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“AMENDMENTS” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6200-H6201 on July 21, 1999.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
AMENDMENTS
Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:
H.R. 1074
Offered By: Mr. Hoeffel
Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill add the following:
SEC. . INFORMATION REGARDING OFFSETTING SUBSIDIES.
In addition to the information required under section 4, the President shall include in each accounting statement under that section an analysis of the extent to which the costs imposed on incorporated entities by Federal regulatory programs are offset by subsidies given to those entities by the Federal Government, including subsidies in the form of grants, preferential loans, preferential tax treatment, federally funded research, or use of Federal facilities, assets, or public lands at less than market value. The analysis shall--
(1) identify such subsidies;
(2) analyze the costs and benefits of such subsidies; and
(3) be sufficiently specific to--
(A) account for the amounts of subsidies provided to the entities; and
(B) identify the entities that receive such subsidies.
SEC. . TAXPAYER PROTECTIONS.
(a) Limitation on Expenditures.--
(1) In general.--The aggregate amount expended by the Director and agencies each fiscal year to carry out this Act may not exceed $1,000,000.
(2) Limitation on applicaiton.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any expenditure for any analysis or data generation that is required under any other law, regulation, or Executive Order and used to fulfill the requirements of this Act.
(b) Sunset.--This Act shall have no force or effect after the expiration of the four-year-period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
H.R. 1074
Offered By: Mr. McIntosh
Amendment No. 2: Page 4, line 17, strike ``President'' and insert ``Director''.
H.R. 1074
Offered By: Mr. McIntosh
Amendment No. 3: Page 7, beginning at line 5, strike ``and economic growth'' and insert ``economic growth, public health, public safety, the environment, consumer protection, equal opportunity, and other public policy goals''.
H.R. 1074
Offered By: Mr. McIntosh
Amendment No. 4: At the end of the bill add the following:
SEC. . SPECIAL RULES RELATING TO CERTAIN FEDERAL BANKING
AGENCIES AND MONETARY POLICY.
(a) Transfer of Authority and Duties of Director.--The head of each Federal banking agency (as that term is defined in section 3(z) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(z)) and the National Credit Union Administration, and not the Director, shall exercise all authority and carry out all duties otherwise vested under this Act in the Director with respect to that agency, other than the authority and duty to submit accounting statements and reports under section 4(a). The head of each such agency shall submit to the Director all estimates and other information required by this Act to be included in such statements and reports with respect to that agency.
(b) Exclusion of Monetary Policy.--No provision of this Act shall apply to any matter relating to monetary policy that is proposed or promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Open Market Committee.
H.R. 2561
Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia
Amendment No. 1. At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. ------. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to provide assistance to the practice of witchcraft or Wicca, as defined by the encyclopedia of American Religious, on any military installation or vessel.
H.R. 2561
Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia
Amendment No. 2. At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. ------. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to promulgate or implement final regulations under paragraph (7) of section 3(b) of Public Law 95-341 (popularly known as the American Indian Religious Freedom Act) (42 U.S.C. 1996a(b)) with respect to the use of peyote by members of the Armed Forces.
H.R. 2561
Offered by: Mr. Barr of Georgia
Amendment No. 3. At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. ------. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to purchase--
(1) goods manufactured by, or goods that include components manufactured by, Zvezda-Strela, a subsidiary of Zvezda-Strela
(such as STRELA Production Association), a company that is controlled by Zvezda-Strela, or the Spetstekhnika Joint Stock Company;
(2) goods marketed by SPETSTEKHNIKA;
(3) goods manufactured by, or goods that include components manufactured by, a company other than Zvezda-Strela in partnership or otherwise in association with Zvezda-Strela; or
(4) any product manufactured by the ZVEZDA Design Bureau located in Kalingrad-BR or another location in Russia.
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Barr of Georgia
Amendment No. 4: In the paragraph in title IV under the heading ``Research Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force'', insert after the dollar amount the following:
``(increased by $1) (reduced by $1)''.
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Blagojevich
Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. . None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to transfer to the Talon Manufacturing Company ammunition held by the Department of Defense that has a center-fire cartridge and a United States military nomenclature designation of ``armor penetrator'', ``armor piercing (AP)'',
``armor piercing incendiary (API)'', or ``armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API-T)''.
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Blagojevich
Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. . None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammunition held by the Department of Defense that has a center-fire cartridge and a United States military no-menclature designation of
``armor penetrator'', ``armor piercing (AP)'', ``armor piercing incendiary (API)'', or ``armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API-T)''.
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Kucinich
Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to procure a munition of a type referred to as a
``cluster bomb'' (also known as ``combined effects munitions'', ``CBU munitions'', ``sensor-fused weapons'',
``area-impact munitions'', ``anti-personnel bomblets'',
``anti-material bomblets'', and ``anti-armor bomblets'').
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Kucinich
Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section:
Sec. __. (a) The Comptroller General, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and the Director of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress shall conduct such studies as appropriate and within their respective capabilities to assist Congress in evaluating the air campaign conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during Operation Allied Force in 1999. Those studies shall, at a minimum, identify the following matters:
(1) The damage that the NATO plan for the air campaign identified as necessary.
(2) The reasons why that damage was identified as being necessary.
(3) The military forces that the plan required and the extent to which those forces were committed.
(4) The extent to which the air campaign achieved the desired level of damage.
(5) The extent to which the damage caused by the air campaign had the predicted effects in terms of reducing capabilities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Kosovo.
(6) The extent to which the damage caused by the air campaign had the predicted effects in terms of undermining command and control capabilities of the ruling regime of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
(7) The role of the bombing in obtaining the agreement of the regime of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Military Technical Agreement of June 10, 1999.
(8) Any other factors that led to the decision by the regime of the Federal Republic to the Military Technical Agreement of June 10, 1999.
(b) The studies under subsection (a) shall be submitted to Congress not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) All data that would be declassified in the course of the studies under subsection (a) shall be electronically published on the Internet, and statistical data shall be electronically published in spreadsheet form, for use by the public, academicians, and nongovernmental organizations.
H.R. 2561
Offered By: Mr. Stearns
Amendment No. 9: Page 30, after line 12, insert the following:
In addition, for procurement of F-22 aircraft,
$1,852,075,000, to be derived by transfer from unobligated amounts appropriated to the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund in chapter 3 of title II of Public Law 106-31, and to remain available for obligation until September 20, 2002.
