[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17782-17786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2004

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to the consideration of H.R. 2658, which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 2658) making appropriations for the Department 
     of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and 
     for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The distinguished Senator from Alaska is 
recognized.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, it is my privilege and honor once again 
to present to the Senate the Defense appropriations bill for fiscal 
year 2004. This bill reflects a bipartisan approach that Senator Inouye 
and I have tried to maintain during the time we have served together on 
the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. It is always a great pleasure 
for me to work with him and with his staff member Charlie Houy. We 
believe we have a bill that will meet the approval of the Senate with 
very few amendments.
  This bill was reported out of the full Appropriations Committee on 
July 9 by a unanimous vote; 29 Senators voted in favor of it and no 
Senator objected to it. We have sought to recommend a balanced bill to 
the Senate. We believe it addresses the key requirements for readiness, 
quality of life, and the reconstitution of our military force.
  While we are debating this bill on the floor today, there are 
hundreds of thousands of men and women in uniform forward deployed and 
serving our country abroad. They are performing superbly and we are 
proud of what they are accomplishing.
  The Department of Defense now faces three critical and often 
competing challenges:
  First, conducting simultaneous combat and near-combat operations in 
numerous theaters at the same time--Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and 
Kosovo, to name a few. We have forces spread throughout the world, 
deployed in more areas and in more strange circumstances than at any 
time in the history of this country;
  Secondly, keeping the readiness of this force at high levels, ready 
to respond when called upon to carry out the global war on terrorism, 
is another great challenge;
  Lastly, transforming the Department to meet future challenges. We 
must ensure that our military forces are ready to meet whatever lies 
ahead as we move through the 21st century.
  Transformation is necessary to ensure that U.S. forces continue to 
operate from a position of overwhelming military advantage.
  Transformed forces are also essential for deterring conflict, 
dissuading adversaries, and assuring others of our commitment to a 
peaceful world.
  This bill Senator Inouye and I present today reflects a prudent 
balance among all three of these challenges. It recommends $368.6 
billion in discretionary budget authority programs for the Department 
of Defense. This is $3.2 billion below the President's request but 
within our 302(b) allocations for the Defense subcommittee.
  As the Senate will recall, we completed action on a $62.6 billion 
Iraq supplemental appropriations bill for the Department of Defense in 
mid-April. This bill rescinds $3.157 billion of those supplemental 
funds that are not currently required by the Department.
  This measure is fully consistent with both the objectives of the 
administration and the Senate-passed 2004 National Defense 
authorization bill.
  It honors the commitments we have to our Armed Forces. It helps 
ensure that they will continue to have good leadership, first-rate 
training, modernized equipment, and quality infrastructure. It also 
fully funds key readiness programs critical to the global war on 
terrorism.
  These recommendations will make continued progress in supporting our 
military personnel, their families, and modernizing the force. As 
always, those are our first priorities.
  In highlighting several of the key initiatives, I note the following:
  This bill funds an average military pay raise of 4.15 percent and 
provides $210 million to fund increases in family separation allowances 
and imminent danger pay.
  It does not recommend consolidation of Guard and Reserve personnel 
appropriations with their respective active component appropriations.
  For the Army, it is additional funding for their transformation 
initiative--the Stryker brigade combat teams.
  For the Navy, additional submarine refuelings, advance procurement of 
LPD-23, and fully funding the last increment of the LHD-8.
  For the Air Force, it is fully funding the C-17 aircraft and funding 
acquisition of 22 F-22 Raptor aircraft.
  In light of the contributions of the Guard and Reserve forces and 
deployments to the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq, this bill adds $700 
million of nondesignated equipment funding--specifically for the 
Reserve components.
  The proposal before the Senate funds the President's request for 
missile defense.
  Finally, let me once again thank my cochairman, Senator Inouye, for 
his support and friendship and invaluable counsel on this bill. I urge 
the Chair to recognize him for any statement he wishes to make.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii is recognized.
  Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I rise to express my very strong support 
for this measure. The committee has produced a bipartisan bill which 
reflects well on the committee and on the Senate.
  It has often been said that foreign policy debates should stop at the 
water's edge. This bill holds true to that principle. This bill 
provides for our Nation's defense without letting politics drive the 
recommendations.
  I commend our chairman, the Senator from Alaska, for the bill being 
brought to the Senate this afternoon. This important measure provides 
the spending necessary for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2004. 
The total in the bill is about $369 billion, as noted by the chairman. 
It is $3.2 billion below the amount requested by the President, but it 
is the same as the subcommittee's 302(b) allocation.
  Mr. President, I don't intend to reiterate all of the details the 
chairman has outlined. Suffice it to say that the bill fully funds our 
military personnel programs, including the authorized pay raise. It 
provides sufficient funding to meet our readiness requirements for the 
coming year, and it also increases funding for DOD's critical 
transformation programs.
  I wish to inform all of my colleagues that consistent with the 
administration's request, no funds are included in this bill for the 
ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  A portion of the fiscal year 2003 supplemental funds provided this 
year will remain available in the coming year to help offset these 
needs. But I believe it should be made clear that an additional 
supplemental funding will most likely be required in the next fiscal 
year. Only a dramatic improvement in the situation in Iraq and in 
Afghanistan would obviate the need for additional funding for these 
purposes.
  I want to offer my personal thanks to the chairman for increasing 
funding in support of the Army's Stryker brigades and the C-17. These 
two programs are critical to the military's transformation plans. The 
added funding will greatly assist DOD in meeting its goals.
  The Chairman has presented us with a very good bill, and I encourage 
all of you to support it wholeheartedly.
  I wish to join my chairman and the Members of the Senate in extending 
our gratitude and admiration for the men and women who are serving us 
this day. I hope this measure in some small way will indicate to them 
our gratitude and our great admiration.
  I thank the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the managers of this bill, of course, are 
two of the most talented and experienced men who serve in the Senate 
and who have ever served here, and their cooperation and partnership in 
moving this bill through the Senate in years past has been legendary. I 
am sure this year will be no different.
  The work that has been done in the Defense Subcommittee has created a

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lot of jobs. There is no question about that. It is one of the bright 
spots in the economic pattern of our country. As a result of what is 
going on in defense, jobs have been created. But it is not that way 
throughout most of the economy. Most of the economy is in dire 
jeopardy, suffering all kinds of problems. I know we all wish the news 
about unemployment would get better, but it keeps getting worse. That 
is unfortunate.
  Late last week, the Labor Department released some of the worst news 
we have had in a long time as relates to the economy. The number of 
U.S. workers filing for unemployment benefits rose to a 20-year high, 
439,000. Since President George Bush took office, we have lost more 
than 3.1 million jobs--it is quickly approaching 3.2 million jobs--in 
the private sector.
  Unemployment overall jumped last month to 6.4 percent. That does not 
include those who have given up hope and stopped looking for work and 
are not included in the 6.4 percent. If we counted all the people 
chronically unemployed, people who simply cannot find a full-time job, 
the total unemployment rate would be almost 11 percent. Even worse, we 
find that the unemployment rate for African Americans, Hispanics, and 
Asians is higher, and for teenagers who look for summer jobs to help 
pay for expenses during the school year, the job is especially bleak.
  In Nevada, we have just in the lower figure--that is the 6.4 percent; 
that is those who are not chronically unemployed--some 55,000 people 
who cannot find work. People want work. They know the American dream 
begins with a good job. It begins with owning a home. It begins with 
giving your children a good education and building a better community. 
But all this starts with a good job.
  I have on this chart what has happened since this President has taken 
office. During the Clinton administration, some 23 million new jobs 
were created. In this administration, we have a President, for the 
first time since we have been keeping numbers, who in multiyears has 
lost jobs. As I indicated, we are approaching 3.2 million.
  On this chart, we can see that when he took office, there were 5.9 
million unemployed Americans. Now there are 9.4 million. It is easy to 
talk about numbers and percentages. Every one of these numbers is made 
up of people who are looking for work.
  I was talking to the junior Senator from Washington. It is hard to 
comprehend these numbers, but Boeing laid off 35,000 people at once. 
All at once, 35,000 people got blue slips. We are laying off people all 
the time.
  As I have indicated, we have in Nevada tens of thousands of people 
who cannot find work, and Nevada has a better unemployment record than 
a lot of places.
  Each person who makes up these numbers is someone who was working for 
Boeing, who was working someplace, and is willing to work anyplace, but 
cannot find a job.
  You can look at a doctor's chart and find out what is wrong with a 
patient. I think we need to look at this chart and recognize that this 
patient, the American economy, is in deep trouble. We have people who 
simply need a job.
  The President has not prescribed anything I know of to increase 
employment other than tax cuts. If tax cuts had been the answer to 
solve the problems in the economy, the first go-round of tax cuts would 
have been just the thing.
  It did not work; so what does he do? He comes back and says: We are 
going to have this economy running well; we are going to cut taxes some 
more. He cut taxes some more.
  We had a surplus when this President took office when the 
unemployment numbers were below 6 percent. We had a situation where we 
had a surplus over 10 years of more than $7 trillion. That surplus is 
gone. It is zero. This year, we will have the largest deficit in the 
history of the world. It will be around $600 billion. We see the 
printed figures in newspapers and commentary on television. It is over 
$400 billion, approaching $500 billion. Of course, that does not take 
into consideration the fact that the Social Security surpluses are 
placed in there to mask the overall deficit.
  The President said: Things were not so good when I got the economy. 
You cannot pass the buck, as President Truman said.
  The buck stops at his office. What we have found is massive 
unemployment. We have hemorrhaging of the economy. We find that some of 
this is related to the war on terrorism--we realize that--about 20 to 
25 percent of it. The rest is just bad economic policy.
  What the President inherited was an incredible record of job growth. 
I repeat what I said a moment ago, 23 million new jobs in 8 years. 
Every one of those new jobs was another door of opportunity opening. 
Every one of these job losses is a door of opportunity closing. Every 
time a job has disappeared, the American dream has slipped from another 
family's grasp.
  What should we do? I think it is clear what has been going on has not 
worked. We tried the tax cut route once, and it did not work. We tried 
it again, and it is still not working. We are all against taxes. It 
would be great if no one had to pay taxes. In fact, people would rather 
have a strong, vibrant economy than have these tax cuts, of course, 
that go to those people who are better off in our economy, the so-
called elite.
  Let's do something different. I would expect if things are going so 
bad, maybe we should have another round of tax cuts. I am afraid that 
is what we are going to hear from this administration. Instead of more 
tax breaks for the elite, who have plenty, we need to do something to 
create jobs for those who cannot find work.
  Prior to September 11, I had a program called the American Marshall 
Plan. It was a program where we would spend money in the public sector 
creating jobs--water systems, sewer systems, bridges, roads, dams. 
Every State of the Union has massive projects on the drawing board that 
we cannot fund. The Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, of which 
I am ranking member and Senator Domenici is now the chairman--I was the 
chairman a short time ago--we have hundreds of water projects we have 
authorized and for which we cannot pay. There are hundreds of them. 
Should we deauthorize them? These are not water projects just to make 
people feel good. They are flood projects. They are massive projects.
  I traveled to the State of Washington with Senator Cantwell to look 
at the Hanford Project. They call it the Hanford reservation where 
nuclear projects have taken place since World War II. They have some 
tremendous problems with nuclear waste. I traveled there. I traveled 
also to Yakima, WA, and met with a group of people, Democrats and 
Republicans, about a public works project they believe would be so 
important. It would help the Columbia River. It would help the Yakima 
River. It would help growth in that area in many different ways. We can 
authorize another water project, one that is badly needed. We have to 
figure a way to pay for these projects, expend money for these 
projects.
  For every billion dollars we spend on a public works project, whether 
it is highways, putting in a sewer system in a State, city, or county, 
we create 47,000 high-paying jobs, jobs where people will buy 
refrigerators, furniture, cars, and homes. Those 47,000 jobs create 
more jobs. It seems if we spend a few billions doing that rather than 
just tax cuts that have not created any jobs we would be so much better 
off.
  The average school in America is approaching 50 years of age. Then 
there are places such as Clark County, Nevada where we have to build as 
many as 18 new schools a year just to keep up with the growth. We need 
help building these schools. We need help on roads, bridges.
  There was an article last week in the newspapers about 40 percent of 
all bridges in the United States are in a state of disrepair. We have 
some bridges we have had to stop people from traveling over. Some 
schoolbuses let the kids out and let the kids walk across the bridges, 
and they climb back on the bus when they get on the other side because 
the bridges are in such a state of disrepair.

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  There are broken water pipes. I held a hearing prior to September 11. 
There were mayors of the city of Atlanta, Las Vegas--I am trying to 
think of the other cities around the country. Atlanta, I have that 
stuck in my mind because it was such a terrible situation. In fact, the 
mayor said, I am looking forward to my term ending because then I will 
not have to wake up every morning wondering if the water system is 
broken down. It is old, dilapidated, decayed. To do their water system 
is going to cost billions of dollars.
  Some of the water pipes in existence in Washington, DC, are 150 years 
old. One wonders if there are leaks and problems. Of course there are.
  I will not go through all the other mayors who appeared but there are 
significant problems. We need to help them. We can do that with public 
works dollars. It has to be done some time anyway. Why not do it now to 
help stimulate this economy? We can create new jobs by promoting new 
technologies and producing energy from renewable nonpolluting sources. 
Those will not only create jobs, they will help us achieve energy 
independence. We can save existing jobs by helping our financially 
burdened States so they do not have to raise taxes on working families 
or small businesses.
  I think it speaks volumes if we look around the country. I spoke 
today to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. The legislature is 
having trouble determining how they are going to fund all the things 
that are required to be done in the State of Pennsylvania. The Governor 
is waiting for the legislature to determine how they are going to do 
that.
  In the State of Nevada, the Governor of the State of Nevada had to 
call three or four special sessions of the State legislature to try to 
figure out a way to fund the budget they had passed. They could not do 
it. The Governor filed a lawsuit with the Nevada Supreme Court and the 
court ruled as to how the legislature is going to fund the money. What 
a crazy way to do business.
  The reason the States and local governments are having all of these 
problems is the Federal Government has backed off on many commitments 
that we have had. We have passed on burdens to the States, unfunded 
mandates, in education and in homeland security. The States are paying 
for this, local governments are paying for this, and that is why we 
find 47 of the 50 States in deep financial trouble.
  The king of financial troubles, of course, is the State of 
California, with a deficit of some $35 billion. The tiny State of 
Nevada had a deficit of a billion dollars. There is a constitutional 
requirement in Nevada that they have to balance the budget. Therefore 
the Supreme Court had to get into that.
  We can reverse this awful trend. We can save the jobs we have and 
help create new ones but we have to be willing to do something 
different than what is going on now.
  I, again, applaud my two friends and mentors, role models, who are 
managing this bill. I am confident that if we have a bill that has 
their fingerprints on it, it is something that is good for the national 
security of this country and I am sure in a reasonably short period of 
time this bill will become law.
  As I indicated in my conversations this morning with the majority 
leader and the chairman of the committee, I know several people who 
want to speak on this issue. I do not see a lot of amendments but there 
will be some amendments on this legislation in an attempt to make it 
better than what it is. I look forward to working with my two friends 
to move this legislation along as quickly as possible.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.


                           Amendment No. 1217

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, there is a substitute amendment at the 
desk and I ask for its consideration. For the information of all 
Senators, the amendment is the text of the Senate-reported bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 1217.

  (The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text 
of Amendments.'')
  Mr. STEVENS. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up 
to 15 minutes as if in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Alexander are found in today's Record under 
``Morning Business.'')
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I rise in support of S. 1382, the 
Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2004, as 
reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
  I commend the distinguished chairman and the ranking member for 
bringing the Senate a carefully crafted spending bill within the 
Subcommittee's 302(b) allocation and consistent with the discretionary 
spending cap for 2004.
  The pending bill provides $369.2 billion in budget authority and 
$389.9 billion in outlays in fiscal year 2004 for the Department of 
Defense. Of these totals, $528 million is for mandatory programs.
  The bill provides $368.637 billion in discretionary budget authority, 
$25 billion less than the subcommittee's 302(b) allocation. The bill 
provides $389.371 billion in discretionary outlays, $16 million below 
the 302(b) allocation. Pursuant to an agreement with the 
administration, the bill provides $3.062 billion less budget authority 
than was in the President's Defense budget request. These funds were 
shifted to other nondefense spending bills.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a table displaying the 
Budget Committee scoring of the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                S. 1382, DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, 2004, SPENDING COMPARISONS, SENATE-REPORTED BILL
                                   [Fiscal Year 2004 (in millions of dollars)]
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                                                                      General
                                                                      purpose        Mandatory         Total
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Senate-reported bill:
    Budget authority............................................        368.637              528        369,165
    Outlays.....................................................        389,371              528        389,899
Senate 302(b) allocation:
    Budget authority............................................        368,662              528        369,190
    Outlays.....................................................        389,387              528        389,915
2003 level:
    Budget authority............................................        426,621              393        427,014
    Outlays.....................................................        393,835              393        394,228
President's request:
    Budget authority............................................        371,699              528        372,227
    Outlays.....................................................        393,220              528        393,748
House-passed bill:
    Budget authority............................................        368,662              528        369,190
    Outlays.....................................................        388,836              528        389,364
 

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                                        SENATE-REPORTED BILL COMPARED TO:
 
Senate 302(b) allocation:
    Budget authority............................................            (25)  ..............            (25)
    Outlays.....................................................            (16)  ..............            (16)
2003 level:
    Budget authority............................................        (57,984)             135        (57,849)
    Outlays.....................................................         (4,464)             135         (4,329)
President's request:
    Budget authority............................................         (3,062)  ..............         (3,062
    Outlays.....................................................         (3,849)  ..............         (3,849)
House-passed bill:
    Budget authority............................................            (25)  ..............            (25)
    Outlays.....................................................            535   ..............            535
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Totals adjusted for consistency with scorekeeping
  conventions.
Prepared by SBC Majority Staff, 7/10/2003.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chambliss). The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, just before I left the floor, I asked 
that the substitute amendment, which is the text of the Senate-reported 
bill, be reported. I now ask unanimous consent that the Senate adopt 
this amendment, make it original text for the purpose of further 
amendment, and the usual boilerplate language that goes along with 
that. But I would like to proceed at that point, and I do have Senator 
Byrd's concurrence on this at this time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 1217) was agreed to.
  Mr. STEVENS. I yield the floor.
  Mr. President, I understand the Senator from New Mexico wishes some 
time.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up 
to 20 minutes as in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Bingaman are printed in today's Record under 
``Morning Business.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I have now served with 11 Directors of 
Intelligence during my tenure as a Senator. I think I have known each 
of them personally. In fact, my roots in connection with the 
intelligence process go back to World War II when I flew an OSS plane 
into China frequently, and I have had a great deal of interest in the 
CIA and its operations.
  I have learned in that timespan that intelligence--good 
intelligence--is essential to force projection and protection of our 
Nation. Unfortunately, we cannot publish a list of the numerous 
occasions in which men and women in the intelligence community have 
literally saved the lives of U.S. military and civilian personnel. 
Sometimes I wish we could tell the whole story. It would put into 
better perspective the few mistakes the intelligence community 
sometimes makes.
  However, mistakes in interpreting intelligence data can and will be 
made. The CIA has not often admitted blame for serious mistakes. Taking 
responsibility has not been their strong suit in the past, and I have 
not always been happy with the information the CIA has produced.
  In working with the intelligence chief, George Tenet, to fully 
disclose information we have needed to determine proper funding levels 
in our Appropriations Committee for programs and projects he oversees, 
I can assure the Senate he has always been fair, just, and open with 
us.
  Mr. Tenet is responsible for the accuracy of intelligence information 
his agency provides to the President and the Congress, and he has now 
acknowledged the CIA's error in interpreting data relating to the 
President's State of the Union comment about Iraq.
  For this I think he should be commended, and that is why I have come 
to the floor: to commend him for his action. Few in this town often 
take the clear path to acknowledge error. The intelligence and defense 
committees are rightly investigating the events leading up to this 
mistake, but I am hopeful that as the Congress and the executive branch 
proceed to determine how this mistake occurred, all realize that those 
of us who work with him on a daily basis, including the President, 
trust and rely on George Tenet and are ready to defend him as a good 
man and excellent DCI and a man of intelligence, honesty, and candor.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I have been conferring with our staff, 
with Senator Inouye's staff, and with Senator Inouye. We request any 
Member who wants to present an amendment for inclusion in a managers' 
package to disclose that amendment to us by 3 tomorrow afternoon. We 
make that request because we do have the necessity of having full 
disclosure of what is in that package. It is often easier to handle 
some of these very small amendments that move money from one place to 
another or have a particular interest for one post or one military 
establishment or another, and we prefer to handle it in the way of 
offering those as one series of amendments in a managers' package if we 
can.
  We cannot do that unless people come forward and contact us. We have 
knowledge of several Members who have small amendments of that type, 
and we wish them to know at this time that in order to get this package 
cleared in advance with Senator McCain and others we want to have those 
disclosed to us by 3 tomorrow or the Members will be compelled to offer 
the amendments individually.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


           Amendments Nos. 1224, 1225, 1226, and 1227 En Bloc

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk for 
Senator Inhofe to make available from amounts available for research, 
development, test and evaluation, Air Force, $4 million for cost-
effective composite materials for manned and unmanned flight 
structures.
  I also send to the desk an amendment for Senator Dodd to increase the 
amount of Army RDT&E funds available for the broad area unmanned 
responsive resupply operations aircraft program.
  I also send an amendment to the desk by Senator Snowe to set aside 
Navy operation maintenance funds for the Navy Pilot Human Resources 
Call Center in Cutler, ME.
  I also send an amendment to the desk for Senator Breaux to make 
available from amounts available for research, development, test and 
evaluation, Navy, $4 million for Navy integrated manufacturing 
development.

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  I ask unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens], for other Senators, 
     proposes amendments numbered 1224 through 1227 en bloc.

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
amendments be agreed to en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendments were agreed to en bloc, as follows:


                           amendment no. 1224

   (Purpose: To make available from amounts available for Research, 
   Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force, $4,000,000 for cost 
     effective composite materials for manned and unmanned flight 
                              structures)

       Insert after section 8123 the following:
       Sec. 8124. Of the amount appropriated by title IV of this 
     Act under the heading ``Research, Development, Test, and 
     Evaluation, Air Force'', up to $4,000,000 may be available 
     for cost effective composite materials for manned and 
     unmanned flight structures (PE#0602103F).


                           amendment no. 1225

(Purpose: To increase the amount of Army RDT&E funds available for the 
  Broad Area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations (BURRO) aircraft 
                         program (PE 0603003A)

       On page 120, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
       Sec. 8124. Of the total amount appropriated by title IV 
     under the heading ``Research, Development, Test and 
     Evaluation, Army'', up to $3,000,000 may be used for the 
     Broad Area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations aircraft 
     program.


                           amendment no. 1226

  (Purpose: To set aside Navy operation and maintenance funds for the 
         Navy Pilot Human Resources Call Center, Cutler, Maine)

       On page 120, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
       Sec. 8124. Of the total amount appropriated by title II 
     under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' for 
     civilian manpower and personnel management, up to $1,500,000 
     may be used for Navy Pilot Human Resources Call Center, 
     Cutler, Maine.


                           amendment no. 1227

   (Purpose: To make available from amounts available for Research, 
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, $4,000,000 for Navy Integrated 
                       Manufacturing Development)

       Insert after section 8123 the following:
       Sec. 8124. Of the amount appropriated by title IV of this 
     Act under the heading ``Research, Development, Test, and 
     Evaluation, Navy'', up to $4,000,000 may be available for 
     Navy Integrated Manufacturing Development.

  Mr. STEVENS. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. INOUYE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, this is an example of some of the 
amendments that we are trying to process as quickly as possible. They 
have been referred to Members involved, including Senator McCain. They 
have been cleared for action. I urge Members of the Senate to come 
forward if they have such amendments so we might be able to dispose of 
them this afternoon.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


            Unanimous Consent Agreement--Executive Calendar

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, for the leader, I ask unanimous consent 
that at 5:30 today the Senate proceed to executive session and an 
immediate vote on the confirmation of Calendar No. 293, Samuel Der-
Yeghiayan, of Illinois to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois, without further intervening action or debate; 
provided further that immediately following that vote, Calendar No. 
292, Robert Brack, to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of New 
Mexico, be confirmed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table. Finally, I ask unanimous consent that following that action, the 
President be immediately notified of the Senate's action and the Senate 
resume legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. REID. Reserving the right to object, I believe this will be the 
137th and 138th judge we have approved of President Bush, and only two 
have been opposed. I have no objection.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. STEVENS. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, a few minutes ago I misspoke in my 
reservation of objection. I indicated that it was the 137th judge we 
would approve. It is 135. The first one would be 134. The second would 
be 135. I exaggerated by two. I want that stricken from the record. I 
didn't exaggerate. I simply made a calculation that was wrong. We have 
approved 135 judges for President Bush, and we have stopped two. The 
record is 135 to 2.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ensign). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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