To appropriate an additional $85,670,000 to enable the Secretary of Homeland Security to hire 800 additional full time active duty investigators to investigate immigration laws violations and to offset such increase on a pro rata basis.

SA 4660. 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; 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
$85,670,000.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, of the
amount made available under the subheading described in
subsection (a) not less than $104,000,000 shall be available
to increase the number of full time active duty investigators
employed by the Department of Homeland Security to
investigate violations of immigration laws (as defined in
section 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1101(a)(17)) by not less than 800 more than the number
of such positions for which funds were made available during
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, pursuant to
section 5203 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458; 118 Stat. 3734).

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(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 $85,670,000.
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