanitarian reasons.


 prohibition on assistance to the palestinian broadcasting corporation

       Sec. 558. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to provide equipment, 
     technical support, consulting services, or any other form of 
     assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.


                       west bank and gaza program

       Sec. 559. (a) Prohibition.--None of the funds appropriated 
     by this Act for assistance under the West Bank and Gaza 
     program may be made available for the purpose of recognizing 
     or otherwise honoring individuals who commit, or have 
     committed, acts of terrorism.
       (b) Audits.--
       (1) The Administrator of the United States Agency for 
     International Development shall ensure that Federal or non-
     Federal audits of all contractors and grantees, and 
     significant subcontractors and subgrantees, under the West 
     Bank and Gaza Program, are conducted at least on an annual 
     basis to ensure, among other things, compliance with this 
     section.
       (2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act up to $1,000,000 
     may be used by the Office of the Inspector General of the 
     United States Agency for International Development for 
     audits, inspections, and other activities in furtherance of 
     the requirements of this subsection.
       (c) The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
     conduct an audit and an investigation of the treatment, 
     handling, and uses of all funds for the bilateral West Bank 
     and Gaza Program in fiscal year 2006 under the heading 
     ``Economic Support Fund''. The audit shall address--
       (1) the extent to which such Program complies with the 
     requirements of subsection (a), and
       (2) an examination of all programs, projects, and 
     activities carried out under such Program, including both 
     obligations and expenditures.
       (d) Not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations updating the report contained in 
     section 2106 of chapter 2 of title II of Public Law 109-13.


            contributions to united nations population fund

       Sec. 560. (a) Limitations on Amount of Contribution.--Of 
     the amounts made available under ``International 
     Organizations and Programs'' and ``Child Survival and Health 
     Programs Fund'' for fiscal year 2007, $34,000,000 shall be 
     made available for the United Nations Population Fund 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the ``UNFPA''): 
     Provided, That of this amount, not less than $22,275,000 
     shall be derived from funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``International Organizations and Programs''.
       (b) Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated under the 
     heading ``International Organizations and Programs'' in this 
     Act that are available for UNFPA, that are not made available 
     for UNFPA because of the operation of any provision of law, 
     shall be transferred to ``Child Survival and Health Programs 
     Fund'' and shall be made available for family planning, 
     maternal, and reproductive health activities, subject to the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       (c) Prohibition on Use of Funds in China.--None of the 
     funds made available under ``International Organizations and 
     Programs'' may be made available for the UNFPA for a country 
     program in the People's Republic of China.
       (d) Conditions on Availability of Funds.--Amounts made 
     available under ``International Organizations and Programs'' 
     for fiscal year 2007 for the UNFPA may not be made available 
     to UNFPA unless--
       (1) the UNFPA maintains amounts made available to the UNFPA 
     under this section in an account separate from other accounts 
     of the UNFPA;
       (2) the UNFPA does not commingle amounts made available to 
     the UNFPA under this section with other sums; and
       (3) the UNFPA does not fund abortions.


                             war criminals

       Sec. 561. (a)(1) None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available pursuant to this Act may be made 
     available for assistance, and the Secretary of the Treasury 
     shall instruct the United States executive directors to the 
     international financial institutions to vote against any new 
     project involving the extension by such institutions of any 
     financial or technical assistance, to any country, entity, or 
     municipality whose competent authorities have failed, as 
     determined by the Secretary of State, to take necessary and 
     significant steps to implement its international legal 
     obligations to apprehend and transfer to the International 
     Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the 
     ``Tribunal'') all persons in their territory who have been 
     indicted by the Tribunal and to otherwise cooperate with the 
     Tribunal.
       (2) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to 
     humanitarian assistance or assistance for democratization.
       (b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall apply unless the 
     Secretary of State determines and reports to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that the competent authorities of 
     such country, entity, or municipality are--
       (1) cooperating with the Tribunal, including access for 
     investigators to archives and witnesses, the provision of 
     documents, and the surrender and transfer of indictees or 
     assistance in their apprehension; and
       (2) are acting consistently with the Dayton Accords.
       (c) Not less than 10 days before any vote in an 
     international financial institution regarding the extension 
     of any new project involving financial or technical 
     assistance or grants to any country or entity described in 
     subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State, shall provide to 
     the Committees on Appropriations a written justification for 
     the proposed assistance, including an explanation of the 
     United States position regarding any such vote, as well as a 
     description of the location of the proposed assistance by 
     municipality, its purpose, and its intended beneficiaries.
       (d) In carrying out this section, the Secretary of State, 
     the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
     International Development, and the Secretary of the Treasury 
     shall consult with representatives of human rights 
     organizations and all government agencies with relevant 
     information to help prevent indicted war criminals from 
     benefiting from any financial or technical assistance or 
     grants provided to any country or entity described in 
     subsection (a).
       (e) The Secretary of State may waive the application of 
     subsection (a) with respect to projects within a country, 
     entity, or municipality upon a written determination to the 
     Committees on Appropriations that such assistance directly 
     supports the implementation of the Dayton Accords.
       (f) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       (1) Country.--The term ``country'' means Bosnia and 
     Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
       (2) Entity.--The term ``entity'' refers to the Federation 
     of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and the 
     Republika Srpska.
       (3) Municipality.--The term ``municipality'' means a city, 
     town or other subdivision within a country or entity as 
     defined herein.
       (4) Dayton accords.--The term ``Dayton Accords'' means the 
     General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and 
     Herzegovina, together with annexes relating thereto, done at 
     Dayton, November 10 through 16, 1995.


                               user fees

       Sec. 562. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
     United States Executive Director at each international 
     financial institution (as defined in section 1701(c)(2) of 
     the International Financial Institutions Act) and the 
     International Monetary Fund to oppose any loan, grant, 
     strategy or policy of these institutions that would require 
     user fees or service charges on poor people for primary 
     education or primary healthcare, including prevention and 
     treatment efforts for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and 
     infant, child, and maternal well-being, in connection with 
     the institutions' financing programs.


                           funding for serbia

       Sec. 563. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act may be made 
     available for assistance for the central Government of Serbia 
     after May 31, 2007, if the President has made the 
     determination and certification contained in subsection (c).
       (b) After May 31, 2007, the Secretary of the Treasury 
     should instruct the United States executive directors to the 
     international financial institutions to support loans and 
     assistance to the Government of Serbia and Montenegro subject 
     to the conditions in subsection (c): Provided, That section 
     576 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 1997, as amended, shall not 
     apply to the provision

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     of loans and assistance to the Government of Serbia and 
     Montenegro through international financial institutions.
       (c) The determination and certification referred to in 
     subsection (a) is a determination by the President and a 
     certification to the Committees on Appropriations that the 
     Government of Serbia and Montenegro is--
       (1) cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal 
     for the former Yugoslavia including access for investigators, 
     the provision of documents, and the surrender and transfer of 
     indictees or assistance in their apprehension, including 
     Ratko Mladic;
       (2) taking steps that are consistent with the Dayton 
     Accords to end Serbian financial, political, security and 
     other support which has served to maintain separate Republika 
     Srpska institutions; and
       (3) taking steps to implement policies which reflect a 
     respect for minority rights and the rule of law.
       (d) This section shall not apply to Montenegro, Kosovo, 
     humanitarian assistance or assistance to promote democracy.


                   community-based police assistance

       Sec. 564. (a) Authority.--Funds made available by this Act 
     to carry out the provisions of chapter 1 of part I and 
     chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     may be used, notwithstanding section 660 of that Act, to 
     enhance the effectiveness and accountability of civilian 
     police authority through training and technical assistance in 
     human rights, the rule of law, strategic planning, and 
     through assistance to foster civilian police roles that 
     support democratic governance including assistance for 
     programs to prevent conflict, respond to disasters, address 
     gender-based violence, and foster improved police relations 
     with the communities they serve.
       (b) Notification.--Assistance provided under subsection (a) 
     shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 
     notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations.

                  Special Debt Relief for the Poorest

       Sec. 565. (a) Authority To Reduce Debt.--The President may 
     reduce amounts owed to the United States (or any agency of 
     the United States) by an eligible country as a result of--
       (1) guarantees issued under sections 221 and 222 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;
       (2) credits extended or guarantees issued under the Arms 
     Export Control Act; or
       (3) any obligation or portion of such obligation, to pay 
     for purchases of United States agricultural commodities 
     guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation under export 
     credit guarantee programs authorized pursuant to section 5(f) 
     of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of June 29, 
     1948, as amended, section 4(b) of the Food for Peace Act of 
     1966, as amended (Public Law 89-808), or section 202 of the 
     Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, as amended (Public Law 95-
     501).
       (b) Limitations.--
       (1) The authority provided by subsection (a) may be 
     exercised only to implement multilateral official debt relief 
     and referendum agreements, commonly referred to as ``Paris 
     Club Agreed Minutes''.
       (2) The authority provided by subsection (a) may be 
     exercised only in such amounts or to such extent as is 
     provided in advance by appropriations Acts.
       (3) The authority provided by subsection (a) may be 
     exercised only with respect to countries with heavy debt 
     burdens that are eligible to borrow from the International 
     Development Association, but not from the International Bank 
     for Reconstruction and Development, commonly referred to as 
     ``IDA-only'' countries.
       (c) Conditions.--The authority provided by subsection (a) 
     may be exercised only with respect to a country whose 
     government--
       (1) does not have an excessive level of military 
     expenditures;
       (2) has not repeatedly provided support for acts of 
     international terrorism;
       (3) is not failing to cooperate on international narcotics 
     control matters;
       (4) (including its military or other security forces) does 
     not engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of 
     internationally recognized human rights; and
       (5) is not ineligible for assistance because of the 
     application of section 527 of the Foreign Relations 
     Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995.
       (d) Availability of Funds.--The authority provided by 
     subsection (a) may be used only with regard to the funds 
     appropriated by this Act under the heading ``Debt 
     Restructuring''.
       (e) Certain Prohibitions Inapplicable.--A reduction of debt 
     pursuant to subsection (a) shall not be considered assistance 
     for the purposes of any provision of law limiting assistance 
     to a country. The authority provided by subsection (a) may be 
     exercised notwithstanding section 620(r) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 or section 321 of the International 
     Development and Food Assistance Act of 1975.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I raise a point of order against section 
565(a)(3) because it violates rule XXI, clause 2, which prohibits 
legislative language in a general appropriations bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to be heard?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I concede the point of order against this 
language requested by the administration.
  The CHAIRMAN. The point of order is conceded and sustained. That 
portion of the bill is therefore stricken.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 127, line 24 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 127, line 24 is as 
follows:


             Authority To Engage in Debt Buybacks or Sales

       Sec. 566. (a) Loans Eligible for Sale, Reduction, or 
     Cancellation.--
       (1) Authority to sell, reduce, or cancel certain loans.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President 
     may, in accordance with this section, sell to any eligible 
     purchaser any concessional loan or portion thereof made 
     before January 1, 1995, pursuant to the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, to the government of any eligible country as 
     defined in section 702(6) of that Act or on receipt of 
     payment from an eligible purchaser, reduce or cancel such 
     loan or portion thereof, only for the purpose of 
     facilitating--
       (A) debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-development swaps, or 
     debt-for-nature swaps; or
       (B) a debt buyback by an eligible country of its own 
     qualified debt, only if the eligible country uses an 
     additional amount of the local currency of the eligible 
     country, equal to not less than 40 percent of the price paid 
     for such debt by such eligible country, or the difference 
     between the price paid for such debt and the face value of 
     such debt, to support activities that link conservation and 
     sustainable use of natural resources with local community 
     development, and child survival and other child development, 
     in a manner consistent with sections 707 through 710 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, if the sale, reduction, or 
     cancellation would not contravene any term or condition of 
     any prior agreement relating to such loan.
       (2) Terms and conditions.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the President shall, in accordance with 
     this section, establish the terms and conditions under which 
     loans may be sold, reduced, or canceled pursuant to this 
     section.
       (3) Administration.--The Facility, as defined in section 
     702(8) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall notify 
     the administrator of the agency primarily responsible for 
     administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of 
     purchasers that the President has determined to be eligible, 
     and shall direct such agency to carry out the sale, 
     reduction, or cancellation of a loan pursuant to this 
     section. Such agency shall make adjustment in its accounts to 
     reflect the sale, reduction, or cancellation.
       (4) Limitation.--The authorities of this subsection shall 
     be available only to the extent that appropriations for the 
     cost of the modification, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, are made in advance.
       (b) Deposit of Proceeds.--The proceeds from the sale, 
     reduction, or cancellation of any loan sold, reduced, or 
     canceled pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the 
     United States Government account or accounts established for 
     the repayment of such loan.
       (c) Eligible Purchasers.--A loan may be sold pursuant to 
     subsection (a)(1)(A) only to a purchaser who presents plans 
     satisfactory to the President for using the loan for the 
     purpose of engaging in debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-
     development swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps.
       (d) Debtor Consultations.--Before the sale to any eligible 
     purchaser, or any reduction or cancellation pursuant to this 
     section, of any loan made to an eligible country, the 
     President should consult with the country concerning the 
     amount of loans to be sold, reduced, or canceled and their 
     uses for debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-development swaps, 
     or debt-for-nature swaps.
       (e) Availability of Funds.--The authority provided by 
     subsection (a) may be used only with regard to funds 
     appropriated by this Act under the heading ``Debt 
     Restructuring''.


                            Basic Education

       Sec. 567. Of the funds appropriated by title II of this 
     Act, not less than $550,000,000 shall be made available for 
     basic education.


                        reconciliation programs

       Sec. 568. Of the funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``Economic Support Fund'', not less than $15,000,000 should 
     be made available to support reconciliation programs and 
     activities which bring together individuals of different 
     ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds from areas of 
     civil conflict and war.


                                 Sudan

       Sec. 569. (a) Limitation on Assistance.--Subject to 
     subsection (b):
       (1) Notwithstanding section 501(a) of the International 
     Malaria Control Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-570) or any other 
     provision of law, none of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     may be made available for assistance for the Government of 
     Sudan.
       (2) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made 
     available for the cost, as

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     defined in section 502, of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, of modifying loans and loan guarantees held by the 
     Government of Sudan, including the cost of selling, reducing, 
     or canceling amounts owed to the United States, and modifying 
     concessional loans, guarantees, and credit agreements.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 
     State determines and certifies to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that--
       (1) the Government of Sudan has taken significant steps to 
     disarm and disband government-supported militia groups in the 
     Darfur region;
       (2) the Government of Sudan and all government-supported 
     militia groups are honoring their ceasefire commitments made 
     in the Darfur Peace Agreement; and
       (3) the Government of Sudan is allowing unimpeded access to 
     Darfur to humanitarian aid organizations, the human rights 
     investigation and humanitarian teams of the United Nations, 
     including protection officers, and an international 
     monitoring team that is based in Darfur and that has the 
     support of the United States.
       (c) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (b) shall not 
     apply to--
       (1) humanitarian assistance;
       (2) assistance for Darfur and for areas outside the control 
     of the Government of Sudan; and
       (3) assistance to support implementation of the 
     Comprehensive Peace Agreement or the Darfur Peace Agreement.
       (d) Definitions.--For the purposes of this Act and section 
     501 of Public Law 106-570, the terms ``Government of Sudan'', 
     ``areas outside of control of the Government of Sudan'', and 
     ``area in Sudan outside of control of the Government of 
     Sudan'' shall have the same meaning and application as was 
     the case immediately prior to June 5, 2004, and, Southern 
     Kordofan/Nuba Mountains State, Blue Nile State and Abyei 
     shall be deemed ``areas outside of control of the Government 
     of Sudan''.


        Peace Corps Personal Services Contractors Separation Pay

       Sec. 570. (a) Establishment.--There is established in the 
     Treasury of the United States a fund for the Peace Corps to 
     provide separation pay for host country resident personal 
     services contractors of the Peace Corps.
       (b) Funding.--The Director of the Peace Corps may deposit 
     in such fund--
       (1) amounts previously obligated and not canceled for 
     separation pay of host country resident personal services 
     contractors of the Peace Corps; and
       (2) amounts obligated for fiscal years after 2006 for the 
     current and future costs of separation pay for host country 
     resident personal services contractors of the Peace Corps.
       (c) Availability.--Beginning in fiscal year 2007 and 
     thereafter, amounts in the fund are available without fiscal 
     year limitation for severance, retirement, or other 
     separation payments to host country resident personal 
     services contractors of the Peace Corps in countries where 
     such pay is legally authorized.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the language 
on page 127, line 5 through line 24 is not in order because it violates 
clause 2 of rule XXI which prohibits legislation in an appropriations 
bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to be heard on the 
point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I concede the point of order against that 
language dealing with separation pay for the Peace Corps.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman concedes the point of order. It is 
therefore sustained, and section 570 of the bill is stricken.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 136, line 5 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record, and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 136, line 5 is as 
follows:


 excess defense articles for central and south european countries and 
                        certain other countries

       Sec. 571. Notwithstanding section 516(e) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j(e)), during fiscal 
     year 2007, funds available to the Department of Defense may 
     be expended for crating, packing, handling, and 
     transportation of excess defense articles transferred under 
     the authority of section 516 of such Act to Albania, 
     Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Former Yugoslavian 
     Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, 
     Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, 
     Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.


                                  cuba

       Sec. 572. None of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
     the heading ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement'' may be made available for assistance to the 
     Government of Cuba.

                         gender-based violence

       Sec. 573. Programs funded under titles II and III of this 
     Act that provide training for foreign police, judicial, and 
     military officials, shall include, where appropriate, 
     programs and activities that address gender-based violence.


  limitation on economic support fund assistance for certain foreign 
    governments that are parties to the international criminal court

       Sec. 574. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
     in title II under the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' may 
     be used to provide assistance to the government of a country 
     that is a party to the International Criminal Court and has 
     not entered into an agreement with the United States pursuant 
     to Article 98 of the Rome Statute preventing the 
     International Criminal Court from proceeding against United 
     States personnel present in such country.
       (b) The President may, with prior notice to Congress, waive 
     the prohibition of subsection (a) with respect to a North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization (``NATO'') member country, a 
     major non-NATO ally (including Australia, Egypt, Israel, 
     Japan, Jordan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New 
     Zealand), Taiwan, or such other country as he may determine 
     if he determines and reports to the appropriate congressional 
     committees that it is important to the national interests of 
     the United States to waive such prohibition.
       (c) The President may, with prior notice to Congress, waive 
     the prohibition of subsection (a) with respect to a 
     particular country if he determines and reports to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that such country has 
     entered into an agreement with the United States pursuant to 
     Article 98 of the Rome Statute preventing the International 
     Criminal Court from proceeding against United States 
     personnel present in such country.
       (d) The prohibition of this section shall not apply to 
     countries otherwise eligible for assistance under the 
     Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, notwithstanding section 
     606(a)(2)(B) of such Act.

                                 tibet

       Sec. 575. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury should instruct 
     the United States executive director to each international 
     financial institution to use the voice and vote of the United 
     States to support projects in Tibet if such projects do not 
     provide incentives for the migration and settlement of non-
     Tibetans into Tibet or facilitate the transfer of ownership 
     of Tibetan land and natural resources to non-Tibetans; are 
     based on a thorough needs-assessment; foster self-sufficiency 
     of the Tibetan people and respect Tibetan culture and 
     traditions; and are subject to effective monitoring.
       (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not less 
     than $4,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
     the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' should be made 
     available to nongovernmental organizations to support 
     activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote 
     sustainable development and environmental conservation in 
     Tibetan communities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in 
     other Tibetan communities in China, and not less than 
     $250,000 should be made available to the National Endowment 
     for Democracy for human rights and democracy programs 
     relating to Tibet.


                           western hemisphere

       Sec. 576. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
     the headings ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' and 
     ``Development Assistance'', not less than the amount of funds 
     initially allocated pursuant to section 653(a) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for fiscal year 2006 should be made 
     available for El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras.
       (b) In addition to the amounts requested under the heading 
     ``Economic Support Fund'' for assistance for Nicaragua and 
     Guatemala in fiscal year 2007, not less than $1,500,000 
     should be made available for electoral assistance, media and 
     civil society programs, and activities to combat corruption 
     and strengthen democracy in Nicaragua, and not less than 
     $1,500,000 should be made available for programs and 
     activities to combat organized crime, crimes of violence 
     specifically targeting women, and corruption in Guatemala.
       (c) Funds made available pursuant to subsection (b) shall 
     be subject to prior consultation with the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       (d) Of the funds appropriated in title II of this Act, not 
     less than the amount of funds initially allocated pursuant to 
     section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 
     fiscal year 2006 in the aggregate for countries of the 
     Western Hemisphere should be made available for such puposes 
     in this bill.


     united states agency for international development management

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 577. (a) Authority.--Up to $81,000,000 of the funds 
     made available in this Act to carry out the provisions of 
     part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds 
     appropriated under the heading ``Assistance for Eastern 
     Europe and the Baltic States'', may be used by the United 
     States Agency for International Development (USAID) to hire 
     and employ individuals in the United States and overseas on a 
     limited appointment basis pursuant to the authority of 
     sections 308 and 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
       (b) Restrictions.--

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       (1) The number of individuals hired in any fiscal year 
     pursuant to the authority contained in subsection (a) may not 
     exceed 175.
       (2) The authority to hire individuals contained in 
     subsection (a) shall expire on September 30, 2008.
       (c) Conditions.--The authority of subsection (a) may only 
     be used to the extent that an equivalent number of positions 
     that are filled by personal services contractors or other 
     nondirect-hire employees of USAID, who are compensated with 
     funds appropriated to carry out part I of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under 
     the heading ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
     States'', are eliminated.
       (d) Priority Sectors.--In exercising the authority of this 
     section, primary emphasis shall be placed on enabling USAID 
     to meet personnel positions in technical skill areas 
     currently encumbered by contractor or other nondirect-hire 
     personnel.
       (e) Consultations.--The USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations at least on a quarterly 
     basis concerning the implementation of this section.
       (f) Program Account Charged.--The account charged for the 
     cost of an individual hired and employed under the authority 
     of this section shall be the account to which such 
     individual's responsibilities primarily relate. Funds made 
     available to carry out this section may be transferred to and 
     merged and consolidated with funds appropriated for 
     ``Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for 
     International Development''.
       (g) Management Reform Pilot.--Of the funds made available 
     in subsection (a), USAID may use, in addition to funds 
     otherwise available for such purposes, up to $10,000,000 to 
     fund overseas support costs of members of the Foreign Service 
     with a Foreign Service rank of four or below: Provided, That 
     such authority is only used to reduce USAID's reliance on 
     overseas personal services contractors or other nondirect-
     hire employees compensated with funds appropriated to carry 
     out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including 
     funds appropriated under the heading ``Assistance for Eastern 
     Europe and the Baltic States''.
       (h) Disaster Surge Capacity.--Funds appropriated by this 
     Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, including funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'', may 
     be used, in addition to funds otherwise available for such 
     purposes, for the cost (including the support costs) of 
     individuals detailed to or employed by the United States 
     Agency for International Development whose primary 
     responsibility is to carry out programs in response to 
     natural disasters.

                              Rescissions

       Sec. 578. (a) Of the funds provided in title IV of Public 
     Law 109-102, under the heading ``Funds Appropriated to the 
     President, International Financial Institutions, Contribution 
     to the International Development Association'', $188,100,000 
     is hereby rescinded.
       (b) Of the funds appropriated in Public Law 109-102 under 
     the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' that are available for 
     assistance and under such heading in prior Acts making 
     appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and 
     related programs, $200,000,000 are hereby rescinded: 
     Provided, That such amount shall be derived only from funds 
     not yet expended for cash transfer assistance.


                        opic transfer authority

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 579. Whenever the President determines that it is in 
     furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, up to a total of $30,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
     for programs in Iraq under title II of this Act may be 
     transferred to and merged with funds appropriated by this Act 
     for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Program 
     Account, to be subject to the terms and conditions of that 
     account: Provided, That such funds shall not be available for 
     administrative expenses of the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation: Provided further, That funds specially 
     designated by this Act shall not be transferred pursuant to 
     this section: Provided further, That the exercise of such 
     authority shall be subject to the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order that the language 
on page 135, line 17 through page 136, line 5 is not in order because 
it violates clause 2 of rule XXI which prohibits legislation in an 
appropriations bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to be heard on the 
point of order?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I concede the point of order against this 
legislation, strongly desired by the administration regarding OPIC and 
Iraq.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman concedes the point of order. It is 
therefore sustained, and that portion of the bill is stricken.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. 
Waters).
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to begin by thanking the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) and the gentlewoman from New York 
(Mrs. Lowey) for all of their hard work on this bill. I deeply 
appreciate their concern and their attention and responsiveness to my 
concerns about the need for U.S. assistance to Haiti.
  I had planned early on to offer an amendment that would have added 
$20 million for Haiti in fiscal year 2007 in order to restore the funds 
that were cut from the supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal year 
2006. However, I decided not to offer this amendment because I 
sincerely believe that the chairman and the ranking member have made a 
tremendous effort to protect funding for Haiti as much as possible in 
both the supplemental appropriations bill and the bill before us today.
  Mr. Chairman, I have paid attention to Haiti, this very small, poor 
country in our hemisphere, because I think they have been the stepchild 
of foreign aid and foreign consideration by our own government and 
other governments in this hemisphere.
  The people of Haiti have suffered a lot. The Republic of Haiti held 
elections on February 7, 2006, and many Haitians walked miles on 
election day to reach a polling station and waited for hours in line to 
exercise their right to vote. An overwhelming 2.2 million Haitians, 
more than 60 percent of registered voters, participated in these 
elections and demonstrated their commitment to democracy. Rene Preval 
was declared the winner of the presidential election after receiving 
over 51 percent of the vote in a crowded field of candidates.
  Now, the challenges facing President Preval and the newly elected 
government are enormous. The people of Haiti have suffered tremendously 
in past years as a result of this poverty, political violence and 
natural disaster, and the newly elected government will need the 
support and assistance of the United States to ensure national 
reconciliation and sustainable development and to improve the lives of 
the Haitian people.
  So I come today not only to congratulate and thank my friends and my 
colleagues, but to say that we have an opportunity to really reach out 
and help this small, poor country, a country where we have sided with 
dictators in the past, Papa Doc and Baby Doc and others who kept their 
foot on the necks of the poor, who sided with the elite and who have 
sided with outside interests to control the economics of Haiti. They 
have driven this country into the ground.
  My greatest desire, I would say to Ranking Member Lowey, is that they 
will get a water system. They don't have potable water in Haiti. My 
greatest desire is that we will have education for the kids and health 
centers. My greatest desire is that we will support a government with a 
justice system, with trained judges and a supreme court and courts that 
will be able to deal with the problems of violence and crime, et 
cetera. This will help so much.
  I think what you have done here is sent a message to other potential 
funding sources. You are saying to IMF and to the World Bank and others 
that we really do care and we really do want to lend a hand and that we 
really believe in the possibilities for Haiti. I want to thank you.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I thank the gentlewoman 
for her commitment for so many years to Haiti, and I certainly share 
her views and that commitment. I do hope with the leadership of Haiti 
that the people, the families, especially the children, can have the 
opportunities that all deserve. I look forward to continuing to work 
with you, with the chairman, to ensure that the United States is a 
strong partner, and working together we can reach the goals which you 
have expressed so eloquently.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


  limitation on funds relating to attendance of Federal employees at 
            conferences occurring outside the United States

       Sec. 580. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more 
     than 50 employees of agencies or departments of the United 
     States Government who are stationed in the United States, at 
     any single international conference occurring outside the 
     United States, unless the Secretary of State

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     determines that such attendance is in the national interest: 
     Provided, That for purposes of this section the term 
     ``international conference'' shall mean a conference attended 
     by representatives of the United States Government and 
     representatives of foreign governments, international 
     organizations, or nongovernmental organizations.


limitation on assistance to foreign countries that refuse to extradite 
  to the United States any individual accused in the United States of 
                   killing a law enforcement officer

       Sec. 581. None of the funds made available in this Act for 
     the Department of State may be used to provide assistance to 
     the central government of a country which has notified the 
     Department of State of its refusal to extradite to the United 
     States any individual indicted in the United States for 
     killing a law enforcement officer, as specified in a United 
     States extradition request, unless the Secretary of State 
     certifies to the Committees on Appropriations in writing that 
     the application of the restriction to a country or countries 
     is contrary to the national interest of the United States.


                Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. McHenry

  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 14 offered by Mr. McHenry:
       Page 137, line 11, strike ``, unless'' and all that follows 
     through ``United States'' on line 15.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry) and a Member opposed each 
will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, first of all I would like to commend Chairman Kolbe for 
his dedication and steadfast leadership here in the United States House 
of Representatives, and in particular his leadership on this very 
important appropriations subcommittee. Chairman, you are going to be 
sorely missed here in Congress, but we know that you are going to 
continue to fight the good fight for the right issues and the right 
values going forward. Thank you for your service to your constituents 
and your Nation.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak today and I offer an amendment to this 
end to speak to a growing problem in our Nation where criminals who 
commit violent crimes, including murdering law enforcement officers, 
these criminals are illegal immigrants, some of them. Some are 
immigrants. These folks sometimes flee the Nation and they flee to 
nations that refuse to extradite them back to the United States of 
America so they can be dealt with in our justice system, and those 
nations have been refusing to extradite these criminals because of our 
tough laws on criminals, including life imprisonment.
  There is language in this bill that addresses these concerns, but 
there is one big problem: it gives the State Department the power to 
issue waivers to foreign countries which allow these countries to 
continue receiving taxpayer funding even if they refuse to extradite 
these criminals to the United States.
  My amendment strikes the State Department's ability to issue waivers 
to foreign countries that refuse to extradite cop killers so they will 
stand trial here in the United States where their crime was committed 
or allegedly committed.
  I offered the original amendment last year with Congressman Beauprez 
of Colorado without this waiver provision. It passed by a vote of 327-
98 on this House floor. The amendment would return section 581 to its 
original intent: no funds should go to a foreign country refusing to 
extradite to the United States any individual accused in the United 
States of killing a law enforcement officer.
  In 2002, Mr. Chairman, a convicted felon who had been deported three 
times allegedly shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff following 
a routine traffic stop before fleeing to Mexico, where he remains 
today. That police officer was murdered, and that criminal, that man 
accused, is free today in Mexico.
  The U.S. should not be forced to plea bargain with other countries in 
order to try criminals, especially cop killers, in our courts. As a 
good neighbor and a country built on respect for law, Mexico should 
fully understand and comply with their obligations to return cop 
killers to the United States to stand trial. Killing a police officer 
is one of the most egregious crimes, and we should have the right to 
seek justice for the families of the slain officers.
  Mr. Chairman, when countries do not extradite violent criminals, it 
actually creates a perverse and twisted incentive to even commit 
greater violent crimes here and run back to their countries. The more 
violent the crime, the tougher the sentence here in the United States, 
which is right, that is good; and the tougher the sentence, the less 
likely they are going to be extradited. That is a very perverse and 
twisted incentive for violent crimes.
  So the U.S. should not be obliged to give foreign aid to these 
countries refusing to extradite these violent criminals back to the 
United States where they justly should be given the trial they deserve, 
and foreign aid money should not go to these countries that will not 
abide by reasonable laws that we have on the books.
  I ask my colleagues to vote for this amendment. It is a commonsense 
amendment that puts teeth back into the original legislation and will 
put pressure on countries who gladly take our money while protecting 
the most vile criminals from prosecution.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in opposition, 
though I do not intend to oppose this.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman from Arizona may 
control the time in opposition and is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman from North Carolina has explained, his 
amendment seeks to strike the waiver provision that we have in section 
581 of this bill. That section limits the availability, as he has 
described, of assistance to foreign countries that refuse to extradite 
to the United States any individual accused in the United States of 
killing a law enforcement officer. Certainly, as he has said, we want 
to pursue to the farthest ends of this Earth anybody that is accused of 
killing a law enforcement officer here in the United States.
  The provision does also include authority for the Secretary to 
provide assistance if she certifies to the Committee on Appropriations 
that the application of the restriction to a country or countries is 
contrary to the national interests of the United States.
  Now, I acknowledge that that language was not in the bill when we 
passed it last year. It was added in conference. So what we brought to 
the floor this year is exactly the language that was enacted into law 
last year, but the provision that he seeks to strike was language that 
was not included in the House-passed bill last year.

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  And given that understanding, that what his amendment would do is to 
simply return the language in this bill to that that we passed on the 
floor of the House last year, given that understanding, I am prepared 
to accept this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


         International Monetary Fund Budget and Hiring Ceilings

       Sec. 582. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
     United States Executive Director at the International 
     Monetary Fund to use the voice of the United States to ensure 
     that any loan, project, agreement, memorandum, instrument, 
     plan or other program of the Intenational Monetary Fund does 
     not penalize countries for increased government spending on 
     healthcare or education by exempting such increases from 
     national budget caps or restraints, hiring or wage bill 
     celings or other limits imposed by the International Monetary 
     Fund.


      Governments that have failed to permit certain extraditions

       Sec. 583. None of the funds made available in this Act for 
     the Department of State, other than funds provided under the 
     heading ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement'', may be used to provide assistance to the 
     central government of a

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     country with which the United States has an extradition 
     treaty and which government has notified the Department of 
     State of its refusal to extradite to the United States any 
     individual indicted for a criminal offense for which the 
     maximum penalty is life imprisonment without the possibility 
     of parole, unless the Secretary of State certifies to the 
     Committees on Appropriations in writing that the application 
     of this restriction to a country or countries is contrary to 
     the national interest of the United States.


            Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Deal of Georgia

  Mr. DEAL of GEORGIA. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 13 offered by Mr. Deal of Georgia:
       Page 138, beginning on line 12, strike ``indicted for'' and 
     insert ``charged with''.
       Page 138 line 14, strike ``, unless'' and all that follows 
     through ``United States'' on line 18.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Deal) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. DEAL of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, my amendment is similar to the one we have just 
discussed that Mr. McHenry was talking about, except that it is broader 
in the context of dealing with not just those who would kill cops, but 
those who would kill other citizens in our country, who would rape our 
children and our women, who would sell and deal in distributing major 
drugs in our country, in other words major criminals who commit these 
crimes within our borders and then flee back across the border.
  Mr. Chairman, I would suggest that this is similar also in that what 
the chairman has done, and I commend him for this, is that he has put 
into the base bill the language that was adopted in the conference 
committee last year.
  As in the similar situation previously, it contains a waiver 
provision for the Secretary of State to waive the provisions for a 
country that refuses to extradite under the terms of this language.
  The only other exception from that variation is that it uses the 
words that an individual must be indicted. The language we have used, 
and the language that is consistent in most extradition treaties is 
charged.
  There is a legal difference between the two. My amendment would 
change the language back to the way it was when it passed the House 
last year, to an individual who is charged rather than having to be 
indicted, and then strikes the language that allows the State 
Department to waive the provisions of this part of the Act.
  Now, I believe the chairman probably is going to receive this 
favorably, and I would thank him in advance for that. But I would say 
to him that I had a second amendment that I will not offer, but I would 
call it to his attention and ask that he consider the merits of it, 
because it deals with some more of the technicalities of extraditions.
  It deals with a country that would, rather than dealing with a 
specific individual extradition, just simply issues a broad statement 
that we will not extradite anyone if they face punishment of 20 years 
or 25 years.
  And the language that we have is tailored to individuals, not 
blanket-type waivers. The other part is, that if they simply do not 
respond to an extradition request, we think those are technical areas 
that ought to be examined. I do commend the chairman not only for his 
willingness to insert and agree to this kind of language, but also for 
his long service in the interest in this year.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the chairman at this time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Georgia for 
yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, as he has explained what his amendment would do, and as 
we did with the previous amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Carolina we would return this particular provision back to the same as 
the House adopted last year.
  And with that understanding, I am certainly willing to accept this. 
The gentleman has also said that he will not offer the other amendment 
which does expand the authorities. He has asked us to consider that. We 
certainly can consider that in the conference committee.
  But, as long as we are returning this to the provisions added last 
year, I would certainly ask that we leave it as it was last year, and 
not expand the authority either here on the floor.
  With that understanding, I accept the gentleman's amendment.
  Mr. DEAL of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time.
  Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for that. I would say in 
conclusion that I hope that the State Department will deal in better 
faith in dealing with issues such as waivers. I know the chairman and 
others in the conference are going to be under extreme pressure from 
the State Department to reinsert waiver language.
  But I would say when we give the State Department discretion in the 
nature of a waiver, they owe it to this Congress, out of respect for 
what we think is important about extraditing people who have committed 
the most heinous crimes against our citizens, and for whom those 
countries are receiving taxpayer dollars and assistance, to do more 
than they did last year in a one-sentence waiver that made no 
distinction between those countries that were trying and those 
countries that were not.
  I thank again the chairman. I urge him to stand firm on this issue.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Deal).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the remainder 
of the bill through page 146, line 21 be considered as read, printed in 
the Record and open to amendment at any point.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the remainder of the bill through page 146, line 21 is as 
follows:


                         reporting requirement

       Sec. 584. The Secretary of State shall provide the 
     Committees on Appropriations, not later than April 1, 2007, 
     and for each fiscal quarter, a report in writing on the uses 
     of funds made available under the headings ``Foreign Military 
     Financing Program'', ``International Military Education and 
     Training'', and ``Peacekeeping Operations'': Provided, That 
     such report shall include a description of the obligation and 
     expenditure of funds, and the specific country in receipt of, 
     and the use or purpose of the assistance provided by such 
     funds.

   Assistance for Demobilization and Disarmament of Former Irregular 
                         Combatants in Colombia

       Sec. 585. (a) Availablity of Funds.--Of the funds 
     appropriated in this Act, up to $20,000,000 may be made 
     available in fiscal year 2007 for assistance for the 
     demobilization and disarmament of former members of foreign 
     terrorist organizations (FTOs) in Colombia, specifically the 
     United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the 
     Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the 
     National Liberation Army (ELN), if the Secretary of State 
     makes a certification described in subsection (b) to the 
     appropriate congressional committees prior to the intial 
     obligation of amounts for such assistance for the fiscal year 
     involved.
       (b) Certification.--A certification described in this 
     subsection is a certification that--
       (1) assistance for the fiscal year will be provided only 
     for individuals who have: (A) verifiably renounced and 
     terminated any affiliation or involvement with FTOs or other 
     illegal armed groups; and (B) are meeting all the 
     requirements of the Colombia Demobilization Program, 
     including having disclosed their involvement in past crimes 
     and their knowledge of the FTO's structure, financing 
     sources, illegal assets, and the location of kidnapping 
     victims and bodies of the disappeared;
       (2) the Government of Colombia is providing full 
     cooperation to the Government of the United States to 
     extradite the leaders and members of the FTOs who have been 
     indicted in the United States for murder, kidnapping, 
     narcotics trafficking, and other violations of United States 
     law;
       (3) the Government of Colombia is implementing a concrete 
     and workable framework for dismantling the organizational 
     structures of foreign terrorist organizations; and
       (4) funds shall not be made available as cash payments to 
     individuals and are available only for activities under the 
     following categories: verification, reintegration (including 
     training and education), vetting, recovery of assets for 
     reparations for victims, and investigations and prosecutions.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:

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       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives; and
       (B) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate.
       (2) Foreign terrorist organization.--The term ``foreign 
     terrorist organization'' means an organization designated as 
     a terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act.


          Office of the Director of Trade Capacity Enhancement

       Sec. 586. The Administrator of the United States Agency for 
     International Development (USAID) shall create within USAID a 
     new office of Trade Capacity Enhancement and designate a 
     Director of that office: Provided, That this office shall be 
     responsible for USAID's trade capacity building programs, 
     coordinating the implementation of all programs developed by 
     the State Department for trade capacity building and 
     coordinating government-wide trade capacity building efforts 
     of United States agencies: Provided further, That this office 
     shall be responsible for ensuring that country strategic 
     plans, as appropriate, include a trade capacity enhancement 
     strategic goal and monitor the implemenation plan for 
     achieving this goal.


                enhancing women's economic opportunities

       Sec. 587. (a) Support for Women's Small- and Medium-Sized 
     Enterprises in Developing Countries.
       (1) In general.--When carrying out enterprise development 
     programs with funds appropriated in ``Development 
     Assistance'', ``Economic Support Funds'', or otherwise made 
     available in the Act for ``Development Assistance'', the 
     Director of Foreign Assistance shall ensure that, where 
     appropriate, such programs, projects, and activities meet the 
     requirements of paragraph (2) of this subsection.
       (2) Requirements.--The requirements referred to in 
     paragraph (1) are the following:
       (A) In coordination with developing country governments and 
     interested individuals and organizations, create or enhance 
     laws, regulations, enforcement, and other practices that 
     promote access to banking and financial services for women-
     owned small- and medium-sized enterprises, and eliminate or 
     reduce regulatory barriers that may exist in this regard.
       (B) Promote access to information and communication 
     technologies (ICT) with training in ICT for women-owned 
     small- and medium-sized enterprises.
       (C) Provide training, through local associations of women-
     owned enterprises in record keeping, financial and personnel 
     management, international trade, business planning, 
     marketing, policy advocacy, and other relevant areas.
       (D) Provide resources to establish and enhance local, 
     national, and international networks and associations of 
     women-owned small- and medium-sized enterprises.
       (E) Provide incentives for nongovernmental organizations 
     and regulated financial intermediaries to develop products, 
     services, and marketing and outreach strategies specifically 
     designed to facilitate and promote women's participation in 
     small and medium-sized business development programs by 
     addressing women's assets, needs, and the barriers they face 
     to participation in enterprise and financial services.
       (F) Seek to award contracts to qualified indigenous women-
     owned small and medium-sized enterprises, including for post-
     conflict reconstruction and to facilitate employment of 
     indigenous women, including during post-conflict 
     reconstruction in jobs not traditionally undertaken by women.
       (b) Trade Benefits for Women in Developing Countries.--The 
     enterprise development and trade capacity promotion programs 
     administered by the Department of State and the United States 
     Agency for International Development shall incorporate the 
     following objectives:
       (1) Provide training and education to women's civil 
     society, including those organizations representing poor 
     women, and to women-owned enterprises and associations of 
     such enterprises, on how to respond to economic opportunities 
     created by trade preference programs, trade agreements, or 
     other policies creating market access, including training on 
     United States market access requirements and procedures.
       (2) Provide capacity building for women entrepreneurs, 
     including microentrepreneurs, on production strategies, 
     quality standards, formation of cooperatives, market 
     research, and market development.
       (3) Provide capacity building to women, including poor 
     women, to promote diversification of products and value-added 
     processing.
       (4) Provide training to official government negotiators 
     representing developing countries in order to enhance the 
     ability of such negotiators to formulate trade policy and 
     negotiate agreements that take into account the needs and 
     priorities of a country's poor, including poor women.
       (5) Provide training to local women's groups in developing 
     countries in order to enhance their ability to collect 
     information and data, formulate proposals, and inform and 
     impact official government negotiators representing their 
     country in international trade negotiations of the needs and 
     priorities of a country's poor, including poor women.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of Foreign Assistance 
     shall report to the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     implementation of the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) 
     of this section.


                             Authorization

       Sec. 588. To authorize United States participation in, and 
     appropriations for, the United States contribution to the 
     first replenishment of the resources of the Enterprise for 
     the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund, the Inter-American 
     Development Bank Act (22 U.S.C. 283 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 39. FIRST REPLENISHMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF THE 
                   ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS MULTILATERAL 
                   INVESTMENT FUND.

       ``(a) Contribution Authority.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury may 
     contribute on behalf of the United States $150,000,000 to the 
     first replenishment of the resources of the Enterprise for 
     the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund.
       ``(2) Subject to appropriations.--The authority provided by 
     paragraph (1) may be exercised only to the extent and in the 
     amounts provided for in advance in appropriations Acts.
       ``(b) Limitations on Authorization of Appropriations.--For 
     the United States contribution authorized by subsection (a), 
     there are authorized to be appropriated not more than 
     $150,000,000, without fiscal year limitation, for payment by 
     the Secretary of the Treasury.''.


                 Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Terry

  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 12 offered by Mr. Terry:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


                          limitation on funds

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used in contravention of section 2320(a) of title 18, 
     United States Code.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Nebraska.
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, my amendment tries to protect one of America's greatest 
assets, and that is its intellectual properties, its creativity that 
has been trademarked.
  Unfortunately, there have been incidents where U.S. tax dollars have 
been provided to various agencies outside of the borders who have used 
those taxpayer dollars to solicit the help from organizations or 
companies that have usurped America's trademarks or intellectual 
properties.
  This amendment is simple. It ensures that the foreign assistance 
dollars are not used to support the importation of counterfeit goods 
and services. This amendment is a modification of a bill of which Mr. 
Tiahrt and I have authored, which has bipartisan support of 29 of my 
colleagues.
  By the way, I will say that the major impetus of this bill is with 
the Gallup Organization, partly headquartered in my district, whose 
pooling is world renowned, but yet its trade name has been usurped for 
various purposes in parts of the world of which U.S. tax dollars 
unfortunately have gone to support.
  So this is our effort.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. 
Tiahrt).
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Nebraska for his 
leadership on this issue. We have the number one economy in the world. 
And since we took over that position, we have never looked back.
  But today, we had better be looking over our shoulder. Other 
countries are rapidly gaining ground, and part of the problem is in our 
trade policy.
  Mr. Chairman over the last generation, Congress has created barriers 
to keeping and creating jobs in America. The Economic Competitive 
Caucus has listed eight categories of these barriers that restrict the 
growth in our economy and restrict more American jobs.
  One of these categories is securing trade policy, more trade 
agreements and opening markets to help create jobs. But we must also 
enforce the trade policy and the trade agreements that we have made, 
because if we do not, we will lose jobs.
  Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry) has identified 
an unenforced portion of our statutes. His

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amendment closes a loophole, and protects the creative talents in 
America and saves American jobs.
  We must protect against infringement of American ideas to protect 
these jobs and we do that by enforcing our trade agreements. This 
amendment will do just that. Please support the gentleman from 
Nebraska's amendment.
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Kansas.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona, the great 
chairman.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  This is a longstanding and actually a very complex trademark dispute 
between Gallup Organization and Gallup International. It has been the 
subject of legal action in a number of countries, the courts of a 
number of foreign countries.
  USAID says that they are complying with the law, that they are 
following the law. In fact, Ambassador Tobias recently instructed his 
staff to take numerous steps to ensure that they are in compliance with 
the law.
  He asked that, first, they develop contracting and procurement 
procedures to ensure the strict adherence to intellectual property 
rights be integral when evaluating prospective contractors and 
grantees.
  Second, that they review current contracts and grants in question, 
which will be terminated if violations are discovered. And, third, for 
any product or material that is found to bear a counterfeit Gallup 
trademark, review it for proper disposition under relevant laws and 
regulations.
  Mr. Chairman, they are very much involved in this, and are taking 
very direct and concrete steps to deal with that. However, having said 
that, I support certainly the concept that is behind this amendment. I 
would urge that we accept this.
  Mr. TERRY. Reclaiming my time, I want to thank the chairman for those 
comments and pointing out the steps that have been taken. Those are 
reassuring. I thank you for accepting the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. McGovern

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

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

   Limitation on assistance for the Western Hemisphere Institute for 
                          Security Cooperation

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for programs at the Western Hemisphere Institute for 
     Security Cooperation located at Fort Benning, Georgia.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) and a Member opposed each 
will control 15 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 5 minutes.
  Mr. Chairman, it has been many years since we last debated this 
issue. In 1999 the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 
to stop funding the U.S. Army School of the Americas. That vote so 
shook the Department of Defense that the following year, they brought a 
proposal to the Congress to close the SOA and organize a new school, 
the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
  In the past 5 years, we have continued to see the notorious legacy of 
the School of the Americas live on. To this day, human rights violation 
and criminal acts continue to be committed by its graduates. But what 
about the Western Hemisphere Institute itself?
  While it is still in its early years, already we have seen the 
Institute welcome to its courses well known, well documented human 
rights violators. This has happened with the 2003 admittance of a 
Salvadorian colonel responsible for the 1983 massacre at Las Hojas. 
This case, and his name, were cited in the United Nations Truth 
Commission report in 1993, and even in our own State Department Country 
Reports.
  The Institute accepted and trained in 2002 a major from Bolivia 
responsible for kidnapping and torture of Waldo Albarracin, who today 
serves as Bolivia's human rights ombudsman. This is a case that was 
presented to the OAS Human Rights Commission.
  And three Colombian officers under investigation for personal use of 
counternarcotics funds, and let me add under investigation at the 
insistence of the United States Justice Department, were admitted to 
the Institute in 2003.
  What possible kind of pre-vetting program could possibly let such 
notorious figures into its classes? Why are our tax dollars being spent 
on giving these guys a junket in Georgia? And if the WHINSEC cannot 
even screen out well known murderers and criminals, what about those 
who are less well known?
  Mr. Chairman, Latin America is already walking away from the WHINSEC. 
Argentina and Uruguay recently announced they will no longer send any 
of its military or police to the school.
  Enrollment from Latin America has been steadily falling over the past 
3 years. In 2003, there were 1,190 students at the WHINSEC. This year 
there will only be 668. 77 percent of the students come from just five 
countries, mainly the Andean nations.
  But while enrollment has declined by 40 percent, funding for the 
school has remained steady or slightly increased. U.S. soldiers are now 
attending the WHINSEC to fill up the classrooms.
  Mr. Chairman, what are we doing here? I will tell you one thing that 
we are doing, we are sending the wrong signal to Latin America. We are 
telling them that we will not shut down the school that is anathema to 
civil society and human rights organizations throughout the hemisphere.
  And if you wonder what the old School of the Americas has to do with 
all of this, well, let me just tell you. Every time someone gets 
murdered in Latin America today by someone trained at the School of the 
Americas, their family, friends and colleagues, they remember that the 
U.S. trained this guy at that notorious school. That school still 
exists for them.
  It is at the same military base, in the same buildings with much of 
the same curriculum and the same teachers as the old school. Excuse me 
if they do not get the difference.
  If you do not think this is happening, let me go back to the article 
that I referred to in the earlier debate, in Monday's Boston Globe 
about the military commander who orchestrated the ambush and murder of 
U.S.-trained antidrug police, a U.S. trained antidrug police unit in 
Colombia.

                              {time}  1115

  That Colombian commander was trained at the School of the Americas. 
So we have a U.S.-trained Army officer murdering U.S.-trained antidrug 
police. It makes no sense. We can let Latin America know that we get at 
our human rights by stopping some of the funding for this school which 
remains to this day a powerful symbol of U.S. fixation on the military 
to the detriment of military rights.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 15 
minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Well, here we go. This is an old debate. It is an old amendment. 
Times have changed, but for some people things do not change. The 
school that is being described here, the Western Hemisphere Institute 
for Security Cooperation, we call it WHINSEC, is a Department of 
Defense education facility that Congress established in the year 2001. 
It replaces, as the gentleman has correctly pointed out, it replaces 
the School of Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.
  Now, WHINSEC provides future civilian as well as military and law 
enforcement, that is police officers, including U.S. military officers, 
professional education that helps support our democratic principles in 
this hemisphere. WHINSEC does that, promotes those democratic values 
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understanding of U.S. customs and tradition through the time that the 
officers spend there and through the curriculum that is developed 
there. The courses build strong relationships between the participating 
nations, helping to ensure peace and stability throughout the 
hemisphere.
  This is a school that is open. Anyone can visit the campus, tour the 
building where the courses are taught, sit in classes, talk to the 
students and faculty. People are invited in as lecturers from outside. 
A large part of the curriculum in this program is devoted to human 
rights and to values. It seems to me that if what we really want in 
this hemisphere is a military in different countries that shares those 
values that we hold, that are dear to us, that we should be doing more, 
not less, of this, more training of these people.
  Has anybody ever graduated from the School of the Americas in the 
past that turned out to be bad? Yes, of course. But I can tell you that 
far more have turned out to be people, honorable officers, who have 
upheld democracy, upheld democratic values, upheld the civil rights of 
the citizens in their countries than vice versa.
  So what we are doing now with WHINSEC as it is revised and 
restructured, the curriculum for the program, we are doing a great deal 
more to help to train officers who share our values and who have a 
contact, a relationship with U.S. military officers so that when there 
is a problem that occurs in these countries, somebody that is a colonel 
in the Pentagon and served at WHINSEC with some colonel in a Latin 
American country, they can get on the phone and discuss and describe 
the problems that exist there. These kinds of relationships are 
important, and they cannot be done if you do not have face-to-face 
contact, if you do not have time the people spend together getting to 
know each other and talking about issues and learning about values, and 
that is the importance of WHINSEC.
  This is a program like IMET that I believe in very strongly that 
ought to be expanded, not a program that we should be talking about 
cutting.
  There is not an example that the gentleman I believe can cite of 
anybody at WHINSEC who has committed any crimes back in their country. 
It has two important missions, to teach future leaders and to foster 
cooperation between our country and those of Latin America. It offers 
24 discrete courses. They are from 3 to 49 weeks long, and all are 
teaching U.S. military doctrine according to U.S. laws and our values. 
In fact, in every single one of the courses, at least 10 percent of the 
instruction is devoted directly to democracy and human rights issues. 
Students come from throughout the Western Hemisphere, even from Canada, 
as well as the United States; and it is the relationships that are 
developed there that are so important in the future, in years that 
pass, that come later when we need to have the contacts with these 
countries.
  So, Mr. Chairman, while I understand the concerns that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has expressed, I simply do not believe that the 
evidence bears it out. I simply do not believe that what this 
organization is doing is wrong. In fact, it is doing everything that we 
would want an organization to do in terms of training military officers 
of the future in Latin America to share the values that we have in this 
United States. I urge my colleagues to defeat this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, the following is a list of individuals 
that I cited in my opening remarks who are graduates of WHINSEC who 
have committed gross human rights violations against civilians:

       Supporters of the WHINSEC consistently argue that nothing 
     associated with the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) 
     should be taken into consideration when debating the merits 
     of the WHINSEC. However, even at these early stages, the 
     WHINSEC is repeating the mistakes of its predecessor 
     organization.
       Latin American nominees are supposed to be thoroughly 
     vetted, but pre-screening of applicants remains inadequate. 
     Amnesty International detailed in a 2002 report, Unmatched 
     Power, Unmet Principles, the many loopholes and gaps that 
     exist in the current screening process. Already a number of 
     students with previously well-known, well-documented 
     histories of human rights abuses have been awarded 
     scholarships to attend the WHINSEC, including:
       Colonel Francisco del Cid Diaz (El Salvador) attended the 
     WHINSEC in 2003. In 1983, he commanded a unit responsible for 
     a very notorious massacre of indigenous peoples at the Las 
     Hojas Cooperative in Sonsonate, El Salvador. This was a high-
     profile human rights case, included in the list of cases 
     congressionally mandated for investigation during that 
     period, and cited annually in the State Department's Human 
     Rights Country Reports throughout the 1980s. The United 
     Nations Truth Commission on El Salvador, established under 
     the terms of the 1992 Peace Accords, identified Col. Cid Diaz 
     as the commander who ordered and led the massacre and 
     recommended he be brought to justice. Ironically, he returned 
     to attend the SOA in 1988 and 1991, even after the U.S. State 
     Department had identified the unit most likely responsible 
     for the Las Hojas massacre. He then returned to attend the 
     WHINSEC in 2003.
       Major Fillmann Urzagaste Rodriguez (Bolivia) attended the 
     WHINSEC in 2002. In 1997, then Captain Fillmann Urzagaste 
     Rodriguez was one of those responsible for the kidnapping and 
     torture of Waldo Albarracin, who was then the director of the 
     Popular Assembly for Human Rights in Bolivia; Mr. Albarracin 
     is now the official Human Rights Ombudsman for the Government 
     of Bolivia. At the time, the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies 
     Commission undertook an investigation of the case and 
     determined that it needed to be sent to the courts for 
     further investigation and prosecution, where unfortunately it 
     languished given the military impunity during that period. 
     This same case is also the subject of a high-profile petition 
     to the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 
     2002, Urzagaste Rodriguez, now a major, took a 49-week 
     officer training course at the WHINSEC.
       Captain Dario Sierro Chapeta, Lieutenant Colonel Francisco 
     Patino Fonseca, and Captain Luis Benavides Guancha (Colombia) 
     are all Colombian police officers under investigation for 
     personal use of counter-narcotics funds. In June 2002, the 
     Colombian Attorney General's office, at the request of the 
     U.S. government, opened a ``disciplinary'' investigation into 
     alleged activities of corruption by members of the Colombian 
     National Police, including these three officers. The first 
     two officers, namely Captain Sierro Chapeta and Lt. Col. 
     Patino Fonseca, attended the WHINSEC in 2002 (it isn't clear 
     whether the charges against the 3 were brought before, during 
     or after their acceptance to the WHINSEC, but it was well 
     known that their unit was under investigation). Captain 
     Benavides Guancha attended the WHINSEC for 18 weeks in 2003, 
     well after the targets he investigation were known to the 
     Colombian and U.S. governments.

  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, let me thank the gentleman again for yielding 
me time and for this amendment, once again, to restrict all funding to 
the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly 
known as the School of the Americas. And, quite frankly, people in 
Latin America are not fooled by this name change.
  WHINSEC is a military training facility for Latin American security 
personnel located in Fort Benning, Georgia. For decades, WHINSEC has 
damaged our reputation in Latin America. In 1996, the Pentagon released 
reports explaining how the United States trained these students to 
participate and to lead torture, extortions, and executions in Latin 
America. And now many countries in the region are struggling to recover 
from decades of dictatorship, corruption, and human rights abuses.
  We heard many gruesome stories this morning when I co-hosted a 
Congressional Human Rights Caucus breakfast for the Argentine and the 
Guatemalan forensic teams who helped solve many of these outstanding 
murders. Just mentioning the School of the Americas, quite frankly, is 
traumatic to the survivors and the family members of those who have 
been victimized by these graduates. And the victims are not just in 
Latin America.
  On October 22, 2003, the Texas Brownsville Herald reported that the 
notorious Gulf Drug Cartel had hired 31 former Mexican soldiers to be 
part of its hired assassin force, the Zetas. The Zetas have been 
implicated in murders throughout Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. 
According to the Mexican Minister of Defense, at least one-third of 
these ex-soldiers were trained at the School of the Americas as part of 
the elite Special Air Mobile Force Group.
  And since there is no way for Congress to properly track or vet 
WHINSEC enrollees, who knows how many more victims there are? As more 
information is publicized about the action of these graduates, 
enrollment has steadily declined. There are 40 percent fewer enrollees 
since 2003. In March 2006, Argentina and Uruguay joined Venezuela and 
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that they no longer send students, military or police, for WHINSEC 
training. So please do not be fooled by the other side's rhetoric on 
the causes for the enrollment decline because these decisions were not 
made by political activists.
  Some of these decision-makers have personally suffered family losses 
at the hands of military personnel who were trained at the School of 
the Americas. These leaders want to try to restore human rights 
protections and not taint the training of their police and military 
forces.
  Despite the clear move of many Latin American leaders to distance 
themselves from this school, for some reason this budget continues to 
be increased. So a positive step to improve relations with Latin 
America would be to simply eliminate this institute.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the 
McGovern-Lewis amendment to cut funds for the Western Hemisphere 
Institute for Security Cooperation, WHINSEC, the successor organization 
to the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
  Sadly, despite a shameful history of training and support from some 
of our hemisphere's worst known human rights abusers, the only thing 
that has changed is the name. Funding an institution that has been 
directly responsible for the training of foreign soldiers who have 
perpetrated horrific atrocities against civilian populations is not the 
way to accomplish our foreign policy goals or more security in the 
region. Besides, enrollment has declined by 40 percent at WHINSEC, yet 
our funding for it remains constant, and the cost to maintain 
operations at the institute have gone up year after year.
  I traveled with Mr. McGovern to Colombia in 2001. We visited the 
Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado. We talked to community 
leaders, the families and children. They just wanted to live in peace, 
free from conflict and arms. We also met with military forces in the 
area, and they denied any involvement in past atrocities.
  On February 21 and 22, eight members of the San Jose de Apartado 
Peace Community, including three young children, were brutally 
massacred. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian 
military. And peace community members saw the army's 17th Brigade in 
the area at the time of the murders.
  General Hector Jaime Fandino Rincon is the commander of the 17th 
Brigade of the Colombian Army, the unit implicated in the massacre. 
This man received training and planning in conducting what they call 
``small unit tactical operations'' at the institute, at WHINSEC.
  In December of 2004, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier 
general. Since the massacre, the Colombian administration of Alvaro 
Uribe has done little to investigate the murders. Sadly, this is not an 
isolated matter. It is an unacceptable record at WHINSEC, an 
unacceptable legacy, and a shameful policy. We should all support this 
amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Mica).
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, once again I think the well-intended but 
misinformed would like to cut the Western Hemisphere Institute for 
Security Cooperation funding.
  Now, what the cafe latte crowd has in mind is that these terrorists 
are only misunderstood individuals, that they probably need counseling. 
Maybe we should send them some social assistance to straighten them 
out, but certainly we should not train military.
  In fact, we found with narcoterrorists, narcoterrorists have better 
training and better equipment than the native military population that 
is trying to stabilize some of these countries like in Colombia. Not 
only do they have better equipment and training and do more 
destruction, but they also have the money because they mostly finance 
their operations through narcoterrorism.
  What they want to do is tie the hands of those countries that are 
helping us to stabilize those countries, to bring some peace there, to 
bring narcoterrorism under control. So if we want to tie hands and put 
them right behind our back, cut the funds; and we will have poorly 
trained individuals who do not know the difference between human rights 
violations. In fact, we do insist on the very highest standards.
  We have the opportunities to train these individuals and influence 
them to do the right thing and to conduct military exercises that are 
honest and open and well directed.
  Again, these folks are very well intended, but I think if we just 
check the record of those who are trained by United States forces, you 
will see they are far better in executing their responsibilities. Tough 
enforcement does work. If you want to use examples, Mayor Giuliani down 
to Officer Thompson who is out here, you won't jaywalk at the corner of 
C street because we have tough enforcement with well-trained 
individuals.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, let me point out to the gentleman from 
Florida, we are not against the training of Latin American soldiers. We 
train over 20,000 Latin American soldiers each year, but only a 
fraction of them, fewer than 600, are actually trained at the School of 
the Americas. We want to shut the School of the Americas down because 
we believe it is anathema to America's commitments and America's human 
rights.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Kucinich).

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  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment to 
prohibit funding for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security 
Cooperation, otherwise known as the School of the Americas.
  This combat-training facility for security personnel in Latin America 
is notorious for graduating human rights offenders. In its 59 years of 
existence, the School of the Americas has trained over 60,000 Latin 
American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, 
commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and 
interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently targeted 
educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and 
others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of 
Latin Americans have been victims of School of the Americas graduates.
  For example, on February 21-22, 2005, eight members of the San Jose 
de Apartado Peace Community in Uraba, Colombia, were brutally 
massacred. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian 
military's 17th Brigade, commanded by a School of the Americas 
graduate.
  In April of 2002, two School of the Americas graduates helped lead a 
failed coup in Venezuela against democratically elected President Hugo 
Chavez.
  In 1980, two of the three killers of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El 
Salvador were graduates of the School of the Americas. Also in 1980, 10 
of the 12 officers responsible for the murder of 900 civilians in the 
Salvadoran village, El Mozote, were School of the Americas graduates.
  The abuses by School of the Americas graduates have local resonance 
with me as well. In Cleveland, Ohio, in 1980, our Clevelanders Sisters 
Dorothy Hazel and Jean Donovan, along with two other churchwomen from 
the United States, Sister Maura Clarke and Sister Ita Forde, were raped 
and murdered by members of the armed forces of El Salvador. Three of 
the five officers involved were graduates of the School of the 
Americas.
  In the words of former Panamanian President Jorge Illueca, the School 
of the Americas is the ``biggest base for destabilization in Latin 
Americas.'' It is time to close it.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey) where the school at Fort Benning 
is located.
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman for yielding.
  WHINSEC is a Department of Defense institute that instructs current 
and future civilian, military and law enforcement leaders from Nations 
in the Western Hemisphere.
  It was created in 2001 to replace the School of the Americas. The 
School of the Americas, as a Cold War legacy program, was not meeting 
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and standards required to operate in the world's new security 
environment.
  Its goals, which were set by Congress, explicitly include 
strengthening democracy, instilling a respect for the rule of law, and 
honoring human rights.
  WHINSEC's curriculum, and I have been there, I am on the board of 
visitors, WHINSEC's curriculum includes instruction in leadership 
development, peace support, counterdrug operations, disaster 
preparedness and relief planning.
  As mandated by Congress, WHINSEC formulated and implemented a human 
rights training program that, Mr. Chairman, is among the best offered 
by military educational institutions in this hemisphere. All students 
and instructors, without exception, receive comprehensive human rights 
instruction and training.
  So I strongly disagree with this impression created by the School of 
the Americas/WHINSEC critics that somehow all or most of the WHINSEC 
graduates are brutal and murderous thugs. In fact, more than 61,000 
officers, noncommissioned officers and soldiers have graduated from or 
attended courses at these U.S. Army schools. They have helped foster a 
spirit of cooperation and interoperability among militaries throughout 
Central and South Americas.
  The vast majority, Mr. Chairman, of graduates have contributed 
positively to the region's transition to democracy, while helping to 
avoid interstate conflict in the hemisphere. While credible accusations 
of human rights abuses have been leveled against some graduates, most 
have served their Nation with honor and distinction.
  In the interest of full disclosure, Mr. Chairman, I am a Catholic and 
I was educated by the Jesuits, and I understand the opposition that is 
coming from that direction of some abuses and torture, yes, that 
occurred 30 years ago, but this is a classic example, this amendment, 
of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It would be equivalent to 
saying that we should shut down Fort Benning because of the My Lai 
massacre, and Lieutenant Calley that occurred in the Vietnam War.
  It just does not make sense, and I am totally opposed to my good 
friend Mr. McGovern's amendment, and I respectfully ask my colleagues 
to vote ``no.''
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, let me tell my good friend from Georgia, maybe he did 
not hear my opening speech, but I cited a case that happened 2 weeks 
ago where a graduate of the School of the Americas was involved in 
killing counternarcotics police in Colombia.
  The other thing is, I have heard from the gentleman from Georgia and 
the gentleman from Arizona that the vast majority of graduates from 
this school go on to serve their countries honorably. How do we know? 
There is no follow-up done by this school and the Department of 
Defense. The only reason we know about the notorious cases is because 
of the hard work that goes on by human rights organizations on the 
ground and people in our own State Department. That is how we know, but 
there is no follow-up. There is no basis to say that the majority go on 
to serve their countries honorably. We do not know that.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Meehan).
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the 
amendment offered by my friend from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern).
  Not long into my first term in Congress back in 1993, an article was 
published in Newsweek titled, ``Running a School for Dictators,'' about 
the School of the Americas. The School of the Americas was supposed to 
instill democratic values in foreign military officers, and it was 
exposed as being a breeding ground for murderers, thieves and common 
thugs.
  I said at the time that ``if the School of the Americas held an 
alumni reunion association meeting, it would bring together some of the 
most unsavory thugs in the Western Hemisphere.'' Thankfully, the School 
of the Americas was closed in 1999, but soon after WHINSEC opened in 
the same building, with much of the same faculty that had been part of 
the School of the Americas.
  WHINSEC's record has been little better than the School of the 
Americas. Many of its graduates have returned to their home countries 
to repress, abuse and kill fellow citizens.
  There can be no doubt that our own recent record on human rights 
leaves something to be desired. We have operated secret prisons, 
propped up corrupt regimes, and overlooked human rights abuses in 
others. The administration has done little to hide its contempt for 
international convictions on human rights, notably the Geneva 
Convention and the protections that it contains for enemy combatants.
  Our own recent record has been bad enough, but we certainly do not 
need to be exporting techniques overseas by teaching them at WHINSEC. 
Our credibility in the world is at its lowest point in memory. The road 
back to respectability will be long and slow. Cutting funding to 
WHINSEC is a small step in the right direction.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) has 4\1/2\ 
minutes remaining. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) has 
\1/2\ minute remaining.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  I rise in support of this amendment. I am a cosponsor of a bill 
sponsored by the gentleman from Massachusetts that would accomplish a 
similar goal, and I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the issue of 
WHINSEC on the floor today.
  What we are witnessing with regard to WHINSEC is a classic case of 
history repeating itself. For years, many Members of Congress and 
activists, including Maryknoll nuns based in my congressional district, 
fought to shut down the notorious School of the Americas. The school's 
very existence was undermining U.S. efforts to promote civilian control 
of the military and respect for human rights in Latin America. So the 
army closed the SOA and reopened it a few weeks later with a new name.
  To quote William Shakespeare, ``A rose by any other name would still 
smell as sweet.'' Indeed, WHINSEC is just another name for the School 
of the Americas, and neither of them passes the smell test. The same 
moral issues still plague the institution, and the U.S. military still 
refuses to take common-sense steps to fix the problem.
  As my colleague from Massachusetts has pointed out, the vetting 
process for students at WHINSEC is still broken, resulting in known 
human rights abusers attending the school. DOD still refuses to monitor 
the careers of WHINSEC graduates, preferring to be kept in the dark 
about how U.S. military education is applied in Latin American 
countries. And past questions about the School of the Americas have 
still not been answered, giving us no basis on which to build a better, 
more credible and more effective program at WHINSEC.
  I understand that the majority of WHINSEC's funding does not come 
from this bill, but I believe the amendment before us today provides an 
excellent opportunity to send the message that we still cannot stomach 
the continued reckless use of our military training dollars.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the remaining time.
  Mr. Chairman, if we want to let Latin America know that we get it on 
human rights, then let us shut down this notorious school. If we 
genuinely want to show Latin America that our priorities are not the 
military, but development and democracy, then let us establish a 
western hemisphere institute for judicial reform, for civil 
engineering, for local governance, for rural development, for human 
rights.
  Let us show Latin America we get it on human rights, and by closing 
down this school, we also send a powerful signal to the rest of the 
world that human rights remains our highest priority.
  I urge my colleague to support the McGovern-Lewis amendment to 
prohibit funds in this bill for WHINSEC.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the remaining time. Let me 
just close. I think we have had a thorough debate on this.
  As I said, this is an issue that we have debated over and over again, 
and I think time and time again it has been shown that this program of 
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America is one that is good, good for democracy, good for human rights, 
good for U.S. relationships with these countries in Latin America and 
Central America.
  This is a program that is good for the United States. It is a program 
that is good for the countries that are involved. This is a program 
that, if anything, ought to be expanded. We should be doing more of 
this, more transfer of values from the United States to the people of 
these countries of the law enforcement and military of these countries 
is what we ought to want to be doing.
  Bad things can happen either way. In 1992, Hugo Chavez conducted, he 
was not graduate of this, conducted a coup against the democratically-
elected government in Venezuela. Are we to conclude from that, that if 
only he had gone to the School of the Americas, that everything would 
have been well? Probably not, but by the same token, one can hardly 
conclude that because somebody has gone to the School of the Americas 
and still ends up doing something that is bad, that overall it is bad 
for the United States or for their country or for the human rights or 
the citizens of that country because it is not.
  It is a good program. It is a program that spreads democracy in the 
Western hemisphere. It is the kind of program we should be supporting, 
not the kind of program that we should be opposing, and I hope that my 
colleagues will soundly defeat this amendment as they have done in the 
past.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the McGovern-
Lewis Amendment that would eliminate funding to the Western Hemisphere 
Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the successor institution 
to the School of Americas (SOA). I believe U.S. training of 
international military and police forces can further U.S. national 
security interest particularly in the field of civilian control of the 
military and promoting human rights. But WHINSEC has gone about 
training and educating Latin American military in exactly the wrong 
way.
  The egregious human rights abusive by WHINSEC graduates in the 1980s 
and 1990s compelled the Defense Department to revise the curriculum and 
change the name of the school. But WHINSEC continues to fail the grade 
for adherence to human rights and the rule of law by its students. I 
support the McGovern amendment to send a message to our U.S. military 
leadership that Americans demand that their tax dollars be spent to 
uphold accepted norms of human rights behavior, much like Americans 
rejected U.S. torture practices abroad.
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in 
opposition to the amendment offered by my good friend from 
Massachusetts.
  I understand the concerns that prompted this amendment.
  Nevertheless, I believe that prohibiting funds to WHINSEC would be 
wrong-headed and shortsighted.
  As a member of the WHINSEC Board of Visitors, I've had the 
opportunity to see firsthand the training that takes place there. 
Respect for human rights is a fundamental component of the curriculum, 
and it is a top priority for the Commandant and the faculty.
  WHINSEC has made significant and sustained efforts over the last 
several years to reach out to human rights groups--to show them the 
human rights training that is taking place, and to have them take an 
active role in that training through lectures, discussions, and other 
interactions with the students. Some groups choose to participate, 
others do not. But WHINSEC is making a serious effort to include them.
  I've heard critics of WHINSEC say that ``Latin America is walking 
away'' from the Institute, but from what I've seen, nothing could be 
further from the truth. Enrollment is down only because many countries 
lack the funding to send their students. Why is that? Because we 
prohibit IMET funding for countries who haven't signed Article 98 
agreements. That's an important issue--something we've been working on 
in the House Armed Services Committee--but it has nothing to do with 
other countries' interest or willingness to send students to WHINSEC.
  On the Armed Services Committee, we've worked very hard over the 
years to promote regional security cooperation and military-to-military 
relationships with our allies around the world.
  Nowhere is this effort more important than in Latin America. We must 
maintain strong ties with our partners in the region, or else we will 
wake up to find that our competitors--or even our enemies--have taken 
our place.
  We cannot afford to let those relationships falter. And WHINSEC is a 
vital tool for strengthening security cooperation in the region.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be 
postponed.


      Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida

  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 3 offered by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of 
     Florida:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


   limitation on international narcotics control and law enforcement 
                         assistance for mexico

       Sec. 5xx. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under the 
     heading ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement'', not more than $39,000,000 may be available for 
     assistance for Mexico.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite) and a Member opposed 
each will control 5 minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in opposition to 
the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will control the time in opposition.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  I thank the Chair for the opportunity to speak about this amendment 
on the Foreign Operations appropriations bill before us.
  Let me remind my colleagues that the Mexican government publishes 
manuals giving advice to migrants on how to illegally enter and live in 
the United States without being detected. They are encouraging breaking 
our laws. Moreover, recently, if we recall, the Mexican government 
actually threatened to sue the United States if our government acts to 
strengthen and defend our southern border.
  Imagine how surprised I was when the committee added another $1 
million increase that Mexico will ostensibly use to strengthen its 
northern border.

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  This increase is over the budget request in the International 
Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement section. My amendment will 
actually leave the $39 million included in the budget request for 
narcotics control and law enforcement untouched. Instead, my amendment 
eliminates that $1 million that the committee recommended to be used to 
help Mexico's northern border infrastructure.
  Let's face it, they are not interested in defending and protecting 
their northern border, which is our southern border. In past years, 
Mexico actually spent the money appropriated for narcotics control and 
law enforcement in even a questionable manner. However, sending extra 
money to the Mexican Government to strengthen their borders is, I 
believe, as insane as it is unconscionable.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I do rise in opposition to the amendment 
offered by the gentlewoman. She proposes, as she said, to reduce the 
funding to Mexico for the International Narcotics Control Law 
Enforcement account that we call INCLE, from $40 million to $39 
million. It is only a $1 million reduction, but it is symbolic, and I 
understand that; but as a symbol I think it runs counter to what we 
have been asking the Mexican Government to do, and that is to help us 
seal the border with regard to drug trafficking coming across the 
border.
  I have the privilege of chairing the U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary 
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and we met this year in Mexico, legislators, Members of Congress from 
both the United States and Mexico meeting there. We were struck, I 
think every member of the U.S. delegation was struck, by the degree of 
cooperation that we are seeing now from Mexico, particularly the 
Mexican policymakers, the congress, in struggling against the drug 
trafficking, and, actually, they have been very good on that for 
several years; but now the efforts they are making to help try and seal 
the border, it is certainly the most cooperation that we have seen in 
the last 20 years.
  In fact, the Mexican congress has adopted unanimously a joint 
resolution expressing their commitment to helping resolve and 
expressing their acknowledgment that they have a responsibility for 
helping to control the problems of migration, illegal migration coming 
into the United States.
  The bill that we brought before you is a very modest increase, the $1 
million increase, over the previous year to Mexico to help to try and 
control the border. The majority of this goes to sustain border and 
port security by improving the ports of entry, improving the 
inspections at the ports of entry, more secure traffic laws, mobile 
interdiction teams, and national crime databases. These are all good 
things. These are the kinds of things we should want to support in 
criminal justice and institution-building in Mexico, and including the 
Office of the Attorney General and anticorruption programs. So I think 
it is a good program, and I think it is one that deserves to have 
support.
  Let me be clear about one fact: the funds in this account are used by 
Mexico to help stop narcotics from entering the United States. Cutting 
funding in this area doesn't really hurt Mexico, because it isn't 
anything that has to do with their own law enforcement per se. It hurts 
our efforts to keep drugs off our streets and out of our schools.
  I think this amendment won't have a huge effect, but as a symbol I 
think it is the wrong kind of symbol that we should be sending to 
Mexico, and I do oppose the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Chairman, a week ago today I 
was actually on the Mexican border. I was in Texas, in El Paso. The 
sheriffs along the border, the ones on our side, are the ones doing the 
interdiction of the drugs. This amount, while it is $1 million, and I 
guess in Washington everybody says it is only a million, a million 
here, a million there starts to add up, but I would certainly encourage 
support for this amendment.
  If we are going to spend that extra million dollars, I would rather 
give it to the sheriffs at the border patrol on our side of the border, 
where I know the money is well spent, and so I ask for the support of 
my colleagues for this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I would just say again I think this is an 
ill-advised amendment, but, with that, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Weiner

  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Weiner:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


          prohibition against direct funding for saudi arabia

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be obligated or expended to finance any assistance to Saudi 
     Arabia.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) and a Member opposed each will 
control 10 minutes.
  Does the gentleman from Arizona seek to control the time in 
opposition?
  Mr. KOLBE. I do, Mr. Chairman.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will be recognized.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume, 
and I rise to offer the Weiner-Burton-Crowley-Ferguson-Berkley 
amendment to prohibit all aid in this bill from going to the Saudi 
Arabians.
  You might be asking a couple of questions. First, you might be asking 
why we would be offering any aid at all to the wealthiest nation on 
Earth; why we would be offering any aid at all to a nation that exports 
Wahabism, exports terrorism, has done nothing to help us in Iraq, and 
has, frankly, not been constructive. And on top of all that, why are we 
offering it when consistently, every single year, this House says we 
are not going to support it.
  Well, we are back here again because we here in this House did not 
heed the admonition of President Bush after September 11 when he said, 
you know, nowadays, we have to not look at what nations say, we have to 
start looking at what they actually do. And the fact is that despite 
the great rhetoric of the people of Saudi Arabia and their government, 
they continue to be a force of hate in the world and continue to be a 
force that exports terrorism in the world.
  Let me give you an example, just since we passed this bill last time. 
This is a quotation from the Saudi Ambassador from an ad in the New 
Republic on the back cover of September 12, 2005. It says: 
``Modernizing our school curricula to better prepare our children for 
the challenges of tomorrow, Saudi Arabia has vowed to fight evil with 
justice and challenge extremism with moderation and tolerance.'' That 
is what they say.
  I am holding in my hand the government-sponsored textbook of the 
people of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Chairman. I am holding a book that is in 
classrooms today. Let me tell you some of the things they are teaching 
in the eighth grade from their textbooks today: ``The apes are Jews, 
the keepers of the Sabbath, while the swine are the Christian infidels 
of the communion of Jesus.''
  That is what this textbook says the children in the eighth grade in 
Saudi Arabia are being taught today. And if we are to pass this bill as 
is, we are going to pass funding for Saudi Arabia from the U.S. 
taxpayers.
  Let me show you what they are teaching in the ninth grade. This is 
the Saudi Ministry. This is the textbook that is issued by the 
government of Saudi Arabia: ``The hour of judgment will not come until 
the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.'' This is in a part of the 
world where we in this House, we in this country are trying to seek 
moderation and trying to seek tolerance. This is what they are teaching 
this year.
  You know, I could read some other quotes, and among the quotes I can 
read are yours, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Chairman, who has done a terrific job 
with this bill by and large and have served this House with great 
distinction. Every single year we say, well, the reason we are putting 
money in this bill is the Saudis are getting better.
  Sure, 15 of the 19 homicide bombers on my city were Saudis; sure, 70 
percent of the most wanted international terrorists are Saudis; sure, 
according to the State Department, 60 percent of all the funding 
exported is coming from the Saudis. But, still, they are getting 
better. They are getting better.
  Mr. Chairman, this is what they are saying today.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I do rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  In this bill there is a total of $420,000 for Saudi Arabia. Now, just 
so we understand where these accounts are, the $20,000 we have heard 
about before, last year that is what we were arguing about, $20,000 in 
this entire bill when this amendment came up. And why do we have that 
in there? That is for providing a classroom space for the IMET, the 
International Military Education Training program, for IMET students.
  Why do we have to provide one space? Because by giving them a grant 
for one space, they are then eligible to buy seats in the classes that 
they pay for at the somewhat reduced rate. So that is just simply a 
kind of a dues that are required in order to have them eligible for 
this program.
  We have talked about IMET before. Again, it is similar to what we 
were just talking about a moment ago with regard to the WHINSEC program 
in Latin America. If we want to have American values of democracy and 
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these countries, to these people, then we need to have that kind of 
program.
  Now, the other $400,000 is new this year. Not a heck of a lot of 
money, but it is for nonproliferation, antiterrorism, and demining 
programs. This pays for American experts, bomb detection experts, 
criminal investigation experts to go and help train antiterrorism 
police in Saudi Arabia.
  For heaven sakes, is this not something we want to do? Do we not want 
to train the Saudis to help the Saudis become better at detecting 
antiterrorism, at detecting terrorist attacks? Do we not want to help 
them try to deter those kinds of attacks against us and against their 
own society?
  This is about the war on terror. And this amendment is about saying, 
no, we don't want Saudi Arabia involved in the war on terror; we don't 
believe they should be on our side in the war on terror, because we 
want to cut out the money that allows us to help the little bit that we 
have that allows us to help train those people.
  So I understand the sentiment that is behind this. It is an easy kind 
of sentiment to scratch the surface and get to this kind of emotion, 
but it is not the right thing to do. It is clearly not the right thing 
to do. If we desire that the people of Saudi Arabia embrace a more 
Western tolerance and a value system, how do we expect them to learn to 
do that? If we want them to be a better partner in the war on terror, 
how do we expect them to do that if we are not willing to help train 
them?
  This is absolutely the wrong signal for us to send, and I oppose this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to one of the sponsors of 
this amendment, Mr. Burton.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. First of all, the Saudis don't need our money. 
They are one of the biggest oil producers in the world. And so why are 
we giving them $400,000 or $500,000 or a million, or whatever it 
happens to be?
  I understand this is symbolic, but the fact of the matter is we want 
to send a message today to the Saudis. And the message is that we don't 
want them supporting Wahabism, which teaches hatred and teaches people 
to want to hate to the degree they would kill Christians and Jews and 
anybody that doesn't agree with them.
  They are not only giving money to teach Wahabism in Saudi Arabia, but 
they are doing it in countries around the world. They are doing it in 
Canada, where 17 people were just captured the other day from a mosque 
up there that was teaching Wahabism and who were going to behead the 
Prime Minister of Canada.
  Now, they should be very careful about where they are spending their 
money. And the way to let them know that is not to give them any of our 
money, which they don't need anyhow. They are also giving money to 
terrorist organizations like Hamas, and they are giving money to the 
families of people who blow themselves up, killing innocent women and 
children.
  The Saudis should be responsible in using their money and teaching 
brotherly love and human rights and dignity of man instead of teaching 
Wahabism, which teaches just the opposite, hatred, murder, killing of 
people who don't agree with them and trying to spread in a prolific way 
the hatred of Wahabism.
  I understand the concern of my colleague, but this is a signal that 
we are sending today. It is not going to amount to very much money, but 
it is a signal that needs to be sent to the Saudis that the world, not 
just the United States but the world, does not want organizations 
teaching hatred of Christians and Jews and anybody that doesn't agree 
with them. And that is being taught, as my colleague Mr. Weiner just 
pointed out very vividly on the floor.
  In their textbooks, in their teaching they are teaching hatred, and 
that is not a thing we should be supporting in any way. And although 
this isn't much money, it is a message that should be sent, and I agree 
very strongly and hope everybody supports this amendment, as they did 
last year.

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  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
respond very briefly to what the gentleman just said. I think what he 
just said demonstrates what this issue is all about: Are we talking 
about something that scratches the surface of emotions, or are we 
talking about something that is real.
  The money is not symbolic. It is real. The $20,000 allows them to buy 
a seat at the IMET table. It allows them to send their students to the 
United States to be trained in western values, in democracy and 
justice.
  The $400,000 is to pay for American experts to go over and train them 
in bomb detections and in criminal investigations. Is the gentleman 
saying we do not want them to be trained, we do not want them to 
participate? What does this have to do with Wahabism? Nothing. This has 
to do with whether or not they are going to be a partner in the war on 
terror.
  But yes, you can reach beyond that to the emotion and you can do the 
wrong thing, which this amendment would do, which is to cut the money 
which enables them to participate in a significant way in the war on 
terror.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  But, Mr. Chairman, that is not what they are traveling around the 
world to do. They are traveling around the world, in the words of our 
own Department of Treasury, with the World Association of Muslim Youth. 
What are they doing? They are exporting Wahabism. They are setting up 
madrasahs all around the world. They are exploiting the kind of 
teaching that you and I do not agree with them, and we are giving them 
in this bill a 2,000 percent increase from what they got last year when 
this House said we had had enough.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Ferguson).
  Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the gentleman from New 
York for yielding me this time and his leadership on this issue.
  I also want to thank and recognize the chairman of the subcommittee 
for his years of distinguished work in this House. I am a supporter of 
the bill on the floor today, but I am also deeply disappointed that it 
provides money for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  Our own government continues to chronicle Saudi Arabia's continuing 
human rights abuses, their lack of religious freedom, and lack of 
rights for women. In 2005, the Department of State Report on Human 
Rights Practices called Saudi Arabia's human rights record ``poor 
overall with continuing serious problems.'' Reported human rights 
violations include beatings, denial of fair trials, political 
prisoners, restrictions on civil liberties and discrimination against 
women, religions, and other minorities.
  In December 2005, Saudi Arabia officially became a member of the 
World Trade Organization, despite the significant objections of a 
number of us here in this body. A key condition of their membership was 
that they would not longer participate in the Arab boycott of Israel, 
which is one of our key allies in the Middle East. But there are still 
credible reports that this condition even today has not been met.
  The fact that their continued reassurances to our own diplomats prove 
to be all talk and no action is an affront to the United States and 
every other country in the WTO.
  Saudi Arabia continues to be one of the biggest financial supporters 
of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, despite appeals by the United 
States to cut funding to this terrorist organization. How can the House 
of Representatives continue to send American taxpayer dollars to a 
country which supports a government led by a terrorist organization?
  Last year, this House overwhelmingly passed this amendment in this 
same appropriations bill. Things have not changed for the Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia. We cannot continue to reward a country that has a poor 
human rights record, terrorist connections, and has continued to break 
promises made to the United States and the international community. We 
need to continue to hold them accountable for their actions. I urge my 
colleagues to join me in supporting this amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, if we were sending, millions of dollars to 
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Saudi Arabia, as the gentleman from Indiana pointed out, they are a 
rich country, so as you pointed out, they are doing some bad things, I 
would agree with them. If we were sending millions of dollars for 
various projects in Saudi Arabia, I would agree with them.
  But we are talking about training a police officer to have the tools 
to detect a terrorist attack. We are talking about fighting terrorism. 
This is so narrow and so focused. It is on counterterrorism, and that 
surely is what we want the Saudis to do, to have the skills to detect a 
terrorist attack in advance, to head it off, to investigate terrorist 
attacks and to be able to prosecute those people. Surely that is what 
we want to do.
  We do not agree with the policies of Saudi Arabia. I do not agree 
with them, but I certainly want their police officers, I want their 
detectives to have the kinds of skills they need to go after 
terrorists, and that is what this amendment is about. This tiny amount 
of money is about that. We ought not to be taking this kind of step. It 
is more than symbolic. It has to do with very specific kinds of 
training that combats terrorism.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I rise to strike the last word, and I yield 
to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley).
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for striking the 
last word and yielding me this time.
  I have tremendous respect for my colleague, Mr. Kolbe, and his 
efforts, but I do rise in support of this amendment.
  It's sad we are here today debating this, and I was tempted, quite 
frankly, to submit once again my testimony from last year because 
things have not changed in this year that has gone by. I have not seen 
a discernible change in the attitude of the Saudis towards their 
education system. They say there are changes made, but in reading The 
Washington Post and other publications, and as Mr. Weiner has 
demonstrated on the floor today, in reality, there has been no 
significant change.
  There is still the teaching of the next generation of Saudis hatred 
towards Jews and towards Christians. That needs to change. You cannot 
just say you are our ally, and all is well; you have to show by deeds 
and actions that you are as well. You cannot say you are our ally and 
at the same time export that hatred to other countries like Bangladesh 
and Pakistan and Indonesia where unrest is fomenting towards the United 
States. You cannot be our ally and not show by deeds.
  I do not think the amount of money that we are striking from this 
bill will make a difference to the Saudis in terms of their training of 
anti-terrorism. It is in their interest to fight the war on terror. It 
is in their interest to combat terrorism in their own country. But it 
is also in their interest, I believe, if they want a strong 
relationship with this country is to own up to what has been 
responsible for much of the terrorism that has been exported around the 
world: It is coming from Saudi Arabia.
  Much of the money that has being exported around the world to 
madrasahs that are teaching fundamentalism is coming from Saudi Arabia. 
You can't have your cake and eat it, too. That is the message we are 
sending today. That is why I, once again, stand in strong support of 
the Weiner amendment, and I hope my colleagues send a strong message 
symbolically to Saudi Arabia that enough is enough. If you are on our 
side, then act like you are and prove it to us.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the amendment offered 
by my friend from New York, Mr. Weiner.
  It's a sad state of affairs that we have to have this debate every 
year.
  I felt the urge to use the same exact statement I made last year 
about all of the failings of Saudi Arabia because nothing has changed.
  How long is the Administration going to ignore the Saudi support of 
terrorism?
  The Saudis claim to be our allies, but at the same time they offer 
assistance in our war on terrorism, their people fund the terrorists 
who desire to attack us.
  Nineteen of the 22 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi.
  Saudi blood money threatens those who support freedom and democracy.
  They continue to export their repressive brand of Islam around the 
world, creating a new group of angry young men and women.
  We must take a stand in this House and let the Saudis know that their 
time of extremism is over because we will not stand for it anymore.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. WEINER. I have no further speakers, so I will use this time to 
wrap up.
  The chairman of the subcommittee deserves an enormous amount of 
credit for through the years crafting excellent bills that have unified 
this House. Three hundred of us said last year, enough is enough, we 
are not going to provide aid to Saudi Arabia.
  The fact that we still have it back this year makes you wonder why it 
is. But he posits the wrong question. He says what is so bad about 
having a 2,000 percent increase in the amount of funds we are going to 
provide Saudi Arabia? My colleagues, we should be asking a different 
question when we provide foreign aid. The question should be: Why 
should we? Why should we provide aid to a country that has 
systematically exported terrorism?
  When Osama bin Laden left Saudi Arabia for the caves of Afghanistan, 
he did so with what some people think was close to $1 billion of cash 
in his pocket, Saudi blood money.
  When Wahabism is spread worldwide, this virulent form of Islamic 
teaching that is outside anyone's realm of understanding about why you 
would teach young people to hate, as I showed from this textbook from 
this year, the Saudi government is doing that.
  When we look at the numbers of Saudi citizens that are being exported 
around the world and committing acts of terror, when we look at the 
fact that the Saudis said again and again we are going to shut down 
these bank accounts that fund terrorism, and again and again it has 
been proven that they haven't done it, the question should be: Why are 
we providing any aid to them? Never mind a 2,000 percent increase from 
last year, why provide any aid?
  And this legislation is very simple. It says let us have a good 
foreign aid bill, but not a 2,000 percent increase to the Saudis when 
they have lied to us. They said they were going to close down ``Account 
98'' used to fund terrorism. As of today, it is open.
  They said they were going to change their teachings to make them more 
tolerant. As of today, they have not.
  They said they were going to stop exporting Wahabism. As of today, 
the World Association of Muslim Youth is still being funded by them and 
exporting the worst type of terrorism.
  My colleagues, I urge you to support the Weiner-Burton-Crowley-
Ferguson-Berkley amendment. Let's make this a good foreign aid bill 
that doesn't include foreign aid to people who have lied to us and 
exported terrorism. Let's not provide a 2,000 percent increase in aid 
to the Saudis. I urge a ``yes'' vote.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time and 
just say very quickly that a 2,000 percent increase is a bogus 
argument. There was $20,000 last year. There is $420,000 this year 
because we have $400,000 for terrorist training specifically to pay for 
the salaries of American experts who go over there to train their 
police. It is not the percentage amount that we are talking about here. 
It is, should we be doing this kind of work at all; and the answer, I 
think, if you believe we should be fighting the war on terror and that 
we should be fighting it where we can find it, wherever we can find 
police forces that need to be trained, we ought to be doing it with the 
Saudis, and that is all this is about. I urge defeat of the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be 
postponed.

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              Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 5 offered by Mr. King of Iowa:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


       limitation on economic support fund assistance for mexico

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     under the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' may be used to 
     provide assistance for Mexico.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. I rise to claim the time in opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona will control the time in 
opposition.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa for 5 minutes.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  The amendment that I offer today is an amendment that supports the 
continuing philosophy of the Nethercutt amendment of 2004 that removes 
funds that go to the economic support fund in Mexico if they do not 
comply with an Article 98 order, which says that they would not send an 
American citizen to the International Criminal Court.
  Mexico is slated to cash in big on foreign aid contained in H.R. 
5522. The House report would allocate $40 million in assistance to 
Mexico while the President's fiscal year 2007 budget request estimates 
that they will receive $62.9 million in various forms of aid through 
this bill.
  My amendment would prohibit sending economic support funds to Mexico, 
and that is about $9 million. And despite spending over $31 million in 
economic support funds since 2004, the Mexican government has not show 
any progress towards real reform.
  Mexico is rife with corruption. Their politicians can steal, bribe, 
and commit fraud and avoid jail time since crimes are not always 
treated seriously, especially these crimes of fraud, regardless of the 
amount of money stolen. A case in point would be $90 million that was 
diverted, and that is U.S. dollars, diverted from PEMEX, which is 
Mexico's nationally-owned oil company, to illegally finance the 2000 
presidential campaign by the PRI. And yet even though they have been 
fined, they can pay their payments in installments, and there has been 
no jail time. This is indicative with what we are faced with down 
there. And with all of the money that has gone in under this fund, I 
cannot measure that there has been any kind of significant results.
  Now they are prohibited from advancing these funds, even though they 
have been appropriated, unless Mexico agrees under an Article 98 
agreement that even though they have joined the International Criminal 
Court, they would not send a United States citizen to that court. 
Mexico refuses to do so; and, in fact, a statement in February from a 
spokesman for President Fox said that the United States is within its 
rights in suspending military aid, but this would not persuade Mexico 
to change its stance on, as he said, full adhesion to the ICC at 
whatever cost.
  Mr. Chairman, this is one of those costs. And if they are determined 
to send American citizens, maybe American military, maybe CIA, maybe 
FBI, maybe American soldiers or American Marines to the International 
Criminal Court as our southern border, they have missed the point, Mr. 
Chairman, in all of this, and I intend to make that point with this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Filner) who represents a border State and a border 
district.
  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Chairman, I do represent the total California-Mexico 
border.
  Mr. Kolbe, I want to thank you for your leadership during your time 
in Congress on many of these issues. You have chaired with distinction 
the Interparliamentary with Mexico, as was noted earlier.

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  You have been a spokesman for rationality in dealing with Mexican 
issues. We are going to miss that voice. As you can see, the 
irrationality seems to be taking hold. So I am sorry you are going to 
go, and we are going to miss your leadership on this. So thank you 
again.
  Mr. Chairman, these amendments which aim at taking money from Mexico 
are going to do the exact opposite as what the makers of the motion 
have in mind.
  We have a long border with Mexico. It is a friendly nation. We have a 
real problem with immigration. How do we solve that problem, by 
punishing them? I don't know if that helps any. These monies that are 
the subject of this amendment, the Economic Support Fund, are to 
promote economic and political stability, to strengthen judicial 
systems, increase transparency in government, help create jobs. How is 
reform going to take place unless we are engaging with them, unless we 
are seen as an ally? And as we say, we are friendly with them.
  And I will tell Mr. King, my friend, who I often mix up with Mr. 
Tancredo in more ways than one, that the immigration issue will be 
compounded by these efforts to stop assistance to Mexico. We know that 
people come here for jobs. If there were jobs in Mexico, they would not 
come here. They don't want to leave their country. They are just trying 
to find a way for their families to have a future. We need to do 
everything we can to help Mexico create jobs. And that is the quickest, 
most cost-effective, cheapest way to deal with the illegal immigration 
problem. This is not going to help create jobs. This will hurt and hurt 
your efforts to stop illegal immigration. Let's vote down this 
amendment.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield a minute to the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Culberson).
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, the government of Mexico has not been 
friendly to the United States, and the Republican majority in this 
House is representing the people of America who are flat fed up with 
the Mexican Government's refusal to control the flow of criminals and 
illegal aliens to the United States. Let's talk about facts. Mr. Filner 
is ignoring the fact, and the Democrats are ignoring the fact the 
Mexican Government is permitting armed training camps for 
narcoterrorists in northern Mexico. This is a photograph of a 
Guatemalan Kaibiles militia member training. There is a camp run by the 
Kaibiles, by the Zetas and just outside of Matamoros, Mexico, across 
the river from Texas. The weapons these individuals are using, and we 
will talk more about this in the leadership hour at the end of the day, 
here is just a sample of some of the weapons these narcoterrorists are 
using on the border, 40 millimeter grenade launchers. There is open 
warfare in the Nuevo Laredo areas. These are some photographs of some 
of the results of some of the gun fights that are taking place there. 
There are even armed Mexican militia spotters on hill tops in Arizona 
on U.S. soil who are protecting the smuggling routes.
  Mexico has not been acting like a friend. They have encouraged 
illegal immigration to this country. They have encouraged and turned a 
blind eye to the corruption and the criminals pouring across our 
border, and it is time the House cut off money to Mexico to send the 
message we are sick and tired of them not protecting our border and 
discouraging illegal immigration.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  First I would state that the information that has been provided here 
by the gentleman from Texas is a chilling thing to see. And if this 
Chamber had the ability to look at these pictures and understand the 
topography and know what is going on in the north side of our border 
and that is with the full knowledge of the government of Mexico and 
understand also that the corruption is replete on the other side of the 
border and in an even more significant way.
  These people have an unlimited amount of funds. There are $60 billion 
worth of illegal drugs that come into the United States across our 
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border every single year, eleven million illegal people every day 
coming across that border. And this fund, this is a $9 million fund 
that is supposed to be teaching freedom and democracy and proper forms 
of government. We don't have an ounce of evidence that demonstrates 
that they have moved anything in that direction. In fact, I suspect 
that it has gone the other way. The American people know this. People 
that live on the border know this. Members of Congress who represent 
these pictures that you have seen here ought to know this, and they 
ought to support my amendment. This amendment simply supports the 
Nethercutt amendment which has been renewed each year since it has been 
brought before this Congress. But there is no reason for us to 
appropriate $9 million when the Mexican Government has said that they 
are not going to comply or agree with an article 98 agreement, which 
again, is the agreement that would state that they would not send an 
American to the International Criminal Court. In fact, the 
representative of President Vicente Fox has said the exact opposite, 
that they are going to comply with their entire agreement with the 
International Criminal Court and they would not enter an article 98 
agreement. Therefore, we must support this amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, let me just say once again I think this 
would be a very wrong-headed amendment, the wrong thing for us to do. 
This is not symbolic. This cuts all the ESF funds that we provide to 
the country of Mexico, which is, relative to most of our programs 
around the world, very, very small because Mexico is a country that is 
beyond the least developed; it is now rapidly developing.
  The money that we provide here is important money. It is money that 
helps promote democracy. It is money that helps promote such things as 
property rights. It is money that helps promote such things as 
microfinance. It is the kinds of things that we do that help provide 
economic livelihood for the people in Mexico. This is about job 
creation. It is about allowing people to live and work in Mexico and 
not have to come to the United States. If you want less migration from 
Mexico to the United States, we have got to give them a hand, a hand up 
to prevent them from having to come to the United States because they 
have no way of taking care of their families. So this would be the 
wrong thing for us to do in terms of cutting the economic support funds 
for Mexico.
  It is also the wrong thing to do to a neighbor with whom we have a 
very good relationship. Do we have problems? Of course we have 
problems. Are there times when we disagree? Of course we disagree. 
Would we like to have more help on some of the migration problems and 
the drug interdiction problems? Yes, we want more help. But I remember, 
I have been here in this Congress for 22 years, and I remember going to 
the inter-American, the U.S.-Mexico parliamentary meetings 22 years ago 
when we were told by our State Department, our law enforcement 
officials, there was no cooperation with Mexico. Today, that is very 
much changed. There is cooperation. We have significant cooperation. 
This is the wrong thing to do to a country like Mexico that is doing 
its best to try and cooperate with the United States, both on migration 
and on drug interdiction. These are small programs, but they are 
programs that make a difference in terms of economic livelihood in 
Mexico, and I hope we will defeat this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be postponed.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Kucinich

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Kucinich:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


       limitation on millennium challenge corporation assistance

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act 
     under the heading ``Millennium Challenge Corporation'' may be 
     used to implement the Northern Zone Investment Plan in El 
     Salvador with respect to the Northern Transnational Highway.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, my amendment will prohibit the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation funds from being used to construct a highway in 
El Salvador to help gold mining companies. The construction of this 
highway which constitutes a majority of El Salvador's MCC funding will 
mostly benefit two gold mining companies. Meanwhile, productive 
development priorities which are desperately needed by El Salvador's 
poor will be shortchanged.
  In fall of 2005, the two largest Canadian mining companies received 
permits from the government of El Salvador to conduct initial surveying 
of the northern region where gold had been discovered. These companies 
made it known to the government they intended to mine for gold. Later, 
El Salvador's president announced that he intended to use MCC funding 
for construction of a large highway that, guess what, would go right 
through that same gold mine region.
  Only weeks ago the Salvadoran Government committed a majority of its 
MCC funding for construction of this golden highway. You can clearly 
see the connection between the highway and the future mines on this 
map. All the red and yellow blocks are sites of potential mines, and 
the green lines where the highway is to be built. As you can see, every 
potential mine will be linked up to a road with construction of this 
highway. This highway will link up to other roads in neighboring 
countries so the wealth of this poor region can be extracted and easily 
shipped out.
  The mining companies are accustomed to building their own roads to 
facilitate mining operations, but they are not going to have to build 
any roads in El Salvador. This a huge financial incentive for these 
mining companies and a subsidy to their operation. Here we are, 
America's going broke, and we are building highways in El Salvador for 
Canadian gold mining corporations. You know, we give these gold mine 
companies about $200 million for a road while the price of gold could 
go up to $800 an ounce. They should just use two truckloads of gold and 
use that to pay for the highway.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I appreciate what the gentleman from Ohio is trying to 
do to look out for the interests of the people of El Salvador, but I 
think he has got some misinformation. Now, there is one thing he is 
right about and we can certainly agree on and that is that the 
Millennium Challenge Corporation proposed compact for El Salvador does 
have a major roads component. But we are not talking about a 
superhighway that is blowing through the fields of some poor farmers in 
El Salvador. It is not about a road that is going to allow building 
profits for the multinational mining firms that are somehow earning it 
on the backs of the peasants. And the proposal certainly wasn't 
developed by the central government at the expense of the opinions of 
those at the local level.
  This proposal was developed over 7 years as part of a consultative 
process, a process which is developing as part of a regional 
development plan with the other countries in the region, which have 
identified the lack of transportation infrastructure as a significant 
impediment for development. If anyone wants proof and reads Spanish, 
you can go to the Web site for the government of El Salvador where 
reports about the consultations have been put online, where they are 
actually online about all the kind of town meetings and the other 
consultations that have taken place. And why is that? Because for one 
thing, that is one of the core requirements of the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, that this kind of transparency absolutely must be included 
in the development of the MCC proposal for the partner countries.

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  I was recently in Nicaragua and Honduras, and there too we have roads 
as a major component of what we are trying to do with the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation. And why is that important? Because that is how, 
in a country that is heavily reliant on agriculture, that is how you 
get products to market. You can't get the products from the farms up in 
the hills and in the valleys if you don't have roads, secondary roads 
and main roads, to bring those things to market. So that is why it is 
an important part of this. But it is not about taking things away from 
peasants, and this is certainly not about multinational mining 
companies. It is not about building a superhighway. This is not a four-
lane or six-lane. It is a two-lane road, a two-lane paved road that 
will be good for trucks to carry things on for products to go to 
market. And importantly, there are 150 miles of tertiary farm to road 
markets that spread out from this central highway that bring the 
products in from the little villages and the farms to this highway and 
then bring it to the markets where it can either be sold in the major 
cities of El Salvador, or it can be shipped into international 
commerce, not just to the United States, but regionally, where it can 
travel on the highways in the region and help to develop the economy of 
this region. This is the kind of thing that we ought to be trying to 
encourage.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

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  With all due respect to my good friend, this road is about helping a 
poor gold mining company more than it is about helping the people. We 
know what the stated purpose is: to connect small farmers to a larger 
market. Yet gold mining, a process that releases cyanide into the 
environment, is going to result in serious environmental damage, and it 
is going to displace the farming communities that depend on clean water 
and land.
  So you help the gold mining operations move forward and you 
effectively eradicate farming in that area, which is exactly the 
opposite of what we are being told. And if the purpose of the highway 
is to help the poor in the northern region, then why are those same 
poor and those who work with the poor opposed to the construction of 
the highway?
  I have here a photo from a newspaper in the area that shows a huge 
protest against construction of the highway, among other things, by 
people in the Chalatenango area, a poor area in the north which will be 
affected by the highway. The Catholic Diocese of Chalatenango, as well 
as Caritas, El Salvador, a Catholic relief organization that works with 
the poor and oppressed, they are marching in protest to this road that 
is supposed to be being built for them. There are so many other groups 
that are opposed to this. I submit the following list for the Record.
       Other groups opposed to construction of the highway include 
     the SHARE Foundation; Committee in Solidarity with the People 
     of El Salvador (CISPES); Unidad Ecologica Salvadorena, an 
     umbrella group of 32 environmental organizations in El 
     Salvador; the Association of Communities for the Development 
     of Chalatenango, an association of 100 villages and 22 
     municipalities; the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network 
     (SEEN); among others.

  Furthermore, not only is the northern region of El Salvador home to 
half of El Salvador's poorest areas, but it also contains the main 
source of water and biodiversity in this Lempa River Basin.
  So you have got the degrading environmental impact of gold mining, 
and it is going to have a negative consequence for the whole area; and 
El Salvador is going to end up having to borrow other money to complete 
the highway. They will end up getting loans from the World Bank and 
Inter-American Development Bank to finance the rest of the project, get 
into worse debt and have that debt paid off by the poor. This is a 
nightmare.
  I repeat: the people of the United States are building a highway in 
El Salvador for the benefit of two gold mining companies while gold is 
about $800 an ounce and these companies could build their own road with 
a couple of truckloads of gold. Why in the world, when we have bridges 
falling apart in America, when we have chuckholes all over our 
highways, when we can't even repair our own infrastructure, are we 
ready to fork over a couple hundred million dollars, principally to 
help gold mine companies from Canada? This is insane.
  So friends, Republicans, and budget hawks, lend me your ears. Reject 
this plan to fund a road for gold miners, and support the Kucinich 
amendment.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I will close very quickly. Let me just say that the 
gentleman may be right that there are some groups that oppose this; but 
every single mayor, every single elected mayor in those villages and 
those towns shown on the map that he just showed there of El Salvador 
has voted in favor of this during the consultative process. Every 
single elected mayor has come out in favor of this.
  The economic analysis of this has shown that it has about a 20 
percent return on the rate of investment. This is the kind of thing 
that is going to help farmers and businessmen and others who have been 
too long isolated in this region. In addition to markets, the project 
connects people with better education, better health care, and better 
futures for themselves and for their children.
  So I struggle to see how this amendment is against the people of El 
Salvador. It is not for mining companies. It is for the farmers; it is 
for the poor people. It is about not only their livelihood, but it is 
about their education, it is about their health care.
  Mr. Chairman, I hope this amendment would be defeated.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mrs. Musgrave

  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 9 offered by Mrs. Musgrave:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


limitation on assistance to countries that prohibit the importation of 
                           United States beef

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to provide assistance to any country identified by 
     the Department of Agriculture as a country that prohibits the 
     importation of United States beef from animals less than 30 
     months of age.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman reserves a point of order.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the gentlewoman 
from Colorado (Mrs. Musgrave) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Colorado.
  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is designed to highlight the seriousness 
of the Japanese beef embargo. My amendment would state that none of the 
funds available in this act could be used to provide assistance to any 
country identified by the Department of Agriculture as a country that 
prohibits the importation of United States beef from animals less than 
30 months of age.
  We have a wonderful product that comes from this Nation. When we look 
at the firewalls that we have for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, our 
beef is truly the safest in the world. And this ongoing trade ban 
against the United States has caused billions of dollars in loss of 
trade for our American ranchers, packers, and shippers. In Colorado 
alone, at least 1,000 job losses can be directly related to this beef 
embargo.
  Some countries such as Japan are using the guise of health and safety 
protocols for an excuse for protectionist policies. I believe that this 
needs to stop immediately. Since the USDA testing procedures were put 
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place in 2004, only two cows have been tested positive for bovine 
spongiform encephalopathy, and neither of those cattle made it into the 
food chain.
  The United States has the highest quality, safest beef in the world. 
I believe that our science is very sound, and we have met all of the 
requirements that the Japanese Government requires.
  I hope that this highlights the concern that we have with the beef 
embargo with Japan, and I don't believe that our tax dollars should go 
to nations that act in this unreasonable way.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from Colorado (Mr. Beauprez).
  Mr. BEAUPREZ. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my distinguished 
colleague from Colorado for bringing this amendment to the floor, and 
as a former cattleman myself, I am very proud and pleased to be able to 
support it. I have been working here in this House with her and Members 
of the House Beef Caucus to reopen some of our markets to American beef 
throughout the world. What frustrates me most about the remaining bans 
on U.S. beef is that they are blatantly political. These bans are not 
based on scientific evidence, evidence which overwhelmingly shows that 
U.S. beef is among the safest in the world.
  We have worked hard to demonstrate the safety of U.S. beef, and we 
have waited patiently for our trading partners to resume imports. Now 
it is time for us to do more.
  I support this amendment because it sends a strong, clear signal to 
our trading partners that we are tired of waiting, and waiting 
needlessly. Now it is time to end the ban on U.S. beef.
  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, the USDA's enhanced BSE surveillance program continues 
to test targeted animals identified as most likely to have the disease. 
Since June 1 of 2004, the program has tested almost 726,000 cattle and 
has found again only two confirmed cases, evidence to show that our 
safeguards are working. Testing 268,500 animals can detect BSE at a 
rate of one in 10 million adult cattle at a 99 percent confidence 
level.
  I would ask the respected chairman if he would work with me and the 
Members of the Agriculture Committee to resolve this problem.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, if the gentlewoman would yield, I certainly 
would intend to try to work to resolve this problem within the degree 
to which the foreign operations appropriation can do that with foreign 
countries. But coming from a ranching background and being a rancher 
myself, I would certainly agree this is a problem that is important.
  If I might, I understand that you are prepared to withdraw the 
amendment. If that is the case, then I will not need to insist on my 
point of order.
  I appreciate the exchange with the gentlewoman from Colorado.
  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your ranching background 
and your awareness of how this beef embargo affects our ranchers, 
shippers and packers; and I thank you for your consideration.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Colorado?
  There was no objection.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. Brown of Ohio

  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Brown of Ohio:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


                   Assistance to combat tuberculosis

       Sec. 5xx. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by increasing the amount made available for ``Child 
     Survival and Health Programs Fund'' for programs for the 
     prevention, treatment, control of, and research on 
     tuberculosis, as authorized by section 104B of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b-3), by reducing the 
     amount made available for ``Operating Expenses of the United 
     States Agency for International Development'', and by 
     reducing the amount made available for ``Contribution to the 
     Asian Development Fund'', by $10,000,000, $5,000,000, and 
     $5,000,000, respectively.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona will control the time in 
opposition.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. I will use significantly less than 5 minutes.
  Mr. Chairman, I thank Chairman Kolbe and Ranking Member Lowey. They 
deserve tremendous credit for recognizing long ago for many years the 
domestic and global benefits of tuberculosis control. They have been 
leaders in this body, and I thank them for that.
  There are three compelling reasons to do this amendment: additional 
dollars will save lives; additional dollars will serve the purpose of 
fighting not just TB, but contributing to a public health 
infrastructure and preparedness for a potential bird flu pandemic; and 
additional TB control dollars now will result in a net reduction of 
outlays later because of better preparation.
  This past March, the CDC reported a 13 percent increase in multidrug-
resistant TB in our country, the largest single increase since the 
early 90s when in Mrs. Lowey's State of New York there was a serious 
outbreak. When worldwide travel is an everyday affair, we can't afford 
to ignore this airborne infectious killer that can be spread by a cough 
or sneeze.
  Research published in last September's New England Journal of 
Medicine showed that U.S. investment in TB control abroad saves U.S. 
tax dollars and protects health here at home. For example, $35 million 
invested in TB efforts abroad could save the U.S. over $100 million and 
prevent nearly 2,600 cases of TB here and over 300 related TB deaths. 
Even one outbreak of MDR, drug resistant TB, can result in a very 
costly and deadly resurgence.
  Again, what this does is help us with an infrastructure that will 
help us stop bird flu or any other epidemic. It is essential that we 
fortify our public health infrastructure.
  I again thank Chairman Kolbe and Ranking Member Lowey for their 
outstanding leadership in helping this Congress fight tuberculosis here 
and abroad.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, certainly the thrust of this amendment is a good one 
and what he is attempting to do with this is very good. I have some 
concerns about the cuts, continuing to cut in what is a very limited 
increase for the O&E for USAID. But having said that, at this time I am 
prepared to accept this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word for the 
purpose of entering into a colloquy with the gentlewoman from Texas 
(Ms. Jackson-Lee).
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas. I understand she 
has some comments she would like to make.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished 
gentleman, and I thank the ranking member for her support on this 
issue.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I had an amendment that would focus on not 
having any funds be made available in this act to be used to assist any 
foreign government in enforcing any religious law that has the effect 
of punishing a victim of sexual assault or rape.
  This is an area and an issue that has a heavy burden in many of our 
Muslim populations, including Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the 
Middle East and North Africa, and as well incidents that have occurred 
in Nigeria, Libya, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkey.
  Of course, many of these are our strong allies. However, I think it 
is befitting and important for this Congress to make a very strong 
statement.

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  For example, in South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. In 
South Africa, a woman is killed every 6 days. Bangladesh shows 
vigilantism against women for a perceived moral transgression. In 
Pakistan, a woman by the name of Dr. Shazia, a 32-year-old Pakistani 
physician, is no longer in that country after being raped because of 
some problems with the judicial system, although the government has 
expressed support for her and I hope that she will be able to come back 
to testify against the particular culprit. Because of the religious 
codes that surround these incidences, women are not protected.

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  My amendment will simply go on record, Mr. Chairman, to say that we 
are paying attention to this issue, we are concerned about it, and, of 
course, we want to be able to address it.
  I would hope that in the statement of managers, as we move toward the 
Senate, we would be able to express our concern, in particular, about 
this unique issue
  And, Mr. Chairman, if I might add, as you well know, I have just 
recently returned from Afghanistan, and had many, many women surround 
me, many of them elected officials, the newly elected parliament which 
we are excited about, has a high percentage of women.
  These women said to me directly in general Chambers, we are afraid to 
go back to our provinces. I want to make sure that the security funds 
for Afghanistan have a particular sensitivity to the security of women 
elected officials after returning to their provinces and are fearful 
for their lives.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. 
Let me just say gentlewoman has been a leader in this field. I 
appreciate the fact that she has brought this issue to the attention of 
this subcommittee and to this body.
  There is no question that the treatment of women, as it relates to 
reproductive rights and their treatment in their relationships with 
their husbands and with others is horrific in many countries, and 
certainly violates all of the standards that we would consider minimal 
in this country.
  Clearly there needs to be, in our appropriations, and in the money 
that we spend on foreign assistance programs, there needs to be an 
understanding of this issue. There needs to be a sensitivity to it.
  And I appreciate the fact that the gentlewoman has brought this to 
our attention. I think by having this dialogue here today, we emphasize 
to USAID and to all of our mission directors around the world, that 
this is something that we believe they should be very much focused on, 
to be sure that the treatment of women in their respective countries, 
balancing, balancing the secular rights with the religious law that 
exists in some of these countries, balancing that, that we protect the 
rights of women, the basic human rights of women in these countries.
  Mr. Chairman, I certainly believe that this subcommittee should work 
to that end. I know that my colleague, the ranking member, Mrs. Lowey, 
has been very dedicated to doing this. And so together, as we move into 
conference, we will continue to do that.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, let me thank the 
distinguished gentleman. I might add that I think we are all aware of 
an incident that occurred with a gang rape in a country that has been 
very much an ally of the United States, Pakistan.
  The government, however, took a firm stand against it. I think the 
remarks you have made, Mr. Chairman, on the floor today and the support 
of Mrs. Lowey, if we can work toward a form of language, I would 
greatly appreciate it, as we move toward conference.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman, for her commitment 
to this issue here.


          Amendment No. 18 Offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 18 offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act under 
     the heading ``International Military Education and Training'' 
     may be used to provide training to children under the age of 
     18 in military exercises or military combat initiatives.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the 
gentlewoman's amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Arizona reserves a point of order.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. As I begin this debate, Mr. Chairman, I do 
want to acknowledge again the hard work of Mr. Kolbe and Mrs. Lowey in 
working together on probably one of the more different foreign 
operations bills in the appropriations process.
  I would also offer to say in good humor and with a sense of caring, I 
really wish the point of order could be waived. But I hope this issue 
again gains the attention of the chairman and the ranking member, that 
we could, in fact, have report language on this.
  Mr. Chairman, I have worked on this issue for a number of years. I am 
the co-chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus. This has to do 
with child soldiers. In 2002, the U.S. Senate gave unanimous consent to 
the U.S. ratification of the Child Soldiers Protocol which was the 
optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the 
involvement of children in armed conflict.
  I believe we have a moral imperative in the United States to make our 
views known, but to speak forcefully, if you will, to countries that 
insist on using children as soldiers. Uganda, for example, abduction 
rates reached their record level in late 2002, 2003, over 8,000 boys 
and girls were forced by the Lord's Resistance Army to become child 
soldiers.
  We see this in the Democratic of the Congo. We see this in Burma, 
Burundi, the DRC, Liberia, Sudan, and Uganda. We see that Burma's 
national army alone includes an estimated 70,000 child soldiers. It is 
of course a burden on the children and there is no hope.
  As I speak about the child soldiers, the most glaring example was 
heard from the eloquent presentation of the president of Liberia that 
talked about almost every child in Liberia was used as a child soldier 
during the vicious war headed by Charles Taylor.
  I am hoping that we can continue to make our moral point, assert our 
moral point as the appropriations process moves forward, and that this 
too would engender or incur report language, if you will, the 
management statement that occurs as we move toward the Senate.
  I would like, as I discuss this before I yield to the distinguished 
gentleman, is to mention my recent trip to Chad, and to indicate, in 
addition to I am sure the impact of the issue of child soldiers, the 
impact of refugees from Sudan.
  Even though the Chad receives international military education 
training dollars, which I wanted to limit, my real focus is to have 
those dollars go toward humanitarian aid to take the burden off of the 
government of Chad, as it works to be a welcome refuge for our refugees 
coming out of Sudan and to protect them, providing security for them.
  Mr. Chairman, I hope that all of these issues will receive the 
attention of the committee.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, if the gentlewoman would yield, I appreciate 
again the good work that she has done in this area, and certainly in 
our subcommittee, she has asked for some consideration in the 
conference for language, and certainly we will want to consider that. I 
do appreciate that.
  If the gentlewoman is prepared to withdraw the amendment, I would not 
have to insist on my point of order.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished 
chairman. I am prepared to withdraw it. As I said, my earlier thoughts 
are that would not it be great to have had the point of order waived, 
because I think children are dying as we speak and the refugees in Chad 
need our help.

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  I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank Mrs. Lowey for her 
support. I do want to acknowledge Rebecca Singer Cohen in my office who 
worked diligently on these amendments. With that, I look forward to 
working with you for language as we move toward the Senate.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today to support my Amendment to this Foreign 
Operations Appropriation bill, which states that none of the funds made 
available in this Act under the heading ``INTERNATIONAL MILITARY 
EDUCATION AND TRAINING'' or 'FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM'' may 
be used in contravention of the child soldiers protocol to the 
Convention on the Rights of the Child. The nations known to use child 
soldiers do not deserve military assistance from our Nation.
  On June 18, 2002 the U.S. Senate gave unanimous consent to U.S. 
ratification of the child soldiers protocol, which was the optional 
protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the 
involvement of children in armed conflict. This decision meant that the 
United States would not put anyone under the age of eighteen in combat. 
However, despite that fact that many nations throughout the world 
signed and ratified the protocol, the problem of children being put 
into combat situations is still prevalent in many regions of the world. 
Despite gains in awareness and better understanding of practical 
policies that can help reduce the use of children in war, the practice 
persists and globally, the number of child soldiers--about 300,000--is 
believed to have remained fairly constant. In some continuing armed 
conflicts, child recruitment increased alarmingly. In Northern Uganda, 
abduction rates reached record levels in late 2002 and 2003 as over 
8,000 boys and girls were forced by the Lord's Resistance Army to 
become soldiers, laborers, and sexual slaves. In the neighboring 
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where all parties to the armed 
conflict recruit and use children, some as young as seven, the forced 
recruitment of children increased so dramatically in late 2002 and 
early 2003 that observers described the fighting forces as ``armies of 
children.''
  However, it is not just non-governmental armed opposition groups who 
continue to use children to fight wars. Governments including those in 
Burma, Burundi, the DRC, Liberia, Sudan, and Ugandan have continued to 
recruit and use children in armed conflict. Burma's national army alone 
includes an estimated 70,000 child soldiers, which is nearly one-
quarter of world's total and routinely sends children as young as 
twelve into battle gainst armed ethnic opposition groups. Both Uganda 
and the DRC have ratified the optional protocol, but flout their 
obligations by using child soldiers. The Ugandan People's Defense Force 
has recruited children who escaped or were captured from the rebel 
Lord's Resistance Army, and has trained and deployed children recruited 
into local defense units. The government of DRC maintains children in 
its ranks despite a 2000 presidential decree calling for the 
demobilization of child soldiers.
  While none of these nations are specifically targeted to receive any 
military assistance in this Appropriation, it is important that this 
amendment is passed so that a message against the use of child soldiers 
is sent throughout the world. Regardless of how unlikely it is that 
such funding may ever take place, we as a nation can not allow even the 
slightest possibility that taxpayer money may go to pay for military 
assistance to other nations who continue to use child soldiers. It is 
also important to note that these military assistance funds do not 
cover any humanitarian assistance, only funds under the International 
Military Education and Training and Foreign Military Financing 
Programs. It's a travesty that here in America we talk of holding our 
children above all else, but around the world children are being used 
as tools for war. I urge support for the Jackson-Lee Amendment to 
prohibit military assistance to nations that continue to use child 
soldiers.
  We originally had this amendment include the words ``not against 
their will.'' The reason, Mr. Chairman, is that in the time that I 
spent in Chad with the refugees that have been resettled in Chad, I saw 
that the crisis in Darfur and the surrounding border areas between 
Sudan and Chad still exist.
  We have made great strides in providing resources to the region; but 
as I traveled to Chad and met with the leadership of Chad, they talked 
about the enormous challenges that they are presently having with their 
refugees and the refugees from Sudan and the need for resources. At the 
same time as I talked one on one to the refugees that were there, they 
expressed to me that the brutality was still going on.
  Of course, in Chad we find that there is a lack of sufficient water, 
adequate medical supplies, and, of course, the possibility that the 
Janjaweed will come across the border and raid them at will. But at the 
same time, these refugees were frightened about the possibility of 
being returned to Sudan because the Government of Chad may be 
overwhelmed with the resources needed to protect them.
  I believe, of course, that we can help provide the resources to Chad 
needed to protect those refugees, and the United Nations refugee 
resettlement effort was very much in force and very much an effective 
tool.
  But as we know, the genocidal regime in Sudan has left 2.5 million 
people displaced and at least 380,000 people dead in Darfur. We also 
know that there is a continuing number of refugees that have come 
across the border.
  Due to increasing violence, 15,000 innocent civilians continue to die 
each month. Genocide cannot continue on our watch. The United States 
must move forward towards an effective action against this terrible 
crime.
  We are gratified that this Congress voted on a genocide initiative 
and declared that genocide was occurring. The United Nations, of 
course, has had a more difficult time dealing with that question. But 
we know that genocide has occurred. We know that these refugees are 
fleeing for a very important reason. The United Nations Secretary 
General has described the situation in Darfur as ``a little short of 
hell on Earth,'' and expert John Prendergast calls it ``Rwanda in slow 
motion.''
  Under cover of a decade-long civil war that has claimed 2 million 
Sudanese lives, the government-backed Janjaweed continues their 
campaign to wipe out communities of African tribal farmers who live in 
the region.
  I understand that there have been changes in the Sudanese Government. 
In Chad, I met with the Sudanese ambassador. I have met with the 
Sudanese ambassador, to the dismay of many here in the United States, 
trying to find common ground.
  I want to applaud the work of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Payne) and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee 
on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
and Related Programs, that has looked at this question and has fought 
it with great, great perseverance. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. 
Jackson) provided additional dollars.
  But I want to make sure that any Darfurian refugee that is in Chad is 
not forced to leave for any economic reason. Of course, we need more 
dollars to help Chad, more support of the United Nations Commissioner 
on Human Rights and Refugees. But we also need to ensure that resources 
here by this appropriation do not force anyone to go back to a place 
where they do not want to go.
  Some refugees may want to go back. When I met with them one on one, 
they talked about their cattle being destroyed, they talked about there 
being no place for them, their villages had been destroyed. We looked 
and spoke with the African Union at the aerial footage that would show 
how large villages had been destroyed, so there is not much for them to 
return to.
  I want to be able to say that we are working at all ends, the 
declaration of genocide, the negotiations with Sudan to stop the 
violence and stop the devastating destruction of these individuals in 
Sudan and stop the fleeing from Sudan.
  But now that we are in the predicament that we are in, which is 
380,000, up to 400,000 and growing, refugees in Chad, we want to make 
sure that there is no fear, no, if you will, requirement, no demand, no 
shuttling. Refugees who do not want to go back, they should not have to 
go.
  Let me say this as well: if you speak to the women and the children 
that I had a chance to speak to, I can only say that tears would come 
to your eyes, the raping, the brutalization, the fear, the 
apprehension. I would ask my colleagues to consider an amendment that 
simply wants to give to those who are in fear of their lives the 
opportunity not to return if they desire not to return.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to 
withdraw this amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Texas?
  There was no objection.


                  Amendment No. 10 Offered by Mr. Poe

  Mr. POE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 10 offered by Mr. Poe:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


                      reduction in appropriations

       Sec. 5xx. Appropriations made in this Act are hereby 
     reduced in the amount of $597,000,000.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will control the time in opposition.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Poe) and the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) each 
will control 5 minutes.

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  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the work that the committee has 
done on this foreign ops appropriations bill.
  Mr. Chairman, my amendment resets the spending of this bill, however, 
to the 2006 foreign ops appropriation bill. Considering the ballooning 
size of the government, this would seem to be a modest gesture. Some 
say that $597 million is just a small drop in the bucket. That may seem 
true to some people who write checks for a living, but I disagree.
  You tell that to the people down in Sabine Pass, Texas which was 
leveled during Hurricane Rita, that $597 million is not a lot of money. 
These good folks are wondering why we are spending money all over the 
world when 40,000 of them still have blue tarps on their roofs. It 
would seems to me that charity certainly begins at home before we raise 
spending to many third world countries.
  I'm not asking for a massive cut in foreign programs, I am asking 
that Congress consider aid that we spend all over the world. I receive 
letters and phone calls every day from people asking us to take care of 
their money. It is an important to these individuals, especially people 
who have recently been hurt by Wilma, Rita and Katrina.
  We can keep asking Americans to trust us with their money as we send 
it all over the world, but some day, after we have gone well too far, 
the American people will tell us that they have probably had enough. We 
cannot continue to be the guns, bread and butter to the world. We must 
hold the line on money we give away to other nations and take care of 
our people first.
  So this amendment reduces overall spending. But because it would be 
up to the bureaucrats to decide where those actual cuts would be, and 
that aid that is in the interests of the United States, like aid to 
Israel, aid that probably ought to be increased, and they may remove 
that aid and continue wasteful aid that we spend, for example, the $4 
million we give to Tibet so that they keep their culture, maybe even 
aid to Egypt, and that gives them too much discretion, I think it is in 
the best interest that I withdraw this amendment.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the 
amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Texas?
  There was no objection.


                  Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Poe

  Mr. POE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 11 offered by Mr. Poe:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


             limitation on assistance to certain countries

       Sec. 5xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to provide assistance to any country the government 
     of which does not accept the transfer from the United States 
     of citizens or nationals of such country who have been issued 
     a final removal order by U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on this 
amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman reserves a point of order.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Poe) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Chairman, many Americans have joined Congress in the 
illegal immigration debate over the past several months. Important 
questions on guest worker programs, detention space, and the so-called 
catch and release programs have been discussed numerous times.
  However, one overlooked aspect of illegal immigration is the delay or 
the refusal of foreign countries that we give aid to to accept the 
ordered deportation of citizens from the United States. Many of these 
ordered deported have been convicted of felonies, gone to prison and 
U.S. penitentiaries, and illegally entered the United States initially.
  A report issued in April of 2006 by the Department of Homeland 
Security Inspector General states, that ICE's Office of Detention and 
Removal is being forced to devote a significant percentage of its 
funded detention beds, 14 percent, to illegals whose countries are 
either slow or unwilling to take those people back after they have been 
ordered deported.
  The report also states that thousands of these individuals end up 
then being released in America as our government continues to get 
stonewalled by so-called friends, but turn out to be uncooperative 
foreign nations.
  The cost incurred in fiscal year 2003 by the U.S. due to the delay or 
refusal of the top eight nations, including India, was $83 million to 
American taxpayers.
  In June of 2004, America had 136,241 illegals from those top eight 
nations with orders to be departed, but those governments refused to 
take those individuals. So what happened? Of that 136,241 illegals, 98 
percent of those were released and are walking free on American streets 
because we cannot detain them.
  These costs are sure to increase along with illegal immigration from 
offending countries. What do illegal immigrants have to lose if they 
know their own country will not take them back after they have been 
deported?
  They make their way to America, they come here illegally, they break 
our laws, and they know their country will refuse to take them back. 
The United States should not have to foot the bill for illegal 
immigrants because their home Nations are constructing roadblocks.
  It is time we offer a proper incentive to these uncooperative 
nations, our so called friends. This amendment would require recipients 
of foreign aid to accept and repatriate nationals who have been 
deported from this country.
  Those nations that do not accept the transfer of their nationals 
would not be eligible to receive American aid. These nations cannot 
have it both ways. This is not about punishing any particular nation, 
it is about asking these countries to work with us and accept our 
assistance, also to respect our sovereignty and sanctity of our borders 
and take back their lawfully-deported citizens.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona wish to make a point of 
order or continue to reserve?
  Mr. KOLBE. I would make the point of order unless the gentleman would 
like to say anything further before I make my point of order.
  Mr. POE. I understand there is a point of order and with that I will 
withdraw my amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas is withdrawn.
  There was no objection.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanders

  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Sanders:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:

                TITLE VI--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS


  Prohibition on use of funds by the Export-Import Bank of the United 
States to approve an application for a long-term loan or loan guarantee 
        with respect to an oil and gas field development project

       Sec. ____.
       None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by 
     the Export-Import Bank of the United States to approve an 
     application for a long-term loan or loan guarantee with 
     respect to an oil and gas field development project.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and a Member opposed each will 
control 10 minutes.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I would claim the time in opposition.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will control the time in opposition.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Vermont.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, this tripartisan amendment has wide 
support across the political spectrum. It has been cosponsored by Ron 
Paul of Texas, Mr. Hinchey of New York, Mr. Kucinich of Ohio, and has 
been endorsed by a number of leading national

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organizations, including the U.S. Business and Industry Council, the 
Taxpayers for Common Sense, the Green Scissors Coalition, Public 
Citizen, Friends of the Earth, and the U.S. Public Interest Research 
Group.

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  This amendment is simple and it is straightforward. At a time when 
this Nation has an $8.2 trillion national debt, this amendment would 
simply prohibit the Export-Import Bank from providing corporate welfare 
to large oil companies for the development of oil and gas projects 
overseas.
  Mr. Chairman, in America today there are proposals coming from the 
White House and the leadership of this institution to cut back on 
health care, to cut back on Medicare, to cut back on Medicaid, to cut 
back on financial aid for college middle class students. And yet if we 
do not have enough money to take care of the middle class and their 
needs, working families, lower-income families, I wonder why we have 
billions of dollars available to provide corporate welfare for the 
largest oil companies in the United States of America, companies that 
are receiving today billions and billions of dollars in profits.
  It is beyond comprehension that anybody in this institution could 
come forward with a straight face and say that the taxpayers of America 
should be providing loan guarantees and subsidies to corporations like 
ExxonMobil, which last year earned $36 billion in profits, more profits 
than any corporation in the history of the world. Companies like 
ExxonMobil which had enough money to pay out $398 million for a 
retirement package for their former CEO. That the taxpayers of this 
country, that middle-class families, that working families should be 
subsidizing the largest oil companies in the world who are receiving 
record-breaking profits, who are paying their CEOs huge compensation 
packages is literally insane.
  We have real needs in this country. We have needs for our veterans, 
needs for education, needs for health care. If oil companies in America 
cannot make a buck today without coming for corporate welfare to the 
taxpayers of this country, they are never going to make a buck.
  Since 1996 the Export-Import Bank has given more than $7 billion in 
loans and loan guarantees for oil and gas projects all over this world, 
including $1.3 billion to ExxonMobil and nearly $2 billion to our old 
friends in Halliburton, another company that is obviously in desperate 
need of taxpayer funds.
  Mr. Chairman, to add insult to injury, the top recipient, and I hope 
you hear this, of this corporate welfare is not even an American 
company. It is not even a privately owned company. I didn't know that 
my Republican friends were so supportive of state-owned nationalized 
industries. I learn something new every day. But the top recipient of 
this corporate welfare is PEMEX, a wholly owned oil company of Mexico. 
Well, isn't that great that the taxpayers of America are subsidizing a 
wholly owned oil company of Mexico. Well, how about paying attention to 
some small businesses in America?
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, as I have the right to close and I am the 
only speaker on my side, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Hinchey).
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my friend and colleague, 
the gentleman from Vermont, for offering this amendment which I think 
is very appropriate and very much to the point these days. But before I 
begin with that, I also want to express my deep appreciation to my 
friend and colleague on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Kolbe, the 
gentleman from Arizona who is the chairman of the committee which is 
overseeing this bill.
  I want to just thank him for the good sound solid work that he has 
done, and I want to also tell him that I have very much appreciated 
having the opportunity to be associated with him in his work. I think 
he has done an extraordinary job in chairing this subcommittee on 
appropriations, and I think he has set an excellent example for his 
successor, whoever that may be. Of course, we hope that successor will 
be from this side of the aisle, but we will await and see what happens. 
Whoever it is, the example that Mr. Kolbe has set is one that is 
important for all of us, and I thank him very much.
  Last year, the world's five biggest oil companies recorded a 
staggering $111 billion in profits. And for the first quarter of this 
year, these same companies have racked up about $28 billion in profits 
which puts them right on track for even exceeding the record profits 
that they established last year. The contrast between Big Oil's 
prosperity and the economic conditions of the vast majority of 
Americans is very, very obvious and deeply divided. People all across 
this country are finding it more and more difficult to heat their 
homes, and they are finding it true that each week a bigger chunk out 
of their paycheck is going to pay for the gasoline that they need just 
to get back and forth to work. So Americans are getting gouged twice. 
They are getting gouged at the pump and they are getting gouged in 
their tax bills.
  So what this amendment does is begin to focus attention on this 
situation where we are subsidizing American oil companies that are 
making record profits to go off and spend the taxpayers' dollar to 
develop energy sources in some other part of the world. It just does 
not make any sense. They have more cash on hand right now than they 
know what to do with, and now we are providing them with additional 
subsidies.
  So I thank the gentleman from Vermont for giving us the opportunity 
to vote on this amendment, to establish some clarity here with regard 
to how we use these funds. The kind of corporate welfare that is 
exemplified here in this particular example of taxpayers' dollars going 
to the richest companies in the world making the biggest profits in the 
world is just another example of how we have misallocated the 
taxpayers' dollars in this country, denying them the things they need 
in order to subsidize the coffers of people who do not need it. Let's 
pass this amendment.
  Last year, the world's five biggest oil companies--ExxonMobil, Royal 
Dutch Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Texaco--recorded a 
staggering $111 billion in profits.
  For the first quarter of 2006, these same companies recorded almost 
$28 billion in profits.
  The contrast between Big Oil's prosperity and the struggles of 
ordinary families to pay for the high cost of energy has never been 
clearer.
  Americans are getting gouged twice: once at the pump when they pay 
high prices and twice, when they pay taxes that end up in the pockets 
of some of the most profitable energy companies in the world.
  Yet, despite these record profits, the oil industry continues to 
benefit from billions in giveaways--courtesy of the American taxpayer. 
This amendment would put an end to one such egregious subsidy.
  As my good friend from Vermont has explained, since 1995, the Export-
Import Bank has provided more than 7 billion US taxdollars for loans 
and loan guarantees for oil and gas projects all over the world--all 
funded by Uncle Sam, or should I say, by taxpayers?
  And look where our tax dollars are going: $1.3 billion to Exxon-
Mobil; $162 million to BP; $300 million to Chevron; and nearly $2 
billion to Halliburton.
  Can anybody tell us without laughing up their sleeve that these 
corporate giants need more help from the very people who are having a 
difficult time affording to heat or cool their homes or put gasoline in 
their cars?
  And what's more, should we ever be subsidizing a foreign firm? As the 
gentleman from Vermont has already pointed out, the top recipient of 
this corporate welfare is Pemex, which is wholly-owned by the 
government of Mexico.
  Since 1996, Pemex has benefited from over $4 billion in financing 
from the Export-Import Bank.
  In fact, roughly 70 percent of total Export-Import Bank financing for 
oil and gas projects since 1996 has gone to Pemex.
  So why can't we see the absurdity of American taxpayers who are 
already $8.3 trillion in debt, subsidizing the Mexican government's oil 
and gas operations?
  American tax dollars should not be publicly financing oil and gas 
projects for a company that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mexican 
government. We should be embarrassed to ask that of our constituents.
  This amendment would simply provide a time-out for more of this 
corporate welfare benefitting the most profitable companies in

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the country when they want to develop energy overseas, at the expense 
of ordinary Americans.
  This amendment would acknowledge that we are finished with putting 
American taxpayers at risk when we guarantee Export Import loans for 
risky oil and gas ventures overseas.
  It would end the bilking the public trough for private gain.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is again about fairness.
  Why should the US taxpayer prop up the oil and gas industry in times 
like these? I can see no good reason, nor should my colleagues.
  These companies can afford to do their risky business with no assist 
from the public.
  They can get loans from banks. They are not strapped for cash to 
invest overseas.
  They have told us loud and clear that they do not need our subsidies, 
so let's take them at their word.
  Unfortunately, every time we do take them at their word, these same 
companies come back begging to Washington for more corporate welfare 
and taxpayer dollars. This simply has to stop.
  If American companies want to invest in energy resources overseas, 
have at it, and good luck to you. Just don't expect hard-working, 
underpaid Americans to foot the bill.
  Support your taxpayers. End corporate welfare. Support this 
amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Vermont has 3 minutes remaining.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chairman, I gather many of my friends here are strong proponents 
of the free enterprise system. They like the idea of risk, venture 
taking, and I wonder why it is that when the Export-Import Bank is 
supposed to be the place of last resort when large oil companies like 
ExxonMobil are supposed to go to the banks, I wonder why ExxonMobil is 
not going to Citibank or other large banks to get any assistance they 
might need. It is beyond comprehension to me that ExxonMobil and 
Halliburton cannot get a loan from the private sector. Beyond belief.
  Furthermore, I find it unbelievable, to be honest with you, as to why 
the taxpayers of this country are subsidizing a state-owned industry in 
Mexico, PEMEX, they are a state-owned oil company, when certainly my 
friends over there would never think of in a million years of 
subsidizing a state-owned oil company in the United States of America.
  Here is the bottom line: historically the Ex-Im, the Export-Import 
Bank, has been a major provider of corporate welfare to the largest 
corporations in America. There are corporations that have received huge 
amounts of help from Export-Import and then they say, oh, thank you 
very much, taxpayers of America. By the way, we are shutting down 
plants in this country and we are moving to China. And now what we are 
looking at is one segment of their loans and loan guarantees to the oil 
industry.
  Thank you, taxpayers of America, for subsidizing us, and now we are 
going to charge you $3 for a gallon of gas while we earn record-
breaking profits.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment should in fact be passed unanimously. It 
is beyond belief; it would be beyond belief to the people of this 
country that there is anyone here who thinks the taxpayer money should 
go to the oil industry which is enjoying record-breaking profits while 
they rip off the American people.
  I would hope we have widespread support for this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, in fact, I think this amendment would be defeated 
unanimously if people understood what it is really about. It is not 
about big oil companies. It is not about supporting big oil companies. 
It is about supporting usually small suppliers, small U.S. 
manufacturers that work in the large, huge energy industry around the 
world. So I rise in very strong opposition to this amendment.
  We are looking at one of the largest projects, in fact it is the 
largest infrastructure project in the world today at Saklan Island. The 
reserves there are larger than the North Slope. They are larger than 
the Gulf of Mexico. These are huge possible reserves.
  Now, if we are concerned about energy in this country, if we are 
concerned about oil and gas in this country and having enough gasoline 
to run our cars, we ought to be concerned about developing this. And if 
we are concerned about making sure we have environmental protections 
for a project like this, we want to have some participation in this 
project, and that is exactly what the funding from OPEC and Ex-Im Bank 
allows us to do to have that kind of participation.
  The gentleman made some comment about even though it is not the 
Saklan project about PEMEX, but there again PEMEX in Mexico, that is 
the state-owned oil industry in Mexico. There is nothing in here about 
supporting PEMEX. It is about supporting American business contractors, 
American manufacturers that export to PEMEX, that sell pipe, that sell 
drill equipment, that sell rigs, that sell all kinds of things. It is 
about keeping jobs here in the United States. That is what this is 
about and that is what it is about with the Saklan Island project as 
well.
  This is absolutely not the right way to go. And, again, if we want to 
have some participation in this, if we want to make sure that this 
project is done the right way, we want to be sure that Export-Import 
Bank is involved with supporting those small suppliers that he was not 
talking about, supporting those contractors, those business people, 
because that helps us to participate in this.
  It is really not so much about the big company, the ExxonMobil and 
the Kelloggs. It is about companies like Solar Turbines Incorporated, 
about S & P Steel Products. This is why we have the Ex-Im Bank to 
support these kinds of exports to other countries, to support jobs here 
in the United States. That is exactly what the Export-Import Bank is 
about, jobs here in the United States.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is not the right way to proceed, and I 
hope that my colleagues will soundly defeated this amendment. If you 
are concerned about energy, if you are concerned about gas prices, and 
you want to develop in a reasonable way reserves of energy overseas and 
if you want to support American manufacturers and American jobs, defeat 
this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Vermont will be 
postponed.


                 Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Hefley

  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

  Amendment No. 15 offered by Mr. Hefley:
       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


                      reduction in appropriations

       Sec. 5xx. Appropriations made in this Act are hereby 
     reduced in the amount of $213,000,000.

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  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of June 8, 2006, the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, first of all, I would like to echo the comments of Mr. 
Hinchey on the prior amendment concerning the chairman, and I have 
enormous respect for the work that you have done and wish you well in 
whatever you do after this, but you are a conscientious legislator, and 
we are to be proud of you for that.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise again today to offer an amendment to cut the 
level of funding in this appropriation bill by 1 percent. This amount 
equals $213 million. It is only one penny off of every dollar spent.
  I have several pages here of brilliant explanation of why. I am not 
going to go through all of that because I do not think I am going to 
change any minds, and yes, I know this will not balance

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the budget. It is symbolic, but at least it shows that we are thinking 
about it and that we are serious about it. In my budget at home and 
your budget at home or any department's budget, if they cannot find one 
penny out of a dollar, then I think something is very, very wrong.
  Mr. Chairman, I would move the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Arizona seek to control time in 
opposition?
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I take the time in opposition, and I will 
spend even less time than the gentleman from Colorado did as we both go 
out the door here, and we will follow each other out the door of this 
distinguished body.
  I want to say to him that I would say the same thing about him, the 
kind words he said about me. He has had very distinguished service here 
in this body, and he is a person that is known for his integrity and 
his commitment to principles. One of those commitments is the holding 
down spending, and it is something that all of us could heed from time 
to time.
  However, having said that, I would oppose this amendment for the 
obvious reasons, but I think that we have a carefully crafted bill and 
a $213 million across-the-board cut from every account would have some 
devastating impacts in certain areas.
  For that reason, as much as I respect the gentleman from Colorado, I 
would oppose this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be 
postponed.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last 
word.
  I rise in the closing moments of the legislative work on the Foreign 
Operations subcommittee report almost entirely to remind the Members 
that this is perhaps one of the most difficult bills of all those that 
we take through the appropriations process, not because it is the 
largest bill, not because there are not problems solving the bill, but 
because, generally speaking across the country, Americans tend to say 
if we are going to spend money, we ought to spend money at home first 
and forget about spending money anywhere else, except perhaps for 
national defense.
  Ofttimes my constituents say why are we spending so much money on 
foreign aid, not recognizing that we are spending such a very, very 
fractional piece of our total dollar available in this arena, but it is 
through this vehicle that our voice is effectively heard around the 
world on behalf of freedom, of opportunity and, indeed, on behalf of 
American interests.
  There is little doubt that this bill has done so well over the years 
because we have had the kind of leadership in this subcommittee that 
truly recognizes the importance of this. We have all talked about the 
fact that Mrs. Lowey and our chairman, Jim Kolbe, have worked so well 
together, but this is Jim Kolbe's last bill on the floor where he is 
formally presenting his thought and his leadership relative to that 
role in the world. He has done a fabulous job for us. We are going to 
miss him in the House. I must say that if any regret regarding these 
remarks at all, it is to say that I only wish Jim Kolbe would be back 
next year working with us on this and many other projects for years to 
come.
  So thank you, Mr. Kolbe, very much.
  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Chairman, I strongly support the Foreign Operations 
Appropriations Act and want to thank Chairman Kolbe and Ranking Member 
Lowey for their hard work, thoughtfulness and dedication to bringing 
such a well-crafted bill to the floor.
  There are so many important issues this bill addresses and so many 
ways in which it positively demonstrates the United States' values as a 
leader and a responsible member of the family of nations. I am grateful 
for the full funding of the President's request for aid to Israel and 
for humanitarian assistance to Sudan, and am thrilled it goes above and 
beyond the President's request for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
  I appreciate the inclusion of reporting requirements for the 
protection of children affected by humanitarian emergencies, an issue 
I've worked with Representative Lowey on, as well as the inclusion of 
$45 million to support research and development of microbicides as a 
means of combating HIV/AIDS.
  I appreciate the chairman and ranking member's support of the 
Community Action Program in Iraq--known as CAP. The CAP program 
directly engages Iraqis in reconstructing their own communities, while 
building a nationwide grassroots constituency for democracy. Typical 
CAP projects use both U.S. and Iraqi funds and resources to rebuild 
schools, repair water and sewage lines, build health clinics, as well 
as a host of other infrastructure and development projects.
  I have traveled to Iraq 12 times--4 times outside the umbrella of the 
military--and have seen first-hand how the CAP program improves the 
lives of Iraqis and, most importantly, how it helps us accomplish our 
mission of creating a secure environment for the Iraqi people so 
democracy can prosper.
  This legislation provides $50 million for the CAP program, and I 
would urge the chairman to consider, as the bill moves forward, that a 
higher funding level would certainly be money well spent.
  Regarding the Peace Corps, I am grateful for the inclusion of $325 
million for the Peace Corps, which is an increase of $5 million above 
the fiscal year 2006 level, but is unfortunately $12 million below the 
President's request. I wish we could have done better. As the U.S. 
strives to create a better understanding of America in the world, the 
7,800 Peace Corps volunteers serving from Armenia to Zambia are 
tangible evidence that America cares about its global neighbors.
  Peace Corps volunteers have worked in every corner of the world, 
including the Middle East, and demonstrated the ``human side'' of 
American assistance: promoting friendship, cross cultural understanding 
along with sustainable international development.
  Again, I appreciate the hard work that went into this bill and urge 
all my colleagues to support its passage.
  Mr. STARK. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Foreign 
Operations Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007.
  The United States should plant seeds of peace, not seeds of war. 
Tragically, however, this legislation appropriates nearly $5 billion--
or about 25 percent of total spending--for direct military assistance. 
H.R. 5522 also includes more than $2.5 billion for so-called ``Economic 
Support Funds'' that recipient countries often direct toward security 
budgets. This spending subsidizes armed conflict, encouraging violence 
rather than diplomacy around the world.
  At the same time, the legislation includes several provisions I would 
have loved to support as a stand-alone bill. For example, it provides 
$450 million for humanitarian relief efforts in Sudan. Significant 
financing is included for much-needed disaster and famine assistance, 
temporary resettlement of refugees, development aid, and peacekeeping 
operations. I hope that this assistance will help ameliorate the 
consequences of the genocide in Darfur. Similarly, I support bipartisan 
efforts to combat global AIDS.
  But in the end, the bad outweighs the good and I must vote against 
this bill, which encourages billions in counterproductive military 
assistance.
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, one of the hardest jobs Members of Congress 
face while in office is deciding whether to support or oppose a bill 
that is half good and half bad. Too often, we are forced to vote in 
favor of issues we strongly oppose while supporting goals with which we 
agree because our viewpoint was not the prevailing view. That is 
exactly what I faced today with H.R. 5522, the Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2007.
  Mr. Chairman, I am on the record today as voting ``aye'' on the 
Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. I voted ``aye'' because the bill 
contains many worthwhile and effective provisions. Most importantly, 
the bill offers financial support to Israel and many other of our 
partners in democracy. Without backing from the United States, 
countries that uphold democracy and freedom could suffer, and I, for 
one, will always support countries that cherish and promote freedom and 
democratic ideals.
  Another important provision that I strongly support in this bill is 
the withholding of 60 percent of the funds allocated for Russia until 
its president certifies that they have terminated any arrangements to 
provide nuclear assistance to Iran.
  I am also extremely pleased with the many pro-life provisions 
maintained in the bill. These pro-life provisions send a clear message 
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population control and abortion practices, you will not receive 
assistance from the United States.
  These measures, along with other provisions designed to keep jobs in 
America are examples of why I chose to support this piece of 
legislation.
  However, Mr. Chairman, there were numerous provisions within the bill 
that I have serious reservations about and that did not have enough 
support to be removed from the bill. I would like to go on record 
highlighting the portions of the bill I do not support.
  Mr. Chairman, I am deeply concerned about the International Export 
and Investment Agencies funding included in the bill. This provision 
requires the Federal Government to provide insurance to private 
companies investing in foreign countries. I cannot for the life of me 
understand why taxpayer dollars should fund this agency. If private 
companies wish to insure their investments overseas, they should use 
private insurance companies to do so, not the Federal Government.
  Mr. Chairman, I am also very concerned about the economic aid for 
Egypt contained in the bill. To be giving such economic assistance to 
Egypt at a time when it has been cracking down on top political 
dissidents and opponents within and without its borders is unwise. Many 
of my constituents who follow international affairs have contacted me 
abhorring the actions in the Sudan and wondering why Egypt continues to 
support the government in Khartoum. We need to send a message that we 
will not tolerate human rights abuses or support for such abuses, 
especially from one of our important strategic allies.
  Mr. Chairman, the bill provides $4.1 billion for the Agency for 
International Development, USAID, which provides funds for development 
related projects in developing countries. I am not opposed to helping 
out those countries in need, but this program has not proven effective 
enough over the course of its existence to warrant this level of 
funding.
  Additionally, I want to express my opposition to the $522 million for 
the Trade Capacity Enhancement Fund.
  Mr. Chairman, this bill tested my beliefs and forced me to make a 
very difficult decision. In the end, I believe the good outweighs the 
bad, but I want my colleagues to know that I will continue working to 
remove these disturbing provisions. I was voted into this office to 
reduce Federal spending and bring common sense back to the legislative 
process. That is exactly what I will do.
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 5522, the 
FY07 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act.
  I am pleased that the bill includes $50 million in funding for Afghan 
women, including $2 million for the Afghan Independent Human Rights 
Commission.
  This funding builds upon funding for Afghan women and girls included 
in an amendment that I offered to the FY04 Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations bill.
  Over the past few years, the United States has invested in the 
reconstruction and development of Afghanistan both because it is the 
right thing to do and because it is critical to our security.
  However, I, like many of my colleagues, am troubled about the recent 
acts of violence that have been occurring in Afghanistan.
  Clearly, we have more work to do.
  Afghan women were brutally oppressed by the Taliban regime, but they 
have been working to reclaim their role in society, in part because of 
critical U.S. assistance provided to Afghanistan.
  Millions of girls have attended primary schools and equal rights for 
women are guaranteed in the constitution.
  However, while women are vastly better off than they were, many 
continue to endure hardships including targeted violence, limited 
mobility, illiteracy, and a high rate of maternal mortality.
  I also am very concerned about reports that schools continue to be 
targeted for violence, including dozens in the past year.
  By giving women access to the skills and opportunities that they need 
to become partners in creating Afghanistan's future, we will ensure 
that women will no longer be second-class citizens.
  I particularly want to note the $2 million that is directed for the 
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
  I recently met with Dr. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghan Independent 
Human Rights Commission, who discussed the valuable work of the 
Commission and the challenges that remain.

  Dr. Samar is a courageous advocate for the rights of Afghan citizens, 
including women and children.
  Her work is invaluable in ensuring that human rights are protected 
and respected in Afghanistan.
  While I hope that all the aid for Afghanistan will help women, I 
commend the Appropriations Committee for continuing to recognize the 
needs of Afghan women.
  I also am pleased that the bill includes $34 million for the life 
saving work of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
  UNFPA is a global leader in providing reproductive health care, 
including family planning services to the world's poorest women.
  UNFPA helps women undergo pregnancy and childbirth safely and helps 
women and men to plan their families and avoid unintended pregnancies 
and protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infections.
  Despite the unequalled and vital work that UNFPA provides, for the 
past four years, President Bush has denied them funding by refusing to 
release the $34 million that Congress has appropriated.
  Claiming unproven and unsubstantiated assertions regarding UNFPA's 
work in China, this Administration is turning its back on those most in 
need.
  It has been estimated that the loss of each year's funding could 
prevent 2 million unintended pregnancies; nearly 800,000 abortions, 
4,700 maternal deaths, nearly 60,000 cases of serious maternal illness; 
and more than 77,000 infant and child deaths.
  The Bush administration's refusal to release these funds puts at risk 
the very lives and health of women and children in the world's poorest 
regions.
  In anticipation of the president cancelling the FY07 funding again 
this year, I was grateful to Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick for 
offering an amendment during full committee mark-up to ensure that the 
appropriated funds are released for the UNFPA's campaign to end 
obstetric fistula, a devastating and completely preventable condition 
that afflicts young women whose bodies are not mature enough to deliver 
healthy babies.

  Unfortunately, the committee rejected the amendment.
  I am very concerned that this amendment failed and hope that a 
solution to release the funds will be provided in Conference.
  Most importantly, it is my hope that this year, President Bush 
reconsiders the impact of his decision and releases the life-saving 
funding that this chamber is wisely approving today.
  This important bill will provide critical funding for organizations 
doing important work on the ground in countries all over the world.
  One of those organizations is located in my congressional district.
  CARE is currently in 72 countries worldwide helping to educate 
children, provide health care, give food to the hungry, and fight 
poverty.
  And they do so much more.
  I urge my colleagues to support this bill so that we can continue to 
fund these valuable initiatives.
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong 
support of this amendment by my friend from California. Human 
trafficking is slavery, plain and simple, and we are morally bound to 
do everything we can to put an end to it.
  The sad truth is that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing 
types of transnational criminal activity. And yet, resources to combat 
it remain scarce.
  My district, Orange County, is home to many victims of human 
trafficking, and I've had the opportunity to meet with some of them and 
also with some of the community groups who are providing these 
survivors with the support services they desperately need.
  Orange County is also home to a Counter-Trafficking Task Force 
working to develop strong partnerships between local, state and federal 
law enforcement agencies. The Task Force trains first responders to 
identify and rescue trafficking victims, disrupt and apprehend 
traffickers and make subsequent referral of victims to needed support 
services.
  We're very fortunate to have programs like these in the United 
States, but many other countries lack the resources or the expertise to 
combat human trafficking on their own. Without coordinated 
international efforts, we have little hope of defeating the 
traffickers.
  That's why we need to dedicate many more of our foreign assistance 
dollars to helping our friends around the world in their anti-
trafficking efforts. This amendment is a good first step, and I am 
pleased that the Chairman has agreed to accept it.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I come to the floor today in support of the 
fiscal year 2007 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.
  I would like to commend the chairman, the gentleman from Arizona, Mr. 
Kolbe and the ranking member, the gentlewoman from New York, Mrs. Lowey 
for their hard work and leadership on this legislation.
  As this will be his last time chairing the subcommittee on foreign 
operations, I especially want to thank you Mr. Kolbe for your 
commitment to the issue of foreign aid and for consistently working in 
a bipartisan manner over the years with Ms. Lowey, myself, and others.
  With respect to the legislation before us, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to 
take a moment to highlight three particular provisions.
  First, I am pleased that this bill includes $450 million for 
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Sudan. Of this, $138 million is specifically for the war-torn Darfur 
region. The release of the rest is contingent on the certification that 
hostilities by the Government of Sudan and its Janjaweed militas have 
ended in Darfur and that humanitarian assistance can flow unimpeded.
  Mr. Chairman, as we all know, a terrible genocide has been taking 
place in Darfur since February 2003.
  Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, the international community has been 
slow to respond this as a humanitarian disaster.
  I traveled to the Darfur region twice and have witnessed first-hand 
the life and death situation of the refugees. They lack even the most 
basic needs. For example, because of limited funds the WFP has reduced 
the food ration for refugees to a mere 1050 calories per day. This is 
not enough to live on.
  That's why, I am pleased that the funds allocated in this bill will 
help support efforts by the U.N. and the African Union to bring food, 
clean water, and other basic humanitarian assistance.
  Second, I am pleased that this legislation includes funds to support 
the post-conflict democracy in Haiti.
  As you know, Mr. Chairman, the first democratically elected president 
of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted from office in 1994 and 
again in 2004. For the last dozen years, Haiti has struggled in an 
economic and humanitarian crisis.
  This February's election of Rene Preval is a significant milestone 
for our hemisphere's most fragile democracy.
  We must do everything we can to allow peace and security to return. 
That's why this legislation's inclusion of $164 million is so 
important.
  And finally, Mr. Chairman, I am pleased that this bill includes $3.4 
billion to fight the global AIDS pandemic, including $445 million for 
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
  In the 25 years since the CDC reported the first cases of a rare form 
of pneumonia among 5 gay men in Los Angeles, HIV/AIDS has infected 
nearly 70 million throughout the world and killed more than 25 million.
  We have made significant steps in the last few years to bring relief 
and hope to millions of infected and vulnerable individuals in the 
developing world, and with this increase in funding we acknowledge the 
work that still remains to be done.
  Although I am disappointed that we could not match the need based 
figure of $7.54 billion to combat AIDS, TB and Malaria, I hope that in 
conference we can at least support the Senate in seeking a funding 
level of $4.826 billion.
  Mr. Chairman, with our Nation embroiled in an unnecessary war in 
Iraq, and our international credibility and standing at it's lowest in 
history, this bill helps us showcase what it best about American 
humanitarian efforts.
  I thank the committee for it's just consideration of many competing 
priorities within a limited allocation and for bringing to the floor a 
bill that will provide a meaningful contribution to international aid.
  I urge my colleagues to support this bill.


          Sequential Votes Postponed In Committee of the Whole

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will 
now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 7 by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts.
  Amendment No. 8 by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts.
  Amendment by Mr. Weiner of New York.
  Amendment No. 5 by Mr. King of Iowa.
  Amendment by Mr. Kucinich of Ohio.
  Amendment by Mr. Sanders of Vermont.
  Amendment No. 15 by Mr. Hefley of Colorado.
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Blumenauer of Oregon.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. McGovern

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 174, 
noes 229, not voting 29, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 242]

                               AYES--174

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Frank (MA)
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Otter
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--229

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Delahunt
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Green, Gene
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McMorris
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Oxley
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Poe
     Pombo
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello

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     Davis (FL)
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Engel
     Evans
     Ford
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gutierrez
     Jones (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson
     Wicker

                              {time}  1344

  Messrs. TIAHRT, GOODE, ORTIZ, KNOLLENBERG, BURGESS, and COSTA changed 
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California and Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island 
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. McGovern

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 188, 
noes 218, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 243]

                               AYES--188

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boucher
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Camp (MI)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Conyers
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Foley
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gilchrest
     Goode
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutknecht
     Harman
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shays
     Sherman
     Simmons
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Solis
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tauscher
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--218

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chocola
     Cole (OK)
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Ferguson
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     Latham
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pearce
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Smith (TX)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson
     Wicker

                              {time}  1350

  Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina and Mr. DICKS changed their vote from 
``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall Nos. 242 
and 243 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have 
voted ``no.''


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Weiner

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 312, 
noes 97, not voting 23, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 244]

                               AYES--312

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Camp (MI)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Drake
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutknecht
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hostettler
     Hoyer

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     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Norwood
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Otter
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Renzi
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)

                                NOES--97

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bishop (UT)
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Campbell (CA)
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Cole (OK)
     Crenshaw
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Ehlers
     English (PA)
     Etheridge
     Fortenberry
     Frelinghuysen
     Gilchrest
     Gohmert
     Granger
     Hall
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Latham
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Mack
     McCrery
     Miller (NC)
     Northup
     Nunes
     Oxley
     Pastor
     Pearce
     Pombo
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reynolds
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Saxton
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherwood
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Smith (TX)
     Snyder
     Sweeney
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Watt
     Weller
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1357

  Messrs. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, SHUSTER, TURNER, HAYES, 
COSTA, Ms. McKINNEY and Miss McMORRIS changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


              Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 93, 
noes 311, not voting 28, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 245]

                                AYES--93

     Abercrombie
     Akin
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Beauprez
     Blackburn
     Bradley (NH)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burton (IN)
     Cantor
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Deal (GA)
     Duncan
     Everett
     Feeney
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Graves
     Gutknecht
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hostettler
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lynch
     McCotter
     McHenry
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Otter
     Paul
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Reynolds
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryun (KS)
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Wamp
     Weldon (PA)
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

                               NOES--311

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cole (OK)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Flake
     Foley
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gilchrest
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Northup
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Radanovich
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Rogers (AL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tauscher
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)

[[Page H3701]]


     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--28

     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Istook
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Reyes
     Stearns
     Walsh
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are reminded 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1400

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 245 I was inadvertently 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Kucinich

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 118, 
noes 288, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 246]

                               AYES--118

     Abercrombie
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Bartlett (MD)
     Berry
     Bishop (NY)
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brown (OH)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Conyers
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duncan
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Gilchrest
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Hastings (FL)
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hostettler
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Kildee
     Kucinich
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Miller, George
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Nadler
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Otter
     Owens
     Pallone
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Tancredo
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu

                               NOES--288

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Cole (OK)
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Marchant
     Matheson
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McMorris
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salazar
     Saxton
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Baca
     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Waters
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are reminded 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1405

  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanders

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 178, 
noes 228, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 247]

                               AYES--178

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bass
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Boswell
     Bradley (NH)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cramer
     Cummings
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Doyle
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Foley
     Ford
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gordon
     Grijalva
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayworth
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hostettler
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Johnson (CT)
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Otter

[[Page H3702]]


     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Platts
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shays
     Simmons
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Solis
     Stark
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (PA)
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--228

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Delahunt
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hyde
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McMorris
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salazar
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Spratt
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Turner
     Upton
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Baca
     Baker
     Becerra
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are reminded 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1409

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Hefley

  The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 107, 
noes 300, not voting 25, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 248]

                               AYES--107

     Akin
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Bilirakis
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Brady (TX)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Campbell (CA)
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cooper
     Cubin
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Deal (GA)
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Duncan
     Everett
     Feeney
     Flake
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Graves
     Gutknecht
     Harris
     Hart
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     King (IA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Mack
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Norwood
     Otter
     Paul
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Poe
     Price (GA)
     Rahall
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Terry
     Tiberi
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Weldon (PA)
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--300

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cole (OK)
     Conyers
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Foley
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Granger
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Hall
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Israel
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Ney
     Northup
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickering
     Platts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sweeney
     Tauscher
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)

[[Page H3703]]



                             NOT VOTING--25

     Baca
     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are reminded 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1413

  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


               Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer

  The CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded 
vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. 
Blumenauer) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 1 offered by Mr. Blumenauer:
       In the item relating to ``Development Assistance'', after 
     the aggregate dollar amount, insert the following: 
     ``(increased by $250,000,000)''.
       In the item relating to ``Foreign Military Financing 
     Program'', after the aggregate dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $250,000,000)''.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 182, 
noes 224, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 249]

                               AYES--182

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bean
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gerlach
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Hall
     Herseth
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Petri
     Platts
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shays
     Sherman
     Simmons
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weldon (PA)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--224

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Andrews
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Berkley
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Higgins
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McMorris
     Meek (FL)
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Otter
     Pallone
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Smith (TX)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Baca
     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Buyer
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson


                      Announcement by the Chairman

  The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised 1 minute remains 
in this vote.

                              {time}  1417

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  I know people want to get out of here. This is my wedding 
anniversary; I do, too. This will take just a moment. Yes, my wife is a 
saint. Yes.
  I know people want to catch their airplanes. But the gentleman from 
Arizona has served 22 years in this House, and this is the last time 
that he will be handling a bill on the floor of the House, and I think 
that we owe him to take note of that fact.
  Mr. Chairman, for 10 years I chaired this subcommittee, and I know 
how easy it is to demagogue this subcommittee and the bill that it 
handles. And on behalf of every Member on both sides of the aisle, I 
want to tell the gentleman that he has done honor to this House and to 
each and every Member, because at every moment that I can recall, he 
has dealt with the subject matter at hand on the basis of substance, 
not politics; he has brought an intellectual quality to his argument 
that is very seldom matched. We don't always agree on everything, as 
was evidenced by the debate yesterday; but as Will Rogers said, when 
two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
  But I just want to say, Jim, good luck in whatever you do, and we 
appreciate what you have done for the House and for the country and for 
the world in the way you have handled this bill.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey).
  Mrs. LOWEY. For me, it has been a great privilege to work with Jim 
Kolbe. And since this is probably the 10th retirement speech that we 
have given for Jim Kolbe, I just want to add that he is probably a 
person that all of us would agree has the most integrity, wisdom, and 
compassion, and for me it is a real, real privilege. But, above all, 
Jim Kolbe is the most punctual person I know, so I won't give my 10-
page speech today. Good luck. Congratulations. We love you. And let us 
go on.

[[Page H3704]]

  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read the last three lines.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007''.

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I was going to move to strike the last word 
and give a 5-minute speech, but I sense a sense of urgency here. So, 
Mr. Chairman, I simply move the committee do now rise and report the 
bill. And I thank the Members for their comments.
  But let me say, I move that the Committee do now rise and report the 
bill back to the House with sundry amendments, with the recommendation 
that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as amended, do 
pass.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Daniel E. Lungren of California) having assumed the chair, Mr. 
Thornberry, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House on the State 
of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under 
consideration the bill (H.R. 5522) making appropriations for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes, had directed him to 
report the bill back to the House with sundry amendments, with the 
recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as 
amended, do pass.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 851, the 
previous question is ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment? If not, the Chair will 
put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  Pursuant to clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 373, 
nays 34, not voting 25, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 250]

                               YEAS--373

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tauscher
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--34

     Bartlett (MD)
     Berry
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Duncan
     Flake
     Franks (AZ)
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Hefley
     Hostettler
     Jenkins
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     King (IA)
     Kucinich
     Lucas
     Miller (FL)
     Moran (KS)
     Norwood
     Otter
     Paul
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pombo
     Rahall
     Rohrabacher
     Ryun (KS)
     Sensenbrenner
     Stark
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)

                             NOT VOTING--25

     Baca
     Baker
     Becerra
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bono
     Brady (PA)
     Cannon
     Conaway
     Costello
     Davis (FL)
     Evans
     Gibbons
     Gutierrez
     Kaptur
     Kingston
     Manzullo
     McHugh
     McKeon
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Peterson (PA)
     Reyes
     Walsh
     Watson

                              {time}  1439

  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________