S.Amdt. 1905

SA 1905. Mr. FEINGOLD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

(a) Authority To Continue Allowance.--Effective as of September 30, 2005, section 1026 of division A of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005 (Public Law 109-13), is amended by striking subsections (d) and (e).

(b) Codification of Reporting Requirement.--Section 411h of title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘(e) If the amount of travel and transportation allowances provided in a fiscal year under clause (ii) of subsection (a)(2)(B) exceeds $20,000,000, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report specifying the total amount of travel and transportation allowances provided under such clause in such fiscal year.'.

(c) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii) of such section, as added by section 1026 of division A of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005 (Public Law 109-13), is amended by striking ‘under section 1967(c)(1)(A) of title 38'.

(d) Funding.--Funding shall be provided out of existing funds.