[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 110 (Monday, July 29, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6025-S6026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 1813. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1243, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       On page 108, line 10, after the colon insert the following: 
     ``Provided further, That no funds made available under this 
     Act, or any other Act in any fiscal year, shall be available 
     to performance-based contract administrators that have been 
     selected after January 1, 2013, through a process other than 
     the solicitation and award of procurement contracts subject 
     to full and open competition among public housing agencies 
     and their instrumentalities under the Competition in 
     Contracting Act (41 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.) and the Federal 
     Acquisition Regulations:''
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  SA 1814. Mr. COCHRAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 17, line 13, insert ``, of which such sums as may 
     be necessary shall be made available for the establishment, 
     not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, of an academic center of excellence to conduct 
     research related to the privacy, safety, policy, and 
     technology challenges associated with integrating unmanned 
     aerial systems into the national air space independent from 
     the process established under section 332 of the FAA 
     Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95)'' 
     after ``2016''.
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  SA 1815. Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___.

       (a) No funds made available for any fiscal year beginning 
     before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, under 
     this Act or any other Act, may be used by a covered agency to 
     require the disclosure by a provider of electronic 
     communication service or remote computing service of the 
     contents of a wire or electronic communication that is in 
     storage with the provider (other than a communication with 
     respect to which the provider or an agent or employee of the 
     provider is the originator, addressee, or intended recipient) 
     unless the covered agency obtains a warrant issued using the 
     procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal 
     Procedure by a court of competent jurisdiction directing the 
     disclosure.
       (b) For purposes of this section--
       (1) the terms ``court of competent jurisdiction'' and 
     ``remote computing service'' have the meaning given those 
     terms in section 2711 of title 18, United States Code;
       (2) the term ``covered agency'' means an Executive agency, 
     as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, to 
     which funds are made available under this Act; and
       (3) the terms ``electronic communication'', ``electronic 
     communication service'', and ``wire communication'' have the 
     meaning given those terms in section 2510 of title 18, United 
     States Code.
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  SA 1816. Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___.

       (a) No funds made available for any fiscal year beginning 
     before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, under 
     this Act or any other Act, may be used by the Internal 
     Revenue Service or the Bureau of Consumer Financial 
     Protection to require the disclosure by a provider of 
     electronic communication service or remote computing service 
     of the contents of a wire or electronic communication that is 
     in storage with the provider (other than a communication with 
     respect to which the provider or an agent or employee of the 
     provider is the originator, addressee, or intended recipient) 
     unless the Internal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Consumer 
     Financial Protection, respectively, obtains a warrant issued 
     using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of 
     Criminal Procedure by a court of competent jurisdiction 
     directing the disclosure.
       (b) For purposes of this section--
       (1) the terms ``court of competent jurisdiction'' and 
     ``remote computing service'' have the meaning given those 
     terms in section 2711 of title 18, United States Code; and
       (2) the terms ``electronic communication'', ``electronic 
     communication service'', and ``wire communication'' have the 
     meaning given those terms in section 2510 of title 18, United 
     States Code.
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  SA 1817. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 25, line 14, after ``2014'', insert ``, of which up 
     to $100,000 shall be made available to the Secretary of 
     Transportation to encourage States to prioritize vehicles 
     defined in section 30D(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 and vehicles that operate solely on compressed natural 
     gas for purposes of section 166(b)(5)(B) of title 23, United 
     States Code''.
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  SA 1818. Mr. FLAKE (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1243, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       On page 38, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
       Sec. 1_____.  The Secretary of Transportation shall submit 
     to Congress an annual report that lists the total amounts 
     made available to carry out--
       (1) section 213 of title 23, United States Code; and
       (2) as applicable, each eligible project type under that 
     section.
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  SA 1819. Mr. REID (for Mrs. Feinstein) proposed an amendment to the 
resolution S. Res. 167, reaffirming the strong support of the United 
States for the peaceful resolution of territorial, sovereignty, and 
jurisdictional disputes in the Asia-Pacific maritime domains; as 
follows:

       Insert after the third whereas clause of the preamble the 
     following:
       Whereas although the United States does not take a position 
     on competing territorial claims over land features and 
     maritime boundaries, it does have a strong and long-standing 
     interest in the manner in which disputes in the South China 
     Sea are addressed and in the conduct of the parties;
       Insert after the ninth whereas clause of the preamble the 
     following:
       Whereas, on June 21, 2013, the Governments of the People's 
     Republic of China and Vietnam announced that they had agreed 
     to set up and use an emergency fishery hotline to inform each 
     other of any detainment involving fishermen or boats within 
     48 hours, to help quickly resolve disputes and as part of 
     efforts to prevent future incidents from derailing ties, and 
     the Governments of the People's Republic of China and 
     Indonesia on May 2, 2013, agreed to establish a hotline for 
     incidents in their disputed waters;
       In the thirteenth whereas clause of the preamble, strike 
     ``declaring the Senakaku Islands a ``core interest'',''.
       Insert after the thirteenth whereas clause of the preamble 
     the following:
       Whereas, on April 27, 2013, Chinese Foreign Ministry 
     spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, was quoted as saying, ``The Diaoyu 
     Islands are about sovereignty and territorial integrity. Of 
     course it's China's core interest.'';
       In the seventeenth whereas clause of the preamble, strike 
     ``; and'' and insert a semicolon.

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       In the eighteenth whereas clause of the preamble, strike 
     the colon at the end and insert a semicolon.
       Insert after the eighteenth whereas clause of the preamble 
     the following:
       Whereas ASEAN and China announced on June 30, 2013, that 
     official consultations on a Code of Conduct in the South 
     China Sea will commence at the 6th Senior Officials' Meeting 
     and the 9th Joint Working Group on the Implementation of the 
     Declaration of Conduct of the Parties in the SCS, to be held 
     in China in September 2013; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi 
     reaffirmed that China was willing to advance talks on a code 
     of conduct as part of a ``continual, gradual and deepening 
     process''; and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, 
     participating in the ASEAN Regional Forum Ministerial Meeting 
     on July 2, 2013, expressed the hope that announcement of 
     official consultations between ASEAN and China would be the 
     beginning of sustained and substantive official engagement 
     between the two on developing the new Code of Conduct; and
       Whereas, from June 17-20, 2013, the 10 ASEAN members and 
     their dialogue partners Australia, China, India, Japan, New 
     Zealand, Russia, South Korea, and the United States jointly 
     participated in the First ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting 
     Plus Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) and 
     Military Medicine (MM) exercise, helping to establish a new 
     pattern of cooperation among the militaries of the Asia-
     Pacific:
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  SA 1820. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 49, line 6, insert ``and to make grants to States 
     to offset a portion of the operating costs of passenger rail 
     services,'' after ``Code,''.
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  SA 1821. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 75, line 19, strike ``$40,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$37,500,000''.
       On page 84, line 10, strike ``$78,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$80,500,000''.
       On page 85, line 21, after the semicolon insert ``Provided 
     further, That not less than $2,500,000 of the amounts 
     provided under this paragraph shall be used by the Secretary 
     of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to provide rental vouchers to 
     veterans residing in States with a population of less than 
     1,000,000:''.
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  SA 1822. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 85, line 21, after the semicolon insert ``Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
     and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, in administering 
     and distributing rental voucher assistance funded under this 
     paragraph, give consideration to the unique challenges of 
     identifying homeless veterans in rural areas during point in 
     time counts, and adjust their rental voucher assistance 
     allocations accordingly: Provided further, That in accord 
     with the previous proviso that the Secretary of Housing and 
     Urban Development and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     in distributing rental voucher allocations during any round 
     of HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) 
     vouchers that no State shall receive less than 0.5 percent of 
     all such vouchers made available during such round:''

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