To provide that appropriations under this Act may not be used for the purpose of providing certain grants, unless all such grants meet certain conditions for allocation.

SA 4634. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Lautenberg, Mrs. Clinton,
and Mr. Schumer) 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; as follows:

On page 127, between lines 2 and 3 insert the following:
Sec. __. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
appropriations under this Act may not be used for the purpose
of providing--
(1) formula-based grants or law enforcement terrorism
prevention grants, unless all such grants are allocated based
on an assessment of threat, vulnerability, and consequence,
to the maximum extent praticable, with no State receiving
less than 0.25 percent of the funds available for each such
grant program, and American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, each
receiving 0.08 of the funds available for each such grant
program;
(2) discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-
density urban areas, unless all such grants are allocated
based on an assessment of threat, vulnerability, and
consequence, to the maximum extent practicable; and
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