To express the sense of the Senate on funding for the Vaccine Health Care Centers.

SA 440. Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr. Bingaman, and Mr. Carper) 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:

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force protection work and medical care at vaccine health care centers

Sec. 1122. (a) Increase in Amount for Defense Health Program.--The amount appropriated by this chapter under the heading “Defense Health Program” is hereby increased by $6,000,000.

(b) Availability of Amount.--Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading “Defense Health Program”, as increased by subsection (a), $6,000,000 shall be available for force protection work and medical care at the Vaccine Health Care Centers.

(c) Offset.--The amount appropriated by chapter 2 of this title under the heading “Global War on Terror Partners Fund” is hereby reduced by $6,000,000.