To appropriate, with an offset, an additional $2,000,000,000 for National Guard and Reserve Equipment.

SA 1143. Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Bond) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2346, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate in title III, insert the following:

National Guard and Reserve Equipment

For an additional amount for “National Guard and Reserve Equipment”, $2,000,000,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2010: Provided, That the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and an appropriate official for each of other reserve components of the Armed Forces each shall, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report on the modernization priority assessment for the National Guard and for the other reserve components of the Armed Forces, respectively: Provided further, That the amount under this heading is designated as an emergency requirement and as necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to sections 403(a) and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010.

(rescissions)

(a) In General.--Of the discretionary amounts (other than the amounts described in subsection (b)) made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (123 Stat. 115; Public Law 111-5) that are unobligated as the the date of enactment of this Act, $2,000,000,000 is hereby rescinded.

(b) Exception.--The rescission in subsection (a) shall not apply to amounts made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as follows:

(1) Under title III, relating to the Department of Defense.

(2) Under title VI, relating to the Department of Homeland Security.

(3) Under title X, relating to Military Construction and Veterans and Related Agencies.

(c) Administration.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall--

(1) administer the rescission specified in subsection (a); and

(2) submit to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report specifying the account and the amount of each reduction made pursuant to the rescission in subsection (a).