S.Amdt. 2157

SA 2157. Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Graham, Mr. Reed, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Obama, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Levin, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Dodd, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Salazar, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Collins, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Dayton, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Specter, Mr. Bingaman, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Bayh, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Chafee, and Mr. Talent) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3058, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 298, on line 13 strike “$1,500,000,000” and insert “$2,100,000,000”.

On page 299, line 14 strike the period and insert the following: “: Provided further, That notwithstanding the foregoing provisos, of the amounts recaptured from amounts appropriated in prior years under this heading, such amounts are provided as follows:

“(1) $200,000,000 for activities provided for under the heading ‘Tenant-based rental assistance', including $130,000,000 for the renewal of expiring section 8 contracts under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), and not to exceed $70,000,000 for the conversion of section 811 vouchers to tenant-based rental assistance vouchers.

“(2) $200,000,000 to be equally divided for activities provided for under the headings ‘Public Housing Capital Fund' and ‘Public Housing Operating Fund'.

“(3) $200,000,000 for activities provided for under the heading ‘Community Development Fund' to carry out the community development block grant program under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.).”.