S.Amdt. 348

SA 348. Mr. TALENT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 169, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following:

procurement of commercial satellite bandwidth services

Sec. 1122. The Secretary of Defense may not implement the action plan for the procurement of commercial satellite bandwidth services proposed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration on December 14, 2004, or enter into any new contract for commercial satellite communications services (other than through existing contract vehicles), until 30 days after the date on which the Comptroller General of the United States submits to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth the comprehensive assessment and recommendations of the Comptroller General regarding the Defense Information Systems Network Satellite Transmission Services-Global (DSTS-G) program, as previously requested by Congress.