[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18692-18733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gillmor). Pursuant to House Resolution 
263 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. 2606.

                              {time}  1937


                     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. 2606) making appropriations for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, 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 earlier today, 
Amendment No. 2 printed in part A of House report 106-269 by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood) had been disposed of.
  The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:

               TITLE I--EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE


                export-import bank of the united states

       The Export-Import Bank of the United States is authorized 
     to make such expenditures within the limits of funds and 
     borrowing authority available to such corporation, and in 
     accordance with law, and to make such contracts and 
     commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations, as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act, as may be necessary in carrying out the program for the 
     current fiscal year for such corporation: Provided, That none 
     of the funds available during the current fiscal year may be 
     used to make expenditures, contracts, or commitments for the 
     export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology to any 
     country other than a nuclear-weapon state as defined in 
     Article IX of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
     Weapons eligible to receive economic or military assistance 
     under this Act that has detonated a nuclear explosive after 
     the date of enactment of this Act.


                         subsidy appropriation

       For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance, 
     and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of the 
     Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, $759,000,000 to 
     remain available until September 30, 2003: Provided, That 
     such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall 
     be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
     of 1974: Provided further, That such sums shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2018 for the disbursement of 
     direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants 
     obligated in fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this 
     Act or any prior Act appropriating funds for foreign 
     operations, export financing, or related programs for tied-
     aid credits or grants may be used for any other purpose 
     except through the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated by this paragraph are made available 
     notwithstanding section 2(b)(2) of the Export Import Bank Act 
     of 1945, in connection with the purchase or lease of any 
     product by any East European country, any Baltic State or any 
     agency or national thereof.


                        administrative expenses

       For administrative expenses to carry out the direct and 
     guaranteed loan and insurance programs (to be computed on an 
     accrual basis), including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
     and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.

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     3109, and not to exceed $25,000 for official reception and 
     representation expenses for members of the Board of 
     Directors, $55,000,000: Provided, That necessary expenses 
     (including special services performed on a contract or fee 
     basis, but not including other personal services) in 
     connection with the collection of moneys owed the Export-
     Import Bank, repossession or sale of pledged collateral or 
     other assets acquired by the Export-Import Bank in 
     satisfaction of moneys owed the Export-Import Bank, or the 
     investigation or appraisal of any property, or the evaluation 
     of the legal or technical aspects of any transaction for 
     which an application for a loan, guarantee or insurance 
     commitment has been made, shall be considered 
     nonadministrative expenses for the purposes of this heading: 
     Provided further, That, notwithstanding subsection (b) of 
     section 117 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection 
     (a) thereof shall remain in effect until October 1, 2000.


                overseas private investment corporation

                           noncredit account

       The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized 
     to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations, as 
     provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and commitments 
     within the limits of funds available to it and in accordance 
     with law as may be necessary: Provided, That the amount 
     available for administrative expenses to carry out the credit 
     and insurance programs (including an amount for official 
     reception and representation expenses which shall not exceed 
     $35,000) shall not exceed $35,000,000: Provided further, That 
     project-specific transaction costs, including direct and 
     indirect costs incurred in claims settlements, and other 
     direct costs associated with services provided to specific 
     investors or potential investors pursuant to section 234 of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall not be considered 
     administrative expenses for the purposes of this heading.


              Amendment Offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey

  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey:
       Page 3, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 4, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 23, line 5, after the dollar amount insert 
     ``(increased by $20,000,000)''.

  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask 
unanimous consent that the amendment be considered as read and printed 
in the Record.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
New Jersey?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I am offering this amendment 
to try to increase the amount of money in the refugee account. As I 
think my colleagues know, I chair the Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights. Just a few days ago we passed legislation 
that significantly enhanced the money provided for refugee protection, 
some $750 million. My amendment today, regrettably, does not even come 
close to realizing that.
  I understand that the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), my good 
friend and colleague, has an enormous difficulty with the budget 
constraints in providing the necessary funds. But this amendment--and I 
will be withdrawing it, but reluctantly--has the support of all of the 
major refugee organizations, including the Catholic Conference, the 
Council on Jewish Federations, Church World Services, U.S. Committee 
for Refugees, and others. But my hope is, and I would ask the 
distinguished chairman if he could at least try, when conference does 
occur, to try to restore this $20 million to the migration and refugee 
account. I do have every confidence he will make every effort.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, we will be happy to look at it in 
conference to see if we cannot increase the assistance to refugees.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished 
chairman.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
New Jersey?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


                            program account

       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, $20,500,000, 
     as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 to be derived by transfer from the Overseas Private 
     Investment Corporation Noncredit Account: Provided, That such 
     costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 
     as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974: Provided further, That such sums shall be available for 
     direct loan obligations and loan guaranty commitments 
     incurred or made during fiscal years 2000 and 2001: Provided 
     further, That such sums shall remain available through fiscal 
     year 2008 for the disbursement of direct and guaranteed loans 
     obligated in fiscal year 2000, and through fiscal year 2009 
     for the disbursement of direct and guaranteed loans obligated 
     in fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That in addition, such 
     sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses to carry 
     out the credit program may be derived from amounts available 
     for administrative expenses to carry out the credit and 
     insurance programs in the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation Noncredit Account and merged with said account: 
     Provided further, That funds made available under this 
     heading or in prior appropriations Acts that are available 
     for the cost of financing under section 234 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, shall be available for purposes of 
     section 234(g) of such Act, to remain available until 
     expended.

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                      trade and development agency

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $44,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001: 
     Provided, That the Trade and Development Agency may receive 
     reimbursements from corporations and other entities for the 
     costs of grants for feasibility studies and other project 
     planning services, to be deposited as an offsetting 
     collection to this account and to be available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2001, for necessary expenses under this 
     paragraph: Provided further, That such reimbursements shall 
     not cover, or be allocated against, direct or indirect 
     administrative costs of the agency.

                TITLE II--BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

       For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out 
     the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and for 
     other purposes, to remain available until September 30, 2000, 
     unless otherwise specified herein, as follows:


                  agency for international development

                child survival and disease programs fund

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, for child survival, basic education, assistance to 
     combat tropical and other diseases, and related activities, 
     in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, 
     $680,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That this amount shall be made available for such activities 
     as: (1) immunization programs; (2) oral rehydration programs; 
     (3) health and nutrition programs, and related education 
     programs, which address the needs of mothers and children; 
     (4) water and sanitation programs; (5) assistance for 
     displaced and orphaned children; (6) programs for the 
     prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, 
     tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, polio, malaria and other diseases; 
     and (7) up to $98,000,000 for basic education programs for 
     children: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading may be made available for 
     nonproject assistance for health and child survival programs, 
     except that funds may be made available for such assistance 
     for ongoing health programs.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. Brown of Ohio

  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Brown of Ohio:
       Page 7, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 27, line 6, after the first dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''.

  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I ask for my colleagues' support for 
this amendment which I introduced with my distinguished colleague from 
Maryland (Mrs. Morella). I also especially want to thank both the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), the chairman of the 
subcommittee, and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the 
ranking member, for their untiring devotion on this issue this evening 
and consistently over their careers to eradicating infectious diseases 
and alleviating global poverty.
  Mr. Chairman, even though tuberculosis is an easily preventable and 
curable disease, it is one of the leading infectious killers in the 
world. The World Health Organization estimates that if left unchecked, 
TB could kill more than 70 million people around the

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world in the next 2 decades, while simultaneously infecting nearly 1 
billion more.
  Mr. Chairman, TB is already the leading killer of HIV positive 
individuals. It kills more women than any other cause of maternal 
mortality. TB remains a vicious killer, despite the fact that this 
disease is both preventable and curable. In fact, TB will kill more 
people this year than any other year in history.
  This amendment is simple and straightforward. It would reduce fiscal 
year 2000 funding for the International Military Education and Training 
Program from $50 million to $45 million, and increase fiscal year 2000 
Child Survival and Disease funding from $680 to $685 million.
  Mr. Chairman, it is our intent that this $5 million will be added to 
TB prevention and treatment programs, which are woefully underfunded at 
$30 million, $20 million less than the government plans to spend on 
training foreign military officials in the United States.
  The WHO has warned that poorly managed TB treatment programs, caused 
by a lack of sufficient funding, are causing drug-resistant strains of 
tuberculosis to emerge which, in all likelihood, would render TB 
incurable.
  Inadequate funding for TB programs in many countries, because the 
proper series of boosters are not administered, is creating a super 
strain of the virus that does not respond to treatment.

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  Already 50 million people are estimated to be infected with multi-
drug-resistant TB. It can be spread just by coughing, and with 
international travel, none of us is safe from it.
  Even in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, this super strain 
of tuberculosis kills half of the people infected. That is a national 
security concern. We can predict a coming plague, and are doing, for 
all intents and purposes, almost nothing to stop it.
  Internationally, TB is a huge economic and social drain on economies. 
It kills 2 to 3 million adults. It plunges families into poverty and 
orphans millions of children.
  Gro Brundtland, the Director General of the WHO, has said, ``Our 
greatest challenges in controlling tuberculosis are political rather 
than medical.''
  The World Health Organization has further stated that we are at ``a 
crossroads in TB control.'' It can be a future of expanded use of 
effective treatment and the reversal of this epidemic, or it can be a 
future in which multi-drug-resistent TB increases, millions more die, 
and millions become ill.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is an important step in our efforts to 
once and for all consign tuberculosis to the same trash heap as other 
eradicated diseases, like smallpox. While this bill contains $30 
million to fight TB in the coming year, thanks in large part to the 
leadership of the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) and the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), this amount is not enough to 
control one of our planet's greatest killers.
  The Brown-Morella amendment will boost tuberculosis prevention 
funding and treatment funding by nearly 17 percent, and sends a message 
to the most desperate people in the world that we hear their plight and 
we will come to their assistance.
  I urge its adoption.
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the modified Brown-
Morella amendment to increase funding for combatting tuberculosis. I 
want to particularly thank the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) for 
initiating this amendment, and I am very honored to join with him in 
presenting it.
  I also want to comment on the fact that the gentleman from Alabama 
(Chairman Callahan) and the ranking member, the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi), have worked very hard in this area, on this 
particular bill.
  I do not know how many of us are aware that even though tuberculosis 
is an easily preventable and 100 percent curable disease, that it has 
become the leading infectious killer in the world, accounting for more 
than 3 million deaths per year. More than one-third of the world's 
population is infected with TB.
  It is the leading killer of women, surpassing all causes of maternal 
mortality and creating more orphaned children than any other infectious 
disease. TB is the leading killer of HIV-positive individuals, causing 
over 30 percent of AIDS deaths. TB already kills more people than AIDS, 
malaria, and tropical disease combined, and it will kill more people 
this year than any year in history.
  While TB is a particularly serious threat abroad, it is also a major 
public health concern at home. Perhaps no infectious disease is as 
extensive and as devastating as TB. Every year, in addition to the 
deaths from TB of 3 million people, 8 million become sick and at least 
30 million become infected globally. TB is the leading infectious 
killer of youth and adults in the world, and it devastates the incomes 
and the futures of millions of families at the same time.
  As the number of TB cases has increased, a multi-drug-resistant form 
has emerged that poses a major public health threat in the United 
States and around the world. In fact, if this development is allowed to 
go unchecked, it threatens to make TB incurable again.
  Here in the United States, 15 million people carry TB bacteria, 
although these people are not ill. TB is highly contagious, and with 
the increase in global travel and migration, it is not possible to 
eliminate TB in the United States if it is allowed to spread unchecked 
in other parts of the world.
  The funding increase which we propose will strengthen our efforts to 
combat the spread of this deadly disease. I certainly want to thank the 
chairman, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), and the ranking 
member, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), for considering 
this amendment.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, as the vice chairman of the Committee on International 
Relations, I rise in very strong opposition to the amendment offered by 
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the gentlewoman from Maryland 
(Mrs. Morella). These are people that I truly respect and appreciate, 
and nothing could detract from the value of what they are trying to do, 
except from where they are taking the money.
  Not one word was said about the reduction of the $10 million, now $5 
million, in the IMET fund. I am surprised, actually, at my colleague, 
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) on the Committee on International 
Relations, because I know that he understands how important this money 
is.
  I would say that this is the best money that the Defense Department 
spends when it comes to foreign policy, and it probably ranks up there 
on the top of what we spend in any department for impacting foreign 
policy favorable to the United States of America. I really hate to see 
the money taken from this account.
  Mr. Chairman, the bill before us actually freezes the IMET account at 
last year's level of $50 million, which of course in real dollars 
represents a cut. The administration had requested a $2 million 
increase.
  Secretary Perry, our former Secretary, felt so strongly about the 
impact of IMET he came up to the Hill and devoted an entire breakfast 
speech before Members of the House supporting additional funds for 
IMET, and certainly Secretary Cohen feels the same way about it. I just 
think this is a very, very unfortunate place to take the money. As I 
said, not one word is mentioned where the money is being taken from for 
a very valuable purpose that our colleagues are suggesting.
  IMET encourages mutually beneficial relations and increases the 
understanding between the United States and foreign countries in 
furtherance of the goals of peace and security. Furthermore, IMET 
increases the awareness of nationals of foreign countries through 
courses that foster greater respect for and understanding of the 
principles of civilian control of the military, and contributes to 
improved military justice systems and procedures in accordance with 
internationally recognized human rights.

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  Indeed, we are fortunate that so many formerly authoritarian 
countries are transitioning to democracies. As a result, there is an 
even greater need for IMET type programs which help support and 
accelerate positive military forms. Unfortunately, due to our own 
budgetary constraints, we cannot expand IMET to meet the demand. We 
certainly should not cut it further. IMET programs are modest.
  For example, the United States provided $425,000 in IMET funding to 
Mongolia last year. Mongolia is an often overlooked success story. Less 
than a decade ago it was a closed Soviet satellite with its military 
directly linked to Soviet command structure. Today Mongolia is a 
successful democracy and partner of the United States.
  However, just as the Mongolian political system has undergone radical 
positive changes in its transformation from a Communist Soviet 
satellite, so, too, must Mongolia's military. IMET is a very modest but 
successful program that, for example, aids the Mongolian military in 
this challenging transition.
  The effectiveness of this program would be severely undercut if it 
were to incur the kinds of cuts, even small by some people's 
indication, but it is one-tenth of the money that is proposed by the 
Brown-Morella amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, this Member is sympathetic, of course, to the concerns 
and the places where they would spend the money. However, given the 
budget allocations for the bill, the Subcommittee on Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs of the Committee on 
Appropriations has done a very responsible and commendable job of 
carefully balancing the allocation of scarce funds.
  Given the needs and successes of the IMET program, this Member is 
opposed to any further cuts like this one, especially this 10 percent 
cut, and supports the careful balance of the bill. I urge rejection of 
the Brown-Morella amendment.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, we accept the amendment.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, we concur with the acceptance of our distinguished 
chairman, and commend the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the 
gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) for their leadership on this 
amendment.
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, I will not use anywhere close to the 5 minutes, because 
clearly everybody is ready to move on. But I want to rise in support of 
the Brown-Morella amendment, and commend the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) and the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) for bringing 
this amendment forward.
  We should strengthen efforts to fight worldwide diseases wherever it 
is possible, and TB is one which we thought had been eradicated. 
Practically, it had been eradicated within this country until suddenly 
it came on the rise, in particular in relation to the HIV-AIDS crisis.
  Of course, in other parts of the world TB had not been anywhere close 
to eradicated. Now it is raging, as HIV-AIDS becomes more prominent in 
other places. Around the world, TB does kill some 3 million people per 
year, but it is particularly a major factor in AIDS deaths, in its 
association with AIDS, where the degraded immune systems that are 
caused by the HIV-AIDS virus end up leaving the individual particularly 
vulnerable to TB. It is a particular danger to children everywhere.
  In the committee report it says, ``The committee notes the threat to 
the United States from this disease due to international travel and 
immigration.'' So I concur in moving $10 million to the TB control as 
representing a right policy for this country and for this Congress. It 
will help the U.S. to stop TB from killing people around the world.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise with reluctance to 
speak, not so much against the intent of my good friend Mr. Brown's 
amendment, but to make sure my colleagues know that this offset is from 
another worthy program.
  Ths $5 million that Mr. Brown would designate for tuberculosis 
activities comes at the expense of a highly successful democracy 
building program. I am familiar with this program through the Center 
for Civil-Military Relations, located in my district, that helps new 
democracies strengthen civilian control of their military forces.
  This program, with a proven record of successful democracy building, 
helps emerging democracies lean from U.S. civilian and military 
teachers why civilian leadership of their militaries will further their 
democratic objectives.
  The courses the Center for Civil-Military Relations teaches are 
congressionally mandated: Democratic Civilian Control of Military 
Forces; Human Rights; and Defense Resources Management.
  The investment is modest--only sightly more than $1 million a year.
  The impact is far-reaching--18 seminars a year, with approximately 50 
students in each week-long seminar, teaching democratic principles to 
an average of 1,000 students a year--students who are leaders in their 
country, both military and civilian.
  Some of the successful examples, of programs the Center taught in 
Fiscal Year 1999 include:
  South Africa--the military leaders of South Africa asked the Center 
for assistance in integrating their Department of Defense, not along 
racial lines, but along civil-military lines.
  Russia--the Center assisted the Russians in developing an All-
Volunteer Force concept.
  Guatemala--after 3 programs involving Center staff, Guatemala has 
developed Master's-level university courses on democratic civilian 
control and civil-military relations.
  Argentina--this country requested the Center to conduct a seminar on 
democratic civilian control of military intelligence. This year the 
Center will continue the dialogue by presenting a seminar on relations 
between the military and the legislature.
  The Center, both formally and informally, has facilitated the entry 
of the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary into NATO and continues to 
facilitate the ``intellectual interoperability'' of other NATO 
aspirants.
  The vote before us is about tough choices.
  The account designated in Mr. Brown's amendment has already received 
an increase in this year's budget.
  I am asking my colleagues to make a tough choice--preserve one of the 
most cost-effective foreign assistance programs in the federal budget. 
Oppose the Brown amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to bring to the attention of the Committee 
and particularly to our chairman, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Callahan), a matter of importance to many American citizens. That is 
property claims in Nicaragua.
  As I know the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) well knows and I 
know many members of the committee do, Nicaragua has been the focus of 
much attention recently. Last year it, along with Honduras, was hit 
with Hurricane Mitch, and the United States responded with humanitarian 
aid. Before that it was hit with revolution and civil war.
  The United States responded positively to its turn towards democracy 
earlier this decade. As a democratic nation, we ask Nicaragua to heal 
the wounds of its civil war, revive its economy, and provide justice to 
those victimized by the repressive policies of the 1980s, including 
justice for those who had their homes, businesses, and livelihoods 
taken.
  In many areas, Nicaragua has made positive strides. This we applaud. 
There is one area, however, in which we need to do more, and most 
importantly, Nicaragua needs to do more.

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That is the resolution of the property claims of American citizens. 
Some of these citizens have endured lengthy legal battles to regain 
what was taken from them.
  Nicaragua needs investment and economic development, but more than 
natural disasters have hindered Nicaragua's development. Man-made 
decisions have been that country's greatest impediment to economic 
growth; namely, the failure of the Nicaraguan government to take the 
necessary steps to provide economic security and return wrongfully 
taken properties to their rightful owners.
  Each year the President must determine that Nicaragua is making 
progress in resolving property claims if it is to continue receiving 
bilateral U.S. aid, and each year since 1994 Nicaragua has been 
determined to meet the standards of U.S. law.
  I raise this because existing U.S. law has not helped the claimants, 
who cannot occupy their properties, or those American citizens 
struggling with the obstructionism of the Nicaraguan state entity, 
which has the specific responsibility to privatize state-owned 
properties and enterprises. Nor does existing U.S. law help a third 
class of claimants, those who have struggled through Nicaragua's court 
system and won judgments against the government for its illegal 
property takings.
  In two cases involving 28 American claimants, the Supreme Court of 
Nicaragua has ruled against the government and in favor of the 
Americans. The Nicaraguan government acknowledges that it owes these 
Americans. But has yet to either compensate them, as ordered by the 
court, or to negotiate seriously with them on a compensation schedule.
  Mr. Chairman, I would request that if the Nicaraguan government does 
not resolve these cases by the time the chairman's committee considers 
funding for next year, that we consider conditioning the aid to 
Nicaragua on progress in resolving these claims.
  Joining me in this is the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton).
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. McCOLLUM. I yield to the gentleman from Indiana.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding to me.
  I would just like to say to the chairman that for the past several 
years there have been commitments by the government of Nicaragua that 
they would try to make restitution for what the Sandinistas took away 
from people down there during the Sandinista regime. They have kind of 
reneged on that. President Aleman and his administration recently has 
told some of the people who have had their property stolen that the 
only way they are going to get restitution was to go to court.
  I know of one case where they did go to court. It was carried all the 
way to the Nicaraguan Supreme Court, not once but twice. Even though 
the Supreme Court agreed there should be a settlement made and gave a 
monetary settlement figure, the government still would not pay these 
people who had a legitimate claim, and the Supreme Court agreed with 
them. They tried to convince some Members of Congress who are 
interested in this that there was corruption at the Supreme Court in 
order to try to sidestep their responsibility.
  So I join my colleague, the gentleman from Florida, in saying that I 
hope that he as chairman will send a very strong message to President 
Aleman and the government of Nicaragua that they should make proper 
restitution to these people, and adhere to their own Supreme Court's 
decisions.
  Mr. McCOLLUM. If they do not, if I may reclaim my time, I would hope 
that the chairman would consider next year making some conditions in 
the next appropriations cycle if they do not pay these claims.

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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I share the concerns of the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. McCollum), and I certainly want to do that. I imagine 
next year or the year after next President Aleman will certainly 
recognize that, if something is not done, that then Senator McCollum 
will force it upon him. I think he will recognize the political danger 
he has in denying American investors their due rights.
  So we certainly will work with the gentleman from Indiana to continue 
to insist that the Nicaraguan government acts more promptly to ensure 
that these American investors are compensated accordingly.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman from Florida 
yield?
  Mr. McCOLLUM. I yield to the gentleman from Indiana.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I would like to say to the 
gentleman I really appreciate that, and I hope that President Aleman 
and his finance minister heard what the chairman said tonight; and that 
is, if they do not start doing what they have said they would do, that 
the chairman would take this into consideration next year when the 
appropriations process takes place.
  Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I echo that. I want 
to thank the gentleman from Alabama (Chairman Callahan) for his words 
to encourage that right action by the government in Nicaragua. It has 
been long overdue. We really do need something to move here. There is 
something wrong. It should have happened long before now.


             Amendment Offered By Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas:
       Page 7, line 10, after the dollar amount insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 7, line 25, add at the end before the period the 
     following: ``: Provided further, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, $25,000,000 shall be made 
     available for assistance for prevention and treatment of HIV/
     AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa''.

  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the 
amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama reserves a point of order.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I want to 
acknowledge the chairman and ranking member of the committee for their 
leadership and for their perseverance on an issue that has been with us 
for a long time but has risen to the level of immense devastation in 
sub-Saharan Africa, and as we have learned over the past months and 
years, moving to India and China as the next locations of this 
devastation of HIV/AIDS.
  I also recognize that we are constrained by the limits of the 
appropriations process. I think it is disappointing that we are in this 
very large Nation relegated to allocating 1 percent of our budget to 
foreign aid, in particular when the American people would be willing to 
give more.
  But I rise to offer this amendment to H.R. 2606, to increase funding 
by $25 million and direct this funding to address the issue of HIV/AIDS 
in sub-Saharan Africa. With 33 million infected people in the world, 
22.5 million in sub-Saharan Africa, it is clear that we must dedicate 
money directly to sub-Saharan Africa although we have identified and 
appropriated monies for global prevention and reduction programs.
  Of the 5.8 million adults and children newly infected with HIV during 
1998, 4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 
is a growing disaster. UNAIDS has declared HIV/AIDS in Africa an 
epidemic out of control. Each and every day, Mr. Chairman, more than 
16,000 additional people become HIV positive; and most live in sub-
Saharan Africa where, in South Africa alone, 1,500 people become HIV 
positive each day.
  Among children under 15, the proportion is 9 out of 10, and the 
amendment would speak to dealing with children's diseases. To date, 83 
percent of all AIDS deaths have been in the region; and at least 95 
percent of all AIDS orphans have been in Africa. It is estimated that, 
by the year 2010, AIDS will orphan more than 40 million children, with 
95 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.
  I have seen firsthand the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. 
My

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participation as part of the Presidential Mission solidified my 
position that our foreign policy with Africa must include the 
realization that Africa is struggling with the AIDS devastation and 
must provide additional AIDS prevention funding as well as funds to 
deal with the large numbers of children whose family members have died 
from this merciless killer. As we move into the 21st Century, we must 
realize that AIDS will have a tremendous impact on the continent of 
Africa, as well as the world.
  I am gratified this House passed the African Growth and Opportunities 
Act. In that trade bill, there was acknowledgment of the impact of AIDS 
on the economy of Africa. The AIDS epidemic quickly transcends simply a 
health issue. It is quickly becoming a detriment to economic growth.
  According to the Economist, a recent study in Namibia estimated that 
AIDS costs the country almost 8 percent of GNP in 1996. Another 
analysis predicts that Kenya's GNP will be 14.5 percent smaller in 2005 
than it would have been without AIDS and the per capital income will be 
10 percent lower. A report released by the World Bank begged the 
questions, will this pandemic destroy the developing Nation's hard-
earned economic gains, or will governments get their act together in 
time? Clearly time is running out.
  As I said as I began my statement in explanation of this amendment I 
wish to offer, I do appreciate the great strides that the Committee on 
Appropriations has made, particularly this subcommittee, and the 
leadership of the committee.
  But there are no boundaries to the effects of this epidemic. A South 
African anti-crime institute has linked the growing number of children 
orphaned by AIDS to future increases in crime and civil unrest. Without 
appropriate intervention, many of the 2 million children projected to 
be orphaned by AIDS in South Africa will raise themselves on the 
streets, often turning to crime, drugs, commercial sex, and gangs for 
survival and, sadly, increasing their risk of AIDS.
  While in Africa, I visited St. Anthony's compound in Zambia where 
many affected families were headed by grandparents who were caring for 
their grandchildren, orphaned by the disease.
  The AIDS epidemic has been labeled by some in the medical community 
as a disease equal to the plagues of earlier times. This is most 
disconcerting, but it is not hopeless. We have the power to fix this.
  Uganda is out front in developing policies to combat the AIDS 
epidemic. They have enacted various education and AIDS programs. The 
U.S. invested the $40 million in HIV prevention in Uganda, and HIV 
rates among pregnant women dropped from 30 percent in 1991 to 15 
percent in 1995 to 8 percent in 1998.
  I would ask my colleagues, although a point of order has been 
reserved, to consider the need that we have. If we cannot move forward 
on this amendment, I would certainly hope that we might have the 
opportunity to look at this question as we move in the appropriations 
process in future years, and I will work with my colleagues to solve 
and to bring to an end this terrible devastation.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) continue 
to reserve his point of order?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment but, again, the 
proposed use of funds by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) 
is entirely salutary and commendable.
  I spoke a few minutes ago against the Brown-Morella amendment because 
it was taking money out of the IMET program, the same IMET program that 
provides training to the military officers and men of the reserves that 
the gentlewoman from Texas mentioned and to South Africa where they are 
trying to encourage promotion of black officers in the South African 
military.
  I just want my colleagues to know that the IMET fund is a not a slush 
fund that can be drawn down or slashed from for every good purpose. I 
will energetically do what I can to keep the conference from reducing 
the IMET funds because it is so valuable.
  I stipulate all my arguments that I gave on the Morella-Brown 
amendment to also apply as here on the amendment by the distinguished 
gentlewoman from Texas.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I am hopeful that the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson-Lee) will withdraw her amendment before I insist on a point of 
order.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, as I noted in my remarks, I 
am appreciative of the work that has been done by this committee.
  I feel compelled and committed to raise this issue as often as we 
can. I would hope that this amendment could have been made in order.
  I will now withdraw the amendment and hope and look forward to 
working with my colleagues, one, to increase the amount of foreign aid 
that we give; and then, two, to be able, then, to add more dollars to 
what I consider one of the major epidemics, pandemics that we have 
facing us today.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn.
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


                         development assistance

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     sections 103 through 106, and chapter 10 of part I of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, title V of the International 
     Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (Public Law 
     96-533) and the provisions of section 401 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1969, $1,201,000,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2001: Provided, That of the amount 
     appropriated under this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be made 
     available for and apportioned directly to the Inter-American 
     Foundation: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated 
     under this heading, up to $14,400,000 may be made available 
     for the African Development Foundation and shall be 
     apportioned directly to that agency: Provided further, That 
     none of the funds made available in this Act nor any 
     unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be made 
     available to any organization or program which, as determined 
     by the President of the United States, supports or 
     participates in the management of a program of coercive 
     abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided further, That 
     none of the funds made available under this heading may be 
     used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of 
     family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to 
     practice abortions; and that in order to reduce reliance on 
     abortion in developing nations, funds shall be available only 
     to voluntary family planning projects which offer, either 
     directly or through referral to, or information about access 
     to, a broad range of family planning methods and services, 
     and that any such voluntary family planning project shall 
     meet the following requirements: (1) service providers or 
     referral agents in the project shall not implement or be 
     subject to quotas, or other numerical targets, of total 
     number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or 
     acceptors of a particular method of family planning (this 
     provision shall not be construed to include the use of 
     quantitative estimates or indicators for budgeting and 
     planning purposes), (2) the project shall not include payment 
     of incentives, bribes, gratuities, or financial reward to (A) 
     an individual in exchange for becoming a family planning 
     acceptor, or (B) program personnel for achieving a numerical 
     target or quota of total number of births, number of family 
     planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method of 
     family planning, (3) the project shall not deny any right or 
     benefit, including the right of access to participate in any 
     program of general welfare or the right of access to health 
     care, as a consequence of any individual's decision not to 
     accept family planning services, (4) the project shall 
     provide family planning acceptors comprehensible information 
     on the health benefits and risks of the method chosen, 
     including those conditions that might render the use of the 
     method inadvisable and those adverse side effects known to be 
     consequent to the use of the method, (5) the project shall 
     ensure that experimental contraceptive drugs and devices and 
     medical procedures are provided only in the context of a 
     scientific study in which participants are advised of 
     potential risks and benefits; and, not less than 60 days 
     after the date on which the Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development determines that 
     there has been a violation of the requirements contained in 
     paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern 
     or practice of violations of the requirements contained in 
     paragraph (4) of this

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     proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on 
     International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate, a report containing a description of such violation 
     and the corrective action taken by the Agency: Provided 
     further, That in awarding grants for natural family planning 
     under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 no 
     applicant shall be discriminated against because of such 
     applicant's religious or conscientious commitment to offer 
     only natural family planning; and, additionally, all such 
     applicants shall comply with the requirements of the previous 
     proviso: Provided further, That for purposes of this or any 
     other Act authorizing or appropriating funds for foreign 
     operations, export financing, and related programs, the term 
     ``motivate'', as it relates to family planning assistance, 
     shall not be construed to prohibit the provision, consistent 
     with local law, of information or counseling about all 
     pregnancy options: Provided further, That nothing in this 
     paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing statutory 
     prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That, 
     notwithstanding section 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, of the funds appropriated under this heading in this 
     Act, and of the unobligated balances of funds previously 
     appropriated under this heading, $2,500,000 may be 
     transferred to ``International Organizations and Programs'' 
     for a contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural 
     Development (IFAD): Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading may be made available for any 
     activity which is in contravention to the Convention on 
     International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna 
     (CITES): Provided further, That, of the funds made available 
     by this Act for the ``Microenterprise Initiative'' (including 
     any local currencies made available for the purposes of the 
     Initiative), not less than 50 percent of the funds used for 
     microcredit should be made available for support of programs 
     providing loans of less than $300 to very poor people, 
     particularly women, or for institutional support of 
     organizations primarily engaged in making such loans.


                  private and voluntary organizations

       None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
     by this Act for development assistance may be made available 
     to any United States private and voluntary organization, 
     except any cooperative development organization, which 
     obtains less than 20 percent of its total annual funding for 
     international activities from sources other than the United 
     States Government: Provided, That the Administrator of the 
     Agency for International Development may, on a case-by-case 
     basis, waive the restriction contained in this paragraph, 
     after taking into account the effectiveness of the overseas 
     development activities of the organization, its level of 
     volunteer support, its financial viability and stability, and 
     the degree of its dependence for its financial support on the 
     agency.
       Funds appropriated or otherwise made available under title 
     II of this Act should be made available to private and 
     voluntary organizations at a level which is at least 
     equivalent to the level provided in fiscal year 1995.


                   international disaster assistance

       For necessary expenses for international disaster relief, 
     rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant to 
     section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 
     amended, $200,880,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     not more than $35,000,000 shall be made available for 
     activities carried out by the Office of Transition 
     Initiatives, except that this amount may be exceeded subject 
     to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


         micro and small enterprise development program account

       For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees, 
     $1,500,000, as authorized by section 108 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, as amended: Provided, That such costs 
     shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That guarantees of 
     loans made under this heading in support of microenterprise 
     activities may guarantee up to 70 percent of the principal 
     amount of any such loans notwithstanding section 108 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. In addition, for 
     administrative expenses to carry out programs under this 
     heading, $500,000, all of which may be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the 
     Agency for International Development: Provided further, That 
     funds made available under this heading shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2001.


             urban and environmental credit program account

       For administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed loan 
     programs, $5,000,000, all of which may be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the 
     Agency for International Development.


     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, $43,837,000.


     operating expenses of the agency for international development

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 667, $479,950,000.


 operating expenses of the agency for international development office 
                          of inspector general

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 667, $25,000,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2001, which sum shall be available for the Office of the 
     Inspector General of the Agency for International 
     Development.

                  Other Bilateral Economic Assistance


                         economic support fund

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapter 4 of part II, $2,227,000,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2001: Provided, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not to exceed $960,000,000 
     shall be available only for Israel, which sum shall be 
     available on a grant basis as a cash transfer and shall be 
     disbursed within thirty days of enactment of this Act or by 
     October 31, 1999, whichever is later: Provided further, That 
     not to exceed $735,000,000 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 
     reforms which are additional to those which were undertaken 
     in previous fiscal years: 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.


                   Amendment Offered By Mr. Campbell

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

       Amendment offered by Mr. Campbell:
       Page 15, line 7, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $30,000,000)''.
       Page 15, line 11, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $20,000,000)''.

  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the 
amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama reserves a point of order.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, the amendment is very simple, as it is 
important. Here it is. We spend too much money in foreign aid on two 
countries. There is every other country in the world where we spend 
foreign aid where it can do so much good, and we spend over 20 percent 
of the entire economic component of foreign aid in Israel and Egypt.
  I do not think that is right. I just do not think that is consistent 
with the compassion of the American people who would rather see the 
money go a little bit more fairly, a little bit more to the other 
countries in the world.
  So what I propose is a very small cut. $960 million is the economic 
component of the aid to Israel in this bill, and I suggest that it be 
dropped by $30 million. $735 million is the amount of money for Egypt, 
and I suggest that it be dropped by $20 million.
  That is a 3 percent cut roughly speaking. Bearing in mind that 20 
percent of the entire amount of economic aid goes to these two 
countries and that it would mean so much to the other countries in the 
world who are getting such little amount in this bill, and every year 
gets such little amount of our foreign aid money, I believe it is what 
the American people would do if they were empowered to do it. If my 
colleagues' average person they represent was here to tonight, that is 
what she or he would do I believe.
  Let me break it down in per capita. Again, I am just talking about 
economic aid, not the military side. I understand that is different. I 
support military aid to Israel.
  But if we just break the economic money down, it is $170 per capita 
for every person in Israel. It is $32 per capita for every person in 
Egypt. It is $2.05 for every soul in sub-Saharan Africa. That is not 
right. It is $1.20 for every soul in Latin America. It is 17 cents for 
every person in India. It is $170 for every person in Israel and $32 
for every person in Egypt.
  Where do I come up with the number to cut by 30 for Israel and 20 for 
Egypt? Because the President had recommended those numbers. So it is a

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small cut. It might not matter very much to those two recipients; but 
to the other countries, it will make a huge amount of difference.
  I want to close just by commenting what I have seen. My wife, 
Susanne, and I have traveled to sub-Saharan Africa, poorest countries 
of the world, as often as we can since I have returned to Congress. I 
have seen a few dollars spent for a water pump in Mali. I have seen a 
few dollars of our tax money spent for a sewing machine so somebody 
could get a job, microenterprise in Morocco. I saw some money for 
saving children who would otherwise be cast aside as albinos in 
Senegal.
  I saw women, Somali women in refugee camps in Kenya packed to the top 
who wanted to get a little firewood so they would not have to go out at 
night because they were subject to rape when they went out at night. 
Now, that is where our money could go.
  For the sake of compassion and for the sake of fairness, I ask that 
we move $30 million from Israel, which received so much of our aid, $20 
million from Egypt, which received so much of our aid, and just let it 
flow to the other countries, particularly in Latin America, sub-Saharan 
Africa, and India.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation, but I rise in 
opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, with respect to the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Campbell), let me say that he makes some very 
interesting statistical and comparable monetary indications of how much 
this might mean to sub-Saharan Africa.

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  But let me remind the gentleman, and my request to him is to withdraw 
the amendment, that in offering the amendment he gives no credit to the 
hard work that this committee has done and that this administration has 
done recognizing the need to reduce our assistance to Israel.
  Two years ago, we worked with then Prime Minister Netanyahu to wean 
Israel from total economic assistance. President Netanyahu, suffering I 
think very serious political consequences, agreed with this 
subcommittee and with me that we should begin the decline of assistance 
to Israel, and we started that last year by reducing the economic 
support by $120 million. And in accordance with the agreement, we have 
further reduced it another $120 million this year, the first time in 
the history of this Congress that we have ever done so.
  Yet here at the late hour of this night, along comes the gentleman 
from California and says to us, to members of the subcommittee, to 
Members of the Congress, that he does not think we have done enough. 
Well, I think we have done enough.
  Just last week, the President and the new Prime Minister Barak agreed 
to the Callahan plan of total elimination of economic support to Israel 
over a period of the next 8 years. And I think that is a very 
responsible way in which to handle this decline in economic assistance 
to Israel. It is the responsible way to do it. It is a recognition of 
accomplishment that our economic assistance to Israel has worked; that 
they are now becoming economically independent.
  But for the gentleman from California, at this late hour of the night 
to bring up this kind of amendment, and to use the type of comparisons 
the gentleman is using, I think is disrespectful to the subcommittee 
and to the Congress. Because we already have addressed this issue, we 
have addressed it in a responsible manner, and to put this issue on the 
table on the eve of the new administration in Israel, when they are 
trying to work towards some accomplishment over the Wye agreement, I 
think is the wrong message.
  So I would respectfully ask that the gentleman withdraw his 
amendment, and short of that, I would urge the Members of this body to 
vote ``no.''
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  I would like to first respond to my good friend, the chairman of this 
committee, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), who indeed 
expressed so eloquently the hard work of this committee to change the 
formula and to do it fairly so that we could move forward in reducing 
economic aid to Israel and increasing the military aid. And I would say 
that most of my colleagues would agree that the investment in military 
aid in that region of the world is in our interest.
  So I would like to congratulate the chairman again in forging that 
agreement with the former prime minister of Israel. And in discussing 
this agreement with the current prime minister of Israel, there has 
been total support.
  I would just like to say to my good friend, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Campbell), that I share his concerns; and I would join 
the gentleman in working to enlighten our colleagues and work with this 
administration in increasing aid to the other parts of the world that 
need it so desperately.
  In fact, I have said over and over again that it is an embarrassment 
that we do not pay our U.N. arrears, even though that does not come out 
of this particular budget. It is an embarrassment that with all the 
problems in every part of the world that we are behind about a billion 
dollars in our U.N. dues. So I would join the gentleman.
  But I would say to the gentleman, at this time we are on the verge, 
on the brink, of seeing a real peace. The new prime minister, Prime 
Minister Barak, has been making every effort to move forward, to 
meeting with the other parties of the region to try to forge a real 
peace so that in our lifetime all of our investments and our commitment 
to that region of the world as a result of Camp David can become a 
reality. So it seems to me, and I agree with our distinguished 
chairman, this is not an opportune time to change the formula that has 
been very carefully crafted; that we should work together so we can see 
a real peace in the Middle East.
  And, again, I would say to the gentleman from California that I would 
join the gentleman in increasing aid to other parts of the world. We 
know of the real problem, the people who are in distress. And as the 
leader of the free world, at a time when our leadership is 
acknowledged, when there are problems with disease and problems of 
inadequate education and health care, we could make an additional 
difference.
  So I hope we can work together and increase our assistance to other 
parts of the world, but not change this formula while we are at a 
moment of a breakthrough in the peace agreement.
  Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment of the gentleman 
from California. This is a bad idea for a number of reasons.
  First of all, this is a negotiated amount of funds. This is not a 
discretionary set of funds. And while the gentleman makes some 
interesting arguments about comparing what this would mean in per 
capita terms from one country versus Israel, I do not know that we can 
measure it quite that statistically.
  This, as I said, is a negotiated amount. It goes back to the Camp 
David Accords. It also goes back to the more recent Wye River Accords. 
But perhaps most importantly, and I think the gentlewoman from New York 
was just discussing this, we have a new government in Israel which we 
have a strategic partnership with that has really only been in place 
for about 30 days. I think even as small a cut as the gentleman 
proposes undercuts the U.S. commitment to having the Barak government 
succeed in its effort in bringing peace to the region.
  So I think while the gentleman is well intentioned in his goals, I 
think it is an amendment that would send the wrong message on the part 
of the United States and our commitment to Israel and our commitment to 
peace in the Middle East and in particular our commitment to seeing the 
Barak government succeed, and for that reason I oppose the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this legislation, and the bill's 
provision to provide $3 billion in aid to Israel.
  Since its founding in 1948, Israel and the U.S. have shared an 
important economic and strategic partnership. For more than 50 years, 
Israel has stood with the U.S. in countering the greatest threats to 
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the region, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 
and state-sponsored terrorism by rogue regimes.
  Israel has also been a reliable strategic partner, providing the 
United States with cutting-edge technology and valuable intelligence. 
Israel was the first country to sign a free trade agreement with the 
United States, which has resulted in a quadrupling of trade between the 
two countries. As Israel's economy continues to grow, the United States 
will continue to benefit from the wide-ranging economic partnership 
enjoyed by the two countries. The United States-Israel partnership has 
also been cost-effective, avoiding the expensive deployment of American 
troops. No United States troops have ever been required to protect 
Israel, while by comparison America maintains 135,000 troops in Europe 
and spends roughly $80 billion each year on the defense of Europe.
  Thanks to the United States involvement in the Middle East peace 
process, Israel has been able to make significant advancements toward 
establishing peaceful relations with her Arab neighbors. With the 
election of Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May 1999, the search for peace 
in the Middle East appears to have taken meaningful steps forward. In 
the days following his election, Mr. Barak displayed his commitment to 
the peace process through his talks with Egyptian President Mubarak, 
and the formation of a `peace administration' of three negotiating 
teams, one each for Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. In the 3 
weeks since he's taken office, Mr. Barak has actively negotiated with 
Palestinian Authority Chairman Arafat in attempt to secure a permanent 
peace deal to determine Israel's borders, the future of Jerusalem, the 
fate of refugees, and the disposition of water resources. He has also 
begun negotiations with Syria regarding the status of the Golan Heights 
and the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.
  Prime Minister Barak understands that a negotiated peace is the best 
way to make Israel more stable and prosperous for the people of the 
Middle East. As the peace process moves forward, the U.S. must continue 
to support the principles of the Wye River agreement, including the 
land-for- peace commitments, cessation of terrorist aggression, and 
respect for existing peace agreements by all parties. While his Mr. 
Barak's progress has been encouraging, we should hold no illusions. The 
path ahead will be difficult and hold many hard decisions. As Israel 
takes these calculated risks for peace, the United States must continue 
to support Israel's defense. Part of that effort should be the final 
Congressional approval of an aid package that provides assistance to 
Israel, the Palestinian people and to Jordan as part of the 
implementation of the Wye River agreement. Making Israel stronger and 
making Palestinians and Jordanians more secure and more prosperous are 
all critical steps to building a just and lasting peace in the Middle 
East.
  U.S. aid to Israel is one of America's most cost-effective foreign 
policy investments. The economic and military aid that America provides 
Israel serves the interests of both countries by promoting peace, 
security, and trade. I urge my colleagues to continue our support for 
Israel and to further our national interests by voting for this 
appropriations.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the 
requisite number of words.
  Mr. Chairman, I have great respect for my friend from California. We 
have worked together on many issues, including a number of 
international relations issues, and he has made an attractive argument. 
As he has visited sub-Sahara Africa, I have as well, and just got 
through offering an amendment dealing with HIV/AIDS. But I would simply 
say to the gentleman that as attractive as support for the microcredit 
is, and I frankly saw the enormous impact that the microcredit funding 
has, I am rising in opposition for, I think, two to three reasons.
  One, I believe we should make good on our commitment, and I think it 
is important to note that we have made a commitment to support Israel 
as it has downsized on its receipt of foreign aid from the United 
States. I think the Wye River agreement is extremely important and goes 
to our bond and our standing in the international arena as relates to 
the Mideast, with Israel being the freestanding or one singular 
democracy there.
  Then, I think that, hopefully, we do not have a situation where we 
pit one community or one part of the world against another. There is a 
great need in Africa, and I would like to see us collaborate, as I 
started out in my remarks, on HIV/AIDS. I would like to see the foreign 
aid increased. I think it would be a shame that a powerful, wealthy 
Nation like this, where the American people would be willing to support 
our international efforts at a higher rate than 1 percent, and maybe 
that number has been increased but that is what sticks in my mind, even 
as high as 5 percent, and maybe we can go higher, if we begin to 
juxtapose one needy area against another needy area for different 
reasons.
  So for that reason, and though I respect the gentleman in his intent 
and, in fact, look forward to working with the gentleman to find funds 
to increase those opportunities in sub-Sahara Africa, I would oppose 
his amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 263, further proceeding on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) 
will be postponed.
  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 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $19,600,000, 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, 
     2001.


          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, $393,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2001, which shall be 
     available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     economic assistance and for related programs for Eastern 
     Europe and the Baltic States.
       (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) None of the funds appropriated under this heading may 
     be made available for new housing construction or repair or 
     reconstruction of existing housing in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
     unless directly related to the efforts of United States 
     troops to promote peace in said country.
       (d) With regard to funds appropriated under this heading 
     for the economic revitalization program in Bosnia and 
     Herzegovina, and local currencies generated by such funds 
     (including the conversion of funds appropriated under this 
     heading into currency used by Bosnia and Herzegovina as local 
     currency and local currency returned or repaid under such 
     program) the Administrator of the Agency for International 
     Development shall provide written approval for grants and 
     loans prior to the obligation and expenditure of funds for 
     such purposes, and prior to the use of funds that have been 
     returned or repaid to any lending facility or grantee.
       (e) The provisions of section 532 of this Act shall apply 
     to funds made available under subsection (d) and to funds 
     appropriated under this heading.
       (f) 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 Iranian officials and Bosnian 
     officials has not been terminated.
       (g) Funds appropriated under this heading or in prior 
     appropriations Acts that are or have been made available for 
     an Enterprise Fund may be deposited by such Fund in interest-
     bearing accounts prior to the Fund's disbursement of such 
     funds for program purposes. The Fund may retain for such 
     program purposes any interest earned on such deposits without 
     returning such interest to the Treasury of the United States 
     and without further appropriation by the Congress. Funds made 
     available for Enterprise Funds shall be expended at the 
     minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for projects 
     and activities.

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    assistance for the independent states of the former soviet union

       (a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     chapter 11 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, $725,000,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2001: Provided, That the provisions of such chapter shall 
     apply to funds appropriated by this paragraph: Provided 
     further, That such sums as may be necessary may be 
     transferred to the Export-Import Bank of the United States 
     for the cost of any financing under the Export-Import Bank 
     Act of 1945 for activities for the Independent States: 
     Provided further, That of the funds made available for the 
     Southern Caucasus region, 17.5 percent should be used 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.
       (b) Funds appropriated under title II of this Act, 
     including funds appropriated under this heading, may be made 
     available for assistance for Mongolia: Provided, That funds 
     made available for assistance for Mongolia may be made 
     available in accordance with the purposes and utilizing the 
     authorities provided in chapter 11 of part I of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961.
       (c)(1) Of the funds appropriated under this heading that 
     are allocated for assistance for the Government of the 
     Russian Federation, 50 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 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.
       (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to--
       (A) assistance to combat infectious diseases and child 
     survival activities; and
       (B) activities authorized under title V (Nonproliferation 
     and Disarmament Programs and Activities) of the FREEDOM 
     Support Act.
       (d) Not more than 25 percent of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading may be made available for assistance for 
     any country in the region.
       (e) Allocations for Georgia and for Armenia shall reflect a 
     percentage of the amount appropriated under this heading that 
     is at least equivalent to the percentage of the total funding 
     available under this heading that was allocated for each 
     nation in fiscal year 1999: Provided, That assistance under 
     title V of the FREEDOM Support Act shall not be included in 
     such calculations.
       (f) 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;
       (2) any assistance provided by the Trade and Development 
     Agency under section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 (22 U.S.C. 2421);
       (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 (22 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.);
       (5) any financing provided under the Export-Import Bank Act 
     of 1945; or
       (6) humanitarian assistance including activities funded 
     under the heading ``Child Survival and Disease Programs 
     Fund''.

                           Independent Agency


                              peace corps

       For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
     Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), $240,000,000, including the 
     purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for 
     administrative purposes for use outside of the United States: 
     Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading shall be used to pay for abortions: Provided further, 
     That funds appropriated under this heading shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2001.

                          Department of State


          international narcotics control and law enforcement

       For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $285,000,000: Provided, That 
     not more than $20,000,000 of the funds made available under 
     this heading shall be available for anti-crime programs and 
     that all such programs shall be subject to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That during fiscal year 2000, 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.


                  Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Mica

  Mr. MICA. 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. Mica:Page 22, line 17, 
     before the period insert the following: ``: Provided further, 
     That of the amount appropriated under this heading, 
     $37,500,000 shall be made available in assistance for the 
     antinarcotics directorate (DANTI) of the Colombian National 
     Police as follows: (1) $3,500,000 for GAU 19 protection 
     systems for the 6 existing Black Hawk utility helicopters of 
     the Colombian National Police, including 1 such system for 
     each helicopter, mounting, installation, and a maintenance 
     and training package; (2) $3,500,000 for .50 caliber 
     ammunition for such GAU 19 protection systems; (3) $2,500,000 
     for upgrade of the hangar at the Guaymaral helicopter base; 
     (4) $6,500,000 for construction of a hangar facility at the 
     El Dorado Airport in Bogota, Colombia, to provide a secure 
     area for storage and maintenance work on the fixed wing and 
     rotar wing aircraft of the Colombian National Police; (5) 
     $2,500,000 to purchase 19 additional MK-44 miniguns for the 
     ``Huey'' II utility helicopters to be provided to the 
     Colombian National Policy; (6) $3,500,000 for 7.62 ammunition 
     for such MK-44 miniguns; (7) $8,000,000 for forward looking 
     infra red (FLIR) systems for 15 of the ``Huey'' II utility 
     helicopters referred to in paragraph (5); (8) $3,500,000 for 
     field gear for aviation and ground officers of the Colombian 
     National Police, including ballistic protective mats, 
     ballistic protective vests, helmets and field harnesses, 
     canteens, and magazines; (9) $3,000,000 for the establishment 
     and operation of a Colombian National Police customs facility 
     in Cartagena, Colombia, including additional training for 
     Colombian National Police personnel by United States Customs 
     Service personnel; and (10) $1,000,000 for intelligence 
     equipment for the Colombian National Police, including 
     sensors and monitoring and surveillance equipment.

  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the 
amendment.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman, the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Callahan), for his great work on this distinguished piece 
of legislation, which I plan to support with minor modifications that 
can be made, I hope, through the amendment I offer tonight. The 
amendment that I have tonight asks for $37.5 million, and those funds 
would go towards providing anti-narcotics equipment to the Colombian 
National Police.
  I chair the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human 
Resources, and I can tell my colleagues that we have no greater threat 
facing our Nation right now in terms of our anti-narcotics effort and, 
really, national security than we have facing us with the situation 
with Colombia.
  Some of my colleagues may know that we lost five servicemen, 
including a servicewoman this week, and in the last few days we have 
lost three civilians. This situation is getting incredibly worse in 
Colombia, our neighbor to the south. That is what makes this action 
tonight so important.
  I will ask to withdraw this at some point and ask for consideration 
in conference, but we cannot make the same mistake that we have been 
making year after year in not providing equipment. This Congress has 
provided Black Hawk helicopters to the Colombians, but we are not 
providing the equipment for them to do the job. This amendment asks for 
19 protection systems for Black Hawk helicopters and also for Huey 
helicopters that they have.

                              {time}  2030

  How can they fight a war against insurgence Marxist guerillas or an 
activity against those trafficking in illegal narcotics without this 
equipment? We have made the mistake of not providing the equipment.
  This is a hearing from July of 1997. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. 
Hastert), who is now Speaker of the House, myself, others on the 
committee asked for equipment to get to Colombia. And that equipment 
has not gotten to Colombia.
  The results are incredible. 800,000 people have been displaced since 
1995. 35,000 Colombians have been killed in less than 10 years. In 
1998, more than 300,000 Colombians were displaced internally. That is 
more than we had that same year in Kosovo.
  My colleagues, we are going to have a situation that makes Kosovo 
look

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like a kindergarten playground if we do not get the equipment.
  Just in the last 2 or 3 weeks, this administration has reversed its 
course and is now asking for intelligence to be shared. At this moment, 
I believe our drug czar is down in Colombia; and he has asked in the 
last 2 weeks for a billion dollars, which may require a supplemental.
  So if we are providing the equipment to allow Colombians to stop this 
drug influx into their nation and trafficking and production in their 
nation and this insurgency, then I say we should help them with this 
little bit of assistance that we are asking for in this.
  I might say that we had a visit from the national chief of police 
there who has been leading the drug war, and this is specifically in 
his request to the Speaker of the House and to our subcommittee. I 
might also say that these items are also requested by General 
McCaffrey, who is our Nation's drug czar.
  So I plead and I ask the subcommittee, and I know they have done 
great work in putting together this legislation, to not make the same 
mistake that has been made year after year in not getting equipment to 
this country that is facing not only an internal crisis but we are 
facing a regional and hemispheric crisis with this situation.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, with the assurance that the gentleman is 
going to withdraw the amendment, I am going to withdraw my reservation 
of objection but, I move to strike the requisite number of words to 
speak in response to what the gentleman from Florida just said and to 
express to the gentleman from Florida that I too am concerned about 
this entire drug situation not only in Colombia but in all of Central 
and South America.
  I am very appreciative of the extra effort that he has put in in 
bringing to the attention of the Congress and to the American people 
the tremendous problems we have in Colombia, of the tremendous problems 
we have in Mexico, and in other areas of Central and South America who 
are facilitating the exportation of drugs to the United States.
  But I might remind my colleague that the bill we are debating tonight 
provides $285 million for the International Narcotics Control Account. 
This is an increase of $24 million above the regular 1999 bill and $70 
million above the bill that just recently passed the Senate.
  As my colleague knows, in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill last year, 
we put an additional $255 million for counternarcotics. There are no 
earmarks in this bill anywhere. But there is a sufficient amount of 
money appropriated to include Colombia and all areas of Central and 
South America in this counternarcotics program.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum).
  Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman very much for 
yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I know what the chairman has done is extremely good in 
here, and I commend him for what is here. I also know what the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) is attempting to do.
  What I hope is, because of the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination 
Act we passed last year, and the gentleman worked so much with us, we 
ought to take a $600 million overall that covered many of the 
subcommittee appropriations areas to do some of what was going to be $2 
billion ultimately over 3 years.
  In the legislation of my colleagues and in all of these 
appropriations bills in the House this year, we are not able under the 
current rules to meet the goals of that bill in what we are passing.
  But much of this equipment, most of it that the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Mica) is asking for, was what was passed in that bill and 
what we wanted to see happen. And I am hopeful that in conference my 
colleague will be able to nudge up these numbers some. And perhaps 
there will even be a supplemental down the road. Because I know my 
colleague understands from our previous discussions how important this 
equipment is.
  I serve as chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, as my colleague 
knows, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and we 
really do need this equipment.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, we will try to 
increase it if we possibly can. Because this is a cancer on our 
society, and the only way we are going to be able to cure this cancer 
is to provide ample counternarcotics monies to do so.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I just want to raise concern about the amendment. The 
amendment directs all the money to the Colombian police. The delegation 
that was here last week did not ask for money for the national police. 
It was for the armed services, for the armed forces. As my colleague 
knows, it is a very delicate situation in Colombia.
  I think it would be ill-spent money to direct all of this earmarking 
and for specifics just for one entity in Colombia. I support the 
concerns of the chairman and recommendations, and I oppose the 
amendment the way it is drafted.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, I understand the concern of the gentleman.
  But this is the testimony from 2 years ago, the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hastert): ``But you are holding up their ammunition.''
  We provided almost $300 million last year. And we have checked to see 
if the money is there in resources. Only a few million dollars have 
gotten to where it should go. The problem we have is in getting money. 
That is why this is an earmark.
  I know the earmark is not acceptable under the regular order here. 
But I hope you can imagine the frustration we see. We appropriate 
money. The President is saying this is now the third biggest aid 
recipient in the world. And it is not getting there.
  This request is part of our drug czar's request, and it is the head 
of the national police's request to do the job in Colombia that needs 
to be done to bring peace there and stop drug trafficking where we have 
60, 70 percent of the heroin and cocaine now coming into the United 
States.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi).
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I just want to say two things.
  First of all, we all agree that the drug problem is a terrible, 
terrible tragedy for our country. In addition to trying to do drug crop 
eradication, we must focus on treatment and prevention and to the end 
that we all share here.
  But two points I want to make. One is, I was very concerned about the 
New York Times article this morning that talked about the war on drugs 
and the war against the rebels merging, because we have always talked 
about the war on drugs being a war on drugs in Colombia.
  So I hope that, as we proceed, we do with great sensitivity to the 
human rights of the Colombian people.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) 
has expired.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Callahan was allowed to proceed for 30 
additional seconds.)
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Mica).
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman for being so 
understanding and also considering this in conference.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Florida?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


                    migration and refugee assistance

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to 
     enable the Secretary of State to

[[Page 18703]]

     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, $640,000,000: 
     Provided, That not more than $13,800,000 shall be available 
     for administrative expenses.


     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. 260(c)), $30,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the funds made 
     available under this heading are appropriated notwithstanding 
     the provisions contained in section 2(c)(2) of the Migration 
     and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 which would limit the 
     amount of funds which could be appropriated for this purpose.


    nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining and related programs

       For necessary expenses for nonproliferation, anti-terrorism 
     and related programs and activities, $181,630,000, to carry 
     out the provisions of chapter 8 of part II of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for anti-terrorism assistance, section 
     504 of the FREEDOM Support Act for the Nonproliferation and 
     Disarmament Fund, section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act 
     or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for demining 
     activities, the clearance of unexploded ordnance, and related 
     activities, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     including activities implemented through nongovernmental and 
     international organizations, section 301 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for a voluntary contribution to the 
     International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a voluntary 
     contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
     Organization (KEDO), and for a United States contribution to 
     the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory 
     Commission: Provided, That the Secretary of State shall 
     inform the Committees on Appropriations at least twenty days 
     prior to the obligation of funds for the Comprehensive 
     Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission: Provided 
     further, That of this amount not to exceed $15,000,000, 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 such funds shall be subject 
     to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations: 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.

                       Department of the Treasury


                           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 (including up to 
     $1,000,000 for necessary expenses for the administration of 
     activities carried out under these parts), and 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, and concessional loans, guarantees and credit 
     agreements with any country in Sub-Saharan Africa, as 
     authorized under section 572 of the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     1989 (Public Law 100-461); $33,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That any limitation of subsection 
     (e) of section 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
     Assistance Act of 1954 to the extent that limitation applies 
     to sub-Saharan African countries shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated hereunder or previously appropriated under this 
     heading: Provided further, That the authority provided by 
     section 572 of Public Law 100-461 may be exercised only with 
     respect to countries 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.


               International Affairs Technical Assistance

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating 
     to international affairs technical assistance activities), 
     $1,500,000, to remain available until expended.

                     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, 
     $50,000,000, of which up to $1,000,000 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: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated under this heading for grant financed military 
     education and training for Indonesia and Guatemala may only 
     be available for expanded international military education 
     and training and funds made available for Guatemala may only 
     be provided through the regular notification procedures of 
     the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That none 
     of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made 
     available to support grant financed military education and 
     training at the School of the Americas unless the Secretary 
     of Defense certifies that the instruction and training 
     provided by the School of the Americas is fully consistent 
     with training and doctrine, particularly with respect to the 
     observance of human rights, provided by the Department of 
     Defense to United States military students at Department of 
     Defense institutions whose primary purpose is to train United 
     States military personnel: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than January 15, 2000, a report 
     detailing the training activities of the School of the 
     Americas and a general assessment regarding the performance 
     of its graduates during 1997 and 1998.


                   foreign military financing program

       For expenses necessary for grants to enable the President 
     to carry out the provisions of section 23 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act, $3,470,000,000: Provided, That of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading, not to exceed $1,920,000,000 
     shall be available for grants only for Israel, and not to 
     exceed $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 thirty 
     days of enactment of this Act or by October 31, 1999, 
     whichever is later: 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 $505,000,000 should be available for the procurement in 
     Israel of defense articles and defense services, including 
     research and development: Provided further, That none of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be available 
     for any non-NATO country participating in the Partnership for 
     Peace Program except through the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
     further, That funds appropriated 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 
     Liberia: 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 none of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading shall be available for 
     assistance for Guatemala: Provided further, That only those 
     countries for which assistance was justified for the 
     ``Foreign Military Sales Financing Program'' in the fiscal 
     year 1989 congressional

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     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 not more than 
     $30,495,000 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 $330,000,000 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 2000 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.


                        peacekeeping operations

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 551 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     $76,500,000: 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, $50,000,000, to the International Bank 
     for Reconstruction and Development as trustee for the Global 
     Environment Facility, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to 
     remain available until expended.


       contribution to the international development association

       For payment to the International Development Association 
     (IDA) by the Secretary of the Treasury, $576,600,000, to 
     remain available until expended.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Gilman

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

       Amendment offered by Mr. Gilman:
       In title IV of the bill, in the item relating to 
     ``contribution to the international development 
     association'', after the first dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $8,000,000)''.

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, last month the World Bank approved a $40 
million financing package to move over 57,000 Chinese people into 
Tibet.
  As my colleagues know, the Chinese Army invaded Tibet in 1949 and 
later drove His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, into exile in India. He 
remains in India today, and his people in Tibet are forced to live 
under the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
  Over the last 30 years, the Chinese Government supported the movement 
of Chinese people into Tibet, attempting to dilute and eventually wipe 
out the Tibetan people's culture and their religion.
  Now the World Bank is helping to subsidize that effort. In December 
of 1998, Bank staff published information that they were planning a 
loan to help relocate 57,000 Chinese farmers into Tibet.
  Senior Bank staff of World Bank, including its current president, 
James Wolfensohn, later claimed that they were surprised when this loan 
appeared 6 months later for approval by the Bank's board. He claimed 
the process of reviewing the loan was grueling; but rather than delay 
the approval of this loan, he approved it with only an internal panel 
to later review the project. No major human rights organizations or 
environmental organizations are running that panel.
  Both the International Campaign for Tibet and the Friends of the 
Earth endorse my amendment. They have opposed this loan from the start, 
and their voices deserve to be heard.
  What the Bank has done is not enough. The American taxpayer cannot 
support the Chinese Government's colonization of Tibet. The World Bank 
project included hiring a consultant to prepare an Involuntary 
Resettlement Action Plan for indigenous people.
  We must send a message to the Bank that our Nation, the Bank's 
largest donor, cannot support projects which violate the human rights 
of the Tibetan people.
  This loan, Mr. Chairman, represents the arrogance of the Bank's staff 
and the clout that China has over that staff. We must send a message 
that the Bank should reflect the values of the Democratic donors and 
not Chinese Communist dictators.
  The Gilman-Lantos amendment will make a modest cut of $8 million, 
comprising the U.S. share of the loan, to send to the Bank a message 
that this kind of project cannot be supported.
  The Senate already passed such an amendment, and now it is our turn.
  Mr. Chairman, I welcome the support of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Armey) our majority leader; the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. 
Abercrombie); the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), a senior 
member of our committee; the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern); the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter), a senior member of 
the Committee on Appropriations; and the gentleman from South Carolina 
(Mr. Sanford), another member of the committee.
  Their support represents a unique coalition for human rights, for the 
rule of law, and for the support for Tibet and its people.
  Accordingly, I urge adoption of the amendment.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GILMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I want to rise in support of the Gilman-
Lantos amendment to cut $8 million from the International Development 
Association lending window of the World Bank.
  Mr. Chairman, like my colleagues from both sides of the aisle, I was 
deeply disturbed and angry that the World Bank pursued the China 
Western Poverty Reduction loan, a loan so flawed in its preparation 
that it should never have been brought before the Board of Executive 
Directors.
  I oppose and I am angry that the Bank would fund a program with the 
goal of displacing Tibetan people from their ancestral territory in 
order to pursue a badly conceived agricultural program that relies on 
moving more ethnic Chinese into Tibet.
  Did the World Bank learn nothing from its terrible history of funding 
forced resettlement and transmigration in Indonesia?
  But the reason I support this amendment goes far beyond this loan for 
China.

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  This loan has become emblematic of everything wrong with the World 
Bank. This loan received the wrong environmental designation from its 
very conception. It should have received what is known as a Category A 
designation for its resettlement requirements alone, let alone for its 
potential impact on fragile ecosystems and on the nomadic peoples who 
inhabit this part of Tibet. The staff who prepared the loan failed to 
comply with the bank's own policies on environmental assessment, public 
information disclosure, participation by affected peoples, indigenous 
peoples and involuntary resettlement.
  We in the United States Congress do not take these policies lightly 
and we do not think the World Bank should, either. The creation of 
these policies has served for years to influence support for World Bank 
funding. I would like to thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. 
Pelosi) for all her leadership in this area. The violation of these 
bank policies, indeed the cynical manner in which they were dismissed 
or bypassed by bank staff responsible for the preparation of this loan, 
accounts for someone like myself, a strong supporter of bilateral and 
multilateral development aid, rising in support of this amendment.
  In spite of its policies and its rhetoric in support of poverty 
alleviation and environmentally sustainable development, the World Bank 
again and again pursues loans that cause grave harm to the environment, 
to indigenous peoples, and to genuine sustainable development.
  Mr. Chairman, I again urge my colleagues to support the Gilman-Lantos 
amendment.

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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I would rather do anything than to come before this 
body and speak against the very distinguished gentleman from New York 
who chairs the Committee on International Relations, who does so much 
good work worldwide, who has vast knowledge of all of the areas of the 
world and just passed a few days ago the international relations bill 
through this body and did such a magnificent job there. But I, too, 
feel like I have made a contribution towards the same goal that the 
gentleman from New York wants to reach. To remind him of what we have 
already done in this bill, we have cut IDA $223 million from last year 
over the strong objections in the committee and over the ranking member 
of our subcommittee. We almost had to force the $200 million reduction 
in IDA. But, nevertheless, we did it.
  I feel like I have graduated magna cum laude from college and come 
home to my parent and he is criticizing me because I did not graduate 
summa cum laude. I think we have done a good job here, Mr. Chairman, 
and I think we have addressed every issue that the gentleman from New 
York has brought to us from his committee as chairman of the Committee 
on International Relations. I think we have a good bill, and while 
symbolically I agree with the gentleman, I think we have gone far 
enough.
  I would respectfully ask the distinguished gentleman if he would 
withdraw this amendment and let us get on to passing this bill tonight 
in a timely fashion. I am not necessarily disagreeing with his mission, 
I just think the timing is inappropriate at this time.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. I yield to the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. GILMAN. I want to again commend the gentleman for his outstanding 
job on this measure. We recognize that he has made substantial cuts in 
many important areas trying to keep within our budget. But there are a 
number of important organizations in our country and a number of people 
who have stressed their opposition to what the World Bank is seeking to 
do. We would like to make a very symbolic record in opposition.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Reclaiming my time, it is already there in report 
language at the gentleman's request. We have inserted the report 
language there. I know it is symbolic and $8 million in the terms in 
which we speak, in billions of dollars or even trillions, is not a lot 
of money. But, nevertheless, I think it is going to take a lot of time 
to show that symbolism when it is already written in the report.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, the distinguished gentleman from New York is a great 
leader on human rights throughout the world and it is always a joy to 
work with him. He is an inspiration to all of us. I completely agree 
with the gentleman entirely on his motivation on this legislation. But 
I have to agree in part with the gentleman from Alabama for the 
following reason. I have fought him tooth and nail on cutting this $224 
million from IDA in the bill. While I share the concerns the gentleman 
expresses in the amendment, to go on and cut more from IDA I think 
would diminish any arguments we made about the impact of the $224 
million already cut from IDA.
  I think what the World Bank did is appalling. As the gentleman knows, 
under his leadership and working with him, we have called meetings 
together with the people who work at the World Bank, with many 
congressional offices participating in these meetings. We jointly, 60 
of us, sent a letter at the urging of the gentleman from New York and 
me to President Wolfensohn about this. This is appalling. The World 
Bank is ignoring its own standards on resettlement as well as the 
environment. There are many reasons why they should not have gone down 
this road. I do not like what they are doing as far as Tibet is 
concerned. We have fought that in this House year in and year out. And 
now the World Bank is asking those of us who have not only opposed the 
Chinese policy of resettlement in the Tibetan areas of Han Chinese, 
they are asking us to pay for it by our contribution to the World Bank.
  The World Bank did a very stupid thing. The World Bank has invited 
some very, very close scrutiny in terms of resettlement and environment 
which, as I say, are violated in what they have done. June 30 marked 
the end of any IDA funding to China. The other poor people in the world 
will pay the price for what the World Bank refused to listen to us on. 
The Chinese government has had its way with the World Bank and I think 
that it is appalling. But as one who has fought the fight with the 
gentleman against the repression in China year in and year out, I 
cannot let the Chinese regime take assistance away from people in other 
parts of the world because of their behavior there, and just because 
the World Bank has done something I do not like does not mean that we 
should take away their funding.
  So sharing every value that the gentleman presented, agreeing 
completely that the World Bank is wrong, wrong, wrong on many scores as 
far as this is concerned, appalled by the ethnic cleansing that this 
represents on the part of the Chinese government, but nonetheless 
saying that we cannot take any more money from the fund that goes for 
the poorest of the poor people.
  I find myself in a very difficult place, Mr. Chairman, but because I 
was going to have to vote ``no'' on the gentleman's amendment, I wanted 
to explain to my colleagues why. He is completely right, but I have a 
counter-equity that outweighs that.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues, well, I do not urge anybody to do 
anything. I am just telling them why I will be voting ``no,'' because I 
have resisted the gentleman's $224 million cut and do not see how then 
to go on and support an additional cut to IDA. With that and with the 
deepest respect for the chairman of the Committee on International 
Relations and begging his forgiveness because he has been the champion 
on Tibet, the champion on Tibet, I offer that explanation to the body.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I entirely support the effort of the gentleman from New 
York here. I know of no stronger champion of human rights in the House. 
I do not think I am going to be contradicted in that degree at all. But 
there is one argument that has been made that requires a rebuttal, and, 
that is, that if we accept the gentleman from New York's amendment, 
that we will deprive other recipients of the World Bank funds their 
appropriate investments from the World Bank. That can be fixed. Indeed, 
I went to the gentleman last night, and, gracious man that he was, he 
agreed to accept an amendment to his amendment, regrettably it was not 
in parliamentary order to do so, that the dollar-for-dollar reduction 
that would be taken away from the World Bank for this purpose would 
instead be given to the concessional wing of the Africa Development 
Fund which gives the lowest income, the most neediest countries in 
Africa loans for development projects when they cannot otherwise 
receive such development projects.
  What I have and will introduce at the right time, which will be very 
soon, is an amendment at the desk to plus-up that account for the 
Africa Development Fund by exactly the amount that the gentleman from 
New York is reducing the IDA account because of the World Bank's 
mistake. So with that understanding, and obviously there are many other 
possibilities but this is the one that occurred to me and that I 
brought to the gentleman that he, I am proud to say, agreed with, but 
with that understanding I do not think there is any merit to the 
argument that accepting the gentleman from New York's amendment will 
disadvantage the really needy countries on Earth. In fact, the World 
Bank traditionally spends about 50 percent of its money in sub-Saharan 
Africa. This will kick it over to 100 percent.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CAMPBELL. I yield to the gentleman from New York.

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  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend the gentleman from 
California for his support of the Campbell-Payne amendment to transfer 
funds to the African Development Fund. I look forward to supporting him 
with regard to that amendment.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. I reclaim my time. I thank the gentleman. I repeat that 
I have the highest admiration for him and what he is attempting to do 
tonight.
  I will conclude with just a word on behalf of the authorizers. The 
authorizers are supposed to know something about the field. I do not 
claim that I do. I do claim that the gentleman from New York does and 
that he is entitled to a substantial amount of respect when he speaks 
in these areas. I urge support for his amendment.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite 
number of words.
  Mr. Chairman, I just want to associate myself with the remarks of the 
gentleman from New York, the chairman of our full committee, and just 
to say a couple of words.
  What were they thinking, lending money to a government like China to 
move people around involuntarily?
  I was looking at an internal World Bank document and I cannot believe 
this. One of the people that they have hired will be working on an 
involuntary resettlement action plan. Involuntary. Not voluntary, 
involuntary.
  I think the amendment is timely and important. This is not the first 
time, I say to my colleagues, in recent years that the bank's arrogance 
has resulted in tragedy for helpless citizens of a brutal regime. An 
Indonesian human rights advocate at one of my subcommittee hearings 
during the last days of the Suharto regime said that ``the people of 
Indonesia had nothing to say about creating that large debt but the 
World Bank is determined to democratize its repayment.'' The bank was 
warned that it was subsidizing corruption throughout and yet continued 
to do so. Here we have a mass transmigration of people against their 
will--and again, this is involuntary. I hope the gentleman from New 
York's amendment will prevail.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

          contribution to the inter-american development bank

       For payment to the Inter-American Development Bank by the 
     Secretary of the Treasury, for the United States share of the 
     paid-in share portion of the increase in capital stock, 
     $25,610,667, to remain available until expended.


          CONTRIBUTION to the INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

              limitation on callable capital subscriptions

       The United States Governor of the Inter-American 
     Development Bank may subscribe without fiscal year limitation 
     to the callable capital portion of the United States share of 
     such capital stock in an amount not to exceed $1,503,718,910.


               contribution to the asian development bank

       For payment to the Asian Development Bank by the Secretary 
     of the Treasury for the United States share of the paid-in 
     portion of the increase in capital stock, $13,728,263, to 
     remain available until expended.


              limitation on callable capital subscriptions

       The United States Governor of the Asian Development Bank 
     may subscribe without fiscal year limitation to the callable 
     capital portion of the United States share of such capital 
     stock in an amount not to exceed $672,745,205.


               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, $100,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.


              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, $100,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Campbell

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

       Amendment offered by Mr. Campbell:
       Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000)''.

  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, the amendment as offered by myself and 
also by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), it is this amendment 
to which I referred to earlier. It would allocate the $8 million, which 
has now been reduced from the IDA account because of the World Bank's 
lending to the forced repatriation or relocation of Chinese to Tibet, 
instead to the Africa Development Fund. I note that the amount had been 
$120 million last year. It is now $100 million, so this will only bring 
it up to $108 million. I also note it is not for arrears.

                              {time}  2100

  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:


  contribution to the european bank for reconstruction and development

       For payment to the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development by the Secretary of the Treasury, $35,778,717, 
     for the United States share of the paid-in portion of the 
     increase in capital stock, to remain available until 
     expended.


              limitation on callable capital subscriptions

       The United States Governor of the European Bank for 
     Reconstruction and Development may subscribe without fiscal 
     year limitation to the callable capital portion of the United 
     States share of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed 
     $123,237,803.

                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, $167,000,000: Provided, That none 
     of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made 
     available for the United Nations Fund for Science and 
     Technology: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available under this heading, may be provided to the Climate 
     Stabilization Fund until fifteen days after the Department of 
     State provides a report to the Committees on Foreign 
     Relations and Appropriations in the Senate and the Committees 
     on International Relations and Appropriations in the House of 
     Representatives that contains the number of employees of the 
     Fund, their functions and salaries, and descriptions of the 
     Fund's activities, programs, and projects (including 
     associated costs) for the fiscal years 1999 and 2000: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
     this heading may be made available to the Korean Peninsula 
     Energy Development Organization (KEDO) or the International 
     Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS


             obligations during last month of availability

       Sec. 501. Except for the appropriations entitled 
     ``International Disaster Assistance'', and ``United States 
     Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund'', not more 
     than 15 percent of any appropriation item made available by 
     this Act shall be obligated during the last month of 
     availability.


     prohibition of bilateral funding for international financial 
                              institutions

       Sec. 502. Notwithstanding section 614 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, none of the funds contained in title 
     II of this Act may be used to carry out the provisions of 
     section 209(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: 
     Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by title II of 
     this Act may be transferred by the Agency for International 
     Development directly to an international financial 
     institution (as defined in section 533 of this Act) for the 
     purpose of repaying a foreign country's loan obligations to 
     such institution.


                    limitation on residence expenses

       Sec. 503. Of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $126,500 shall be for 
     official residence expenses of the 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.


                         limitation on expenses

       Sec. 504. Of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $5,000 shall be for 
     entertainment expenses of the Agency for International 
     Development during the current fiscal year.


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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
remainder of the bill through page 116, line 8, 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 
Alabama?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill from page 36, line 11 through page 116, line 8, 
is as follows:


               limitation on representational allowances

       Sec. 505. Of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $95,000 shall be 
     available for representation allowances for the 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: 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 $2,000 shall be available for entertainment 
     expenses and not to exceed $50,000 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 $50,000 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 $2,000 shall be available for 
     representation and entertainment allowances.


                 prohibition on financing nuclear goods

       Sec. 506. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     (other than funds for ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, 
     Demining and Related Programs'') pursuant to this Act, for 
     carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, may be used, 
     except for purposes of nuclear safety, to finance the export 
     of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology.


        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, 
     Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, 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.


                             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 any country whose duly 
     elected head of government is deposed by military coup or 
     decree: Provided, That assistance may be resumed to such 
     country if the President determines and reports to the 
     Committees on Appropriations that subsequent to the 
     termination of assistance a democratically elected government 
     has taken office.


                       transfers between accounts

       Sec. 509. 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, 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: Provided, That the exercise of such authority shall 
     be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.


                  deobligation/reobligation authority

       Sec. 510. (a) Amounts certified pursuant to section 1311 of 
     the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1955, as having been 
     obligated against appropriations heretofore made under the 
     authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the same 
     general purpose as any of the headings under title II of this 
     Act are, if deobligated, hereby continued available for the 
     same period as the respective appropriations under such 
     headings or until September 30, 2000, whichever is later, and 
     for the same general purpose, and for countries within the 
     same region as originally obligated: Provided, That the 
     Appropriations Committees of both Houses of the Congress are 
     notified 15 days in advance of the reobligation of such funds 
     in accordance with regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       (b) Obligated balances of funds appropriated to carry out 
     section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act as of the end of 
     the fiscal year immediately preceding the current fiscal year 
     are, if deobligated, hereby continued available during the 
     current fiscal year for the same purpose under any authority 
     applicable to such appropriations under this Act: Provided, 
     That the authority of this subsection may not be used in 
     fiscal year 2000.


                         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, and 11 of part I, section 667, 
     and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, as amended, and funds provided under the heading 
     ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'', 
     shall remain available until expended 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: Provided further, That the report required by 
     section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall 
     designate for each country, to the extent known at the time 
     of submission of such report, those funds allocated for cash 
     disbursement for balance of payment and economic policy 
     reform purposes.


            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 any country which 
     is in default during a period in excess of one calendar year 
     in payment to the United States of principal or interest on 
     any loan made to such country by the United States pursuant 
     to a program for which funds are appropriated under this Act: 
     Provided, That this section and section 620(q) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply to funds made 
     available in this Act or during the current fiscal year for 
     Nicaragua, Brazil, Liberia, and for any narcotics-related 
     assistance for Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru authorized by the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control 
     Act.


                           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 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 in the export of agricultural commodities 
     of the United States; or
       (2) research activities intended primarily to benefit 
     American producers.


                          surplus commodities

       Sec. 514. (a) 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

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     will cause substantial injury to United States producers of 
     the same, similar, or competing commodity.
       (b) The Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the 
     United States executive directors of international financial 
     institutions listed in subsection (a) of this section to use 
     the voice and vote of the United States to support the 
     purchase of American produced agricultural commodities with 
     funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act.


                       notification requirements

       Sec. 515. (a) 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 Disease Programs Fund'', ``Development Assistance'', 
     ``International Organizations and Programs'', ``Trade and 
     Development Agency'', ``International Narcotics Control and 
     Law Enforcement'', ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the 
     Baltic States'', ``Assistance for the Independent States of 
     the Former Soviet Union'', ``Economic Support Fund'', 
     ``Peacekeeping operations'', ``Operating Expenses of the 
     Agency for International Development'', ``Operating Expenses 
     of the Agency for International Development Office of 
     Inspector General'', ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, 
     Demining and Related Programs'', ``International Affairs 
     Technical Assistance'', ``Foreign Military Financing 
     Program'', ``International Military Education and Training 
     '', ``Peace Corps'', ``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 Appropriations Committees for obligation under any of 
     these specific headings unless the Appropriations Committees 
     of both Houses of Congress are previously 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 section shall not 
     apply to any reprogramming for an activity, program, or 
     project under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 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: Provided 
     further, That 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 further, 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 three 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.
       (b) Drawdowns made pursuant to section 506(a)(2) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall be subject to the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


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, 2001.


             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--
       (1) unless that Government is making progress in 
     implementing comprehensive economic reforms based on market 
     principles, private ownership, respect for commercial 
     contracts, and equitable treatment of foreign private 
     investment; and
       (2) if that Government applies or transfers United States 
     assistance to any entity for the purpose of expropriating or 
     seizing ownership or control of assets, investments, or 
     ventures.
     Assistance may be furnished without regard to this subsection 
     if the President determines that to do so is in the national 
     interest.
       (b) 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.
       (c) 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.
       (d) Funds appropriated under the heading ``Assistance for 
     the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union'' shall be 
     subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       (e) 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.
       (f) Funds appropriated in this or prior appropriations Acts 
     that are or have been made available for an Enterprise Fund 
     in the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union may be 
     deposited by such Fund in interest-bearing accounts prior to 
     the disbursement of such funds by the Fund for program 
     purposes. The Fund may retain for such program purposes any 
     interest earned on such deposits without returning such 
     interest to the Treasury of the United States and without 
     further appropriation by the Congress. Funds made available 
     for Enterprise Funds shall be expended at the minimum rate 
     necessary to make timely payment for projects and activities.
       (g) In issuing new task orders, entering into contracts, or 
     making grants, with funds appropriated in this Act or prior 
     appropriations Acts under the headings ``Assistance for the 
     New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union'' and 
     ``Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
     Union'', 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 the New 
     Independent States 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: Provided, That none of the funds made 
     available under this Act may be used to lobby for or against 
     abortion.


                 export financing transfer authorities

       Sec. 519. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
     other than for administrative expenses made available for 
     fiscal year 2000, 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 Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, 
     Pakistan, Panama, Serbia, Sudan, or the Democratic Republic 
     of Congo 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 Agency for International 
     Development ``program, project, and activity'' shall also be 
     considered to include central 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 
     enactment of this Act, as required by section 653(a) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.


            child survival and disease prevention activities

       Sec. 522. Up to $10,000,000 of the funds made available by 
     this Act for assistance under the heading ``Child Survival 
     and Disease 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 Agency 
     for International Development for the purpose of carrying out 
     child survival basic education, and infectious disease 
     activities: Provided, That funds appropriated by this Act 
     that are made available for child survival activities or 
     disease programs including activities relating to research 
     on, and the prevention, treatment and control of, Acquired 
     Immune Deficiency Syndrome may be made available 
     notwithstanding any provision of law that restricts 
     assistance to foreign countries: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated under title II of this Act may be made available 
     pursuant to section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     if a primary purpose of the assistance is for child survival 
     and related programs: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated by this Act that are made available for family 
     planning activities may be made available notwithstanding 
     section 512 of this Act and section 620(q) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961.


       prohibition against indirect funding to certain countries

       Sec. 523. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated to finance 
     indirectly any assistance or reparations to Cuba, Iraq, 
     Libya, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the People's Republic of 
     China, unless the President of the United States certifies 
     that the withholding of these funds is contrary to the 
     national interest of the United States.


                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 (c) 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: Provided further, That such Committees shall also 
     be informed of the original acquisition cost of such defense 
     articles.


                       AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENT

       Sec. 525. Funds appropriated by this Act 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.


                           democracy in china

       Sec. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law that 
     restricts assistance to foreign countries, funds appropriated 
     by this Act for ``Economic Support Fund'' may be made 
     available to provide general support and grants for 
     nongovernmental organizations located outside the People's 
     Republic of China that have as their primary purpose 
     fostering democracy in that country, and for activities of 
     nongovernmental organizations located outside the People's 
     Republic of China to foster democracy in that country: 
     Provided, That none of the funds made available for 
     activities to foster democracy in the People's Republic of 
     China may be made available for assistance to the government 
     of that country: Provided further, That funds made available 
     pursuant to the authority of this section shall be subject to 
     the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


       PROHIBITION ON BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO TERRORIST COUNTRIES

       Sec. 527. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     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 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 fifteen 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.


                 COMMERCIAL LEASING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES

       Sec. 528. 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.


                         COMPETITIVE INSURANCE

       Sec. 529. All Agency for International Development 
     contracts and solicitations, and subcontracts entered into 
     under such contracts, shall include a clause requiring that 
     United States insurance companies have a fair opportunity to 
     bid for insurance when such insurance is necessary or 
     appropriate.


                  STINGERS IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION

       Sec. 530. Except as provided in section 581 of the Foreign 
     Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 1990, the United States may not sell or 
     otherwise make available any Stingers to any country 
     bordering the Persian Gulf under the Arms Export Control Act 
     or chapter 2 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961.


                          DEBT-FOR-DEVELOPMENT

       Sec. 531. In order to enhance the continued participation 
     of nongovernmental organizations in economic assistance 
     activities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
     including endowments, debt-for-development and debt-for-
     nature exchanges, a nongovernmental organization which is a 
     grantee or contractor of the Agency for International 
     Development may place in interest bearing accounts funds made 
     available under this Act or prior Acts or local currencies 
     which accrue to that organization as a result of economic 
     assistance provided under title II of this Act and any 
     interest earned on such investment shall be used for the 
     purpose for which the assistance was provided to that 
     organization.


                           SEPARATE ACCOUNTS

       Sec. 532. (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 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 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 chapters 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.
       (3) Programming Accountability.--The 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 chapters 1 or 10 of part I 
     or chapter 4 of part II (as the case may be), any

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     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 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 chapters 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 (H. Report No. 98-
     1159).
       (3) Notification.--At least fifteen 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.


  compensation for united states executive directors to international 
                         financial institutions

       Sec. 533. (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.


         compliance with united nations sanctions against iraq

       Sec. 534. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available pursuant to this Act to carry out the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (including title IV of chapter 2 of 
     part I, relating to the Overseas Private Investment 
     Corporation) or the Arms Export Control Act may be used to 
     provide assistance to any country that is not in compliance 
     with the United Nations Security Council sanctions against 
     Iraq unless the President determines and so certifies to the 
     Congress that--
       (1) such assistance is in the national interest of the 
     United States;
       (2) such assistance will directly benefit the needy people 
     in that country; or
       (3) the assistance to be provided will be humanitarian 
     assistance for foreign nationals who have fled Iraq and 
     Kuwait.


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

       Sec. 535. (a) 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 appropriate 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.
       (b) Unless expressly provided to the contrary, limitations 
     on the availability of funds for ``International 
     Organizations and Programs'' in this or any other Act, 
     including prior appropriations Acts, shall not be construed 
     to be applicable to the International Fund for Agricultural 
     Development.


                  impact on jobs in the united states

       Sec. 536. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated or expended to provide--
       (a) 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;
       (b) assistance for the purpose of establishing or 
     developing in a foreign country any export processing zone or 
     designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, 
     and safety laws of that country do not apply, in part or in 
     whole, to activities carried out within that zone or area, 
     unless the President determines and certifies that such 
     assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the 
     United States; or
       (c) assistance for any project or activity that contributes 
     to the violation of internationally recognized workers 
     rights, as defined in section 502(a)(4) of the Trade Act of 
     1974, of workers in the recipient country, including any 
     designated zone or area in that country: Provided, That in 
     recognition that the application of this subsection should be 
     commensurate with the level of development of the recipient 
     country and sector, the provisions of this subsection shall 
     not preclude assistance for the informal sector in such 
     country, micro and small-scale enterprise, and smallholder 
     agriculture.


                     funding prohibition for serbia

       Sec. 537. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     made available for assistance for the Republic of Serbia: 
     Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to assistance 
     for Kosova or Montenegro, or to assistance to promote 
     democratization.


                          special authorities

       Sec. 538. (a) Funds appropriated in titles I and II of this 
     Act that are made available for Afghanistan, Lebanon, 
     Montenegro, and for victims of war, displaced children, 
     displaced Burmese, humanitarian assistance for Romania, and 
     humanitarian assistance for the peoples of Kosova, may be 
     made available notwithstanding any other provision of law.
       (b) Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the 
     provisions of sections 103 through 106 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, 
     subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations, 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) The Agency for International Development may employ 
     personal services contractors, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, for the purpose of administering programs 
     for the West Bank and Gaza.
       (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 six months at a time and shall not apply beyond twelve 
     months after enactment of this Act.


        policy on terminating the arab league boycott of israel

       Sec. 539. It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) the Arab League countries should immediately and 
     publicly renounce the primary boycott of Israel and the 
     secondary and tertiary boycott of American firms that have 
     commercial ties with Israel;
       (2) the decision by the Arab League in 1997 to reinstate 
     the boycott against Israel was deeply troubling and 
     disappointing;
       (3) the Arab League should immediately rescind its decision 
     on the boycott and its members should develop normal 
     relations with their neighbor Israel; and
       (4) the President should--
       (A) take more concrete steps to encourage vigorously Arab 
     League countries to renounce publicly the primary boycotts of 
     Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycotts of American 
     firms that have commercial relations with Israel as a 
     confidence-building measure;
       (B) take into consideration the participation of any 
     recipient country in the primary boycott of Israel and the 
     secondary and tertiary boycotts of American firms that have 
     commercial relations with Israel when determining whether to 
     sell weapons to said country;

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       (C) report to Congress on the specific steps being taken by 
     the President to bring about a public renunciation of the 
     Arab primary boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary 
     boycotts of American firms that have commercial relations 
     with Israel and to expand the process of normalizing ties 
     between Arab League countries and Israel; and
       (D) encourage the allies and trading partners of the United 
     States to enact laws prohibiting businesses from complying 
     with the boycott and penalizing businesses that do comply.


                       anti-narcotics activities

       Sec. 540. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act for 
     ``Economic Support Fund'', assistance may be provided to 
     strengthen the administration of justice in countries in 
     Latin America and the Caribbean and in other regions 
     consistent with the provisions of section 534(b) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, except that programs to 
     enhance protection of participants in judicial cases may be 
     conducted notwithstanding section 660 of that Act.
       (b) Funds made available pursuant to this section may be 
     made available notwithstanding section 534(c) and the second 
     and third sentences of section 534(e) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961.


                       eligibility for assistance

       Sec. 541. (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, and 11 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 the President shall take into consideration, 
     in any case in which a restriction on assistance would be 
     applicable but for this subsection, whether assistance in 
     support of programs of nongovernmental organizations is in 
     the national interest of the United States: Provided further, 
     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 2000, 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 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 countries that violate internationally 
     recognized human rights.


                                earmarks

       Sec. 542. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act which are 
     earmarked may be reprogrammed for other programs within the 
     same account notwithstanding the earmark if compliance with 
     the earmark is made impossible by operation of any provision 
     of this or any other Act or, with respect to a country with 
     which the United States has an agreement providing the United 
     States with base rights or base access in that country, if 
     the President determines that the recipient for which funds 
     are earmarked has significantly reduced its military or 
     economic cooperation with the United States since enactment 
     of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
     Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; however, before exercising 
     the authority of this subsection with regard to a base rights 
     or base access country which has significantly reduced its 
     military or economic cooperation with the United States, the 
     President shall consult with, and shall provide a written 
     policy justification to the Committees on Appropriations: 
     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 Agency for 
     International Development that are earmarked 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 earmarked funds can 
     be obligated during the original period of availability: 
     Provided, That such earmarked funds that are continued 
     available for an additional fiscal year shall be obligated 
     only for the purpose of such earmark.


                         ceilings and earmarks

       Sec. 543. Ceilings and earmarks 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. Earmarks or minimum funding 
     requirements contained in any other Act shall not be 
     applicable to funds appropriated by this Act.


                 prohibition on publicity or propaganda

       Sec. 544. 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 enactment 
     of this Act by the Congress.


            purchase of american-made equipment and products

       Sec. 545. (a) To the maximum extent possible, assistance 
     provided under this Act should make full use of American 
     resources, including commodities, products, and services.
       (b) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest 
     extent practicable, all agriculture commodities, equipment 
     and products purchased with funds made available in this Act 
     should be American-made.
       (c) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into 
     any contract with, any entity using funds made available in 
     this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest 
     extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice 
     describing the statement made in subsection (b) by the 
     Congress.


           prohibition of payments to united nations members

       Sec. 546. 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 costs for attendance of another country's 
     delegation at international conferences.


                          consulting services

       Sec. 547. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
     Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, 
     pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
     shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures 
     are a matter of public record and available for public 
     inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing 
     law, or under existing Executive order pursuant to existing 
     law.


             private voluntary organizations--documentation

       Sec. 548. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     pursuant to this Act shall be available to a private 
     voluntary organization which fails to provide upon timely 
     request any document, file, or record necessary to the 
     auditing requirements of the Agency for International 
     Development.


  Prohibition on Assistance to Foreign Governments that Export Lethal 
   Military Equipment to Countries Supporting International Terrorism

       Sec. 549. (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 
     40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act or any other comparable 
     provision of law. 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 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 estimated 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 owed by foreign countries

       Sec. 550. (a) In General.--Of the funds made available for 
     a foreign country under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961, an amount equivalent to 110 percent of the total 
     unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties owed to 
     the District of Columbia by such country as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act shall be withheld from obligation for 
     such country until the Secretary

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     of State certifies and reports in writing to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that such fines and penalties are 
     fully paid to the government of the District of Columbia.
       (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of 
     the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives.


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

       Sec. 551. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation 
     Organization 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. 552. 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, as amended, 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 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 sixty days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, and every one hundred 
     eighty days thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations describing the 
     steps the United States Government is taking to collect 
     information regarding allegations of genocide or other 
     violations of international law in the former Yugoslavia and 
     to furnish that information to the United Nations War Crimes 
     Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: 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 or commissions shall be made 
     available subject to the regular notification procedures of 
     the Committees on Appropriations.


                               landmines

       Sec. 553. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     demining equipment available to the 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. 554. 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. 555. 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 may 
     be obligated or expended to pay for--
       (1) alcoholic beverages;
       (2) food (other than food provided at a military 
     installation) not provided in conjunction with Informational 
     Program trips where students do not stay at a military 
     installation; or
       (3) entertainment expenses for activities that are 
     substantially of a recreational character, including entrance 
     fees at sporting events and amusement parks.


                     equitable allocation of funds

       Sec. 556. Not more than 17 percent of the 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, that are made available for 
     Latin America and the Caribbean region may be made available, 
     through bilateral and Latin America and the Caribbean 
     regional programs, to provide assistance for any country in 
     such region.


                  special debt relief for the poorest

       Sec. 557. (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 for a 
     Latin American country, 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 
     ad 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 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 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.


             authority to engage in debt buybacks or sales

       Sec. 558. (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

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     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 an 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 ''.


                          assistance for haiti

       Sec. 559. (a) Policy.--In providing assistance to Haiti, 
     the President should place a priority on the following areas:
       (1) aggressive action to support the Haitian National 
     Police, including support for efforts by the Inspector 
     General to purge corrupt and politicized elements from the 
     Haitian National Police;
       (2) steps to ensure that any elections undertaken in Haiti 
     with United States assistance are full, free, fair, 
     transparent, and democratic;
       (3) support for a program designed to develop an indigenous 
     human rights monitoring capacity;
       (4) steps to facilitate the continued privatization of 
     state-owned enterprises;
       (5) establishment of an economic development fund for Haiti 
     to provide long-term, low interest loans to U.S. investors 
     and businesses that have a demonstrated commitment to, and 
     expertise in, doing business in Haiti, in particular those 
     businesses present in Haiti prior to the 1994 United Nations 
     embargo; and
       (6) a substantial agricultural development program.
       (b) Report.--Beginning six months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, and six months thereafter until 
     September 30, 2001, the President shall submit a report to 
     the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations 
     and the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives with regard to--
       (1) the status of each of the governmental institutions 
     envisioned in the 1987 Haitian Constitution, including an 
     assessment of the extent to which officials in such 
     institutions hold their positions on the basis of a regular, 
     constitutional process;
       (2) the status of the privatization (or placement under 
     long-term private management or concession) of the major 
     public entities, including a detailed assessment of the 
     extent to which the Government of Haiti has completed all 
     required incorporating documents, the transfer of assets, and 
     the eviction of unauthorized occupants from such facilities;
       (3) the status of efforts to re-sign and implement the 
     lapsed bilateral Repatriation Agreement and an assessment of 
     the extent to which the Government of Haiti has been 
     cooperating with the United States in halting illegal 
     emigration from Haiti;
       (4) the status of the Government of Haiti's efforts to 
     conduct thorough investigations of extrajudicial and 
     political killings and--
       (A) an assessment of the progress that has been made in 
     bringing to justice the persons responsible for these 
     extrajudicial or political killings in Haiti, and
       (B) an assessment of the extent to which the Government of 
     Haiti is cooperating with United States authorities and with 
     United States-funded technical advisors to the Haitian 
     National Police in such investigations;
       (5) an assessment of actions taken by the Government of 
     Haiti to remove and maintain the separation from the Haitian 
     National Police, national palace and residential guard, 
     ministerial guard, and any other public security entity or 
     unit of Haiti those individuals who are credibly alleged to 
     have engaged in or conspired to conceal gross violations of 
     internationally recognized human rights;
       (6) the status of steps being taken to secure the 
     ratification of the maritime counter-narcotics agreements 
     signed October 1997;
       (7) an assessment of the extent to which domestic capacity 
     to conduct free, fair, democratic, and administratively sound 
     elections has been developed in Haiti; and
       (8) an assessment of the extent to which Haiti's Minister 
     of Justice has demonstrated a commitment to the 
     professionalism of judicial personnel by consistently placing 
     students graduated by the Judicial School in appropriate 
     judicial positions and has made a commitment to share program 
     costs associated with the Judicial School, and is achieving 
     progress in making the judicial branch in Haiti independent 
     from the executive branch.


  requirement for disclosure of foreign aid in report of secretary of 
                                 state

       Sec. 560. (a) Foreign Aid Reporting Requirement.--In 
     addition to the voting practices of a foreign country, the 
     report required to be submitted to Congress under section 
     406(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, fiscal 
     years 1990 and 1991 (22 U.S.C. 2414a), shall include a side-
     by-side comparison of individual countries' overall support 
     for the United States at the United Nations and the amount of 
     United States assistance provided to such country in fiscal 
     year 1999.
       (b) United States Assistance.--For purposes of this 
     section, the term ``United States assistance'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 481(e)(4) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(e)(4)).


   restrictions on voluntary contributions to united nations agencies

       Sec. 561. (a) Prohibition on Voluntary Contributions for 
     the United Nations.--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.
       (b) Certification Required for Disbursement of Funds.--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) unless the President certifies to the Congress 15 
     days in advance of such payment that the United Nations is 
     not engaged in any effort to implement or impose any taxation 
     on United States persons in order to raise revenue for the 
     United Nations or any of its specialized agencies.
       (c) Definitions.--As used in this section the term ``United 
     States person'' refers to--
       (1) a natural person who is a citizen or national of the 
     United States; or
       (2) a corporation, partnership, or other legal entity 
     organized under the United States or any State, territory, 
     possession, or district of the United States.


                                 HAITI

       Sec. 562. 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 civilian-led 
     Haitian National Police and Coast Guard: Provided, That the 
     authority provided by this section shall be subject to the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


         limitation on assistance to the palestinian authority

       Sec. 563. (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 six months at a time and shall not apply beyond 
     twelve months after enactment of this Act.


              limitation on assistance to security forces

       Sec. 564. 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

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     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.


      limitations on transfer of military equipment to east timor

       Sec. 565. In any agreement for the sale, transfer, or 
     licensing of any lethal equipment or helicopter for Indonesia 
     entered into by the United States pursuant to the authority 
     of this Act or any other Act, the agreement shall state that 
     the United States expects that the items will not be used in 
     East Timor: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to limit Indonesia's inherent right to legitimate 
     national self-defense as recognized under the United Nations 
     Charter and international law.


restrictions on assistance to countries providing sanctuary to indicted 
                             war criminals

       Sec. 566. (a) Bilateral Assistance.--None of the funds made 
     available by this or any prior Act making appropriations for 
     foreign operations, export financing and related programs, 
     may be provided for any country, entity or canton described 
     in subsection (e).
       (b) Multilateral Assistance.--
       (1) Prohibition.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     instruct the United States executive directors of the 
     international financial institutions to work in opposition 
     to, and vote against, any extension by such institutions of 
     any financial or technical assistance or grants of any kind 
     to any country or entity described in subsection (e).
       (2) Notification.--Not less than 15 days before any vote in 
     an international financial institution regarding the 
     extension of financial or technical assistance or grants to 
     any country or entity described in subsection (e), the 
     Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 
     of State, shall provide to the Committee on Appropriations 
     and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Banking and 
     Financial Services of the House of Representatives 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.
       (3) Definition.--The term ``international financial 
     institution'' includes the International Monetary Fund, the 
     International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
     International Development Association, the International 
     Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guaranty 
     Agency, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development.
       (c) Exceptions.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), subsections (a) 
     and (b) shall not apply to the provision of--
       (A) humanitarian assistance;
       (B) democratization assistance;
       (C) assistance for cross border physical infrastructure 
     projects involving activities in both a sanctioned country, 
     entity, or canton and a nonsanctioned contiguous country, 
     entity, or canton, if the project is primarily located in and 
     primarily benefits the nonsanctioned country, entity, or 
     canton and if the portion of the project located in the 
     sanctioned country, entity, or canton is necessary only to 
     complete the project;
       (D) small-scale assistance projects or activities requested 
     by United States Armed Forces that promote good relations 
     between such forces and the officials and citizens of the 
     areas in the United States SFOR sector of Bosnia;
       (E) implementation of the Brcko Arbitral Decision;
       (F) lending by the international financial institutions to 
     a country or entity to support common monetary and fiscal 
     policies at the national level as contemplated by the Dayton 
     Agreement;
       (G) direct lending to a non-sanctioned entity, or lending 
     passed on by the national government to a non-sanctioned 
     entity; or
       (H) assistance to the International Police Task Force for 
     the training of a civilian police force.
        (2) Notification.--Every 30 days the Secretary of State, 
     in consultation with the Administrator of the Agency for 
     International Development, shall publish in the Federal 
     Register and/or in a comparable publicly accessible document 
     or internet site, a listing and justification of any 
     assistance that is obligated within that period of time for 
     any country, entity, or canton described in subsection (e), 
     including a description of the purpose of the assistance, 
     project and its location, by municipality.
       (d) Further Limitations.--Notwithstanding subsection (c)--
       (1) no assistance may be made available by this Act, or any 
     prior Act making appropriations for foreign operations, 
     export financing and related programs, in any country, 
     entity, or canton described in subsection (e), for a program, 
     project, or activity in which a publicly indicted war 
     criminal is known to have any financial or material interest; 
     and
       (2) no assistance (other than emergency foods or medical 
     assistance or demining assistance) may be made available by 
     this Act, or any prior Act making appropriations for foreign 
     operations, export financing and related programs for any 
     program, project, or activity in a community within any 
     country, entity or canton described in subsection (e) if 
     competent authorities within that community are not complying 
     with the provisions of Article IX and Annex 4, Article II, 
     paragraph 8 of the Dayton Agreement relating to war crimes 
     and the Tribunal.
       (e) Sanctioned Country, Entity, or Canton.--A sanctioned 
     country, entity, or canton described in this section is one 
     whose competent authorities have failed, as determined by the 
     Secretary of State, to take necessary and significant steps 
     to apprehend and transfer to the Tribunal all persons who 
     have been publicly indicted by the Tribunal.
       (f) Waiver.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State may waive the 
     application of subsection (a) or subsection (b) with respect 
     to specified bilateral programs or international financial 
     institution projects or programs in a sanctioned country, 
     entity, or canton upon providing a written determination to 
     the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations 
     and the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives that such assistance directly supports the 
     implementation of the Dayton Agreement and its Annexes, which 
     include the obligation to apprehend and transfer indicted war 
     criminals to the Tribunal.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 15 days after the date of any 
     written determination under paragraph (1) the Secretary of 
     State shall submit a report to the Committee on 
     Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee 
     on International Relations of the House of Representatives 
     regarding the status of efforts to secure the voluntary 
     surrender or apprehension and transfer of persons indicted by 
     the Tribunal, in accordance with the Dayton Agreement, and 
     outlining obstacles to achieving this goal; and
       (3) Assistance programs and projects affected.--Any waiver 
     made pursuant to this subsection shall be effective only with 
     respect to a specified bilateral program or multilateral 
     assistance project or program identified in the determination 
     of the Secretary of State to Congress.
       (g) Termination of Sanctions.--The sanctions imposed 
     pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) with respect to a country 
     or entity shall cease to apply only if the Secretary of State 
     determines and certifies to Congress that the authorities of 
     that country, entity, or canton have apprehended and 
     transferred to the Tribunal all persons who have been 
     publicly indicted by the Tribunal.
       (h) Definitions.--As used in this section--
       (1) Country.--The term ``country'' means Bosnia-
     Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro.
       (2) Entity.--The term ``entity'' refers to the Federation 
     of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosova, and the Republika Srpska.
       (3) Canton.--The term ``canton'' means the administrative 
     units in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
       (4) Dayton agreement.--The term ``Dayton Agreement'' means 
     the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and 
     Herzegovina, together with annexes relating thereto, done at 
     Dayton, November 10 through 16, 1995.
       (5) Tribunal.--The term ``Tribunal'' means the 
     International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
       (i) Role of Human Rights Organizations and Government 
     Agencies.--In carrying out this section, the Secretary of 
     State, the Administrator of the Agency for International 
     Development, and the executive directors of the international 
     financial institutions shall consult with representatives of 
     human rights organizations and all government agencies with 
     relevant information to help prevent publicly indicted war 
     criminals from benefitting from any financial or technical 
     assistance or grants provided to any country or entity 
     described in subsection (e).


    To Prohibit Foreign Assistance to the Government of the Russian 
   Federation should it enact laws which would discriminate against 
                       minority religious faiths

       Sec. 567. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may 
     be made available for the Government of the Russian 
     Federation, after 180 days from the date of enactment of this 
     Act, unless the President determines and certifies in writing 
     to the Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate that the Government of the 
     Russian Federation has implemented no statute, executive 
     order, regulation or similar government action that would 
     discriminate, or would have as its principal effect 
     discrimination, against religious groups or religious 
     communities in the Russian Federation in violation of 
     accepted international agreements on human rights and 
     religious freedoms to which the Russian Federation is a 
     party.


                        Greenhouse Gas Emissions

       Sec. 568. (a) Funds made available in this Act to support 
     programs or activities the primary purpose of which is 
     promoting or assisting country participation in the Kyoto

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     Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) 
     shall only be made available subject to the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.
       (b) The President shall provide a detailed account of all 
     Federal agency obligations and expenditures for climate 
     change programs and activities, domestic and international 
     obligations for such activities in fiscal year 2000, and any 
     plan for programs thereafter related to the implementation or 
     the furtherance of protocols pursuant to, or related to 
     negotiations to amend the FCCC in conjunction with the 
     President's submission of the Budget of the United States 
     Government for Fiscal Year 2001: Provided, That such report 
     shall include an accounting of expenditures by agency with 
     each agency identifying climate change activities and 
     associated costs by line item as presented in the President's 
     Budget Appendix: Provided further, That such report shall 
     identify with regard to the Agency for International 
     Development, obligations and expenditures by country or 
     central program and activity.


withholding assistance to countries violating united nations sanctions 
                             against libya

       Sec. 569. (a) Withholding of Assistance.--Except as 
     provided in subsection (b), whenever the President determines 
     and certifies to Congress that the government of any country 
     is violating any sanction against Libya imposed pursuant to 
     United Nations Security Council Resolution 731, 748, or 883, 
     then not less than 5 percent of the funds allocated for the 
     country under section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 out of appropriations in this Act shall be withheld from 
     obligation or expenditure for that country.
       (b) Exception.--The requirement to withhold funds under 
     subsection (a) shall not apply to funds appropriated in this 
     Act for allocation under section 653(a) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 for development assistance or for 
     humanitarian assistance.
       (c) Waiver.--Funds may be provided for a country without 
     regard to subsection (a) if the President determines that to 
     do so is in the national security interest of the United 
     States.


       AID TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

       Sec. 570. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     may be provided for assistance for the central Government of 
     the Democratic Republic of Congo until such time as the 
     President reports in writing to the Congress that the central 
     Government is--
       (1) investigating and prosecuting those responsible for 
     human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic 
     of Congo; and
       (2) implementing a credible democratic transition program.
       (b) This section shall not apply to assistance to promote 
     democracy and the rule of law as part of a plan to implement 
     a credible democratic transition program.


                     assistance for the middle east

       Sec. 571. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
     headings ``Economic Support Fund'', ``Foreign Military 
     Financing Program'', ``International Military Education and 
     Training '', ``Peacekeeping Operations'', for refugees 
     resettling in Israel under the heading ``Migration and 
     Refugee Assistance'', and for assistance for Israel to carry 
     out provisions of chapter 8 of part II of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 under the heading ``Nonproliferation, 
     Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'', not more 
     than a total of $5,318,150,000 may be made available for 
     Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, the 
     Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group, the Multinational Force and 
     Observers, the Middle East Regional Democracy Fund, Middle 
     East Regional Cooperation, and Middle East Multilateral 
     Working Groups: Provided, That any funds that were 
     appropriated under such headings in prior fiscal years and 
     that were at the time of enactment of this Act obligated or 
     allocated for other recipients may not during fiscal year 
     2000 be made available for activities that, if funded under 
     this Act, would be required to count against this ceiling: 
     Provided further, That funds may be made available 
     notwithstanding the requirements of this section if the 
     President determines and certifies to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that it is important to the national security 
     interest of the United States to do so and any such 
     additional funds shall only be provided through the regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding the funding ceiling 
     contained in this section, not to exceed a total of 
     $100,000,000 may be made available for Jordan from funds 
     appropriated in this Act under the headings ``Economic 
     Support Fund'' and ``Foreign Military Financing Program'', in 
     addition to funds otherwise available for Jordan under those 
     or other headings that are subject to the funding ceiling 
     contained in this section.


                      enterprise fund restrictions

       Sec. 572. 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.


                                cambodia

       Sec. 573. (a) 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 Government of Cambodia, 
     except loans to support basic human needs.
       (b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made 
     available for assistance for the Government of Cambodia: 
     Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to 
     humanitarian assistance, including assistance for basic 
     education activities.


                 authorization for population planning

       Sec. 574. Not to exceed $385,000,000 of the funds 
     appropriated in title II of this Act may be available for 
     population planning activities or other population 
     assistance.


                    FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING REPORT

       Sec. 575. (a) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
     State shall jointly provide to the Congress by January 31, 
     2000, a report on all military training provided to foreign 
     military personnel (excluding sales, and excluding training 
     provided to the military personnel of countries belonging to 
     the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) under programs 
     administered by the Department of Defense and the Department 
     of State during fiscal years 1999 and 2000, including those 
     proposed for fiscal year 2000. This report shall include, for 
     each such military training activity, the foreign policy 
     justification and purpose for the training activity, the cost 
     of the training activity, the number of foreign students 
     trained and their units of operation, and the location of the 
     training. In addition, this report shall also include, with 
     respect to United States personnel, the operational benefits 
     to United States forces derived from each such training 
     activity and the United States military units involved in 
     each such training activity. This report may include a 
     classified annex if deemed necessary and appropriate.
       (b) For purposes of this section a report to Congress shall 
     be deemed to mean a report to the Appropriations and Foreign 
     Relations Committees of the Senate and the Appropriations and 
     International Relations Committees of the House of 
     Representatives.


            korean peninsula energy development organization

         Sec. 576. (a) Of the funds made available under the 
     heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and 
     Related Programs'', not to exceed $35,000,000 may be made 
     available for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
     Organization (hereafter referred to in this section as 
     ``KEDO''), notwithstanding any other provision of law, only 
     for the administrative expenses and heavy fuel oil costs 
     associated with the Agreed Framework.
         (b) Of the funds made available for KEDO, up to 
     $15,000,000 may be made available prior to June 1, 2000, if, 
     thirty days prior to such obligation of funds, the President 
     certifies and so reports to Congress that--
       (1) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and 
     continue to take demonstrable steps to implement the Joint 
     Declaration on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in 
     which the Government of North Korea has committed not to 
     test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy, 
     or use nuclear weapons, and not to possess nuclear 
     reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities;
       (2) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and 
     continue to take demonstrable steps to pursue the North-South 
     dialogue;
       (3) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the 
     Agreed Framework;
       (4) North Korea has not diverted assistance provided by the 
     United States for purposes for which it was not intended; and
       (5) North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the 
     capability to enrich uranium, or any additional capability to 
     reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
         (c) Of the funds made available for KEDO, up to 
     $20,000,000 may be made available on or after June 1, 2000, 
     if, thirty days prior to such obligation of funds, the 
     President certifies and so reports to Congress that--
       (1) the effort to can and safely store all spent fuel from 
     North Korea's graphite-moderated nuclear reactors has been 
     successfully concluded;
       (2) North Korea is complying with its obligations under the 
     agreement regarding access to suspect underground 
     construction;
       (3) North Korea has terminated its nuclear weapons program, 
     including all efforts to acquire, develop, test, produce, or 
     deploy such weapons; and
       (4) the United States has made and is continuing to make 
     significant progress on eliminating the North Korean 
     ballistic missile threat, including further missile tests and 
     its ballistic missile exports.
       (d) The authorities of sections 451 and 614 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may not be used to 
     authorize or provide assistance--
       (1) to North Korea for purposes related to the Agreed 
     Framework;

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       (2) to KEDO in excess of the amount made available under 
     subsection (a); or
       (3) that cannot be provided due to any funding ceiling, 
     prohibition, restriction, or condition on release of funds 
     that is contained in subsections (a), (b), or (c).
         (e) The President may waive the certification 
     requirements of subsections (b) and (c) if the President 
     determines that it is vital to the national security 
     interests of the United States and provides written policy 
     justifications to the appropriate congressional committees 
     prior to his exercise of such waiver. No funds may be 
     obligated for KEDO until 30 days after submission to Congress 
     of such waiver.
         (f) The Secretary of State shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report (to be 
     submitted with the annual presentation for appropriations) 
     providing a full and detailed accounting of the fiscal year 
     2001 request for the United States contribution to KEDO, the 
     expected operating budget of the KEDO, to include unpaid 
     debt, proposed annual costs associated with heavy fuel oil 
     purchases, and the amount of funds pledged by other donor 
     nations and organizations to support KEDO activities on a per 
     country basis, and other related activities.


                     African Development Foundation

       Sec. 577. Funds made available to grantees of the African 
     Development Foundation may be invested pending expenditure 
     for project purposes when authorized by the President of the 
     Foundation: Provided, That interest earned shall be used only 
     for the purposes for which the grant was made: Provided 
     further, That this authority applies to interest earned both 
     prior to and following enactment of this provision: Provided 
     further, That notwithstanding section 505(a)(2) of the 
     African Development Foundation Act, 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: Provided further, That the Foundation 
     shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations in 
     advance of exercising such waiver authority.


 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

       Sec. 578. 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.


             Notification on the Use of Operating Expenses

       Sec. 579. None of the funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``Operating Expenses of the Agency for International 
     Development'' may be made available to finance the 
     construction (including architect and engineering services), 
     purchase, or long-term lease of offices for use by the Agency 
     for International Development, except as provided through the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                            iraq opposition

       Sec. 580. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 
     to exceed $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     under the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' may be made 
     available for political, economic, humanitarian, and 
     associated support activities for Iraqi opposition groups 
     designated under the Iraq Liberation Act (Public Law 105-
     338).


         agency for international development budget submission

       Sec. 581. Beginning with the fiscal year 2001 Budget, the 
     Agency for International Development shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations a detailed budget for each 
     fiscal year. The Agency budget shall contain the estimated 
     levels of obligations for the current fiscal year and actual 
     levels for the two previous years, and the President's 
     request for new budget authority and estimate of carryover 
     obligational authority for the budget year. Budget data shall 
     be disaggregated by program and activity for each bureau, 
     field mission, and central office. Staff levels shall be 
     provided and identified by program. The Agency shall submit 
     to the Committees on Appropriations a proposed budget format 
     no later than October 31, 1999, or 30 days after the 
     enactment of this act, whichever occurs later.


sense of congress concerning the murder of four american churchwomen in 
                              el salvador

       Sec. 582. (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following 
     findings.
       (1) The December 2, 1980 brutal assault and murder of four 
     American churchwomen by members of the Salvadoran National 
     Guard was covered up and never fully investigated.
       (2) On July 22 and July 23, 1998, Salvadoran authorities 
     granted three of the National Guardsmen convicted of the 
     crimes early release from prison.
       (3) The United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador 
     determined in 1993 that there was sufficient evidence that 
     the Guardsmen were acting on orders from their superiors.
       (4) In March 1998, four of the convicted Guardsmen 
     confessed that they acted after receiving orders from their 
     superiors.
       (5) Recently declassified documents from the State 
     Department show that United States Government officials were 
     aware of information suggesting the involvement of superior 
     officers in the murders.
       (6) United States officials granted permanent residence to 
     a former Salvadoran military official involved in the cover-
     up of the murders, enabling him to remain in Florida.
       (7) Despite the fact that the murders occurred over 17 
     years ago, the families of the four victims continue to seek 
     the disclosure of information relevant to the murders.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) information relevant to the murders should be made 
     public to the fullest extent possible;
       (2) the Secretary of State and the Department of State are 
     to be commended for fully releasing information regarding the 
     murders to the victims' families and to the American public, 
     in prompt response to congressional requests;
       (3) the President should order all other Federal agencies 
     and departments that possess relevant information to make 
     every effort to declassify and release to the victims' 
     families relevant information as expeditiously as possible;
       (4) in making determinations concerning the 
     declassification and release of relevant information, the 
     Federal agencies and departments should presume in favor of 
     releasing, rather than of withholding, such information; and
       (5) the President should direct the Attorney General to 
     review the circumstances under which individuals involved in 
     either the murders or the cover-up of the murders obtained 
     residence in the United States, and the Attorney General 
     should submit a report to the Congress on the results of such 
     review not later than January 1, 2000.


                             kyoto protocol

       Sec. 583. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
     be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or 
     orders for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation 
     for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol, which was adopted 
     on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, at the Third 
     Conference of the Parties to the United States Framework 
     Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to 
     the Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to 
     article II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States 
     Constitution, and which has not entered into force pursuant 
     to article 25 of the Protocol.


            contributions to united nations population fund

       Sec. 584. (1) Limitations on Amount of Contribution.--Of 
     the amounts made available under ``International 
     Organizations and Programs'', not more than $25,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 2000 shall be available for the United Nations 
     Population Fund (hereinafter in this subsection referred to 
     as the ``UNFPA'').
       (2) 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.
       (3) Conditions on Availability of Funds.--Amounts made 
     available under ``International Organizations and Programs'' 
     for fiscal year 2000 for the UNFPA may not be made available 
     to UNFPA unless--
       (A) the UNFPA maintains amounts made available to the UNFPA 
     under this section in an account separate from other accounts 
     of the UNFPA;
       (B) the UNFPA does not commingle amounts made available to 
     the UNFPA under this section with other sums; and
       (C) the UNFPA does not fund abortions.
       (4) Report to Congress and Withholding of Funds.--
       (A) Not later than February 15, 2000, the Secretary of 
     State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
     committees indicating the amount of funds that the United 
     Nations Population Fund is budgeting for the year in which 
     the report is submitted for a country program in the People's 
     Republic of China.
       (B) If a report under subparagraph (A) indicates that the 
     United Nations Population Fund plans to spend funds for a 
     country program in the People's Republic of China in the year 
     covered by the report, then the amount of such funds that the 
     UNFPA plans to spend in the People's Republic of China shall 
     be deducted from the funds made available to the UNFPA after 
     March 1 for obligation for the remainder of the fiscal year 
     in which the report is submitted.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000''.


                 Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Moakley

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

       Amendment No. 1 offered by Mr. Moakley:
       At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
     (preceding the short title) the following:


          LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS

       SEC.  . None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used for programs at the United 
     States Army School of the Americas located at Fort Benning, 
     Georgia.


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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
amendment be limited to 1 hour of debate divided equally between a 
proponent and opponent of the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman include ``and all amendments 
thereto''?
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Alabama?
  Ms. PELOSI. Reserving the right to object, Mr. Chairman, I just 
sought recognition to concur with the gentleman's request with the 
approval of the maker of the amendment, the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley).
  Mr. MOAKLEY. I approve.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Alabama?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) is 
recognized for 30 minutes.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I thank the gentleman from Alabama for allowing this time allotment.
  Mr. Chairman, I am sure that many people are very surprised to see me 
fighting to close the School of Americas, but 10 years ago I got to 
know people from another part of the world, people who have such a love 
for family, such a passion for life, and despite their many, many 
hardships, that I still cannot forget them, though my work in that 
country is through.
  On November 16, 1989, at the University of Central America in El 
Salvador six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and their 15 year-old 
daughter were pulled from their beds, forced to lie on the ground, and 
executed in cold blood. At that time, Mr. Chairman, El Salvador was in 
the midst of a horrible civil war. The United States had sided with the 
Salvadoran government, and we had sent the Salvadoran military a total 
of $6 billion.
  Those murders, murders of men of God and innocent women, shocked the 
entire world, and Congress wanted to know exactly what was going on in 
El Salvador. Speaker Foley called for a Congressional investigation and 
asked me to head it up. My top staff personnel, a Congressman, Jim 
McGovern, and I traveled to El Salvador to investigate these murders. 
For 2 years we held meetings, conducted interviews, dug around. We 
learned that the Salvadoran soldiers not only committed the massacre 
but also were ordered to do so by the people at the highest levels of 
their military command who then engaged in a massive cover-up reaching 
the highest levels of Salvadoran government, the very same Salvadoran 
government, Mr. Chairman, to whom we were sending billions and billions 
of dollars.
  After the Moakley Commission report was made public, we eventually 
cut off all military aid to El Salvador. Soon afterwards, that civil 
war ended.
  But, Mr. Chairman, today, 10 years later, our work towards human 
rights in Central America has not ended. In addition to learning who 
committed the Jesuit murders, we learned that 19 of those 26 implicated 
in those murders were graduates of the School of Americas. Let me 
repeat, Mr. Chairman. Nineteen of those 26 implicated in the Jesuit 
murders were graduates of the School of Americas.
  The School of Americas is a United States Army school run in Fort 
Benning, Georgia, that trains approximately 2,000 Latin American 
soldiers every year. The classes they teach include combat skills, 
commando tactics, military intelligence, and torture techniques, and 
this education comes at a very high price. The School of Americas costs 
the United States taxpayers $20 million every year, and that is what we 
are trying to stop here tonight, Mr. Chairman.
  My colleagues and I are offering an amendment which will stop any 
money in the bill from being used to support the School of Americas. We 
are standing today and saying enough is enough; it is time to close 
down the school once and for all. Because, Mr. Chairman, its graduates 
were not only involved in the Jesuit murders, the School of Americas 
graduates raped and killed four American church women.
  They assassinated Archbishop Romero while offering mass. The School 
of Americas graduates massacred 900 innocent civilians in El Mozote. 
And School of Americas graduates were implicated in the Trujillo chain-
saw massacres, in which at least 107 villagers were tortured and 
murdered. Manuel Noriega, the infamous Panamanian dictator, is a 
graduate of the School of Americas as were one-third of General 
Pinochet's officials. Mr. Chairman, just 2 months ago, General Rito Del 
Rio was expelled from the Columbian military because his human rights 
violations were so horrible. He also is a graduate of the School of the 
Americas.
  Mr. Chairman, the list goes on and on and on. Put simply, the School 
of Americas has trained some of the most brutal assassins, some of the 
cruelest dictators, some of the worst abusers of human rights that the 
western hemisphere has seen, and I think it is time for the United 
States of America to admit its mistakes and remove this horrible 
blemish from our military establishment because if we do not stand for 
human rights in Georgia, how can we possibly expect to promote them 
anywhere else in the world?
  This spring, President Clinton was forced to apologize for our 
involvement in the civil war in Guatemala that left 200,000 civilians 
dead. How many more times will our President have to apologize to the 
people of Central America before we close the school?
  Some people say the school is changed. They say it trains people in 
drug interdiction. In fact, 8 percent of the students that even attend 
the anti-drug courses, a dozen of those who did in the past have been 
also tied to drug trafficking.
  Mr. Chairman, the fact remains every day this school is open, every 
day it trains people in torture techniques and commando tactics is a 
day too many.
  Human rights are the foundation on which our country was created. We 
shed blood over those principles. We fought wars and sacrificed lives 
to protect them. Why would we want to export anything less to the rest 
of the world?
  I urge my colleagues to take a stand for those without a voice, take 
a stand for human rights, take a stand for human decency, and shut down 
that School of Americas. Our Founding Fathers would expect nothing 
else.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) is recognized 
for 30 minutes in opposition to the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley).
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, for the past 4 years on every occasion that this bill 
has come to the floor since I have been chairman of the Subcommittee on 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs we have had 
this debate, and every year the proponents of the amendment such as the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley), a man that I greatly admire 
from Massachusetts, brings out the same stale points about the facts 
and the rationale and the reasons for closing down the School of 
Americas, and certainly the motives with which he brings this amendment 
are good motives. None of us support the atrocities that were committed 
by the members of certain Latin American countries during times of war. 
Some of those people indeed did go and did attend and did graduate from 
the School of Americas, but we cannot condemn the School of Americas 
forever for something that happened 15 or 20 years ago.
  This does not mean that if we do not agree with the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) that his motive is not noble. It simply 
means that the school has cleaned up its act.
  I have sent our staff members of our committee about four times to 
make absolutely certain that the School of Americas does not teach, 
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human rights in any manner, and I have promised to those people who are 
opposed to the School of Americas: ``If you will bring me one iota that 
indicates that the curriculum at the School of Americas is doing 
anything to the contrary, that I myself will close them down because I 
will not include funding in my bill if indeed they are.'' But, Mr. 
Chairman, they are not. Those are the real facts.
  The only thing that we hear year after year is the atrocities that 
were committed decades ago by graduates of that school. The unibomber 
went to Harvard. Do we say we ought to close Harvard down because the 
unibomber committed all the atrocities? No. We only say this each and 
every year about the School of Americas.
  Mr. Chairman, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 
Secretary of Defense has contacted us as late as today, pleading with 
us, telling us that this is indeed crucial to our own national security 
because this is the only school where we can bring these new military 
leaders and military people to the United States and talk to them in 
Spanish, a language they can comprehend, a language that they will be 
able to then go back and to express their concerns for human rights.
  So this issue is decades old, there is no change in the debate. Each 
year the Congress has rejected this amendment, to close down the 
school, and I would urge the Members of Congress to take heed to what 
the Secretary of Defense tells us, that what every chairman of every 
area of our military has communicated with us: Please do not take away 
this instrument of peace that we have in establishing an ability to 
bring these people to the United States and to teach them about 
democracy, to teach them about human rights.
  This bill only includes $2 million, a very small amount of money for 
the amount of debate that has taken place on this for the last several 
years. I would urge my colleagues to listen to the military experts, to 
the professionals who have to run our military, who will have to send 
our military to Central America or to South America in the event of any 
uprising, and we need this cooperative working relationship with these 
people, and we need, indeed, to instruct them in human rights and as 
well as the military, and that was that we instruct them.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Gilman), chairman of the Committee on International Relations.
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to join our chairman, the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) in rising in opposition to the 
amendment by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley). It is in 
our national interest to see that the militaries of Central and South 
American countries play a positive role in that region's fragile 
democratic societies. Our Army School of the Americas serves our 
national interest and deserves our support, not our scorn.
  I do not believe that anyone intends to suggest that our good men and 
women in the uniform are deliberately training people to commit human 
rights abuses. Accordingly, I have encouraged dialogue between the 
school and its critics.
  Donnie Marshall, the acting administrator for the DEA, recently noted 
that, and I quote: The School of the Americas plays an important role 
in supporting our efforts to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the 
United States, close quote. General Serrano, the highly respected 
Director General of the Columbian National Police last year informed 
our Committee on International Relations, and I quote: The School of 
the Americas trains our reaction forces in fighting narcotics 
trafficking with excellent result, and I am a witness to the fact that 
it is a very valuable instrument for training our men to carry out the 
antinarcotics fight, close quote.
  I have sent my staff delegation to the School of the Americas twice 
in the past year to fully examine the school's operations; and in 
response to Congressional oversight, the School of the Americas has 
made a real effort to strengthen its curriculum. The school's 
commandant, Colonel Glenn Weidner, reports that, and I quote: Every 
student in every one of the 55 courses taught by this school receives 
between 8 and 40 hours of formal human rights instruction depending on 
course length.

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  ``Classroom instruction is followed up with practical application in 
field and map-based exercises throughout each course. No other 
Department of Defense school provides as much human rights training to 
foreign or U.S. students.''
  Prudent restrictions have been implemented at the school to make sure 
the students are screened for actual and alleged human rights 
violations.
  Just as we do not close down our police academies when any one of our 
cops turns bad, neither should we throw away one of the important 
constructive tools we have for influencing Latin America's militaries 
for the good.
  Accordingly, let us not throw out the whole barrel of apples because 
of a few bad apples. I urge my colleagues to oppose the Moakley 
amendment.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough), the coauthor of the 
amendment.
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from 
Massachusetts for yielding me this time.
  Let me say, hearing the words of the gentleman from Alabama and also 
the gentleman from New York, I certainly respect their beliefs on human 
rights, their beliefs to fight for human rights. I just know that on 
this issue, reasonable minds can differ, and they do. I differ with my 
good friend from Massachusetts on several issues. But human rights, as 
far as I am concerned, really does not have any ideological barriers. 
Whether we are talking about Sudan, whether we are talking about China, 
or whether we are talking about Central America, I think we have to 
fight for human rights.
  Mr. Chairman, I even, I am sure, would disagree violently on what 
happened in the 1980s. I believe what happened in the 1980s was Ronald 
Reagan's fight for freedom in Central America. But at the same time, 
the Cold War is over. Soviet intervention in Central America has ended. 
In fact, the Soviet Union has ended. Now is the time we can all fight 
and join together for freedom, to bring freedom to Central America.
  While the Cold War may be over, the School of the Americas' abuses 
are not. The United Nations Commission reports that the School of the 
Americas grads are continuing to assassinate, continuing to murder. In 
fact, it continued in 1998. The United States State Department reports 
that murders and torture by SOA grads continue. In fact, in May of 
1998, the Colombian Army formally disbanded the 20 Brigade for its 
involvement in human rights abuses, including targeted killings of 
civilians. The commander of the brigade at the time was yet another SOA 
graduate.
  As the New York Times wrote, ``An institution so clearly out of tune 
with American values should be shut down without delay.''
  As I said before, whether we are talking about human rights abuses in 
China or in Central America, or in Sudan or Saudi Arabia, America must, 
once again, become what Ronald Reagan called a city shining brightly on 
a hill for all the world to see. Shining for freedom and shining for 
the exportation of American principles, and not what the School of the 
Americas has stood for, for the past 20 years.
  So I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts again for bringing up 
this amendment, as the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Kennedy) has 
done the past several years, and I am pleased once again to support it. 
I think now is the year we should all band together and defund the 
School of the Americas.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Bishop) who, incidentally, was born in Mobile, Alabama, my 
hometown. My hometown has a college named after his distinguished 
father, S.D. Bishop, Bishop State Community College in Mobile.

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  Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Chairman, the exercise we are engaged in this evening 
is shameful. It is shameful because the horrendous accusations that 
have been brought against the Army's School of the Americas and, more 
specifically, against the civilian and military men and women who have 
taught there, have been proven to be false. There is no reasonable 
question about this. None at all.
  The accusations about teaching murder and torture and participating 
in a prolonged conspiracy to commit atrocities and destroy democracy 
are based on pure propaganda and not on the facts. Anyone who bothers 
to look at the record can come to no other conclusion.
  During this decade, there have been 12 investigations of the school. 
Mr. Chairman, 12, more than 1 a year. These investigations probed the 
school's curriculum, the texts it uses; questioned many hundreds of 
graduates and faculty members, past and present; examined the human 
rights abuses involving some of the school's graduates; and made a real 
determination about how many graduates have gone bad and how many have 
been involved in the emergence of democracy in Latin America.
  All came to the same conclusion: these charges are false. In fact, 
the school is doing just the opposite. It is promoting human rights and 
democratic principles, helping fight the war against drugs, and 
effectively serving as an instrument of pro-democratic U.S. foreign 
policy in our own hemisphere.
  One of these investigations, Mr. Chairman, was conducted by the 
General Accounting Office at the direction of our former colleague from 
California, Ron Dellums. The GAO dug long and hard and eventually 
recommended improvements that have, in fact, been implemented. But 
according to the GAO, there is no question that the charges were 
unfounded. When Ron Dellums asked the GAO to dig some more, the agency 
did so and reconfirmed its findings.
  Do those who continue to make these charges really think that the GAO 
is a part of a cover-up?
  Overseeing the school is a distinguished Board of Visitors that 
includes noted human rights figures like Mr. Steve Schneebaum. Do we 
really think they too are involved in a cover-up?
  The fact is that those who persist in accusing the school of 
promoting criminal and evil conduct are turning their backs on the 
facts. Unfortunately, the leaders of the School of the Americas Watch 
do not care about the truth. They decided long ago to place the blame 
for the horrible atrocities that have taken place in Latin America on 
the United States, and the School of the Americas has served as a 
convenient propaganda target and whipping boy.
  But it is our job, yours and mine, to act on the truth, not on the 
misinformation that continues to deluge us.
  We have heard statements implying that the overwhelming majority of 
the school's 60,000 graduates have been guilty of abuses. A few may 
have been, but what the record actually shows is that the overwhelming 
majority have not been involved in human rights abuses and have instead 
supported democracy. The school's proponents never mention the 
graduates who played prominent roles in preventing a military takeover 
during the recent presidential impeachment in Paraguay, or the 
graduates who helped prevent a coup during a constitutional crisis in 
Ecuador not long ago, or those who served on the delegations that 
resolved a border dispute that almost ignited a devastating war between 
Peru and Equador, or thousands of others who have been on the front 
lines of democracy in Latin America.
  Opponents claim students really do not get human rights training, 
which is not true. Every student receives extensive human rights 
instruction. They claim students do not get antidrug training. This is 
also wrong.
  One ``Dear Colleague'' claimed that the Guatemalan Truth Commission 
found the school accountable for human rights violations that occurred 
during a conflict that cost many lives. In fact, the Commission's 
report made no such claim. This, too, is just wrong.
  My plea is simply this: cast your vote on the basis of information 
that has been documented and substantiated, and not on charges that 
have been proven false.
  Mr. Chairman, the School of the Americas provides the most advanced 
military human rights training in the world. For a relatively small 
investment, it makes a real contribution in reducing the flow of 
illicit drugs into our country. As an instrument of foreign policy, 
every administration, Republican and Democratic alike, has testified 
that the school plays a vitally important and effective role.
  I ask my colleagues to support the truth. Vote against this amendment 
by our distinguished colleague from Massachusetts, and continue the 
modest funding for a program that, in fact, is advancing the cause of 
human rights and representative democracy in our area of the world. 
Base your decision not on innuendo, but on fact. I ask my colleagues to 
kill this amendment and support democracy here in the Western 
Hemisphere.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  If the gentleman at the microphone claims that this is a propaganda 
thing, then it really fooled a lot of people when those 19 soldiers 
killed those six Jesuits; when the two out of three soldiers were cited 
for the assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero; when 
the 10 of the 12 were cited for the El Mozote, El Salvador massacre of 
900 villagers. That was a great propaganda scheme. A lot of people were 
fooled by it. The El Salvador death squad leader, Roberto D'Aubuisson. 
These were great propagandas. These are all truth; they are all 
substantiated from the Truth Mission of the U.N.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Lewis).
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my friend and my 
colleague, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley), for his 
leadership and his vision on this issue. Mr. Chairman, it is very 
difficult for me to come here tonight and to differ with my friend, my 
colleague and my brother from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), but I must.
  Mr. Chairman, it is time to close the doors of the United States Army 
School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The school has not served as a 
bridge between the United States and our Latin American neighbors. It 
has been a barrier to bringing peace and democracy to the region. Too 
many of the school's graduates have committed human rights abuses and 
unspeakable acts of violence against their own people.
  For too long, the United States aided and abetted Latin America 
dictatorships that repressed human rights and even murdered their own 
citizens. As a Nation, we made a mistake, and we should admit it. We 
made a mistake. The President of the United States went to Latin 
America and said, we made a mistake. I apologize. We made a mistake.
  Today, we have an opportunity, we have the capacity, we have the 
ability to right that wrong. We can be sure, and we must close the 
School of the Americas.
  As we enter the new millennium, we deserve better than the School of 
the Americas. We deserve an institution that promotes our fundamental 
belief of democracy, peace, and human rights. The School of the 
Americas diminishes each and every one of these values. It diminishes 
us all. We should teach people the value of peace and democracy, not of 
war and dictatorship. Closing the School of the Americas is the right 
thing to do. It is good for democracy. It is good for the cause of 
peace.
  Mr. Chairman, it is time to close the School of the Americas. It is 
the right thing to do. Let us do it.

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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Souder).
  Mr. SOUDER. First, Mr. Chairman, let me say that we hear a lot of 
passionate speeches, but I think they are almost like on a different 
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  The fact is that we have brought democracy and freedom to most of 
Latin America when it used to be a sea of totalitarian dictatorships. 
Some still have further to move, but part of it is because we have 
tried to reform their military, to understand the principles of George 
Washington stepping aside; that the militaries are not supposed to 
usurp and dominate the political powers of their countries.
  To some degree, we are refighting the eighties that are over. 
Furthermore, as I have been at Fort Benning, as well as visiting in 
Peru and Bolivia and Colombia and Mexico, and with many people who have 
gone through this program four times in the last 4 years, they have 
learned that you cannot just go in and shoot down people who disagree, 
you have to try to reach them. Where did they learn that? From us.
  The Clinton administration in the last few years, I will grant, has 
been more aggressive in teaching human rights, or criticizing their own 
administration as they have tried to broaden out.
  As to this argument about the Jesuits, quite frankly, that was a 
terrible tragedy. We should never have been any part of anything to do 
with it. But let us make something clear, the United States government 
did not do that and did not authorize that. I feel terrible for the 
people Ted Bundy killed, but I do not blame the University of 
Washington, where he went.
  I do not blame the Unabomber for having attended the University of 
Michigan. I do not blame the Trinity College, Cambridge University, for 
Kim Philby, Donald McLean, Burgess and Blunt, all traitors. I do not 
blame Bronx Community College for the Son of Sam. I do not blame Ohio 
State University for Jeffrey Dahmer.
  Just because they went to universities and might have even learned 
skills that quite frankly helped them do their terrible crimes, 
writing, communicating, and so on, does not mean that the purpose of 
those universities was to teach them the things that they did wrong.
  It is insulting to this government, because the whole case that all 
this spins around is one document that supposedly was used in one 
classroom that somebody brought in that was in Spanish, and when we 
found it, we took it out, and do not even know that it was used in the 
classroom.
  The second part of the case are people who committed crimes, and they 
have attended the school. We have tried to work with the school to do 
better tracking, to do better screening. That is what we need to be 
addressing.
  Ironically, this is one of the only ways, through the Spanish 
language, to reach the lower educated and low-income parts of their 
military in their country. We do training, but we do training in other 
bases of officers. We do not reach out to the masses who are in fact in 
debatable practices, sometimes, in non-narcotics areas. But basically, 
we are teaching them that they have to do it better and follow 
procedures. We are not teaching them to violate human rights. I find it 
insulting.
  One last comment is that I think that this is arguably the 
centerpiece of our antidrug war in the world, because we cannot patrol 
the entire world. What we can do is teach people how to do a better job 
following the principles of democracy and human rights, the limitations 
of the military around the world.
  While I have skepticism about our government, I think it is demeaning 
to this President and the Vice President, the people in our Armed 
Forces, to think that they are actually training people for the 
deliberate purpose of killing others, outside the normal procedures of 
war.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I wish the gentleman was with me when I saw the brains 
of Jesuits being scraped off the wall as a result of being killed by 
some of the graduates of the School of the Americas, if he thinks this 
is propaganda.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. McGovern), who at the time was my chief investigator in El 
Salvador when we discovered who the killers were of those Jesuits.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Moakley-
Scarborough amendment to shut down the School of the Americas. Nearly a 
decade ago I had the privilege of working for the dean of the 
Massachusetts delegation, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Moakley), in investigating the murders of 6 Jesuits priests, their 
housekeeper, and her teenaged daughter at the University of Central 
America in El Salvador.
  I knew four of these priests. I worked with them on human rights 
issues during the long war in El Salvador. I knew their work in support 
of the poor, in education, in support of negotiating an end to the war. 
I joked with them. Believe it or not, I even sang songs with them. I 
ate at their table. I saw them receive honors and awards for their work 
on behalf of peace and human rights.
  Like the rest of America, I woke up on November 16, 1989, to photos 
and news footage of their blood-splattered bullet-ridden bodies lying 
on the ground outside their home, dead, murdered, forced out of their 
beds in the middle of the night, forced to the ground with high-powered 
U.S. rifles put to their heads, their brains blown out across the yard.
  Mr. Chairman, these images haunt me. They should haunt all of us. 
They should certainly haunt the U.S. Army School of the Americas, 
because when the facts of this came out, 19 of the 26 soldiers who 
murdered these men and women were graduates of the School of the 
Americas.
  In the past 10 years, not once, not once, Mr. Chairman, have I heard 
anyone from the School of the Americas, the U.S. Army, or the Pentagon 
express any regret or concern about any possible role they might have 
played in relation to these murders, not on the record or off the 
record, not in private, nothing. All we ever hear from the School of 
the Americas and the Secretary of the Army and everyone else in the 
military establishment are rationalizations about a few bad apples. How 
many bad apples does it take before we shut this school down?
  It is not just El Salvador or Guatemala in the past, it is today. It 
is today in Colombia, it is today in Peru, it is today in Bolivia. 
Every single time the United Nations or human rights groups analyze 
which military officers are the major human rights abusers, they find 
the overwhelming majority have been trained by the U.S. Army School of 
the Americas.
  Let me be clear, these are not reports by the Pentagon or the school, 
these reports are generally made by human rights advocates, who place 
themselves in great danger in order to determine who among their 
militaries are responsible for ordering and carrying out atrocities 
against the civilian population.
  In fact, the School of the Americas has never attempted to track the 
actions of its graduates. In fact, it has refused to carry out an 
independent review of its graduates. It simply does not want to know.
  I do not know when each of my colleagues last traveled to Central 
America, but I urge them to go and talk to the people in the churches, 
to religious workers, to human rights workers, to labor leaders, and to 
just average folks. Ask them about the School of the Americas. Almost 
without exception, they will point out that the school is part of the 
problem with U.S. policy.
  Do not ask government officials beholden to U.S. aid, do not ask the 
Latin American generals, do not ask the Pentagon. Of course they 
support the school. They have to. It is their job, or their junket. Ask 
the people of Latin America. Go to the villages that have suffered 
military oppression.
  This school is a blemish on the image of the United States among the 
people of Latin America. There are better ways to train members of the 
Latin American military. There are better ways to build relationships. 
Every year the United States carries out training programs and 
leadership development throughout Latin America that involve tens of 
thousands of Latin American military officers and enlisted personnel. 
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the Americas to do the training. There are other ways, better ways. A 
couple of small buildings on the huge base of Fort Benning could be put 
to better use and for other purposes.
  Nothing can bring back my friends from the dead, but I have walked on 
the ground where they died, and I refuse to vote for a single penny 
more of taxpayer dollars for the school that trained their killers and 
that continues to train military officers who harm and kill innocent 
people in Latin America.
  This is a vote of values. This is a vote of conscience. This is the 
time to shut down the School of the Americas. The time is now. I urge 
my colleagues to vote for the Moakley-Scarborough amendment. It is the 
right thing to do.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter).
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the 
amendment offered by the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Moakley) to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
  The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop) is right, this is pure 
propaganda. Never has there been such a misguided, concerted propaganda 
effort against an organ of the United States government.
  What bothers me, what saddens me, is the emotion, obviously deep 
emotion, because of the atrocities that affected the Maryknoll nuns, 
the Jesuit priests, the Archbishop Romero. This emotion would cause us 
to do irrational things.
  It is time to leave behind this debate. I would say to my colleague, 
the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), the gentleman who just 
spoke, nothing will bring back the gentleman's friends. Those people 
were killed by men who did not receive their training to kill at the 
School of the Americas. He is on a mission from the 1980s. That mission 
today is misguided.
  Mr. Chairman, as many of my colleagues are aware, there is this 
concerted effort to discredit the U.S. Army School of the Americas, the 
persistent use of outdated arguments of what the members consider to be 
a misreading of the record of outstanding service of nearly all of the 
school's graduates.
  The School of the Americas, of course, is a key foreign policy tool 
for the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. It helps to 
shape the region's leadership and environment in ways that are 
favorable to American interests. The school is also an integral part of 
the U.S. Southern Command's engagement strategy for the region.
  At the end of the Cold War the attendant shift in U.S. national 
security strategy from containment to engagement and enlargement, and 
the emergence of new challenges to U.S. security interests, clearly has 
transformed many of America's institutions. Like most military 
institutions, the U.S. School of the Americas has undergone substantial 
changes.
  I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Georgia, this 
organization is not a mistake. It leads for democracy, not against it. 
It has emerged over the Cold War period with a revitalized and 
strengthened mission that promotes democracy, civilian control of the 
military, and respect for human rights. The change in mission has 
driven a corrresponding shift in the school's curriculum.
  Today the School of the Americas emphasizes drug interdiction and 
eradication, humanitarian assistance and demining operations, civil-
military relations, ethical, legal, and operational perspectives 
pertaining to human rights, democratic issues sustainment, and the 
conduct of peacekeeping and broader operations. With that as the kind 
of curriculum, it is no wonder that the officers and men involved in 
the School of the Americas, members of the United States Army, are 
insulted when they are charged with leading to the kind of abuses that 
are suggested as coming from their graduates.
  Opponents of the school have indicted it is responsible for or 
complicit in many of the human rights abuses committed in Latin 
American countries. The facts are that in the School of the Americas 
53-year tenure, during which it has graduated over 60,000 students, a 
small fraction of 1 percent of those students have ever been linked to 
human rights violations.
  The lessons of the school did not take for these people, but probably 
nothing would have changed those evil and illegal inclinations.
  Do all the graduates of our leading religious universities and 
colleges lead exemplary lives when they graduate? Of course they do 
not. The students of the School of the Americas committed violence in 
spite of, not because of what they learned at the School of the 
Americas.
  Recent retired military officers trained at the school have included 
ten Latin American heads of State, 37 cabinet members, and over 100 
chiefs of the Armed Forces and Chiefs of Staff of the services. General 
Jaime Guzman, a graduate, the minister of defense of El Salvador, has 
made heroic strides toward the elimination of human rights abuses by 
that Nation's military forces, a force that during the 1980s numbered 
abuses in the range of 2,000 per month.
  Ironically, a direct benefit of the scrutiny of the school, including 
the scrutiny of the gentleman from Massachusetts, and I commend him for 
it, has resulted in very positive changes.
  I oppose the gentleman's amendment. I ask my colleagues to do 
likewise.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Moakley 
amendment to prohibit the continued funding of the United States Army 
School of the Americas. I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Moakley) for his courageous leadership.
  This is not pure propaganda. Those of us who defend human rights in 
the world know that the School of the Americas' training has been 
strongly connected to a deplorable amount of atrocities in the world. 
Sixty percent of the military officers cited for human rights 
violations in El Salvador by the 1992 report of the United National 
Truth Commission are School of the Americas graduates. In Columbia, 50 
percent of the 247 military officers cited for abuses in a definitive 
1998 publication are School of the Americas graduates.
  What have these graduates been taught? They have learned the most 
sophisticated ways to commit torture, excessive abuses, and kidnaps in 
the middle of the night. Some of these graduates have been connected to 
the El Mozote massacre of 800 civilians, and the rape, torture, and 
murder of four American churchwomen.
  Furthermore, the School of the Americas has been connected to the 
murder of six Jesuits priests and two women, and even to the 
assassinations of Archbishop Oscar Romero, a man who dedicated his life 
to peace.
  How much longer will we continue to fund an institution whose 
teachings have been connected to so many needless deaths and sources of 
pain for so many people? Some of the defenders of School of the 
Americas say that it is a center for counternarcotics training, but do 
not allow them to cloak this school in a feel-good explanation. Its 
graduates have been implicated time and time and time again in drug-
related crimes in Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
  Also, we must ask ourselves, what is the moral guiding principle for 
allowing the School of the Americas to remain open? The same supporters 
will state that the manuals of torture are a thing of the past and the 
curriculum has been reformed. However, they have not reformed enough. 
Only 10 percent of the School of the Americas students take part or 
attend classes in this new curriculum.
  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims a common standard 
of achievement for all peoples in all nations to the end that every 
individual and every organ of society keeping this declaration in mind 
shall strive by teaching and educating to promote these rights and 
freedoms.

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  The document also vows to, if it is essential, that human rights 
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protected by the state of the law. Surely we can discern that forced 
imprisonment, extortion, rape, torture, and murder are not a protection 
of human rights, but rather a gross violation. We have a collective 
promise to protect human rights. To allow continued funding is not 
meeting that promise. Let us take that first step by voting for the 
Moakley amendment.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Edwards).
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Chairman, I respect my Democratic colleagues who, 
for years, have expressed their concerns about the Army School of the 
Americas. Perhaps, and perhaps surely because of them, we have a better 
school today, and I respect that.
  But I would suggest that many Democrats will join with our Republican 
colleagues tonight in support of the belief that the School of the 
Americas furthers, not hurts, democracy and human rights in South 
America.
  Let me mention the statement of one Democrat to that effect. ``I am 
proud of the prominent role that the school now plays through its 
emphasis on the values of human rights and civilian control of 
military.'' ``The School of the Americas and the emphasis its 
curriculum gives human rights are an important part of our efforts to 
strengthen democratic institutions throughout Latin America.''
  That was a statement made on March 24 of this year by President Bill 
Clinton.
  What are the facts? Sixty thousand graduates of the school and a 
small percentage have been guilty of human rights abuses. Should we 
shut such a school? I would suggest not. Because if we were being fair 
and applied that same logic to American universities and colleges from 
Harvard to Stanford to the University of Texas, we would have to close 
every major university in the United States.
  Mr. Chairman, that is the problem we have and I have with our 
relations with our friends, our Latinos to the south of the United 
States. The reason they see us as big brother, and a condescending one 
at that, is because we apply one standard to ourselves and a different, 
higher standard to them. I do not think it is fair, and neither do 
they.
  The reality is the fact that democracy has grown, not shrunk, in 
Latin America over the last decade. I believe, President Clinton 
believes, many other Democrats and the Republicans believe the School 
of the Americas has played a constructive role in that progress.
  I personally have a hard time thinking that courses such as 
humanitarian mine removal, counterdrug operations, democratic 
sustainment, and human rights, train the trainer programs have been the 
cause of human rights abuses in Latin America.
  I oppose the Moakley amendment, in all due respect.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan).
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise tonight in support of the Moakley 
amendment to prohibit funding for the School of the Americas.
  No one has come to this floor to say that every graduate of the 
School of the Americas has been a murderer or has committed murders. 
But no one can deny, if the School of the Americas had a class reunion 
this weekend, it would be a gathering of some of the most unsavory 
thugs in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
  Mr. Chairman, the Cold War is long over. The primary objective of the 
United States foreign policies have changed as a result. Our focus in 
Latin America has shifted from combatting Communist insurgencies to 
supporting promising developments in democratic and civilian rule, and 
encouraging respect for human rights.
  We must adjust our policies accordingly to reflect this transition.
  Although the administrators of the School of the Americas claim that 
their curriculum has been modified to satisfy our new policy 
objectives, their arguments fail to convince me.
  Administrators are quick to point out that they have added courses 
solely devoted to teaching human rights. What their promotional 
literature fails to mention, however, is that in the 3 years since the 
course has been offered, not a single student has taken it.
  The School of the Americas claims it is instrumental in the war 
against drugs. How instrumental can their graduates be when, in 1997, 
less than 8 percent of the students took the course on 
counternarcotics.
  Four years ago, I traveled to Fort Benning, Georgia to tour the 
school myself. I was hoping to disprove the School of the Americas' 
critics. Unfortunately, I left the school unconvinced. Four years 
later, significant changes have yet to occur. Four years later, reports 
on human rights abuses in Latin America continue to implicate School of 
the Americas' graduates.
  In February of this year, the Guatemalan Truth Commission Report 
concluded that School of the Americas' counterinsurgency training 
contributed significantly to human rights abuses in that country.
  Moreover, a recently released U.S. State Department Report on Human 
Rights in Columbia links School of the Americas' graduates to abuses 
that include the July 1997 Mapiripan massacre of 30 peasants, as well 
as numerous targeted killings of civilians.
  Enough is enough. We have heard these same arguments year after year. 
We have listened to excuses and denials, yet nothing has changed.
  The time has come to close this chapter of history and move on. 
Surely, there are better ways to foster cooperative relationships with 
our peers in Latin America. The United States has an obligation to 
prove it stands for human rights and not coercion or repression.
  I urge all of my colleagues to vote in support of the Moakley 
amendment and close the School of the Americas.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Ballenger).
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts 
for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to say probably for those people that do 
not know, I probably have been to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala 
more than anybody in this Congress. I would like to say that we just 
got back a month ago on a trip where we went to Venezuela and El 
Salvador.
  I had a very interested Democrat who, everywhere we went, asked about 
the School of the Americas, the School of the Americas, the School of 
Americas, obviously looking for some statement by somebody down there 
about how bad the School of the Americas was.
  The commander of the Army in Venezuela, I thought, gave the best 
answer. He was an alumnist. He said that the best training that his 
Army got was in the School of the Americas. He spoke glowingly about 
it. He also said that there was no way that he could take his troops 
that basically had no training at all and make good soldiers out of 
them without some training outside of his own country. He really spoke 
positively about it.
  In El Salvador, the same question was put by the same person to ex-
President Alfredo Cristiani. Those of my colleagues that do not 
remember, he was the President of El Salvador when the war was really 
going hot, when the priests were killed. He was the person who kept the 
peace process going.
  In his statement to us, having been questioned about the quality or 
what was the value of the School of the Americas, he said specifically 
that he doubted that there was any possibility they would ever have had 
peace. Because before the rebels were willing to settle in El Salvador, 
the whole commanding force of the Army had to voluntarily quit. Most of 
those people that voluntarily quit and left their jobs, and I know one 
of them now who was the commander, complete commander of the Army, is 
running a filling station in El Salvador, San Salvador.
  But without the voluntary effort on their part to leave, without any 
effort to try to keep their own power and so forth and to back off and 
allow the peacemaking between the rebels and Alfredo Cristiani 
government, it is hard to believe it could have been done better.

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  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I guess we both went different places. I was in El 
Salvador at the anniversary mass of the Jesuits. After I got through 
speaking, people came up to me and said, ``How can you in the America 
who is so noted for human rights abuse keep that School of Americas 
open with the graduates who killed many of our people down here?'' I 
did not have an answer for them.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Campbell).
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts 
for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, there is a simple question I try to ask most times I 
hear about government spending. Do we need it? My colleagues do not 
have to prove that the School of the Americas is demonic. My colleagues 
just have to ask themselves, do we need it?
  There are many other uses for our taxpayers' dollars in the foreign 
assistance area that are profoundly more valuable, more important, more 
treasured by us, and more beneficial to the recipient than this. To 
make that case, my colleagues do not have to make the case of any 
indictment of the kind added to the graduates of the School of the 
Americas.
  Second point, the question has arisen as to whether the School of the 
Americas has engaged in training people to engage in atrocities 
themselves. I do not maintain that. I am not offering that as the 
premise for supporting the amendment. What I am saying is that they 
have shown a remarkable tin ear.
  How many years now have we debated the School of the Americas on the 
floor of this body and asked for reforms, asked for a mandatory course 
in human rights? As we just heard from our colleague in the well, they 
still do not have takers for their voluntary course in human rights.
  They have instituted a course. And so I did the research, and I found 
out that it is listed in the course catalog, the United States Army 
School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. This is their human 
rights course. It is a course listed as OE-1, Human Rights Train the 
Trainer Qualification Course.
  Then when we check the International Military Education and Training, 
IMET, statistics from the military training report, we find out that 
nobody took it.
  Well, the next counter is, well, there is another course, and they 
are getting around to it. This course trains the upper level staff, the 
command in general staff course. So I checked into that. It turns out 
that, yes, out of 817 students in the School of the Americas last year, 
28 were enrolled for that course. That is for the very upper level. In 
1999, again 28.
  The argument I make is simple. It is not needed. Do not spend it.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Collins).
  Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Alabama for 
yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, is the school needed? Yes, in answer to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Campbell). In answer to his comments about those 
who did not enroll in the certain human rights classes, I showed him 
evidence today, he evidently forgot it, that they have and they are.
  We have heard the Cold War is over. We have heard that about Europe. 
But we are spending billions of dollars there today. We have heard 
about the atrocities in where these people were taught. We from Georgia 
have been glued to the TV this afternoon about an atrocity we had there 
today where we have 13 people dead. I wonder where that guy learned to 
kill. Atrocities happen, especially in a time and era when one is 
changing from dictatorship to democracy. That is what has happened in 
Latin America. We have built democracies there, and now we must 
maintain them.
  Mr. Chairman, the U.S. Army School of the Americas is our Nation's 
foremost training facility for Spanish-speaking militaries and police 
forces and for U.S. military officers to be stationed in South America, 
Central America, or the Caribbean.
  The school provides training and professional military and police 
operations, drug interdiction and eradication, peacekeeping, and other 
areas critical for the post-Cold War challenges in this hemisphere.
  Every course at the school has been developed to serve the interests 
of democracy, and every student who attends the school does receive 
training in human rights. In fact, the school is widely recognized as 
having developed the foremost human rights training program available 
to any military training institution in the world, including those 
others of U.S. training centers.
  Those who suggest that the United States Army School of the Americas 
has somewhat been responsible for crimes committed by Latin American 
soldiers, and the School of the Americas is responsible, are just 
wrong. They have no way to substantiate it.
  An honest assessment of Latin American history over the last 50 years 
demonstrates clearly that the U.S. Army School of the Americas serves 
the American interest.

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  Just recently this week, the Secretary of the Army, Louis Caldera, 
made the case for the school in a Washington Times op-ed piece, and I 
would like to read the comments from the secretary, and I quote:
  ``The preponderance of the engagement with Latin American militaries 
takes place at the U.S. Army School of the Americas located at Fort 
Benning, Georgia. The courses taught at the School of the Americas are 
a reflection of our national security policy, but they are also a 
reflection of our national values. While the majority of the courses 
involved are of professional military instruction, new courses have 
been added on civilian-military relations, humanitarian mine removal 
efforts, peace operations and sustaining democracy. All courses include 
instruction in human rights and make clear that the proper role of the 
military in society is subordination to civilian control.''
  He further states: ``Instruction covers the ethical, legal and 
operational consequences of failing to respect essential standards of 
individual rights and international law regarding the legitimate use of 
force.
  ``Despite such changes, the School of the Americas is once again 
under attack from critics who claim that it trains Latin American 
militaries to violate human rights and circumvent the democratic 
process.
  ``Instead of focusing on the negative, we should examine the role of 
the vast majority of graduates who have served their nations proudly 
and professionally. For example, the key members of the delegation that 
put together the recent historic peace accord between Ecuador and Peru 
were School of the Americas graduates from Peru, Ecuador, and the 
guarantor nations of Chile and United States.
  He further states that: ``The School of the Americas receives more 
oversight than any other U.S. military school. It has undergone 
several, several,'' as mentioned by my colleague from Georgia, 12 
``separate investigations at the request of the Congress and the 
Department of Defense. Each of the investigations has found the School 
of the Americas to be in compliance with U.S. law and policy.''
  Mr. Chairman, while most of the turmoil of the 1980s has subsided in 
this region, new threats have emerged and must be addressed. With all 
the progress that has been made in the region over the last 50 years, 
it would be irresponsible to turn our backs while drug traffickers and 
terrorists chip away at freedom and democracy in Central and South 
America. It is irresponsible, irresponsible, to the democracies of 
Latin American countries and to the policy of this Nation to close the 
School of the Americas.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, once again, can the Chair inform me of how 
much time I have remaining?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) has 5 
minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has 1 
minute remaining.

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  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Michigan (Ms. Rivers).
  Ms. RIVERS. Mr. Chairman, as a child I learned a simple but accurate 
rule: You are known by the company you keep. The grizzly record amassed 
by the graduates of the School of the Americas does not reflect well on 
the United States of America or on this body, which votes to fund its 
operations year after year.
  We can no longer pretend our hands are clean when we continue to 
train those whose hands become so bloody. Even 1 day more, Mr. 
Chairman, is 1 day too many. It is time to close the School of the 
Americas.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment.
  In 1980, four U.S. churchwomen were brutally murdered in El Salvador. 
Among them was a close friend of mine, Sister Dorothy Kazel from 
Cleveland, killed by graduates of the School of the Americas.
  In 1989, six Jesuit priests were massacred in El Salvador by School 
of the Americas graduates.
  Archbishop Oscar Romero and Bishop Juan Gerardi of Guatemala were 
assassinated by School of the Americas graduates.
  Almost 1,000 citizens of the El Mozote community in El Salvador were 
massacred by School of the Americas graduates.
  In 1997, 30 peasants in the Colombian village of Mapiripan were 
massacred by School of the Americas graduates.
  If this is a school for the Americas, then Al Capone ran a social 
club for Chicago. It is time to close the school.
  In 1992, nine students and a professor were killed in Peru by School 
of the Americas graduates.
  Efrain Barnaca and U.S. citizen Michael DeVine were killed in 
Guatemala.
  Three people were innocent civilians and missionaries working for 
peace and justice, and they were brutally killed by officers who 
received their human rights training from the United States Government 
at the School of the Americas.
  Three of the five officers responsible for the ``U.S. Churchwomen's'' 
deaths, including my friend, were trained at the SOA.
  Nineteen of the 26 officers accused of the massacre of six Jesuit 
priests were graduates of the SOA.
  Two of the three officers responsible for the assassination of 
Archbishop Romero went to the SOA.
  Ten of the twelve involved in the El Mozote massacre of 1,000 people 
were SOA graduates.
  The six Peruvian officers who killed the students and their professor 
attended the SOA.
  The officer in charge at the Mapiripan massacre graduated from the 
SOA.
  And the murderer of Efrain Barnaca and U.S. citizen Michael DeVine is 
a SOA graduate.
  Unfortunately, these are only a few examples of the human rights 
abuses committed by SOA graduates. In spite of the half-hearted human 
rights instruction that the SOA claims it includes in every course, the 
State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices highlight 
more examples of SOA graduates committing human rights abuses each 
year.
  What Latin American militaries need most is a curriculum solidly 
based on human rights, civilian control of the military and democratic 
values. It's not hard to imagine why graduates who spend the majority 
of their time on military intelligence, psychological operations, 
battle staff operations, and commando courses and only eight hours of 
human rights instruction end up committing human rights violations upon 
returning to their home countries.
  As this issue comes to a vote, an InterReligious Task Force 
delegation of young Ohioans is meeting with victims of violence in El 
Salvador. They will visit the site of the Jesuit massacre and the El 
Mozote massacre. They will also visit the site where the four 
churchwomen were murdered. When they return, we will have yet another 
first-hand account of the suffering so many SOA graduates have caused.
  The young people in this group are acutely aware of the tragedies 
incited by SOA trainees. As more reports of sketchy curriculums and SOA 
graduates committing human rights abuses are revealed, this awareness 
is spreading across the country and the American people are demanding 
that this school be closed.
  It is time to stop funding of this school. If we are truly committed 
to promoting human rights around the world, we cannot continue funding 
this school and training future human rights abusers. Let's support 
justice and peace, not violence and deceit.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on Representative Moakely's 
amendment to cut funding for the SOA.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Vento).
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this amendment.
  If we sold jet fighters or arms to a country and they misused or 
abused their citizens or those around them misused those arms, we would 
stop the assistance and aid to that country. When we invest in human 
individuals and military training and we see the misuse and abuse going 
on with that, we ought to try to restrain it and limit it.
  But what are we doing here? We talk about decades-old reports. This 
is a 1999 report from the Guatemalan Truth Commission reporting on the 
conduct of School of Americas graduates. This is the 1998 U.S. State 
Department report, reporting on problems in Colombia. And what is at 
the base of it? The graduates from the School of the Americas.
  What is the answer to this particular problem from the school? It is 
a plan that lives on paper that does not live in reality. My friend 
from Nebraska raised the point that there is a human rights course. 
Nobody takes it. It is not mandated. And only one in 10 students at 
this school take any type of course that is related to peace or any of 
the other values that we are trying to profess. So they have a plan 
that lives on paper here but not in reality. They are papering over a 
very serious problem.
  This culture has not been changed. It is the same culture that has 
existed before in terms of this institution, one that fights against 
the empowerment of people, against social justice, against the 
religious voices that are speaking up in those countries where they do 
not have that freedom; against the labor unions in those countries, 
where they are trying to get power for the people; and even against the 
political system. They even complain that some of the political 
campaigning is subversive. Well, sometimes we might agree with them, 
but the fact of the matter is that this is the conduct of what is going 
on in this school over and over again.
  Are we short of higher education institutions in this country that we 
cannot bring Spanish speaking individuals into this country to receive 
the type of training they need?
  And then to bring up the issue of drugs. Well, if this is the answer 
to drugs in South America and Central America, I think we better change 
it because it is not working very well. In fact, they are almost taking 
over Colombia these days.
  So the fact of the matter is we need to face the facts and look at 
this and what is going on down here. And I know that our military and 
the people involved here have good intentions, but the road to hell is 
paved with good intentions and the road to what has happened here is 
wrong. We ought to reject this particular language in the bill, we 
ought to save the $2 million, and we ought to try to respect the rights 
and the decency of the people in South and Central America that see 
this as oppression, that see this as something where they send their 
young men into this country for training and we send them back people 
that are trained to use those tools and those skills in a way to 
suppress the democracies and the people in Central and South America.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to 
the gentleman from California (Mr. Gallegly).
  Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Chairman, as the chairman of the Subcommittee on 
the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, I 
stand in opposition to the Moakley amendment and in support of the 
School of the Americas.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to 
the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes).

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  Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  I believe that as Members of Congress, we should fully explore issues 
before making a determination as to their merits. As such, before I 
decided my position on the U.S. Army School of the Americas, I met with 
opponents of the school and I also visited the facility.
  At the school, I met with the Commandant. I met with professors--both 
U.S. military and those from elsewhere in this hemisphere. I met with 
students. I visited classes. The Army made all of the school open and 
available to me. My visit convinced me that the School of the Americas 
is providing an essential service to this nation, assisting in our 
attempts to positively influence countries throughout the Americas.
  On more than one occasion, I have personally invited many of my 
colleagues who oppose the school to visit the facility with me, but 
none have agreed to do so. On May 12, I invited many of my colleagues 
to join me for breakfast with Army Secretary Louis Caldera and School 
of the Americas Commandant Colonel Glenn Weidner. They were available 
to answer any questions Members have concerning the school. Only five 
Members came.
  Caldera and Weidner explained, among other things, that the School of 
the Americas is a U.S. Army school. It teaches the same doctrine, 
tactics, techniques, and procedures as are taught at every other Army 
school. Some of my colleagues complain that students are being taught 
war fighting skills. They are the same war fighting skills taught at 
every other Army school.
  I want you to remain mindful of all of the organizations within the 
federal government that believe the School of the Americas is a 
critical tool for promoting democracy and teaching respect for civilian 
control of a nation and respect for human rights. The Department of 
State, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 
and the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command have all 
strongly endorsed the School of the Americas as critical to our foreign 
policy in Latin America. Officials from each of these organizations 
have written strong letters of support for the school.
  Finally, before you cast a vote today to eliminate a school that has 
provided a great service to this country for more than 50 years, I 
would ask that you take the time to visit the school, or at least, take 
the time to meet with its supporters. If you have not had time to do 
so, please do not vote to kill the school at this time. Once it is 
eliminated, we cannot take that back. Instead, please vote against the 
amendment and take the time to explore this issue more fully over the 
next year. I urge you to oppose the elimination of School of the 
Americas.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time, 
and I will just close by saying that we have had, once again, this 
annual debate on the School of the Americas. Nothing new has been said. 
The situation is the same as it was last year.
  The school is doing a great service, I think, to this hemisphere. We 
are, for the first time in many decades, experiencing peace in our own 
hemisphere and, in my opinion, a lot of that is because of the efforts 
of the School of the Americas.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge the Members of Congress to vote against the 
amendment.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Chairman, I ask my colleagues to join 
together to ensure that this year's graduating class at the School of 
Americas is the School's last. Ever. After years of debate, it is time 
that we finally end the terrible legacy of the School of the Americas. 
In an era in which we are striving to strengthen democracy and respect 
for human rights in Latin America, as well as throughout the globe, we 
cannot possibly justify or tolerate a school whose students major in 
``Methods of Torture'' or ``Murder 101.''
  The School of the Americas has trained tens of thousands of military 
personnel from Latin America in combat and military strategy, only to 
send its graduates back to their home countries to commit horrible 
atrocities against innocent people. Some of the School's most infamous 
alumni include Latin American dictators such as Manual Noriega of 
Panama, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, and Hugo Banzeer of Bolivia. School 
of the Americas graduates are responsible for the murder of six Jesuit 
priests in El Salvador in 1989 and the murder of university students in 
Peru in 1992. Tyrants that we teach our youths to condemn are actually 
trained on American soil by American personnel. It is our 
responsibility to halt this hypocrisy.
  Military education doesn't have to be this way. Military schools have 
used exchange programs to allow officers around the world the 
opportunity to learn about U.S. military doctrine as well as the 
democratic process. The fact is, the Cold War is over and democracy is 
spreading throughout Latin America. The School of Americas serves no 
further purpose.
  The evidence is clear, Mr. Chairman. The School of the Americas is an 
example of military education gone wrong. How long must be deaths of 
innocent people, including American citizens, continue because of our 
support for the School of the Americas? The School must be closed for 
good.
  I urge my colleagues to cut funding to the School of the Americans 
and support the Moakley amendment.
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Chairman, earlier this year President Clinton 
traveled to Central America. Unfortunately, from Guatemala to El 
Salvador, he was forced to acknowledge and apologize for U.S. past 
mistakes in the region. Further, the School of Americas can be traced 
directly to many of the problems associated with past policy in the 
region.
  So I rise today, to encourage my colleagues to join me in supporting 
an amendment offered by Representative Moakley to close the United 
States Army School of the Americas located in Fort Benning, Georgia.
  The legacy of the School of the Americas, better known throughout 
this hemisphere as the School of Assassins, brings shame on the United 
States military and upon our nation.
  As a Georgian, I am embarrassed that the SOA is based in the State 
that I am so proud to represent.
  As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I am extremely 
frustrated by the dismissive attitude of some of our military 
establishment to the revelations that our soldiers trained others to 
murder, torture, and terrorize civilians.
  And as a woman of color, I am indignant that the School of Americas 
has played such a prominent role in the brutal oppression of people of 
color throughout the America's.
  Mr. Chairman, two weeks ago I received a ``Dear Colleague'' letter 
that featured a lengthy editorial written by former U.S. Ambassador to 
Panama Ambler Moss, stating his support for the School of the Americas. 
The editorial is representative of the misinformation being promulgated 
about the SOA and I believe that some clarification of his statement is 
in order.
  Mr. Moss writes that Members of Congress who oppose the school claim 
it is a ``school of assassins.'' In fact, it was Panamanians who dubbed 
the SOA the School of Assassins, long before SOA graduate and 
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noreiga became a guest of the State of 
Florida.
  Mr. Moss goes on to state that blaming the school for the atrocities 
of its graduates is akin to ``vilify[ing] Harvard because its alumnus 
Ted Kaczynsky'' is the Unibomber. It is an absurd comparison. I would 
suggest that if thousands of Harvard graduates went on to careers in 
murder, rape, and torture, its trustees would be in prison and its 
doors closed.
  In a rather cynical distortion of the truth, the editorial would have 
us believe that the ``new and improved'' emphasis of the training at 
the SOA is now respect for civilian control of the military and respect 
for human rights. That is false. Of the 33 courses offered at the SOA, 
only five are related to human rights or democracy and less than ten 
percent of the students took those last year. None have taken the human 
rights trainer course.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, the author notes that the ``bad name [the SOA] 
gave the United States continues to undermine our image with many Latin 
Americans of democratic persuasion.'' That, at least, he got right.
  Other myths abound about the School of the Americas. To name a few, 
some have made the claim that the SOA is critical to the war on drugs, 
but the truth is that fewer than 8% of the students took counter-
narcotics courses in 1997.
  I am particularly concerned by the counter-narcotics myth because I 
fear the war on drugs, like anti-communism before it, provides too 
convenient an excuse for turning a blind eye to gross violations of 
human rights in pursuit of our so-called just cause.
  Another pernicious myth about the SOA that is routinely touted as 
fact is that abuse by its graduates is, like the cold war, a thing of 
the past. Yet just last year a State Department report shows a SOA 
graduate commanded Columbia's notorious 20th brigade which had to be 
disbanded because of its involvement in human rights abuses including 
political assassination.
  The same report shows that another SOA graduate is under 
investigation for his complicity in the 1997 Majpiripan massacre of 30 
peasants.
  The Department of Defense is to be commended for acknowledging that 
training manuals used at the school as recently as 1991

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recommended forms of coercion against insurgents that included 
blackmail, torture and execution. However, the DOD continues to resist 
efforts by Congress to reform the School of the Americas.
  In 1995, the House Appropriations Committee strongly urged the 
Department to incorporate human rights training into the schools 
regular training curriculum and ``to rigorously screen potential 
students to make certain they have not taken part in past human rights 
abuses.''
  Unsatisfied, in 1996 the Committee included in its report to the FY 
1997 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill similar language and 
required the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
of State to prepare a report on the school by January 15, 1997.
  Still unsatisfied, in 1997 the House version of the FY 1998 foreign 
operations appropriations bill sought to cut off International Military 
Education and Training funds to be school unless the Secretary of 
Defense: (1) certified that the schools training is consistent with 
respect to human rights; (2) certified that there was adequate 
screening of prospective students and (3) provided to Congress a report 
detailing the training at the school and an assessment of its 
graduates.
  After receiving the report mandated in 1996 in June, more than six 
months late, the Committee asserted that it was ``woefully inadequate'' 
and did not respond to the Committee's specific request.
  Mr. Speaker, efforts at Congressional oversight and reform of the 
School of the Americas have been met with bureaucratic indifference, 
token reform and a substantial public relations campaign to clean up 
the schools image.
  We can no longer allow the shameful legacy of the School of the 
Americas to besmirch the honor and reputation of American soldiers, our 
nation, or the great state of Georgia.
  I urge all of my colleagues in the strongest terms, to join me in 
voting to close the School of Assassins.
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, on behalf of my constituents who have 
committed their lives to speaking out against torture and intimidation 
tactics taught at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), I rise in 
strong support of this human rights amendment which will cut funds for 
the SOA.
  Supporters of the U.S. Army School of Americas (SOA) often claim that 
human rights abuses by SOA graduates are a thing of the past. 
Unfortunately, time and time again, graduates of the SOA are cited for 
horrific acts of violence, torture and murder. The recent State 
Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998 points out 
yet another example of SOA graduates committing human rights abuses 
back home in their own countries, after receiving training at the 
expense of U.S. Taxpayers. This time it is in Colombia. Where will the 
next atrocity take place?
  Specifically, the report states that Colombian Major Hernan Orozco 
Castro, a graduate of the SOA, is under investigation by the Bogota 
government for his involvement in a July 1997 massacre of at least 30 
peasants in the village of Mapiripan. The report also describes the 
Colombian government's May 1998 disbanding of the feared ``20th 
Brigade'', led by an SOA graduate, for its involvement in human rights 
abuses, including the targeted killings of civilians.
  Such reports must be reconciled with our conscience and policy to 
determine if our tax dollars should go to train Latin American military 
and police forces. U.S. education and training programs, whether 
military of civilian, have a paramount responsibility to uphold the 
ideals of social justice and promote basic human rights.
  Under intense scrutiny, the Defense Department has claimed that it 
has cleaned up the SOA. Unfortunately, these reforms are only cosmetic 
at best. Since 1997, when the SOA first taught its one and only human 
rights course in Paraguay as a pilot program, not one student has taken 
the course. Entitled ``Human Rights Train-the-Trainer Qualification 
Course,'' this human rights course is not a required course--no course 
is--and it was taught only once in Paraguay, not at Ft. Benning, 
Georgia. Moreover, the School retains this courses on its list of 
available courses to this day, even though the class is not taught 
anymore. If the SOA leadership truly believed in human rights 
instruction, it would offer a separate, mandatory course taught at the 
school in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
  Try as it may, the SOA cannot re-invent itself. It is time to close 
the door on this chapter of violence. The SOA is a tragically failed 
education effort. There are numerous U.S. institutions of higher 
education that excel at preparing students from abroad to promote the 
democratic values and safeguards fundamental to a free society. For the 
sake of the people of Latin America and the United States, we must 
close the SOA. I urge all my colleagues to vote yes on the Moakley 
Amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 263, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Moakley) will be postponed.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my demand for a recorded vote.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 263, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Moakley) will be postponed.


                  Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Pitts

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

       Part B amendment No. 3 printed in House Report 106-269 
     offered by Mr. Pitts:
       Page 116, after line 5, insert the following:


         limitation on child survival and disease programs fund

       Sec.  . None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act in title II, under the heading ``CHILD 
     SURVIVAL AND DISEASE PROGRAMS FUND'' may be used for programs 
     and activities designed to control fertility or to reduce or 
     delay childbirths or pregnancies (except breastfeeding 
     programs).

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 263, the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) and a Member opposed each will control 10 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today to urge the House to pass my child 
survival protection amendment to the foreign ops appropriations bill.
  This amendment is simple, it is rational, and it represents taxpayer 
honesty. It is one that many on both sides of the aisle can vote for. 
Simply, it puts a firewall around child survival funding, stating that 
child survival funds should be used for child survival, to save lives 
of children, and not be used for population control.
  This is merely honesty in budgeting, honesty in appropriations. Money 
appropriated for child survival should be used for child survival. 
Money appropriated for population control should be used for population 
control.
  Many of my colleagues might not be familiar with the child survival 
program. Let me take a few minutes to give some background. In 
developing countries, more than 12 million children under the age of 5 
die each year of easily preventable diseases. This is the equivalent of 
half of the children under 5 in America dying in a single year. It is 
an enormous number of children. It is tragic.
  The child survival funds in the foreign ops bill were created to help 
these children live long enough to celebrate even their fifth birthday. 
Children in developing countries die every day of illnesses that would 
never be fatal to our children here in America, things like 
dehydration, measles, pneumonia, malaria, respiratory infections. Our 
children do not die of these things because we have access to 
medicines, immunizations, and clean water. But poor mothers around the 
world are often helpless to provide this care for their children, and 
that is why child survival funding is absolutely essential.
  Just take a look at this chart, which details the simple ways that 
child survival funds can literally save millions of lives of the most 
helpless people around the world, the children.
  First, seven cents. That is all it costs for oral rehydration salts 
that can save a child from dying of dehydration that has dysentery. 
Nearly 2 million children die of that a year.

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  Fifteen dollars provides a child with immunization against six major 
childhood diseases. Two million more children die of those around the 
world.
  Six cents can provide three vitamin A capsules to save a child from 
going blind. One hundred million children suffer from this deficiency.
  Fifteen dollars, a bed net, protects a child from malaria. More than 
a million children a year die from malaria.
  Twenty-five cents could provide proper antibiotics to treat 
pneumonia. Two million children die of that.
  One dollar and seventy cents improves sanitation to prevent water-
borne diseases. Three million children die from that.
  I think my colleagues can see what common sense some of these 
solutions are that have the potential for tremendous impact. What this 
chart also shows is that the current amount of funds appropriated for 
these treatments in child survival, $215 million, is grossly inadequate 
to meet the needs of dying children around the world.
  Mr. Chairman, that is why every dollar we are currently designating 
for child survival must go directly for that, child survival. There are 
reports that child survival funds have been used to promote population 
control. Mr. Chairman, this robs children of live saving treatments.
  Simply stated, this amendment seeks to prevent that from happening. 
It ensures that child survival funding is used for child survival. We 
already have $385 million for population control which can be used for 
family planning purposes. Child survival funds should and must be used 
for the purpose for which they are appropriated.
  It is a simple amendment, it is taxpayer honesty, but in a very real 
sense it is a life and death issue for millions of children around the 
globe. Mr. Chairman, I urge the Members to support the child survival 
protection amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) seek 
to claim the time in opposition?
  Ms. PELOSI. I do, Mr. Chairman.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) is 
recognized for 10 minutes.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Levin).

                              {time}  2215

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Chairman, in the late 1970s I was in charge of 
administering the International Voluntary Population programs of this 
country. The big battle in those days was whether population programs 
should be integrated so that programs relating to family planning be 
integrated with health, with programs relating to the role of women, 
with programs relating to maternal child health, also programs relating 
to the role of men in the family.
  There were those who wanted to build a brick wall between population 
programs, family planning programs, and other programs, including 
health programs.
  Those who believed in integration won that battle. Those who thought 
that the only answer was availability of contraceptives lost that 
battle.
  In the last decade, more and more the world has come to accept the 
interrelationship between family planning programs and other population 
programs, including maternal child health programs.
  Well, here we are now with an amendment that tries to build a brick 
wall between population programs and child survival programs.
  The truth of the matter is that that wall is as fallacious as the 
wall some tried to build 20 years ago between population and health 
programs. We are doing this in reverse. The spacing of children is a 
program that deeply relates to the health of children, period. The 
evidence is clear on that. It is a dreadful mistake to now say that 
child survival should not include anything that relates, for example, 
to birth spacing.
  Let me read from a statement by CARE and Save the Children. And by 
the way, if any organizations know about child survival, it is CARE and 
Save the Children. They say, this latest amendment ``fails to 
appreciate both the integrated nature of maternal and child health 
services and the important role of birth spacing in improving child 
survival. Imposing this restriction would be impractical from a program 
implementation standpoint and would undermine rather than enhance 
access to this small but critical component of child survival 
programs,'' signed by the president of CARE and the president of Save 
the Children.
  This is truly a misguided amendment. I do not think anybody is saying 
that child survival funds are going in large numbers to programs 
relating, for example, to the spacing of children.
  Let us take a second look. This issue is not one related to abortion, 
for example. Indeed birth spacing cuts down the number of abortions, 
the evidence is clear. This is a question of whether we look at 
programs in a comprehensive way or try to chop them in pieces and build 
walls between them.
  Do not do it. It is a mistake. There is no evidence of abuse. I do 
not know any organization that cares about kids internationally that is 
supporting this amendment.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds to respond.
  Mr. Chairman, this discussion is not about birth spacing. However, I 
have made an exception for breast feeding programs in this amendment, 
an exception that probably was not necessary. But I want to make it 
clear that since breast feeding programs are designed to improve 
nutrition and health of children and incidentally have an effect in 
birth spacing, these programs do not apply as programs designed to 
control fertility or reduce or delay pregnancies. So children are given 
proper nutrition and births are spaced as a by-product.
  Just to remind my colleague, any other population control effort can 
be funded out of the $385 million provided.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. 
Tiahrt).
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for 
yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) has crafted 
an amendment to protect child survival funding from being detoured to 
other purposes.
  This is not a misguided amendment. This is an amendment that provides 
integrity to the program's funds. But why do we want to do this? Why do 
we want to protect this? Every year more than 12 million children in 
developing countries die from easily preventable diseases.
  That is like seeing one out of two children under the age 5 years 
here in the United States die from malnourishment or from a disease 
that could be easily prevented.
  For seven cents we can provide oral rehydration salts. For $15 we 
could provide immunization for the six major childhood diseases. For 
six cents we can provide Vitamin A capsules. For $15 we can do 
something to help kids get a net to protect them from malaria.
  When we have the opportunity to go to these Third World countries and 
preserve a quality of life for these kids, we should not turn our backs 
on it. We should not allow this money to be diverted to another 
purpose.
  I have been to Third World countries, and I have seen it be diverted. 
I think it is important that we vote for the Pitts amendment. I request 
my colleagues to do that.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 3 minutes.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Pitts amendment.
  The Pitts amendment, as has been mentioned, prohibits use of child 
survival funding for programs designed to control ``fertility or reduce 
or delay childbirth or pregnancy except breast feeding programs.''
  This amendment is offered under the inaccurate assumption that the 
child survival fund which is used to counsel women on health choices is 
an inappropriate use of this funding.
  It is time for people to realize the simple fact that we cannot 
separate the health of the mother from the health and well being of the 
child.

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  I have this chart. It is hard to read, but I will try to walk my 
colleagues through it because it demonstrates very clearly why this is 
a dangerous amendment.
  While we may be talking politics here and theorizing, the reality is 
in the Third World. It shows on this chart that in Zambia, for example, 
when children are spaced 2 years apart, the mortality rate is higher 
than if they are spaced farther apart.
  Now, do not think of 2 years in the United States. Think of 2 years 
in the developing world. Do not think of my children. I had five 
children in 6 years, I mean almost to the day, in a very comfortable, 
secure, nourishing atmosphere. But this is the complete opposite of 
that. So I do know a little bit about of what I speak.
  Then if we go to Tanzania, we see on the chart, 4 months the 
mortality rate is the red line. Four to 5 months, we see the purple 
line, the mortality rate goes down. We get to 48 months plus and the 
mortality rate is much lower.
  So these funds from the child survival account are very, very 
important to child survival. That is what we are demonstrating here.
  Now, the gentleman says this counseling can be done out of the 
Population Fund. Exactly. And that is what this amendment is about, 
reducing the funds available for population funding, family planning. 
That is what this amendment is about. Yes, it is important.
  My colleagues cannot tell me that they do not recognize the 
importance of counseling on spacing of children and how that decreases 
the mortality rate. But, yes, that is important. Take it out of the 
family planning money.
  That, my colleagues, is the essence of this amendment, indirect but 
very, very direct. Indirect in theory but direct in impact assault on 
the family planning funding.
  For that reason, I urge my colleagues to vote against the Pitts 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time remains?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) has 4\1/2\ 
minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) has 
3\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn).
  Mr. COBURN. Mr. Chairman, the sign we just saw was accurate. There is 
no question about it. But the one thing that the gentlewoman from 
California fails to ignore, if we are holding a baby in our arms, like 
I have in Haiti and in Iraq, and the dollars are not there to care for 
them, it does not matter if they are going to have another baby because 
the baby that is there is going to die.
  That is what this amendment is really about is whether or not we are 
going to fund the vaccines, the fluids, and the care for the children 
that are already born.
  She is absolutely right. If we can extend the time between 
pregnancies, we do enhance the likelihood of living beyond 5. But 
remember, 40 percent of the children in Haiti now die under 5 anyway. 
Haiti, in our hemisphere, 40 percent are gone. Why? Because we are not 
supplying the needs of those children with the funds that we have 
today.
  So I have been to Haiti. I have served time. I have experienced what 
has happened there. I have been to the Kurdish land in northern Iraq. I 
experienced what happened there. We do not supply the needs for the 
children that are alive today.
  There is nothing wrong with this amendment that cannot help 
accomplish both what the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) would 
desire and help those children who presently we are not helping.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey).
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I would like to make this point to my 
colleagues that our child survival program has for nearly 15 years 
worked hand in hand with our family planning program, for one very good 
reason, they both share the goal of advancing the health and well being 
of children and families.
  When Congress created the child survival legislation, it recognized 
the relationship between educating women on safe motherhood and child 
survival. So educating women about the importance of good nutrition, 
getting immunized, spacing their pregnancies has been part of USAID 
child survival work.
  Safe motherhood education makes up approximately 5 percent of child 
survival counseling funds. These funds are not used for contraceptives. 
Planning pregnancies is one of the most powerful and effective child 
survival tools in existence.
  Postponing early, high-risk pregnancies, giving women's body a chance 
to recover from a previous pregnancy, and helping women to avoid 
unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortion can prevent at least one in 
four maternal deaths.
  We hear again and again that women die from having children too 
young, having children too closely spaced together, and by having more 
children than their bodies can bear. Getting that message across to 
women is an integral part of child survival because healthier mothers 
will be better able to care for their children. And children born to 
mothers who wait 2 years before births have a much stronger chance of 
survival than those born to moms whose births fall less than 2 years 
apart.
  Giving women this information can save children's lives, can save 
women's lives. We know from our own experience that this is true.
  Just last month I joined with the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. 
Emerson) and a group of diverse Members, pro-choice, pro-life, 
Republican, Democrat, urban and rural, on a safe motherhood initiative 
in our own country.
  We confront the same challenges in keeping women healthy that women 
face around the world, although not to the same degree.
  Therefore, I urge my colleagues to oppose this misguided amendment.
  We should be doing all we can to encourage and reinforce the messages 
of safe motherhood and child survival. The Pitts Amendment would split 
these efforts and undermine our struggles to help both mother and 
child.
  I urge you to oppose this misguided amendment.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) has $385 
million to do that. We are not cutting family planning.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from South Carolina 
(Mr. DeMint).
  Mr. DeMINT. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the child 
survival protection amendment.
  After hearing the debate tonight, I wonder if maybe we should 
integrate the whole foreign operations appropriation bill into family 
planning.
  I just have to say to my colleagues, we spend so much time on these 
appropriations bills identifying needs in foreign countries and we put 
them in the categories that are important to us as a Nation; and now we 
are saying this does not matter what category we put it in.

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  There are 1 million children that we know could be saved each year if 
the vitamins and nutrition and the medicine and the IVs would only be 
used for what we appropriate them for.
  All we are asking is to do what we say we are going to do, to have 
some honesty in the appropriations. I urge my colleagues to vote for 
the gentleman from Pennsylvania's amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) has 2 
minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) has 
1\1/2\ minutes remaining and the right to close.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Hayes).
  Mr. HAYES. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for 
offering this very important amendment which does direct the attention

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at the needs of children, making sure that the born and the unborn 
children are given the proper attention and the sanctity of life is 
preserved.
  I urge your support for the Pitts amendment. It is the right thing to 
do.
  Mr. Chairman, I support the child survival protection amendment 
offered by Mr. Pitts. This amendment does not cost the taxpayers any 
more money. This amendment assures the funding that we are currently 
sending overseas is used to save children's lives rather than terminate 
them. Children in third world countries are dying of diseases such as 
polio and dysentery, diseases our children in the United States will 
never have to worry about due to the advancesments in the American 
health care. But in developing countries, where public health standards 
are far inferior to ours, over 12 million children under the age of 5 
die of these easily preventable diseases and malnutrition year. We are 
currently sending $385 million overseas for population control. We need 
to ensure these funds are used for the purposes which they were 
intended, saving children from diseases and malnutrition. Child 
Survival Funding provides oral re-hydration salts, immunization for 
childhood diseases, and vitamins and nutrition supplements. I ask my 
colleagues to support the Child Survival amendment, and stand firm for 
the lives of children around the world.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, every day 33,000 children die 
from preventable causes. The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has 
done hard work on this over the years. I have worked on this. The 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey) just mentioned a moment ago, 15 
years ago.
  A little over 15 years ago, I joined with the gentleman from Ohio 
(Mr. Hall) and Gus Yatron not only in providing money for child 
survival, but in saving it. It was going to be zeroed out, and I 
offered the amendment to put it at $50 million that passed and went on 
to become law. But that is past.
  We now know that there is so little money going to some of the most 
important aspects of child survival, and we need to make sure that 
there is a fire wall. Yes, money can be drawn down, the $385 million, 
and used in a way that works side by side with child survival money, 
but this very small amount of money--support for immunization, $25 
million, that is all that is in this budget. Kids are dying from 
preventable diseases every day and we put a mere $25 million into that 
budget. That is outrageous. These kids are dying.
  I would hope that we would at least make sure that from this scarce 
fund, these what we call direct impact programs, get this modest amount 
of money. Yes, it can work side by side with the family planning money, 
but let us not use or divert any additional moneys that could be used 
to immunize a kid from tetanus, from all of these preventable diseases, 
and also the oral rehydration salts that can save a child from diarrhea 
which is the leading killer of children around the world.
  I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania has a very, very laudable 
amendment. It says there are different funds. Why should we put at risk 
this minimal amount of money, this modest amount of money used for 
these important goals? We have got the other money in the other spigot 
for family planning. I urge support for the Pitts amendment.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, completely agreeing with the gentleman from 
New Jersey that much more money needs to be in this bill, I am pleased 
to yield the balance of my time to the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Mrs. Johnson).
  Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman 
from California for yielding me the time.
  This is a sad moment. We are one of the most educated nations in the 
world. We spent decades teaching American women that spacing your 
children creates healthier babies and healthier mothers, enables you to 
nurture your children and support them economically. And now we are 
going to deny money to other countries where women and families are 
poorer so that they will be denied the opportunity to learn how to 
manage their fertility and space their children. It is an outrage, an 
outrage.
  We all know the figures. Children who are born 10 months after the 
preceding sibling die far more often than children born 2 years apart. 
Why do we not want women in these other nations to have the knowledge 
to control their fertility and space their children? It has made 
stronger, healthier families in America, and it has made better, 
healthier children with greater opportunity.
  I urge opposition to this amendment.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. I yield to the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. LEVIN. The gentlewoman from Connecticut was so eloquent, I 
hesitate to say anything. We fought to integrate family planning and 
health programs with the support of a number of people in this place. 
Now what you are doing is standing up and saying tear them apart. The 
gentlewoman is 100 percent right. Let us defeat this amendment.
  Mr. BARCIA. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the amendment 
offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, which will ensure the 
health and security of children around the world. This amendment will 
make certain that money designated for child survival in foreign 
countries will be spent on programs that directly contribute to child 
survival--not population control. In this day of medical technology, 
millions of children in developing countries die each year from 
diseases that simple treatments can easily prevent. Our money should be 
spent on immunizations and medicine that will end these senseless 
deaths. This amendment protects children and spends our tax dollars 
responsibly. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the Pitts 
Amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 263, further proceedings 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) 
will be postponed.


                  Amendments Offered by Mr. Traficant

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, I offer two amendments, and I ask 
unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate and report the amendments.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 2 offered by Mr. Traficant:
       At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
     (preceding the short title) the following new sections:
       Sec.__. Of the funds appropriated in title II of this Act 
     under the heading ``Assistance for the Independent States of 
     the Former Soviet Union'', not more than $172,000,000 shall 
     be available for the Government of the Russian Federation.

  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Traficant:
       Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated in titles I, II, or 
     III of this Act may be made available to the government of 
     any foreign country if the funds are to be used to purchase 
     any equipment or product made in a country other than such 
     foreign country or the United States of America.

  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Ohio to consideration of the amendments en bloc?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TRAFICANT. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, we have worked very closely with the 
gentleman. We are going to agree with his amendments. But at this point 
we would like to limit the debate to the fewest number of minutes that 
we possibly can so we can hopefully finish this bill by 11:59 tonight.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Chairman, the first amendment sets a cap on aid to 
Russia for dismantling of their nuclear weapons at $172 million.
  The second amendment says very simply, in the aid that we give to 
these foreign countries, if they cannot make the product or buy it in 
their own country, they shall buy it in America.

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  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendments offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant).
  The amendments were agreed to.


                  Amendment Offered by Mr. Rohrabacher

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

       Amendment offered by Mr. Rohrabacher:
       Page 104, beginning on line 19, strike ``: Provided,'' and 
     all that follows through line 21 and insert a period.

  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Chairman, I rise to amend section 573 of H.R. 
2606 that would assure that all U.S. funds appropriated by this act for 
Cambodia, including humanitarian and education programs, are 
distributed through nongovernmental agencies.
  The government of Cambodia, led by former Khmer Rouge field commander 
Hen Sen, a brigade commander under Pol Pot, who was up to his elbows in 
blood during the Pol Pot massacres, is notorious for corruption and 
mismanagement. In fact, the most highly acclaimed internationally 
funded aid program for land mine clearing, run by the Cambodian 
government, has just been exposed for rampant graft and corruption. 
Even after the corruption was exposed, no effort has been made to 
replace the government officials running that program.
  Respected international human rights organizations, including Amnesty 
International, Human Rights Watch and others have issued a recent 
report citing continued rampant abuses by the Cambodian government. 
Unfortunately, the inclusion of Prince Ranariddh and his Funcinpec 
party in a coalition led by Hun Sen has not reduced this corruption. It 
is not the job of the United States Government to pay for government-
run education systems in Cambodia when they are led by a government 
that is controlled by a member of Pol Pot's murderous band. However, we 
can support NGOs who do not take orders from the likes of Hun Sen and 
the likes of these gangsters.
  In the authorization bill for this, we went out of our way to make 
sure that the money authorized for Cambodia, all of it, would not be 
put under the control of Hun Sen, this gangster. But for whatever 
reason it ended up, the language was changed here in the appropriations 
bill, so we are just asking to strike the language there so that no 
money is going to be going to that corrupt and vicious tyrant.
  My amendment will not reduce the amount of U.S. funding for Cambodia. 
However, it will assure that U.S. tax dollars intended to assist the 
needy of Cambodia and to assist in education projects go to fund 
education projects by NGOs which will assure that the money is spent to 
assist the Cambodian people and not end up in some Swiss bank account.
  This amendment sends a strong message to Hun Sen and Prince Ranariddh 
and a message that honest, efficient government is required in order to 
receive American aid. This amendment also sends a strong message to the 
people of Cambodia that the United States has not abandoned them or 
their courageous struggle for democracy and clean and honest 
government.
  Mr. Chairman, I have been to Cambodia numerous times. I know the 
players there. I have met Mr. Hun Sen on many occasions as I have 
Prince Ranariddh and the other leaders in Cambodia. I am appalled that 
after the hard work that we did in the authorization committee, to 
ensure the language so that this field commander for Pol Pot who has 
murdered his way into power in Cambodia, that we assure that the money 
that we are going to give to Cambodia would not end up in his hands and 
now that language has been changed for whatever reason in a way that 
the money could end up, instead of in the hands of worthy 
organizations, nongovernmental organizations, charitable organizations 
committed to the people of Cambodia, instead of going to them, it may 
end up in the hands of this government that has proven itself corrupt 
over and over again, not to mention brutal and the rest.
  The crimes of Hun Sen are unbelievable and the fact that, yes, he 
went through a recent election. As the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. 
Bereuter) and others in the Committee on International Relations can 
testify, it is beyond belief that we have permitted Hun Sen to 
manipulate the system such that he is still in power after all of these 
years. But the last thing we want to do, especially as the corruption 
level in Cambodia is so high, is to provide the money that should be 
going to the Cambodian people to this corrupt regime. I ask for support 
for my amendment.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I visited Cambodia in April. I spent a lot of time not 
only in the capital but outside in the rural areas. I found that the 
legacy of illiteracy and malnutrition that Pol Pot has left the 
Cambodian people is still there, it is so much there that it is 
unbelievable, of the statistics, as you see and witness the people in 
the countryside.
  In Cambodia's countryside, four out of five people cannot read or 
write. Just one in four children is in school. And hunger and 
malnutrition, caused in part because their uneducated parents cannot 
escape terrible poverty, is among the highest in the world.
  This widespread lack of education ensures that Cambodians will not be 
able to make much of their lives. They will not be able to feed their 
families. They will not be able to take advantage of their country's 
position at the crossroads of a vibrant regional economy.
  Cambodia has many problems. But when you see the situation of its 
people, it is hard to know where to start trying to help.
  The scourge of AIDS is spreading like wildfire in Cambodia. Land 
mines have left Cambodia the place with more people killed and maimed 
per capita than anywhere else in the world. There are very few roads to 
get farmers' products to market. And, 20 years after the Khmer Rouge 
bloody rein ended, there has been no justice for its victims or their 
children.

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  The grandchildren of the victims of the Khmer Rouge are the best hope 
for Cambodia's future, and the best way to help Cambodia is with them, 
by assisting and educating them, by ensuring that they are protected 
from disease, by helping to feed the majority who are so malnourished 
that their bodies are stunted.
  This bill does not earmark additional funding for Cambodia, although 
the drop from $37 million to $12 million in spending over the past 2 
years may have warranted that. But this bill will enable our embassy to 
re-start programs like one undertaken by well-respected American 
charities. In April 1996, more than a year before the coup, the World 
Learning, the World Education, Save The Children and the International 
Rescue Committee began a project to train Cambodian primary school 
teachers. This is where the money goes. Does not go to the government, 
does not go through the government. This project received no funds from 
the Cambodian government, it did not rely on its ministries to 
implement the work. It benefited the children of Cambodia and the rural 
areas that are home to 87 percent of the Cambodian people. 
Unfortunately, this project was suspended.
  Mr. Chairman, all that is required of us today is to affirm that 
humanitarian aid still means educating young children so that they can 
escape the poverty they were born into, and all that is called for is 
our acceptance that helping people help themselves is one of the best 
ways to invest our aid dollars.
  That is all I have to say about this, Mr. Chairman. I rise certainly 
in opposition to this amendment. It is an unfair amendment. I venture 
to say that the gentleman has not gone into the countryside and seen 
that four out of five of the children are not educated, the schools 
have been closed, and one of the best things that we can do is provide 
humanitarian assistance.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman does not know the extent 
of my travels in Cambodia, I will

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just say that, and this gentleman has no problem with money going to 
those private organizations to accomplish the goals the gentleman was 
talking about. All we are talking about is language that is changed in 
this bill that will send that money to the Cambodian government to 
accomplish those ends, and we have no faith in the Cambodian 
government.
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I would just say to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) that the money will go to the private 
voluntary organizations, the organizations that are already there. It 
will be monitored by our embassy that is in Cambodia; I trust them. We 
do basic education in many countries of the world with regimes that we 
do not necessarily get along with. This is nothing new. The fact is 
that four out of the five children that the gentleman from California 
says that he saw in the rural areas, which I find hard to believe that 
he saw it, schools are closed, the Pol Pot legacy still lives on, and 
the gentleman wants to keep them this way, and that is what basic 
education is all about. It is a humanitarian resource that we are very 
good at, and the gentleman from California is not permitting it with 
this amendment.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word and rise 
in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Rohrabacher).
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Rohrabacher amendment, 
and I am pleased to support it.
  As my colleagues know, as I was listening to the gentleman from Ohio 
(Mr. Hall), he spoke movingly about the conditions in Cambodia, and I 
have no doubt that he and the gentleman from California have both seen 
the same deplorable conditions that exist there, but there seems to be 
something missing here. It seems we are talking beyond each other.
  There is no intent of the gentleman from California, I am sure, there 
is no intent of this gentleman to stop any funds from going to assist 
the people in Cambodia. In fact, I think the three of us might agree we 
ought to be giving more resources to help the people in Cambodia.
  What the gentleman from California is attempting to do is assure that 
no U.S. taxpayers funds goes to the government of Cambodia, and that is 
what this Congress did last year in the appropriation measure, because 
this gentleman offered the amendment. We eliminated the possibility of 
money going to the Cambodian government. We want it to go through those 
NGOs where my colleagues saw the good work being done, and there is 
nothing to keep AID or any other institution of American government 
from providing authorized funds which are appropriated to 
nongovernmental organizations for valid purposes in Cambodia. And in 
fact, the authorizing committee has taken this step as well.
  Now I would like to say the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Rohrabacher) is exactly right in the way he has characterized the 
outrageous people that run that government. We ought not be putting one 
cent of the taxpayers' money into that government. When we do, we send 
exactly the wrong message, that we tolerate the kind of murderous 
people that are running that country. That is something I tell my 
colleagues as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific 
this government ought not do, and that is the direction we have given 
to the Executive Branch.
  Now let me give my colleagues one example of how the government of 
Cambodia is using some of the funds today. Let us talk about the 
Cambodian Mine Action Center. About one out of every 250 people in 
Cambodia have been injured or killed by mines, and it is a serious 
problem, there is no doubt about that.
  Well, according to reports in the Australian, the newspaper, one of 
the most prestigious newspapers in Australia, according to the South 
China Morning Post, the most important newspaper in Hong Kong, the 
nepotism, the corruption that has existed in this mining program where 
the leaders of that government are directing funds to go to demine the 
land of their cronies, of their political people from the Pol Pot 
regime is outrageous. Of the $12 million that are spent so far, at 
least 1 million, 1.3 million, has been spent corruptly. In fact, the 
executive director of that agency admitted in a press release that at 
least a half a million dollars of it had been spent in that fashion.
  And we have colleagues in the most prestigious academic institutions 
in this country with specialists on Cambodia which will verify that a 
minimum of one-tenth of the money on that government-run program to 
demine is being misused for the advantage of the cronies of the 
government.
  Now that is the way the Cambodian government uses their money. That 
is the way they take the international funds. Fortunately, it is not 
involving U.S. funds because we have acted.
  Now both of these newspapers have reported that we have held up $1 
million. Our ambassador in Phnom Penh held up $1 million plus to keep 
it from going to this corrupt entity of the Cambodian government.
  Mr. Chairman, my colleague's instincts were right last Congress, they 
are right in the authorizing committee. We stripped, eliminate, 
prohibit any funds from going to Cambodian government, and, if my 
colleagues will, send a lot more to help the people of Cambodia through 
NGOs.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman).
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the gentleman's 
comments. They are right on the point, and I also rise in support of 
the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) in trying to prevent 
any of the funds in this measure to go to the government of Cambodia, 
and I think, if the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall) will re-read the 
measure, he will note that the language permits funding in this measure 
to go to the government of Cambodia. We want it to go to the NGOs, we 
want to help the people in Cambodia, but we do not want it to get into 
the wrong hands.
  Prime Minister Hun Sen is a dictator who was once an active member of 
the Khmer Rouge and it is alleged he stole the election in Cambodia. He 
is also alleged to have been linked to a recent assassination attempt 
against the democratic opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Eighteen people 
and an IRI worker were injured and killed in that recent attempt, and 
last year during the election 124 opposition election workers were 
murdered.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter) 
has expired.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Bereuter was allowed to proceed for 1 
additional minute.)
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Gilman).
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, Hun Sen's government cannot be trusted, we 
must not permit our money to be wasted. Current law permits the money 
to be given to the NGOs in Cambodia. Let us not change the law and 
allow the money to go into the wrong hands.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman for 
his support for the Rohrabacher amendment. I urge my colleagues to 
support the Rohrabacher amendment to prohibit aid from going to the 
corrupt murderous government of Cambodia.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Andrews

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

       Amendment No. 6 offered by Mr. Andrews: Page 116, after 
     line 5, insert the following:


               PROHIBITION ON FUNDS FOR NEW OPIC PROJECTS

       Sec. 585. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, after 
     the enactment of this Act, for the issuance of any new 
     guarantee, insurance, reinsurance, or financing, or for 
     initiating any other activity which the Corporation is 
     otherwise authorized to undertake.


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  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Chairman, the purpose of this amendment is to put a 
stop to a program that I believe is corporate welfare, pure and simple. 
We have heard on this floor tonight some agonizing debates about 
spending small amounts of money for vaccinations, for child health, for 
family planning, and those are difficult questions for us to answer.
  I would suspend if the Chair wishes me to suspend.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I want to reserve a point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey may proceed.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Chairman, who among us has not had to face some 
agonizing and difficult questions as constituents come to us and talk 
about their lack of health insurance, or they talk about their lack of 
employment, or they talk about their lack of housing. I think those 
same constituents would be astonished, astonished to find that the full 
faith and credit of the United States Government, their tax money, 
stands behind private investments in foreign countries by the McDonalds 
Corporation, by Du Pont, by CitiCorp, by some of the largest and most 
powerful corporations in America.
  The President of the United States, Mr. Chairman, said very 
articulately a few years ago that it was his goal to end welfare as we 
know it. Tonight in this amendment we have the chance to begin the 
process of ending corporate welfare as we know it.
  Now there will be those who will object to this amendment and say we 
just cannot pull the plug on the OPIC program all at once, it would 
cause chaos, and that is not what this amendment does. This amendment 
says that no funds under this bill may be used to authorize new 
expenditures, new loan guarantees, new insurance policies. It says to 
OPIC that they must stop with the deals they have already done.
  And let me make a procedural point. My colleagues very often hear 
that these appropriations bills are not the proper forum to decide 
policy questions, and I generally agree with that. Let me point out to 
my colleagues that OPIC was not reauthorized through the regular 
process, and I believe it is a prudent thing for us to do to stop the 
activities of this corporate welfare agency in its tracks and permit an 
authorizing bill to come to this floor so that those of us who believe 
that the OPIC program should be organized in a different way or done 
away with, as I believe, would have the opportunity to fully debate 
that question.
  Mr. Chairman, this is an opportunity for us to say that the programs 
that have been done thus far should continue as they wind down, but 
that no new loans, no new guarantees, no new authority should be issued 
on behalf of the taxpayers of this country to the wealthiest and most 
powerful corporations in this country to invest overseas. There are far 
better uses of our tax dollars than for Uncle Sam to become a risky 
international venture capitalist.
  Support of this amendment which I am proud to offer with my 
Republican colleague, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford), 
my independent colleague, the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and 
supported by fine Members like the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Royce) would accomplish what I have just suggested.
  It would stop the programs of OPIC in their tracks. It would permit 
us to come forward and debate a reauthorization at the proper time, and 
it would save the taxpayers money. The Congressional Budget Office has 
estimated that cessation of OPIC's activities would save the Federal 
taxpayers $296 million over the course of the first 5 years.
  Let us end corporate welfare as we know it. I urge my colleagues to 
support this amendment and put a stop to this corporate welfare.

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  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I continue to reserve my point of order.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would inform the gentleman that the gentleman 
attempted to reserve a point of order after the gentleman from New 
Jersey began to debate his amendment, which was not a timely 
reservation.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment. OPIC, as we have 
heard, offers insurance and credit services to American companies 
operating overseas, and for me, having our government provide these 
services is just not defensible. The U.S. has the most efficient 
financial markets in the world. The simple fact is that American 
businesses receiving OPIC services could receive these same services 
from the private financial markets. OPIC provides insurance; so does 
the American private sector. In fact, 2 years ago, a consortium of 
private insurers submitted to Congress a proposal to privatize 5 
billion of OPIC's insurance options.
  The U.S. private sector wants to offer American businesses the very 
same services that OPIC is providing. In other words, the U.S. private 
sector wants to put OPIC out of business. So why is Congress standing 
in the way?
  We hear that OPIC offers American companies insurance backed with the 
full faith and credit of the United States Government. This supposedly 
tells foreign governments that Uncle Sam is serious about protecting 
OPIC-backed investments. Is that the signal we want to send, that the 
protection of some American businesses abroad, those formerly backed by 
OPIC, matter more than non-OPIC American investments. We should be in 
the business of protecting all American investments. OPIC backs 
investment funds; so does the American private sector. OPIC has a south 
Asia capital fund. Well, so does T. Rowe Price. It has a new Asia fund, 
and so do many other private companies. Just look at the financial 
pages of the newspaper. There are hundreds of capital funds devoted to 
the developing world. Mr. Chairman, 150 billion in private capital 
flows to emerging markets every year, so why in the world is OPIC 
playing in the capital fund field?
  Mr. Chairman, this debate is really about whether we believe in the 
market, or whether we believe that American businesses should be guided 
by the government. OPIC claims that there is no way right now that the 
private sector on its own can go into many regions that the U.S. wants 
them to go into, and this means, of course, going where U.S. Government 
agencies want American companies to go. Are U.S. businesses really 
there to be directed to where Washington wants them to go? I do not 
think so.
  I would also dispute the notion that the American private sector will 
not go anywhere in the world where it can do business profitably. A 
spokesman for a major American bank, in discussing its use of OPIC for 
the Caribbean and Central America recently stated, quote, the credit 
and insurance support provided by OPIC will allow us to better serve 
customers by noticeably increasing our already extensive lending 
activities in the targeted countries. Note those words. The bank is 
already in the Caribbean and Central American markets doing excessive 
lending and doing it without OPIC. OPIC may be a nicety, but it is 
certainly not a necessity.
  Every year, we hear the argument that the U.S. needs OPIC because 
European countries and Japan provide their businesses with similar 
services. It is, I would remind my colleagues, U.S. policy to work 
against such trade-distorting policies.
  We have come to understand that the world economy works better, that 
living standards rise, when governments are not in the business of 
subsidizing their national businesses. But each year, we continue 
supporting OPIC, renewing this cycle of inefficiency. American 
companies have private creditors and insurance providers to rely on. I 
bet they would serve OPIC clients better.
  Let us support this amendment. Show some world leadership, scale back 
OPIC. The greatest economy in the history of the world I guarantee my 
colleagues will not miss a beat if we cut out this government program.
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Andrews-Sanford-Sanders 
amendment

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to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. OPIC subsidizes U.S. 
companies that invest in risky foreign markets and businesses by 
providing them direct and low-cost financing and insurance. While 
claiming to help America's small businesses invest in foreign markets, 
OPIC actually provides loans and risk insurance to some of the largest 
multinational corporations in the world. And while claiming to invest 
in sustainable development projects, OPIC has been involved in clear-
cutting pristine forests in northwestern Russia, and a gold mine, a 
gold mine in a World Heritage site.
  Through OPIC, U.S. taxpayers are exposed to environmentally, 
financially, and politically risky private sector investments, the 
implications of which, in many cases, are not even disclosed to the 
public.
  The government should not be in the business of committing billions 
of taxpayer dollars to underwrite the investments of Fortune 500 
companies. This is corporate welfare at its worst.
  As has been said earlier, OPIC puts taxpayers at risk. It obligates 
the taxpayer to underwrite insurance for the possible loss of private 
investment by the richest companies in America. The Congressional 
Research Service estimates that the taxpayer is typically liable for 90 
percent of the insured investment. Americans have already paid $80 
billion to bail out the savings and loan industry; we should not ask 
them to pay if OPIC's projects go bad.
  These multimillion dollar companies are fully capable of assuming the 
risk of investing in developing countries. They do not need government 
insurance of their foreign investments, but the substantial profits 
they gain from these investments, while American taxpayers are held 
financially responsible for any potential losses, looks pretty good on 
the bottom line.
  OPIC is not necessary for investments in emerging and developing 
markets. In 1998, private capital flows to emerging markets topped $150 
billion. U.S. capital outflows to Brazil in 1998 totaled $3.7 billion, 
yet OPIC offered $317 million worth of insurance to U.S. companies 
investing in Brazil over the same period.
  It has been pointed out by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. 
Sanford) and the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and I would like 
to state it again: OPIC does not operate at zero cost to the taxpayers. 
Although OPIC does not receive a direct appropriation, it pays for many 
of its operations with the interest earned on its U.S. Treasury bonds, 
bonds given to OPIC as seed money when it was established. In 1998, the 
agency reported $139 million in net income; yet, $193 million of its 
revenues consisted on interest from its U.S. Treasury bonds, another 
large government IOU.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the Andrews-Sanford-
Sanders amendment and prevent OPIC from initiating any new projects.
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, what is the status of this amendment?
  The CHAIRMAN. The amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Andrews) is currently pending and will be pending again when the 
Committee resumes its sitting.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
LaHood) 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. 2606), 
making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and 
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for 
other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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