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“TEXT OF AMENDMENTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Senate section on pages S4597-S4599 on April 28, 2005.
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TEXT OF AMENDMENTS
SA 591. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, and Mrs. Boxer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of chapter 3 of subtitle E of title I, add the following:
SEC. __. ALAMEDA HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR.
Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032) is amended by striking paragraph (34) and inserting the following:
``(34) The Alameda Corridor-East and Southwest Passage, California. The Alameda Corridor East is generally described as the corridor from East Los Angeles (terminus of Alameda Corridor) through Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, to termini at Barstow in San Bernardino County and Coachella in Riverside County. The Southwest Passage shall follow Interstate route 10 from San Bernardino to the Arizona State line.''.
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SA 592. Mr. BOND proposed an amendment to amendment SA 567 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; as follows:
Beginning on page 287, strike line 5 and all that follows through the matter following line 25 on page 290.
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SA 593. Mr. THUNE (for himself, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Thomas) proposed an amendment to amendment SA 567 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; as follows:
On page 230, strike lines 6 through 15 and insert ``Section 109 of''.
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SA 594. Mr. GREGG (for Mr. Isakson) proposed an amendment to amendment SA 567 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; as follows:
At the end of subtitle H of title I, add the following:
SEC. 18__. APPROVAL AND FUNDING FOR CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of receipt by the Secretary of a construction authorization request from the State of Georgia, Department of Transportation for project STP-189-1(15)CT 3 in Gwinnett County, Georgia, the Secretary shall--
(1) approve the project; and
(2) reserve such Federal funds available to the Secretary as are necessary for the project.
(b) Conformity Determination.--
(1) In general.--Approval, funding, and implementation of the project referred to in subsection (a) shall not be subject to the requirements of part 93 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).
(2) Regional emissions.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), all subsequent regional emissions analysis required by section 93.118 or 93.119 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), shall include the project.
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SA 595. Mr. OBAMA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3, Reserved; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title V insert the following:
SEC. __. INCENTIVES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL
REFUELING STATIONS.
(a) In General.--Subpart B of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 (relating to foreign tax credit, etc.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``SEC. 30B. ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLE REFUELING PROPERTY
CREDIT.
``(a) Credit Allowed.--There shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year for the installation of qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.
``(b) Limitation.--
``(1) In general.--The credit allowed under subsection
(a)--
``(A) with respect to any retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property, shall not exceed $30,000, and
``(B) with respect to any residential alternative fuel vehicle refueling property, shall not exceed $1,000.
``(2) Phaseout.--
``(A) In general.--In the case of any qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service after December 31, 2010, the limit otherwise applicable under paragraph (1) shall be reduced by--
``(i) 25 percent in the case of any alternative fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service in calendar year 2011, and
``(ii) 50 percent in the case of any alternative fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service in calendar year 2012.
``(c) Year Credit Allowed.--The credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be allowed in the taxable year in which the qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property is placed in service by the taxpayer.
``(d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
``(1) Qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.--The term `qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property' has the same meaning given for clean-fuel vehicle refueling property by section 179A(d), but only with respect to any fuel at least 85 percent of the volume of which consists of ethanol.
``(2) Residential alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.--The term `residential alternative fuel vehicle refueling property' means qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property which is installed on property which is used as the principal residence (within the meaning of section 121) of the taxpayer.
``(3) Retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.--The term `retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property' means qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property which is installed on property (other than property described in paragraph (2)) used in a trade or business of the taxpayer.
``(e) Application With Other Credits.--The credit allowed under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed the excess (if any) of--
``(1) the regular tax for the taxable year reduced by the sum of the credits allowable under subpart A and sections 27, 29, and 30, over
``(2) the tentative minimum tax for the taxable year.
``(f) Basis Reduction.--For purposes of this title, the basis of any property shall be reduced by the portion of the cost of such property taken into account under subsection
(a).
``(g) No Double Benefit.--No deduction shall be allowed under section 179A with respect to any property with respect to which a credit is allowed under subsection (a).
``(h) Refueling Property Installed for Tax-exempt Entities.--In the case of qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property installed on property owned or used by an entity exempt from tax under this chapter, the person which installs such refueling property for the entity shall be treated as the taxpayer with respect to the refueling property for purposes of this section (and such refueling property shall be treated as retail alternative fuel vehicle refueling property) and the credit shall be allowed to such person, but only if the person clearly discloses to the entity in any installation contract the specific amount of the credit allowable under this section.
``(i) Carryforward Allowed.--
``(1) In general.--If the credit amount allowable under subsection (a) for a taxable year exceeds the amount of the limitation under subsection (e) for such taxable year
(referred to as the `unused credit year' in this subsection), such excess shall be allowed as a credit carryforward for each of the 20 taxable years following the unused credit year.
``(2) Rules.--Rules similar to the rules of section 39 shall apply with respect to the credit carryforward under paragraph (1).
``(j) Special Rules.--Rules similar to the rules of paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 179A(e) shall apply.
``(k) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
``(l) Termination.--This section shall not apply to any property placed in service after December 31, 2013.''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) Section 1016(a) is amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (30), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (31) and inserting ``, and'', and by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(32) to the extent provided in section 30B(f).''.
(2) Section 55(c)(2) is amended by inserting ``30B(e),'' after ``30(b)(3),''.
(3) The table of sections for subpart B of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 30A the following new item:
``Sec. 30B. Alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit.''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to property placed in service after the date of the enactment of this Act, in taxable years ending after such date.
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SA 596. Mr. FRIST (for Mr. Allen) proposed an amendment to the resolution S. Res. 82, urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to the European Union's wide-ranging list of terrorist organizations; as follows:
Strike the preamble and insert the following:
Whereas Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based radical organization with terrorist cells based in Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, and elsewhere, receiving financial, training, weapons, and political and organizational aid from Iran and Syria;
Whereas Hezbollah has led a 23-year global campaign of terror targeting United States, German, French, British, Italian, Israeli, Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabian, Argentinean, Thai, Singaporean, and Russian civilians, among others;
Whereas Hezbollah has been suspected of numerous terrorist acts against United States citizens, including the suicide truck bombing of the United States Embassy and Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in October 1983, and the Embassy annex in Beirut in September 1984;
Whereas the French unit of the Multinational Force in Beirut was also targeted in the attack of October 1983, in which 241 United States soldiers and 58 French paratroopers were killed;
Whereas Hezbollah has attacked Israeli and Jewish targets in South America in the mid-1990s, including the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 1992, and the AMIA Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in July 1994;
Whereas Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for kidnappings of United States and Israeli civilians and French, British, German, and Russian diplomats, among others;
Whereas even after the Government of Israel's complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 (March 19, 1978) by withdrawing from Lebanon, Hezbollah has continued to carry out attacks against Israel and its citizens;
Whereas Hezbollah has expanded its operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, providing training, financing, and weapons to Palestinian terrorist organizations on the European Union terrorist list, including the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine according to the 2005 State Department Report on Terrorism arid other testimony;
Whereas according to the same report in March 2004, Hezbollah and Hamas signed an agreement to increase joint terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Hezbollah instigated, financed, and played a role in implementing a significant number of Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israeli targets;
Whereas the European Union agreed by consensus to classify Hamas as a terrorist organization for purposes of prohibiting funding from the European Union to Hamas;
Whereas the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) urges the Government of Lebanon to assert the sovereignty of the Lebanese state over all of its territory and to evict all terrorist and foreign forces from southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards;
Whereas, although the European Union has included Imad Fayiz Mughniyah, a key operations and intelligence officer of Hezbollah, on its terrorist list, it has not included his organization on the list;
Whereas the United States, Canada, and Australia have all classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and the United Kingdom has placed the Hezbollah External Security Organization on its terrorist list;
Whereas leaders of Hezbollah have made statements denouncing any distinction between its ``political and military'' operations, such as Hezbollah's representative in the Lebanese Parliament, Mohammad Raad, who stated in 2001, that ``Hezbollah is a military resistance party, and it is our task to fight the occupation of our land. . . . There is no separation between politics and resistance.'';
Whereas in a book recently published by the deputy secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, entitled
``Hezbollah--the Approach, the Experience, the Future'', Qassem writes ``Hezbollah is a jihad organization whose aim, first and foremost, is jihad against the Zionist enemy, while the political, pure and sensible effort can serve as a prop and a means of support for jihad'';
Whereas United Nations Security Council resolution 1559
(September 2, 2004), jointly sponsored by the United States and France, calls upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon and for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias;
Whereas in December 2004, the Department of State placed Al-Manar, Hezbollah's satellite television network, on the Terrorist Exclusion List, and in December 2004, the French Council of State banned the broadcasting of Al-Manar in France;
Whereas France, Germany, and Great Britain, with the support of the High Representative of the European Union, have created a working group with Iran to discuss regional security concerns, including the influence of terror perpetuated by Hezbollah and other extremist organizations; and
Whereas cooperation between the United States and the European Union regarding efforts to combat international terrorism is essential to the promotion of global security and peace: Now, therefore, be it
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