To prohibit the use of funds to carry out any project or site-specific location identified in the committee report unless the project is specifically authorized or to carry out an unauthorized appropriation.

SA 1814. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1813 submitted by Mr. Dorgan to the bill H.R. 3183, making
appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 68, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this Act
may be used to carry out--
(1) any project or site-specific location identified in the
committee report accompanying this Act unless the project is
specifically authorized; or
(2) an unauthorized appropriation.
(b)(1) In this section, the term ``unauthorized
appropriation'' means a ``congressionally directed spending
item'' (as defined in rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the
Senate)--
(A) that is not specifically authorized by law or Treaty
stipulation (unless the appropriation has been specifically
authorized by an Act or resolution previously passed by the
Senate during the same session or proposed in pursuance of an
estimate submitted in accordance with law); or
(B) the amount of which exceeds the amount specifically
authorized by law or Treaty stipulation (or specifically
authorized by an Act or resolution previously passed by the
Senate during the same session or proposed in pursuance of an
estimate submitted in accordance with law) to be
appropriated.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), an appropriation is not
specifically authorized if the appropriation is restricted or
directed to, or authorized to be obligated or expended for
the benefit of, an identifiable person, program, project,
entity, or jurisdiction by earmarking or other specification,
whether by name or description, in a manner that is so
restricted, directed, or authorized that the appropriation
applies only to a single identifiable person, program,
project, entity, or jurisdiction, unless the identifiable
person, program, project, entity, or jurisdiction to which
the restriction, direction, or authorization applies is
described or otherwise clearly identified in a law or Treaty
stipulation (or an Act or resolution previously passed by the
Senate during the same session or in the estimate submitted
in accordance with law) that specifically provides for the
restriction, direction, or authorization of appropriation for
the person, program, project, entity, or jurisdiction.
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