[House Report 106-269]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-269

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   PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2606, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, 
    EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000

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   July 27, 1999.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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 Mr. Diaz-Balart, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 263]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 263, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

                  summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 2606, 
the ``Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2000,'' under an open rule. The 
rule provides one hour of general debate divided equally 
between the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations.
    The rule provides that the bill be open to amendment by 
paragraph. The rules waives points of order against provisions 
in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI 
(prohibiting unauthorized or legislative provisions or 
transfers of funds in a general appropriations bill).
    The rule provides that before consideration of any other 
amendment it shall be in order to consider the amendments 
printed in part A of this report which shall be considered only 
in the order printed in this report. The rule further provides 
that the amendment printed in part B of this report may be 
offered only at the appropriate point in the reading of the 
bill.
    The rule further provides that the amendments printed in 
this report may be offered only by a Member designated, shall 
be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time 
specified, equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 
an opponent, and shall not be subject to amendment. The rule 
waives all points of order against the amendments printed in 
this report.
    Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Record 
prior to their consideration will be given priority in 
recognition to offer their amendments if otherwise consistent 
with House rules. The rule allows the chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration of the bill 
and to reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed 
question if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, 
the rule provides for one motion to recommit, with or without 
instructions.
    The waiver of clause 2 of rule XXI is necessary because 
there are approximately 58 provisions in the bill that are 
legislative and 26 provisions that are unauthorized. 
Unauthorized programs include: OPIC, the Child Survival and 
Disease Programs Fund, Development Assistance, Assistance for 
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, and the Peace Corps.
    The waiver of all points of order against the amendments 
printed in this report is necessary because the amendments are 
in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized 
or legislative provisions or transfers of funds in a general 
appropriations bill).

            text of amendments made in order under the rule

                                 PART A


1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Smith of New Jersey, or 
                  a Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

  At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
(preceding the short title) the following:

 limitation on funds for foreign organizations that perform or promote 
                                abortion

  Sec. ____. (a) Section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
  ``(h) Restriction on Assistance to Foreign Organizations That 
Perform or Actively Promote Abortions.--
          ``(1) Performance of abortions.--(A) Notwithstanding 
        section 614 of this Act or any other provision of law, 
        no funds appropriated for population planning 
        activities or other population assistance may be made 
        available for any foreign private, nongovernmental, or 
        multilateral organization until the organization 
        certifies that it will not, during the period for which 
        the funds are made available, perform abortions in any 
        foreign country, except where the life of the mother 
        would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to 
        term or in cases of forcible rape or incest.
          ``(B) Subparagraph (A) may not be construed to apply 
        to the treatment of injuries or illnesses caused by 
        legal or illegal abortions or to assistance provided 
        directly to the government of a country.
          ``(2) Lobbying activities.--(A) Notwithstanding 
        section 614 of this Act or any other provision of law, 
        no funds appropriated for population planning 
        activities or other population assistance may be made 
        available for any foreign private, nongovernmental, or 
        multilateral organization until the organization 
        certifies that it will not, during the period for which 
        the funds are made available, violate the laws of any 
        foreign country concerning the circumstances under 
        which abortion is permitted, regulated, or prohibited, 
        or engage in any activity or effort to alter the laws 
        or governmental policies of any foreign country 
        concerning the circumstances under which abortion is 
        permitted, regulated, or prohibited.
          ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to activities 
        in opposition to coercive abortion or involuntary 
        sterilization.
          ``(3) Application to foreign organizations.--The 
        prohibitions of this subsection apply to funds made 
        available to a foreign organization either directly or 
        as a subcontractor or subgrantee, and the 
        certifications required by paragraphs (1) and (2) apply 
        to activities in which the organization engages either 
        directly or through a subcontractor or subgrantee.''.
  (b) The President may waive the provisions of section 
104(h)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to 
population assistance to foreign organizations that perform 
abortions in foreign countries), as added by subsection (a), 
for any fiscal year.
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     2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Greenwood of 
         Pennsylvania, or a Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

  At the end of the bill, insert after the last section 
(preceding the short title) the following:

   restriction on population planning activities or other population 
                               assistance

  Sec. ____. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available for population planning activities or other 
population assistance under title II of this Act may be made 
available to a foreign nongovernmental organization unless the 
organization certifies that--
          (1) it will not use such funds to promote abortion as 
        a method of family planning or to lobby for or against 
        abortion;
          (2) it will use such funds that are made available 
        for family planning services to reduce the incidence of 
        abortion as a method of family planning;
          (3) it will not violate the laws or policies of the 
        foreign government relating to the circumstances under 
        which abortion is permitted, regulated, or prohibited; 
        and
          (4) it will not engage in any activity or effort in 
        violation of applicable laws or policies of the foreign 
        government to alter the laws or policies of such 
        foreign government relating to the circumstances under 
        which abortion is permitted, regulated, or prohibited, 
        except with respect to activities in opposition to 
        coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
  (b) The limitation on availability of funds to a foreign 
nongovernmental organization under subsection (a) shall apply--
          (1) to funds made available to an organization either 
        directly or indirectly as a subcontractor or 
        subgrantee; and
          (2) to activities in which the organization engages 
        either directly or indirectly through a subcontractor 
        or subgrantee.

                                 PART B


3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Pitts of Pennsylvania, 
                or a Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

  Page 116, after line 5, insert the following:

         limitation on child survival and disease programs fund

  Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act in title II under the heading ``child 
survival and disease programs fund'' may be used for programs 
and activities designed to control fertility or to reduce or 
delay childbirths or pregnancies (except breastfeeding 
programs).

                                  
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