[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 5, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4949]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2573. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR PANDEMIC RECOVERY.

       Section 4018(e) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9053) is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by striking ``The Special'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
     Special''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Additional authorities.--
       ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), the Special 
     Inspector General may exercise any authority provided to the 
     head of a temporary organization under section 3161 of title 
     5, United States Code, without regard to whether the Office 
     of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery 
     qualifies as a temporary organization under subsection (a) of 
     that section.
       ``(ii) Limitations.--With respect to the exercise of 
     authority under subsection (b) of section 3161 of title 5, 
     United States Code, as permitted under clause (i) of this 
     subparagraph--

       ``(I) the Special Inspector General may not make any 
     appointment under that subsection on or after the later of--

       ``(aa) the date that is 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this subparagraph; or
       ``(bb) the date that is 180 days after the date on which 
     the Special Inspector General is confirmed by the Senate;

       ``(II) paragraph (2) of that subsection (relating to 
     periods of appointments) shall not apply; and
       ``(III) no period of an appointment made under that 
     subsection may extend after the date on which the Office of 
     the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery 
     terminates under subsection (h).''; and

       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) Reemployment of annuitants.--
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), if an 
     annuitant receiving an annuity from the Civil Service 
     Retirement and Disability Fund becomes employed in a position 
     in the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic 
     Recovery--
       ``(i) the annuity of that annuitant shall continue; and
       ``(ii) that reemployed annuitant shall not be considered to 
     be an employee for the purposes of chapter 83 or 84 of title 
     5, United States Code.
       ``(B) Limitations.--Subparagraph (A) shall apply to--
       ``(i) not more than 25 employees of the Office of the 
     Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery at any 
     particular time, as designated by the Special Inspector 
     General; and
       ``(ii) pay periods beginning after the date of enactment of 
     this paragraph.''.
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