S.Amdt. 4630Senate109th Congress (2005-2007)

S.Amdt. 4630

Submitted July 12, 2006

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Senate amendment submitted

July 12, 2006

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SA 4630. Mr. SESSIONS (for himself and Mr. Ensign) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5441, making
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) The amount appropriated by title II under the
heading ``Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' and under the
subheading ``salaries and expenses'' is hereby increased by
$161,000,000.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, of the
amount made available under such subheading--
(1) not less than $140,000,000 shall be used to fund 4,000
detention beds pursuant to section 5204(a) of the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004
(Public Law 108-458; 118 Stat. 3734) and such funds shall be
used to supplement and not supplant the amounts made
available for detention beds pursuant to such section in the
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the
Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public
Law 109-234); and
(2) not less than $150,560,000 shall be used for
transportation costs related to the 4,000 additional
detention beds funded by this Act and the 4,000 detention
beds funded by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act
for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane
Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109-234).
(c) All discretionary amounts made available under this
Act, other than the amount appropriated under the subheading
described in subsection (a), shall be reduced on a pro rata
basis by $161,000,000.
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