[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16726]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



        BREAST CANCER RESEARCH STAMP REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2000

  Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 673, S. 
2386.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2386) to extend a Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I am pleased that today the Senate is 
taking up, as an amendment to the reauthorization of the Breast Cancer 
Research Stamp, the Semipostal Act, an amendment I sponsored with 
Senators Feinstein and Hutchison.
  My amendment is very similar to the McHugh bill that we sent to the 
President yesterday, which establishes the authority to issue 
semipostals in the U.S. Postal Service. However, it is different in 
that it requires the Postal Service to recoup the full costs associated 
with the stamp. This bill will ensure that the Postal Service recovers 
its costs before funds are made available to the agency to carry out 
the designated program. We do not want the Postal Service using its own 
budget to fund contributions to causes designated by semipostals. Only 
the true net profit from the sale of the semipostals will be made 
available to the appropriate agency. This bill also gives the Congress 
the power to reject a stamp proposal chosen by the Postal Service, if 
for example, the stamp subject is deemed inappropriate.
  Mr. President, I am pleased that we are giving the authority to issue 
semipostal stamps to the Postal Service, which is where these decisions 
belong.


                           Amendment No. 4029

 (Purpose: To grant the United States Postal Service the authority to 
            issue semipostal stamps, and for other purposes)

  Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk 
and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Oregon [Mr. Smith of Oregon], for Mr. 
     Levin, for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mrs. Hutchison, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 4029.

  Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under 
``Amendments Submitted.'')
  Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Levin amendment be agreed to, the bill be considered read the third 
time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and 
that any statements relating to the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 4029) was agreed to.
  The bill (S. 2386), as amended, was read the third time and passed.
  [The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.]

                          ____________________