[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 24 (Thursday, February 8, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1809-S1810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 237. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to the joint resolution H.J. 
Res. 20, making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

       At the end of the resolution add the following;
       This division shall take effect 2 days after date of 
     enactment.
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  SA 238. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to amendment SA 237 proposed 
by Mr. Reid to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further 
continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other 
purposes; as follows:

       In the amendment strike 2 and insert 1.
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  SA 239. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to the joint resolution H.J. 
Res. 20, making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

       At the end of the resolution add the following;
       This division shall take effect 5 days after date of 
     enactment.
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  SA 240. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to amendment SA 239 proposed 
by Mr. Reid to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further 
continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other 
purposes; as follows:

       In the amendment strike 5 and insert 4.
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  SA 241. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to amendment SA 240 proposed 
by Mr. Reid to the amendment SA 239 proposed by Mr. Reid to the joint 
resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing appropriations for 
the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; as follows:


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       In the amendment strike 4 and insert 3.
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  SA 242. Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Allard, Mr. 
Baucus, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
Chambliss, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Crapo, Mr. DeMint, Mrs. Dole, 
Mr. Enzi, Mr. Graham, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Lott, Mr. Martinez, Mr. McCain, Mr. 
Roberts, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. 
Stevens, Mr. Warner, and Mr. McConnell) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed by her to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making 
further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 89, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
       ``Sec. 20815. (a) The amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by section 20804 for `Department of Defense Base 
     Closure Account 2005' is hereby increased by $3,136,802,000.
       ``(b) Across-the-Board Rescissions.--There is hereby 
     rescinded an amount equal to 0.73 percent of--
       ``(1) the budget authority provided (or obligation 
     limitation imposed) for fiscal year 2007 for any 
     discretionary account in this division (except chapters 2 and 
     8 of this title and the amounts made available by section 101 
     for ``Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990'', 
     ``North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment 
     Program'');
       ``(2) the budget authority provided in any advance 
     appropriation for fiscal year 2007 for any discretionary 
     account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and
       ``(3) the contract authority provided in fiscal year 2007 
     for any program subject to limitation contained in any 
     division or appropriation Act subject to paragraph (1).
       ``(c) Proportionate Application.--Any rescission made by 
     subsection (b) shall be applied proportionately--
       ``(1) to each discretionary account and each item of budget 
     authority described in such subsection; and
       ``(2) within each such account and item, to each program, 
     project, and activity (with programs, projects, and 
     activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or 
     accompanying reports for the relevant fiscal year covering 
     such account or item, or for accounts and items not included 
     in appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently 
     submitted President's budget).''
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  SA 243. Mr. ALEXANDER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

         On page 72, line 20, strike ``of which not to exceed 
     $200,000'' and insert ``of which $99,000,000''.
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  SA 244. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

         On page 54, between lines 11 and 12, insert the 
     following:
         ``Sec. 20522.  None of the funds made available by this 
     division or any other Act may be used by the Administrator of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate the final 
     version of the rule entitled `NPDES Permit Fee Incentive for 
     Clean Water Act Section 106 Grants; Allotment Formula' (72 
     Fed. Reg. 293 (January 4, 2007)).
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  SA 245. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 51, strike line 14 and insert the following: the 
     managers in Conference Report 109-188, except that--
       ``(1) not less than $5,500,000 of those amounts shall be 
     used by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency to develop alternative technologies to comply with the 
     national primary drinking water regulations for disinfection 
     byproducts promulgated pursuant to section 1452(q) of the 
     Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(q)); and
       ``(2) using not less than $11,000,000 of those amounts, the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall--
       ``(A) carry out a competitive grant program to continue the 
     provision of technical assistance under section 1452(q) of 
     the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(q)) to small 
     public water system organizations; and
       ``(B) give priority for the provision of grants under the 
     program to small public water system organizations that have 
     the most support (or a majority of support) from small 
     communities in each State.
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  SA 246. Mr. MARTINEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On 115, line 19, strike the colon and all that follows 
     through the page 117, line 12, and insert a period.
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  SA 247. Mr. MARTINEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 117, line 10, strike the period, and insert the 
     following: ``: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, the renewal funding formula set forth 
     under the third proviso under this section shall not apply in 
     determining the funding for the calendar year 2007 funding 
     cycle of any public housing agency located in any 
     jurisdiction in which the President declared a major disaster 
     or emergency between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2005 in 
     connection with a hurricane.''
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  SA 248. Mr. MARTINEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 94, line 23, insert after ``agency support 
     programs'' the following: ``(with the Administrator 
     authorized to reduce each subaccount as necessary to ensure 
     full funding for exploration systems)''.
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  SA 249. Mr. MARTINEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further continuing 
appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 94, beginning on line 19, strike 
     ``$10,075,000,000'' and all that follows through line 25 and 
     insert ``$10,524,400,000, of which $5,251,200,000 shall be 
     for science, $724,400,000 shall be for aeronautics research, 
     $3,978,300,000 shall be for exploration systems, and 
     $491,700,000 shall be for cross-agency support programs (with 
     the Administrator authorized to reduce each subaccount as 
     necessary to ensure full funding for exploration systems); 
     `Exploration Capabilities', $6,234,400,000; and `Office of 
     Inspector General', $33,500,000. Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of this Act, the aggregate of the levels 
     appropriated by this Act, other than the levels appropriated 
     for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, are 
     hereby reduced by $545,300,000, with the amount of such 
     reduction to be allocated among the accounts and subaccounts 
     funded by this Act in such manner as the President shall 
     specify.''.

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