[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16294-16295]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

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

                               H.R. 2641

                      Offered By: Mr. Westmoreland

       Amendment No. 28: Page 2, line 18, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $30,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2641

                         Offered By: Mr. Porter

       Amendment No. 29: Page 21, strike line 22 and all that 
     follows through page 24, line 9.

                               H.R. 2641

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 30: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. Appropriations made in this Act are hereby reduced 
     in the amount of $1,130,000,000.

                               H.R. 2641

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 31: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       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 3.5 percent.

                               H.R. 2641

                 Offered By: Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia

       Amendment No. 32: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. 503. Of the amount made available for electricity 
     delivery and energy reliability activities of the Department 
     of Energy, $2,000,000 shall be for carrying out the 
     authorities provided in section 646(g) of the Department of 
     Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7256).

                               H.R. 2641

                 Offered By: Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia

       Amendment No. 33: Page 17, line 3, insert ``, of which 
     $2,000,000 shall be used to study the feasibility of 
     establishing Energy-Advanced Research Project Agency to 
     target acceleration of energy-related research; development 
     of resultant techniques, processes, and technologies, and 
     related testing and evaluation; and demonstration and 
     commercial application of promising technologies and research 
     applications'' after ``until expended''.

                               H.R. 2641

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 34: Page 17, line 14, after the dollar amount 
     insert ``(reduced by $20,000,000)(increased by 
     $20,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


             PROHIBITION AGAINST ASSISTANCE TO SAUDI ARABIA

       Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available pursuant to this Act--
       (1) shall be obligated or expended to finance any 
     assistance to Saudi Arabia; or
       (2) shall be used to execute a waiver of section 571 or 614 
     of the Foreign Assistance Act

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     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2349aa or 2364) with regard to assistance 
     to Saudi Arabia.

                               H.R. 2764

                   Offered By: Ms. Moore of Wisconsin

       Amendment No. 3: In section 620 of the bill (relating to 
     special notification requirements), strike ``Liberia,''.

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. Gingrey

       Amendment No. 4: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for negotiating the participation of additional 
     countries under the visa waiver program described in section 
     217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187).

                               H.R. 2764

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 5: In section 699 of the bill (relating to 
     assistance for Egypt), strike ``until the Secretary of 
     State'' and all that follows and insert a period.

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. Conaway

       Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


                           DEFICIT REDUCTION

       Sec. __. It is the sense of the House of Representatives 
     that any reduction in the amount appropriated by this Act 
     achieved as a result of amendments adopted by the House 
     should be dedicated to deficit reduction.

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. McGovern

       Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:


   LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE INSTITUTE FOR 
                          SECURITY COOPERATION

       Sec. 6xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for programs at the Western Hemisphere Institute for 
     Security Cooperation located at Fort Benning, Georgia.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mrs. Musgrave

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. 700. 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 0.5 percent.

                               H.R. 2764

                      Offered By: Ms. Ros-Lehtinen

       Amendment No. 9: Page 72, line 5, after the dollar amount, 
     insert the following: ``(increased by $24,000,000) (reduced 
     by $34,700,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. Tancredo

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:


 LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON RELATIONS WITH 
                                 TAIWAN

       Sec. 6xx. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to enforce any of the provisions in the Memorandum to 
     all Department and Agency Executive Secretaries dated, 
     February 2, 2001, and entitled ``Guidelines on Relations With 
     Taiwan''.

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. Tancredo

       Amendment No. 11: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to carry out the diversity visa program under section 
     203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1153(c)).

                               H.R. 2764

                        Offered By: Mr. Tancredo

       Amendment No. 12: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be expended in violation of section 243(d) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1253(d)) (relating to 
     discontinuing granting visas to nationals of countries 
     denying or delaying accepting aliens removed from the United 
     States).

                               H.R. 2764

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 13: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to provide assistance for the West Bank and Gaza. The 
     limitation on assistance under this section shall not apply 
     with respect to humanitarian assistance, including assistance 
     to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine 
     Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

                               H.R. 2764

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 14: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:


          LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE WEST BANK AND GAZA

       Sec. 6xx. None of the funds appropriated under titles II 
     through V of this Act may be obligated or expended to provide 
     any assistance for the West Bank and Gaza.

                               H.R. 2764

                          Offered By: Mr. Wolf

       Amendment No. 15: Page 2, line 22, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $108,000,000)''.
       Page 9, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $50,000,000)''.
       Page 40, line 26, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $140,000,000)''.
       Page 58, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $16,000,000)''.
       Page 63, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                 Offered By: Mr. Garrett of New Jersey

       Amendment No. 16: Page 10, line 17, insert before the 
     semicolon the following: ``, including the prosecution in 
     their home countries of such individuals in connection with 
     such acts''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer

       Amendment No. 17: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. (a) Limitation on Use of Funds.--Of the funds 
     appropriated in this Act under the heading ``Foreign Military 
     Financing Program'', not more than $250,000,000 may be made 
     available for Pakistan.
       (b) Corresponding Transfer of Funds.--The amounts otherwise 
     provided by this Act are revised by increasing the amount 
     made available for ``United States Emergency Refugee and 
     Migration Assistance Fund'', and reducing the amount made 
     available for ``Foreign Military Financing Program'', by 
     $50,000,000.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 18: Page 5, line 20, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $55,729,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 19: Page 52, line 7, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $1,203,480,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 20: Page 8, line 11, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $203,082,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 21: Page 50, line 9, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $13,860,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 22: Page 70, line 24, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(reduced by $27,563,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 23: Page 50, line 20, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(reduced by $47,700,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 24: Page 9, line 17, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $195,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2764

                       Offered By: Mr. Hensarling

       Amendment No. 25: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       None of the funds in this act may be used to provide 
     engineering services to water and sanitation programs in 
     India, to enhance its relationship with the University of 
     Belgrade and to enhance its relationship with the Mongolia 
     University of Science and Technology.

                               H.R. 2764

                         Offered By: Mr. Jordan

       Amendment No. 26: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. Appropriations made in this Act are hereby reduced 
     in the amount of $2,956,000,000.

                               H.R. 2764

                    Offered By: Ms. Herseth Sandlin

       Amendment No. 27: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to carry out the diversity visa program under 
     sections 201(e), 203(c), or 204(a)(1)(I) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(e), 1153(c), and 
     1154(a)(1)(I)).