S.Amdt. 2172

SA 2172. Mr. CARPER 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 253, after line 22, insert the following:

Sec. 143. (a) The Senate finds the following:

(1) Only 1 member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation has been confirmed by the Senate.

(2) Two other members of the Board were recess appointments whose terms expire at the end of the first session of the 109th Congress.

(3) Three seats on the Board are vacant and no nominations have been submitted to the Senate to fill these vacancies.

(4) The Corporation's ability to take major actions is compromised by having only 1 member of the Board who has been confirmed by the Senate.

(b) It is the sense of the Senate that--

(1) the President should appoint sufficient new members to the Board of Directors of the Corporation to fill all existing and anticipated vacancies and submit such appointments to the Senate not later than December 31, 2005; and

(2) the Senate should act on such nominations as quickly as possible.