S.Amdt. 443

SA 443. Mr. ENSIGN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 762, making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At an appropriate place, insert the following:

Sec. _. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for purposes of reconstruction in Iraq may be obligated or expended to pay any person who is a citizen of a country named in subsection (b), any person that is organized under the laws of such a country, any person that is affiliated with a person organized under the laws of such a country, or any person that is owned by a person organized under the laws of such a country.

(b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to France and Germany.

(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to an individual employed by the United Nations or any other international organization, or by a nongovernmental organization operated on a not-for-profit basis, with respect to the performance of the duties of the individual's position of employment with the United Nations, such other international organization, or such nongovernmental organization.

(d) Subsection (a) does not apply to a person who is a citizen of the United States or that is organized under the laws of the United States.