[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13454-13455]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                    Agriculture Appropriations Bill

                         Offered By: Mr. Hefley

       Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. Each amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act that is not required to be appropriated 
     or otherwise made available by a provision of law is hereby 
     reduced by 1 percent.

                    Agriculture Appropriations Bill

                         Offered By: Ms. Waters

       Amendment No. 3: In title V, in the item relating to 
     ``Public Law 480 Title II Grants'' add at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``In addition for such purposes, to be used to provide 
     seeds, tools, water control systems, and other agricultural 
     inputs for small farmers in southern African countries 
     affected by the current food crisis, including Lesotho, 
     Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, 
     $100,000,000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
     such Act.

                    Agriculture Appropriations Bill

                         Offered By: Ms. Waters

       Amendment No. 4: In title V, in the item relating to 
     ``Public Law 480 Title II Grants'' add at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``In addition for such purposes, $200,000,000: Provided, 
     That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress: Provided further, That such amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                               H.R. 5120

                         Offered By: Mr. Flake

       Amendment No. 20: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to enforce any restriction on remittances to 
     nationals of Cuba covered by section 515.570(a)(1)(i), 
     (a)(2), (b)(1)(i), or (b)(2) of title 31, Code of Federal 
     Regulations.

                               H.R. 5120

                   Offered By: Mr. Moran of Virginia

       Amendment No. 21: At the end of title VI (page __, line 
     __), insert the following:

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       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used by an executive agency to establish, apply, or 
     enforce any numerical goal, target, or quota for subjecting 
     the employees of the agency to public-private competitions or 
     converting such employees or the work performed by such 
     employees to private contractor performance under Office of 
     Management and Budget Circular A-76 or any other 
     administrative regulation, directive, or policy.