[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 74 (Thursday, May 26, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S3458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

  Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 56, H.R. 754.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 754) to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2011 for intelligence and intelligence-related 
     activities of the United States Government, the Community 
     Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
     Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I am very pleased that the Senate will 
be passing the fiscal year 2011 intelligence authorization bill today.
  This is now the second year in a row that we have been able to pass 
an authorization bill, after 6 years without doing so.
  The bill authorizes funding for fiscal year 2011 for the 16 different 
agencies across the U.S. Government that make up the intelligence 
community. Unlike the fiscal year 2010 bill, which was enacted last 
October, this bill also contains a classified annex, which is the main 
mechanism the Intelligence Committee has to set the level of 
intelligence spending and direct how it is used.
  The bill adds hundreds of millions of dollars above the President's 
request for intelligence activities for fiscal year 2011. However, in 
anticipation of tighter future budgets, the bill also takes some 
initial steps to prepare the intelligence community for likely smaller 
budgets and personnel decreases in the coming years.
  The bill includes a number of legislative provisions, including:
  A section requiring the intelligence community to prevent another 
security disaster, such as the recent leaks of classified information 
to Wikileaks, through the implementation of automated information 
technology threat detection programs that must be fully operational by 
the end of 2013;
  A provision improving the ability of government agencies to detail 
personnel to needed areas of the intelligence community;
  A commendation of intelligence community personnel for their role in 
bringing Osama bin Laden to justice and reaffirming the commitment of 
the Congress to use the capabilities of the intelligence community to 
disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaida and affiliated organizations.
  With the passage of this legislation, I believe we have restored the 
committee's ability to do oversight, and we are now on track to pass 
intelligence authorization bills each year.
  I very much appreciate the close collaboration of Senator Chambliss, 
the vice chairman of the committee, in this effort. We have worked 
closely together to craft this legislation, and to secure its passage.
  I also thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger for 
their efforts on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 
We worked well together on the fiscal year 2011 legislation to bring 
forward coordinated bills to the House and the Senate, and I look 
forward to continue to work together to enact the fiscal year 2012 
intelligence authorization bill.
  Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill 
be read a third time and the Senate proceed to a vote on passage of the 
bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is on the third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The bill (H.R. 754) was passed.
  Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion 
to reconsider be laid upon the table and that any statements relating 
to the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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