S.Amdt. 213

SA 213. Mr. REID (for Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Kerry, Mrs.
Shaheen, and Mr. Voinovich)) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr.
Baucus) to the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job
preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency
and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal
stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of section 404, add the following:
(c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that to
fulfill the goal of expedited issuance of loan guarantees to
maximize the rapid stimulus effect of provided funds, the
Secretary of Energy should immediately issue loan guarantees
under section 1705 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (as added
by subsection (a)) using funds provided to carry out that
section for the subsidy cost for existing final round
applicants under the loan guarantee program under section
1703 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 16513) that fall within the
categories described in section 1705(b) of that Act (as added
by subsection (a)).
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