To make available from Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, up to $6,000,000 for research and development on bioterrorism threats to troops.

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

SA 4890. Mr. NELSON of Nebraska submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. (a) Waiver of Section 1009 Adjustment.--The
adjustment to become effective during fiscal year 2007
required by section 1009 of title 37, United States Code, in
the rates of monthly basic pay authorized members of the
uniformed services shall not be made.
(b) January 1, 2007, Increase in Basic Pay.--Effective on
January 1, 2007, the rates of monthly basic pay for members
of the uniformed services are increased by 2.7 percent.
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SA 4891. Mr. NELSON of Nebraska submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the
Department of Defense 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. __. TRANSPARENCY IN FEDERAL FUNDING.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Transparency in Federal Funding Act of 2006''.
(b) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) our system of Government has checks and balances, and
it has come to the attention of Congress that executive
branch departments and their component agencies occasionally
retain a portion of funds appropriated by Congress to non-
Federal entities;
(2) Members of Congress are required to provide
justification for earmarks and, likewise, the executive
branch should provide justification as to why earmarked funds
are used for another purpose;
(3) our constituents are entitled to know, in advance,
whether they will receive the full amount of an
appropriation, so they can plan accordingly;
(4) the practice of skimming results in increased and
unintentional spending in the Federal bureaucracy;
(5) the practice of widespread and unaccountable skimming
is likely to result in artificially inflated appropriations
requests in order to account for this skimming;
(6) full transparency with respect to skimming will lead to
better decision-making by Members and staff when allocating
constituent request amongst departments, agencies, and
accounts; and
(7) accountability and transparency are vitally important
to the legislative process.
(c) Earmark.--In this section--
(1) the term ``assistance'' means budget authority,
contract authority, loan authority, and other expenditures;
and
(2) the term ``earmark'' means a provision that specifies
the identity of a non-Federal entity to receive assistance
and the amount of the assistance.
(d) Disclosure and Reporting.--
(1) In general.--Not later than January 31 of each year,
each cabinet-level department and independent agency that
administers a program for which funds are provided by this
Act that contained an earmark in the preceding year shall
report to Congress disclosing whether any portion of the
earmarked funds in the preceding year were retained by the
agency or any other organization tasked with distributing
them.
(2) Contents.--A report required by this subsection shall
include an accounting of all funds retained including--
(A) how much money and the percentage retained;
(B) the purpose for which these retained funds were used;
(C) a justification for the purpose for which these funds
were spent; and
(D) the authority by which the agency retained the funds.
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SA 4892. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made
available by title IV under the heading ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'', up to $1,000,000
may be available for the Nanotechnology Program (Pe
#0601103).
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SA 4893. Mr. ROCKEFELLER submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

On page 206, strike lines 10 through 16.
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SA 4894. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made
available by title III under the heading ``Other Procurement,
Army'', up to $1,500,000 may be available for a Convoy
Training Simulator for the Montana Army National Guard.
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SA 4895. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. Sarbanes, and Mr. Dayton)
proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

On page 218, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:
Sec. 8109. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used to enter into or carry out
a contract for the performance by a contractor of any base
operation support service at Walter Reed Army Medical
Hospital pursuant to a private-public competition conducted
under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 that was
initiated on June 13, 2000, and has the solicitation number
DADA 10-03-R-0001.
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SA 4896. Mr. SANTORUM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made
available by title IV under

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the heading ``Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation,
Army'', up to $1,000,000 may be available for legged mobility
robotic research.
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SA 4897. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. (a) Additional Amount for Drug Interdiction and
Counter-Drug Activities.--The amount appropriated by title VI
under the heading ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug
Activities'' is hereby increased by $700,000,000, with the
amount of the increase designated as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress),
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2007,
as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 of Public
Law 109-234.
(b) Availability.--Of the amount appropriated or otherwise
made available by title VI under the heading ``Drug
Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities'', as increased by
subsection (a), up to an additional $700,000,000 may be
available to combat the growth of poppies in Afghanistan, to
eliminate the production and trade of opium and heroin, and
to prevent terrorists from using the proceeds for terrorist
activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
(c) Supplement Not Supplant.--The amount available under
subsection (b) for the purpose set forth in that subsection
is in addition to any other amounts available in this Act for
that purpose.
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SA 4898. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. (a) Additional Amount for Department of
Defense.--The amount appropriated by this Act for the
Department of Defense is hereby increased by $706,956,000,
with the amount of the increase designated as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2007, as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035
of Public Law 109-234.
(b) Transfer to Department of Homeland Security.--The
Secretary of Defense shall transfer the amount appropriated
by the Act by reason of the increase made by subsection (a)
to the Secretary of Homeland Security, who shall deposit the
amount so transferred to the Research, Development,
Acquisition and Operations subaccount of the Science and
Technology account of the Department of Homeland Security.
The amount so transferred shall be merged with amounts in
that subaccount, and shall be available for the same
purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations,
as the amounts with which merged.
(c) Availability of Certain Funds.--Of the amount
transferred under subsection (b), not less than $100,000,000
shall be available for purposes of explosives detection and
countermeasures.
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SA 4899. Mr. VITTER (for himself and Ms. Landrieu) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making
appropriations for the Department of Defense 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, add the following:

SECTION   .

``None of the funds appropriated in this Act, or any other
Act, may be used for the modernization of Naval and Marine
Corps manpower, personnel, and pay information technology
systems, including legacy systems, until the Department of
Defense and the Department of the Navy have certified and
validated that such systems selected by the Department of
Defense and Department of the Navy for modernization are
certified and validated by the General Accounting Office,
with notification to the Congressional defense committees,
that the funding baseline and milestone schedules for each of
these systems covered by such a certification and validation
shall include, at a minimum, the following with respect to
each system: (1) business process reengineering; (2) an
analysis of alternatives, including a detailed cost
comparison versus the use of the Defense Integrated Military
Human Resources Systems (DIMHRS); (3) an economic analysis
that includes a calculation of the return on investment; ( 4)
performance measures; and, (5) an information assurance
strategy consistent with the Department's Global Information
Grid.''
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SA 4900. Mr. GRAHAM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act, up to $2,000,000 may be available for
infrastructure for the Afghanistan military legal system.
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SA 4901. Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself and Mr. Dodd) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5631, making
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made
available by title IV under the heading ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'', up to
$1,500,000 may be available for the development of a field-
deployable hydrogen fueling station.
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SA 4902. Mr. CONRAD (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Salazar)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R.
5631, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 230, beginning on line 15, strike ``$19,265,000''
and all that follows through line 16 and insert the
following: ``$39,265,000, to remain available until September
30, 2008: Provided, That $20,000,000 of such funds is
available only for the establishment of a unit dedicated to
bringing to justice Osama bin Laden and other key leaders of
al Qaeda: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense
shall, not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, submit to the
congressional defense committees, the Committee on
International Relations of the House of Representatives, and
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a classified
report on progress made by the operations in the global war
on terrorism for which funding is provided in this Act,
including an assessment of the likely current location of
terrorist leaders, including Osama bin Laden and other key
leaders of al Qaeda, a description of ongoing efforts to
bring to justice such terrorists, a description of the
cooperation provided by the governments of any countries
assessed as likely locations of top leaders of al Qaeda and
by other relevant countries, a description of diplomatic
efforts currently being made to improve the cooperation of
any such governments, and a description of the status of, and
strategy for bringing to justice, perpetrators of terrorism
including the top leadership of al Qaeda: Provided further,
That the Secretary of Defense shall prepare such reports in
consultation with other appropriate officials with regard to
funds appropriated under this chapter: Provided further, That
the amount provided under this heading is designated as
making appropriations for contingency operations directly
related to the global war on terrorism, and other
unanticipated defense-related operations, pursuant to section
402 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), as made applicable
to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 818 (109th
Congress) and is designated as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress),
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2007,
as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 of Public
Law 109-234.''
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SA 4903. Mr. BAYH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made
available by title IV under the heading ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'', up to
$6,000,000 may be available as follows:
(1) $3,000,000 for bioterrorism protection research (PE
#0601384BP).
(2) $3,000,000 for advanced protective gear for small-arms
threats (PE #0601101E).
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SA 4904. Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Boxer, Mrs.
Feinstein, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Carper, Ms.
Mikulski, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Levin, Mr. harkin, Mrs. Clinton,
Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Obama, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Stabenow, Mr.
Dayton, and Mr. Dodd) proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631,
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

At the appropriate place insert the following:

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Sense of the Senate on the Need for a New Direction in Iraq Policy and
in the Civilian Leadership of the Department of Defense

Findings
(1) U.S. forces have served honorably and courageously in
Iraq, with over 2,600 brave Americans having made the
ultimate sacrifice and over 20,000 wounded.
(2) The current ``stay the course'' policy in Iraq has made
America less secure, reduced the readiness of our troops, and
burdened America's taxpayers with over $300 billion in
additional debt.
(3) With weekly attacks against American and Iraqi troops
at their highest levels since the start of the war, and
sectarian violence intensifying, it is clear that staying the
course in Iraq is not a strategy for success.
Therefore it is the Sense of the Senate that:
(1) Our troops deserve and the American people expect the
Bush Administration to provide competent civilian leadership
and a true strategy for success in Iraq.
(2) President Bush needs to change course in Iraq to
provide a strategy for success. One indication of a change of
course would be to replace the current Secretary of Defense.
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SA 4905. Mr. STEVENS (for Mr. Levin) proposed an amendment to the
bill H.R. 2066, to amend title 40, United States Code, to establish a
Federal Acquisition Service, to replace the General Supply Fund and the
Information Technology Fund with an Acquisition Services Fund, and for
other purposes; as follows:

At the end of the bill add the following:

SECTION 6. DISPOSAL OF FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY TO HISTORIC
LIGHT STATIONS.

Section 549(c)(3)(B) of title 40, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in clause (vii), by striking ``or'' after the
semicolon;
(2) in clause (viii), by striking the period and inserting
``or''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(ix) a historic light station as defined under section
308(e)(2) of the National Historic Preservation Act (16
U.S.C. 470w-7(e)(2)), including a historic light station
conveyed under subsection (b) of that section,
notwithstanding the number of hours that the historic light
station is open to the public.''.
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SA 4906. Mr. ROCKEFELLER proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 5631,
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; as follows:

On page 206, strike lines 10 through 16.

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