[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17302-17304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 4890. Mr. NELSON of Nebraska submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. (a) Waiver of Section 1009 Adjustment.--The 
     adjustment to become effective during fiscal year 2007 
     required by section 1009 of title 37, United States Code, in 
     the rates of monthly basic pay authorized members of the 
     uniformed services shall not be made.
       (b) January 1, 2007, Increase in Basic Pay.--Effective on 
     January 1, 2007, the rates of monthly basic pay for members 
     of the uniformed services are increased by 2.7 percent.
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  SA 4891. Mr. NELSON of Nebraska submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. TRANSPARENCY IN FEDERAL FUNDING.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Transparency in Federal Funding Act of 2006''.
       (b) Findings.--Congress finds that--
       (1) our system of Government has checks and balances, and 
     it has come to the attention of Congress that executive 
     branch departments and their component agencies occasionally 
     retain a portion of funds appropriated by Congress to non-
     Federal entities;
       (2) Members of Congress are required to provide 
     justification for earmarks and, likewise, the executive 
     branch should provide justification as to why earmarked funds 
     are used for another purpose;
       (3) our constituents are entitled to know, in advance, 
     whether they will receive the full amount of an 
     appropriation, so they can plan accordingly;
       (4) the practice of skimming results in increased and 
     unintentional spending in the Federal bureaucracy;
       (5) the practice of widespread and unaccountable skimming 
     is likely to result in artificially inflated appropriations 
     requests in order to account for this skimming;
       (6) full transparency with respect to skimming will lead to 
     better decision-making by Members and staff when allocating 
     constituent request amongst departments, agencies, and 
     accounts; and
       (7) accountability and transparency are vitally important 
     to the legislative process.
       (c) Earmark.--In this section--
       (1) the term ``assistance'' means budget authority, 
     contract authority, loan authority, and other expenditures; 
     and
       (2) the term ``earmark'' means a provision that specifies 
     the identity of a non-Federal entity to receive assistance 
     and the amount of the assistance.
       (d) Disclosure and Reporting.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than January 31 of each year, 
     each cabinet-level department and independent agency that 
     administers a program for which funds are provided by this 
     Act that contained an earmark in the preceding year shall 
     report to Congress disclosing whether any portion of the 
     earmarked funds in the preceding year were retained by the 
     agency or any other organization tasked with distributing 
     them.
       (2) Contents.--A report required by this subsection shall 
     include an accounting of all funds retained including--
       (A) how much money and the percentage retained;
       (B) the purpose for which these retained funds were used;
       (C) a justification for the purpose for which these funds 
     were spent; and
       (D) the authority by which the agency retained the funds.
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  SA 4892. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title IV under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'', up to $1,000,000 
     may be available for the Nanotechnology Program (Pe 
     #0601103).
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  SA 4893. Mr. ROCKEFELLER submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       On page 206, strike lines 10 through 16.
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  SA 4894. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title III under the heading ``Other Procurement, 
     Army'', up to $1,500,000 may be available for a Convoy 
     Training Simulator for the Montana Army National Guard.
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  SA 4895. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. Sarbanes, and Mr. Dayton) 
proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for 
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

       On page 218, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:
       Sec. 8109. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to enter into or carry out 
     a contract for the performance by a contractor of any base 
     operation support service at Walter Reed Army Medical 
     Hospital pursuant to a private-public competition conducted 
     under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 that was 
     initiated on June 13, 2000, and has the solicitation number 
     DADA 10-03-R-0001.
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  SA 4896. Mr. SANTORUM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title IV under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army'', up to $1,000,000 
     may be available for legged mobility robotic research.
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  SA 4897. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. (a) Additional Amount for Drug Interdiction and 
     Counter-Drug Activities.--The amount appropriated by title VI 
     under the heading ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug 
     Activities'' is hereby increased by $700,000,000, with the 
     amount of the increase designated as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress), 
     the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2007, 
     as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 of Public 
     Law 109-234.
       (b) Availability.--Of the amount appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by title

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     VI under the heading ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug 
     Activities'', as increased by subsection (a), up to an 
     additional $700,000,000 may be available to combat the growth 
     of poppies in Afghanistan, to eliminate the production and 
     trade of opium and heroin, and to prevent terrorists from 
     using the proceeds for terrorist activities in Afghanistan, 
     Iraq, and elsewhere.
       (c) Supplement Not Supplant.--The amount available under 
     subsection (b) for the purpose set forth in that subsection 
     is in addition to any other amounts available in this Act for 
     that purpose.
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  SA 4898. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. (a) Additional Amount for Department of 
     Defense.--The amount appropriated by this Act for the 
     Department of Defense is hereby increased by $706,956,000, 
     with the amount of the increase designated as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th 
     Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
     year 2007, as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 
     of Public Law 109-234.
       (b) Transfer to Department of Homeland Security.--The 
     Secretary of Defense shall transfer the amount appropriated 
     by the Act by reason of the increase made by subsection (a) 
     to the Secretary of Homeland Security, who shall deposit the 
     amount so transferred to the Research, Development, 
     Acquisition and Operations subaccount of the Science and 
     Technology account of the Department of Homeland Security. 
     The amount so transferred shall be merged with amounts in 
     that subaccount, and shall be available for the same 
     purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations, 
     as the amounts with which merged.
       (c) Availability of Certain Funds.--Of the amount 
     transferred under subsection (b), not less than $100,000,000 
     shall be available for purposes of explosives detection and 
     countermeasures.
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  SA 4899. Mr. VITTER (for himself and Ms. Landrieu) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, add the following:

     SECTION   .

       ``None of the funds appropriated in this Act, or any other 
     Act, may be used for the modernization of Naval and Marine 
     Corps manpower, personnel, and pay information technology 
     systems, including legacy systems, until the Department of 
     Defense and the Department of the Navy have certified and 
     validated that such systems selected by the Department of 
     Defense and Department of the Navy for modernization are 
     certified and validated by the General Accounting Office, 
     with notification to the Congressional defense committees, 
     that the funding baseline and milestone schedules for each of 
     these systems covered by such a certification and validation 
     shall include, at a minimum, the following with respect to 
     each system: (1) business process reengineering; (2) an 
     analysis of alternatives, including a detailed cost 
     comparison versus the use of the Defense Integrated Military 
     Human Resources Systems (DIMHRS); (3) an economic analysis 
     that includes a calculation of the return on investment; ( 4) 
     performance measures; and, (5) an information assurance 
     strategy consistent with the Department's Global Information 
     Grid.''
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  SA 4900. Mr. GRAHAM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act, up to $2,000,000 may be available for 
     infrastructure for the Afghanistan military legal system.
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  SA 4901. Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself and Mr. Dodd) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title IV under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'', up to 
     $1,500,000 may be available for the development of a field-
     deployable hydrogen fueling station.
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  SA 4902. Mr. CONRAD (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Salazar) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 
5631, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 230, beginning on line 15, strike ``$19,265,000'' 
     and all that follows through line 16 and insert the 
     following: ``$39,265,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2008: Provided, That $20,000,000 of such funds is 
     available only for the establishment of a unit dedicated to 
     bringing to justice Osama bin Laden and other key leaders of 
     al Qaeda: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 
     shall, not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, submit to the 
     congressional defense committees, the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives, and 
     the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a classified 
     report on progress made by the operations in the global war 
     on terrorism for which funding is provided in this Act, 
     including an assessment of the likely current location of 
     terrorist leaders, including Osama bin Laden and other key 
     leaders of al Qaeda, a description of ongoing efforts to 
     bring to justice such terrorists, a description of the 
     cooperation provided by the governments of any countries 
     assessed as likely locations of top leaders of al Qaeda and 
     by other relevant countries, a description of diplomatic 
     efforts currently being made to improve the cooperation of 
     any such governments, and a description of the status of, and 
     strategy for bringing to justice, perpetrators of terrorism 
     including the top leadership of al Qaeda: Provided further, 
     That the Secretary of Defense shall prepare such reports in 
     consultation with other appropriate officials with regard to 
     funds appropriated under this chapter: Provided further, That 
     the amount provided under this heading is designated as 
     making appropriations for contingency operations directly 
     related to the global war on terrorism, and other 
     unanticipated defense-related operations, pursuant to section 
     402 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), as made applicable 
     to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 818 (109th 
     Congress) and is designated as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress), 
     the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2007, 
     as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 of Public 
     Law 109-234.''
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  SA 4903. Mr. BAYH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:
       Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title IV under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'', up to 
     $6,000,000 may be available as follows:
       (1) $3,000,000 for bioterrorism protection research (PE 
     #0601384BP).
       (2) $3,000,000 for advanced protective gear for small-arms 
     threats (PE #0601101E).
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  SA 4904. Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Boxer, Mrs. 
Feinstein, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Carper, Ms. 
Mikulski, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Levin, Mr. harkin, Mrs. Clinton, 
Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Obama, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. 
Dayton, and Mr. Dodd) proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

       At the appropriate place insert the following:

Sense of the Senate on the Need for a New Direction in Iraq Policy and 
        in the Civilian Leadership of the Department of Defense

     Findings
       (1) U.S. forces have served honorably and courageously in 
     Iraq, with over 2,600 brave Americans having made the 
     ultimate sacrifice and over 20,000 wounded.
       (2) The current ``stay the course'' policy in Iraq has made 
     America less secure, reduced the readiness of our troops, and 
     burdened America's taxpayers with over $300 billion in 
     additional debt.
       (3) With weekly attacks against American and Iraqi troops 
     at their highest levels since the start of the war, and 
     sectarian violence intensifying, it is clear that staying the 
     course in Iraq is not a strategy for success.
       Therefore it is the Sense of the Senate that:

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       (1) Our troops deserve and the American people expect the 
     Bush Administration to provide competent civilian leadership 
     and a true strategy for success in Iraq.
       (2) President Bush needs to change course in Iraq to 
     provide a strategy for success. One indication of a change of 
     course would be to replace the current Secretary of Defense.
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  SA 4905. Mr. STEVENS (for Mr. Levin) proposed an amendment to the 
bill H.R. 2066, to amend title 40, United States Code, to establish a 
Federal Acquisition Service, to replace the General Supply Fund and the 
Information Technology Fund with an Acquisition Services Fund, and for 
other purposes; as follows:

       At the end of the bill add the following:

     SECTION 6. DISPOSAL OF FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY TO HISTORIC 
                   LIGHT STATIONS.

       Section 549(c)(3)(B) of title 40, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in clause (vii), by striking ``or'' after the 
     semicolon;
       (2) in clause (viii), by striking the period and inserting 
     ``or''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(ix) a historic light station as defined under section 
     308(e)(2) of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 
     U.S.C. 470w-7(e)(2)), including a historic light station 
     conveyed under subsection (b) of that section, 
     notwithstanding the number of hours that the historic light 
     station is open to the public.''.
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  SA 4906. Mr. ROCKEFELLER proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

       On page 206, strike lines 10 through 16.

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