S.Amdt. 4384
What it does: Adds SEC. 924. REDUCTION IN PERSONNEL OF AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND at the end of subtitle C of title IX
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO)What it changes
1 change to S. 2766 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 924. REDUCTION IN PERSONNEL OF AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND at the end of subtitle C of title IX
Adds a sectionIn S. 2766 · Placed on Calendar Senate
Section 8111(d)(4) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking "September 30, 2007" and inserting "September 30, 2010".
Inserted: SEC. 924. REDUCTION IN PERSONNEL OF AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND.
Inserted: (a) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Air Force should not reduce the number of military personnel, civilian employees, or contractor support personnel assigned to the Air Force Space Command, or any component of the Air Force Space Command, from the number of such personnel or employees assigned to the Air Force Space Command as of January 1, 2006, until the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees of Congress the report described in subsection (b).
Inserted: (b) Report.--Not later than September 1, 2006, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes the following:
Inserted: (1) A description of the proposed reduction in the number of military personnel, civilian employees, or contractor support personnel, as the case may be, assigned to the Air Force Space Command.
Inserted: (2) A justification for the proposed reduction.
Inserted: (3) An assessment of the effect of the proposed reduction on the capacity of the Air Force Space command to conduct its mission in support of operational commanders.
Inserted: (4) An assessment whether or not the effect of the proposed reduction could be mitigated by granting the commander of the Air Forces Space Command, or the appropriate program executive officers, enhanced authority to make personnel and resource decisions in implementing the proposed reduction.
Inserted: (5) A certification that the proposed reduction will not impede, disrupt, or otherwise diminish or interfere with the national security space acquisition programs of the United States, national security space operations of the United States, or national security space technology development by the United States.
Inserted: (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, the term "appropriate committees of Congress" means--
Inserted: (1) the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
Inserted: (2) the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle C of title IX, add the following:
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As printed
SA 4384. Mr. ALLARD (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle C of title IX, add the following:
SEC. 924. REDUCTION IN PERSONNEL OF AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND.
(a) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Air Force should not reduce the number of military personnel, civilian employees, or contractor support personnel assigned to the Air Force Space Command, or any component of the Air Force Space Command, from the number of such personnel or employees assigned to the Air Force Space Command as of January 1, 2006, until the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees of Congress the report described in subsection (b).
(b) Report.--Not later than September 1, 2006, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes the following:
(1) A description of the proposed reduction in the number of military personnel, civilian employees, or contractor support personnel, as the case may be, assigned to the Air Force Space Command.
(2) A justification for the proposed reduction.
(3) An assessment of the effect of the proposed reduction on the capacity of the Air Force Space command to conduct its mission in support of operational commanders.
(4) An assessment whether or not the effect of the proposed reduction could be mitigated by granting the commander of the Air Forces Space Command, or the appropriate program executive officers, enhanced authority to make personnel and resource decisions in implementing the proposed reduction.
(5) A certification that the proposed reduction will not impede, disrupt, or otherwise diminish or interfere with the national security space acquisition programs of the United States, national security space operations of the United States, or national security space technology development by the United States.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means--
(1) the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(2) the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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Senate amendment submitted
June 21, 2006