S.Amdt. 3692

SA 3692. Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. Santorum, and Mr. Ensign) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act may be obligated or expended in connection with United States participation in, or support for, the activities of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Sec. __. (a) Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the Secretary of State for each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to pay the United States share of assessed contributions for the regular budget of the United Nations, $4,300,000 shall be withheld from such payment, and shall be available instead for the purposes described in subsection (b).

(b) The purposes referred to in subsection (a) are the establishment and operation of a state-of-the-art advanced training skills facility to rehabilitate injured veterans at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

(c) Amounts withheld under subsection (a) shall remain available until expended for the purposes described in subsection (b).